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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Jaber dies

Kuwait is big in the news again with the Emir’s death.

After ten years, H.H. Shri Mataji has returned for a visit to Australia.

Shri Mataji visits Australia 2006

- Gibson Research Corporation Home Page

I just saw a link to this site about his accusation of Microsoft’s WMF “deliberate” back door.

I used to visit this site ten years ago even!

Life in Kuwait

This is too much to be true.
CNN Had a video but the link below doesn’t work from here. I’ll try to find it later…
See the video on CNN.

People even though it was a hoax. Look on Snopes, the site which debunks hoaxes and urban legends.

Update: I bought two of them and good thing. They are great and my wife has claimed one!

Sitting Discs
Looks like a good idea.

Easy to transport.

And it self inflates

And can be a mini ball when fully inflated.

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According to the specialist that I saw January 6, 2006 I’ve got this as the problem in my right ear hearing loss. He said it can be surgically fixed or I get a hearing aid.

Considering I want to SCUBA dive, he said surgery may not be the short term option and there is no harm in waiting anyhow. And I’d like a cranial MRI scan before doing it. Maybe I’ll try flouride for it as well? Some articles say it works. The inner ear bones are very small, the stapes is less than 3 mm. The cause of otosclerosis is the stapes not moving due to calcium buildup limiting its motion.

In detail this site says:

In otosclerosis, the consistency of the sound-conducting bones of the ear changes from hard, mineralized bone to spongy, immature bone tissue (otosclerosis is sometimes called otospongiosis for this reason). Such degeneration can cause a buildup of excess bone tissue around the stapes (a bone in the middle ear), which in turn causes the stapes to become fixed. This immobilization prevents the stapes from vibrating as it normally does while processing sound.

Wikipedia article on otosclerosis here and on stapedectomy here.

More links:

• NIH/Medline
• NIH/NIDCD
• eMedicine

Well all the news is in. She’s settling nicely in her new home

Here they were cheek to cheek on the couch looking out the window at the herd of deer outside alertly at attention for 20 minutes.

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This is their backyard. The photo was taken when we dropped her off.

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Plextor PX-740A - Printer Friendly version

There is techy deep information on everything on the Internet. I’ve got a new Plextor drive and won’t buy a LG or similar every again. It is worth the extra $60 just for the Nero suite that it comes with instead of the cheap stuff with the other drives.