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One of many construction sites with the standard concrete delivery basket and operator.

This is a zoom in on the basket.

I subscribe to many podcasts plus download the CBC at night and listen to the World At 6 on the way to and from work. It is a one hour drive and this keeps me awake 🙂 You can only listen to the same songs so many times and the radio programs are usually not much. There is Voice of America, but it plays lousy music and the news programs are too short.

Interesting specific Podcasts are:

From NPR: Don’t Miss: The Story of the 12th Imam and Iran’s President Renews Interest in ‘Hidden Imam’

On another topic is: Sufis in Syria Reach Out to the West

And there is another intersting Podcast from Engines of Our Ingenuity, Cradle of Civiliaztion (it is only 4 minutes long)

A very interesting take on things.

Bill Gates announced yesterday he is progressively going to disengage himself from day-to-day participation in Microsoft over the next two years, to concentrate exclusively on his foundation. His charitable work has been remarkable — unlike the Carnegies or the Rockefellers before him, his money, dubiously acquired as it may have been, is comforting the truly afflicted of this world, not in endowing institutions for the already comfortable.

Read it all here: Gates opening new Vistas

We went on an evening shopping excursion mostly to go to a tailor to get some clothes made and while there did some exploring.

She works the hardest of all on her homework every day after school. She is learning a lot!

Do you remember those days, staying up too late reading at bedtime?