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a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy#Delays"Chinese Democracy/a, the sixth studio album by Guns N’ Roses, is being released this Sunday, after over a decade of delays. Chuck Klosterman a href="http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews"liked it/a. John Pareles from the New York Times a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/arts/music/23pare.html?_r=3pagewanted=1hp"did not/a. You can decide for yourself by listening to it a href="http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses"here/a. Or you can pick it up this Sunday at Best Buy. But make sure you collect your a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc9S2shf_wKwjH11jMbO9iJGbjlAD94J1EH00"free Dr Pepper/a. br / a href="http://www.metafilter.com/75879/If-you-play-the-CD-backwards-on-your-PC-it-installs-Duke-Nukem-Forever"Previously/a and a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70286/Still-no-similar-offers-for-actual-democracy-in-China"previously/a.

When Mike Duke takes over as the CEO of Wal-Mart on Feb. 1, he will be confronted with a vastly different political landscape than the one in which his predecessor, H. Lee Scott, operated for the past nine years.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/s9K1Xg0gAEk" height="1" width="1"/

Researchers are using Guitar Hero to help train amputees who will use electrical signals from their residual muscles to control next generation bionic arms. From IEEE Spectrum: In mid-October, Johns Hopkins University researchers Robert Armiger and Jacob Vogelstein traveled to RP 2009 partner Duke University, in Durham, N.C., to test the system on its target demographic, in this case Iraq veteran Jon Kuniholm. Kuniholm’s right hand was lost to shrapnel three years ago. About to finish his Ph.D. at Duke’s Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems, Kuniholm has been a volunteer for the DARPA program for the past two years and is the outspoken founder of the Open Prosthetics Project, an open-source Web site, independent of DARPA, that aims to make prosthetic-arm technology as open source and collaborative as Linux and Firefox. With electrodes attached to his residual arm, Kuniholm was able to operate the frets using signals from the muscles there. “It’s fun,” says Kuniholm, who achieved the highest score reported by the experimental subjects: 70 percent. Kuniholm says that while Air Guitar Hero is the only game so far that requires individual finger movement to train an amputee to deal with those muscles again, the real success is in striving for a realistic goal. “You’re doing something simple,” he says. “It’s not rocket science. But you have to do it fast and you have to time it right.” For Those Without Hands, There's Air Guitar Hero...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=a7b85bed196f41fbff6e919117879d09amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=a7b85bed196f41fbff6e919117879d09amp;p=1" border="0" //a

Wal-Mart Stores announced Friday that CEO Lee Scott will retire and the company's board has elected Mike Duke, vice chairman of Wal-Mart International, to succeed him.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/S7jY0Pr9VMg" height="1" width="1"/

The retailer's global operations vice chairman will replace 29-year veteran Lee Scott as CEO.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, surprised investors with the announcement that Lee Scott, chief executive since 1999, would retire in February as the retailer flourishes amid the broad economic downturn

Mike Duke of the retail chain's international division will replace Scott Lee in February.

Mike Duke of the retail chain's international division will replace Scott Lee in February.

- Michael T. Duke, 58 ans, actuel vice président et à la tête de la division internationale du groupe de distribution américain, va succéder à Lee Scott.       -

Le distributeur de l'Arkansas Wal-Mart a annoncé ce jour que son Conseil d'administration avait élu Mike Duke, 58 ans, à la succession de Lee Scott en tant que Président et Chief executive officer. La nomination prendra effet le 1er février 2009. Duke a

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Here is a brief clip from my encounter with Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah at Duke University last evening. The evening was very short (less than two hours), but it may well be a preview of things to come, as Dr. Shah wants to do more in-depth debates in the future! I am excited about what 2009 will bring.

A partir de février prochain, Mike Duke, jusque là en charge de l'international, remplacera Lee Scott à la direction générale. Le titre progresse à l'ouverture de Wall Street.

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Voici la composition du quinze de départ canadien qui affrontera l'Ecosse samedi, à Aberdeen, en test-match/ Le XV canadien: Pritchard - Duke, Hearn, R.

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O recém-doutorado da Universidade de Budapeste e actual funcionário da Last.fm Tamás Nepusz e não Nepusz Tamas como Eliot Van Buskirk do Listening Post escreveu - desenvolveu um mapa interactivo que representa graficamente as mais de quatro milhões de relações de similaridade entre os artistas que constam da base de dados da rede social. Os círculos representam os artistas, bandas e músicos que podem ser encontrados na secção de música do site. As linhas ligam os artistas com sonoridades mais próximas, em função dos hábitos musicais dos utilizadores.

Cada estilo musical encontra-se sob a forma de uma cor, tendo em conta as etiquetas associadas pelos utilizadores aos artistas: o rock a vermelho, o metal a cinzento escuro, a electrónica a laranja, o hip-hop e o rap a azul, o jazz a amarelo, o reggae e o ska a violeta, a música clássica a azul ciano, o pop a verde e o country, folk e world music a castanho. O tamanho dos círculos varia consoante a popularidade dos artistas.

A aplicação desenvolvida por Nepusz permite ainda indicar os nomes de alguns artistas de modo a descobrir onde é que eles se encontram localizados no mapa, bem como introduzir o nosso nome de utilizador na Last.fm para verificar onde é que os nossos artistas mais escutados se encontram posicionados no mapa. Tudo isto baseia-se na API aberta da Last.fm. Quem quiser inspeccionar mais de perto o mapa pode consultar uma versão com uma função de zoom incorporada aqui - é a quinta categoria (via Duke Listens!). Muito interessante. Mas seria ainda mais se desse para aceder automaticamente à página do artista na Last.fm bem como para ouvir alguns temas.