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SpaceCollective: http://spacecollective.org/// Thu, 28 May 2009 07:28:15 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/// en New comment on: http://spacecollective.org/// http://spacecollective.org/// Thu, 28 May 2009 07:28:15 +0000 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/gamma">gamma</a> wrote: Turkmenistan returned to the Gregorian calendar. <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/24/asia/AS-GEN-Turkmenistan-Calendar.php" target="blank">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/24/asia/AS-GEN-Turkmenistan-Calendar.php</a> http://spacecollective.org/// New comment on: http://spacecollective.org/// http://spacecollective.org/// Wed, 27 May 2009 08:21:14 +0000 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/gamma">gamma</a> wrote: It sounds a bit paranoid to me. Our friend Neil K. did some counseling on fear... Alas, here are two old posts from my old blog. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Promised interest rates of up to 40 percent convinced players of the online virtual reality game Second Life to deposit $75,000 in real money with Ginko Financial. But when Ginko disappeared from the virtual world, with the deposits, chaos ensued. The game's maker, Linden Lab, banned all virtual banks, effective today, and that led to a run on virtual ATMs as well as virtual stock market and real estate crashes. The debacle led to some calls for government regulation of the lawless Second Life world, but "most members of Congress don't understand what this is all about," said economist Dan Miller with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov reversed his predecessor's ban on operas and circuses, saying that with increasing development in the Central Asian nation, it deserved to have such artistic performances, state-run TV reported Sunday. "Our flourishing nation should not stand separate from the world," Berdymukhamedov told a group of Turkmen intellectuals at a meeting Saturday. "It absolutely should have a worthy operatic theater and a worthy state circus." The ban was imposed in 2001 by then-President Saparmurat Niyazov, who criticized opera and ballet, among other things, as being foreign to Turkmen culture, and allowed funding for state-sponsored circuses to dry up. In more than two decades as the country's leader, Niyazov, who called himself Turkmenbashi, of Father of All Turkmen, crushed dissent and instituted a range of often quixotic rules and laws as well as creating a vast personality cult. Since Niyazov's death in 2006, Berdymukhamedov has softened some of Niyazov's most draconian policies. He also has moved to court foreign energy companies and outside investors to tap the poor, desert nation's natural gas reserves, which are some of the largest in the former Soviet Union. In his televised comments, Berdymukhamedov estimated the first opera would be performed in six or seven months. It was unclear whether his order included the return of ballet. http://spacecollective.org/// New comment on: http://spacecollective.org/// http://spacecollective.org/// Mon, 25 May 2009 12:49:47 +0000 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/SAILOR">SAILOR</a> wrote: All correct. We need to correct the world and rid it of fallacy. Science is proof. Nature is key. http://spacecollective.org///