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this time GHC was held in Portland ( Nov 10-13, 2011) , Oregon, in Oregon Convention Center, nice place, and a major event that I always look forward to. Meeting with researcher, job hunting and above all, meeting friends. I also had a poster presentation this time, so I can claim that it was a productive tour.  I volunteered at the conference, participated in student research poster competition

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I read this post and those who visit my blog may find it interesting, so I am quoting some of the interesting parts.. http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_30_a_java.htm The original Coca-Cola was a late-nineteenth-century concoction known as Pemberton's French Wine Coca, a mixture of alcohol, the caffeine-rich kola nut, and coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine. In the face of social pressure,

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এই তো এই গ্রীষ্মের কথা , মানে মার্কিন হিসাবে জুন থেকে অগাস্ট, স্কুল তিন মাসের ছুটি , আমি মেরিল্যান্ড থেকে কালিফোর্নিয়াতে | google map  এ সারা পৃথিবী চষে বেড়াই, এই তো মাউস এ একটা ক্লিক আর আমি প্রশান্ত মহাসাগর এ , আর একটু এগোই তো মেক্সিকো | এভাবে কি আর কাজ করা যায় ? এমন হাতের নাগালে পাহাড় আর সমুদ্র এমন লোভ দেখাচ্ছে তো আমি কী কোরে আর ডেস্কএ বসে কেবল মাউস আর কিবোর্ড নিয়ে থাকি ! ছুটির দিন গুলোকে

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and this time it's loads full of fun time ! yeah, I am in NC, Greensboro, in my school friend Tasmin's house, and she is awesome , so is her kachchi biriyani, chotpoti, alur vorta, lau-chingri, kabab...Nov 6 2011 and I will cherish this day ever. her backyard and the photo session, and watching 'bohubrihee' together. and like usual eid day, getting ready with make up and accessories ! I am such

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and what if the things I thought are the most meaningful suddenly appears to be meaningless? and should I even look for meaning at all ? Why can't people be just ok with this meaningless existence and be happy and not think about what have I done with my life and all the bs ? I was actually trying to motivate myself for something, anything, and realized I cannot find anything to be inspired or

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I am not a foodie in that sense, usually I don't pay attention to food and make eating part of some multitasking act where I watch TV and eat without experiencing the 'food'.   But after starting to try cooking by myself I realized how difficult it is to create something good or at least palatable . There must be some magic behind this !  and so far I figured out only one of those magic tricks -

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মানুষের কত রকমের শখ থাকে - কেউ রাঁধতে ভালবাসে, কেউ বা ছবি তুলতে , আমার তো ছুটির দিনগুলো  কাটে গান শুনে আর টিভি দেখে, অর্থাৎ যাকে বলে কিনা সম্পূর্ণ 'অসৃজনশীল' | তার পরও শখ বলে কথা | তো আমাদের ক্লাসের একজনের শখ , শখ না বলে বলা উচিত 'প্যাশন' নিজ বাড়িতে বিয়ার বানানো ! ভিরমি খেয়ে পড়ার আগে বলে রাখি আমি আমেরিকায় বসে লিখছি , কাজেই উক্ত পানীয় প্রস্তুতি এবং গলধঃকরণ উভয়ই বৈধ এবং আইনত সিদ্ধ |

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director: Zahir Raihan Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hauRsDJDm4Q Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33TT0M6BcY

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This video made by Bangladesh tourism board represents a lot about Bangladeshi culture, heritage and beauty. This was first aired on the inauguration ceremony held in Dhaka for the  ICC World Cup cricket hosted by Bangladesh.

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29.12.2010  11:30 pm Kissimmee . The taxi ride from  Orlando air port to the hotel was just a teaser about how funny things are going to be for the next couple of days. And even though we were speaking in Bangla , the Puerto Rican taxi driver joined our conversation (!) and started to share his opinion, damn ! It was too late ,  but we still need to satisfy our hungry stomachs, ordering a

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May be I am making this my habit,  whenever snow attacks in long lonely winter, escape to Florida.  No wonder people talk about weather that much, it's not that they do not have anything else to talk about, it deserves to be a topic. Now I do realize weather can affect people's psychology to what extent, the barren trees and snow covered ground just make me more depressed, and a sunny beach

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I am indeed getting older as the earth keeps turning ; no grey hair yet ( surprising enough for a PhD student though ) , but looking at the undergraduates certainly makes me jealous ,  and sigh over memories I never had, things I never done, moments I never experienced,  nostalgia over nothing ! But good friends can always rejuvenite one another, right ? We cannot always choose the people we

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This is my second fall semester, it was the last fall when I arrived here at college park, MD and at first sight I loved my campus,  then it was a matter of time to get used to the new people. Now more than one year has passed and even though it's not my home, I kind of feel comfortable in this nomadic life, may be I can stay anywhere  ( given I have a high speed internet connection ) ! The fall

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Can someone tell me when it is the time to write reports or work on homeworks-assignments , why do I just hide from all those and start digging the web  ( because I left my real books back home) for poems? Tonight I suddenly remembered Sukanta, and searched if I could read his work online and I did not totally fail :) here   I found some of the works of Sukanta , the Bengali poet who died at a

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so I found this website containing some poems of Sukumar Ray ,  ( another one in this online collection  and also here with some poems )he is part of the childhood of all Bengali children, and if not, then I really feel sorry for those children who spent their childhood without reading works of Sukumar Ray. This one is about the 'helplessness' of a voracious eater around food and how he promises

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IMG_8248, originally uploaded by geeklinda.Four awesome days at Atlanta for the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing. Had a great time, now berried with homeworks and projects and undone laundries. No need to mention how I enjoyed with my friends, but I also enjoyed my Hopper assignments and blogging and tweeting about the selected sessions as a community blogger . I could not attend

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Summarizing my summer 2010:   Awesome NYC tour, met Kashpia and Rima.   Met Tanima, Enamul , Shafi and Shoshi after a long time , had a great dinner with them .   Celebrated 4th of July with Sheetal, Nawrin, Reza and Zaman. Great view of fireworks at Penn's landing. Totally exploited our Freedom of Speech :D   Student volunteer at KDD. Met Tozammel, Nayeem vai , Hassan vai.   DC tour with

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yesterday while waiting for the bus way home I happened to meet a girl with a bunch of dried lavender plants in her backpack and she was giving away to the people around .. there were too many, I also took some , it smelled wonderful .. soft and warm .. she asked where I am from and after knowing that she surprised me with the question " amar naam golap , tomar naam kee ? ( My name is rose,

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"If you are in USA and you have not seen NYC, you have seen nothing", I was told so many good things and equal amount of bad things about NYC - so it became a must-do on my todo list  .. there were hundreds of reasons not to go ( "it is way dirty, not worth your time .. bla bla ") and thousands to go ( "so full of life, places to see and shop ...") - then someday someone told me it was 'something

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এক সাথে অনেক কাজের চিন্তা করলে শেষ পর্যন্ত কছুই করা হয় না , কাজের আগ্রহও কমে যাচ্ছে .. নিজেকে বুঝাচ্ছি নিজেই , আবার কিছুক্ষণ পর সব ভুলে youtube এ গান দেখা শুরু করছি .. কোনো কোনো সমস্যা থাকে যার কোনো সমাধান করা যায়না , তখন সেটাকে পাশ কাটিয়েই বাকি সব করতে হয়, কিন্তু মনে হচ্ছে না বেপারটা এত সহজ হবে ! চরম বিরক্তি লাগছে ..  এক মাস হয়ে গেল এক লাইন কোড ও লিখি নি  ... অথচ এমন না যে খুব আরামে

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got my grades for the Artificial Intelligence Planing course , I took this course on last semester and the exam was taken last Saturday when it was snowing heavily outside.  I am surprised at my capability of getting such a poor grade , so far this is the least grade I ever got for any course, hahaa , don't know what's on my future.  Seems like AI is not for me after all. Before working on

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Again snow storm alert, again the campus is closed. So got an extra day for this weekend, for me it's time for blogging ;already done with 'facebooking' and 'tweeting' since I got myself up from sleep and after 2 more hours managed to got up from the bed . After enjoying my pancake breakfast , having my tea ( it was delicious ) and finishing all the 'pending' Egyptology video I had been

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Looking for something like this for a long time, especially after coming to USA, I could not bring the Geetobitan, or Golpoguchchha , not even a single book of Rabindranath . The work that is being done by the West Bengal Language Academy is really praise worthy, I hope the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh will take similar actions to preserve the great works of our greatest intellectuals in the same

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Web এ Key West এর ছবি দেখে আগেই মুগ্ধ হয়েছিলাম, এবার যাওয়ারও ব্যবস্থা হয়ে গেল শেষ পর্যন্ত, তাও কিনা একেবারে আশা ছেড়ে দেবার পর | Miami থেকে tri-rail র করে Boca Raton, ট্রেন এ বসে মনে পড়ে গেল সিলেট যাত্রার কথা , এরকমই সবুজের সারি জানালা দিয়ে এসে ভেসে যাচ্ছিল | তার মাঝে আবার বৃষ্টি , station এ নেমে একটু বৃষ্টিতে হাঁটাহাঁটি. সন্ধ্যায় Ocean's drive এ ঘুরে এলাম, আলিশান বাসা বাড়ি দেখলাম, আর তারপর ফিরে

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শীতের ছুটিতে কী করা যায় তার পরিকল্পনা চলছিল অনেক দিন যাবতই , ধারেকাছের তুলনামূলক কম ঠান্ডা এলাকা হিসেবে Florida-র নাম এলো স্বভাবতই. আমি তো রাজি হব হব করে আবার পিছিয়েই গেলাম, কপর্দক্শুন্য মানুষ , না জানি বেড়াতে গিয়ে ঋণের বোঝা মাথায় চেপে বসে কিনা. কিন্তু যেই না ছুটি আরম্ভ হলো, আর তো টিকতে পারিনা, ক্যাম্পাস জনমানবহীন, বরফে ঢাকা রাস্তাঘাট, নাহ , আর থাকা যায় না এর মাঝে. কিছু একটা করতেই হবে. মিশু আর

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Today one of my professors brought a piece of Turrón, ( it's a kind of Christmas dessert of Spain and Italy brought to Europe by the Arabs) and it was delicious ! partly because it is made of honey, almonds and mostly because it reminded me of Gurder shondesh, Batasha and all other types of desserts made of 'gurd' (molasses) and nut. I could eat the whole piece but I had to be satisfied with

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কালকে ঈদ , যদিও এই দেশে ঈদের কোনই আমেজ নেই , তবুও এর মাঝেই যতটুকু পারা যায় আনন্দ আনন্দ ভাব করা , নতুন সব মানুষ , নতুন পরিবেশ , বাঙালি অনেকগুলো পরিবার এই শহরে, কিন্তু নিজের পরিবারের তো কোনো বিকল্প হয় না | ভাবতে বসলাম এখন দেশে থাকলে কী করতাম ! আসলে তেমন কিছুই করতাম না , সেজেগুজে বসে থাকতাম, তারপর খালা মামাদের বাসায় যাওয়া, কখন কোরবানির  মাংশ রান্না হবে তার জন্য অপেক্ষা করা, অতঃপর সেই মাংশ খাওয়া ,

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It was scary...I was hearing sounds, felt like someone was sneaking around, but every time I went downstairs I could not find anyone or anything and guessed that may be my roommate's cats were playing around. But this morning I found the cats were also getting crazy and they were scratching the fireplace window, crying for help. At first I thought some birds or rat got stuck into our fireplace ,

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It seems that among all the people I follow on Twitter, Shafi( rajputro) spends most time on twitter and Ragib vai has the most followers.The bigger the circle is, the more is the number of tweets of that person, and deeper shade of color indicates they have more followers. In both cases, Rajputro seems a winner with the largest circle with moderate blue color :) I created this visualization

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I used to think that I hate shopping, mostly because after you buy something, you have less money at hand than you had before, and partly because after I return home, the things I had bought do not seem as appealing as they did in the store. But surprisingly , now I don't feel that way anymore. I think the reason is now I shop in a different environment, no bargaining, no one telling what to buy

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Barack Obama just finished his speech 30 minutes ago, his words were vigorous as always , and though I am not an American citizen, it was inspiring for me too, it is always great to see a nation walking forward for change ! I went to the University of Maryland Comcast center at 10:30 am, September 17th,2009 and it is so huge that even I reached late there were plenty of available seats. People

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after arriving at the USA my first few days were really exhausting, and I was tensed as I could not find any suitable place to live yet, at that time I was not that excited about visiting any place, but still made the trip to visit the legendary caverns in Virginia.We started from Washington, DC and the journey took at least two hours. As we went closer to the caverns, the nature around us

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after a long time, I went to visit my school. I become so nostalgic that even when I go to that area I do not enter the school premises, but today was different, I felt the urge to take farewel from my teachers who worked so hard for us to build up our lives . It is amazing that  even so many years have past , but my beloved teachers have not forgot my name or face, and they bestowed their love

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now I have got my visa and bought the ticket, so starts the final preparation; My friends know how clumsy I am , and thanks to all of them, they remind me the 'todo's time to time, the list of works I should finish before leaving home. the most important thing in my todo list is to sleep and I am happy that after a long time I am enjoying my time lying in bed all day long :)We also prepared a

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thanks to http://www.phdcomics.com

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Across the River and into the Trees : ebook For Whom the Bell Tolls : ebook A Farewell to Arms:   ebook  

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All the 4 'Twilight' novels of the series by Stephenie Meyer are here : The books in the series in chronological order: Twilight New Moon Eclipse The Breaking Dawn Finish reading before you see the movies :) The download link is this.

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We have read books about the Liberation war of Bangladesh, we watched films that depicted the sacrifices of our freedom fighters, yet politicians have tried to use this glorious history for their own interest. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, a renowned and popular author of modern Bangla literature has tried to give a short narrative of this history from a neutral point of view on his book "Muktijuddher

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It's one of my most favorite books [pdf] .I have shared a copy so that anyone can download this classic .

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yes, the breathtaking, suffocating wait is over now, I have at last got my admission offer.. and not from only one university, what a relief.. after all the sleepless nights, efforts and praying, Allah bestowed His blessings upon me, and it was more than I deserved ! It was hard to make the decision, which university should I select to apply to, and what was my chances ? Am I really capable of ?

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If people of armed force are killed so brutally, then what is the security of mass people, people like us who are living on the edge ? it's hard to believe, almost impossible ! can't sleep with all these questions and all the fury ..just heard something , a sound from outside, is it another gunshot ? I know it's not.. but the experience of the last few days is keeping me awake.. what about the

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Bonolota SenFor thousands of years I roamed the paths of this earth,From waters round Ceylon in dead of nightto Malayan seas.Much have I wandered. I was therein the gray world of AsokaAnd Bimbisara, pressed on through darknessto the city of Vidarbha.I am a weary heart surrounded by life's frothy ocean.To me she gave a moment's peace -Banalata Sen from Natore. Aabar Bochhor kuri poreAmidst a vast

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The sun of the first dayPut the questionTo the new manifestation of life-Who are you?There was no answer.Years passed by.The last sun of the last dayUttered the questionon the shore of the western seaIn the hush of evening-Who are you?No answer came again."--Rabindranath Tagore

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The Italians have made thier way into people's heart by this very food ! ya, I am talking about PIZZA. People from all over the world, Asian or European, American or Africa, just love it. Now we have several ernouned pizza corners in Bangladesh too. Pizza hut, Domino's , Shwarma house serve world class pizzas at world class rates ! So, if the price does not seem resonable, you can make your own

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Cry Wolf : "The three of them, Jake, Gareth and Vicky, find themselves swept irresistibly from a daring adventure Into a violent confrontation with death among the high mountains of Ethiopia."The Seventh ScrollOne novel from Smith's Egyptian series. "Duraid Al Simmu and his beautiful half-English, half-Egyptian wife, Royan, were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris. And with it the

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Download and enjoy !After 15 years Axl Rose comes up with his new gang and the new album Chinese Democracy ! certainly a great news for Guns N' Roses fans , specially after so long a wait and so huge expectation! They started to record this album on 1994 and and at last it has seen the daylight.The 14 tracks of this albums are: ( click the song title to download ..)1) Madagascar (live)

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Another Eid day has come, it's Kurbani eid tomorrow. My mom is going to prepare all the nice meals: kabab, firni, polaw, meat-balls and other usual items for Eid. So far I don't have any task for Eid day, so I am going to decorate my hands with henna and if possible, will try to help mom( though most of the times, all my attempts to help her turns out as a mess and creates further problem ! )We

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After the violent terrorist attack on Mumbai people from all over the world have cast their eyes on India. Live telecast on news channels are broadcast. Frightening faces of horror are published in newspapers and websites .. people have been killed mercilessly.. but would the situation be same if the attack had been on distressed poor people ? instead of the luxurious hotel Taj the attacks

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[Adam]Now as the summer fades, I let you slip awayYou say I’m not your type, But I can make you sway.It makes you burn to learn, You’re not the only oneI’d let you be if you put down your blazing gun.[Rihanna]Now you’ve gone somewhere else, Far awayI don’t know if I will find you (find you, find you).But you feel my breath, On your neckCan’t believe I’m right behind you (right behind you).

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The Robot series:The complete robotThe Caves of SteelThe Robots of DawnRobots and EmpireThe Foundation series:Prelude to FoundationForward the FoundationThe Foundation Trilogy [Foundation - Foundation and Empire - Second Foundation]Foundation's EdgeFoundation and Earth

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The Eid day was boring as usual , but the get together party after a day after Eid was awesome..a wonderful reunion of old friends. After reaching Shefali's home i took the place from where i van see the door well ..so whenever a person came I declared her presence...'now comes Shumi...!!!'...and another splash of laughter , sometimes fake and sometimes real...at least we could laugh loud.

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sometimes the toughest battle we fight is with ourselves.. and this is true for me most of the times. if anything goes wrong or not according to my wish, I try to blame someone else concealing the fact that it was actually me. no one else to blame for my own mistakes. when what to do actually when someone gets bored of himself? we can't just throw ourselves away or out of sight.. I can't keep

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After a long time i got to hear such a true song with wonderful lyrics. Feels like Kate has just started the song and anyone who is listening to it will feel that she also has something more to add.All I know is that, you’re so nice, you’re the nicest thing I’ve seen I wish that we could give it a go ,See if we could be something I wish I was your favourite girl I wish you thought I was the

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it's the hilarious show ever, and not only on TV. actually the first time I watches it on tv, I was not that amazed, but when I got the DVDs I just became a fan at once.may be the timing acted as a catalyst, as my final exam was going on and everything except study seems the most precious at that moment- after finishing every episode I told myself, okey, this is the last one, I will start

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On August , 2007 an special issue of National geographic magazine got published with marvelous description and snapshots of the Mayan ruins.We can have an idea about how advanced they were ... "Though they used neither the wheel nor metal tools, they developed a complete hieroglyphic writing system and grasped the concept of zero, adopting it for everyday calculations. They also had a 365-

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For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind of delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all the smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost For he gave all his heart and lost. -- W. B. Yeats

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yesterday I heard from my friend about this movies, she recommended to see this one.then I saw it and really liked it, first i was thinking where is it going...because the tiny robot was just doing the same thing over and over again, but after a while it became interesting.the characterization of future humans is realistic and funny also.

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This very idea freaked me out when I realized for the first time that we always see the past !Like when I am looking at a star in the sky, it is totally possible that this star no longer exists.. the sky is displaying a snapshot taken in th past. If it's a star five lightyears away from earth, then I certainly am looking at a picture taken five years ago. Light travels at the rate of 30 million

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I was only four or five when Narnia-the TV series was being broadcasted on television, at that time we had only one tv channel in Bangladesh, but it was more than enough. What more a kid need from tv when Narnia or Thundercats is going on ! I still remember the day I missed an episode because of power failure and how long I cried ! My mom tried to make me sleep and I used to close my eyes

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I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle

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The avian influenza is generally known as bird flu and now this is a very familiar term in Bangladesh.Bangladesh has about 220 million chickens and 37 million ducks. Five million people are directly employed by the poultry industry, millions of households rely on poultry production for income generation and nutrition.After bird flu broke out in several farms in Bangladesh thousands of birds were

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It's glorious spring, but it's also a transition of climate. Winter is passing by and summer is creeping in. This time of year is more vulnerable to diseases like jaundice and chicken pox. And students who are preparing for their SSC examination should be vary careful in this time.

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This Friday I went to a river cruise on Sheetalakhya river with my colleagues to celebrate the successful completion of project "Template-kit" and "Simple publishing". We started from Demra ghat and after one hour we landed at Murapara where we got to visit a jamidar bari which is now converted to a college. It was the "palace" of jamidar ( lord ) Jogodish Banarjee and now called Rupgonj college

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When I read the review I got interested to read this book of Steven Weinberg as soon as possible..and soon I got a copy, but it was a translation and one of the worst translation I have ever read. May be the Bangla tern for the astronomical objects are not standerdized yet or the translator was not efficient enough..I do not remember now ! However, I sopped reading it and decided to find the

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As a book-freak I always admire Russian literature, specially novel. One of my all time favorites is "How the steel was tempered", I can't pronounce its original Russian name though. I first read the Bangla translation which is titled as "Eeshpaat" that means 'steel ' in Bangla, published from Raduga publishers . I was searching for the english translation for long and at last I found it on

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Workshop on Algorithms and Computation - 2008.. held in BUET on February 7-8 was sponsored by three major software companies of Bangladesh and Escenic is one of them. We feel proud to be a part of the workshop and serve the professors from home and abroad.The closing ceremony was held on Efes restaurant,Gulshan. Masud Hassan sir anchored the whole program . We got the opportunity to meet with his

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I was brought up in Chittagong, so I was lucky to visit the Cox's Bazar beach several times in my childhood...with my parents and grand parents. It was so regular for me that I never realized how wonderful it is to walk beside the sea and watch the sun slowly drowning into it. I had no idea that the waves touching my feet are actually part of the Bay of Bengal which falls in the Indian ocean.The

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The zahir is said the Novel of Obsession...like The Alchemist was a Fable About Following Dream. Another best seller from Paolo Choelho. The Alchemist was mesmerizing ... I've just started to read the other one, hope it will not disappoint me.I wish I could understand Portuguese to read the novel in its original form, because at times I felt the translation too simplistic. But at least you

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It was the best of our time- when life seemed so wonderful that we each could declare ourselves a king, as if we don't know the definition of sadness and worry doesn't recognize us ! And what can be the best place for a monarch to build up his dream castle rather than in midst of mother could declare ourselvesnature ! so did we..and who needs to look farther when we have our SUNDARBAN ? We

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That was the moment, a truly unbelievable moment...and I thought it would never come ! and I still can't believe..is it real ! I lost it, I yearned for it..so many times, so long a time...I hoped that a day will come when I would find it again...It happened quite a several times , I woke up in the morning and the first thing came to my thought--this can be the day !", and it wasn't, for sure.

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And again another Eid has come today !! It's the first Eid after I have started my carrer, so it's very special for me. It's again the same old routine for Eid day....get ready with new dress & ornaments, visit all relatives , and after a whole day of gossiping and eating, seat before the TV , try to watch "SPECIAL" rubbish programmes ! In every other country, people get discount on purchase

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it's mid Ramadan..the most important month for the muslims, we are observing fast , expressing our devotion to Allah by not taking any food and drink from dawn to dusk, and still.....we are facing load shedding, unbearable temperature and most painful->scarcity of water ! today i started to write something on my blog and out of nothing i heard my ups making that annoying sound of sound notifying

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At last i have finished reading all seven novels of the legendary FOUNDATION series by Isaac Asimov. i came by the first book Foundation(the first episode) when i just passed higher secondary in 2001 and was totally spell bound by the writing style and the power of the story. I just had to have the other ones..but the books were very expensive and i dared not to spend that lot of money that time.

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tanvir irfan sir is one of the nicest and finest teachers i ever got in life. we had a great time with tanvir sir and i will never forget what he said in the last class we have with him . he insisted that we should not only do great work, also express those with strength , because the world is not an easy place,you have to establish your way or fall behind . sir wrote about our batch on his

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water, water everywhere , not a drop to drink !! yes, this is really the situation now in Bangladesh. the flood might have over, but not the sufferings gone. people are still in misery; the relief work is not sufficient this year, actually they are never sufficient..how can you fill the lap of a mother who have lost her child ! no food, no shelter can repay this ! we can just have mere hope ...

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i needed to escape,to hide...but i could go nowhere, so invited those who were always lost into some other world and shared my moments with them! they just say your own feelings with their words...and you wonder how could they creep into your mind and sketch everything with those small verses !! O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONGSWEETHEART, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out

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Let Nature be your teacher: Sweet is the lore which Nature brings. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things. We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art: Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives."— WORDSWORTH.

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yet another friendship day passed and i still wonder whom can i call my real friend !every time i get upset and the fault is absolutely mine. i expect more than i should . and every time i promise to myself.."ok, no more , i have to keep my feelings back.." and then another blunder !right now i am worried a lot .. for the sudden change in my behavior..i was never so fragile (or at least i like

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I was utterly shocked on the announcement of the new seven wonders of the world ! how come the pyramid of Giza has been left out ! if pyramid can't make us woder, then we must have lost our sence of woderment... yes, peoples' choices vary indeed,but Egypt always have had some spell over me. i've never been there but i've promised myself ..i must stand before thise tombs and feel the pride

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There are two kinds of people in the world, people who like to read books and those who don't. And I do believe you are missing half of the world if you belong to the latter group.The First Three MinutesThe Zahir : Paolo CoelhoEleven MinutesForward the Foundation.Love in the Time of CholeraThings Fall AppartLittle Women : Louisa May AlcottCry Wolf : Wilbur SmithThe Seventh Scroll: Wilbur SmithThe

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