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	<title>George Maschke&#039;s Home Page</title>
	<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net</link>
	<description>Musings of an American in Holland</description>
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		<title>Protons and Ions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Facebook friend who works at Brookhaven National Laboratory posted the following status update:

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		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/18/protons-and-ions/</link>
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		<title>Election Advertising in The Hague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elections for The Hague&#8217;s city council are to be held on 3 March 2010, and around the city, the municipality has erected temporary billboards on which each party fielding candidates in the election can place a poster putting its case to the voters.
I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this done in an American election. It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/18/election-advertising-in-the-hague/</link>
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		<title>Persian Word of the Day: ندانمکاری</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I encountered an etymologically interesting Persian word: ندانمکاری (nadānamkārī). It&#8217;s unusual in that it incorporates a conjugated verb. The initial stem, ندانم (nadānam) is the first person negative subjunctive of the verb دانستن &#8220;to know.&#8221; Literally translated, it means &#8220;[that] I know not.&#8221; To this is appended the suffix کاری (kārī), which is analagous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/17/persian-word-of-the-day-%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%85%da%a9%d8%a7%d8%b1%db%8c/</link>
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		<title>Google Buzz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After watching Chris Fisher&#8217;s positive review of the new Google Buzz service, I&#8217;ve decided to give it a try. You&#8217;ll find my  Buzz feed, and may follow it if you like, through my newly created Google profile.
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		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/15/google-buzz/</link>
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		<title>Persian Word of the Week: ساندیس</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ On 11 February 2010, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution was observed in Iran, and it took place in an extraordinarily politically charged atmosphere, being seen as something of a watershed event for Iran&#8217;s Green Movement. As I followed the news on-line, I cam across a Persian word I had never heard before: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/14/persian-word-of-the-week-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%af%db%8c%d8%b3/</link>
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		<title>Welcoming the Year of the Tiger in The Hague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hague has its own Chinatown, and every year the city hosts a Chinese New Year celebration with a parade and fireworks. On Saturday, 13 February 2010, the opening ceremony welcoming the Year of the Tiger was held in the city hall atrium. I was able to take some pictures from the side of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/14/welcoming-the-year-of-the-tiger-in-the-hague/</link>
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		<title>Krzysztof Skubiszewski, R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, 8 February 2010, Dr. Krzysztof Skubiszewski, the president of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (where I work) died in Warsaw at the age of 83. He had served as an arbitrator since 4 December 1993, and as president of the Tribunal since 16 February 1994.
Last year, I had the pleasure of showing him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/02/09/krzysztof-skubiszewski-r-i-p/</link>
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		<title>Google Chrome Advertising Campaign in the Netherlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing advertisments for a web browser in public spaces before. But now at bus stands in The Hague one sees these posters for Google Chrome. I also saw a very large billboard advertising Chrome by the freeway on the way to Delft today.
I rather like Chrome&#8211;in particular the speed with which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/01/09/google-chrome-advertising-campaign-in-the-netherlands/</link>
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		<title>Gareth Porter on the Alleged Iranian &#8216;Nuclear Trigger&#8217; Document</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Iran: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story,&#8221; Gareth Porter follows up on his earlier report that &#8220;U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a &#8220;neutron initiator&#8221; for an atomic weapon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2010/01/05/gareth-porter-on-the-alleged-iranian-nuclear-trigger-document/</link>
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		<title>Typography Casts Additional Doubt on Authenticity of Alleged Iranian &#8220;Nuclear Trigger&#8221; Document</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 14 December 2009, The Times of London trumpeted what it claimed were notes produced in early 2007 &#8220;from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project&#8221; documenting Iranian plans to build and test a neutron initiator, a key component of an atomic weapon. The article received widespread international attention and called into question the US intelligence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgemaschke.net/2009/12/28/typographical-inconsistencies-cast-doubt-on-iranian-nuclear-trigger-document/</link>
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