257|1253233620|dynamic|EVEN MISS VENEZUELA CAN\'T ESCAPE ECONOMIC CRISIS |
Despite a second consecutive victory at this year's Miss Universe, even Venezuela's hugely successful beauty factory is feeling the global pinch.
The local "Miss Venezuela" organization -- which has landed the South American nation more international pageant titles than any other country -- announced on Wednesday it had slashed the number of national competitors to 20 from 30.
"We have had to tighten our belt a bit too," said Joaquin Riviera, organizer of the annual Miss Venezuela competition, which is wildly popular and draws huge TV audiences.
The next national winner will be chosen on September 24.
"I've asked Osmel to be a bit stricter choosing 20 girls, so we only have the best," Riviera added, referring to local beauty "czar" Osmel Sousa, who prepares the competitors.
Sousa denied the cuts, however, would mean fewer dresses or less plastic surgery for girls competing. Venezuela has one of the highest rates of cosmetic surgery in the world.
Venezuela's Stefania Fernandez, an 18-year-old brunette, won the Miss Universe 2009 title last month in the Bahamas, giving her country its second win in a row and its sixth in that pageant's history.
|Despite a second consecutive victory at this year's Miss Universe, even Venezuela's hugely successful beauty factory is feeling the global pinch...
256|1253146260|dynamic|WORLD\'S OLDEST PERSON DIES IN CALIFORNIA AT 115 |
The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115.
Gertrude Baines died peacefully in her sleep sometime between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. local time (1300 and 1400 GMT) at the Western Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had spent the past decade of her life.
"She's a very dignified lady," Emma Camanag, the hospital's administrator, told Reuters. "It has truly been a blessing and an honor for us to take care of her over the last 10 years and we will greatly miss her. It's just like we lost a relative."
Baines had no living relatives, Camanag said, but was popular at the home and at her church, where she attended services every Sunday until she became too ill to leave her room.
Camanag said parishioners at the church often visited Baines, who was born on April 6, 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, and became the world's oldest person when 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal died in January.
Japan's Kama Chien, 114, is now the oldest person in the world.
As a Black woman who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow laws, which required Blacks to use separate and often inferior public facilities, Baines was celebrated in the media when she voted last November for Obama, the first African American elected president of the United States.
She had only voted once previously, for John F. Kennedy, and told the Los Angeles Times at the time that she supported Obama "because he's for the colored." She kept a signed picture of Obama on her wall, the Times reported.
Baines, who was born during the administration of Grover Cleveland, married young and later divorced. Her only child, a daughter, was born in 1909 and died of typhoid at the age of 18.
She worked as a maid in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles and lived on her own until she was well over 100.
According to the Times, when Baines was asked by reporters her secret for living a long life, she would reply "Ask God."
|The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115...
255|1253059680|dynamic|BUDDHIST BHUTAN WARNS FELLING TREES A THREAT TO HAPPINESS |
Bhutan has warned its citizens over cutting down thousands of young trees every year to make prayer flags, a threat to the tiny kingdom's lush scenery and the government's duty to bring "Gross National Happiness."
Himalayan Buddhists put up prayer flags for good luck or to help the dead find the right path to their next life. The more flag poles put up for the departed the better, and Buddhist monks say fresh poles must be used each time.
Having failed to convince its citizens to switch from wood to steel for prayer flags, the government of the Himalayas' last Buddhist kingdom is growing bamboo, which it hopes will be an attractive alternative.
"The pressure on forest is from all sides -- from flagposts to hydropower. We are discussing this every day," Agriculture Secretary Sherub Gyaltshen, said.
Bhutan's constitution, which emphasises the importance of Gross National Happiness over Gross Domestic Product, stipulates the country must have at least 60 percent forest cover.
Himalayan Buddhists believe winds will carry positive vibrations of tantric symbols written on the prayer flags in yellow, green, red, white and blue to represent the five elements, and 108 prayer flags are put up when someone dies.
"If you re-use an old flagpole, you aren't putting in effort, which means the merit earned is compromised," explained Lopon Gyem Tshering, a monk who teaches at a religious school.
Bhutan felled around 60,000 trees between June 2007 and June 2008 just for flag poles, according to official data, and per capita consumption is rising in the country of around 700,000.
|Bhutan has warned its citizens over cutting down thousands of young trees every year to make prayer flags, a threat to the tiny kingdom's lush scenery and the government's duty to bring "Gross National Happiness...
254|1252973160|dynamic|BODY WORLDS PLANS CADAVER SHOW DEDICATED TO SEX |
German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.
Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley show corpses prepared using a technique invented by von Hagens called "plastination," that removes water from specimens and preserves them with silicon rubber or epoxy resin.
"It's not my intention to show certain sexual poses. My goal is really to show the anatomy and the function," Body Worlds creative director Whalley told Reuters in an interview, adding the sex exhibition may open next year.
Body Worlds exhibitions, visited by 27 million people across the world, have been criticized for presenting entire corpses, stripped of skin to reveal the muscles and organs underneath, in lifelike and often theatrical positions.
Von Hagens has already triggered uproar with a new exhibit which shows just two copulating corpses.
German politicians called the current "Cycle of Life" show charting conception to old age "revolting" and "unacceptable" when it showed in Berlin earlier this year because it included copulating cadavers.
The way a plastinate is exhibited can vary from country to country to reflect local sensibilities. A vote of local employees decided that one of the copulating female cadavers should wear fewer clothes in Zurich than was the case in Berlin.
"Switzerland is the first country that already said from the outset that we could show whatever we wanted," said von Hagens.
"Zurich is ready ... but it's maybe not so easy in every other town," he said. "We have discussed whether it is proper to show homosexuality and in what way. This is a very delicate subject."
Von Hagens and Whalley said they both intended to donate their bodies for plastination, but would not leave instructions about how to display them, dismissing this as vanity.
"I find it a great opportunity to give something to others by donating my body, namely self-awareness," said Whalley.
Von Hagens said he and some other body donors even saw plastination as an alternative to burial or cremation, giving them more certainty about would happen to their bodies after death.
"Cremation for me is hell," he said.
|German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions...
253|1252922700|dynamic|CHAVEZ AND SPANISH KING SHARE A JOKE |
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard.
Chavez said to the king: "You've grown a beard like Fidel," referring to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to which the king replied: "I'm changing my look."
Relations between the two have been closely monitored since the king shouted: "Why don't you shut up?" at Chavez after the Venezuelan leader called former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a fascist at an Iberian-American Summit in 2007.
Footage of the outburst was broadcast around the world and became hugely popular. The two leaders officially made up at the Spanish royals' summer residence on the island of Mallorca in July 2008.
Spain is a major investor in Venezuela and a visit by Spanish Foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos with a group of business leaders in July sealed agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
On Friday Chavez also met Antonio Brufau, chairman of Spanish-Argentine oil major Repsol YPF, which has investments in Venezuela and sold $188 million of assets to its national oil company PDVSA in July.
|Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard...
252|1252715760|dynamic|PUTPOCKETS GIVE A LITTLE EXTRA CASH |
Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose -- putpockets.
Aware that people are suffering in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf and are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets.
Anything from 5 pounds ($8) to 20 pound notes is being surreptitiously deposited in unguarded pockets or open handbags in Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other busy spots.
The initiative, which runs until the end of August in London before being rolled out countrywide, is being funded by a broadbrand provider, which says it wants to brighten up people's lives in unusual ways.
"It feels good to give something back for a change -- and Britons certainly need it in the current economic climate," said Chris Fitch, a former pickpocket who now heads TalkTalk's putpocketing initiative.
"Every time I put money back in someone's pocket, I feel less guilty about the fact I spent many years taking it out."
London's police have been briefed about the plan, which will see at least 100,000 pounds given away.
|Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose -- putpockets...
251|1252628280|dynamic|MAN\'S LOVE RUNS DEEP IN SEARCH FOR RING |
A New Zealand man has been dubbed the Lord of the Ring after he searched and found his wedding ring more than a year after it slipped off his finger and sank to the sea floor.
The ring was lost for 16 months in the harbor of the country's capital city, Wellington, before Aleki Taumoepeau found it shining on the sea floor, the DominionPost newspaper reported Thursday.
"The whole top surface of the ring was glowing," Taumoepeau, an ecologist, said.
Taumoepeau had been married for just three months when he lost the wedding ring while conducting an environmental sweep of the harbor.
He roughly marked the spot where the ring had flown from his finger, but was unable to find it despite returning to the area many times.
Taumoepeau's wife offered to buy another ring, but he refused, pledging to find the ring.
But, equipped with new global satellite based coordinates and offering up a quick prayer, he found the ring after an hour's search.
"I couldn't believe that I could see the ring so perfectly," Taumoepeau said.
He said those with him on the boat at the time the ring flew off his finger had likened it to a similar, slow motion shot from The Lord of the Rings, much of which was filmed in Wellington by local director Peter Jackson.
|A New Zealand man has been dubbed the Lord of the Ring after he searched and found his wedding ring more than a year after it slipped off his finger and sank to the sea floor...
250|1252541700|dynamic|BABY BOOMERS STILL GETTING HIGH, AGENCY SAYS |
Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics.
The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.
"These findings show that many in the Woodstock generation continue to use illicit drugs as they age," SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick said in a statement.
"This continued use poses medical risks to these individuals and is likely to put further strains on the nation's health care system -- highlighting the value of preventing drug use from ever starting."
Baby boomers are the post World War II generation born between 1946 and 1964.
The data used in the study came from various surveys including 16,656 men and women participating in the 2002 through 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health.
|Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics...
249|1252456320|dynamic|LET\'S JUST WAVE AT EACH OTHER|
They may want votes, but some Japanese election candidates have been cutting back on handshakes on the campaign trail as the new flu virus reaches epidemic proportions in Japan.
The country has confirmed three deaths from the H1N1 influenza virus, and the health minister said Wednesday a rise in cases meant the new flu had spread more than expected this summer.
With little more than a week to go until the August 30 election that his opposition Democratic Party looks likely to win, candidate Denny Tamaki is playing it safe.
"Shaking hands during an election campaign is key, so this is pretty troubling," Tamaki told the Yomiuri Shimbun.
"It would be bad if I get infected myself and then pass it on to older people with weaker immune systems," said Tamaki, whose home island of Okinawa has been hit hard by the flu.
Fellow Democratic Party candidate Katsuhito Yokokume, locked in a tough fight against popular ex-premier Junichiro Koizumi's son, took a break from campaigning a few days ago after showing flu symptoms, media reported.
When he resumed, he made a rather unusual campaign pledge.
"We'll make sure not to give speeches so close that the audience might get hit with spittle," Yomiuri quoted one of his campaigners as saying.
Makiko Fujino, a ruling party candidate in the city of Nagoya, where an 81-year-old woman died from the new flu, brought disinfectant along to her rallies.
"I watched the news and thought some people might be worried, so I quickly brought some along," she told the newspaper.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura urged people to wash their hands but said there were no plans to limit public gatherings.
The new H1N1 influenza virus has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, according to the World Health Organization. When the northern hemisphere's autumn weather sets in, it is expected to worsen. Most cases are mild to moderate, with H1N1 appearing to be about as deadly as seasonal flu.
|They may want votes, but some Japanese election candidates have been cutting back on handshakes on the campaign trail as the new flu virus reaches epidemic proportions in Japan...
248|1252369740|dynamic|AN HOMAGE TO HOMER, AFRICAN STYLE |
An Angolan advertising agency has given Homer Simpson and his family an African makeover, raising eyebrows among fans of one of America's most cherished sitcoms.
The Simpsons, broadcast in more than 90 countries, have always been portrayed as yellow but the advertising agency, Executive Center in Luanda, decided to turn them brown in a promotional video aired by Africa's digital satellite TV service DSTV in Angola.
Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart are portrayed as Africans sitting on their over-used family couch. The family is shown wearing African-inspired clothing and their living room has little more than two huge loud speakers.
Even Homer's cherished beer has been replaced by Cuca, the Budweiser of Angola.
"Couldn't they have left Marge's hair blue?" said Ryan, a blogger, in a post below a picture of Marge with a jet black afro hairdo.
The creative director of Executive Center, Antonio Pascoa, said: "Our goal was to adapt the satirical parody of the typical middle-class American family to Angola.
"If people don't like it than I guess they don't have a sense of humor big enough to enjoy the Simpsons."
|An Angolan advertising agency has given Homer Simpson and his family an African makeover, raising eyebrows among fans of one of America's most cherished sitcoms...
247|1252283280|dynamic|WOMAN SUES ZOO OVER SPLASHING DOLPHINS |
A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported.
In her suit filed earlier this week, Allecyn Edwards said she was injured while walking near an exhibit at Brookfield Zoo, where a group of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins were performing, media said.
Officials "recklessly and willfully trained and encouraged the dolphins to throw water at the spectators in the stands, making the floor wet and slippery," but failed to post warning signs or lay down protective mats or strips, the suit said, according to the reports.
Edwards is demanding more than $50,000 for lost wages, medical expenses and emotional trauma from the Chicago Zoological Society and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, which operate the zoo in Chicago's southwest suburbs.
The suit was filed in Illinois' Circuit Court of Cook County.
|A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported...
246|1252196520|dynamic|ROBERT ZEMECKIS CIRCLES \"YELLOW SUBMARINE\" REMAKE |
Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations to direct a remake of the 1968 animated Beatles feature "Yellow Submarine" for the Walt Disney Studios.
Disney had no comment on the deal. Still being sorted out is the acquisition of rights to the film's music, which includes the title track as well as "Eleanor Rigby," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "With a Little Help From My Friends."
Like all Zemeckis' animated productions -- among them "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf" -- "Submarine" would be done in performance capture and would be a digital 3D endeavor.
The original movie, produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate, was a hit. Its story involves a soldier called Old Fred who meets up with the Beatles and travels in a yellow submersible to Pepperland. Among the creatures the group encounters are the music-hating Blue Meanies.
|Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations to direct a remake of the 1968 animated Beatles feature "Yellow Submarine" for the Walt Disney Studios...
245|1252109820|dynamic|LINUX USERS LOVE GOOGLE, IGNORE BING |
Linux users are known for being a somewhat finicky lot. Despite broader application support for Windows and a better user experience in Mac OS X, Linux "desktop" users swear by the open-source operating system (and sometimes swear at its competitors).
It's therefore somewhat telling that Linux users overwhelmingly choose Google as their preferred search engine, according to data released today by Chitika, an online advertising network. Chitika analyzed data from 163 million searches across its advertising network between July 30 and August 16, and came up with the following:
Despite the concerns about Google and privacy and despite Microsoft's rising relevance in search through its Bing "decision engine," Google wins over Linux users 94.61 percent of the time. While it's not surprising that Linux users would shun a Microsoft-sponsored search engine, it is surprising that they so heavily congregate around just one search engine.
After all, this is the crowd that has created (literally) thousands of Linux distributions. For a community so devoted to choice, it's telling that such a disparate community would unify on Google search. Perhaps Yahoo's apparent willingness to prostrate itself before Microsoft has turned off the Linux crowd, but there are other alternatives.
Open source, after all, is all about alternatives. There are open-source alternatives to Google Analytics (Piwik, Open-Tube, etc.), Google Search Appliance (Lucene/Solr), Google Docs (OpenGoo), Google Earth (World Wind), and more.
But for search, the Linux contingent of the open-source community seems settled on Google.
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Linux users are known for being a somewhat finicky lot. Despite broader application support for Windows and a better user experience in Mac OS X, Linux "desktop" users swear by the open-source operating system (and sometimes swear at its competitors)...
244|1252023060|dynamic|3 REASONS WHY I WON\'T USE TWITTER\'S GEOLOCATION FEATURE |
Twitter's upcoming geolocation feature is a nifty idea -- but mainly in theory. A quick look at the applications of Twitter geolocation could give those close to you, and not only those people, some ideas of taking advantage of the service to your detriment.
Soon arriving at a Twitter client near you (and online), Twitter geolocation can attach information about your current location to each tweet you send to the world. Whether you are out and about or just at home, the whole Twitter community can see your approximate position.
Twitter geolocation, though, is not the first service of its kind. Google's Latitude works in a similar way as well. However, when Twitter geolocation is launched, the feature will be disabled by default. So here are three reasons why I won't press the "enable" button.
I Get Enough Advertisements Already
. . . on the street, on TV, radio, online, and soon on Twitter? Advertisers could see great potential in Twitter's geolocation feature. Say I'm in town and I decide to go shopping around. I send out a tweet about my decision and my location is shared with it.
Based on that information, shops around me could scan automatically for certain keywords from users in the area and deliver me targeted tweets with their latest offers. Besides the fact that I wouldn't want shops to know where I am, the possibility of getting dozens of advertisement replies from stores near me while in town is plain creepy.
Criminals Are Tweeting Too
We all like to send the occasional tweet while on vacation or otherwise out of town. It's enough already that burglars could read your tweets while you are traveling, but they could also identify when you're not at home, even if you didn't mention it at all. So next time you come back home, your beloved plasma TV and all your precious gadgets might not be there anymore.
And let's not forget about those tweeting celebrities, who love Twitter so much. Geolocation could first make their home location available to a plethora of (obsessive) fans, and then get those Hollywood stars invaded by paparazzi when having their fancy meals; and that's not counting stalkers for you and me.
It's All or Nothing
You won't be able to control who sees your location with Twitter geolocation. Unlike Google Latitude, Twitter's feature won't allow you to chose exactly which of your followers could see your location. I might allow my close friends to track my location, but the lack of any such filtering reinforces my first two objections; and that could lead to all sorts of unpleasantries.
A whole Big Brother-style range of tracking network could emerge as well, as ingenious third-party developers could build such applications. Oh, and just in the odd case there's another Twitter worm or attack, affected users could have their location feature enabled without their knowledge, becoming a mass of walking zombies. No thanks.
P.S.: Yes, I'm on Twitter. Follow me @danielionescu
Daniel Ionescu, PC World
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Twitter's upcoming geolocation feature is a nifty idea -- but mainly in theory. A quick look at the applications of Twitter geolocation could give those close to you, and not only those people, some ideas of taking advantage of the service to your detriment...
243|1251936360|dynamic|BRITAIN\'S REAL LIFE ROMEO HAS PUT A ROSE BY HIS WIFE\'S BEDSIDE EVERY DAY FOR 60 YEARS|
Every now and then devoted husbands make an extra special effort to bring a little romance to their marriages.
But wives across the country may well be pointing to Tom Shovelton today and telling their husbands they are simply not doing enough.
For Mr Shovelton, who is a sprightly 87, has put a fresh rose at his wife's bedside every single day of the 60 years they have been married.
And if that supremely romantic gesture wasn't enough to shame most husbands in Britain, there is more.
For every morning he also kisses his 83-year-old wife Joan and every night he ensures she goes to sleep with another kiss.
These simple acts must secure the octogenarian the accolade of one of the most romantic husbands in the country.
The couple, from Pentre Halkyn in Flintshire, North Wales, were yesterday celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.
Mrs Shovelton said: 'I still get a rose by my bedside every day and I always get a kiss in the morning and before I go to bed at night.
'We have lived and worked together all our lives, so we know how important give and take is. We've had a happy 60 years together. I wouldn't have changed a thing.'
It was a chance meeting on New Year's Eve of 1946, the year after the end of the Second World War, that led to the lasting union.
'When we first met, I was on leave from the Land Army,' said Mrs Shovelton.
'Tom was a farmer in Lancashire. My sister was going with Tom's brother and we were introduced in a pub in Cheshire.' The couple courted for around two years before getting married in Marton cum Grafton near Ripon, in York.
They had a shared love of horticulture and worked together as market gardeners selling produce across the Manchester area.
Since they retired 22 years ago they have continued to enjoy gardening together at their home.
Mr Shovelton does not think his loving gesture of putting a fresh rose at his wife's bedside every day is remarkable.
He believes that if more couples made a selfless gesture to their spouse or loved one, there would be fewer broken relationships.
'Everyone should do it,' he said. 'I love her to bits - I have done since the day we met.'
The couple, who have children, Susan, Tony, Mark and twins Jayne and Paul, also have ten grandchildren and one great grandchild.
They spent their anniversary celebrating with friends at the Autumn Club in Holywell before a family party at a hotel.
Earlier this year researchers found that plenty of kisses, cuddles and a few romantic nights out helped keep a relationship alive.
Research by confetti.co.uk, the wedding planning website, came up with the vital ingredients after asking 3,000 married people the secrets of staying together.
|Every now and then devoted husbands make an extra special effort to bring a little romance to their marriages...
230|1251850980|dynamic|GUANTANAMO EX-PRISONERS GET JOBS ON GOLF COURSE |
Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island.
The four members of China's Muslim Uighur minority began working last week to help prepare the lush, seaside Port Royal course to host the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October.
The hiring raised eyebrows in the British territory, where employers can only take on foreigners if no qualified local wants the job. Wendall Brown, chairman of the board of trustees for Bermuda's public golf courses, said the men replaced a group of Filipino workers who left at short notice.
"They have been offered a temporary position at Port Royal until the Grand Slam," he said. "There are still special projects that we need to do like cleaning up and beautifying the course ... All four of them have been given a job there. It's on a temporary basis. Two of them speak fairly good English."
Brown said the men were likely to still be working there during the two-day Grand Slam tournament, when golf's greatest champions of the year will be pitted against one another on the 18-hole course.
Port Royal head superintendent Steve Johnson said the Uighurs were doing well in their ground staff roles.
Their lawyer in Bermuda identified them as Khalil Mamut, Abilikim Turahun, Abdullah Abdulqadir and Salahidin Abdulahat, and said they had been known by a series of nicknames during the seven years they were held at the detention camp for suspected terrorists on the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Their imprisonment continued long after the U.S. military and courts determined that they posed no threat. The United States said it could not send them to China because they faced persecution there, but U.S. politicians blocked plans to settle them in the United States.
The four landed on the 21-square-mile island on June 11 after Bermuda's premier, Ewart Brown, negotiated their resettlement directly with the United States. The move enraged the United Kingdom, which insisted the Bermuda government did not have the power to handle such foreign affairs and security matters.
Britain and the United States are still in talks about the men's future.
Expatriates make up a third of the work force in Bermuda, which has a population of 65,000 and requires permits to work. Brown said the golf course worked with immigration officials to get the men permission to work.
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Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island...
241|1251847080|dynamic|TARANTINO AVENGERS IN NAZI MOVIELAND |
From the moment the charming, smiling, laughing Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s latest cinematic happening, sweeps onto the screen, he owns this film even more than its maker.
Played by a little-known Austrian actor, Christoph Waltz, Col. Hans Landa is a vision of big-screen National Socialist villainy, from the smart cut of his SS coat to the soft gleam of his leather boots. There might be a fearsome skull (the death’s head, or totenkopf) grinning on his cap, but Colonel Landa has us at hallo.
“Inglourious Basterds,” first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May, is Mr. Tarantino’s sixth feature. (The bifurcated “Kill Bill” is really one film.) In many respects it looks and, as important, sounds like a typical Tarantino production with its showboating performances, encyclopedic movie references and streams of self-conscious dialogue. The whistling on the soundtrack comes straight from the Sergio Leone catalog via the composer Ennio Morricone, and the American avenger, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), is a nod to the Hollywood actor Aldo Ray, a sandpaper-voiced 1950s Everyman who often seemed most at ease wearing Army fatigues, as he does in Anthony Mann’s 1957 masterpiece “Men in War.” (Mr. Ray’s widow, Johanna Ray, served as one of the casting directors for “Inglourious Basterds.”)
Raine leads a pack of Jewish avengers, the inglourious basterds of the misspelled title, who occupy one part of the sprawling narrative and whose numbers include a bat-wielding American nicknamed the Bear Jew (the director Eli Roth, dreadful). Also elbowing for attention is a young French Jew, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), who’s running a cinema in Paris under a pseudonym, and a German Army hero, Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), who dangerously woos her, unaware of her true identity. There’s the British film critic turned spy, Lt. Archie Hicox (a very good Michael Fassbender), and the German movie star turned spy, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger). Mostly, though, there is Landa, whose unctuous charm, beautifully modulated by Mr. Waltz, gives this unwieldy, dragging movie a much-needed periodic jolt.
Mr. Tarantino likes to take his sweet time — he can be a master of the slow windup — but rarely has one of his movies felt as interminable as this one and its 2 hours 32 minutes. The film is divided into five chapters organized around specific bits of business and conversations that increasingly converge. The second introduces the basterds while the third brings Shosanna together with her German suitor, who introduces her to Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth). Landa swans in, and a ludicrous plot to kill Hitler is unveiled. The fourth chapter throws in an unrecognizable Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill, a barely recognizable Mike Myers as a British commander and a risible fiction: a suave film critic (Mr. Fassbender).
As usual Mr. Tarantino gives you a lot to chew on, though there’s plenty to gag on as well. Much depends on whether you can just groove on his framing and staging, his swooping crane shots, postmodern flourishes (Samuel L. Jackson in voice-over explaining the combustibility of nitrate prints) and gorgeously saturated colors, one velvety red in particular. The film’s opening sequence, much of which takes place inside the restricted confines of a farmhouse room, is a marvel of choreographed camera movement and tightly coordinated performances. When the scene moves inside the farmhouse, you admire how neatly the German soldiers outside are positioned within one of the windows, a shot that recalls the framing of an image in Monte Hellman’s 1971 cult classic, “Two-Lane Blacktop.”
This sequence crystallizes much of what is pleasurable about “Inglourious Basterds” even as it underscores the film’s pronounced failings. Set against a sweeping stretch of green French countryside in 1941, it opens with a dairy farmer, Perrier LaPadite (Denis Menochet), chopping wood. As his ax looms ominously in the foreground of the shot, he readies himself for some unwelcome German visitors. Colonel Landa, nicknamed the Jew Hunter, has come looking for hidden prey, a task for which he is, as he explains in a long verbal jag, eminently suitable. Because Germans are like hawks, Landa explains, most cannot think like Jews, who are more like rats — a characterization that, of course, was a privileged metaphor and ideological instrument in the Nazi’s campaign against European Jewry.
The invocation of Jews as rats is ghastly — both times I’ve seen the movie I could almost hear the audience holding its collective breath — but Landa keeps smiling and talking and charming, and Mr. Waltz’s performance is so very good, so persuasive, seductive and, crucially, so distracting that you can readily move past the moment if you choose. Mr. Tarantino makes it easy to do just that by capping this exegesis with an abrupt sight gag: after asking the farmer if he can smoke, Landa pulls out a pipe so comically large it immediately undercuts his threat, transforming him from a ferocious Jew hunter into a silly man whose flamboyant pipe suggests he suffers from some masculinity issues.
The joke fades quickly, as they do in this film, because Landa has already guessed there are Jews hiding where you might expect to find rats, under the floorboards. Mr. Tarantino reveals them in their hiding place, the camera slipping through the floor to show the terrified family members prostrate, their hands over their mouths and eyes wide in fear. It’s a shocking moment partly because this image resonates with horror, but it’s also shocking because it comes cushioned with laughs. Yet the shock dissipates because the Jews are irrelevant here. What matters is how he builds the tension with unnerving quiet and a camera that circles Landa and the farmer like an ever-tightening rope. What matters, to Mr. Tarantino, is the filmmaking.
But too often in “Inglourious Basterds” the filmmaking falls short. Mr. Tarantino is a great writer and director of individual scenes, though he can have trouble putting those together, a difficulty that has sometimes been obscured by the clever temporal kinks in his earlier work. He has also turned into a bad editor of his own material (his nominal editor, as usual, is Sally Menke) and seems unwilling or incapable of telling his A material from his B. The conversations in “Inglourious Basterds” are often repetitive and overlong and they rarely sing, in part because the period setting doesn’t allow him to raid his vast pop-cultural storehouse. A joke about Wiener schnitzel just doesn’t pop like the burger riff in “Pulp Fiction.”
The film’s most egregious failure — its giddy, at times gleeful embrace and narrative elevation of the seductive Nazi villain — can largely be explained as a problem of form. Landa simply has no equal in the film, no counterpart who can match him in verbal dexterity and charisma, who can be the Jules Winnfield and Mia Wallace to his Vincent Vega as Mr. Jackson and Uma Thurman are to John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction.” Leading with his chin, Mr. Pitt gets off some funny lines, particularly when he’s pulling his Southern-flavored vowels out like chewed gum, but the character is too broadly drawn to carry weight. The same holds true of Ms. Laurent, a pretty face who all but slides off the screen.
This isn’t to say that the film’s representation of National Socialism, its repellent invocation of the Holocaust crematoriums in the final blowout and calculated use of the Jews-as-rat metaphor are not vulgar in the extreme. Mr. Tarantino likes to push hard against accepted norms, as his chortling exploitation of spectacular violence and insistent use of a noxious epithet for blacks has shown in the past. But complaining about tastelessness in a Quentin Tarantino movie is about as pointless as carping about its hyperbolic violence: these are as much a constituent part of his work as the reams of dialogue. This is, after all, a man who has an Oscar for a movie with a monologue about a watch stashed in a rectum.
Cartoon Nazis are not new to the movies, and neither are fascinating fascists, as evidenced by Ralph Fiennes’s Oscar-nominated turn in “Schindler’s List.” Unlike those in “Schindler’s List,” Mr. Tarantino’s Nazis exist in an insistently fictional cinematic space where heroes and villains converge amid a welter of movie allusions. He’s not making a documentary or trying to be Steven Spielberg: Mr. Tarantino is really only serious about his own films, not history. In that sense “Inglourious Basterds,” which takes its title if not its misspellings from an Italian flick in “The Dirty Dozen” vein, is simply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love.
“Inglourious Basterds” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). The basterds like to scalp their Nazi victims, and Mr. Tarantino likes showing their knife work in graphic detail.
|From the moment the charming, smiling, laughing Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s latest cinematic happening, sweeps onto the screen, he owns this film even more than its maker...
240|1251760680|dynamic|PLASTIC BREAKS DOWN IN OCEAN, AFTER ALL -- AND FAST |
Though ocean-borne plastic trash has a reputation as an indestructible, immortal environmental villain, scientists announced yesterday that some plastics actually decompose rapidly in the ocean. And, the researchers say, that's not a good thing.
The team's new study is the first to show that degrading plastics are leaching potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A into the seas, possibly threatening ocean animals, and us.
Scientists had previously thought plastics broke down only at very high temperatures and over hundreds of years.
The researchers behind a new study, however, found that plastic breaks down at cooler temperatures than expected, and within a year of the trash hitting the water.
The Japan-based team collected samples in waters from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and elsewhere, lead researcher Katsuhiko Saido, a chemist with the College of Pharmacy at Nihon University in Japan, said via email.
All the water samples were found to contain derivatives of polystyrene, a common plastic used in disposable cutlery, Styrofoam, and DVD cases, among other things, said Saido, who presented the findings at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., today.
Plastic, he said, should be considered a new source of chemical pollution in the ocean.
Cooking Up Plastic Soup in the Seas
The toxic compounds the team found don't occur naturally in the ocean, and the researchers thought plastic was the culprit.
The scientists later simulated the decomposition of polystyrene in the sea and found that it degraded at temperatures of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).
Left behind in the water were the same compounds detected in the ocean samples, such as styrene trimer, a polystyrene by-product, and bisphenol A, a chemical used in hard plastics such as reusable water bottles and the linings of aluminum cans.
Bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to interfere with the reproductive systems of animals, while styrene monomer, a derivative of styrene trimer, is a known carcinogen.
The pollutants are likely to be more concentrated in areas heavily littered with plastic debris, such as ocean vortices, which occur where currents meet.
Plastic Breaks Down Fast
About 44 percent of all seabirds eat plastic, apparently by mistake, sometimes with fatal effects. And 267 marine species are affected by plastic garbage—animals are known to swallow plastic bags, which resemble jellyfish in mid-ocean, for example—according to a 2008 study in the journal Environmental Research by oceanographer and chemist Charles Moore, of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
Now, it seems, they also face the invisible threat of toxic, plastic-derived chemicals.
Once Styrofoam, for example, breaks down, the tiny polystyrene components start to sink, because they're heavier than water, Moore said. "So it's likely that this styrene pollutant is prevalent throughout the water column and not just at the surface."
Along with Moore, David Barnes, a marine ecologist from the British Antarctic Survey, doesn't think the Japanese team's lab results can be applied uniformly across the ocean, however. Water temperatures are typically much cooler than the 86 degrees Fahrenheit in the study, he said.
"We're talking about, effectively, what happens in [zones] of tropical and some subtropical coasts. And there, [the] study may be very important," Barnes said.
Ocean as "Plastic Soup"
Plastic hits marine creatures with a double whammy, Moore said. Along with the toxic chemicals released from the breakdown of plastic, animals also take in other chemicals that the plastic has accumulated from outside sources in the water.
"We knew ten years ago that plastic could be a million times more toxic than the seawater itself," because plastic items tend to accumulate a surface layer of chemicals from seawater, Moore said. "They're sponges."
Moore worries about the plastic-derived chemicals' potential damage to wildlife. The chemicals can potentially cause cancer in humans, he said, and simpler life-forms "may be more susceptible then we are."
Pollutants also become more concentrated as animals eat other contaminated animals—which could be bad news for us, the animals at the top of the food chain. (Read National Geographic magazine's "The Pollution Within.")
Moore estimates plastic debris—most of it smaller than a fifth of an inch (five millimeters)—is "dispersed over millions of square miles of ocean and miles' deep in the water column.
"The plastic soup we've made of the ocean is pretty universal—it's just a matter of degree," he said. "All these effects we're worried about are happening throughout the ocean as a unity."
|Though ocean-borne plastic trash has a reputation as an indestructible, immortal environmental villain, scientists announced yesterday that some plastics actually decompose rapidly in the ocean. And, the researchers say, that's not a good thing...
239|1251673800|dynamic|APPLE INVESTIGATES IN-CALL IPHONE FILE TRANSFER FEATURE |
Apple has explored the ability to transfer a file from one cell phone to another during a connected call, according to a new patent filing revealed this week.
Similar to an application revealed in June, the new filing includes descriptions for sending text messages, e-mails, contacts, documents and more to a caller while two phones have established a voice connection. Entitled "Auto Messaging to Currently Connected Caller," the 16-page patent application was filed for in February of 2008.
"While a user of a mobile device is using telephony services, the user may want to send a message or a file to another part," the patent reads. "To send this information, the user may have to disconnect the call, and then perform a lookup of the caller's contact information prior to being able to send the message or file. This multi-step process can be tedious for the user."
Apple's possible solution would offer a user interface that would provide users voice and message capability access while on a call. The system would automatically detect caller details and relay the information in the appropriate direction. The document even describes a scenario with a conference call and multiple listeners, where files could be sent to any or all included on the call. The invention is credited to Peter Henry Mahowald.
It states that data could possibly be sent over a variety of network options, including GSM, GPRS, Edge, Wi-Fi, WiMax and Bluetooth. The application also describes how the receiving party's hardware might respond to the file, such as asking the user if they would like a contact to be automatically added to their address book.
While similar, the patent revealed in June focused on media sharing, such as the ability to share and control playback of music and video during a call. It would possibly include an "Add Media" option to the iPhone's phone application, to allow users to transmit and share media, including video, images, voicemails and podcasts.
Other Apple patent applications revealed this week:
-- A system that would automatically enable the iPhone's speakerphone capability based on the position of the phone. For example, switching to speakerphone when the device is laid flat on a table.
-- A shock sensor that is both active and passive. The system would recognize when a portable device is dropped, and be able to analyze when the device has failed and electronic detection is not possible.
-- A backward-compatible device connector, allowing new cables to connect a portable device to a computer but also working, with an adapter or otherwise, with previously created interfaces. This could allow new device form factors that were otherwise impossible because of standard plug shapes.
|Apple has explored the ability to transfer a file from one cell phone to another during a connected call, according to a new patent filing revealed this week...
238|1251587160|dynamic|TWITTER DEVELOPING LOCATION-BASED API |
Twitter platform developers are now working on a location-based API that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts.
During the height of the Iranian election protests, one idea that floated around the Web urged Twitter users to change their locations to Tehran so that it might throw off Iranian government officials looking to crack down on locals Tweeting their dissent.
Someone pointed out, however, that if it were that simple, wouldn't it make more sense for the people who were actually in Tehran to change their locations instead?
Regardless, the whole issue was probably not that big a deal given that Twitter users can enter any location they want on their profiles. "Since anything can be written in this [location] field, it's interesting but not very dependable," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a Thursday blog post.
That could soon change because Twitter platform developers are now working on a location-based API that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts. Developers will be able to add latitude and longitude to any tweet.
Before you raise concerns about privacy or security, Stone said the option will definitely be opt-in. "Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time," he wrote. "However, if people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information."
That context includes the ability to search for Tweets in your neighborhood, not just by subject. "It's easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert or even something more dramatic like an earthquake," he said.
The geo-location feature will first be released to platform developers before being added to Twitter.com. Given that it's being created by developers, Stone said the feature will likely be available "on your app of choice" before Twitter. Later, it will be added to the company's mobile Web site and Twitter.com, he said.
Developer Ryan Sarver will serve as the lead on the project, and you can follow him at http://twitter.com/rsarver.
|Twitter platform developers are now working on a location-based API that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts...
237|1251500580|dynamic|APPLE TO OFFER TELEVISION SET BY 2011 |
Apple will be adding an Apple-branded television set to its lineup by 2011, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Such a device would have media-management features -- features currently found in the Apple TV settop box -- built into it, as well as a DVR and subscription-based content viewing, according to a research note to clients covered by AppleInsider.
The television market has been a low-margin business for decades, but Mr. Munster told clients that Apple could compete in the segment profitably by changing the rules, the strategy Apple used with its iPod, iTunes, and iPhone platforms.
"We see potential for Apple to offer best-in-class software and hardware and charge a premium," Mr. Munster wrote.
Mr. Munster wrote that he believed Apple's iTunes Store was losing online video market share to ad-based subscription services like Hulu and on-demand services like Netflix's Watch Instantly service. To combat that, Apple could launch a subscription-based service of its own in conjunction with a TV set.
In the past, Apple has insisted that customers wanted to own their content, and the company has repeatedly rejected the need for a subscription-based service for its music offerings. The company has been less vocal when it comes to the future of its video-business at iTunes, however.
Mr. Munster compared the state of the TV set market, which has seen significantly declining price points during the last several years, to that of the cell phone market, which also saw prices plummeting in advance of the iPhone's release as a premium-priced product.
Apple could take advantage of its ability to offer a better user experience to tackle this industry the way the iPhone did.
"[An Apple-branded TV] would command a premium among a competitive field of budget TVs," he wrote. "We believe Apple could differentiate itself with software that makes home entertainment simple and solves a pain point for consumers (complicated TV and component systems)."
As for Apple's existing Apple TV settop box, Mr. Munster told clients that Apple will sell some 6.6 million of the devices in calendar 2009.
Shares in Apple traded higher on Thursday, with the stock closing at $166.33 per share, a gain of $1.73 (+1.05%), on moderately light volume of 12.2 million shares trading hands.
*In the interest of full disclosure, the author holds a small share in AAPL stock that was not an influence in the creation of this article.
|Apple will be adding an Apple-branded television set to its lineup by 2011, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Such a device would have media-management features -- features currently found in the Apple TV settop box -- built into it, as well as a DVR and subscription-based content viewing, according to a research note to clients covered by AppleInsider...
236|1251414060|dynamic|DEEP SEA WORMS RELEASE GLOW-BOMBS WHEN DISTURBED |
Scientists have discovered seven new species of deep-sea worms in the Pacific. The worms, members of a new genus, Swima, are up to about four inches long, eyeless and have paddle-like bristles that move rapidly, allowing them to swim forward or backward.
That’s all very interesting, but what makes the worms truly spectacular are the little green glow sticks that are found on five of the species. Attached to segments near the head, these tiny organs — more blobs than sticks, actually — can be released from the body, instantly producing a bright green bioluminescence that lasts for many seconds as the worms swim away. The researchers refer to the worms colloquially as green bombers and say the phenomenon may help them distract potential predators.
Using remotely operated submersibles, Karen J. Osborn of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and other organizations found the worms at depths of about 6,000 to 12,500 feet off Mexico, California and Oregon and near the Phillippines. Their report is published in the journal Science.
The researchers say the new species are more closely related to worms that live in seafloor sediments than to other swimming worms, so they represent an evolutionary adaptation as bottom-dwellers moved into the water column.
The worms seem to be fairly common at those great depths; a video camera on a submersible recorded five of one species, S. bombiviridis, swimming together at about 7,000 feet. The submersibles didn’t record a bomb release in the wild, but the researchers were able to stimulate the release of bombs in the laboratory by touching the worms. They suggest that predators, presumably fish, that similarly try to disturb the worms would be left with the small glowing blobs instead of the tasty meal they were hoping for.
|Scientists have discovered seven new species of deep-sea worms in the Pacific. The worms, members of a new genus, Swima, are up to about four inches long, eyeless and have paddle-like bristles that move rapidly, allowing them to swim forward or backward...
235|1251327420|dynamic|MICROSOFT\'S CURIOUS LACK OF AMBITION IN MOBILE |
Microsoft claims "There's plenty of innovation in the pipeline" for Windows Mobile. For those of us who haven't considered a Windows-based phone since the iPAQ's decline, the real question is, "If Microsoft has an innovative Windows Mobile experience, why is the company keeping it such a secret?"
Seriously, where has Microsoft been on mobile? It's a market that the best companies in the software industry are targeting, including Google and Apple, but Microsoft seems to be AWOL. CNET's Ina Fried notes some wishful thinking on Microsoft's part to get back in the smartphone game, but I'm not seeing it.
As Mark Sigal highlights, Google is approaching mobile with an open approach; Apple is winning with a closed approach; and Microsoft? Well, Microsoft seems to still think the phone is a PDA, with little innovation (closed or open) that would trouble a consumer to bother buying a Windows-powered mobile device.
Perhaps that is why Microsoft's smartphone market share has now dipped below 10 percent and shows no sign of resurrection.
This isn't about open source versus proprietary software. It's about focus, something that Microsoft seems not to have given mobile in a long, long time. Steve Ballmer was willing to spend roughly $45 billion on Yahoo to compete in search, but has managed only a $500 million acquisition of Danger to compete in mobile.
This despite advertising, computing, and (of course) communications moving to mobile devices. What has Microsoft been thinking? Or not thinking, as the case may be?
Yes, Microsoft is now partnering with Nokia to up its mobile game, but ZDNet's Larry Dignan is spot on calling this a "dog of a deal born from weakness," not strength.
What Microsoft needs is to innovate. Or at least to copy someone else's innovations. But it appears to be doing neither. This is inexcusable for a company with its resources and development talent. Microsoft is a great company, one that occasionally turns an industry on its head, as it has with SharePoint to the stodgy Enterprise Content Management market.
But Windows Mobile? It's lame.
This isn't a demand that Microsoft miraculously achieve mobile perfection. Heck, the iPhone has taught us that, great as it is, 'good enough' is more than good enough (e.g., it comes with an underpowered camera...that everyone seems to use).
Microsoft is fond of talking about just how much it spends on research and development. But it's time to stop talking and start shipping. I've heard rumors of an exceptional mobile product on the way from Microsoft, but that's all I ever hear: something "in the cooker" that will "rock the world soon!"
As Morrissey used to croon for The Smiths, "How soon is now?"
|Microsoft claims "There's plenty of innovation in the pipeline" for Windows Mobile. For those of us who haven't considered a Windows-based phone since the iPAQ's decline, the real question is, "If Microsoft has an innovative Windows Mobile experience, why is the company keeping it such a secret?
234|1251240900|dynamic|HUMANS WALK IN CIRCLES -- BUT WE THINK WE\'RE GOING STRAIGHT |
It’s true, people who are lost really do walk in circles -- very wobbly circles. That’s from a study in today’s issue of the journal Current Biology.
Researches at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany attached GPS locators to people and then set them to walking for several hours in the Sahara desert in Tunisia and the Bienwald forest in Germany.
Walkers were only able to continue in a straight line when they could see either the sun or the moon. As soon as those direction indicators were hidden by clouds, the walkers started going in circles -- without even noticing that’s what they were doing and convinced they were still going straight ahead.
The walkers sometimes veered left and sometimes right. The researchers at the Multisensory Perception and Action Group think all that rambling around was the result of increasing uncertainty on the walkers part about where straight ahead was.
In the past, one explanation for why people went in circles was that one leg was longer or stronger than the other, making them tend to walk in one direction or the other, says researcher Jan Souman. To test that idea the researchers blindfolded their walkers to take away visual cues. But that caused people to walking in even smaller circles, sometimes as small as 65 feet in diameter, making the length or strength or their legs an unlikely source of the veering off.
|It’s true, people who are lost really do walk in circles -- very wobbly circles. That’s from a study in today’s issue of the journal Current Biology...
233|1251073800|dynamic|SNOWIN\' IN THE WIND? DYLAN CHRISTMAS ALBUM DUE |
Bob Dylan is set to release an album of Christmas songs, including "Here Comes Santa Claus" and the carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem," according to music websites.
Rumors of the album first emerged on Isis magazine website, which is devoted to Dylan. It later reported the songs had been recorded in Jackson Browne's studio in Santa Monica, California, in May.
David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, who played accordion on Dylan's chart-topping latest album "Together Through Life," is one of the musicians who took part in the sessions, it said.
"It is a personal project of Dylan himself rather than an idea put forward by his record company," Isis said.
Billboard magazine said it had confirmed the album existed. Other songs included "Must Be Santa" and "I'll be Home for Christmas," it said.
Dylan was originally of the Jewish faith and was a Born Again Christian from 1979-1981, releasing three religious-themed albums.
"At first glance it may sound bizarre, but I don't think Dylan cares much about what his detractors might make of it," Scott Marshall, who has written a book 'God and Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life' told bullypulpit.com.
"He's both never renounced being Jewish or renounced his experience with Jesus some three decades ago," Marshall said.
Dylan, now aged 68, is currently touring the United States as part of his so-called "Never Ending Tour."
Britain's Uncut magazine meanwhile poked fun at the project, serving up Yuletide puns on Dylan songs such as "A Hard Reindeer's A-Gonna Fall," "Sleigh Lady Sleigh" and "Girl From The North Pole Country."
|Bob Dylan is set to release an album of Christmas songs, including "Here Comes Santa Claus" and the carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem," according to music websites...
232|1250987280|dynamic|GUCCI SUES CREDIT PROCESSING COS FOR SALES OF FAKES |
Gucci America sued several credit card processing companies for trademark infringement on Thursday on grounds those companies facilitated the sale of counterfeit Gucci bags on the Internet.
Gucci America said in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that by processing transactions on counterfeits, the companies "not only supply the necessary marketplace for such transactions, they are full partners in those counterfeiting activities."
The lawsuit named Frontline Processing Corp, Woodforest National Bank, Durango Merchant Services LLC and other unnamed companies.
Chuck Vernon, a lawyer for Woodforest National Bank, said he had not yet reviewed the lawsuit. Representatives for the other companies were unavailable for comment.
Gucci, owned by French luxury goods company PPR, said the current case stems from another anti-counterfeit case that Gucci settled last year.
All of the companies had worked with the Laurette Co, which owns the website TheBagAddiction.com, according to Gucci's lawyer Robert Weigel. Gucci sued the Laurette Co in 2008, saying its sale of counterfeit Gucci products contributed to trademark infringement.
In December 2008, the website's owners, the Laurette Co Inc, and others were ordered to pay Gucci $5.2 million.
|Gucci America sued several credit card processing companies for trademark infringement on Thursday on grounds those companies facilitated the sale of counterfeit Gucci bags on the Internet...
231|1250900760|dynamic|SWISS SEEK POPE\'S BLESSING TO STOP GLACIER MELTING |
After centuries of praying for a local glacier to stop growing, Swiss villagers are now seeking an audience with Pope Benedict to get his blessing for prayers against the global warming that is causing it to recede.
In 1678, the inhabitants of the Alpine villages of Fieschertal and Fiesch made a formal vow to live virtuously and to pray against the growth of the Aletsch glacier, Europe's longest, which had caused a lake to flood into their homes.
To reinforce their prayers, they started holding an annual procession in 1862, when the glacier reached its longest during the mini-Ice Age Europe suffered in the mid-19th century.
But the villages now want to seek permission from Pope Benedict to change their vow as the glacier is melting fast due to climate change and have requested an audience with him.
"The residents of Fiesch and Fischertal hope that this will happen in September or October and are optimistic that the Holy Father will decide in their favor as he has repeatedly spoken out about climate change," they said in a statement.
Switzerland's glaciers shrank by 12 percent over the past decade, melting at their fastest rate due to rising temperatures and lighter snowfalls, a recent study showed.
Glaciers are a key source of water for hydro-electric plants in Switzerland as well as an important tourist attraction.
Researchers are predicting that the temperatures in the Swiss Alps will rise by 1.8 degrees Celsius in winter and by 2.7 degrees Celsius in the summer by 2050.
|After centuries of praying for a local glacier to stop growing, Swiss villagers are now seeking an audience with Pope Benedict to get his blessing for prayers against the global warming that is causing it to recede...
242|1250812860|dynamic|ORDINARY PEOPLE WINNER OF THE HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FILM|
According to the Jury the best feature film of the Competition Program on the 15th Sarajevo Film Festival is ORDINARY PEOPLE, by Serbian director Vladimir Perišić.
The Jury announced its decision on the gala Award Ceremony which took place this evening (August 20) in the National Theatre.
In the Award explanation the Jury emphasized that the movie ORDINARY PEOPLE represents a shining moment of cinematography, which explores universal abuse of young men in the army.
Jury of the Competition Program – Feature Films consisted of Mirjana Karanović (President), Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Jeune, Anamaria Marinca, and Wieland Speck.
|According to the Jury the best feature film of the Competition Program on the 15th Sarajevo Film Festival is ORDINARY PEOPLE, by Serbian director Vladimir Perišić...
229|1250727600|dynamic|SAUDI CLOSES BROADCASTER AFTER SEX CONFESSION |
Saudi Arabia has closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television network after it aired an interview with a Saudi man speaking about his sexual escapades, a government spokesman said.
Mazen Abdul-Jawad, 32, was arrested last month in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after shocking Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative countries in the world, by recounting details of his sexual exploits on Lebanese channel LBC.
The divorced father of four spoke to camera from his bedroom in Jeddah about how couples can spice up their sex lives.
"Everything happens in this room," he said on an episode of the salacious show "Ahmar Bilkhat al-Areed" (Wide Red Lines), before launching into descriptions of foreplay techniques and tricks for cruising women on the streets of Jeddah.
A spokesman for the ministry of culture and information in Riyadh said a committee had decided to close the Jeddah office of LBC because of the interview.
The daily al-Watan newspaper said authorities also closed other offices of LBC, which is mainly owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, in the kingdom.
Abdul-Jawad has been charged with publicizing vice and lawyers say he may face the death penalty.
Like many Arab countries, Saudi Arabia prohibits sexually explicit content on television and in newspapers, magazines and books.
|Saudi Arabia has closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television network after it aired an interview with a Saudi man speaking about his sexual escapades, a government spokesman said...
228|1250641080|dynamic|WIDOWS PROTEST MARRIAGE INCENTIVE |
About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.
Nepal's center-left coalition announced a plan last month to pay men the equivalent of $650 for marrying widows, angering the widows.
Monday, women shouting slogans such as "You can't sell your mother," and "We don't want government dowries," marched toward a government complex that houses the prime minister's office.
They were stopped by riot police, but there were no arrests or violence.
Durga Neupane, an organizer and a widow, said activists would mobilize widows throughout the Himalayan nation if the government failed to scrap the decision by Friday.
"If that is not done we'll gather widows from across the country and organize more protests," she said.
The government says the scheme seeks to help widows who face social and cultural barriers in a majority-Hindu society.
But Neupane said it would only add to their woes as men would marry widows for money and later abandon them. Widows, she said, should instead be given jobs, better health care and education.
|About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said...
227|1250554500|dynamic|WOMAN IN TROUSER CASE BANNED FROM TRAVEL |
Sudan has barred Lubna Hussein, a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in violation of decency laws, from traveling abroad, she said.
Hussein said she tried to leave for Lebanon Tuesday after a television channel asked her to appear in a program there.
"It emerged when I tried to get an exit visa that my name was on a blacklist," she told Reuters. "There is no way to get out of Sudan."
Hussein was arrested at a party in July and, with 12 other women, charged with being indecently dressed. A former reporter, Hussein has publicized her case, posing in loose trousers for photos and calling journalists to support her.
Women's groups, and protestors supporting Hussein at a hearing last week, have complained the law gives no clear definition of indecency and gives individual police officers the power to decide whether or not a woman is indecently dressed.
Her defense lawyer Nabil Adib Abdalla told Reuters that Hussein, who is on bail, should be free to travel. To bar her from travel, he said a court would have to issue a specific order and Hussein would have the right to challenge it.
"That is only when there is a serious crime, to prevent people fleeing the country," he added.
Hussein said an official at the airport said her name was put on the blacklist Friday. She said this was the same day Sudanese media reported French President Nicholas Sarkozy's invitation for her to visit Paris.
Abdalla has previously said that the law on indecent dress was so wide that it contravened Hussein's right to a fair trial. Hussein is challenging the charges, arguing that her clothes were respectable and so did not break the law.
Ten of the other women arrested with Hussein have pleaded guilty and have been whipped, Hussein previously said.
Hussein's hearing has been adjourned to September 7. The judge said this was to investigate whether Hussein has immunity from prosecution because she was working as a press officer for the United Nations at the time of her arrest.
Hussein has said she resigned from her U.N. job before the hearing to give up any legal immunity so she can continue with the case, prove her innocence and challenge the decency law.
U.N. officials have said the United Nations told Sudan that Hussein was immune from legal proceedings as she was a U.N. employee at the time of the alleged offence.
|Sudan has barred Lubna Hussein, a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in violation of decency laws, from traveling abroad, she said...
226|1250467920|dynamic|DOG HAILED AS HERO FOR GUIDING RESCUERS TO OWNER\'S BODY |
A mongrel has proven that dogs really are man's best friend when he helped rescuers find the body of his owner who was killed in a car crash in Australia.
Moja, a small mixed breed, was in the truck with his owner Henry Drew when it crashed off a highway in Queensland and landed in dense shrubs.
The animal sat by Drew's body, which was hidden by trees, barking incessantly for two days until a farmer went to investigate the cause of the noise.
"If it was not for the man's dog, he may not have been found for some time because his truck was completely covered by trees and our helicopter couldn't see it," a spokesperson for AGL Action Rescue told Reuters.
"This bloke heard the dog barking, it was literally sitting by the man's side," the spokesperson said.
Drew had been reported missing by his wife after he did not answer his mobile phone. Rescue helicopters worked with police to search for the him until the farmer called.
|A mongrel has proven that dogs really are man's best friend when he helped rescuers find the body of his owner who was killed in a car crash in Australia...
225|1250382540|dynamic|BRIDE SPENDS FIRST NIGHT WITH CRATE OF VODKA |
A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.
Police in the western city of Cologne said Monday the inebriated 30-year-old remained unconscious even after they smashed the car window to get her out.
"Only after being shaken several times did she eventually regain consciousness," police said in a statement.
Still clad in her wedding dress, the dazed woman had to scramble through the broken window because she had no idea where the car keys or her husband were, police said.
|A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun...
224|1250295960|dynamic|NUDE DRUNK LOSES WAY IN HOTEL |
An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported.
The 29 year-old Australian man had gone back the hotel in the resort town of Queenstown with a woman, but got up in the night and wandered into a bedroom where a couple were sleeping.
"He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked," Sergeant Steve Watt of Queenstown police told the Southland Times.
As the intruder slept, the startled woman took refuge in the bathroom as her husband summoned hotel staff.
The man, who could not remember whom he had been with nor what room he had been in, and had no clothes or wallet.
Police gave him a ride home clad in a hotel bathrobe, but let him off after the guests and hotel decided not to press charges.
"It was far too funny," said Watt.
|An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported...
223|1250209380|dynamic|SPEEDING PLAYER THOUGHT POLICE WERE FANS...|
Sunderland midfielder Grant Leadbitter, explaining to a court why he was caught speeding, said he thought the police patrol car following him was in fact a car full of Newcastle United fans chasing him for a fight.
"My heart was beating fast, I was scared and I wanted to get home as quickly as possible," The Guardian newspaper quoted the Premier League player as telling the court when describing why he had accelerated to 112 mph.
He was on his way back from a night out, which had ended with an altercation with a group of fans from his club's bitter rivals Newcastle and he thought they were pursuing him.
He was fined 515 pounds ($850) and banned from driving for 14 days.
|Sunderland midfielder Grant Leadbitter, explaining to a court why he was caught speeding, said he thought the police patrol car following him was in fact a car full of Newcastle United fans chasing him for a fight...
222|1250205660|dynamic|CUSTOMER SPOTS POISON STEMS IN SALAD |
A customer shopping at a discount supermarket store in Germany found stems of a poisonous weed in mixed salad bags, triggering concerns about potential health risks, the store said.
Traces of senecio vulgaris or common groundsel, that can cause extensive liver damage if ingested in large amounts, were discovered by a customer with a specialized knowledge of plants in a Plus store in the northern city of Hanover.
"It's hard for laymen to tell the difference from rocket," said a Plus spokeswoman on Tuesday.
"We immediately took all affected bags off the shelves."
Samples were sent to the University of Bonn for testing, which detected more than 2,500 micrograms of poison -- 2,500 times more than the recommended daily allowance -- in 150 grams of salad, German media reported.
Minister for consumer protectionism in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Margit Conrad, warned shoppers to be vigilant.
"Not everything that looks like fruit and vegetable is edible," she said in a statement on Wednesday.
"No one should eat plants or parts of plants that have an unusual taste."
|A customer shopping at a discount supermarket store in Germany found stems of a poisonous weed in mixed salad bags, triggering concerns about potential health risks, the store said...
221|1250045940|dynamic|HONOUR AUNG SAN SUU KYI|
The ailing Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another year and a half in detention by a Burmese kangaroo court.
Suu Kyi's treatment is just the tip of the iceberg of the brutality of the Burmese regime -- spanning 40 years of murder, torture, mass rape, and slave labour.
It's time for the world to put the Burmese generals on trial. Avaaz is launching a call for the UN Security Council to investigate the regime for crimes against humanity -- a judgment of guilt could lead to prosecution of top generals by the International Criminal Court. Click below to join the call and see a mock up of a banner that we plan to drop in front of the UN calling for action > http://www.avaaz.org/en/jail_the_generals
Over the next two months the UK and the US hold the powerful Presidency of the United Nations Security Council - both President Obama and Prime Minister Brown have spoken passionately about Burma, so now is our best chance in years to get the Security Council to act.
But the US, UK and other Council members are still dragging their feet -- concerned about challenging China, a key sponsor of the Burmese regime. If a global outcry demands it, they will try harder to get China to agree, as happened when the Council decided to allow prosecution of another China-sponsored regime in the case of Darfur, Sudan.
|The ailing Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another year and a half in detention by a Burmese kangaroo court...
220|1250037600|dynamic|CHINA DOCTOR REVEALS 100 RULES FOR SPACEMEN |
No scars, no history of serious illness in the last three generations of your family, and no tooth cavities.
These are amongst the 100 health requirements for would-be astronauts vying to be part of China's next space team, the Yangtse Evening Paper reported Saturday.
The selection process, which the paper said is for the second batch of Chinese astronauts, will disqualify those who have runny noses, ringworm, drug allergies or bad breath.
"The bad smell would affect their fellow colleagues in a narrow space," said Shi Bing Bing, an official with the 454th hospital of People's Liberation Army air force based in Nanjing, one of the six astronaut health screening hospitals.
Aside from the physical requirements of the job, the candidate must also possess a pleasant and adaptable disposition, the paper said.
"These astronauts could be regarded as super human beings," Shi said.
China sent its first man to walk in space in September last year. Zhai Zhigang, the son of a snack-seller, unveiled a small Chinese flag in space, helped by colleague Liu Boming, who also briefly popped his head out of the capsule.
The space walk was a step toward China's longer-term goal of assembling a space lab and then a larger space station.
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No scars, no history of serious illness in the last three generations of your family, and no tooth cavities...
219|1249951080|dynamic|OBAMA AN ENTRY IN LATEST SLANG DICTIONARY |
The sixth edition of "UCLA Slang" is being published this month and it is just "presh!"
The book is released every four years by linguistics professor Pamela Munro and her students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Munro said the lighthearted dictionary is put together using a methodical process that starts with students collecting slang from friends followed by a detailed analysis to make sure submissions are spelled and defined correctly.
"Students learn a lot about grammar, language and linguistics," Munro said. "You can study anything you want about ordinary language through the medium of slang."
The 160-page English-slanglish lexicon includes terms, definitions, parts of speech, sample sentences and notes on the etymology and origin of new slang, Munro said.
The dictionary supplies such words and definitions as "presh," which means cute or precious.
Other terms or phrases include "fomo," or fear of missing out, "schwa" for wow; and "obama," meaning cool, as in "You so obama."
"Bromance" means a close platonic friendship. And "bellig" means drunk and belligerent.
"Eargasm" means, well, just what it sounds like.
If all this is new, just say "I.D.K." to indicate "I didn't know."
|The sixth edition of "UCLA Slang" is being published this month and it is just "presh!"...
218|1249864560|dynamic|FANS URGED TO DRINK WHISKY TO WARD OFF SWINE FLU |
Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said.
"We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky as a form of disinfection," VOB head Alexander Shprygin told Reuters.
"That should cure all symptoms of the disease."
Russia's Health Ministry has issued a public warning against traveling to Britain because of the spread of the H1N1 virus but Shprygin said he expected at least several hundred fans would go to Wales for the September 9 qualifier in Cardiff.
"Health officials say this virus is very dangerous but being a fan myself I can tell you that for a real fan nothing is more important than the well-being of the team," said Shprygin, who also sits on the executive board of the Russian FA.
"Russian fans don't fear anything or anybody so this virus will not stand in our way of supporting our team."
The Russian FA also said health issues should not prevent fans from traveling.
"We don't want our team to be without any support for such an important match so we urge our fans to go to Wales despite the health warning," a spokesman said.
Germany lead European Group Four with 16 points from six games, one ahead of Russia, with Wales in fourth place on nine points from seven matches.
|Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said...
217|1249777980|dynamic|PROTESTERS BACK WOMAN IN TROUSERS CASE |
Police used teargas to disperse protesters rallying in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public Tuesday, a case that has become a public test of Sudan's indecency laws.
Lubna Hussein, a former journalist and U.N. press officer, was arrested with 12 other women during a party at a Khartoum restaurant in July and charged with being indecently dressed.
Women's groups have complained that the law gives no clear definition of indecent dress, leaving the decision of whether to arrest a woman up to individual police officers.
Dozens of men and ululating women gathered outside a Khartoum court room where Hussein appeared Tuesday, carrying banners with the message "No return to the dark ages" and "Lubna's case is a case for all Sudanese women."
Speaking after the hearing, Hussein said the judge had adjourned her case until September 7.
"They want to check with the U.N. whether I have immunity from prosecution. I don't know why they are doing this because I have already resigned from the United Nations. I think they just want to delay the case," she told Reuters.
Hussein said she resigned from her U.N. job last week to give up any legal immunity so that she could pursue the case to prove her innocence and challenge the decency law.
Journalists were allowed into the downtown court building, but a line of police prevented them from entering the room where the case was heard.
Hussein went on to greet her supporters, gathered on a traffic island, then led them on a march, blocking a busy road.
In a rare and short unauthorized rally, they flashed V-for- Victory signs and received supportive hoots from passing cars.
Armed riot police advanced toward the crowd, beating their shields with batons. Officers later fired teargas canisters into the air, forcing the crowd to disperse.
"We are against this law. It is against women, against Islam and against human rights," said Zainab Badradin, one of the women in the crowd.
"I want to send a message to the government to stop harassing women," said Nusayba Abdel Mahmoud, 20, who came to the rally wearing jeans. "This is what I wear. It is normal."
Indecency cases are not uncommon in Sudan, where there is a large cultural gap between the mostly Muslim and Arab-oriented north and the mainly Christian south.
Hussein has attracted attention by publicizing her case, posing for photos in her loose green trousers and inviting journalists to campaign against dress codes sporadically imposed in the capital.
"Her main argument is that her clothes are decent and that she did not break the law," defense lawyer Nabil Adib Abdalla told Reuters shortly before the hearing.
"Failing that, we will ask for a stay of the proceedings to challenge the trial in the constitutional court ... We are saying the law is so widely drafted that it contravenes her basic right, her right to a fair trial," he added.
Hussein told reporters 10 of the women arrested with her pleaded guilty and were whipped the day afterwards.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week said he was "deeply concerned" by the case.
|Police used teargas to disperse protesters rallying in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public Tuesday, a case that has become a public test of Sudan's indecency laws...
216|1249691400|dynamic|FAMILY VIDEO OF CHILD DRIVING PROMPTS PROBE |
A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said.
The video, apparently shot by the boy's father from the SUV's passenger seat as the boy drives and his mom and siblings watch from the back seat, was brought to the attention of Quebec Provincial Police on Monday, Sergeant Chantal Mackels said.
"We now know who the person is," Mackels said, noting charges are still being worked out.
Finding the family wasn't much of a challenge, given the father's enthusiastic narration of the video, including their location in Quebec and the boy's first name.
The woman in the back seat also calls out the father's name, apparently urging him not to distract the child. During the video, the father calls out to "Samuel" to smile for the camera. The boy, chewing gum, obliges.
The father also panned the camera into the back seat of the vehicle to show the mother, with an unrestrained young girl on her lap, and an older boy.
Police are considering both criminal charges and traffic violations and have also contacted the province's department of child protection to investigate the family, Mackels said.
And while she's seen cases of children driving under the legal age of 16 years before, Mackels said she's never come across a case where the evidence is supplied online, by the perpetrator's proud father.
"Like this, on YouTube? No. This is a new one for me," Mackels said.
|A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said...
215|1249604880|dynamic|FREE RADIOS TO PERK UP \"UNTOUCHABLES\"|
Authorities in eastern India are distributing free radio sets to lower-caste villagers so that they can listen to music and news after a hard day's work and improve their awareness, officials said.
Officials of Bihar state are distributing transistors costing 400 rupees ($8) each among hundreds of "Dalits" or the formerly "Untouchables" who remain oppressed at the bottom of India's ancient Hindu caste system.
"It (radio) will entertain the tired villagers with music and will make them aware about what is happening around with news," Bihar's Tribal Welfare Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, said Wednesday.
Manjhi said the move will empower the dalit villagers further and raise general awareness levels.
"You can listen to music, news and improve your areas of information if you have a radio at home," Chief Minister Nitish Kumar added.
More than 16 percent of India's 1.1-billion population are Dalits and they continue to face discrimination and injustice although untouchability now is a crime.
|Authorities in eastern India are distributing free radio sets to lower-caste villagers so that they can listen to music and news after a hard day's work and improve their awareness, officials said...
214|1249518360|dynamic|SPAIN ACQUITS SOLE BLACK MAN IN ID PARADE |
A Nigerian convicted of assault in Spain was acquitted when he was found to have been the only black man in an identity parade used as key evidence in his conviction, the government-run news agency EFE reported.
Henry Osagiede was facing 10 years in prison after being found guilty in 2008 by a Madrid court for attacking one woman and sexually assaulting another in 2005, EFE reported, citing the Supreme Court ruling which acquitted him.
"A badly assembled identity parade, with a lack of resemblance (between the suspects in the parade) can lead to mistaken identity and consequently an error of justice," EFE cited Spain's highest court as saying.
|A Nigerian convicted of assault in Spain was acquitted when he was found to have been the only black man in an identity parade used as key evidence in his conviction, the government-run news agency EFE reported...
213|1249430760|dynamic|EUNA LEE AND LAURA LING WILL BE COMING HOME|
The news has just broken - former President Bill Clinton's mission to North Korea was a success, and U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been pardoned by North Korean officials. Euna Lee and Laura Ling will be coming home.
According to the BBC News, the official North Korean News Agency (KCNA) issued a statement saying, "Kim Jong-il issued an order... granting a special pardon to the two American journalists who had been sentenced to hard labour." ABC News is reporting the journalists may board a plane for home as early as tonight.
Thank you to the tens of thousands of Care2 members around the world who signed petitions calling for Euna and Laura's release. Thank you to the tireless volunteers who never let the world forget that these two courageous women have been imprisoned in North Korea since March 17th of this year, simply for doing their jobs as journalists reporting on the issue of human trafficking along the North Korea - China border.
|The news has just broken - former President Bill Clinton's mission to North Korea was a success, and U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been pardoned by North Korean officials...
212|1249344060|dynamic|PHONE LOST AT SEA FOUND, RECHARGED, RETURNED|
A mobile phone lost at sea for four days washed up in perfect condition in Taiwan after drifting 37 km (23 miles) and was discovered by a park lifeguard who tracked down the shocked owner to return it, the finder said.
Yu Hsin-leh of Taipei lost the phone on July 24 while snorkeling near the Taiwan port city of Keelung, Taiwan's United Daily News reported.
On Monday, it turned up in Longdong Bay Park on the island's northeasternmost cape after floating past numerous towns and rocky outcroppings.
A small water-resistant case had protected the phone at sea, said park lifeguard Lin Huan-chuan, who found it.
Lin said he recharged the battery and called Yu's wife by finding her in the phone's list of saved numbers.
"All the phone's functions were normal," Lin said. "The owner was extremely surprised as he figured he had lost it for good."
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A mobile phone lost at sea for four days washed up in perfect condition in Taiwan after drifting 37 km (23 miles) and was discovered by a park lifeguard who tracked down the shocked owner to return it, the finder said...
211|1249261020|dynamic|SMOKING-BAN MURDER |
A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors.
A fight broke out after Hidir Karayigit, 46, ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes when they began smoking at his "meyhane," a traditional restaurant that serves alcohol, in the town of Saruhanli, Hurriyet said.
One of the customers shot Karayigit four times after he took away the group's cigarettes, said witness Hamza Havutcu, Karayigit's business partner who was also shot and wounded.
Turkey's government on July 19 introduced a nationwide ban on indoor smoking, including bars and restaurants, despite the fact that half of Turks aged between the ages of 15 and 49 smoke; one of the highest rates in the world.
"I'm deeply saddened that the first smoking-ban murder occurred in our town," Saruhanli Mayor Veli Yalcin told Hurriyet. "They either shouldn't have outlawed smoking or they should have outlawed alcohol along with smoking."
|A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors...
210|1249174440|dynamic|UNDERWEIGHT TEAM TOLD TO EAT AT LEAST 15 EGGS A DAY |
India's unfancied rugby sevens side must bulk up if they hope to make an impact at next year's Commonwealth Games, eating seven meals and at least 15 eggs a day, the country's South African coach said on Friday.
"I have told them (his players) they must eat at least 15 eggs a day, six for breakfast and the remaining nine any time, any how, during the day," the country's South African coach Norman Laker told the Telegraph newspaper on Friday.
"The players have three meals a day and that's not enough. In South Africa, elite rugby players have seven meals a day."
India is rated a lowly 83rd out of the 95 teams in the International Rugby Board rankings which are currently headed by South Africa.
"Indian players weigh 72-77 kg on an average whereas the international players weigh between 88 and 100 kg. That is the weight difference you have to make up," Laker said ahead of the team's departure to South Africa for a training stint.
India is hosting the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.
|India's unfancied rugby sevens side must bulk up if they hope to make an impact at next year's Commonwealth Games, eating seven meals and at least 15 eggs a day, the country's South African coach said on Friday...
209|1249088100|dynamic|WOMAN IN COURT IN TROUSER \"TEST CASE\" |
A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan's decency laws.
There were chaotic scenes as Lubna Hussein, a former journalist who works for the United Nations, attended the hearing wearing the same green slacks that got her arrested for immodest dress.
Indecency cases are not uncommon in Sudan. But Hussein has attracted attention by publicising her case, inviting journalists to hearings and using it to campaign against dress codes sporadically imposed in the capital.
The case was adjourned Wednesday as lawyers discussed whether her status as a U.N. employee gave her legal immunity.
After the hearing, defense lawyer Nabil Adib Abdalla said Hussein had agreed to resign from the United Nations in time for the next session on August 4 to make sure the case continued.
"First of all she wants to show she is totally innocent, and using her immunity will not prove that," Abdalla told reporters. "Second she wants to fight the law. The law is too wide. It needs to be reformed ... This is turning into a test case. Human rights groups will be watching this closely."
He said Hussein was ready to face the maximum penalty for the criminal offence of wearing indecent dress in public which was 40 lashes and an unlimited fine.
Before the hearing Hussein told Reuters she was arrested in early July when police raided a party she was attending at a restaurant in Khartoum's Riyadh district.
"Thousands of women are punished with lashes in Sudan but they stay silent," she said. "The law is being used to harass women and I want to expose this."
She said a number of other women arrested with her received lashes. But her case was sent for trial when she called in a lawyer.
Journalists scuffled with police armed with batons outside the court room Wednesday and some reporters, who were briefly detained, had tapes and equipment confiscated.
Scores of women, some wearing slacks and jeans, attended the case. Some waved small placards with the slogan "Lashing people is against human rights."
The trial was also attended by representatives of the embassies of France, Canada, Sweden and Spain, alongside politicians and members of the Sudanese Women's Union.
Yassir Arman, a senior member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the dominant party in southern Sudan, said he had brought up the case with the U.S. Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration on his recent visit.
"The SPLM is calling for this law to be repealed," he told Reuters. "It humiliates both Christian and Muslim women."
Northern Sudan is government by Islamic law which includes restrictions on public decency, particularly for women.
But the regulations are only sporadically enforced in Khartoum -- while most women wear traditional dress in public, some, particularly from the mostly Christian south, also wear slacks and more Western clothes.
It is also rare for a Sudanese woman to take such a public stance on her rights to defy the dress code.
Lashing is handed out as a punishment for a range of offences in Sudan, including brewing alcohol.
The punishment is often administered minutes after a trial, in public outside the court room for male defendants and generally in private for women.
|A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan's decency laws...
208|1249001460|dynamic|FLIGHT GROUNDED BY COFFEE MAKER AROMA |
The electrical smell that caused a Southwest Airlines Co flight to make an unexpected landing Sunday was caused by a coffee maker in the back of the aircraft, a company spokesman said.
The coffee maker was in the back galley of the Boeing 737 plane. The aircraft was examined and put back into service by 12:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, said Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz.
"Anything that might have touched the burner might have caused the electrical smell," Mainz said. He added that the problem was "fairly unusual," although it was not the first time it has happened.
Flight 693 bound for Orlando, Florida, departed from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at 7:21 a.m. EDT Sunday. The plane, which held 131 passengers and 5 crew members, landed at Long Island Islip MacArthur Airport shortly before 8 a.m.
|The electrical smell that caused a Southwest Airlines Co flight to make an unexpected landing Sunday was caused by a coffee maker in the back of the aircraft, a company spokesman said...
207|1248914880|dynamic|TOURISTS MISS ISLE AFTER GPS BLUNDER |
Two Swedes expecting the golden beaches of the Italian island of Capri got a shock when tourist officials told them they were 650 km (400 miles) off course in the northern town of Carpi, after mistyping the name in their GPS.
"It's hard to understand how they managed it. I mean, Capri is an island," said Giovanni Medici, a spokesman for Carpi regional government, told Reuters Tuesday. "It's the first time something like this has happened."
The middle-aged couple, who were not identified, only discovered their error when they asked staff in the local tourist office Saturday how to drive to the island's famous "Blue Grotto."
"They were surprised, but not angry," Medici said. "They got back in the car and started driving south."
The picturesque island of Capri, famed as a romantic holiday destination, lies in the Gulf of Naples in southern Italy and has been a resort since Roman times.
Carpi is a busy industrial town in the province of Emilia Romagna, at the other end of Italy.
|Two Swedes expecting the golden beaches of the Italian island of Capri got a shock when tourist officials told them they were 650 km (400 miles) off course in the northern town of Carpi, after mistyping the name in their GPS...
206|1248828000|dynamic|POLICE FIND TRAIN \"SUICIDE\" WOMAN IN BED |
French police called off their search for a woman who threw herself in front of a speeding train when they found that she had dragged herself home and gone to bed, a court source told Reuters Wednesday.
The 58-year-old, who suffered from depression, jumped in front of the train Tuesday as it sped through the station at Herrlisheim near Strasbourg at around 150 km per hour, prompting the driver to alert the police.
Discovering only a small blood stain on the train and the platform, police called in helicopters to find the woman who they presumed had been sent flying by the collision, public prosecutor Laurent Guy said Wednesday.
But the search was called off when the woman's partner, returning from a night shift, found her lying in bed with a broken arm and other injuries and rang the emergency services.
The woman, who had attempted suicide in the past, was subsequently hospitalized.
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French police called off their search for a woman who threw herself in front of a speeding train when they found that she had dragged herself home and gone to bed, a court source told Reuters Wednesday...
205|1248656280|dynamic|REVERSE APPROVAL OF TONGASS LOGGING|
In a stunning blow to the U.S.'s environment, the Obama Administration just approved a clearcut of 382 acres of timber in a roadless area of Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
The clearcut in the Tongass will involve building 6.9 miles of roads and rebuilding another 1.9 miles of old roads. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack put a temporary halt to timber sales in roadless areas of national forests -- but he approved this timber sale despite the concerns of people who care about this important temperate rainforest, home to numerous endangered species.
Vilack argues it'll provide much-needed jobs for the region -- but even in troubled economic times, we cannot sacrifice the future of our planet!
|In a stunning blow to the U.S.'s environment, the Obama Administration just approved a clearcut of 382 acres of timber in a roadless area of Alaska's Tongass National Forest...
204|1248568860|dynamic|RECESSION SENDS AMERICANS TO THE INTERNET|
It's not just family and friends that Americans are turning to for advice and support to cope with the prolonged recession; many have found a counselor in the Internet.
More than two-thirds of American adults -- or 88 percent of U.S. Internet users -- went online for help with recession-induced personal economic issues and to gather information on national economic problems, a study released on Wednesday said.
The Internet ranks high among sources of information and advice that people are seeking during hard times, especially when it comes to their personal finances and jobs, Pew Internet & American Life Project said.
"People are anxious about these hard times. They are more information-hungry than in normal times," said Lee Rainie, director of the nonprofit group and co-author of the report, who pointed out that 79 percent of Americans were Internet users.
The current recession -- considered by some to be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s -- is unprecedented as it is the first time when people had such widespread access to the world wide web.
Some 52 percent of American adults have either lost their jobs, seen their investments fall by more than half their value, suffered a pay cut or watched their house lose half its value during the downturn in the past year, according to the study, which is based on interviews with 2,253 adults.
U.S. employers cut far more jobs than expected in June and the unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, the highest in nearly 26 years.
Creative juices have been flowing online in the down economy. Overall, 34 percent of online economic users have created content and commentary about the recession in places like blogs, social network sites and Twitter, the study found.
"That is a large number of those who are exploiting the Internet to participate in the roiling online discussion about how we got into this mess and how we are going to get out of it," Rainie said.
Among broadband users, the Internet was the top source for material on personal coping strategies during the recession, said the study.
But broadcast media outpaced the Internet as sources of news about national economic affairs.
"It's a mistake to think people are using only the Internet," Rainie said. They are networking and using multiple sources, including human sources, he added.
The top three recession-related activities of these users were price comparisons, a general understanding or grasp of the economic downturn and new jobs, the study said.
Three percent of such users scoured the Internet for information about filing for bankruptcy.
|It's not just family and friends that Americans are turning to for advice and support to cope with the prolonged recession; many have found a counselor in the Internet...
203|1248482340|dynamic|AMAZON SUED OVER KINDLE|
Amazon.com Inc has been sued by a user of its Kindle electronic reader who claims the device's cover, which is sold separately, can break the screen and make the device inoperable.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, where Amazon is based, claims the covers designed and sold by Amazon to protect the device often end up cracking the Kindle screens due to pressure on the hinge.
It seeks class-action status, which must be approved by a judge.
An Amazon spokesman said the Internet company does not comment on active litigation. But he added that the company encourages "anyone who has an issue with the cover attachment mechanism to return the cover and device for a free replacement so we can investigate further."
The plaintiff, Seattle resident Matthew Geise, seeks to represent all owners of a Kindle 2 or Kindle DX installed in a Kindle cover designed by Amazon. The Kindle 2 is the second version of the reader that first made its debut in 2007, while the DX is a larger version designed to better read newspapers.
The complaint quotes from an array of consumer complaint postings on the Internet that cite the hinge on the cover putting pressure on, and damaging, the screens.
According to the complaint, the Kindle that Geise purchased for his wife on Valentine's Day 2009 began to crack three months after purchase.
"Mr. Geise understood that the Kindle Cover he purchased for the Kindle was, in fact, compatible with the Kindle and would not damage the Kindle as a result of ordinary use. Amazon never disclosed to Plaintiff that using the Kindle Cover with the Kindle would damage the Kindle," according to the complaint.
The plaintiff alleges that a customer service supervisor at Amazon acknowledged that such cracking was a "common problem" but would not be covered by a warranty. Geise was instructed to pay $200 for a replacement Kindle, the complaint says.
"Because of the relatively small size of the typical damages, and the modest resources of most consumers, it is unlikely that most Class Members could afford to seek recovery against Amazon on their own. A class action is therefore the only viable, economical and rational means for members of the Class to recover from Amazon for the damages it has caused," wrote the complaint.
The lawsuit seeks replacement and funds to repair the broken Kindles as well as additional damages.
The online retailer has made a splash in the early days of digital e-readers with its Kindle. The device -- which comes in two sizes with slightly different functionality -- allows users to download books, magazines and newspapers.
Amazon does not disclose Kindle sales figures.
Whereas the Kindle has proved popular with travelers and avid readers who don't want to carry around a lot of heavy books, its price point of $299 for the Kindle and $489 for the Kindle DX still keep it out of the reach of many.
|Amazon.com Inc has been sued by a user of its Kindle electronic reader who claims the device's cover, which is sold separately, can break the screen and make the device inoperable...
202|1248395580|dynamic|WEBSITE PUBLISHES SENSITIVE HACKED TWITTER INFO |
Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site.
Twitter has a targeted revenue run rate of $140 million by the end of 2010, with the expectation it would record its first revenue -- a modest $400,000 -- in the third quarter of this year, according to a document Techcrunch published that it said was sent by a hacker.
Dated February, the document was labeled a Financial Forecast and outlined how Twitter expected to take in $4 million in revenue by the fourth quarter and maintain $45 million of cash in the bank.
By the end of 2013, Twitter hoped to sign up 1 billion users, post $1.54 billion in revenue, employ 5,200 people and make $111 million in net earnings, according to TechCrunch.
Techcrunch, which said it negotiated the publication with Twitter itself, added in the report that the document was unofficial and "certainly no longer accurate."
Twitter was not immediately available to comment on the projections. The document published by TechCrunch did not provide details about how Twitter planned to get the revenue.
"We are in touch with our legal counsel about what this theft means for Twitter, the hacker, and anyone who accepts and subsequently shares or publishes these stolen documents," Twitter said in an official blog post.
TechCrunch said earlier on Wednesday that an anonymous hacker had gained "easy access" to hundreds of pieces of internal Twitter information -- from pass codes to meeting minutes -- and then forwarded the data to the news website.
TechCrunch initially posted a single document, a discussion about a proposed reality television show. Within hours of its posting, hundreds of readers condemned the site for the move.
Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, defended its right to make the material public, saying it would exercise restraint on material such as personnel records.
"We've spent most of the evening reading these documents. The vast majority of them are somewhat embarrassing to various individuals, but not otherwise interesting," Arrington wrote.
"But a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it's appropriate to publish them."
Twitter, which permits users to post "Tweets" of up to 140 characters, has won a loyal fan following of millions and catapulted to prominence after it was used by protesters in Iran following a disputed election there.
The company is trying to parlay the popularity of its free service, into a money-making business. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters earlier this year the company had decided to generate revenue in 2009, a year earlier than planned.
Stone also said Twitter was more interested in generating revenue from premium add-on features, such as analytic tools, than from traditional online advertising.
Twitter's surge in popularity, and its real-time search feature, have captured the attention of Web giants such as Google Inc, which has had unspecified discussions with the company, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
"Obviously Twitter is a very attractive target for hackers or attackers, because of its high profile as a very popular media website," said Joris Evers, a spokesman and security expert at McAfee, which protects against Internet threats.
|Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site...
201|1248370200|dynamic|FACEBOOK HAS PRIVACY GAPS |
The popular social networking site Facebook is not doing enough to protect the personal information it gets from subscribers, and it gives users confusing and incomplete information about privacy matters, Canada's privacy commissioner said.
"It's clear that privacy issues are top of mind for Facebook, and yet we found serious privacy gaps in the way the site operates," Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said in a report on an investigation into Facebook.
The report said Facebook violates Canada's privacy laws by keeping the personal information of people who have deactivated their accounts in its databases indefinitely.
It provides confusing information about privacy practices, for example showing users how to deactivate accounts but not how to delete them.
Facebook told the commissioner it needed to keep personal data for those who shut down accounts because about half of users reactivate accounts that they had deactivated.
The report said Facebook had strenuously objected to some of the commissioner's preliminary conclusions, and on Thursday Facebook said it would continue to work with her to address outstanding areas and to raise awareness of privacy controls.
Facebook has 200 million active users, including about 12 million in Canada -- more than one in three Canadians.
Stoddart also said Facebook lacked adequate safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to users' personal information by third-party developers. There are more than 950,000 developers in 180 countries.
She said Facebook had resolved some issues and she gave Facebook 30 days to comply with a series of "recommendations".
The investigation was launched in response to complaints by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa. Stoddart has the power to ask Canadian courts to have her recommendations enforced.
In a statement, Facebook said it was "pleased that the Canadian federal privacy commissioner has dismissed the most of the inaccurate claims brought by CIPPIC, and that we were able to collaboratively resolve other issues raised in the complaint."
It added: "As part of our continued leadership in developing privacy tools that advance user control over their information, Facebook will soon be introducing a number of new additional privacy features to its service that we believe will keep the site at the forefront of user privacy and address any remaining concerns the commission may have."
|The popular social networking site Facebook is not doing enough to protect the personal information it gets from subscribers, and it gives users confusing and incomplete information about privacy matters, Canada's privacy commissioner said...
200|1248222420|dynamic|GANG LEADER CHARGED IN SCHEME TO CONTROL PUNK ROCK|
The founder of a street gang that administered beatings and made threats in its drive to control the punk rock music scene has been charged with extorting a Chicago performer, authorities said.
Elgin Nathan James, a self-proclaimed founding member of Boston-based FSU -- which stands for "Friends Stand United" -- was arrested on Monday by FBI agents at his Los Angeles home. The attempted extortion charge was then unsealed by the prosecutor's office in Chicago.
FSU boasted in videos dating to 2004 about beatings it administered to punk music fans and performers. The aim was to establish control at clubs and concert venues and drive "Nazi skinheads" out, according to prosecutors.
The victim in this case was a "popular recording artist from the Chicago area" who was not named. The victim and his friends were beaten and repeatedly threatened by FSU members while on tour in late 2005 and early 2006, prosecutors said.
Cooperating with the FBI, the victim tape-recorded James seeking to extort money from him in a telephone call and agents observed James accepting a $5,000 payoff at a club to stop the harassment. If convicted, James could face 20 years in prison.
|The founder of a street gang that administered beatings and made threats in its drive to control the punk rock music scene has been charged with extorting a Chicago performer, authorities said...
199|1248135840|dynamic|MAN TRIES TO FIX AIRBED, BLOWS UP APARTMENT|
A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Duesseldorf said.
The 45-year-old man used tire repair solvent to plug a hole in his airbed and left it overnight.
But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day. "A spark from the electric air pump ignited it," a fire brigade spokesman said.
The blast pushed his living room wall into the building's stairwell and caused extensive damage to walls, windows and furniture.
Fire fighters evacuated the 12-apartment building and a neighboring housing block while they checked for structural damage.
The man suffered burns on his arms, while a three-year-old girl suffered first degree burns.
|A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Duesseldorf said...
198|1248049260|dynamic|HUNT CALLED OFF FOR DRUG LORD\'S HIPPO|
Colombia has called off the hunt to kill a drug lord's escaped hippo and will instead try to relocate the beast after its mate was shot dead by order of the government, sparking outrage from animal rights groups.
The giant animals were imported from Africa by late cocaine king Pablo Escobar and put in his zoo. They escaped in 2006 to live in the wild near the Magdalena river in northern Colombia, causing concerns about local public safety.
Colombia was shocked on Friday when photographs were published of the dead hippo, named "Pepe", and by news that the hunt was still on for his mate, "Matilda," who gave birth to a calf in the wild.
Bogota-based beer company Bavaria, owned by SABMiller, offered to bring in animal protection experts from South Africa and Tanzania to find the best way to care for the surviving hippo and her calf.
"We have accepted Bavaria's offer. The hunt is off," a spokeswoman for Colombia's Environment Ministry told Reuters on Wednesday. "The idea is to relocate the animals."
Scores of protesters picketed ministry offices in Bogota on Tuesday, objecting to what they called the "death sentence" handed down against the hippos.
Pepe was killed by a .375 caliber round through his heart. It was a fate not unlike that of Escobar, who controlled most of the world's cocaine supply before being gunned down by police on a Medellin rooftop in 1993.
He was so flush with cash in the 1980s that he flew in hundreds of exotic animals, including kangaroos, elephants, rhinos and nine hippos.
The African zoologists will also study what to do with the two dozen hippos still living at the site of Escobar's zoo, called Hacienda Napoles in the northern province of Antioquia.
"The experts, once they are here on the ground, can help with our effort at finding the best possible place for these animals to live, either inside or outside Colombia," said a statement issued by the Environment Ministry.
Most of the other animals imported by Escobar, seen by Colombians as symbols of his power and extravagance, were given to local public zoos after his death.
|Colombia has called off the hunt to kill a drug lord's escaped hippo and will instead try to relocate the beast after its mate was shot dead by order of the government, sparking outrage from animal rights groups...
197|1247962680|dynamic|GENUINE STASI FILES TURN UP AT FILM SET|
Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.
The authenticity of the files were revealed when 15 former political prisoners were being filmed for a docu-play called "Staats-Sicherheit" (State Security) by public broadcaster ZDF.
"It's just unbelievable that something like this could happen," CDU politician and former East German civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld told Reuters. "This must be cleared up right away."
One of the "prop" files was actually the genuine file of one of the actors.
The German government's agency that looks after the Stasi archives said they had began a probe into how the files were obtained without authorization.
The Birthler agency said it had also immediately ordered the Babelsberg studio to restrict access to safeguard the files.
"We're investigating how these documents got into public hands," said agency spokesman Steffen Mayer. He said a prop firm delivered the documents to the studio and it was assumed the files were fakes to protect the identities of the victims.
Lengsfeld, who spent time in jail in East Germany as a political prisoner, was one of the 15 political prisoners the film centers around.
She said she did not think it was a coincidence real files surfaced on the film set. She believes former Stasi employees now work at the Birthler agency.
"There were even real Stasi files from people who weren't in the production being casually tossed about," said Lengsfeld, who called it "scandalous" the documents were freely available.
After German unification Lengsfeld discovered her husband had been a Stasi informant. She then divorced him.
Among the files that surfaced on the film set were documents about one of the film's actors, Mario Roellig. Roellig was arrested by the Stasi after a failed attempt to flee East Germany in 1987. "I was just stunned when I saw them," Roellig told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper. Also found were genuine Stasi files about a famous East German Rock musician and an artist, Lengsfeld said.
|Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained...
196|1247877360|dynamic|SAVE LIONS FROM CARBOFURAN PESTICIDE POISONING! |
Good news! Recent reports from the agricultural committee in Kenya's parliament are saying that the manufacturer of carbofuran pesticide is being told to remove the remaining pesticide from Kenya – and that an environmental committee is being set up to draft a final ban.
Over the past six years, 62 lions have been killed by poison. In 2004, 187 vultures died after feasting on a carcass that had been laced with furadan on the Athi-Kapiti plains adjoining the Nairobi National Park.
While the Kenyan government has previously stopped the sale of carbofuran pesticide in the country, some members of Kenya's parliament have voiced their opposition to a ban.
|Good news! Recent reports from the agricultural committee in Kenya's parliament are saying that the manufacturer of carbofuran pesticide is being told to remove the remaining pesticide from Kenya – and that an environmental committee is being set up to draft a final ban...
195|1247789220|dynamic|PHONE FIRM\'S WEST BANK WALL GAG FAILS TO AMUSE|
A television advert for an Israeli mobile phone firm showing soldiers playing soccer over the West Bank barrier has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers Sunday to demand it be taken off air.
The jaunty commercial for Israel's biggest mobile phone company Cellcom makes light of Palestinian suffering and shows how far Israelis fail to understand their neighbors, critics said. The company stood by the ad, however.
It shows a ball falling on an Israeli army jeep from the far side of a towering wall. A game ensues, back and forth with the unseen Palestinians after a soldier dials up "reinforcements," including two smiling women in uniform, to come and play.
The advertisement made by McCann Erickson, part of U.S. Interpublic Group, ends with the upbeat voiceover: "After all, what are we all after? Just a little fun."
Since the ad went out last week -- as Palestinians marked the fifth anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal -- some Israelis have taken to blogs and social networking sites to voice dismay.
"Aside from being a great contender for the 'creepiest ads of all time', this one-minute ad says a lot about how mainstream Israel likes to see itself and the Palestinians," journalist Dimi Reider wrote in a blog which concluded most of his fellow Israelis did not understand Palestinians' rage at the barrier.
Ahmed Tibi, an Arab member of Israel's parliament, said he had written to Cellcom demanding it pull the ad: "The barrier separates families and prevents children from reaching schools and clinics," he told Reuters. "Yet the advertisement presents the barrier as though it were just a garden fence in Tel Aviv."
Few Palestinians watch the Israeli stations where the advert aired but there was outrage among liberal Israelis on the Web.
A Hebrew-language Facebook group called "I too got nauseous watching the new Cellcom ad" had signed up 218 members. They demanded "take this racist commercial off the air immediately."
Israeli blogger Ami Kaufman told Reuters: "We see Israeli soldiers playing with ... the people that they are incarcerating behind the wall. But the most grotesque, most disturbing part of this ad is the fact that the Palestinians basically aren't seen ... They're like monsters or aliens ... This is the alienation that Israeli society feels toward the Palestinian people."
Noam Sheizaf, another Israeli journalist and blogger, said it distorted reality: "In reality, if a Palestinian comes close to the fence to return a football ... he is likely to get shot."
Asked to comment, Cellcom said its "core value is communication between people" regardless of "religion, race or gender." It said the commercial illustrated the possibility for people of diverse opinions to engage in "mutual entertainment."
A spokeswoman said it was a coincidence the ad came out so close to last Thursday's anniversary of the 2004 decision by the World Court that Israel had no right to build hundreds of miles of walls and fences on Palestinian land it took in a 1967 war.
Israel built the barrier with the declared aim of stopping suicide bombers. For Palestinians, it has become one of the most hated symbols of Israeli occupation, a land grab whose course round Jewish settlements would cripple any state they establish.
|A television advert for an Israeli mobile phone firm showing soldiers playing soccer over the West Bank barrier has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers Sunday to demand it be taken off air...
194|1247702460|dynamic|TRAVEL AGENTS OFFER SUNSHINE INSURANCE|
Sun-seekers whose holidays are spoiled by bad weather could be reimbursed after French travel agencies launched insurance cover for unwanted interruptions to the sunshine.
The insurance policy, launched by holiday groups Pierre et Vacances and FranceLoc, will allow holiday-makers to claim back part of the cost of their trip if they suffer at least four days of rain in any one week.
"Aon France allows Pierre & Vacances to propose its clients with automatic reimbursement for part of their stay...if weather conditions don't meet expectations," the holiday group said in a statement.
Aon France will use satellite photos obtained by the French weather bureau to calculate how much money subcribers should receive.
Rain-spoilt holidays can now be worth up to 400 euros ($556) and holiday-makers would be informed by telephone text message or email if they are liable for compensation. They would receive a cheque a few days after returning home.
The man behind the idea, Herv Kayser, told French daily Le Figaro that in a trial run last year, 10 percent of those interested in the insurance policy witnessed sufficient rain to receive money back on their holiday.
|Sun-seekers whose holidays are spoiled by bad weather could be reimbursed after French travel agencies launched insurance cover for unwanted interruptions to the sunshine...
193|1247619480|dynamic|PARIS LAUNCHES SMILE CAMPAIGN TO WOO TOURISTS|
Faced with a fall in tourist numbers due to the financial crisis and a reputation for unfriendliness, the Paris tourist board has made a simple request of the city's residents: smile.
Visitors to Paris, the world's most visited city, have fallen 17 percent since January compared with the same period in 2008, official figures show.
To counter the slump and boost revenues, the tourist board has set up stands manned by teams of "smile ambassadors" to welcome holiday-makers at the city's most popular spots.
As if to heed its call, hundreds of roller-skaters formed a giant smile in Place Vendome in the city center on Sunday.
"We have to work on striking and simple images. There's nothing as telling as a smile," said Paul Roll, who heads the tourist board.
In May, a questionnaire carried out by travel site TripAdvisor found Paris to be the most over-rated city in Europe, citing its high prices and unpleasant residents.
Daniel Fasquelle, founder of a tourism association, said that French from all walks of life needed to play their part.
"If we want tourism, which has generated more than two million jobs, to remain a major economic sector, everyone has to get behind it - professionals, elected representatives, and French people," he said.
"It's the American tourist lost in Paris that we inform politely, it's the English person looking for the way in northern France who we don't get impatient with by honking our car horns," he said.
Paris is doing more than trying to make its residents smile to draw in more visitors.
It is now possible to enjoy a virtual visit of the Champs-Elysees, the so-called "most beautiful avenue in the world," on the website www.ChampsElysees.org.
Plans for a string of new luxury hotels are also in the pipeline, and Secretary of State for Tourism, Herve Novelli, is counting on a cut in VAT in the restaurant industry, which came into force on July 1, to boost tourism.
|Faced with a fall in tourist numbers due to the financial crisis and a reputation for unfriendliness, the Paris tourist board has made a simple request of the city's residents: smile...
192|1247594100|dynamic|HERE IS MY JOB RESUMAY |
Typing mistakes in a job application can kill a would-be employee's chance of landing a job as employers bet that a sloppy resume means the applicant will do a sloppy job.
A telephone survey of 100 senior Canadian executives showed that more than a fifth of executives said a single typo on a resume or cover letter could cost a potential employee a job, while 28 percent said two mistakes would kill their chances.
The survey, published on Tuesday, was carried out by online job search firm Accountemps.
"The resume is an applicant's first chance to impress the hiring manager," said Kathryn Bolt, president of Accountemps' Canadian operations. "Mistakes on one's application materials may prompt employers to assume there also will be mistakes made on the job."
But 19 percent of the executives said they would still consider an applicant with four or more typos on their resume.
Common mistakes include: "Dear Sir or Madman", "I'm attacking my resume for you to review", "Following is a grief overview of my skills" and "Have a keen eye for derail."
|Typing mistakes in a job application can kill a would-be employee's chance of landing a job as employers bet that a sloppy resume means the applicant will do a sloppy job...
191|1247503320|dynamic|BERLIN \"SEX ACADEMY\" OFFERS TIPS FOR VISITORS |
Wannabe Latin lovers can improve their technique by playing with the erogenous zones of naked mannequins at a new interactive exhibition that has now opened in Berlin.
The "Amora sex academy" that opened in Berlin on Thursday welcomes visitors with the wry slogan, "Finally -- an exhibition for those who always have to touch everything."
More than 50 interactive displays guide visitors through the intimate areas of the male and female bodies, offering helpful tips on everything from striptease to oral sex and how to achieve a perfect orgasm.
"A lot of couples come in here together to learn something," said Uta Barkow, the manager of the Beate Uhse sex chain which is hosting the academy. "It's been very well received so far. A lot of exhibits have that 'aha' effect on a lot of people."
The show features several life-sized plastic models, naked and in various positions. One female mannequin light ups when touched in the right spot. A voice shrieks "That's it!" when the visitor manages to put his finger on the elusive G-spot.
Next to it is what the museum called its "Spank-o-meter." It measures the level of pleasure a mannequin receives when spanked with a leather whip.
"So far we've had just as many women in here as men," Barkow said. "Women coming in tend to have fewer inhibitions while the men tend to be a bit more embarassed."
The museum also shows film clips of various sexual positions, including the "Italian chandelier" that the viewer learns can burn up to 920 calories per hour.
Founded by Frenchman Johan Rizki, the sex academy opened in London earlier this year and is also due to come to Barcelona.
|Wannabe Latin lovers can improve their technique by playing with the erogenous zones of naked mannequins at a new interactive exhibition that has now opened in Berlin...
190|1247423100|dynamic|DRUNKEN TRACTOR DRIVER LEADS POLICE ON SLOW CHASE |
A drunk German sparked a slow-speed police chase after stealing a tractor to get home from a nightclub after his girlfriend left without him, said police, who used pepper spray to try to stop the vehicle.
"After his girlfriend abandoned him in a night club, the 23-year-old driver, who doesn't own a license, commandeered the vehicle to make his way home," a police spokesman said on Monday.
Six police cars began trailing the tractor, which was chugging along at 20 km (12 miles) an hour, after they were alerted to the theft at about 5 a.m. Saturday.
Officers tried holding up stop signs and directing pepper spray through the open window to bring the driver to a halt.
They then tried unsuccessfully to end his getaway by throwing nail belts on the road, but the tractor's tires proved too thick, said the police spokesman.
The 40-minute chase finally came to an end when officers shot at the tractor's tires after it rammed into a police car and collided with another vehicle.
|A drunk German sparked a slow-speed police chase after stealing a tractor to get home from a nightclub after his girlfriend left without him, said police, who used pepper spray to try to stop the vehicle...
189|1247336520|dynamic|MAN SUES KIMBERLY-CLARK OVER BAD-BREATH DEVICE|
A Boston-area inventor sued Kimberly-Clark Corp on Tuesday, contending that the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers had violated his patent for a device to detect bad breath.
The man, Marv Freadman of Chelsea, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court, saying that the Dallas-based consumer products maker is developing a "visual indicating device for bad breath."
The device, Freadman said in court papers, works by detecting carbon dioxide and other gases given off by the bacteria that cause bad breath. Freadman said that he had already patented a similar device.
The company has its own later patent on the device, according to court papers.
The suit asks the court to stop Kimberly-Clark from using the technology and also seeks unspecified monetary damages.
A spokesman for Kimberly-Clark said he had not yet seen a copy of the lawsuit and therefore could not comment.
|A Boston-area inventor sued Kimberly-Clark Corp on Tuesday, contending that the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers had violated his patent for a device to detect bad breath...
188|1247249880|dynamic|WANT TO MAKE 80K A YEAR? TRY CASTING A SPELL |
Fancy 80,000 dollars a year on a stress-free job with flexible working hours and no need to wear a suit?
Well, grab your black pointy hat, take out that rusty black hessian drape from the back of the wardrobe and refresh your memory on how to turn your grumpy neighbor into a mouse. Somerset tourist attraction Wookey Hole caves is advertising for a "witch" and has already received 100 applicants since the beginning of the week.
Legend has it that the caves, near Wells, were home to the Wookey Witch who was turned to stone by the medieval Abbott of Glastonbury to rid villagers of her curse.
The vacancy has arisen because the previous incumbent has retired.
The successful candidate, who will be living in a "spacious" cave, has to cackle, not be allergic to cats and will be asked to perform "a range of tasks" including magic at an open audition scheduled for July 28.
But the appointee need not be scary.
"We want a friendly witch with a devilish element," said Gayle Pennington, marketing assistant at the caves said on Wednesday.
"We're a family attractions place so we don't want to frighten the children."
In keeping with modern times, the role is open to men, women and trans-gender witches to comply with sexual discrimination laws.
|Fancy 80,000 dollars a year on a stress-free job with flexible working hours and no need to wear a suit?
187|1247163360|dynamic|DRUNK BADGER DISRUPTS TRAFFIC |
A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.
A motorist called police near the central town of Goslar to report a dead badger on a road -- only for officers to turn up and discover the animal alive and well, but drunk.
Police discovered the nocturnal beast had eaten cherries from a nearby tree which had turned to alcohol and given the badger diarrhoea. Having failed to scare the animal away, officers eventually chased it from the road with a broom.
|A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday...
186|1246582500|dynamic|STREISAND HITS JAZZ ON FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN 4 YEARS |
Barbra Streisand has joined forces with Canadian jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall on her first studio album in four years, which is set for release on September 29, her record label said.
Columbia Records said the album "Love Is The Answer" is Streisand's first full-length collection of new studio recordings since 2005's "Guilty Pleasures" and her first album since "Live In Concert 2006."
Last year, Streisand was preoccupied with the U.S. election campaign but the singer-actress said this year she had managed to get back to the business of entertaining with a new president in the White House as she was able to relax again.
"'Love Is The Answer' presents the artist as a cabaret and jazz singer of emotional clarity, depth and maturity," Columbia Records, a unit of Sony Corp, said in a statement.
On the new album, Streisand works for the first time with Grammy-winning Krall and her quartet of guitar, bass, and drums as well as songwriter Johnny Mandel, whom she worked with on her 1993 "Back to Broadway" album.
Song titles for the album have yet to be announced.
Streisand, 67, has blazed an extraordinary trail through music, theater, film and television in the four decades since she became the toast of Broadway.
She is the winner of 10 Grammys, two Academy Awards -- Best Actress, "Funny Girl" and Best song, "Evergreen" -- and numerous Emmys. Last year she was inducted as a Kennedy Center honoree.
|Barbra Streisand has joined forces with Canadian jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall on her first studio album in four years, which is set for release on September 29, her record label said...
185|1246494780|dynamic|ISRAEL\'S RICHEST WOMAN GETS MESSAGES, HAS VISIONS |
Shari Arison, Israel's richest woman and the controlling shareholder of the country's second-largest bank, said she has visions and receives messages "from above," but they do not influence the management of her companies.
Arison set off an uproar in Israel after she revealed that information in an interview with Channel Two broadcast late on Saturday.
"I get a picture, I can feel it. If it's fire, I feel like I'm burning. If people are dying I feel pain," she confirmed in an interview with Reuters.
The Israeli-American Arison along with her brother inherited billions of dollars from her late father Ted Arison, who founded Carnival Corp, the world's biggest cruise ship operator.
She is the controlling shareholder in Bank Hapoalim and controls Housing and Construction, Israel's biggest construction company.
She said these visions are meant to help lead the world elsewhere. To this end, she is releasing her first book this week, entitled "Birth - When the Spiritual and the Material Come Together," which details her journey both spiritually and in business.
She stressed that her visions do not interfere with the running of Hapoalim, in which she has no active role.
"The bank is managed very professionally, there's a chairman and a board and everything is done according to law. It's not my visions that run the bank, that's ridiculous ... there's nothing to be worried about," she said.
Shares of Hapoalim, Israel's second-largest bank, rose 1.6 percent on Sunday.
"When I talk about a vision in business I am talking about you can have a profit, you should be professional but you can give added value," Arison said.
The central bank declined to comment on Arison's remarks and said she has not been contacted by them since the interview was aired.
Arison said the messages do influence her personal decisions regarding her assets.
In the book she tells how she was on the verge of selling Housing and Construction when she received a message not to sell "because with this company I could a make a difference with sustainable building," she said.
Arison said she would not consider at this point selling her stake in Hapoalim or any of her other assets and is looking to invest in ventures in the fields of clean air and clean energy. She already has set up a company to invest in clean water projects.
She begins the book with her premise that the world is "collapsing" because of broad-based greed. The emphasis of the book is that every individual has to take responsibility for making the world a better place.
"I am aware of fact that in Israel there's a lot of cynicism, a lot of opposition ... I was very much aware that coming out with this book and my visions would create the same thing, cynicism and objection, until people understand."
Arison, who is also known in Israel for her philanthropy, said two years ago she got a message that there would be an economic crisis and people would go crazy.
But after years of seeing catastrophes she now believes the world is moving toward a better future.
"For the past year I've been seeing peace and happiness," she said. "I don't know when that will happen. I know I have a role to tell people ... Everyone has to make it happen."
|Shari Arison, Israel's richest woman and the controlling shareholder of the country's second-largest bank, said she has visions and receives messages "from above," but they do not influence the management of her companies...
184|1246408200|dynamic|FRENCH VILLAGE ON ALERT AFTER CROCODILE SIGHTINGS |
A French village is on the alert after several sightings of a crocodile were reported in a local pond and police and local anglers have joined the hunt for the elusive creature dubbed the "Loch Ness monster of the Vosges."
Xertigny, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Vosges region in eastern France, has been transfixed by the unexplained sightings and sightseers have regularly gathered by the water's edge to follow the hunt.
A chicken has been left by the waterside to attract the animal but so far, it has escaped capture and local authorities are considering draining the pool.
"We have been around the pond several times and you can't really say if anything is there," said Bruno Aime, vice president of a local anglers' association, told France Info radio after using a special sonar device to investigate.
"I think it's carp but it could also be a caiman of about 1.50 meters. The equipment doesn't let you see the difference between a pike of a meter long and a caiman of 1.50 meters," he told France Info radio.
Crocodiles are found only in zoos and parks in France.
The local Est Republicain newspaper has covered the chase in a special blog that includes hour-by-hour updates (in French) and footage of the search but the only animal it has caught on film so far is a small mammal resembling a water vole.
|A French village is on the alert after several sightings of a crocodile were reported in a local pond and police and local anglers have joined the hunt for the elusive creature dubbed the "Loch Ness monster of the Vosges...
183|1246326540|dynamic|FREE-WEB PIRATE PARTY CAPTURES SEAT |
Sweden's Pirate Party, striking a chord with voters who want more free content on the Internet, won a seat in the European Parliament, early results showed Sunday.
The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden in the Europe-wide ballot, enough to give it a single seat. The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system and reduce surveillance on the Internet.
"This is fantastic!" Christian Engstrom, the party's top candidate, told Reuters. "This shows that there are a lot of people who think that personal integrity is important and that it matters that we deal with the Internet and the new information society in the right way."
Previously an obscure group of single-issue activists, the party enjoyed a jump in popularity after the conviction in April of four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing website.
The case cast a spotlight on the issue of internet file-sharing, a technique used to download movies, music and other content. The defendants have called for a retrial.
Despite the similar names, the party and the website are not linked. The party was founded in 2006 and contested a Swedish general election that year, but received less than one percent of the vote.
Engstrom credited the party's appeal to young voters for its success. "We are very strong among those under 30. They are the ones who understand the new world the best. And they have now signaled they don't like how the big parties deal with these issues."
The Pirate Party will take up one of Sweden's 18 seats in the 785-seat parliament. "We will use all of our strength to defend personal integrity and our civil rights," Engstrom said.
|Sweden's Pirate Party, striking a chord with voters who want more free content on the Internet, won a seat in the European Parliament, early results showed Sunday...
182|1246239960|dynamic|UKULELES TO PLAY BEETHOVEN AT THE \"PROMS\" |
The unlikely sound of ukuleles will take over one of Britain's largest classical musical festivals this summer, with an orchestra of the mini guitars performing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" in a play-along special.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB), sporting tuxedos and brandishing "bonsai guitars," will perform on a stage usually reserved for the world's greatest symphony musicians.
They are calling on other 'uke' players to come to the concert and play along in a performance likely to be more reminiscent of George Formby than Beethoven.
The audience can look forward to "an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and singing (and a bit of whistling)," the UOGB said on its website.
The performance on August 18 will be part of the BBC proms season at the Royal Albert Hall. Music and online lessons for the piece can be found here.
|The unlikely sound of ukuleles will take over one of Britain's largest classical musical festivals this summer, with an orchestra of the mini guitars performing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" in a play-along special...
181|1246153380|dynamic|FOX STEALS MORE THAN 100 SHOES |
A fox has been unmasked as the mystery thief of more than 100 shoes in the small western German town of Foehren, authorities said Friday.
A forest worker stumbled upon shoes strewn near the fox's den and found a trove of footwear down the hole which had recently been stolen overnight from outside locals' front doors.
"There was everything from ladies' shoes to trainers," said a local police spokesman. "We've found between 110 and 120 so far. It seems a vixen stole them for her cubs to play with."
Although many were missing laces, the shoes were in good condition and their owners were delighted to reclaim them, he said, adding that no reprisals were planned against the culprit.
|A fox has been unmasked as the mystery thief of more than 100 shoes in the small western German town of Foehren, authorities said Friday...
180|1246066680|dynamic|ALASKA\'S RAT ISLAND RAT-FREE AFTER 229 YEARS |
Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird population.
After dropping poison onto the island from helicopter-hoisted buckets for a week and a half last autumn, there are no signs of living rats and some birds have returned, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Rats have ruled the island since 1780, when they jumped off a sinking Japanese ship and terrorized all but the largest birds on the island. The incident introduced the non-native Norway rat -- also known as the brown rat -- to Alaska.
The $2.5 million Rat Island eradication project, a joint effort between the U.S. federal government, the Nature Conservancy and Island Conservation, is one of the world's most ambitious attempts to remove destructive alien species from an island.
Now there are signs that several species of birds, including Aleutian cackling geese, ptarmigan, peregrine falcons and black oystercatchers, are starting to nest again on the 10-square-mile (26-sq-km) island.
It is too soon to say that Rat Island is definitively rat-free, however. That can only be established after at least two years of monitoring, said Bruce Woods, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage.
"We don't know that there's not a couple of happy rats hiding away that are going to spring out and repopulate the island," he said.
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|Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird population...
179|1245980160|dynamic|LOTTERY WINNER PLANS TO GROW BETTER CARROTS |
A 74-year-old amateur gardener who scooped a 25 million pound lottery prize said Tuesday he would spend part of his winnings hiring an expert to learn how to grow better carrots.
Brian Caswell said he had always struggled with the vegetable on the prize-winning allotment he maintains with his Joan, 71, in Halliwell, near Bolton.
"I've been trying to grow carrots ever since I've been on that allotment and I've never had any success," he told reporters at a televised briefing.
"What I'm going to do now is bring a professional in and say, 'Right, sort that out.'"
He said the couple had decided to go public with the news of their huge win in last Friday's EuroMillions draw on the advice of lottery operator Camelot.
"How could you keep that secret?" he said. "The answer is you can't."
His wife said she was still adjusting to her sudden wealth, which saw the couple's win splashed on the front of the Sun and the Daily Mirror.
"Usually we are the people sitting watching the television, and now everybody is sitting watching Brian and I."
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|A 74-year-old amateur gardener who scooped a 25 million pound lottery prize said Tuesday he would spend part of his winnings hiring an expert to learn how to grow better carrots...
178|1245893460|dynamic|TATTOO GONE WRONG: STARS AND GRIPES FOREVER? |
A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
"I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest," Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Brussels, told Belgian broadcaster VRT.
The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.
A spokesman for Kortrijk prosecutors' office said police were investigating after a complaint from the teenager.
The tattoo artist said Vlaeminck had agreed to 56 stars.
"She agreed, but when her father saw it, the trouble started," Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws quoted the man as saying.
Vlaeminck said she wanted to keep the tattoos on her forehead but would have the rest removed.
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|A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday...
177|1245806880|dynamic|COCAINE HAUL FOUND HIDDEN IN FROZEN SHARKS |
Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.
Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said Tuesday.
"We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship," Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs. "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine," he said.
Drug gangs are coming up with increasingly creative ways of getting drugs into the United States -- in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture -- as Mexico's military cracks down on the cartels moving South American narcotics north.
President Felipe Calderon has sent 45,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to crush powerful smuggling cartels. But traffickers armed with a huge arsenal of grenades and automatic weapons are far from defeated, worrying Washington as violence spills over into U.S. states like Arizona.
Some 2,750 people have died in drug violence in Mexico this year, a pace similar to that of 2008, when 6,300 were killed.
Led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa are fighting a turf war with rivals. Guzman seeks to control Mexican and Central American smuggling routes into the United States.
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|Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States...
176|1245720180|dynamic|PEDAL POWER HELPS MAN CATCH BAG THIEF|
An 80-year-old German woman whose handbag was snatched from her bicycle basket by a passing cyclist gave chase on her own bike and recovered her stolen property.
As she pedaled in pursuit of the 41-year-old thief through the western town of Buerstadt, she alerted a driver who stopped the culprit and held him until police arrived.
"The woman had the guts to say, 'I'm not taking that'," a police spokesman in nearby Darmstadt said Thursday.
Police retrieved the bag and returned it to its owner.
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|An 80-year-old German woman whose handbag was snatched from her bicycle basket by a passing cyclist gave chase on her own bike and recovered her stolen property...
174|1245633300|dynamic|DUTCH MUGGERS CAUGHT ON GOOGLE STREET VIEW CAMERA|
Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google's online photo map service, police said.
The pair stole the 14-year-old boy's mobile phone and 165 euros ($230) in cash last September.
"The picture was taken just a moment before the crime," a police spokesman said.
In March, the victim recognized himself and the two robbers while surfing Google Maps, which has a "Street View" feature allowing users to see images of buildings. The images are usually taken by a camera mounted on a car.
After an investigation by the police, one of the 24-year-old twins confessed to robbing the boy.
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|Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google's online photo map service, police said...
175|1245547260|dynamic|GIMME A BEER, IMBECILE!|
A Spanish bar is encouraging clients to insult its staff and offering free drinks for original or hilarious abuse.
"When you come in after work, you can say swear at them and call them bastard or imbecile," said client Antonio Ossa, who told state news agency EFE the promotion by the "Casa Pocho" bar in the southern town of Cullera near Valencia seemed like a good idea to him.
Polish-born bar owner Bernard Mariusz said he thought people needed somewhere to release their frustrations at a time of economic crisis, employing the Spanish language's rich store of earthy obscenities.
"That way they won't let it out on their family," he said.
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|A Spanish bar is encouraging clients to insult its staff and offering free drinks for original or hilarious abuse...
173|1245459480|dynamic|KINA OTKAZUJE GOOGLE USLUGE|
Kina je otkazala neke usluge najpopularnijeg internet pretraživača "Google" koji je dan ranije optužila da se ne suprotstavlja pornografiji u dovoljnoj mjeri.
Ured za suzbijanje pornografije na internetu je saopštio u petak da su vlasti pozvale zvaničnike "Google China" i razgovarali sa njima o "kažnjavanju". "Google China" treba prekinuti svoje pretraživačke usluge na inostranoj mreži.
Kineska agencija zadužena za kontrolu "ilegalnih" sadržaja "CIIRC" je osudila "Google" i naložila mu da "potpuno očisti vulgarne i pornografske sadržaje na svojim stranicama".
U saopćenju objavljenom u petak, "Google" garantuje da će "nastaviti poduzimati mjere protiv vulgarnih sadržaja na internetu u Kini, posebno onih koji bi mogli ugroziti djecu.
|Kina je otkazala neke usluge internetskog pretraživača Google koji je dan ranije optužila da se ne suprotstavlja dovoljno pornografiji, javila je u petak novinska agencija Nova Kina...
172|1245416760|dynamic|OBAMA FLY SWAT LEADS TO A PLAGUE OF QUESTIONS /video|
MSNBC, CNBC, The Huffington Post and Twitter are all abuzz about an objection brought up by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to interview outtake footage confirming that, yes, like many people, President Obama swats flies.
PETA's public statement on the morality of killing insects clearly touches a nerve in our society. Generally, most people consider themselves respectful of other living beings no matter where they fall on the spectrum of animal rights. A life-long fisherperson may bless her or his catch just as a raw vegan may say grace over mixed greens. So is the question really, "At what point do displays of violence against other beings become a social taboo?" Or, "To what ethical standard do we hold our elected officials?"
In the days following the incident, President Obama can look forward to receiving a brand new Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a housefly and then release it outside -- courtesy of PETA.
Judging by the fact that this fly-be-gone story is gaining so much media attention given that many other news-worthy stories have not getting an equal share of the MSNBC and CNBC spotlight, such as Florida panthers facing critical endangerment, this year's kick-off of the Iceland whale hunt or of course the ongoing slaughter of industry-raised cows for food, Obama's actions may really be a reflection of the uncertainty each one of us has around where animal rights begin and end.
|MSNBC, CNBC, The Huffington Post and Twitter are all abuzz about an objection brought up by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to interview outtake footage confirming that, yes, like many people, President Obama swats flies...
171|1245336600|dynamic|SAVE ELEPHANTS FROM CIRCUS ABUSE|
It's heart-wrenching. Baby elephants are ripped away from their mothers and forced into a life of abuse and humiliation that is reinforced with bullhooks, whips and electric prods.
These are the elephants forced to perform with Ringling Bros. Circus, which is schedule to set-up near New York City in America this summer. New York City officials recently announced that Taconic Investments has donated land for Ringling Bros, which should help save the suffering amusement district.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has contacted the city and Taconic to inform them of Ringling's lengthy history of animal abuse, but they refuse to sacrifice this moneymaking opportunity for animal rights!
Abusing circus animals for our entertainment is unnecessary and just plain wrong. Thank you for showing that you do not support this inhumane practice.
|It's heart-wrenching. Baby elephants are ripped away from their mothers and forced into a life of abuse and humiliation that is reinforced with bullhooks, whips and electric prods...
170|1245083580|dynamic|OKONČANA AKCIJA POMOĆI ENI FERIZ|
Uspješno je okončana akcija prkupljanja pomoći za Enu Feriz.
Porodica zahvaljuje svima koji su odgovorili na poziv učestvovali u akciji prikupljanja novca kako bi Ena pobijedila opaku bolest i ponovo se radovala životu.
"Sa strahom smo krenuli u ovu plemenitu akciju hvala Bogu i dobrim ljudima - završavamo je uspješno. Sumu novca za koju su nam rekli da približno treba za troškove liječenja smo ostvarili, uzimajući u obzir i dio prikupljen u inostranstvu koji će nam biti dostavljen tokom godišnjih odmora.", kaže porodica Feriz.
Redovno ćemo Vas obavještavati o toku Eninog liječenja i utrošenim sredstvima. Prvi problem je riješen, novac je skupljen, sada je na redu liječenje u nekoj od evropskih klinika, najvjerovatnije u italijanskoj Padovi.
Ovo praktično znači da se prekidaju sve aktivnosti vezane za prikupljanje novca - izuzetak čine aktivnosti koje su već duže vremena planirane, najavljene i pripremane kao što su koncerti 19. 06. 2009 i 25. 06. 2009. godine.
Sav neutrošeni novac koji ostane nakon operativnog tretmana i postoperativnog oporavka naše Ene porodica će uplatiti u neku od fondacija ili pokloniti nekom pojedincu kojem bude potrebna pomoć.
|Uspješno je okončana akcija prkupljanja pomoći za Enu Feriz. Porodica zahvaljuje svima koji su odgovorili na poziv učestvovali u akciji prikupljanja novca kako bi Ena pobijedila opaku bolest i ponovo se radovala životu...
169|1244765760|dynamic|PROTECT AFRICA\'S LIONS FROM PESTICIDE POISONING!|
Lions in Kenya are dying horrific deaths from carbofuran pesticide poisoning, a toxic chemical used on crops.
Unfortunately, once one animal has been poisoned, its carcass attracts other wildlife, poisoning animals and predators up the food chain – including the iconic and beautiful African lions.
Lions are a vulnerable species that depend on a wide variety of wildlife to survive. With a diet that ranges from wildebeest and hippos to smaller animals such as hares and birds, they are at tremendous risk of poisoning from carbofuran pesticide.
While the Kenyan government has stopped allowing sales of the pesticide in their country, some members of Kenya's parliament still oppose a ban of the pesticide.
|Lions in Kenya are dying horrific deaths from carbofuran pesticide poisoning, a toxic chemical used on crops...
168|1244682720|dynamic|PROTECT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS - SAVE THE AMAZON!|
The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.
These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.
More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.
For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).
The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.
|The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest...
167|1244640840|dynamic|OBJAVLJENA PUNA VERZIJA APPLE SAFARI 4|
Apple je izdao punu verziju Internet preglednika Safari 4 za platforme Mac OS X i Windowse.
Kao i u ranijoj beti, i ovdje je prisutan atraktivan početni ekran i Cower Flow opcija pregledavanja historyja i bookmarka.
Apple hvali i prilagođeni izgled Safarija Windows platformi, uključujući tabove na uobičajenom mjestu (a ne na vrhu aplikacije), upotrebu standardnih Windows fontova s mogućnošću korištenja i onih Appleovih te korištenje standardnih naziva, alatnih traka i slično.
Zanimljiviji dio preglednika je svakako opcija Developer Tools, koja dozvoljava pregled strukture stranice, debugging JavaScripta i optimiziranje performansi, testiranje koda i ostale programerske radnje.
Alat može i grafički prikazati samu strukturu stranice, što olakšava uočavanje "kritičnih dijelova" pogodnih za optimizaciju. Naposljetku, tu je novi Nitro engine, za koji kompanija tvrdi da je najbrži na svijetu – u JavaScriptu 8 puta brži od IE8 i 4 puta brži od FireFoxa 3, uz brže učitavanje samih stranica.
|Apple je izdao punu verziju Internet preglednika Safari 4 za platforme Mac OS X i Windowse...
166|1244413500|dynamic|PETICIJA ZA SPAS VJETRENICE!|Eko akcija je pokrenula peticiju kojom se želi, po ko zna koji put skrenuti neophodna pažnja na uništavanje po mnogočemu jedinstvene pećine Vjetrenica, koja se na njenu žalost nalazi u Bosni i Hercegovini, državi čiji dužnosnici ne brinu o blagu koje posjeduje njihova država. Svoj potpis na tekst peticije možete staviti na sljedećoj adresi: http://www.ekoakcija.com/content/peticija-za-zastitu-vjetrenice|Eko akcija je pokrenula peticiju kojom se želi, po ko zna koji put skrenuti neophodna pažnja na uništavanje po mnogočemu jedinstvene pećine Vjetrenica, koja se na njenu žalost nalazi u Bosni i Hercegovini, državi čiji dužnosnici ne brinu o blagu koje posjeduje njihova država. Svoj potpis na tekst peticije možete staviti na sljedećoj adresi: http://www.ekoakcija.com/content/peticija-za-zastitu-vjetrenice
165|1244075220|dynamic|POZORIŠNE IGRE BIH U JAJCU|
U periodu od 6. do 13. juna 2009. gdine u jajcu će biti održane 28. pozorišne igre Bosne i Hercegovine.
Riječ je o manifestaciji koja ove godine publici nudi sedam najboljih pozorišnih predstava iz aktuelne umjetničke sezone.
Predstave su odabrane odlukom selektora ovogodišnjih Igara Luke Kecmana, najavljeno je iz Općine Jajce.
Svečanosti otvaranja manifestacije u subotu, 6. juna, prethodit će otvaranje izložbe skulptura akademskog skulptora Enesa Sivca "Posmatrači".
Ovogodišnje Pozorišne igre otvorit će Narodno pozorište Tuzla s predstavom "Let iznad kukavičijeg gnijezda" Dejla Vesermana, u režiji Selme Spahić, dok će zadnji festivalski dan biti u znaku dječije predstave "Začarani violinist" Putujućeg teatra Hasije Borić.
Ključ grada Jajca tokom održavanja Igara bit će u rukama glumaca, a na simboličan će ga način načelnik općine Jajce Nisvet Hrnjić predati umjetnici Gordani Milinović.
Program Igara ponudit će, između ostalog, i izložbu slika i radova amaterskih umjetnika Jajca pod nazivom "Jajce inspiracija umjetnika", predstavu "Zvijer na mjesecu" Ričarda Kalinovskog u režiji Dine Mustafića i izvedbi Mostarskog teatra mladih, predstavu "Zločin i kazna" F.M. Dostojevskog, u režiji Gradimira Gojera, i izvedbi Pozorišta Prijedor te predstavljanje knjiga prof. dr. Luke Kecmana "Petar Kočić na sceni Narodnog pozorišta Republike Srpske" i "Zapisi jednog selektora".
|U periodu od 6. do 13. juna 2009. gdine u Jajcu će biti održane 28. pozorišne igre Bosne i Hercegovine...
163|1243990020|dynamic|SA DVIJE GODINE ZNA VIŠE OD 2\'000 KINESKIH ZNAKOVA|
Sa nepune dvije godine djevojčica Li Tiankvi prepoznaje više od 2'000 kineskih znakova, a svakog dana nauči nekoliko novih.
Prvi znak je pročitala na ulici sa svega devet mjeseci. Dok su mnogi mladi Kinezi zastrašeni komplikovanim kineskim znacima, Li Tiankvi smatra da su oni lagani za naučiti i nastavlja uz pomoć svoje dvadesetosmogodišnje majke.
Neki izrazi koje je naučila su izuzetno složeni. Prva fraza koju je izgovorila bila je “izlaz u slučaju opasnosti”, dok je parkom šetala s dedom.
Prema standardima ministarstva za obrazovanje, poznavanje 2'000 znakova se traži od učenika petog razreda osnovne škole. Posebno je zanimljivo da su djevojčicu roditelji odveli na testiranje, na kojem je utvrđeno da ima prosječnu inteligenciju i da se, osim po sposobnosti da brzo uči znakove, ni po čemu ne razlikuje od svojih vršnjaka.
U kineskom riječniku, inače, postoji preko 70'000 znakova, a smatra se da je pismen svako ko zna barem 1'500 njih.
|Sa nepune dvije godine djevojčica Li Tiankvi prepoznaje više od 2'000 kineskih znakova, a svakog dana nauči nekoliko novih...
164|1243903140|dynamic|EGO TRIP: KONAČNO NOVI SIKTER /video|
Nakon poduže pauze, i jako dugo najavljivani četvrti album sarajevske grupe Sikter pod nazivom "Ego trip", od utorka je konačno u prodaji.
Album sadrži 10 pjesama, a prvi singl je "Line (Edith Piaf 3)". Za ovu pjesmu je urađen i videospot.
Sikter postoji već sedamnaest godina, i za to vrijeme je promjenio različite muzičke stilove, od punka do soula, funka i rock’n’rolla. Zvuk novog albuma je nešto drugačiji od onoga što je publika navikla. Preovladava elektronska muzika, ali svakako prepoznatljivo "sikterovski".
"Ego trip" karakterišu teški gitarski rifovi, čvrsta ritam sekcija, pumpajući bas i prodorne klavijature.
Sikter su već godinama: - Enes Zlatar - Bure, onaj s mikrofonom i klavijaturom je - Dragan Rokvić - Rokva, svira bas k'o lud, pjeva k'o da je u horu narodnog pozorišta - Nedim Zlatar - Nedo, za lupaljkama - Esad Bratović - Es, popularni gitarista više bendova - Igor Čamo, još malo klavijatura - Dejan Kajević i Leo Šarić pojevaju pozadinske dionice
Osnovna ideja benda je svirka uživo, na čemu Sikter bazira svoje postojanje, pa se nemojte iznenaditi skorim datumima za Bosnu i Hercegovinu i Evropu, pošto je najavljena koncertna promocija novog albuma.
Dok nam ne dobace najavljeni video za Line pogledajte staru dobru Edith Piaf...
|Nakon poduže pauze, i jako dugo najavljivani četvrti album sarajevske grupe Sikter pod nazivom "Ego trip", od utorka je konačno u prodaji...
162|1243816920|dynamic|USKORO LIČNE ADRESE NA FACEBOOK MREŽI|
Već se uveliko priča da će vrlo skoro, vjerovatno već naredne sedmice, Facebook mreža dozvoliti ponuditi svojim korisnicima da zamjene svoju bezličnu Facebook adresu prepunu brojeva, suvislim i pamtljivim imenom (kako to već odavno imaju Twitter i MySpace).
Obzirom da će cijeli svijet jednog dana biti na Facebooku čemu vlasnik Zuckerberg teži, imati dobar Facebook URL je presudno bitna stvar.
Budite spremni na promjene!
|Već se uveliko priča da će vrlo skoro, vjerovatno već naredne sedmice, Facebook mreža dozvoliti ponuditi svojim korisnicima da zamjene svoju bezličnu Facebook adresu prepunu brojeva, suvislim i pamtljivim imenom...
161|1243296840|dynamic|ENGLEZI PRODALI SELO|
Selo Linkenholt u Engleskoj, koje je prije nekoliko mjeseci stavljeno na prodaju, konačno je našlo vlasnika.
U agenciji za nekretnine, koja je posredovala u prodaji, kažu da je selo prodato za veliku sumu novca. Obavezani ugovorom o poverljivosti, u agenciji nisu mogli otkriti identitet kupca, niti tačnu cijenu koje je plaćena, ali je navedeno da je selo bilo procjenjeno na čak 30 miliona eura.
Iako je postao vlasnik svih građevina u selu, jedan dvorac, tridesetak seoskih kuća, više prodavnica i jedna kovačnica, kupac ipak nije i vlasnik lokalne crkve Svetog Petra iz 12. vijeka, obzirom da je ova građevina bila izuzeta od prodaje.
|Selo Linkenholt u Engleskoj, koje je prije nekoliko mjeseci stavljeno na prodaju, konačno je našlo vlasnika...
160|1243210260|dynamic|KOLIKO NE ZNAMO: MAHOVINA U PRAŠKIM STUBOVIMA|
Biser evropskog srednjevijekovnog graditeljstva, Karlov most u Pragu, ponovo je zbunio savremenu nauku i arhitekturu, pošto se upravo otkrilo da su drevni neimari u njegove stubove ugradili mahovinu.
Renoviranje najslavnijeg češkog mosta u koje se nakon nekoliko decenija temeljno upustila češka prijestonica, otkriva zagonetku za zagonetkom.
Naučnici se ne mogu dogovoriti oko ove posljednje zagonetke, jer je mahovina iz borove šume i ne raste pod vodom, tako da nije mogla sama od sebe izrasti u stubovima, a naučnici ne znaju čemu bi mogla služiti.
"To je mahovina iz 14 vijeka. Radi se o vrsti koja ne raste pod vodom. To je neobično i dragocjeno otkriće, obzirom da do sada nikada ni u jednom mostu nije nađena mahovina", izjavio je Petr Pokorni, botaničar iz češke Akademije nauka koji je ovu mahovinu i otkrio.
Pored mahovine postavlja se pitanje i zašto je pod svakim stubom Karlovog mosta na dnu Vltave prvo mlinski kamen bez rupe u sredini, a sa njega se uzdiže sam stub ili sa sporovima oko toga koliko ima istine u legendi da su u malter mosta ugrađena jaja, i oko misteriozne mahovine počele su da se roje razne hipoteze.
Prema jednoj tezi na taj način su srednjevekovni neimari stubovima olakšavali težinu samog mosta, a druga teza kaže da su se time popunjavale pukotine među kamenjem od kojeg je most izgrađen, dok treća teza kaže da je mahovina trebala učiniti most elastičnijim. Postoji i četvrta teza, prema kojoj se veruje da je mahovina sprječavala da u most prodre višak vode.
Sam Pokorni nudi i svoju tezu kako je vječno zelena mahovina u tu značajnu građevinu dospjela kao dio nekog tajanstvenog rituala.
Karlov most je dug 515, a širok 9,5 metara i ukrašen je sa 30 statua svetaca. Gradnju mosta su počeli češki kralj i rimsko-njemački car Karlo Četvrti 1357. godine, da bi most bio dovršen 1402. godine. Sve do kraja 19. vijeka most je predstavljao jedinu vezu praških četvrti na lijevoj i desnoj obali Vltave.
Drugi je najstariji most koji se u Češkoj očuvao do današnjih dana, kao simbol Praga i kralja Karla Četvrtog koga su savremeni Česi u anketi prije nekoliko godina odabrali za najvećeg Čeha u istoriji.
|Biser evropskog srednjevijekovnog graditeljstva, Karlov most u Pragu, ponovo je zbunio savremenu nauku i arhitekturu, pošto se upravo otkrilo da su drevni neimari u njegove stubove ugradili mahovinu...
159|1243126500|dynamic|ASTRONAUTI RECIKLIRALI PA NAZDRAVILI URINOM|
Astronauti Međunarodne svemirske stanice su u svoju čast nazdravili po prvi put ispivši prerađeni urin.
Dvadeset litara recikliranog urina je donijeto na Zemlju prošlog novembra, a zatim i analizirano. Ispitivanja su pokazala da je voda čista i pitka. Urin je preradila mašina vrijedna 250 miliona dolara.
"NASA je dozvolila timu astronauta 19. ekspedicije da popiju vodu dobijenu zahvaljujući novom sistemu za recikliranje na MSS", navodi se u saopštenju svemirske agencije NASA.
Rus Genadij Padaka, Amerikanac Majk Barat i Japanac Koiči Vakata su "u to ime nazdravili" u MSS laboratoriji.
Recikliranje je ključno kako bi se mogao udvostručiti broj astronauta na MSS. Sistemom za recikliranje se godišnje može proizvesti 6,8 tona pitke vode, što bi smanjilo količine vode koje na stanicu treba dopremati sa Zemlje.
|Astronauti Međunarodne svemirske stanice su u svoju čast nazdravili po prvi put ispivši prerađeni urin...
158|1243038960|dynamic|BOB DYLAN NA AUKCIJI|
Rukom pisana pjesma "Little Buddy" tada šesnaestogodišnjeg Boba Dylana uskoro će biti ponuđena na prodaju putem aukcije.
Pjesma koju je Bob Dylan napisao kao tinejdžer u ljetnom kampu mogla bi postići cijenu između 10 i 15 hiljada dolara.
Dylan je ovu pjesmu napisao sredinom pedesetih godina prošlog vijeka za vrijeme boravka u ljetnom kampu Herzl u Wisconsinu. Pjesma je objavljena u magazinu kampa "The Herzl Herald".
Pjesmu, odnosno "Priču o psu", Dylan je potpisao kao Bobby Zimmerman.
Do sada je Lisa Heilicher, nekadašnja urednica magazina, pjesmu čuvala zajedno sa ostalim stvarima iz kampa, kazavši da kada je shvatila koliko je Dylan postao slavan, odmah je stavila pjesmu u plastičnu omotnicu i pohranila je u enciklopediju.
Pjesma će biti ponuđena na aukciji 23. juna 2009. godine. Sav novac od prodaje pjesme će biti doniran kampu kako bi se obnovile barake i drugi objekti.
|Rukom pisana pjesma "Little Buddy" tada šesnaestogodišnjeg Boba Dylana uskoro će biti ponuđena na prodaju putem aukcije...
157|1242952680|dynamic|HRAST STAR 1664 GODINE|
Jedan hrast (Quercus robur) je najstarije drvo u Bugarskoj, ove godine puni 1664 godine.
Smatra se da je to jedno od nastarijih listopadnih stabala u Evropi. Hrast se nalazi u selu Granit, u regionu Stara Zagora, u južnoj Bugarskoj, i svake godine privuče veliki broj turista.
Starost hrasta je konačno utvrđena 1982. godine, a 15 godina prije toga, 25. decembra 1967. godine, zakonom ga je zaštitilo bugarsko ministarstvo šuma.
Drvo je visoko 23,40 metara, a debljina stabla dostiže 2,38 metara.
|Jedan hrast (Quercus robur) je najstarije drvo u Bugarskoj, ove godine puni 1664 godine...
156|1242865140|dynamic|KINDLE DX: E-READER PRILAGOĐEN NOVINAMA|
Amazon je početkom mjeseca predstavio Kindle DX, elektronski čitač većeg formata, prilagođen čitanju novina i udžbenika.
Kako prenosi New York Times, novi Kindle DX (deluxe) predstavljen je kao "korak ka društvu bez papira". Kindle DX je 2 i po puta veći od standardne verzije, te bolje prilagođen čitanju novina, dokumenata i udžbenika, no i 150 dolara skuplji.
Uz promociju novog modela, Amazon je najavio i ugovore o saradnji sa nekim od najvećih američkih novina, koji će Kindle nuditi po sniženoj cijeni uz pretplatu.
Nekoliko velikih izdavačkih kuća će svoje udžbenike objaviti u formatu prilagođenom Kindle-u, a studenti 6 američkih univerziteta će korištenje nove verzije u nastavi testirati početkom sljedeće školske godine
|Amazon je početkom mjeseca predstavio Kindle DX, elektronski čitač većeg formata, prilagođen čitanju novina i udžbenika...
155|1242778500|dynamic|ČITATELJI SPREMNI PLAĆATI VIJESTI|
Globalno istraživanje koje je sproveo PricewaterhouseCoopers pokazuje da su čitatelji spremni platiti za visokokvalitetne online publikacije.
Kako prenosi European Journalism Centre, istraživanje sprovedeno na skoro 5000 ispitanika u Europi i SAD-u je pokazalo da su korisnici spremni platiti za visokokvalitetne online publikacije skoro koliko i za štampane.
Prema rezultatima ispitivanja, online publikacije specijalizirane za sport i biznis bi mogle naplatiti do 97% cijene štampanih izdanja ukoliko ne postoje besplatne online publikacije koje nude isti sadržaj.
Mediji su ovakve rezultate ocijenili zanimljivim dodatkom debati oko naplaćivanja online vijesti i drugih novinskih sadržaja koja se već duže vrijeme vodi u medijskim krugovima.
|Globalno istraživanje koje je sproveo PricewaterhouseCoopers pokazuje da su čitatelji spremni platiti za visokokvalitetne online publikacije...
154|1242691920|dynamic|GOOGLE ĆE SARAĐIVATI SA NOVINARIMA|
Google namjerava intenzivirati svoju saradnju s američkim novinskim kućama, a razmatraju se i novčane investicije.
Kako prenosi CNET News, Google je pokrenuo ragovore sa New York Timesom i Washington Postom o mogućim oblicima suradnje. Iako nije objavljeno o kakvim se planovima radi, izvještaji Washington Posta i Fortune-a kažu da se radi o "poboljšanju načina kreiranja i prikazivanja vijesti online", a prema nekim izvještajima, rukovodioci Google razmatraju i finansijske investicije u novinsku industriju.
Vijest o užoj suradnji Google-a i novina dočekana je s interesom medijske industrije budući da se uloga Google News servisa u novinskim krugovima često spominje kao jedan od finansijski štetnih faktora za novine.
|Google namjerava intenzivirati svoju saradnju s američkim novinskim kućama, a razmatraju se i novčane investicije...
153|1242605580|dynamic|SARPA SALPA: RIBA KAO LSD|
U britanskim vodama pronađena je neobična vrsta ribe koja, kako je ustanovljeno, izaziva halucinacije slične onima koje potiče LSD.
Riba Sarpa salpa inače obitava u vodama Mediterana i Južne Afrike, ali kako tvrdi ribar Andy Giles, on ju je ulovio u blizini mjesta Polperro, Cornwall, i veoma se iznenadio.
Giles je ribu sa zlatnim prugama uhvatio i fotografisao, te poslije istraživanja pronašao da je riječ o Sarpa salpi.
Ova vrsta karakteristična je za tople vode, a onome ko je pojede može prouzrokovati halucinacije.
Zanimljiva vrsta u britanskim vodama dosad je viđena već tri puta. Eksperti vjeruju da je uzrok tome globalno zagrijavanje.
U mediteranskim restoranima ova riba se redovno služi, ali halucinacije koje može proizvesti ponekad traju i više dana.
"Da sam znao da je halucinogena, možda bih odnio da je prodam u nekom klubu", kaže Giles za Daily Mail.
Ipak, da nije sve tako bezazleno pokazuju i dva smrtna slučaja iz 2006. godine kada su od posljedica halucinacija i noćnih mora, nekoliko dana nakon kobnog obroka pojedenog na jugu Francuske, dva muškarca preminula.
|U britanskim vodama pronađena je neobična vrsta ribe koja, kako je ustanovljeno, izaziva halucinacije slične onima koje potiče LSD...
152|1242519420|dynamic|ZRAK BARCELONE I MADRIDA SE KUPA U OPIJATIMA|
Španski gradovi su zagađeni kao i većina drugih ali istraživanja pokazuju kako zrak u Madridu i Barceloni sadrži i kokain.
Vladin ured za naučna istraživanja saopštava kako u zraku ima i tragova amfetamina, opijata, kanabisa i LSD kiseline.
Istraživan je i zrak u područjima grada koja nisu poznata po konzumaciji droga.
"Ni da živimo hiljadu godina ne možemo udahnuti ekvivalent dozi kokaina potrebnoj da nas obuzme" - rekao je Miren Lopez de Alda, jedan od članova istraživačkog tima.
|Španski gradovi su zagađeni kao i većina drugih ali istraživanja pokazuju kako zrak u Madridu i Barceloni sadrži i kokain...
151|1242432600|dynamic|COCA-COLA U BILJNIM BOCAMA|
U vrijeme kad je briga za okoliš ne samo popularna, nego i prijeko potrebna, tvrtka Coca-Cola je najavila proizvodnju nove ambalaže za svoja popularna pića koja će se točiti u barem djelomično ekološki prihvatljive boce.
U sastavu nove boce, naime, bit će šećerna trska i sirup. Ova će boca zasigurno predstavljati revoluciju u proizvodnji ekološki prihvatljive ambalaže.
Coca-Cola će nove boce testirati najprije u Sjevernoj Americi, a u njima će nuditi vodu Dasani, te kasnije ove godine i neka gazirana pića. Iduće će godine testiranje proširiti i na točenje vitaminskih voda.
U sastavu nove "biljne boce" bit će do 30 posto biorazgradivog materijala koji se dobiva od šećerne trske i šećernog sirupa, koji ostaju nakon proizvodnje šećera, kažu u ovoj tvrtki.
U novije vrijeme mnogi proizvođači hrane i pića žele proizvesti što manja i ekološki prihvatljiva pakiranja za svoje proizvode.
Konkurentske tvrtke, PepsiCo Inc. i Nestle, uvele su kao novost lakše boce za koje koriste manje plastike.
|U vrijeme kad je briga za okoliš ne samo popularna, nego i prijeko potrebna, tvrtka Coca-Cola je najavila proizvodnju nove ambalaže za svoja popularna pića koja će se točiti u barem djelomično ekološki prihvatljive boce...
150|1242347640|dynamic|U FRANCUSKOJ USVOJEN ZAKON O PIRATERIJI NA INTERNETU|
Donji dom francuskog parlamenta odobrio je danas zakon protiv piraterije na internetu koji vlastima omogućava da prate nelegalno "skidanje muzike i filmova" sa svjetske mreže te da isključuje prestupnike koji ponove prekršaj.
Analitičari navode da današnje pozitivno glasanje u parlamentu predstavlja pobjedu predsjednika Nikolas Sarkozyja koji je zastupao usvajanje ovog zakona.
Vjeruje se da je Sarkozyjeva supruga Carla Bruni vršila pritisak za usvajanje zakona, koji štiti prihode od nosača zvuka, muzičkih i filmskih kompanija.
Tokom proteklog mjeseca nije uspio prvi pokušaj za usvajanje ovog zakona pošto se u parlamentu pojavilo samo nekoliko članova Sarkozyjeve stranke UMP, što je omogućilo opoziciji da pobijedi na glasanju.
Međutim, to večeras nije bio slučaj pošto je za bilo 296, a protiv 233 poslanika.
Očekuje se da će zakon sutra dobiti i posljednje odobrenje u Gornjem domu parlamenta, ali njegovo uvođenje u statutne knjige najvjerovatnije će biti odloženo najmanje za mjesec dana, dok protivnici najavljuju da će se obratiti najvišem sudu u Francuskoj.
Prema zakonu, korisnici će za prva dva prekršaja dobiti e-mail sa upozorenjem, potom slijedi pismo nakon čega će im u slučaju novog nelegalnog skidanja sa interneta biti ukinuta konekcija.
Muzičke kompanije, filmski distributeri i umjetnici, koji podsjećaju da je u Francuskoj u posljednjih šest godina za 60 odsto opala prodaja CD i DVD diskova, skoro jednoglasno podržavaju zakon ističući da je to odlučni korak ka eliminaciji "online piraterije i da treba da služi za primjer drugim vladama".
Međutim neki francuski aktivisti i poslanici iz parlamenta smatraju da zakon predstavlja "upad Velikog brata u građanske slobode". Protivnici zakona u francuskoj Skupštini nazivaju ga "slobodocidom".
Evropski parlament je u martu usvojio neobavezujuću rezoluciju u kojoj je pristup internetu definisan kao "fundamentalna sloboda".
|Donji dom francuskog parlamenta odobrio je danas zakon protiv piraterije na internetu koji vlastima omogućava da prate nelegalno "skidanje muzike i filmova" sa svjetske mreže te da isključuje prestupnike koji ponove prekršaj...
149|1242260640|dynamic|NAJSRETNIJI LJUDI ŽIVE U SJEVERNOJ EVROPI|
Najsretniji ljudi na svijetu žive u zemljama sjeverne Evrope, rezultati su istraživanja Organizacije za ekonomsku saradnju i razvoj sa sjedištem u Parizu.
Na prvom mjestu je Danska, slijede je Finska i Holandija, a među prvih 10 su i Novi Zeland, Kanada, Švajcarska i Belgija. Istraživanje, koje je urađeno na osnovu ankete agencije "Galup" u 140 zemalja širom svijeta, baziralo se na pitanjima o ličnom osjećaju pojedinaca prema sreći u svom životu, odnosno da li njihovim životima dominiraju pozitivna ili negativna osjećanja. Sajmon Čepl, ekonomista pri OECD, smatra da je razlog "sreće" zemalja sjeverne Evrope opšti ekonomski prosperitet.
Dok globalna ekonomska kriza "uzima danak" u sakoj državi neke zemlje sjeverne Evrope i dalje uživaju najviši bruto društveni proizvod (BDP) po glavi stanovnika. Danska nije samo bogata zemlja već je i visoko produktivna sa BDP 2009. godine od 68.000 dolara.
Međutim, samo bogatstvo ne znači visok stepen osjećaja sreće, jer Norveška, koja na ovoj listi ima najveći BDP po glavi stanovnika od 98.822 dolara na devetom je mjestu, a ne na prvom. Sa druge strane, na Novom Zelandu, koji je ušao među prvih 10 "sretnih" zemalja, BDP iznosi samo 30.556 dolara. Istraživanje je potvrdilo da ljudi vremenom postaju finansijski bogatiji, ali ne i sretniji. Ono što čini sreću je porodično i društveno okruženje.
Ravnoteža između posla i života je takođe važan faktor. Dok se skandinavske zemlje hvale visokim bruto društvenim proizvodom po glavi stanovnika prosječna radna sedmica u tom dijelu svijeta ne iznosi više od 37 sati. U Kini, koja je na skali od 100 bodova dobila samo 14,8, radi se 47 sati nedjeljno, a BDP po glavni stanovnika je 3.600 dolara.
Sreći doprinosi i niska stopa nezaposlenosti, koja u Danskoj iznosi samo dva odsto, Norveškoj 2,6, Holandiji 4,5 posto. Prema ekonomskim analitičarima, stopa nezaposlenosti od četiri posto odražava stabilnu privredu. U ovom istraživanju ispitanicima su postavljana pitanja kao što su - da li ste ponosni na nešto što ste uradili juče, da li ste nešto juče naučili, da li ste u nečemu uživali i da li su se prema vama odnosili sa poštovanjem. Istraživanje je u svakoj zemlji obuhvatilo više od 1 000 ljudi, a rezultati su bodovani na skali od 1 do 100.
|Najsretniji ljudi na svijetu žive u zemljama sjeverne Evrope, rezultati su istraživanja Organizacije za ekonomsku saradnju i razvoj sa sjedištem u Parizu...
148|1242174240|dynamic|ABBA NAKON 15 GODINA SPREMA NOVE PJESME /video|
Članovi nekadašnjeg legendarnog švedskog pop kvarteta ABBA Beni Anderson i Bjorn Ulveus su objavili nove pjesme nakon više od 15 godina.
Pjesma "2nd Best To None" je snimilo osobljeu Andersonovog hotela u Stokholmu.
"Dobro smo se zabavljali radeći na ovom singlu. Oni znaju pjevati.", rekao je Anderson.
Druga pjesma, "Story of A Heart" će se pojaviti na prvom albumu njegovog trenutnog benda. Sve pjesme na albumu su na engleskom jeziku.
Anderson i Ulveus su se proslavili sa grupom ABBA sedamdesetih i osamdesetih godina. Nastavili su zajednički rad i nakon raspuštanja grupe.
Anderson ističe kako je njihova poslednja saradnja bila na pjesmi za album pevačice Džozefine Nilson početkom devedesetih.
"Nismo dugo napisali nijednu pop pesmu. Drago mi je što mogu objaviti muziku na kojoj sam radio posljednjih deset godina", rekao je dodajući kako nove pjesme imaju etno prizvuk.
video: 2nd Best To None
|Članovi nekadašnjeg legendarnog švedskog pop kvarteta ABBA Beni Anderson i Bjorn Ulveus su objavili nove pjesme nakon više od 15 godina...
147|1242089460|dynamic|NAJBOLJI POSAO NA SVIJETU DOBIO BRITANAC|
Posao čuvara australijskog tropskog ostrva, u trajanju od šest mjeseci, je pripao Britancu Ben Sautholu.
Tridesetčetvorogodišnji Sauthol, humanitarac iz Petersfilda u Hempširu, je "pobjedio" među 35'000 prijavljenih kandidata za ovaj posao.
Izabran je među 16 finalista koji su se takmičili kako bi za 150'000 australijskih dolara polugodišnje plate živio i izvještavao sa ostrva Hamilton na kvinslendskom Velikom koralnom grebenu.
Ben Sauthol će uskoro početi intenzivne pripreme za usamljenički život na ovom fantastičnom ostrvu.
Osim plate, posao čuvara ostrva Hamilton će mu pružiti trosobnu kuću na plaži, bazen i teren za golf. U opisu posla se od njega zahtjeva istraživanje ostrva i Velikog koralnog grebena, plivanje, ronjenje, prijateljevanje sa lokalnim stanovništvom i sveukupno uživanje u tropskoj klimi i načinu života.
Kako bi obavio zadatak, od Sauthola se očekuje podnošenje izveštaja putem blogova, foto i video dnevnika i intervjua.
Internet korisnici su zvanični sajt ovog poslovnog oglasa pogledali iz skoro svake zemlje svijeta, osim Sjeverne Koreje i par afričkih država, a prijave su stigle iz preko 200 zemalja.
|Posao čuvara australijskog tropskog ostrva, u trajanju od šest mjeseci, je pripao Britancu Ben Sautholu...
146|1242002460|dynamic|TURISTI VRATILI KOLOSEUM NAKON 25 GODINA|
Američki turisti koji su prije 25 godina odlomili komadić Koloseuma u Rimu uz izvinjenje su ga i vratili Vječnom gradu.
Komad kamena veličine šake je poštom poslan u Italiju iz Kalifornije. Uz pošiljku je stajala i poruka: "Trebali smo ovo uraditi i ranije".
Rimski arheolozi su prihvatili izvinjenje američkog para, a lokalni turistički službenik ih je pozvao da ponovo posjete italijansku prijestonicu.
"Svaki put kada bih pregledao svoju kolekciju suvenira, osjećao bih krivicu zbog tog komadića. Palo mi je na pamet kako, ukoliko svaki posjetilac uzme po jedan komad tog predivnog spomenika, ništa ne bi ostalo. To je bio sebičan i nepromišljen čin", navodi se u poruci američkih turista.
|Američki turisti koji su prije 25 godina odlomili komadić Koloseuma u Rimu uz izvinjenje su ga i vratili Vječnom gradu...
145|1241943900|dynamic|SURFANJE PO AKTIVNOM VULKANU|
Grupa adrenalinskih ovisnika iz Nikaragve je razvila novi ekstremni sport po imenu "volcano boarding", u kojem se učesnici takmiče spuštanjem niz padine aktivnih vulkana brzinom i do 70 kilometara na sat.
Obučeni u zaštitna odela, sa štitnicima za koljena i šljemovima na glavi, surferi se od podnožja nikaragvanske planine Cerro Negro penju 726 metara ka vrhu kako bi se spustili niz padinu vulkana na posebno konstruisanim daskama.
Cerro Negro je najmlađi vulkan u centralnoj Americi, aktivan od aprila 1850. godine i jedan je od najaktivnijih vulkana u Nikaragvi, a poslednja erupcija se desila 1999. godine.
Filip Sautan, vlasnik "Bigfoot" hostela i turističke agencije koja je razvila ovaj ekstremni sport, tvrdi kako su preduzete sve sigurnosne mjere za takmičare.
"Vulkan je vrlo aktivan, ali najveći rizik je zadobijanje povreda i ogrebotina u slučaju pada. Mi nudimo obilazak vulkana zainteresovanima. Turistima nudimo da iskuse ruralni život Nikaragve. Moguće je planinariti i šetati po aktivnom vulkanu i naravno doživjeti visok nivo adrenalina dok se takmičari spuštaju niz vulkan.", kaže Sautan.
Obilazak vulkana se nalazi u ponudi tek četiri godine, a "volcano bording" je već privukao više od 10'000 zainteresovanih.
|Grupa adrenalinskih ovisnika iz Nikaragve je razvila novi ekstremni sport po imenu "volcano boarding", u kojem se učesnici takmiče spuštanjem niz padine aktivnih vulkana brzinom i do 70 kilometara na sat...
144|1241829720|dynamic|POLA ČAŠE VINA DNEVNO PRODUŽAVA ŽIVOT|
Konzumiranjem male količine vina, od oko pola čaše dnevno, tokom dužeg perioda, može se značajno produžiti život, tvrde holandski stručnjaci sa Univerziteta Vageningen.
Povremenim praćenjem 1373 muškarca tokom četiri decenije - između 1960. i 2000. godine - ustanovljeno je da umjereno ali stalno konzumiranje vina produžava očekivani životni vijek za gotovo pet godina.
Tokom četiri decenije, od 1373 ispitanika je umrlo njih 1130, a prosječna starost im je bila 77 godina.
"Povoljno dejstvo vina je nezavisno od ukupnog konzumiranja drugih vrsta alkohola, kao i od socijalno-ekonomskog statusa, načina ishrane i drugih životnih navika.", ističe dr Martinet Strepel.
Utvrđeno je da dugoročno svakodnevno uzimanje dva grama alkohola koji potiče od vina produžava život muškaraca za 2,5 godina u odnosu na one koji redovno piju pivo ili žestoka pića, a za 4,7 godina u odnosu na trezvenjake.
Ranije studije su pokazale da konzumiranje alkohola, bez obzira na vrstu pića smanjuje mortalitet. Uzimanje do 20 grama alkohola dnevno produžava život muškarca za 2,3 godine, a preko 20 grama za 1,9 godinu u odnosu na ljude koji uopšte ne piju.
Inače, 70% vina koje su konzumirali učesnici holandske studije je bilo crno vino.
|Konzumiranjem male količine vina, od oko pola čaše dnevno, tokom dužeg perioda, može se značajno produžiti život, tvrde holandski stručnjaci...
143|1241779680|dynamic|TWITTER NIJE NA PRODAJU|
Nakon glasina koje su kružile netom u protekloj sedmici o mogućoj prodaji mikrobloggerskog servisa i mreže Twitter, Googleu, Microsoftu ili Appleu, jedan od osnivača kompanije Biz Stone izjavio je jučer da servis "nije na prodaju".
Prilikom gostovanja u show "The View" na televiziji ABC, na pitanje voditeljice Barbare Walters o glasinama da se Twitter prodaje, Stone je jasno odgovorio "Ne".
"Mi smo tek na početku. Kompanija je stara samo dvije godine i imamo mnogo toga da uradimo, mnogo toga treba popraviti, te dalje razvijati servis."
O kupovini Twittera intenzivno se špekulira od prošle godine, kada je kompanija odbila ponudu Facebooka od 500 miliona dolara.
|Nakon glasina koje su kružile netom u protekloj sedmici o mogućoj prodaji mikrobloggerskog servisa i mreže Twitter, Googleu, Microsoftu ili Appleu, jedan od osnivača kompanije Biz Stone izjavio je jučer da servis "nije na prodaju"...
142|1241656200|dynamic|YOUTUBE: POROĐAJ UZ POMOĆ INTERNETA|
Mark Stivens, inženjer iz Cornvola, je porodio svoju suprugu nakon što je pregledao video snimak sa instrukcijama na najpopularnijem svjetskom video servisu "YouTube".
Stivens je pogledao video snimak kao mjeru predostrožnosti, nakon što je njegova supruga počela osjećati bolove.
Porođaj je trajao četiri sata, prije nego su ambulantna kola stigla do njihovog doma.
"Na Google sam pronašao uputstva za porođaj, pogledao nekoliko video snimaka i odradio posao", rekao je Stivens.
Supruga Džo kaže kako su planirali porođaj kod kuće, ali ne na ovaj način.
"Probudila sam se i shvatila da imam kontrakcije svakih pet minuta. Potom sam probudila Marka i nazvali smo babicu, ali su u bolnici bili zauzeti pa nisu mogli doći. Rekli su nam da zovemo hitnu pomoć, ali je porođaj počeo prije nego su oni stigli".
Nekoliko sati ranije, Mark Stivens je čitao o porođaju i postupcima u slučaju da se desi nešto neočekivano.
"Video snimci su me umirili. Mislim da bih se svakako snašao, ali gledanje je sve to dosta olakšalo.", dodao je srećni otac, dodajući kako nije bio u panici.
|Mark Stivens, inženjer iz Cornvola, je porodio svoju suprugu nakon što je pregledao video snimak sa instrukcijama na najpopularnijem svjetskom video servisu "YouTube"...
141|1241568900|dynamic|PUŠENJE PO NAREĐENJU DRŽAVE|
Zvaničnicima seoske kineske oblasti Gongang u centralnoj provinciji Hubei je naređeno da puše cigarete lokalne proizvodnje kako bi se povećao prihod od poreza.
Kako objavljuje lokalni dnevnik "Čutian", od zvaničnika se očekuje da popuše preko 230'000 "šteka" lokalnih cigareta godišnje. Oblasti čiji članovi puše cigarete proizvedene izvan njihovog regiona će biti novčano kažnjena.
Vlada Gonganga ističe kako je odluka donijeta sa ciljem da se stane na put falsifikovanju cigareta i švercu, ali da se od daljeg sprovođenja odustalo nakon napisa u "Čutianu".
Vlada će i dalje pratiti pušačko ponašnje svojih zaposlenih kako bi se uočilo da li neko puši falsifikovane cigarete.
Pušenje je duboko ukorenjeno u Kini, najvećem tržištu duhana na svijetu, gdje se proda oko 2'000 milijarde cigareta godišnje.
Prodaja duhana je, kao najveći prihod države, donijela 61 milijardu dolara u prvih 11 mjeseci prošle godine, 18% više nego 2007. godine.
|Zvaničnicima seoske kineske oblasti Gongang u centralnoj provinciji Hubei je naređeno da puše cigarete lokalne proizvodnje kako bi se povećao prihod od poreza...
140|1241483580|dynamic| U BEČU SE NAJKVALITETNIJE ŽIVI|
Prijestolnica Austrije, Beč, je grad s najvećim kvalitetom života u svijetu, pokazala je godišnja studija konsalting firme "Merser", koja je obuhvatila 215 svjetskih metropola.
Prošle godine Beč je bio na drugom mjestu, iza Ciriha.
Glavni grad Austrije dospio na sam vrh rang liste prije svega zbog stabilne političke situacije, kao i činjenice da proteklih deset godina nije bio meta terorističkih napada, ističe "Merser".
Prema ovoj rang listi sada se Cirih našao na drugoj poziciji.
Tokom izrade studije uzeta su u obzir 39 kriterijuma, koji su obuhvatili socijalnu i ekonomsku, kao i ekološku situaciju te ličnu sigurnost i mogućnost obrazovanja i saobraćaja.
Na rang listi s ukupno 108,6 poena austrijska prijestolnica je prva, slijede Cirih-108, Ženeva 107,9 , Vankuver (Kanada) i Okland (Novi Zeland) po 107,4 bodova.
Grad najnižeg kvaliteta života je, prema studiji, kao i 2008. godine, Bagdad, koji je dobio svega 14,4 poena.
Posebno je međutim vrijednovana katergorija infrastrukture, po čemu se Beč našao na 18. mjestu. Prva tri mjesta pripala su Singapuru, Minhenu i Kopenhagenu.
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Prijestolnica Austrije, Beč, je grad s najvećim kvalitetom života u svijetu, pokazala je godišnja studija konsalting firme "Merser", koja je obuhvatila 215 svjetskih metropola...
139|1241436000|dynamic|PORNOSTRANICE NAJTRAŽENIJI SADRŽAJ NA INTERNETU|
Prosječan tinejdžer provede na internetu sat i 40 minuta sedmično tražeći pornografiju što iznosi približno 87 sati godišnje. Čini vam se puno ili malo?
Sat i 35 minuta potrebno im je za čeprkanje po sadržajima vezanim za mršavljenje i dijete.
U studiji u kojoj je sudjelovalo 1000 tinejdžera saznalo se da prosječan tinejdžer na internetu proživi približno 31 sat tjedno. Većinom ih zanima meka pornografija, plastična kirurgija, dijete, osnivanje obitelji i emocionalna potpora.
Sat i 8 minuta posvećuju stranicama sa savjetima o plastičnim operacijama, povećanju grudi, liposukciji i kolagenskim usadcima. Istraživanje je izvršilo poduzeće CyberSentinel, koje zastupa programsku opremu koja omogućava roditeljima da prate upotrebu interneta kod svoje djece, te da bokiraju određene stranice.
Ellie Pudd, direktorica prodaje rekla je: ‘Istraživanje ukazuje na alarmantnu činjenicu da tinejdžeri istražuju različite teme zbog pritiska modernog društva.’
Istraživanje je pokazalo i da tinejdžeri traže mnoge informacije o kontracepciji, trudnoći, spolnosti i mršavljenju. ‘Iz nekog razloga lakše im je čeprkati po internetu nego pitati mamu ili oca za savjet. Upotreba interneta za istraživanje o onome o čemu teško možemo razgovarati je dobra, ali roditelji moraju postaviti granice kako bi zaštitili svoju djecu od neprimjerenih sadržaja’, tvrdi Pudd.
Istraživanje je potvrdilo da tinejdžeri barem 3 sata i deset minuta tjedno traže teme koje im pomažu pri domaćoj zadaći, sat i 40 minuta za ‘prženje’ ili slušanje glazbe. Daljnja dva sata su tinejdžeri visili na portalu YouTube, sat i 22 minute su čeprkali po stranicama sa zdravstvenim i poučnim sadržajima, o bolestima, pubertetu i sličnome.
Brbljaonice, forumi, MSN i Facebook igraju važnu ulogu u životu tinejdžera i za njih im je potrebno približno 9 sati i 40 minuta tjedno, tijekom kojih upoznaju nove prijatelje i brbljaju.
Cyber stražar je program koji omogućava roditeljima prilično dobar nadzor nad onime što djeca rade na internetu. Djeluje li i koliko spretno mora biti dijete da bi ga zaobišlo, drugo je pitanje.
Moramo znati da tinejdžere zanimaju ‘neprimjereni sadržaji’, a osim toga kada su u opticaju do njega će doći ako ih želi vidjeti, ovako ili onako. Što dijete radi za računalom možete jednostavno provjeriti jednostavnim klikanjem na pohranjenu povijest posjećenih internet stranica.
Iako teško možemo ocijeniti dugoročan utjecaj interneta i ‘neprimjernog’ sadržaja kome tinejdžer može biti izložen. Što više šteti djetetu - da ništa ne zna o spolnosti ili da vidi kako se seksaju dva brazilska transseksualca.
Možda se čini da će dijete doživjeti pravu traumu iako zagovornici nadzora dosta pretjeruju. Ovu izjavu mogu ovdje uvrstiti samo zato što ne postoji niti jedno vjerodostojno istraživanje koji bi mjerilo te utjecaje. Potreban nam je Cyber sentinel program, kako bismo osigurali našu djecu ili možemo izabrati drugu metodu. Tinejdžeru pokažemo sve i kažemo mu ovakav je svijet, ovakvi su ljudi, hoćeš li gubiti vrijeme na to ili ćeš nešto napraviti od sebe? Svako kako želi.
|Prosječan tinejdžer provede na internetu sat i 40 minuta sedmično tražeći pornografiju što iznosi približno 87 sati godišnje. Čini vam se puno ili malo?...
137|1241349120|dynamic|UNSKA REGATA OD 20. do 25. JULA 2009 GODINE|
Unska regata od ove će godine nositi epitet internacionalna ne samo zbog brojnih učesnika iz inozemstva nego i stoga što će biti realizirana zajedničkim snagama Bosne i Hercegovine i Hrvatske.
Unska regata se do sada već dva puta vozila do Kostajnice. Organizatori se nadaju da će ova ideja prerasti u tradiciju.
Načelnici ovih općina potpisali su protokol o saradnji radi zajedničke organizacije i promoviranja Unske regate koja će pomoći turistički razvoj graničnih područja obje države.
|Unska regata od ove će godine nositi epitet internacionalna ne samo zbog brojnih učesnika iz inozemstva nego i stoga što će biti realizirana zajedničkim snagama Bosne i Hercegovine i Hrvatske...
138|1241262900|dynamic|NAJMLAĐA ČLANICA MENSA IMA SAMO DVIJE GODINE|
Dvogodišnja Britanka Elise Tan-Roberts postala je najmlađa članica Mense s koeficijent inteligencije 156.
Mala Elise Tan-Roberts s pet mjeseci izgovorila je prve riječi izgovorivši ocu "dada".Prohodala je tri mjeseca kasnije, a trčala je već s deset mjeseci.
Prije svog prvog rođendana mogla je pročitati svoje ime, a sa 16 mjeseci brojala je do 10. Danas u dobi od dvije godine zna brojati do 10 i na španjolskom, piše britanski Telegraph.
Roditelji su malenu Elisu prošli mjesec odveli poznatoj psihologinji Joan Freeman specijaliziranoj za obrazovanje. Nakon što je Elise ispunila 45-minutni IQ test, profesorica Freeman zaključila je da je Elise ne samo jako bistra i sposobna, već i – natprosječno nadarena.
Osobe s IQ-om većim od 148, što je gornjih dva posto, mogu se učlaniti u Mensu, prosječan IQ je 100. Roditelji žele da Elise nastaviti učiti naprednijim načinom.
"Ne želimo je zaglupiti i zaustaviti njezin napredak samo zato da bi se uklopila. No ona je još uvijek moja beba. Samo želim da bude sretna i da uživa u svemu", rekao je 34-godišnji otac nadarene dvogodišnjakinje.
|Dvogodišnja Britanka Elise Tan-Roberts postala je najmlađa članica Mense s koeficijent inteligencije 156...
136|1241172000|dynamic|POSJETITE DALMACIJU PRIJE NEGO POTONE|
Klimatske promjene mogle bi izbrisati neke najpoznatije svjetske turističke destinacije.
Među njima se, prema predviđanjima Yahoo Travela, našla i Hrvatska i to čak na drugom mjestu. Predviđa se da će do 2050. ostati bez 100 kvadratnih kilometara obale.
Dalmatinska obala, s pitoresknim bijelim plažama, postala je iznimno popularna prije desetak godina. Od 1999. godine, kada ju je posjećivalo pet milijuna ljudi godišnje, broj turista koji posjećuju Hrvatsku porastao je na 11 milijuna ljudi godišnje, piše Yahoo Travel.
Ali sve bi se to moglo promijeniti, jer prema okvirnoj UN-ovoj analizi Izvješća o društvenom razvoju Hrvatske, ukupna površina morem prekrivenog kopna do 2050. iznosila bi preko 100 kvadratnih kilometara, ako bi razina mora porasla do 50 cm, odnosno preko 112 milijuna kvadratnih metara uz porast mora od 88 cm.
Na prvom su mjestu Maldivi u Indijskom oceanu koji se nalaze na niti jedan metar nadmorske visine, a znanstvenici se boje da bi mogli biti potpuno potopljeni do 2050. godine. Tako da ni 63 milijuna dolara vrijedna brana koja je izgrađena 1990-ih nije riješila problem. Trenutačno su u tijeku pregovori da se presele svi tamošnji stanovnici, konkretnije 386.000 ljudi u Šri Lanku, Australiju ili Indiju. To će biti kraj turističkoj industriji na Maldivima koje godišnje posjeti više od pola milijuna ljudi, a ono je izvor 30 posto BDP-a Republike Maldivi.
Ostala ugrožena područja su: australski Great Barrier Reef, Kilimanjaro, Alpe na području Švicarske te Galapagos.
| Klimatske promjene mogle bi izbrisati neke najpoznatije svjetske turističke destinacije. Među njima se, prema predviđanjima Yahoo Travela, našla i Hrvatska i to čak na drugom mjestu. Predviđa se da će do 2050. ostati bez 100 kvadratnih kilometara obale...
135|1241051940|dynamic|ADAMSKI: 20 GODINA POSLIJE /video|
Adamski su reciklirali, ponovno obradili i snimili svoj klasik, album Liveanddirect povodom 20. godina od objavljivanja ovog albuma.
Prije 20 godina Adamski su se proslavili stvaranjem jedinstvenih hybrid-live instrumentala, techno, house i electro zvuka, koji su predstavili u svim najvažnijim klubovima tog vremena. Stvorili su dance kulturu kakvu danas poznajemo.
Na recikliranom izdanju je i verzija njihovog velikog hita Killer, te bezvremenske himne One Of The People iz 1999. godine.
Nova verzija albuma će ugledati svjetlo dana ovog ljeta pod okriljem svih važnijih diskografskih kuća u Njemačkoj.
Trenutno se nalaze na turneji.
|Adamski su reciklirali, ponovno obradili i snimili svoj klasik, album Liveanddirect za 20. godišnjicu objavljivanja albuma...
134|1240992060|dynamic|NOVI ALBUM KULTUR SHOCK: INTEGRATION /video|
Sjajni Kultur Shock je priveo kraju snimanje novog studijskog albuma. Album, pod nazivom Integration sadrži jedanaest novih pjesama: King, Build a Wall, Guerilla, Balcchanalia, Country Mohammed, Holy Day, Rose, Lazy, Agribusiness, Gore Gore, Words.
Album je snimao Jack Endino u sijetlskom studiju "Soundhouse", a dodatna obrada je rađena od strane Rick LeDeuxa i Geoff Otta u London Bridge studijima. Mastering potpisuje John Cuniberti iz Digital Therapy Lab, Oakland, Kalifornija, za "mikserom" sjedio Jack Endino, koji je zajedno sa bendom i producirao album.
Abum izlazi 23. juna, pred sami početak festivalske turneje Kultur Shocka po Evropi, tokom koje će svirati i nekoliko nastupa na našim prostorima, čije datume i lokacije ćemo objaviti čim budu dostupni.
Neke od novih pjesama već možete čuti na myspace.com/kulturshock, a mi Vam donosimo i prvi video singl sa novog albuma...
|Sjajni Kultur Shock je priveo kraju snimanje novog studijskog albuma. Album, pod nazivom Integration sadrži jedanaest novih pjesama...
133|1240879260|dynamic|POMOZIMO ENI FERIZ!|
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|Pomozimo roditeljima čija je kćerka bolesna, a nemaju mogućnost finansirati neophodan operativni zahvat koji je moguće obaviti samo u nekim od evropskih klinika...
132|1240864560|dynamic|DANAS ZAVRŠAVA SNIMANJE FILMA \"JASMINA\"|
U Sarajevu će danas biti snimljena posljednja klapa dugometražnog igranog filma "Jasmina".
Scenario i režiju u ovom filmu potpisuje Nedžad Begović, dok su uloge povjerene odličnim Zijahu Sokoloviću, Nadi Đurevskoj, Aleksandaru Seksanu, Zlatanu Zuhriću, Iliji Zovki, Amini Begović, Medihi Musliović i mladoj Amili Đikoli, te Mirvadu Kuriću, Minki Muftić, Tatjani Šojić, Edhemu Husiću i Emiru Fejziću.
Film Jasmina je priča o nani Safi i njenoj unuci Jasmini, koje 1993. godine izlaze iz opkoljenog Sarajeva i odlaze u gradić na Jadranu, u kojem im komšija Stipe pravi svakodnevne probleme. U jednom od svojih napada astme, nemajući izbora, nana pozvoni "najgorem čovjeku na svijetu" na vrata i daje mu bebu na čuvanje.
Film je sniman u rekordnom vremenu u Kaštelu Starom, u Hrvaskoj, i Sarajevu.
|U Sarajevu će danas biti snimljena posljednja klapa dugometražnog igranog filma "Jasmina"...
131|1240738800|dynamic|ČERNOBIL: 23 GODINE POSLIJE|
Danas se navršava 23 godine od najstrašnije mirnodopske nuklearne katastrofe u historiji čovječanstva koja se dogodila u atomskoj elektrani u ukrajinskom Černobilu.
26. aprila 1986. godine havarija na nuklearnom reaktoru broj 4 u černobilskoj atomskoj centrali je dovela do ogromnog oslobađanja radioaktivnih supstanci. Prema procjenama ono je bilo veće i od onog nakon američke atomske bombe na Hirošimi 1945. godine.
Havarija na reaktoru je prouzrokovala radioaktivnu zagađenost oko 150'000 kvadratnih kilometara teritorije Ukrajine, Bjelorusije i Rusije. Tog 26. aprila je evakuisano skoro 100'000 ljudi iz nekoliko okolnih gradova, sela i naselja.
Ukrajinske vlasti smatraju da je tom ekološkom katastrofom pogođeno oko pet miliona ljudi, a da je direktno ozračeno skoro 5'000 naselja na teritoriji tri države.
Prema posljednjim podacima, u Ukrajini ima oko 2,6 miliona ljudi koji imaju status osoba nastradalih od černobilske katastrofe, među kojima je više od pola miliona djece. Od nastradalih koji su bili pod medicinskim nadzorim od 1987. do 2004. godine umrlo je više od pola miliona ljudi.
Negativne posljedice su osjetile i Švedska, Norveška, Poljska, Velika Britanija i druge države. Razornost nuklearne katastrofe vidi se u podatku da je 200 vrsta radioaktivnih supstanci registrovano i na udaljenosti od 1.000 kilometara od Černobilja. Mjesec dana poslije eksplozije one su zabilježene i na području čitave sjeverne hemisfere.
Havarija u Černobilju je ostavila trajne posljedice na generacije ljudi u Ukrajini i zastrašujuća je činjenica da mortalitet osoba srednjeg i starijeg doba raste jer umiru oni koji su bili ozračeni u pubertetu.
Prema zvanično objavljenim informacijama iz 1986. godine, do nesreće je došlo zbog greške operatera, a prema informaciji iz 1991. godine nesreća je nastala zbog greške u konstrukciji reaktora sovjetske proizvodnje. Među faktorima koji su doprinijeli nesreći je i neadekvatno obučeno osoblje u elektrani.
Oštećeni reaktor br. 4 prekriven je betonskim sarkofagom, a vremenom su iz proizvodnje struje isključivani i ostali reaktori. Posljednji, treći reaktor zatvoren je 2000. godine. Černobilj je tada prestao sa proizvodnjom električne energije.
|Danas se navršava 23 godine od najstrašnije mirnodopske nuklearne katastrofe u historiji čovječanstva koja se dogodila u atomskoj elektrani u ukrajinskom Černobilu...
129|1240618680|dynamic|MLIJEČNI PUT MIRIŠE NA RUM|
Astronomi koji su proučavali džinovski oblak prašine u centru Mliječnog puta su otkrili kako bi on mogao imati ukus maline i mirisati na rum.
Tragajući za amino kiselinama u svemiru, glavnim komponentama za stvaranje života, istraživači su otkrili prisustvo etil formata, hemijske supstance koja određuje okus maline.
Što se tiče mirisa etil formata, on jako podsjeća na miris ruma.
Sa Instituta za radio astronomiju "Maks Plank" u Bonu koji je učestvovao u istraživanju kažu da etil format određuje okus maline, ali da je potrebno i mnogo drugih molekula kako bi se u svemiru dobile maline.
Također je navedeno da su naučnici koji su se u ovom istraživanju služili 30 metara dugim radio teleskopom usmjerenim na džinovski oblak prašine u centru naše galaksije, identifikovali oko 50 molekula od kojih su dva potpuno nova.
Ovo otkriće je predstavljeno na "Evropskoj sedmici astronomije i svemirske nauke" koja se održava na univerzitetu u Hertfordshire.u na jugu Engleske.
|Astronomi koji su proučavali džinovski oblak prašine u centru Mliječnog puta su otkrili kako bi on mogao imati ukus maline i mirisati na rum...
128|1240534020|dynamic|BEČ DUHOVITOŠĆU POTIČE PAŽNJU PROLAZNIKA|
Glavni grad Austrije će uskoro krasiti nekoliko hiljada novih javnih kanti za smeće.
Pored već postojeće trake sa brojem komunalnog sos-telefona, sve kante će uskoro biti oblijepljene natpisima poput "Nahrani me", "Otvoreno 24 sata"...
Prema riječima Ulli Sima, načelinka uprave za okoliš u Gradskoj upravi Beča, skretanje pažnje prolaznicima treba povećati nivo čistoće u gradu.
Svi zainteresovani putem web servisa bečke Gradske uprave mogu glasati za predložene natpise, a nakon zbrajanja rezultata, deset najbolje ocjenjenih će s naći na kantama za otpatke.
U okviru akcije "Čist grad" provedene su i druge mjere, a kako bi se podigao nivo gradske čistoće.
Pored povećanja broja radnika za čak 20 %, povećan je i broj automata sa besplatnim kesicama za odlaganje psećeg izmeta. Uvedena je i brza mobilna jedinica komunalne čistoće koja broji čak 30 vozila.
|Glavni grad Austrije će uskoro krasiti nekoliko hiljada novih javnih kanti za smeće. Pored već postojeće trake sa brojem komunalnog sos-telefona, sve kante će uskoro biti oblijepljene natpisima poput "Nahrani me", "Otvoreno 24 sata"...
127|1240446780|dynamic| KINESKI ZID DALEKO DUŽI NEGO SE DO SADA MISLILO|
Naučnici koji su proveli dvogodišnje istraživanje u sklopu projekta kineske državne uprave za kulturnu baštinu tvrde kako je Kineski je zid duži nego se do sada vjerovalo.
Prema najnovijim podacima objavljenim na web stranicama državne kancelarije za kartografiju, Kineski zid, koji pripada zaštićenoj svjetskoj baštini, proteže se na 8851,8 kilometara, što je za oko 2000 kilometara duže od do sada priznatih 6300 kilometara.
Postupak je proveden savremenim tehnologijama i nakon mjerenja je utvrđeno je kako se Kineski zid sastoji od 6259,6 kilometara zidina i 357,7 kilometara kraćih ili dužih rovova, a čak 2232,5 kilometara su prirodne prepreke, planine i rijeke.
Osim što su shvatili da je zid građen tako da u njega budu uklopljene i prirodne prepreke, naučnici su otkrili i 290 novih kilometara samih zidina koje su bile zatrpani pješčanim olujama.
Veliki kineski zid, prema novim istraživanjima počinje u Hushanu u pokrajini Liaoningu i završava na prevoju Jiayuu u pokrajini Gansuu. Proteže se kroz deset pokrajina na kineskom sjeveru: Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Peking, Shanxi, Unutarnja Mongolija, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu i Qinghai. Većinom je izgrađen ili u vrijeme dinastrije Ming (1368 -1644 ) kako bi se spriječio prodor osvajača sa sjevera.
|Naučnici koji su proveli dvogodišnje istraživanje u sklopu projekta kineske državne uprave za kulturnu baštinu tvrde kako je Kineski je zid duži nego se do sada vjerovalo...
126|1240361760|dynamic| COMMODORE 64: SJEĆATE LI SE?|
Na spomen dobrog starog "komodora" svakom malo starijem geeku zadrhti ruka, pogled odluta u daljinu, a u oku se pojavi suza.
Neki u još uvijek čak imaju funkcionalne primjerke C64, ali niko se sigurno nije potrudio osposobiti svoj primjerak kako je to uradio Ben Heck.
Ova potpuno funkcionalna modifikacija sastoji se od novog prenosnog kućišta, u bež boji sa logotipom Commodore, u kojem se nalazi 15-inčni ekran, dok hardware pripada Commodore 64-ci, a pridodat je iposebni čitač memorijskih karticama koji emulira floppy disk.
Ovaj posebni laptop je nešto deblji od savremenih, ali izgleda jako dobro i savršeno radi.
|Na spomen dobrog starog "komodora" svakom malo starijem geeku zadrhti ruka, pogled odluta u daljinu, a u oku se pojavi suza...
125|1240274820|dynamic| GOOGLE NE OSJEĆA RECESIJU|
Američki online gigant Google je objavio kako su u prvom kvartalu ove godine povećali dobit za 8,9 posto, dok su im prihodi porasli za 6,2 posto.
Liderska kompanija u domeni online oglašavanja time u prva tri mjeseca ove godine bilježi dobit od 1,42 milijarde dolara, u odnosu na 1,31 milijardu u istom periodu prošle godine.
"Google je imao dobar kvartal obzirom na duboku recesiju koju proživljava svjetska ekonomija. Rezultati naglašavaju valjanost našeg poslovanja i veliki potencijal interneta kojem se sve više okreću i korisnici i oglašivači. U narednom periodu prioritet će nam i dalje biti ulaganje u dugoročne projekte kako bismo stvorili islove za daljnji rast u osnovnom kao i novim domenima poslovanja", izjavio je Eric E. Schmidt, izvršni direktor Google-a.
Međutim ni Google nije imun na otkaze, doduše minornih razmjera u odnosu na svoju veličinu. O tome govori otpuštanje 300 zaposlenih, zatvaranje neperspektivnih projekata i ukidanje povlastica za zaposlene.
|Američki online gigant Google je objavio kako su u prvom kvartalu ove godine povećali dobit za 8,9 posto, dok su im prihodi porasli za 6,2 posto...
124|1240188240|dynamic|OSNIVAČI THE PIRATE BAY-A ĆE U ZATVOR!|
Sva četiri optužena u slučaju The Pirate Bay download servisa: Peter Sunde "brokep", Fredrik Neij "TiAMO", Gottfrid Svartholm "Anakata" i Carl Lundstrom su krivi jer su, prema odluci suda radeći sa zajedničkim ciljem bili svjesni da je materijal koji se dijeli preko The Pirate Bay-a zaštićen autorskim pravima, a prekršiocima su olakšali kršenje zakona.
Prema mišljenju suda, korisnici servisa su kršili autorska prava, a četiri optužena su im pomagala u tome.
Sud se nije složio s prijedlogom tužbe za ogromnim odštetama, već je ukupno odredio kaznu od 30 miliona švedskih kruna koja je podjednako "odrezana" svakom od osuđenih.
Pored novčane kazne, svaki od njih je dobio i po godinu dana zatvora, što ne znači da će zaista u zatvor.
Očekuju se žalbe na presudu višoj sudskoj instanci, tako da sve i dalje visi u zraku.
The Pirate Bay se neće ugasiti niti prestati sa radom jer ne postoji presuda protiv servisa. Na optuženičkoj klupi su se našla četvorica optuženih, a ne i same servis.
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Sva četiri optužena u slučaju The Pirate Bay download servisa: Peter Sunde "brokep", Fredrik Neij "TiAMO", Gottfrid Svartholm "Anakata" i Carl Lundstrom su krivi jer su, prema odluci suda radeći sa zajedničkim ciljem bili svjesni da je materijal koji se dijeli preko The Pirate Bay-a zaštićen autorskim pravima, a prekršiocima su olakšali kršenje zakona...
123|1240181340|dynamic|ENCIKLOPEDIJA ENCARTA ODLAZI U ISTORIJU|
Microsoft je zvanično objavio zatvoranje online enciklopedije - Encarta.
Na ovaj korak su se, kako kažu u ovom softwareskom gigantu, odlučili radi konkurencije poput besplatne Wikipedia-e. Potpuno zatvaranje Encarta-e je najavljeno za 31. oktobar 2009. godine, osimu Japanu gdje će se zatvoranje desiti 31. decembra.
"Tradicionalne enciklopedije i slični materijali su promjenili svoj način ponude. Danas se traže i koriste informacije na sasvim drugi način nego prije nekoliko godina", saopštavaju iz Microsofta.
Encarta je jedna od prvih elektornskih enciklopedija koja je pokrenuta 1993. godine, a referentne su joj bile stranice poput Encyclopedia Britannica. U prvom navratu dostupna u CD i DVD izdanjima, vrmeenom je prešla na internet uz pretplatu. Nekada velika popularnost je zasjenjena 2001. godine, nakon pojave potpuno besplatne online enciklopedije Wikipedia.
|Microsoft je zvanično objavio zatvaranje online enciklopedije - Encarta...
122|1240083780|dynamic|PRVI KONCERT INTERNET ORKESTRA /video|
Orkestar okupljen zahvaljujući najpopularnijem svjetskom video portalu YouTube, preko kojeg su članovi održavali probe održao je zapažen koncert u njujorškom "Karnegi holu".
Zanimljivost je da se 90 muzičara iz 30 zemalja po prvi put uživo srelo samo par dana prije samog koncerta. Članovi orkestra su za ovaj koncert vježbali iz svojih domova.
"Orkestar ima dosta iskustva u sviranju instrumenata. Neki od njih su vrlo iskusni u sviranju u ansamblima kao i izvođenju orkestarske muzike, dok drugi imaju malo iskustva u nastupima", izjavio je Michael Tilson - Thomas muzički direktor Simfonije u San Francisku i voditelj orkestra.
Thomas, koji je pomagao muzičarima u pripremi koncerta, kaže da među učesnicima ima ljudi iz svih profesija. Tu su fizičari, finansijski analitičari, igrači pokera, a neki od članova su došli čak iz Australije i Južne Koreje.
"Bilo je nezamislivo da ja nastupim u "Karnegi holu", mitskom teatru u kojem sviraju samo najveći muzičari", rekao je nakon nastupa oduševljeni John Wilson Gonzales, trombonista iz Kolumbije.
Na koncertu su izvedena djela Mozarta, Bacha, Brahmsa, Lobosa, Wagnera i drugih poznatih kompozitora.
"Bio sam zapanjen tokom proba, jer sam mislio da će nam trebati mnogo više vremena da se spremimo.", izjavio je Pier Charls, čelista iz Pariza.
Ostali muzičari se nadaju da će ovaj koncert pomoći da klasična muzika dopre do šire publike, a posebno mladih ljudi.
Članovi orkestra koji su nastupili u Karnegi holu pažljivo su odabrani nakon što je na "YouTube" stiglo više od 3'000 video prijava za audiciju, u decembru 2008. i januaru 2009. godine. Pravo učešća u osnivanju orkestra je imao apsolutno svako ko se prijavio, a na kraju je izabrano 200 finalista koji su zatim prošli glasanje posjetilaca portala.
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Orkestar okupljen zahvaljujući najpopularnijem svjetskom video portalu YouTube, preko kojeg su članovi održavali probe održao je zapažen koncert u njujorškom "Karnegi holu". ..
121|1239993180|dynamic|POZITIVAN UTICAJ TMURNOG VREMENA|
Australijski naučnici su došli do otkrića kako tmurno vrijeme, iako nije dobro za raspoloženje, pozitivno utiče na mozak i pamćenje.
Psiholozi su otkrili da ljudima za tmurnog vremena mozak bolje funkcionira te da imaju bolje rezultate u testovima pamćenja čak i kad su mrzovoljni.
Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali da što je vrijeme lošije i što je osoba lošijeg raspoloženja, to mozak bolje radi, piše Telegraph. Istraživanje, koje je trajalo dva mjeseca i provedeno je u Sydneyu, predstavljeno je na Sveučilištu New South Wales.
Ispitanicima su testirali memoriju i otkrili da se tri puta bolje sjećaju informacija ako je vrijeme loše i ako se sami osjećaju loše.
Čini se da je mala doza tuge i neraspoloženja dobra stvar za mentalnu aktivnost jer nam skreće pažnju na sitnice i fokusira je na zadatke.
|Australijski naučnici su došli do otkrića kako tmurno vrijeme, iako nije dobro za raspoloženje, pozitivno utiče na mozak i pamćenje...
120|1239843000|dynamic|VELIKA JEZERA ISPOD ANTARKTIKA|
Daleko od očiju javnosti i za sad bez pretjeranog interesovanja medija, počela je dramatična trka prema tajnim, skrivenim jezerima koja se nalaze ispod Južnog pola.
Biolozi mora i geolozi tvrde kako Južni pol / Antarktik spada u najmanje istražene regione na našoj planeti, posebno kad se govori o mračnim, hladnim vodama subglacialnih jezera ispod antarktičkog leda.
Prema pisanju magazina "New Scientist" ruski istraživači su prije četiri godine počeli bušenja u cilju dopiranja do jezera Vostok, koje se nalazi na 4'000 metara ispod ledenog pokrivača istočnog Antarktika.
Sada se pojavila i konkurencija. Devet britanskih univerziteta zajedno sa britanskom Agencijom za istraživanja Antarktika te Nacionalnom okeanografski centrom su osigurali fondove za projekat bušenja kroz ledeni pokrivač zapadnog Antarktika kako bi se doprlo do jezera Elsvort na dubini od 3'000 metara ispod ledene površine.
Najintenzivnija bušenja na Antarktiku će biti realizovana u ljeto 2012. i 2013. godine.
Za razliku od Rusa, koji upotrebljavaju kerozin kako bi se spriječili zamrzavanje izbušenih rupa, Britanci će u bušenju koristiti vrelu vodu. Voda će se dobijati topljenjem leda na dubini od nekoiliko stotina metara ispod površine.
Jezerska voda će biti podvrgnuta detaljnom ispitivanju kako bi se utvrdilo da li u njoj postoje znaci bilo kakvog života. Ukoliko se potvrdi postojanje života dokazala bi se i mogućnost opstanka života u izolaciji dugoj stotinama hiljada godina.
|Daleko od očiju javnosti i za sad bez pretjeranog interesovanja medija, počela je dramatična trka prema tajnim, skrivenim jezerima koja se nalaze ispod Južnog pola...
119|1239767100|dynamic|KANADA ZATVARA AMBASADU U BIH|
Kanadska Vlada odlučila je da iduće godine zatvori ambasadu u Bosni i Hercegovini zbog ekonomskih razloga i ubuduće će područje Bosne i Hercegovine nerezidentno pokrivati iz Budimpešte.
Ministarstvo inostranih poslova Bosne i Hercegovine je prije nekoliko dana obaviješteno da će kanadske vlasti zatvoriti svoju ambasadu u Bosni i Hercegovini. Istovremeno je zatražena saglasnost od bosanskohercegovačkih vlasti da otvore počasni konzulat Kanade.
"Samo možemo sa žaljenjem konstatovati da smo dobili takav zahtjev od kanadskih vlasti. Kanada je jedna od najznačajnijih zemalja donatora i mnogo su pomogli projektima u reformi pravosuđa i zdravstva. Nadam se da će se saradnja nastaviti bez obzira na ovu odluku kanadskih vlasti jer je ona ekonomske, a ne političke prirode", Nina Sajić, savjetnica predsjedavajućeg Predsjedništva BiH Nebojše Radmanovića.
Ambasador Kanade u BiH Dejvid Hačings sastao sa šefom diplomatije BiH Svenom Alkalajem i da mu je uručio diplomatske note u vezi sa zatvaranjem diplomatsko-konzularnog predstavništva u BiH.
Osim značajne donatorske podrške iz Kanade, saradnja sa ovom državom je važna i zbog velikog broja bosanskohercegovačkih državljana živi u Kanadi.
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Kanadska Vlada odlučila je da iduće godine zatvori ambasadu u Bosni i Hercegovini zbog ekonomskih razloga i ubuduće će područje Bosne i Hercegovine nerezidentno pokrivati iz Budimpešte...
118|1239670260|dynamic|SIDDHARTA NAJAVLJUEJ NOVI SINGL! (video)|
Sjajna slovenska rock grupa Siddharta u najnovijem "Saga projektu" najavljuje novi EP, inače drugim po redu. EP je naslovljen Napalm 3.
Iz benda ističu kako ovui pjesmu ne treba gledati kao nastavak priče iz prethodnog singla "Vojna Idej" jer ona predstavlja samo uvod u cijelu priču. Pjesma je novi dio Saga zagonetke, koja će se objediniti po izdavanju svih singlova.
Napalm 3 će publici biti ekskluzivno predstavljen na siol.net/siddharta-saga 20. aprila 2009. godine, tačno u 20 sati te na svim slušaniji radio stanicama.
EP, kao i prethodni "Vojna Idej", uključuje tri verzije pjesme: original (produkcija: Siddharta i Žarko Pak), demo verzija, te remix koji je smiksao Peter Penko.
Posebna vizuelna priča o novom singlu je djelo Veto Group u saradnji sa Blažom Porentom, izuzetnim umjetnikom koji je već radio sa ovim timom na vizualizaciji "Vojna Idej"-e.
Siddharta također najavljuje novi video spot koji će usljediti po objavi singla Napalm 3, prema riječima ekipe sprema se nešto stvarno posebno. Ostaje nam da im vjerujemo jer nas, bar do sada, nikad nisu iznevjerili.
Pratite sva dešavanja, čitajte i gledajte na zvaničnoj Saga stranici.
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Sjajna slovenska rock grupa Siddharta u najnovijem "Saga projektu" najavljuje novi EP, inače drugim po redu. EP je naslovljen Napalm 3.
U doba opšte privredne krize u cijelom svijetu čini se da ipak postoje i oni koji nemaju takvih problema.
Upravo za njih je grupa Njemaca napravila portal NeedAProblem.com, koji prvi u svijetu prodaje probleme.
Ponuda je raznolika, od trivijalnih problema po cijeni od jednog dolara, do gotovo nerješivih čija cijena dostiže i do 5'000 dolara.
Princip je jednostavan: kad platite, na Vašu email adresu dobijete problem za rješavanje i ako uspijete Vaše ime će se naći u "Dvorani slavnih" na ovom portalu.
Postoji mogućnost da neki problem poklonite prijatelju ili da probleme za rješavanje sami predložite, a urednici portala će rado obogati ponudu u svom katalogu.
Autori napominju da je 1% od zarade namjenjeno dobrotvornim organizacijama.
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U doba opšte privredne krize u cijelom svijetu čini se da ipak postoje i oni koji nemaju takvih problema. Upravo za njih je grupa Njemaca napravila portal koji prvi u svijetu prodaje probleme...
116|1239410460|dynamic|OGLAŠAVAJTE SE NA KRAVATI!?|
Tudor Ciora, dvadesetšestogodipšnji Rumun iz grada Sibiu je smislio originalan način da vrati novac koji je potrošio na nedavnu svadbu.
Tudor je odlučio ponuditi oglasni prostor na svojoj kravati i u tu svrhu otvorio internet stranicu cravatamea.com na koju se mogu javiti svi koji su zainteresovani za takvu vrstu reklamiranja. Novopečeni mladoženja se nada kako će na ovaj način otplatiti troškove svoje svadbe.
Cijena oglašavanja na kravati je simbolična. Za sedmodnevnu reklamu na čvoru kravate Tudor traži 30 eura, gornji dio 20 eura, cetralni dio kravate je 15 eura, dok dno kravate možete iznajmiti za samo 10 eura.
Interesantno je i to da se već nakon par dana od objavljivanja ponude javilo dvadesetak zainteresovanih pa su sada inovativnom Tudoru porasli apetiti.
"Kako je krenulo, možda sakupim novac i za automobil!", priznaje ambiciozni Tudor.
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Tudor Ciora, dvadesetšestogodipšnji Rumun iz grada Sibiu je smislio originalan način da vrati novac koji je potrošio na nedavnu svadbu...
115|1239323460|dynamic|FACEBOOK KORISTI 200 MILIONA LJUDI|
Broj korisnika čuvene Facebook mreže je dostigao 200 miliona ljudi.
Facebook je "potrošio" četiri godine za dostizanje cifre od 100 miliona korisnika (augusta 2008. godine). Samo osam mjeseci kasnije broj korisnika se udvostručio.
Ovim je popularna društvena mreža postala lider u svojoj domeni, i daleko je ispred MySpace-a koji ima 130 miliona članova.
Mark Zuckerberg, osnivač Facebook-a ovo smatra "dobrim početkom".
KAd bi Facebook bio država našao bi se na petom mjestu u svijetu po broju "stanovnika".
Maksimalna granica broja korisnika Facebook-a se trenutno procjenjuje na 1,5 milijardi.
Prema statistikama najmanje jednom dnevno se konektuje 100 miliona ljudi među kojima 30 miliona to čini preko smartphone-a, kombinacije mobilnog telefona i džepnog računara. Dvije trećine članova "Fejsbuka" ne pohađa fakultet što je u početku bila ciljna grupa korisnika, a broj se najviše povećava među 35-godišnajcima i starijim.
U prosjeku svaki korisnik ima 120 prijatelja, a svakodnevno se postavi 850 miliona fotografija.
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Broj korisnika čuvene Facebook mreže je dostigao 200 miliona ljudi...
114|1239236640|dynamic|GOOGLE PREUZIMA TWITTER|
Američki gigant Google uskoro preuzima internet servis za razmjenu kratkih poruka - Twitter.
Govori se o transakciji vrijednoj više od 250 miliona američkih dolara.
Ovaj iznos je znatno niži od 500 miliona američkih dolara koliko je Facebook ponudio za isti servis.
Twitter raspolaže dobrim rješenjima pretraživanja u realnom vremenu, što znači da se sadržaji pojave u rezultatima pretrage čim se objave i na mreži, a pretraga se ne zasniva na statičnim bazama podataka.
Twitter omogućava korisnicima razmjenu poruka do 140 znakova i važi za jako popularan internet servis. Iako osnovan u augustu 2006. godine i ima više od šest miliona registrovanih korisnika još uvijek ne ostvaruje zapaženije prihode.
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Američki gigant Google uskoro preuzima internet servis za razmjenu kratkih poruka - Twitter...
110|1239152160|dynamic|DIREKTORIJŽENSKIH GRUPA U BiH|
Na kratkoj prezentaciji su predstavljeni i rezultati istraživanja o ženskim grupama u BiH.
Rezultate su predstavile voditeljice inicijative Taida Horozović i Jadranka Miličević.
"Jedan od glavnih rezultata istraživanja je suglasnost ženskih grupa da se konačno kreira Ženska mreža BiH, što ćemo i realizirati tokom 2009. godine.", istakla je Taida Horozović.
Cilj dugoročne inicijative „Oživljavanje ženskog pokreta u BiH“ je prikazati bh. pokret za ženska ljudska prava i osigurati informacije o radu i dostignućima ženskih grupa.
"Online direktorij će ubrzo imati i mogućnost pretrage po ključnim riječima, što će olakšati pristup traženim informacijama svim zainteresiranim osobama.", naglasila je Jadranka Miličević.
Od ukupno 99 ispitanih ženskih grupa, CURE istraživanje je ponudilo i preporuke za vladine institucije po prioritetima kako slijedi:
1. Državna strategija i budžet za ekonomsko osnaživanje žena (42 ili 42,4%), 2. Rokovi za rezultate rada državnih organa po pitanju boljeg standarda života žena u BiH (30,3% ili 30) 3. Državna strategija za veći broj žena na mjestima odlučivanja u ekonomiji i politici (24 ili 24,2%), 4. Opismenjavanje i obrazovanje ženske djece(21 ili 21,2%)
Direktorij je kreiran pod Creative Commons licencom koja omogućava prava na dalje dijeljenje i korištenje informacija u nekomercijalne svrhe.
Projekat podržala Švedska Fondacija Kvinna till Kvinna i Fond otvoreno društvo BiH.
Lansirana je online verzija Direktorija ženskih grupa u BiH koju realizira Fondacija CURE u sklopu incijative „Oživljavanje ženskog pokreta u BiH“......
113|1239116700|dynamic|OPERACIJA DISKOBAJAGI|
Poslije pet mjeseci DJinga, VJinga, plesa, gužve, dima i rješavanja problema sa električnim instalacijama, Caffe bar Opera i Diskobajagi vam donose svoj prvi kompilacijski cd.
Na ovom albumu se nalaze pjesme bendova koji predstavljaju okosnicu bosanskohercegovačke muzičke scene, a koje je samo za vaše uši renovirao DJ Branski.
Novi zvukovi već poznatih bendova i onih friških, za koje tek treba da se čuje, su spakovani i spremni za klupsku upotrebu.
Operacija Diskobajagi sadrži remixe pjesama: - Skroz “Mozak radi vazda” - Letu štuke “Paranoja” - Dubioza kolektiv “Blam” - KZU ole ole & PZU oje oje “Andergraund romanca” - Sikter “Edit Piaf III” - Starke “Supercunt (Dub-a-cunt)” - Dbau “Kuruzion”
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Poslije pet mjeseci DJinga, VJinga, plesa, gužve, dima i rješavanja problema sa električnim instalacijama, Caffe bar Opera i Diskobajagi vam donose svoj prvi kompilacijski cd...
Guano Apes je rock bend kojeg su 1994. godine u Njemačkoj osnovali Dennis Poschwatta, Stefan Ude i Henning Rümenapp, dok se pjevačica Sandra Nasić pridružila nešto kasnije iste godine.
Ubrzo nakon okupljanja pobjeđuju na lokalnom muzičkom takmičenju pjesmom "Open Your Eyes" i dobivaju novac za snimanje prvog studijskog albuma "Proud Like a God" koji izlazi 1997. godine.
Nakon toga slijede, njihov drugi studijski album "Don't Give Me Names" (2000), te "Walking on a Thin Line" (2003).
2003. godine izlazi i live album jednostavno nazvan "Live", a godinu kasnije izlazi i dvostruki album "Planet Of The Apes" (2004), koji sadrži najveće hitove grupe Guano Apes.
Nakon razlaza, 2006. godine, izlazi i posljednji do sada objavljeni album grupe pod nazivom "Lost (T)Apes", koji izdaju osnivači benda. Na ovom albumu se nalaze neobjavljene pjesme i najveći hitovi.
Bend se raspao 2005. godine. Sandra kreće u solo vode i u oktobru 2007. godine izdaje samostalni album "The Signal". Henning je odlučio raditi iza scene, a Dennis je osnovao band Tamoto u kojem pjeva i svira gitaru, dok se o Stefanu jedino zna da je učestvovao u stvaranju debitantskog albuma benda Tamoto.
2006. godine Henning, Dennis i Stefan osnovaju novi sastav "IO" i još uvijek rade na prvom albumu zbog kojeg je Dennis privremeno zamrznuo rad grupe Tamoto.
Ove godine se pričalo, a sad je konačno i potvrđeno da se bend Guano Apes ponovno okupio te da će svirati zvanični povratnički koncert na festivalu Nova Rock u Austriji u junu 2009. godine.
Potvrđeni Guano Apes nastupi u ovoj godini: 30.05.2009 Sofia - Universiada Sport Hall (BG) 05.06.2009 Rock im Park, Nürnberg (GER) 07.06.2009 Rock am Ring, Nürburgring (GER) 13.06.2009 Greenfield, Interlaken (CH) 21.06.2009 Nova Rock, Nickelsdorf (AUT) 11.07.2009 Bospop, Weert (NL) 17.07.2009 Marés Vivas Festival, Gaia Oporto (PT) 24.07.2009 Open Air Lumnezia, Vella (CH) 25.07.2009 Benátská Noc, Malá Skála (CZ) 31.07.-02.08.2009 Woodstock Festival, Kostrzyn (PL) 06.08.-08.08.2009 Szene Openair, Lustenau (AUT) 26.08.-29.08.2009 Szegedi Ifjúsági Napok, Szeged (HU)
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Guano Apes je rock bend kojeg su 1994. godine u Njemačkoj osnovali Dennis Poschwatta, Stefan Ude i Henning Rümenapp, dok se pjevačica Sandra Nasić pridružila nešto kasnije iste godine...
111|1238889660|dynamic|NOVA NAGRADA ZA \"SNIJEG\"|
XVI internacionalni Prag film festival je okončan dodjelom još jednog Grand Prixa bosanskohercegovačkom filmu "Snijeg".
Najveći značaj ove nagrade predstavlja činjenica da žiri koji dodjeljuje Grand Prix predstavlja realan presjek češke publike, jer se za žiri, sastavljen od 33 člana, mogu prijaviti svi češki državljani stariji od 15 godina.
Rediteljica Aida Begić sinoć je u Pragu prisustvovala ceremoniji zatvaranja festivala. Dok igrani film “Snijeg” putuje po festivalima, u zemljama regije se postepeno završava njegova distribucija.
Kako je iz producentske kuće “MamaFilm” saopćeno, distribucija u Hrvatskoj je završena, u Sloveniji traje, a 8. aprila započet će i distribucija u posljednjoj zemlji koprodukcije - Njemačkoj.
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XVI internacionalni Prag film festival je okončan dodjelom još jednog Grand Prixa bosanskohercegovačkom filmu "Snijeg"...
108|1238881740|dynamic|STRANI TURISTI OD SUTRA PONOVO NA TIBETU|
Kineske vlasti će od 5. aprila 2009. godine ponovo dopustiti posjete stranih turista Tibetu.
Stranim turistima od marta nije bilo omogućena posjeta ovom dijelu svijeta, a zbog bojazni vlasti od obilježavanja 50 godišna pobune Tibetanaca protiv kineske vlasti.
"Tibet je sada skladan i siguran. Putničke agencije, odmarališta i hoteli su pripremljeni za turiste. Zbog njihove sigurnosti rad na primanju gostiju bio je prekinut u ožujku", saopšili su iz turističke organizacije ovog područja.
Kineske snage sigurnosti su zatvorile većinu područja Tibeta za sve turiste i strane novinare, dok su granice bile strogo nadzirane. Bilo je onemogućeno i korištenje mobilih telefona.
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Kineske vlasti će od 5. aprila 2009. godine ponovo dopustiti posjete stranih turista Tibetu...
107|1238708760|dynamic|RASTE BROJ KORISNIKA INTERNETA U BIH|
U Bosni i Hercegovini su u 2008. godini zabilježena 336'163 internet pretplatnika.
U Izvještaju Regulatorne agencije za komunikacije se procjenjuje kako je u 2008. godini bilo 1'307'585 internet korisnika.
Istaknuto je kakostepen korištenja interneta u Bosni i Hercegovini za 2008. godinu iznosi 34%, što predstavlja povećanje za 6,75&, u odnosu na 2007. godinu.
Statistike pokazuju da je, kad je u pitanju pristup internetu, u 2008. godini, i dalje značajno bio prisutan takozvani dial-up pristup, koji čini 43,9% ukupnog broja internet pretplatnika. Drugo mjesto zauzimaju pretplatnici ADSL internet pristupa čiji se broj pretplatnika, u odnosu na 2007. godinu, povećao za tri puta, pa sada čini 31% ukupnog broja internet pretplatnika.
Regulatorna agencija za komunikacije očekuje da će dalja liberalizacija tržišta telekomunikacija i uvođenje novih tehnologija omogućiti prisutvo kvalitetnih usluga i time nastaviti pozitivna kretanja u primjeni interneta u Bosni i Hercegovini.
U našoj zemlji djeluje ukupno 66 pružalaca internet usluga od čega su 62 bila obuhvaćena u ovim statističkim podacima.
|U Bosni i Hercegovini su u 2008. godini zabilježena 336'163 internet pretplatnika...
109|1238622720|dynamic|NAJVEĆA KOMPJUTERSKA ŠPIJUNSKA MREŽA NA SVIJETU|
Izvještaj je ugledao svjetlo dana nakon desetomjesečne istrage Information Warfare Monitora iz Otave i Svešteničkog centra za međunarodne studije, Univerziteta u Torontu, oni su sproveli istragu nakon zahtjeva ljudi iz okruženja Dalaj-lame sa željom da se provjeri da li je računarska mreža koju koriste pod nadzorom.
Istraživači su došli do zaključka da se ministri inostranih poslova Bangladeša, Letonije, Indonezije, Filipina, Bruneja, Barbadosa i Butana bili meta špijunskih nadgledanja.
Takođe, hakovani su informacioni sistemi ambasada Indije, Južne Koreje, Indonezije, Rumunije, Kipra, Malte, Tajlnada, Tajvana, Portugala, Njemačke i Pakistana. Meta špijunaže bili su i izbjeglički centri Dalaj-lame u Indiji, Briselu, Londonu i Njujorku.
Istraživači su u izvještaju naveli da su hakeri bili u mogućnosti da preuzmu kontrolu nad kompjuterima ministara inostranih poslova i ambasada koristeći viruse trojance.
“Otkrili smo dokaze virusa koji su se nalazili u sistemima tibetanskih aktivista i koji su vadili povjerljive dokumente iz privatnih baza podataka ljudi iz okruženja Dalaj-lame”, rekao je istraživač Greg Valton za Associated press.
On je dodao da veruje da je špijunska mreža koju su nazvali GhostNet bila fokusirana pretežno na vlade azijskih zemalja. U ovom slučaju ubačeni softver u sistemu je čak imao mogućnost da šalje video i audio zapise iz sobe u kojoj se kompjuter nalazio, ali istraživači nisu mogli da utvrde kada je ovaj element špijunskog softvera korišćen.
New York Times tvrdi da je ova otkrivena špijunska operacija najveća u smislu broja država koje su bile pod prismotrom.
Portparol kineskog konzulata u Njujorku Venći Gao odbacio je ideju da je Kina umiješana.
„Ovo su stare priče i to su besmislice”, rekao je on Timesu.
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Izvještaj je ugledao svjetlo dana nakon desetomjesečne istrage Information Warfare Monitora iz Otave i Svešteničkog centra za međunarodne studije, Univerziteta u Torontu, oni su sproveli istragu nakon zahtjeva ljudi iz okruženja Dalaj-lame sa željom da se provjeri da li je računarska mreža koju koriste pod nadzorom...
106|1238449440|dynamic|ODABRANI FINALISTI ZA NAJBOLJI POSAO NA SVIJETU (video)|
Organizatori konkursa za čuvara australijskog ostrva u Velikom koraljnom grebenu - saopštili su kako su uspjeli napraviti odabir 16 finalista.
Na konkurs za "najbolji posao na svijetu" prijavilo se više od 35 hiljada kandidata.
Konačni finalisti dolaze iz 15 zemalja iz cijelog svijeta, a među njima su, pored ostalih jedna njemačka glumica, kanadski novinar, francuski student, britanski humanitarac, te dva kandidata iz Australije.
Konkurs za čuvara rajskog ostrva Hamilton je organizovala australijska država Queensland, a u okviru svojevrsne promocije turizma.
Za šest mjeseci rada na ostrvu "pobjednik" će dobiti platu od 100'000 dolara, a zadatak će biti da uživa u čarima ostrva, roni, jedri, snima podmorje i o svemu tome jedanput sedmično podnosi izveštaj na internetu.
Finalisti će početkom maja otputovati na ostrvo gde će 6. maja biti saopšteno ime novog zaposlenika.
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Organizatori konkursa za čuvara australijskog ostrva u Velikom koraljnom grebenu - saopštili su kako su uspjeli napraviti odabir 16 finalista...
104|1238362680|dynamic|POMOZIMO SAMIJI KADIĆ!|
Četrdesetdevetogodišnjoj Sarajki Samiji Kadić potrebna je žurna operacija moždane aneurizme – proširenja krvnog suda u mozgu.
Operacija je prijeko potrebna da ne bi došlo do puknuća arterije, što bi bilo fatalno. Operativni postupak nije moguć u našoj zemlji, pa je Samija jutros otputovala u Mađarsku, gdje će operativni zahvat biti obavljen na neurohirurškoj klinici u Pečuhu. Operacija bi u konačnici mogla dostići cijenu od 35.000 eura, a obitelj nije u stanju samostalno prikupiti toliki novac.
Novac možete donirati na broj žiro računa otvorenog na ime Samijinog sina Harisa Kadića.
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Četrdesetdevetogodišnjoj Sarajki Samiji Kadić potrebna je žurna operacija moždane aneurizme – proširenja krvnog suda u mozgu...
102|1238228280|dynamic|VEČERAS UGASITE SVJETLO ZA BOLJE SUTRA!|
28. marta 2009. godine tačno u 20:30 sata, gradovi širom svijeta će isključiti svjetla na jedan sat u okviru akcije "Earth Hour", te time poslati snažnu globalnu poruku da je moguće nešto preduzeti protiv klimatskih promjena.
Akcija "Earth Hour" predstavlja kulminaciju najvećeg događaja u svjetskim razmjerima u kojem će učestvovati milijardu ljudi iz privrednog, vladinog i društvenog sektora iz preko 1000 gradova širom svijeta, koji će, uoči konferencije Ujedinjenih nacija o klimatskim promjenama (koja se održava u Kopenhagenu 2009. godine), gašenjem svjetla poslati poruku svjetskim liderima o neophodnosti preduzimanje mjera za smanjenje emisija gasova sa efektom staklenika, a sve zbog kratkoročne i dugoročne dobrobiti naše planete.
Podsticanje čitavih gradova da učine ovaj jednostavan korak, u trajanju od samo jednog sata, šalje snažnu poruku cijelom svijetu o hitnosti pronalaženja rješenja za problem klimatskih promjena i pokazuje kako svako može doprinjeti poboljšanju uslova života na planeti.
"Earth Hour" je akcija započeta 2007. godine, kada je više od dva miliona domaćinstava i kompanija u australskom Sidneju, u subotu 31. marta 2007. godine, ugasilo svjetla na sat vremena. Samo godinu dana kasnije, akcija "Earth Hour" se proširila na 370 gradova u preko 35 zemalja i 18 vremenskih zona, a kampanja je prerasla iz lokalnog u globalni pokret održivog razvoja.
Uz pomoć široke međunarodne mreže WWF, akciji "Earth Hour 2009" već se priključilo preko 60 zemalja, a taj broj se svakodnevno uvećava.
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28. marta 2009. godine tačno u 20:30 sata, gradovi širom svijeta će isključiti svjetla na jedan sat u okviru akcije "Earth Hour", te time poslati snažnu globalnu poruku da je moguće nešto preduzeti protiv klimatskih promjena...
103|1238142060|dynamic|NOVI DIREKTORIJ ŽENSKIH GRUPA U BIH|
Fondacija CURE Vas poziva na promociju publikacije "Direktorij ženskih grupa u BiH" koja će se održati u srijedu, 01.04.2009 godine u Ovalnoj sali Gradskog Vijeća (Sarajevo), ul. Hamdije Kreševljakovića 3, sa početkom u 11:30 sati.
Na kratkoj prezentaciji inicijative „Oživljavanje ženskog pokreta u BiH“ koja je rezultirala Direktorijem, Jadranka Miličević i Taida Horozović - aktivistice Fondacije CURE i voditeljice inicijative, podijelit će dio rezultata istraživanja o grupama koje djeluju za ženska ljudska prava u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Direktorij je na lokalnom i engleskom jeziku, a produciran je u sklopu pomenute dugoročne CURE incijative. Ova nesvakidašnja ali relevantna publikacija sadrži glavne informacije o devedeset i devet (99) grupa koje su učestvovale u mini studiji vezanoj za potrebe grupa koje rade za ženska ljudska prava u našoj zemlji.
Plan je da se mapiranje grupa koje rade za ženska ljudska prava u BiH nastavi putem kreirane online platforme a koja će povrh osnovnih informacija o grupama ponuditi i vijesti o dostignućima ženskih grupa.
Cilj inicijative jeste informirati javnosti o rezultatima rada ženskih grupa, umrežiti grupe koje djeluju za ženska ljudska prava u BiH te kreirati platforme za jači i efikasniji pokret za ženska ljudska prava u BiH. Kroz inicijativu je planiran i niz edukacija tokom tekuće (2009) godine.
Promocija Direktorija ženskih grupa u BiH na koju ste pozvani/e, prva je u nizu od ukupno pet koje će se odvijati u bh. gradovima Mostar, Tuzla, Zenica, Banjaluka i Sarajevo.
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Fondacija CURE Vas poziva na promociju publikacije "Direktorij ženskih grupa u BiH" koja će se održati u srijedu, 01.04.2009 godine u Ovalnoj sali Gradskog Vijeća (Sarajevo), ul. Hamdije Kreševljakovića 3, sa početkom u 11:30 sati...
100|1237964160|dynamic|CENTAR ZA IGRU ŠUTNJU I TRPNJU: IGRAJTE DO PORAZA!|
Jutros su na globalnoj mreži osvanule dvije igrice nesvakidašnjeg ali svakako zanimljivog sadrzaja samim tim što su obje usmjerene, i preporučene, bosanskohercegovačkim građanima.
Od priređivača igrica "Centra za igru, šutnju i trpnju" saznajemo kako se radi o igricama koje nose nazive "NAPADNI NOVINARA" i POMOZITE MU DA VAS UZME. Igrice su priređene isključivo za konstitutivne bosanskohercegovačke građane kojima je dobro i koji ne žele nikakve promjene.
Igrice su pogodne za sve uzraste bez obzira na entitet, vjeru, naciju.
Jutros su na globalnoj mreži osvanule dvije igrice nesvakidašnjeg ali svakako zanimljivog sadrzaja samim tim što su obje usmjerene, i preporučene, bosanskohercegovačkim građanima...
99|1237877580|dynamic|INTERNET EXPLORER 8|
Izašla je najnovija verzija internet preglednika Internet Explorer 8 se može preuzeti sa Microsoft stranice.
Program je besplatan za korisnike legalnih Microsoftovih operativnih sistema, a može se koristiti na verzijama XP i Visti.
Internet Explorer 8 je zamišljen kao dio dugo najavljivanog os-a - Windows 7.
Prema nedavnim istraživanjima Internet Explorer drži 72,2 posto udjela na tržištu, dok Mozilla Firefox ima 17,2 posto, Google Chrome 2,8 posto, a Apple Safari nešto manje od jedan posto.
Google, Mozilla i Opera su, ranije, protestovali zbog Microsoftovog monopola na tržištu, a evropske vlasti su optužile Microsoft za zloupotrebu dominantnog položaja, a zbog ugradnje Internet Explorer u Windowse koje koristi 95% kompjutera u svijetu.
Šta se navodi kao prednost novog IE? - Korisnici Internet Explorera 8 mogu već posjećene internet stranice ponovo posjetiti upisivanjem ključne riječi u okvir za adresu, što već odavno postoji kod konkurentskih preglednika.
- Kao glavni adut ovog izdanja, kreatori IE 8 navode kako ova verzija sadrži ubrzivače koji omogućavaju korisnicima selektovanje teksta na stranici i odabir daljnje funkcije poput pretraživanja, prevoda ili prikazivanja lokacije na mapi.
Nova verzija Explorera će omogućit i lakše čuvanje i brisanje "istorije surfanja".
U svakom slučaju ništa revolucionarno, i ništa pto već nije urađeno i viđeno od Google-a, Mozilla-e i Opera-e
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Izašla je najnovija verzija internet preglednika Internet Explorer 8 se može preuzeti sa Microsoft stranice...
97|1237790880|dynamic|FACEBOOK PREVEDEN NA ARAPSKI I HEBREJSKI|
Facebook, društvena internet mreža koja već ima svoje jezičke verzije na oko 40 jezika, pokrenula je i nove dvije verzije na arapsku i hebrejsku jeziku.
"Želimo Faceboook vremenom načiniti dostupnim na svim jezicima svijeta. Pripremamo pokretanje servisa na još šezdeset jezika.", saopštavaju iz najvrjednije online zajednice na svijetu.
Mrežu je 2004. pokrenuo bivši harvardski student Mark Zuckerberg i ona danas ima više od 175 miliona korisnika.
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Facebook, društvena internet mreža koja već ima svoje jezičke verzije na oko 40 jezika, pokrenula je i nove dvije verzije na arapsku i hebrejsku jeziku...
95|1237704180|dynamic|22. MART - SVJETSKI DAN VODA|
Danas se, 22. marta, u cijelom svijetu obilježava Svjetski dan voda.
Ove godine će obilježavanje proteći pod motom "Vode koje dijelimo - mogućnosti koje dijelimo na međudržavnim vodotocima", obzirom da približno 40% svjetske populacije živi na slivovima rijeka i jezera koje dijele dvije ili više zemalja.
Prve važne preporuke o problemima vezanim za vodu i vodne resurse bile su formulisane na konferenciji Ujedinjenih nacija o vodama koja je održana 1977. godine u Mar del Plati, Argentina.
Nakon konferencije Ujedinjenih nacija o okolišu i razvoju u Rio de Janeirou, Opšta skupština UN je rezolucijom od 22. februara 1993. godine odlučila da se 22. mart svake godine obilježi kao Svjetski dan voda te da se na ovaj dan, u cijelom svijetu skrene pažnja na probleme vezane za vodu i vodene resurse, kao i da se svake godine obilježava uz drugi moto.
- 1995. godine Dan voda je obilježen pod motom: "Žene i voda" - 2004. godine: "Voda i katastrofe" - 2007. godine: "Kako se nositi s oskudicom vode"
Svakog dana prosječno domaćinsto potroši oko 50 litara vode. Jedan od šest ljudi na Zemlji nema dnevnih 20-50 litara osigurane svježe vode, a svakodnevno od posljedica nedostatka vode umire dokoro četeiri hiljade djece.
Prema procjenama premo jedne milijarde ljudi nema pristup pitkoj vodi, dok skoro dvije ipo milijarde živi bez osnovnih sanitarnih uslova.
Kako bi se dodatno istakao značaj brige o vodi, razdoblje od 2005. do 2015. godine Ujedinjene nacije proglašavaju Decenijom voda pod motom "Voda za život".
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Danas se, 22. marta, u cijelom svijetu obilježava Svjetski dan voda.
Ove godine će obilježavanje proteći pod motom "Vode koje dijelimo - mogućnosti koje dijelimo na međudržavnim vodotocima", obzirom da približno 40% svjetske populacije živi na slivovima rijeka i jezera koje dijele dvije ili više zemalja...
96|1237617900|dynamic|21. MART - SVJETSKI DAN BORBE PROTIV APARTHEJDA|
Danas se obilježava Dan borbe protiv aparthejda - rasne diskriminacije.
Ovaj datum se obilježava u znak sjećanja na 21. mart 1960. godine, kada je u Južnoafričkoj Republici ubijeno 69 ljudi koji su mirno protestovali protiv aparthejda.
Svjetski dan borbe protiv rasne diskriminacije su proglasile Ujedinjene nacije 1966. godine.
Apartheid je naziv za sistem rasne segregacije koji je nakon pobjede burske Nacionalističke stranke na izborima 1948. godine uveden kao službena politika Južnoafričke Republike. Njime je stanovništvo Južne Afrike bilo podijeljeno na bijelce, crnce, Indijce i "obojene", s time da su jedino bijelci imali puna politička prava.
Aparthejd je stvoren pod snažnim uticajem rasizma i protestantskog fundamentalizma, a s vremenom je izazivao sve žešći otpor većinskog crnačkog stanovništva, a na Južnoafričku Republiku je navukao antipatije cijele međunarodne javnosti.
Pod vanjskim i unutrašnjim pritiscima, apartheid se postepeno ukidao 1980-ih, da bi u potpunosti bio ukinut nakon godine 1994. godine dolaskom Nelsona Mandele na vlast.
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Danas se obilježava Dan borbe protiv aparthejda - rasne diskriminacije...
101|1237532280|dynamic|DANAS STIŽE PROLJEĆE|
Na sjevernu poluloptu planete Zemlje danas će, 20. marta u 12:44 sati zakoračiti proljeće.
Proljeće će trajati sve do 21. juna kada će usljediti ljeto na sjevernoj polulopti.
Proljeće je jedno od četiri godišnja doba. Na sjevernoj polulopti planete Zemlje ono traje tokom dijela marta aprila, maja i dijelom juna, dok je na južnoj polulopti planete Zemlje proljeće u dijelu septembra, oktobru, novembru i dijelu decembra.
Prvog dana proljeća dan i noć traju podjednako i to se zove proljetna ravnodnevnica.
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Na sjevernu poluloptu planete Zemlje danas će, 20. marta u 12:44 sati zakoračiti proljeće...
98|1237445400|dynamic|ROBOT-RIBAMA PROTIV ZAGA�ENJA|
Naučni tim iz Velike Britanije će na sjevernoj obali Španije u more pustiti pet riba-robota koje otkrivaju zagađenja u vodi.
Ukoliko se probnih godinu dana pokažu uspješnima planira se pusti ih u rijeke, jezera i mora u cijelom svijetu.
Ribe-roboti su napravljene u obliku šarana i duge oko metara ipo, a vrijednost jedne je 29'000 dolara.
Oponašaju pokrete pravih riba i opremljene su senzorima koji im omogućavaju prepoznavanje potencijalnih zagađivača poput otrovnih materija iz brodova ili podvodnih cijevi. Prikupljene informacije šalju na kopno, koristeći se bežičnom internet tehnologijom.
Za razliku od ranijih sličnih modela kojima se upravljalo na daljinski upravljač ove "ribe" će se kretati nezavisno.
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Naučni tim iz Velike Britanije će na sjevernoj obali Španije u more pustiti pet riba-robota koje otkrivaju zagađenja u vodi...
94|1237401120|dynamic|PROJEKCIJE FILMOVA BH AUTORA|
U okviru programa VIDEOart na ovogodisnjem Interground Sarajevo Festivalu bit ce uprilicene projekcije filmova bh autora: Alen Drljević, Christiana Biron, Damir Nemir Janeček, Elvir Muminović, Enes Zlatar, Faruk Lončarević, Ivan Ramadan, Šejla Kamerić i Timur Makarević.
Filmovi su prikazivani na brojnim evropskim i svjetskim festivalima, a neki su i višestruko nagrađivani. Filmovi su prikazivani na Sarajevo Film Festivalu.
Filmski program će biti upriličen u centru Access 19. i 26. marta 2009. godine u 20 sati, a ulaz je slobodan.
U okviru programa VIDEOart na ovogodisnjem Interground Sarajevo Festivalu bit ce uprilicene projekcije filmova bh autora: Alen Drljević, Christiana Biron, Damir Nemir Janeček, Elvir Muminović, Enes Zlatar, Faruk Lončarević, Ivan Ramadan, Šejla Kamerić i Timur Makarević...
92|1237145340|dynamic|SNIJEG POBJEDNIK FESTIVALA U LONDONU|
Film Aide Begić, "Snijeg" je proglašen najboljim dugim igranim filmom ovogodišnjeg "Birds eye View" filmskog festivala, posvećenog ženama filmskim stvaraocima, koji je od 5. do 13. marta održan u Londonu.
U oficijelnoj selekciji bilo je ukupno sedam filmova, saopštila je producentska kuća "Mamafilm".
U žiriju su sjedili producent Stephen Wolley, filmska kritičarka Larushka Ivan Zadeh, producentica Pippa Cross i spisateljica Catherine Johnson.
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Film Aide Begić, "Snijeg" je proglašen najboljim dugim igranim filmom ovogodišnjeg "Birds eye View" filmskog festivala, posvećenog ženama filmskim stvaraocima, koji je od 5. do 13. marta održan u Londonu.
91|1237058640|dynamic|STIŽE GOOGLE VOICE|
Google se spremna za velike igre u telekomunikacionoj industriji,a tome je dokaz i najnoviji servis - Google Voice.
Ukoliko Google Voice usluga uspije prodrijeti na tržište, što je Google-u rijetko bio problem, kompanije koje nude slične usluge, poput Skype mogle-a, bi mogle biti dobro uzdrmane.
Google Voice predstavlja naprednu verziju usluge ranije poznate pod imenom GrandCentral. Ovaj servis je kreiran u namjeri pojednostavljenja upravljanje telefonskim pozivima, voice-mail-a i tekstualnih poruka.
Google Voice će na početku biti dostupan samo postojećim pretplatnicima GrandCentral usluge, dok će ostali biti u prilici da servis koriste nekoliko sedmica poslije.
Google Voice omogućava korisnicima preusmeravanje svih poziva na jedan "Google" broj koji će ih simultano obavještavati na kućnom telefonu, poslu i putem mobitela.
Ovaj servis istovremeno omogućava korisnicima obavljanje telefonskih razgovora, ostavljanje glasovnih i tekstualnih poruka putem Interneta.
Usluga je potpuno besplatna u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama, dok je u će ostatku svijeta biti dostupna uz manju novčanu naknadu.
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Google se spremna za velike igre u telekomunikacionoj industriji,a tome je dokaz i najnoviji servis - Google Voice...
90|1236883560|dynamic|POČINJE 5. INTERGROUND SARAJEVO FESTIVAL|
Nastupom grupa "Flatline" i "Despotic bullet" večeras će u Access centru početi Peto izdanje Interground Sarajevo Festivala, koji će trajati do 28. marta.
U protekle četiri godine na Intergroundu su nastupali neki od najboljih underground bendova sa ovih prostora - Gužva u šesnaestercu, CBS, Pasi, Đubrivo, Atheist rap, Motus, Justin's Johnson, Stronghold, DST, Mikrofonija, Debeli predsjednik...
Većina učesnika iz regije je svoj prvi nastup u BiH imala upravo u Sarajevu na Interground Festivalu, kažu u press službi Festivala.
Interground Sarajevo Festival je nastao iz potrebe mladih za manifestacijom koja će na prvom mjestu okupljati fanove punk i hardcore muzike, te predstavljati mjesto njihovih susreta, umrežavanja i upoznavanja.
Nastupom grupa "Flatline" i "Despotic bullet" večeras će u Access centru početi Peto izdanje Interground Sarajevo Festivala, koji će trajati do 28. marta...
89|1236705600|dynamic|SLIJEPE I SLABOVIDNE OSOBE U MEDIJSKOM OGLEDALU|
Helsinški parlament građana i Fondacija CURE pozivaju Vas na X-PRESS sesiju “Slijepe i slabovidne osobe u medijskom ogledalu”, koja će se održati u subotu, 14. marta 2009. godine u 11 sati.
Sesija će biti održana u Kući ljudskih prava, u ulici Ante Fjamenga 14b, Sarajevo.
Uvodničar sesije je gospodin Fikret Zuko, izvršni direktor Udruženja slijepih Kantona Sarajevo. Govorićemo o tome - jesu li ponekad i mediji slijepi prema slijepim osobama, može li se komunikacija izmedju novinara/ki i udruženja učiniti efikasnijom, kada novinari/ke olako shvataju etičke kodekse a kada udruženja očekuju od novinara/ki previše?
X-PRESS sesije su zamišljene kao neformalna druženja, uz doručak, kafu, tematske videoprojekcije i analize aktuelnih slučajeva medijskog izvještavanja o marginaliziranim i manjinskim grupama bh. društva. Na njima će se okupljati novinari/ke i predstavnici/ce udruženja koja predstavljaju marginalizirane i manjinske grupe iz Bosne i Hercegovine. Zajednička želja je – jednak i fer pristup medijima za sve društene grupe, kroz poštovanje etičkih standarda novinarske profesije.
X-PRESS sesije će se odvijati u Sarajevu i Banjaluci. Projekat finansira Delegacija Evropske komisije u Bosni i Hercegovini.
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Helsinški parlament građana i Fondacija CURE pozivaju Vas na X-PRESS sesiju “Slijepe i slabovidne osobe u medijskom ogledalu”, koja će se održati u subotu, 14. marta 2009. godine u 11 sati...
Akcija je podsjetnik zašto je još uvijek jako važno da na osmi mart prepoznamo dugi proces u kom su žene izborile i uživaju svoja prava - kao što vidimo kroz herstoriju, da je osmi mart dan kada inspirišemo žene u cijelom svijetu da se sjećaju svojih prava 365 dana u godini i kada izjavljujemo da nećemo unazad! Ne damo svoja prava! Pridružite nam se ispred katedrale u podne.
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Akcija je podsjetnik zašto je još uvijek jako važno da na osmi mart prepoznamo dugi proces u kom su žene izborile i uživaju svoja prava - kao što vidimo kroz herstoriju, da je osmi mart dan kada inspirišemo žene u cijelom svijetu da se sjećaju svojih prava 365 dana u godini i kada izjavljujemo da nećemo unazad! Ne damo svoja prava! Pridružite nam se ispred katedrale u podne.
85|1236354900|dynamic|MOZILLA OBAVILA NOVU VERZIJU FIREFOX-A|
Mozilla je objavila novu verziju svog popularnog internet preglednika - Firefox. Firefox 3.0.7 dolazi sa pet ispravljenih sigurnosnih propusta, od kojih su tri kritična.
Naravno tu su i mnoga poboljšanja, od kojih izdvajamo: - od sada su dostupne oficijelna izdanja za Kanadu i Estoniju. - ispravljen bug sa File meni kada se koristi print opcija, bug 425844. - riješen problem nestajanja cookieja kod nekih korisnika. - ispravljena greška za Mac OS, koja se dešavala pri korištenju Flashblock plugina (prilikom gledanja flash dokumenata se dešavalo da zvuk nastavi sa reprodukcijom i nakon gašenja prozora).
Novu verziju možete downloadovati odabirom update opcije (Help > Check for Updates) u svojoj trenutnoj verziji Firefox-a, ili na zvaničnoj stranici popularnog preglednika.
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Mozilla je objavila novu verziju svog popularnog internet preglednika - Firefox. Firefox 3.0.7 dolazi sa pet ispravljenih sigurnosnih propusta, od kojih su tri kritična...
88|1236269520|dynamic|LANSIRAN TELESKOP ZA TRAŽENJE PLANETE SLIČNE ZEMLJI|
NASA lansirala teleskop Kepler koji će tražiti planete slične Zemlji NASA je kasno u petak lansirala u Zemljinu orbitu teleskop Kepler koji će pokušati tražiti planete slične Zemlji na kojima je moguć život i koje se nalaze u orbiti oko zvijezda.
Vijest o lansiranju objavljena je na blogu Kepler projekta na internetu.
Misija Kepler, koja je nazvana prema njemačkom astronomu iz XVII. stoljeća Johannesu Kepleru, usmjerena je na oko 100.000 zvijezda u galaksiji Mliječni put za koju znanstvenici vjeruju da bi mogla imati planete koje kruže u zoni pogodnoj za život.
Teleskop će tražiti pokretne sijene na zvijezdama koje bi ukazivale na kretanje planeta i pomogle u mjerenju dužine orbita.
"Ukoliko kruži vrlo brzo to znači da je planet jako vruć", kazao je William Borucki, čelni istraživač za Kepler projekt iz NASA-e.
"Ako planet pak ima dug orbitalni period znači da je hladan i vjerojatno zamrznut zauvijek". Misija će eliminirati oba ekstrema, budući da znanstvenici traže planete koji "nisu ni prevrući, ni prehladni, već baš kako treba", kazao je Borucki.
Planirano je da misija vrijedna 591 milijun dolara traje tri i pol godine, no Kepler kamera podešena je da traje šest godina u slučaju produljenja misije, kazali su znanstvenici NASA-e.
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NASA lansirala teleskop Kepler koji će tražiti planete slične Zemlji NASA je kasno u petak lansirala u Zemljinu orbitu teleskop Kepler koji će pokušati tražiti planete slične Zemlji na kojima je moguć život i koje se nalaze u orbiti oko zvijezda...
82|1236267900|dynamic|OBJAVLJENA NOVA OPERA|
Opera Software je predstavila novu verziju svog internet preglednika - Opera 9.64.
Ispravljen je veliki broj sigurnosnih problema i bugova, a više o tome pogledajte na slijedećim linkovima:
Opera Software je predstavila novu verziju svog internet preglednika - Opera 9.64...
83|1236181620|dynamic|NOSTALGIJA: LA LINEA|
La Linea ili kod naših obožavatelja ovog lika poznatiji kao "Bajum-badum" vjerovatno je jedan od najboljih i najpopularnijih crtanih filmova od kad je svijeta i vijeka.
La Linea, italijanskog autora Osvalda Cavandolija je crtani film svojstven po tome što zapravo predstavlja varijaciju linije, beskonačne crte koja se pruža sa desne na lijevu stranu, i krivi se na mjestu gdje se nalazi čovječuljak koji nešto radi, krećući se po liniji, usput komunicirajući sa crtačem.
Crtač ne govori, već samo crta ili briše. Glas čovječuljku je posuđivao Carlo Bonomi. Prirodno, crtani lik stalno naiđe na nešto, što ga zabavi ili živcira jer uvijek nešto pođe krivo. Čovječuljak pokazuje sav italijanski temperament kada se raduje, priča, ljuti, smije, oduševljava, nabraja, odmjeri šakom do lakta...
Glavni lik crtića pozdravlja crtača sa "mmmm-daaaa", kreće u šetnju dok ne naiđe na prepreku. Zadnja neprelazna prepreka je uvijek kraj crte. Sve je ovo bio obrazac koji se ponavljao u svakoj epizodi serijala. Linija je nastala 1969. godine, kada je Osvald Cavandoli napravio reklamu za jednu italijansku firmu koja se bavila opremom za domaćinstvo.
Crtani lik je bio pojednostavljen, detalji i boje izostavljene, pa se tako gledateljstvo moglo fokusirati na ono što radi glavni lik. La Linea se 2005. godine pojavila u video spotu za Jamiroquaijevu pjesmu "(Don't) Give Hate a Chance", gdje joj je zapravo odana počast. Sam spot je animirani komentar na "Rat protiv terorizma" i sadrži 3D prikaze poznatog lika, Linije, kao i crtačevu ruku i olovku.
La Linea ili kod naših obožavatelja ovog lika poznatiji kao "Bajum-badum" vjerovatno je jedan od najboljih i najpopularnijih crtanih filmova od kad je svijeta i vijeka...
86|1236095880|dynamic|NOVOSTI NA FACEBOOK MREŽI|
Ako želite da imate više od 5000 prijatelja morate otvoriti stranicu na Facebook mreži.
Uskoro će stranice dobiti novi izgled koji će biti identičan običnom profilu, za sada samo kreatori stranica mogu vidjeti novi dizajn.
Facebook je krenuo u redizajniranje određenih dijelova popularnog social network sajta, pa će tako i Home stranica svakog korisnika dobiti novi raspored.
Na lijevoj strani će biti određeni filteri, sredina će biti rezervisana za pretragu i za prikaz šta naši prijatelji rade, dok će desna strana služiti za prikaz događaja koji će se desiti u skorijoj budućnosti, određenih galerija, kao i stranica čiji su fanovi naši prijatelji.
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Ako želite da imate više od 5000 prijatelja morate otvoriti stranicu na Facebook mreži...
87|1236009540|dynamic|POKRET MLADIH ZA SPRJEČAVANJE KLIMATSKIH PROMJENA|
Uprkos snijegu i temperaturi ispod nule, stotine američkih studenata, naravno i prikladno obučenih u zeleno, okupili su se prije nekoliko dana zahtijevajući da Kongres usvoji jedan sveobuhvatan zakon o energiji i klimi.
To je okupljanje bilo dio programa nazvanog „Power Shift 09", u okviru kojeg mladi žele da izraze svoju zabrinutost zbog klimatskih promjena. Katherine McEachern, studentica iz savezne države New York, kaže da su studenti namjerno izgubili dio predavanja i da se tu, pred zgradom Kongresa, bore sa hladnoćom i snijegom, da bi javno zahtijevali akciju:
"Snijeg nas nije mogao zaustaviti. Ovo se moralo dogoditi. Došli smo u Washington da našim zastupnicima kažemo zašto upravo sada Amerika mora stupiti u akciju."
Studenti su ogorčeni zbog globalnog zagrijavanja i ogromne štete koja se nanosi životinjskim staništima širom svijeta. Oni insistiraju da političari u akciju stupe odmah, da definiraju uslove i mjere za reduciranje količine ispusnih gasova, otvaranje takozvanih zelenih poslova i da sarađuju sa drugim zemljama na obuzdavanju klimatske krize. Kako bi osigurali da njihovi zastupnici zaista i čuju njihovu poruku, obratili su im se i direktno. Studenti iz države New York sastali su se sa pomoćnicima njihovog kongresmena Mauricea Hinchey-a. Mlade lobiste je predvodila Jenna Durn:
"Bilo je to zaista dobro, bilo nas je skoro 40 u kabinetu. Svi su govorili, a imali smo i pitanja nakon toga."
I studenti iz drugih saveznih država imali su slične susrete tokom dana. Jessy Tolkan, izvršni direktor Koalicije za akciju u energiji, koja je organizirala skup i susrete u Washingtonu, kaže da je sve to bila dobra prilika da se mladi uključe u politiku i mijenjaju je, i dodala će nastaviti da rade na tome:
"Ovo je tek početak onoga što možete očekivati od rastućeg pokreta mladih za spasavanje klime, pokreta koji će od Kongresa zahtijevati da na potpis predsjedniku Obami u 2009.godine pošalje najsnažniji mogući prijedlog zakona o klimi."
Premda je na okupljanju bilo na stotine učesnika, neki članovi Kongresa, iako je njihov dolazak bio planiran i potvrđen, otkazali su prisustvo.... zbog snijega.
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Uprkos snijegu i temperaturi ispod nule, stotine američkih studenata, naravno i prikladno obučenih u zeleno, okupili su se prije nekoliko dana zahtijevajući da Kongres usvoji jedan sveobuhvatan zakon o energiji i klimi...
81|1232187240|dynamic|Pomozimo Ernadu Šahbazu!|U toku je akcija prikupljanja finansijske pomoći mladom čovjeku, Ernadu Šahbazu. 30.000 KM je prijeko potrebno za pretrage koje mora obaviti u Švicarskoj, kao i za eventualni tretman ili operaciju koja će biti neophodna ukoliko se ne iznađe alternativa. Nakon poteškoća sa vidom, a nakon liječničkih pretraga, Ernadu je u 3 B-H bolnice dijagnosticiran ‘TUMOR NA IRISU DESNOG OKA’, te su nakon mnogih pregleda doktori iz BiH savjetovali da svoju nadu, ali i spas Ernad potraži u Švicarskoj. Da bi uspio u tome, neophodna su mu finansijska sredstva kako za put, tako i za boravak i tretman u Švicarsoj bolnici za koji ne znamo koliko će potrajati niti koliko će koštati…ali se zajedno nadamo da će se njegov odlazak na kraju ipak isplatiti… Adresa ŠAHBAZ/Mehmed/ERNAD (06.04.1986.) A.Mahmutagica N7-2/10 74250, Maglaj, BiH ŽIRO RAČUN UniCredit Banka Maglaj 3385602529911694 INSTRUKCIJE ZA UPLATE NOVCA IZ INOSTRANSTVA: PAY DIRECT TO: Unicredit Bank d.d. Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina S.W.I.F.T. UNCR BA 22 BENEFICIARY: ŠAHBAZ ERNAD Maglaj 40288444101 IBAN: BA39 3385 6028 2994 1424|U toku je akcija prikupljanja finansijske pomoći mladom čovjeku, Ernadu Šahbazu. 30.000 KM je prijeko potrebno za pretrage koje mora obaviti u Švicarskoj, kao i za eventualni tretman ili operaciju koja će biti neophodna ukoliko se ne iznađe alternativa.
80|1230020760|dynamic|KRITERION FILM FANTASY PARTY: ROĐENDANSKA MASKEMBAL ZABAVA|U organizaciji Fondacije Kriterion Sarajevo, u petak, 26. decembra 2008. s početkom u 22 sata u Klubu Access biće upriličen “Kriterion Film Fantasy Party”, maskembal zabava, povodom drugog rođendana Kriteriona Sarajevo. Ulaz na zabavu je slobodan. Fondacija Kriterion Sarajevo 26. decembra 2008. obilježiće drugu godinu postojanja i aktivnog rada na kulturnoj sceni Sarajeva. U protekle dvije godine Kriterion Sarajevo je postigao mnoge uspjehe, napravio značajne pomake u promociji filmske kulture i umjetnosti među svim generacijama. Protekli period u Kriterionu označile su mnoge zapažene filmske projekcije, izložbe, radionice i projekti koji su za cilj imali ponuditi građanima Sarajeva alternativu u oblasti umjetnosti i zabave. Organiziranjem maskembal zabave pod nazivom “Kriterion Film Fantasy Party” tim Kriteriona Sarajevo želi podijeliti svoje zadovoljstvo postignutim rezultatima u protekle dvije godine sa svojom dragom publikom, svima onima koji od samog početka podržavaju projekat art kina u Sarajevu. Za narednu godinu Kriterion Sarajevo pripremna nekoliko značajnih projekata, od kojih je najznačajniji, otvaranje vlastitog Kriterion art kina. “Kriterion Film Fantasy Party” je osmišljen kao maskembal zabava na temu filma, kojom želimo probuditi sjećanje na mnoge filmske likove koji su ušli u historiju i ostavili tako veliki traga na živote ljudi mnogih generacija. Za odličnu atmosferu tonovima filmske muzike na “Kriterion Film Fantasy Partyu” pobrinuće se DJ Jasmina i DJ DA HOX.|U organizaciji Fondacije Kriterion Sarajevo, u petak, 26. decembra 2008. s početkom u 22 sata u Klubu Access biće upriličen “Kriterion Film Fantasy Party”, maskembal zabava, povodom drugog rođendana Kriteriona Sarajevo. Ulaz na zabavu je slobodan.
79|1229862420|dynamic|BOSNU I HERCEGOVINU U OKTOBRU POSJETILO PREKO 57\'000 TURISTA|Bosnu i Hercegovinu je u oktobru ove godine posjetilo 57'194 turista, što je za šest posto više u odnosu na predhodni mjesec, a 9,9 posto u odnosu na isti mjesec prošle godine.
Turisti su u oktobru ostvarili 121'436 noćenja, što je za 6,3 posto manje u odnosu na prošli mjesec 2008. godine i dva posto više u odnosu na isti mjesec 2007. godine
Od ukupnog broja noćenja 50,9 posto su ostvarili domaći, a 49,1 posto strani turisti. Turisti su u prosjeku "prespavali" 2,1 noć po dolasku.
Najviše noćenja su ostvarili turisti iz Srbije (16,1 posto), Slovenije (15,5 posto), Hrvatske (15,2 posto), Njemačke (6,6 posto), Italije (4,2 posto)...|Bosnu i Hercegovinu je u oktobru posjetilo 57.194 turista, što je više za šest posto u odnosu na predhodni mjesec i 9,9 posto u odnosu na isti mjesec prošle godine...
78|1229785800|dynamic|ZIMA U BIH STUPA NA SNAGU U NEDJELJU, 21. DECEMBRA 2008|Zima u BiH i na sjevernu Zemljinu poluloptu ove godine stiže 21. decembra u 12.03 sati. Tog dana imat ćemo najdužu noć u godini, a obdanica će biti najkraća. To je dan zimskog solisticija ili zimske kratkodnevnice.
Prvog dana zime Sunce u Sarajevu izlazi u 07.18 sati, a zalazi u 16.12 sati. Zima će trajati do 20. marta 2009. godine kad počinje proljeće.|Zima u BiH i na sjevernu Zemljinu poluloptu ove godine stiže 21. decembra u 12.03 sati. Tog dana imat ćemo najdužu noć u godini, a obdanica će biti najkraća. To je dan zimskog solisticija ili zimske kratkodnevnice...
77|1229695860|dynamic|SKI LEGENDS HIT CHALLENGE SE POMJERA ZA NEDJELJU, 21. 12. 2008.|Zbog trenutnih vremenskih uslova – manjka snijega i relativno visoke temperature za ovo doba godine – manifestacija Ski Legends Hit Challenge se pomjera za nedjelju, 21. decembar.
U uvjerenju da će vremenski uslovi biti odgovarajući za održavanje sportsko-zabavnog programa, skijaške legende su odlučile da produže boravak u jednom od najomiljenijih olimpijskih gradova.
Ponovni boravak u Sarajevu čini im se kao odlična prilika za zajedničko druženje i uživanje u našem gradu, stoga pozivamo građane Sarajeva ako tokom subote primjete neka od ovih velikih imena na ulicama grada da pokažu ponovo ono isto gostoprimstvo koje su osjetili i evidentno zapamtili od prije 25 godina kada su održane XIV Olimpijske igre u Sarajevu.
Kako je i planirano, večeras će se održati tzv. VIP „Bijela večera“, na kojoj će se putem izvlačenja brojeva formirati skijaški timovi za 1. vožnju, u kojoj će prisustvovati skijaške legende, VIP i drugi gosti (cca. 100 takmičara).
Nakon doručka u hotelu Radon plaza u subotu ujutro, skijaške legende će biti u 11:00 sati na prijemu u Predsjedništvu BiH, a potom nastavljaju šetnju gradom gdje će u 14:00 sati posjetiti stare zanatske radnje na Baščaršiji. U 16:00 sati u Olimpijskoj dvorani Zetra slijedi uzbudljivo zagrijavanje za utrku u nedjelju, u prijateljskoj nogometnoj utakmici timova Blažević vs Košir. Ulaz na utakmicu je otvoren za sve zainteresovane građane Sarajeva, kao i za medije.
U nedjelju, 21. decembra od 10:00 – 14:00 sati u areni „Bjelašnica“ na lokaciji cilja olimpijskog spusta iz 1984. godine održati će se manifestacija za gledaoce sa početkom prve utrke u 11:00 sati. U zabavnom dijelu programa nastupaju Soulfingers, Edo Maajka, DJ Raymundo Rodrigues iz svjetski poznate londonske elektro - dance scene Ministry of Sound, Sarajevo Drum Orkestar i slovenski raper Trkaj. Druga vožnja veleslaloma koja počinje u 12:35 i izravno će se prenositi od 12:35 do 13:45 na BHT-u u Bosni i Hercegovini i na Šport TV u Sloveniji, a TV signal biće na raspolaganju i stanicama u drugim državama.|Zbog trenutnih vremenskih uslova – manjka snijega i relativno visoke temperature za ovo doba godine – manifestacija Ski Legends Hit Challenge se pomjera za nedjelju, 21. decembar.
76|1229577120|dynamic|POPLAVE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI|Dosad nezapamćene poplave registrirane su na teritoriji gornjovakufske općine, gdje je usljed iznenadnog porasta nivoa Vrbasa došlo do odnošenja mnogih mostova u gradskim i prigradskim mjesnim zajednicama.
U vodenoj bujici je nestao most u centru grada zbog čega jeodgođen nastava u obližnjoj osnovnoj školi. Odnesen je i dio mosta prema Hrasnici, gdje je voda ugrozila stotinjak metara nedavno asfaltiranog lokalnog puta. Nekoliko porodica je evakuirano s poplavljenog područja Ploča, Vilić Polja i Pajić Polja, a u naselju Boljkovac došlo je do izmještanja stoke. Zbog poplave su zatvoreni lokalni putevi prema Grnici, Vrsima i većini sela u Mjesnoj zajednici Privor.
Kiša je prouzročila haos u Prozoru/Rami. U potpunosti je poplavljen gradski stadion, a nekoliko glavnih ulica je potpuno blokirano. Načelnik ove općine je proglasio stanje elementarne nepogode i angažirane su sve raspoložive snage za obranu od poplave.
Na području kakanjske općine izlile su se iz korita rijeke Zgošća, Trstionica i Ribnica . Nekoliko domaćinstava u naselju Pope su poplavljena.
Poplavljena su i pojedina naselja u Busovači, Zenici, Doboju, Bihaću. Zbog obilnih padalina došlo je do zamućenja izvorišta pitke vode Babina rijeka i Kruščica, tako da se područje općine Zenica snabdijeva iz rezervi. Kako se iz izvoršta Krušcica snabdijeva i Vitez, voda ni u ovom gradu nije za piće. Iz javnog poduzeća Vodovod i kanalizacije su potvrdili da su ekipe na terenu i pokušavaju poboljšati situaciju kako ne bi došlo do redukcija.
Zbog obilnih padavina u Zeničko-dobojskom kantonu poplave su izazvale privremne zastoje saobraćaja. Na pojedinim mjestima došlo je do obrušavanja zemlje što direktno prijeti nastanku klizišta.
Voda nije ispravna za piće ni u dijelu Mostara koji se vodom snabdijeva s izvorišta Radobolja.|Dosad nezapamćene poplave registrirane su na teritoriji gornjovakufske općine, gdje je usljed iznenadnog porasta nivoa Vrbasa došlo do odnošenja mnogih mostova u gradskim i prigradskim mjesnim zajednicama.
74|1229330040|dynamic|ŠTUKE LETU NAD SARAJEVOM ZA NOVU GODINU|Sarajevski bend “Letu Štuke” će za proslavu novogodišnje noći, na veliku radost mnogobrojnih fanova, svirati na centralnom dočeku Nove Godine ispred Vječne vatre u Sarajevu!
Ovaj sarajevski bend garantira dobar provod i kvalitetnu svirku gdje će skupa sa svojim sugrađanima pjevati pjesme sa oba studijska albuma!
Organizator centralne proslave kaže kako će pored benda “Letu Štuke” , sve prisutne ove noći zabavljati i Laka, Irina & Storm, Bosnian Aquarel i Sarajevo Drum Orchestra, koji će u stilu nekadašnjih telala uz svirku svim Bosancima i Hercegovcima poželjeti sve najljepše u 2009. godini!
Kada su u pitanju koncerti nastupi benda “Letu Štuke” pored navednog koncerta za najluđu noć bend će 22.12. nastupiti u Splitu -klub “Quasimodo”, 24.12. Kino Una u Bihaću, te 25.12. kao specijalni gosti na rođendanskom koncert istarskog benda “Gustafi” u Puli!
Više informacija uvijek možete pronaći na oficijenlnom site-u benda: letustuke.com|Sarajevski bend “Letu Štuke” će za proslavu novogodišnje noći, na veliku radost mnogobrojnih fanova, svirati na centralnom dočeku Nove Godine ispred Vječne vatre u Sarajevu...
73|1229193900|dynamic|2009. godina će na čekanje jednu sekundu|Nova 2009. godina će morati sačekati jednu sekundu prije nego što zvanično nastupi. Nauka koja brine o vremenu će odložiti početak 2009. godine tako što će dodati jednu sekundu službenim satovima.
Ova "dodatna" sekunda je neophodna kako bi se sinhronizovali službeni atomski satovi sa rotacijom Zemlje.
Iako rotacija Zemlje traje gotovo savršenih 24 časa, male varijacije dovode do raskoraka između astronomskog vremena i atomskih satova koji nemaju nikakvih varijacija.
Ovo će biti 24. usklađivanje koje od 1972. godine u periodima od svakih šest mjeseci do sedam godina sprovodi Međunarodna služba za praćenje rotacije Zemlje i referentne sisteme sa sjedištem u Parizu. Posljednje usklađivanje se desilo na prelasku iz 2005. u 2006. godinu.
Istorijski gledano, vrijeme se zasniva na rotaciji Zemlje u odnosu na kosmička tijela. Zemlja kruži oko Sunca za oko 365,2422 dana. Svake četvrte (prestupne) godine se dodaje jedan dan u februaru radi usklađivanja kalendarske sa astronomskom godinom.
Mehanizmi poput Mrežnog protokola vremena (NTP) ili satelitskog Sistema globalnog pozicioniranja (GPS) zavise od tačnog vremena atomskih satova.
Ovom dodatnom sekundom, 2008. godina, koja je već duža dodatnim danom u februaru, biće i najduža godina od 1992. godine.|Nova 2009. godina će morati sačekati jednu sekundu prije nego što zvanično nastupi. Nauka koja brine o vremenu će odložiti početak 2009. godine tako što će dodati jednu sekundu službenim satovima.
72|1229185500|dynamic|Otvorena zimska turistička sezona na Kupresu |Na Kupresu je zvanično otvorena zimska turistička sezona u Bosni i Hercegovini, pod nazivom Zimske radosti. Učesnicima i gostima manifestacije predstavljeni su skijaški centri u BiH, kao i dobitnici priznanja Zlatna turistička ruža.
Organizatori ovogodišnjeg otvaranja zimske turističke sezone u BiH su Općina Kupres i Turistička zajednica Livanjskog kantona, a generalni pokrovitelj manifestacije je Ministarstvo okoliša i turizma FBiH.|Na Kupresu je zvanično otvorena zimska turistička sezona u Bosni i Hercegovini, pod nazivom Zimske radosti.
71|1229161500|dynamic|SPASIMO DIVLJE KONJE - POTPIŠI I PETICIJU!|U posljednje vrijeme smo svjedoci ucestalijeg vandalizma i ubistava koji se provode nad divljim konjima na visoravni Kruge iznad Livna. Vrijeme je da napokon nešto učinimo kako bi ove plemenite životinje bile zasticene. POTPISITE PETICIJU! >> http://www.divljikonji.org/|U posljednje vrijeme smo svjedoci ucestalijeg vandalizma i ubistava koji se provode nad divljim konjima na visoravni Kruge iznad Livna. Vrijeme je da napokon nešto učinimo kako bi ove plemenite životinje bile zasticene. POTPISITE PETICIJU! >> http://www.divljikonji.org/
70|1229114460|dynamic|BANJALUČKI FRATRI OBNOVILI PROIZVODNJU ORIGINALNOG SIRA TRAPISTA|U Delibašinom Selu u Banjoj Luci, u samostanu trapista Marija Zvijezda, ponovo je počela proizvodnja orginalnog sira Trapista.
Fra Tomislav Topić kazao je da je, nakon svih obavljenih priprema tokom proteklih mjeseci, počela prerada 500 litara mlijeka za proizvodnju čuvenog sira Trapista po orginalnoj recepturi fratara ovog samostana.
U narednom periodu, najavio je, prerađivat će se i veće količine mlijeka, kako bi ovaj kvalitetni sir mogao stići i na druga tržišta, a ne samo BiH i Hrvatske. Proizvodnja sira odvija se u saradnji sa Zemljoradničkom zadrugom Livač u Aleksandrovcu. Samostan trapista Marija Zvijezda osnovao je prior Franjo Wendelin Pfanner 21. juna 1869. godine.
Trapisti su ime dobili po čuvenom francuskom samostanu La Trappe, a službeno se nazivaju Cisterciti strožeg obreda i slijede pravilo života koje glasi Moli i radi.
Dolaskom u Banju Luku, prije skoro 140 godina, redovnici su izgradili čitav niz objekata: manji samostan (1869.), ciglanu i žitni magacin (1870.), mlin na Vrbasu, mljekaru i sušnicu za šljive (1872.), pilanu (1873.), skelu (1874.), crkvu (1875.), pivaru (1873. i 1879.), ledaru (1876.), ciglanu, pogon za proizvodnju ljepila i tutkala i rasadnik (1877.), suknaru (1878. i 1897.), sirotište, bolnicu i krilo samostana (1878.), štampariju (1879.), siraru (1882.), kožaru (1892.), veliko vodno kolo (1893.), novu pivaru (1896.) i malu elektranu (1899.) i uveli električnu rasvjetu (1899.). Između 1885. i 1889. godine proširena je i uređena crkva i izgrađen crkveni toranj.|U Delibašinom Selu u Banjoj Luci, u samostanu trapista Marija Zvijezda, ponovo je počela proizvodnja orginalnog sira Trapista...
66|1228981140|dynamic|Pozdrav zimi 2009, na Bjelašnici 13. decembra|U organizaciji Turističke zajednice FBiH i Turističke zajednice Kantona Sarajevo 13. decembra na Bjelašnici će biti obilježen početak zimske turističke sezone. Manifestacija "Pozdrav zimi 2009." bit će održana na Babinom dolu s početkom u 12 sati. Cilj ove manifestacije je građanima Sarajeva, BiH i svim turistima skrenuti pažnju na turističke potencijale i ljepote Olimpijskog centra Bjelašnica, Kantona Sarajevo i BiH, kao i na značaj bh. zimskog turizma. U današnjem saopćenju Turističke zajednice FBiH, to će biti prilika i za promociju vještačkog zasniježavanja na Bjelašnici, što je omogućeno nabavkom automatskih sniježnih topova i pravljenjem bazena za akumulaciju vode, čime je posjetiocima pružena mogućnost da tokom čitave zime, neovisno o količini padavina, uživaju u zimskim sportovima. U okviru programa svečanog obilježavanja početka zimske turističke sezone na Bjelašnici “Pozdrav zimi 2009.“ za posjetioce će biti priređen bogat kulturno- zabavni program čijoj će atraktivnosti doprinijeti letači Paragliding kluba “Extreme“. Za sve posjetioce je osiguran i besplatan grah, saopćeno je iz Turističke zajednice FBiH.|U organizaciji Turističke zajednice FBiH i Turističke zajednice Kantona Sarajevo 13. decembra na Bjelašnici će biti obilježen početak zimske turističke sezone. Manifestacija "Pozdrav zimi 2009." bit će održana na Babinom dolu s početkom u 12 sati...
65|1226143800|dynamic|U PRODAJI JE FUNK TIME, PRVI ALBUM DRAGANA ROKVIĆA|U prodaji je prvi jazz-funk album basiste, pjevača i kompozitora Dragana Rokvića "Funk Time".
Dragan Rokvić je inače dugogodišnji član benda Sikter u kojem svira bas gitaru. Kao gostujući i studijski session muzičar učestvuje na albumima svih kultnih bendova sarajevske scene među kojima izdvajamo: Letu Štuke, Skroz, Validna legitimacija, Laka, itd.
Pored prve ljubavi – muzike, izuzetno je uspješan kao strip crtač, a potvrda tome je i Grand Prix za najboljeg BH crtača za 2004. godinu. Dragan Rokvić također je i član Opere Narodnog pozorišta.
Široka lepeza muzičkih pravaca koja ga je muzički oblikovala još od ranih dana, rezultirala je snimanjem solo albuma na kojem je po zamisli autora, predstavljeno ono što ”čuje u glavi” i ”voli u srcu”.
Albumom ”Funk Time”, Dragan Rokvić vraća se svom izvornom funk zvuku. Album je sniman u Sarajevu i Mostaru a kako sam autor ističe: "sve je urađeno u funk stilu, energično bez puno proba i priprema".
više na >> draganrokvic.ba|U prodaji je prvi jazz-funk album basiste, pjevača i kompozitora Dragana Rokvića "Funk Time".
59|1224200460|dynamic|LJILJANA KRAJNC HITNO TREBA VAŠU POMOĆ!|
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46|1222454100|dynamic|NATACHA ATLAS & Mazeeka Ensemble|Sarajevski Dom Mladih u saradnji sa Coda Music Agency (London /UK) predstavljaju jednu od najvećih zvijezda World muzičke scene.
Natacha Atlas će u okviru evropske promotivne turneje novog solo albuma "Ana Hina" nastupiti u Domu mladih u pratnji sjajnog akustičnog Mazeeka Ensemble.
Koncert će se održati 30. sepembra. Broj karata je ograničen.
Više Natacha Atlas >> myspace.com/natachaatlasofficial|Sarajevski Dom Mladih u saradnji sa Coda Music Agency (London /UK) predstavljaju jednu od najvećih zvijezda World muzičke scene. Natacha Atlas će u okviru evropske promotivne turneje novog solo albuma "Ana Hina" nastupiti u Domu mladih u pratnji sjajnog akustičnog Mazeeka Ensemble.
57|1221156900|dynamic|PitchWise 2008 - PD 11. do 14. septembra 2008|Ovogodišnji PitchWise program bazira se na promociji mladih umjetnica, važnosti reciklaže i obilježavanju stoljetnice rođenja francuske autorice Simone de Beauvoir.
Iako je sve više diplomiranih bh. umjetnica, bilježimo da su nedovoljno vidljive i podržane na domaćoj kulturno-umjetničkoj sceni. PitchWise festival omogućit će posjetiocima i posjetiteljkama da se upoznaju i približe djelima bh.umjetnica kroz multimedijalne izložbe, radionice i noćne muzičke događaje u Sarajevu i Bratuncu.
PitchWise festival i ove godine daje posebnu važnost ekologiji u svakodnevnom životu, sa naglaskom na reciklažu. Ovaj će proces biti predstavljen kroz umjetničke radionice i promociju PitchWise-a na eko-kampu u Bratuncu.
U 2008. godini, u cijelom svijetu se obilježava stota godišnjica od rođenja francuske filozofkinje i autorice Simone de Beauvoir koja je svojim djelom “Drugi spol” prva artikulirala odnose (ne)moći spolova u socijalnom i političkom miljeu s početka dvadestog vijeka. PitchWise festival odat će počast Simone de Beauvoir kroz prezentaciju i prikazivanje filmova o njenom stvarateljstvu i životu.
PitchWise festival kreirat će prostor dijaloga između aktivistica iz regije na teme izazova i prilika u radu za ženska ljudska prava, kao i mogućnosti i potrebe za profesionalni razvoj, prevenciju i menadžment stresa.
Od 11-14. septembra, jedini bosanskohercegovački festival ženske angažirane umjetnosti okupit će umjetnice iz BiH, Slovenije, Hrvatske, Srbije, Njemačke i Australije, i predstavlja djela austrijskih, američkih i holandskih umjetnica. Njihove radove i iskustva javnost će upoznati kroz PitchWise izložbe, umjetničke i kreativne radionice, filmski program, koncerte, performanse i ulične akcije.
PitchWise će otvoriti multimedijalna izložba „One lično“ gdje se predstavlja četrnaest mladih bosanskohercegovačkih umjetnica koje su posvećene ikonografiji sopstvenog intimnog svijeta i svijeta svog neposrednog okruženja. Motiv portreta, i često autoportreta, prisutan na cijeloj izložbi, realizovan je u različitim medijima – slikarstvu, kolažu, grafici, skulpturi, reljefu, video-artu i fotografiji. Kustosica izložbe je Branka Vujanović (BiH).
Ove godine PitchWise donosi i četverodnevnu eko-umjetničku radionicu koja uključuje istraživački dio i stvaranje umjetničkih radova kroz recikliranje brojnih materijala. Radionicu će voditi njemačka umjetnica Corrine Vosse, voditeljica Knust Stoffe – Center for Reusable Materials u Berlinu (Njemačka). Ovom radionicom ciljamo povezati zajednicu ljudi predanih očuvanju prirode, ali isto tako povezati se sa svima koje/i do sada nisu davali/e važnost recikliranju.
Ove godine PitchWise festival se realizira u dva grada – Sarajevo i Bratunac. Posebno smo sretne što smo prganizirale uspješan eko kamp u sklopu pred-PitchWise događaja na „Rajskoj plaži“ u Bratuncu od 25-31. augusta 2008. gdje su se odvijale brojne umjetničke i aktivističke radionice i razgovori.
Ulaz na sve PitchWise događaje je tradicionalno besplatan, osim za pojedine večernje dj&djaning sesije. Glavne PitchWise lokacije su Centar za interdisciplinarne postiplomske studije (CIPS), u Studentskom kampusu u Sarajevu.
PitchWise festival ženske umjetnosti osnovala je Fondacija CURE, kao važnu platformu u procesu kreiranja i promoviranja bh. umjetnica i njihovih djela, te razvoju kreativnih industrija u BiH.
Fondacija CURE je bh. feministička aktivistička grupa koja djeluje od 2004. godine kroz istraživanja, edukacije i kulturno umjetničke programe. Stvarajmo pozitivne društvene promjene u Bosni i Hercegovini zajedno!
Za prijave na PitchWise radionice, više informacija, donacije i volontiranje, molimo kontaktirajte ured
Fondacije CURE na 033 270 610 (tel/fax), ili pišite na info@fondacijacure.org|Ovogodišnji PitchWise program bazira se na promociji mladih umjetnica, važnosti reciklaže i obilježavanju stoljetnice rođenja francuske autorice Simone de Beauvoir.
56|1220077680|dynamic|1. CODE MUSIC FEST, Travnik - 3. i 4. oktobar 2008|
Travnik će napokon dobiti muzički festival vrijedan pažnje. Vizija Code Music Festa je da bude muzički festival na kome će neafirmisani muzičari iz Centralne Bosne dobiti priliku da nastupaju uz zvučna muzička imena.
Festivalska ulaznica koštati simboličnih 5 KM, a organizator se pobrinuo za brojna iznenađenja i besplatene after partije koji će biti organizovani u kultnom travničkom Internet clubu AlterArt.
Festival je zakazan za 03. i 04. oktobar 2008 godine i desit će se u Centru za kulturu Travnik.
PROGRAM FESTIVALA:
Petak 03. oktobar No Limit KillingJazzHardCoreBaby LAKA
Free after party @ Internet Club Alter Art Nazzif Higher Representative
Subota 04. oktobar Folder Puls Asfalta KZU ole,ole PZU oje,oje
Free after party @ Internet Club Alter Art Nazzif Higher Representative
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Travnik će napokon dobiti muzički festival vrijedan pažnje. Vizija Code Music Festa je da bude muzički festival na kome će neafirmisani muzičari iz Centralne Bosne dobiti priliku da nastupaju uz zvučna muzička imena...
52|1218472560|dynamic|SPASIMO VJETRENICU!|
Dragi prijatelji i kolege,
Obraćam Vam se s molbom za pomoć i podršku projektu istraživanja, popularizacije i zaštite Vjetrenice, kojeg godinama dobrovoljno provodimo s nizom vrhunskih domaćih i međunarodnih stručnjaka.
Obraćam Vam se s molbom za pomoć i podršku projektu istraživanja, popularizacije i zaštite Vjetrenice, kojeg godinama dobrovoljno provodimo s nizom vrhunskih domaćih i međunarodnih stručnjaka.
47|1216813980|dynamic|Superbrands priznanje za Ledo d.o.o. Čitluk|
Ledo d.o.o. Čitluk osvojio je status Superbrands koji se u Bosni i Hercegovini dodijeljivao po prvi puta i to u koknkurenciji 12 000 brendova prisutnih na tržištu.
Ovo priznanje za reputaciju, prepoznatljivost, kvalitetu i dugogodišnju dosljednost u godini kada Ledo slavi 50 godina postojanja idealan je rođendanski poklon.
Ekspertno vijeće Superbrandsa koje je vršilo selekciju brandova za 2008. godinu u BiH sastojalo se od 55 članova – priznatih i poznatih poslovnih, marketinških i akademskih stručnjaka, kao i predstavnika medija. Kao rezultat ove selekcije bit će izdana knjiga „Superbrands BiH 2008“ koja će biti predstavljena javnosti na svečanoj ceremoniji dodjele priznanja Superbrands u Septembru.
Ledo d.o.o. Čitluk u sastavu koncerna Agrokor posluje od 2000. godine i danas je najveći proizvođač sladoleda u Bosni i Hercegovini. Prema prošlogodišnjem istraživanju zauzima 73% tržišta u Bosni i Hercegovini ( izvor MEMBR 2007 ) Osim proizvodnje sladoleda, Ledo d.o.o. Čitluk tijekom cijele godine pakira maslac i smrznutu ribu te distribuira Ledo smrznuto povrće, tijesto, ribu te ledo gotova jela.
Od samih početaka pa sve do danas, tvrtka Ledo razvila se u modernu kompaniju koja temeljno određuje najvažnije strateške komponente, uključujući pozitivnu i stabilnu percepciju u javnosti, kontinuirano uvođenje inovacija u poslovanju, visoke standarde kvalitete, regionalno širenje, kvalitetnu distribuciju i dr.
Paralelno s rastom kompanije, Ledo je razvio pozitivan i prepoznatljiv image te ga tržište prepoznaje kao veliku i snažnu, dinamičnu kompaniju koja nudi odlične, zdrave i ukusne proizvode.
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Ledo d.o.o. Čitluk osvojio je status Superbrands koji se u Bosni i Hercegovini dodijeljivao po prvi puta i to u koknkurenciji 12 000 brendova prisutnih na tržištu...
29|1210350840|dynamic|PAMPERS U HUMANITARNOJ AKCIJI - Pampers nastavlja podršku priraštaju u Bosni i Hercegovini!|Sarajevo, 09. 05. 2008 - Krajem januara ove godine na Klinici za ginekologiju i akušerstvo Kliničkog centra Univerziteta u Sarajevu na svijet su došle trojke porodice Hajdarević, kojima je Pampers donirao pelene i maramice u sklopu svoje akcije darivanja.
Naime, Pampers i dalje nastavlja niz humanitarnih akcija u sklopu kampanje protiv negativnog prirodnog priraštaja u Bosni i Hercegovini započete prošle godine donacijom resusitatora za sedam velikih medicinskih centara u Bosni i Hercegovini. Velika Pampers akcija je u 2007. i 2008. godini obuhvatila i darivanje novorođenih trojki u Novom Šeheru, Odžaku, Čelincu, Sarajevu i Bihaću, te donaciju stolića za presvlačenje beba za 35 porođajnih odjeljenja u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Novi mali stanovnici Sarajeva će narednih nekoliko mjeseci moći koristiti Pampersovu donaciju. Ovog puta Pampers je novorođene trojke porodice Hajdarević donirao sa većom količinom Pampers pelena i maramica, koje će im u ovom osjetljivom periodu za mlade roditelje zasigurno biti od velike pomoći.
“Presretna sam zbog naših novih članova porodice. Zbog ekonomske situacije podizanje djece u našoj zemlji je odvažan i hrabar čin, međutim, ovakva iskrena pažnja nam je znak da smo na pravom putu. Zahvaljujem se Pampersu na njihovoj nesebičnoj podršci” sa osmjehom ističe Edina Hajdarević, majka novorođenih trojki u Sarajevu.
Pampers i u narednim mjesecima planira nastavak sličnih aktivnosti. “Pored Nacionalnog programa edukacije o njezi beba, koja se u BiH sprovodi već osmu godinu zaredom, nastavićemo sa akcijama donacija medicinskim ustanovama u našoj zemlji, ali i pojedincima’’, rekla je Maida Agić, koordinator odnosa sa javnošću kompanije Procter&Gamble.|Krajem januara ove godine na Klinici za ginekologiju i akušerstvo Kliničkog centra Univerziteta u Sarajevu na svijet su došle trojke porodice Hajdarević, kojima je Pampers donirao pelene i maramice u sklopu svoje akcije darivanja.
27|1209586320|dynamic|INICIJATIVA: ZAMJENIMO DATUM!|Neformalna grupa građana, imenom "2na5", a povodom odluke vladajućih inovatora grada Sarajeva, kojom se Dan sjećanja na spašavanje Sarajeva od totalne okupacije 2. maja 1992. godine, zbog prvomajskih praznika pomjera na 5. maj, pokreće inicijativu da se, a kako bi svima bilo lakše i jednostavnije, te da se ja'njetina ne ohladi, 2. maj trajno prebaci na 5. maj, kako na lokalnom, a daljnjim djelovanjem i na globalnom nivou.
ZAŠTO INICIJATIVA? Podsjećanja radi, 2. maja 1992. godine je dan kada su jedni 'vamo u starkama, farmerkama i duksericama glumili omiljene akcione likove i zaustavili budale da podjele i pobiju cijeli jedan grad. adrese: - http://efm.ba/2na5 - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14032752946
Roditeljska pažnja Zoke Ćatića (http://efm.ba) će se u petak, 2. maja u 10:30 održati uživo na grobljima Kovači i Lav u Sarajevu. Razlog za to je pokušaj povratka obraza koji nam svakodnavno prodaju vladajući samoživi, te svojom posljednom odlukom o pomjeranju 2. maja na 5. maj jasno dali do znanja šta misle o onima koji su svoj život dali za grad Sarajevo.
|Neformalna grupa građana, imenom "2na5", a povodom odluke vladajućih inovatora grada Sarajeva, kojom se Dan sjećanja na spašavanje Sarajeva od totalne okupacije 2. maja 1992. godine, zbog prvomajskih praznika pomjera na 5. maj, pokreće inicijativu da se, a kako bi svima bilo lakše i jednostavnije, te da se ja'njetina ne ohladi, 2. maj trajno prebaci na 5. maj, kako na lokalnom, a daljnjim djelovanjem i na globalnom nivou...
26|1209471120|dynamic|W&GO FLEXI VOLUME: VAŠA KOSA... SLIJEDI SVAKI VAŠ POKRET|
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Kontakt telefon: Sabahudin Gegić - +387 65 875 494|Sabahudin Gegić, samohrani otac osmero djece je od 1999. godine žvi u kući koju je vlasnik nedavno prodao i iz nje mora izaći 1. aprila 2008. Mjesečna primanja su mu 196 KM, a kako bi preživio radi na skupljanju otpada i kako kaže "snalazi se kako zna". Opština mu je dodjelila neuslovan jednosoban stan bez stakla na prozorima, bez tople vode, sa krovom koji prokišnjava...
24|1207010760|dynamic|Serija radionica kontakt improvizacije za sve one koji vole da se krecu, bez obzira na oblik, velicinu, spol, iskustvo, fleksibilnost ili sposobnost...|Najavljujemo seriju radionica kontakt improvizacije za sve one koji vole da se krecu, bez obzira na oblik, velicinu, spol, iskustvo, fleksibilnost ili sposobnost
sta je to kontakt improvizacija? kontakt improvizacija je oblik savremenog plesa koji je razvijen u new yorku 70tih godina proslog vijeka u kojem kontakt izmedju plesaca predstavlja pocetnu tacku za istrazivanje pokreta vodeci do stvaranja zajednickog, jedinstvenog plesa kreiranog na licu mjesta. moze ga plesati bilo ko, posto je naglasak na toku energije i svjesnosti o tijelu, a ne na stvaranju tacno odredjenih pokreta ili koreografije.
modul 1: povjerenje i odgovornost nas um uvijek ima dobre izgovore, ali tijelo nikada ne laze! kroz razlicite vjezbe pokreta vidjecemo kako su povjerenje i odgovornost ustvari dvije strane istog novcica, naucicemo da nadvladamo strah od gubitka kontrole cime cemo razviti sposobnost da vjerujemo svom plesnom partneru i u isto vrijeme mu omoguciti da on vjeruje nama, te cemo nauciti kako nas pokret utjece na druge.
modul 2: komunikacija i saradnja mnogi konflikti se mogu izbjeci jasnom komunikacijom. odnos izmedju poslovnih partnera, prijatelja ili ljubavnika uvijek najbolje funkcionise kada oba partnera imaju jasno iskristalisane namjere i ocekivanja. kroz plesanje u grupama otkricemo da li smo u stanju da jasno komuniciramo i kakve mogu biti posljedice!
modul 3: improvizacija i tehnika (samo po zavrsetku modula 1 i modula 2) u ovom Modulu cemo se koncentrisati na vjestine i tehnike koje mozemo koristiti u plesu cime cemo nauciti da se krecemo na zdrav i efikasan nacin. kroz vjezbe improvizacije cemo nauciti i da uvijek budemo otvoreni za neocekivano, da dopustimo tijelu da slobodno govori bez da ga um konstantno kontrolise i da slijedimo tok...
radionicu vodi: Stefania Kregel asistent: Stefan Goldgruber
termini: u toku je registracija za pohadjanje modula 1. moduli su zatvorenog tipa i samo oni koji se prijave na pocetku ce moci ucestvovati cime zelimo omoguciti plesacima da dublje udju u temu modula.
na kraju jedne serije radionica cemo imati otvoreni besplatni cas za sve one koji zele da probaju plesati sa nama, i 'jam session' – grupnu improvizaciju gdje ce oni koji su zavrsili sva tri modula moci isprobati stecene vjestine.
cijene: cijena svakog modula je: zaposleni 50 KM nezaposleni i studenti 40 KM radna cijena 25 KM
(jedan ucesnik po modulu dobija snizenu cijenu i pomaze oko organizacije)
uz prijavu je potrebno uplatiti nepovratnu akontaciju od 20 KM, a ostatak uplatiti najkasnije na prvom terminu. u cijenu je ukljuceno 5 termina po 2 sata, dok je otvorena radionica besplatna.
info: za sve informacije i prijavu: Nevena 061 701 107 pr@tanzelarija.org|sta je to kontakt improvizacija? kontakt improvizacija je oblik savremenog plesa koji je razvijen u new yorku 70tih godina proslog vijeka u kojem kontakt izmedju plesaca predstavlja pocetnu tacku za istrazivanje pokreta vodeci do stvaranja zajednickog, jedinstvenog plesa kreiranog na licu mjesta. moze ga plesati bilo ko, posto je naglasak na toku energije i svjesnosti o tijelu, a ne na stvaranju tacno odredjenih pokreta ili koreografije...
22|1205272620|dynamic|MODERN 2 - BELGRADE DESIGN WEEK 2008|
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14|1194433260|dynamic|UNA|Una je rijeka u sjeverozapadnom dijelu Bosne i Hercegovine koja manjim dijelom čini zapadnu granicu BiH i Hrvatske. Ime Una potiče od korijena je u općoj imenici unda što znači uzburkana voda, voda, val. Po drugim nalazima riječ Una potiče od riječi uno, što ima značenje jedna, jedina.
Una izvire iz sjevero-istočnog dijela planine Stražbenice, i protiče kroz: Martinbrod, Kulen Vakuf, Ripač, Bihać, Bosanska Krupa, Bosanska Otoka, Bosanski Novi (Novi Grad), Kostajnica (Bosanska i Hrvatska), Bosanska Dubica (Kozarska Dubica), Jasenovac. Uljeva se u Savu blizu mjesta Jasenovac. Njene Glavne pritoke su Sana, Unac, Krušnica i Klokot.
Ukupna dužina ove ljepotice koja pripada crnomorskom slivu je oko 212 km. Površina njenog sliva je 10,400km². Nedaleko od Bosanske Otoke pronađen je jedan čamac izdubljen u deblu, poprilično velikih razmjera. Služio je, po riječima arheloginje Branke Raunig iz bihaćkog Regionalnog muzeja Pounja za transport roba i ljudi. Danas je Una dio velikog blaga prirodnog naslijeđa Bosne i Hercegovine, mjesto bogatog turističkog prometa i održavanja međunarodne sportsko-turističke manifestacije Una-Regata.
U Uni raste preko 170 različitih vrsta ljekovitih biljaka, kao rijetka biljka Campanile unensis, i oko 28 vrsta ribe, među kojim lipljen, pastrmka i mladica.|Una je rijeka u sjeverozapadnom dijelu Bosne i Hercegovine koja manjim dijelom čini zapadnu granicu BiH i Hrvatske. Ime Una potiče od korijena je u općoj imenici unda što znači uzburkana voda, voda, val. Po drugim nalazima riječ Una potiče od riječi uno, što ima značenje jedna, jedina.
13|1194433020|dynamic|KLEK|Klek je poluotok u jadranskom moru koji pripada najvećim dijelom Bosni i Hercegovini, a manjim dijelom Hrvatskoj.
Poluotok Klek je dug oko 6.5 kilometara i u prosjeku je širok 600 metara. Zajedno sa Neumom zatvara mali zaljev koji pripada Bosni i Hercegovini. Klek je okružen mnogobrojnim manjim otočićima, od kojih Veliki Šoj i Mali Šoj pripadaju BiH, mada ih Parlamentarna skupština Bosne i Hercegovine nikada nije verifikovala. U blizini se također nalazi veliki poluotok Pelješac koji je u cjelosti u vlasništvu Hrvatske.
Bosanskohercegovački dio otoka Kleka se nalazi u općini Neum, a Dejtonskim sporazumom je pripao Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine, odnosno Hercegovačko-neretvanskom kantonu.
Hrvatski dio Kleka pripada Dubrovačko-neretvanskoj županiji.
Poluotok Klek, kao i Neum, su pripadali Dubrovačkoj Republici sve dok 1718. godine kada je Požarevačkim mirom ustupila Osmanskom Carstvu. Klek, zajedno sa ostatkom Bosne i Hercegovine biva okupiran od Austro-Ugarske 1878. godine. Ulaskom BiH u Jugoslaviju ulazi i Klek i u Jugoslaviji ostaje sve do 1992. godine (osim u Drugom svjetskom ratu kada je pripadao Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj).
1991. godine, ocjepljenjem Republike Hrvatske od ostatka Jugoslavije, dio Kleka ulazi u njen sastav, a zatim 1992. godine, nezavisnošću Bosne i Hercegovine, drugi, veći dio poluotoka postaje dio BiH.|Klek je poluotok u jadranskom moru koji pripada najvećim dijelom Bosni i Hercegovini, a manjim dijelom Hrvatskoj.
12|1194432480|dynamic|VRBAS|Vrbas rijeka i pritoka Save u zapadnom dijelu Bosne i Hercegovine, dugačka oko 250 km, sa površinom sliva oko 5900 km².
Nastaje od dva vrela na Zec-Planini (ogranak Vranice). Rijeka Vrbas usjeca kompozitnu dolinu, prolazeći kroz Skopljansku kotlinu, Vinacku klisuru, Jajačku kotlinu, kanjonsku dolinu Tjesno, Banjolučku kotlinu, a donjim tokom preko svoje makroplavine Lijevče polje.
Pritoke Vrbasa su: Vrbanja, Pliva, Ugar i druge. Na rijeci je izgrađeno nekoliko značajnijih hidrocentrala.
Na obalama Vrbasa ili u njegovoj blizini nalaze se Gornji Vakuf, Bugojno, Donji Vakuf, Jajce i Banja Luka.|Vrbas rijeka i pritoka Save u zapadnom dijelu Bosne i Hercegovine, dugačka oko 250 km, sa površinom sliva oko 5900 km².
11|1194432180|dynamic|MAGLIĆ|Maglić je dinarska planina na granici Bosne i Hercegovine i Crne Gore oko 20 km jugozapadno od Foče. Maglić je planina sa najvišim vrhom u BiH. Najviši vrh planine je Veliki Vitao (2.396 m) u Crnoj Gori, dok je na bosanskoj strani planine najviši vrh Maglić na 2.386 m nadmorske visine. Po drugim izvorima, najviši vrh planine je Maglić sa 2.386 m.
Planina je omeđena rijekom Sutjeskom na zapadu, planinom Volujak na jugozapadu, rijekama Drinom i Pivom na sjeveroistoku te planinom Bioč na jugoistoku.
Maglić je izgrađen od permskih stijena, mezozojskih krečnjaka, dijabaza i malafira, a vidljivi su i lednički tragovi. Obrastao je bukovom i crnogoričnom šumom. Gornja šumska granica je na oko 1.600 m, a iznad te visine je plato sa pašnjacima i brojnim grebenima i visovima.
Najpoznatije visoravni su Vučevo (sa vrhom Crni Vrh), Rujevac, Snježnica, Prijevor i Mratinjska Gora. Na Magliću se nalazi i Perućica, najveća prašuma u Evropi, te veliki cirk Urdeni dolovi sa Trnovačkim jezerom na 1.517 m. Podnožje planine i sve padine su bogate vodom, sa brojnim izvorima od kojih je najizdašniji Carev Do koji nikad ne presušuje.|Maglić je dinarska planina na granici Bosne i Hercegovine i Crne Gore oko 20 km jugozapadno od Foče. Maglić je planina sa najvišim vrhom u BiH. Najviši vrh planine je Veliki Vitao (2.396 m) u Crnoj Gori, dok je na bosanskoj strani planine najviši vrh Maglić na 2.386 m nadmorske visine. Po drugim izvorima, najviši vrh planine je Maglić sa 2.386 m.
10|1194269280|dynamic|BLIDINJE|Planine Vran i Čvrsnica odnjegovale su u svojim njedrima na 1150-1300 m n/v plodnu udolinu polja, dugu 25 i široku 3-5 kilometara, a u njoj Blidinjsko jezero kao krasno plavo oko u glavi planinskih ljepotica.
Bogati sadržaj flore Parka ispunjava raznoliko bilje od mediteranskih do visokoplaninskih vrsta među kojima je i velik broj endemskih, od gljiva do ljepotice parka munike koja u Masnoj luci i okolici ima najveći kompleks na Starom kontinentu. Među brojnim životinjama Parka svakako je značajan mrki medvjed te ukras vrhova Čvrsnice - divokoza.
Ovo područje je nastanjivano od davnina. Iako se ne zna pouzdano od kada ono što svakom prolazniku pada u oko su ilirske gomile, rimski putevi, ruševine srednjovjekovnih bogomolja te veći broj nekropola - stećaka, posebno ona u Dugom polju, te vrlo interesantne planinske kuće iz dalje i bliže prošlosti. Danas su Polja i Park prirode Blidinje zov oaze ljepote i zdravlja.
Sportsko-rekreacioni centar Risovac u parku prirode Bildinje se nalazi na nadmorskoj visini od 1.250 metara. Skijalište je u podnožju planina Vran i Čvrsnica (2.228 m/nv). U blizini je planinsko jezero Blidinje, a u okolini postoji i planinarski dom.
Tražite li pogodno mjesto za opuštanje i udisanje čistog zraka, Blidinje je definitivno pravi izbor. Na samo dva sata vožnje od mora, ovaj se bosanskohercegovački Park prirode može pohvaliti očuvanim okolišem i neponovljivim planinskim prizorima.|Planine Vran i Čvrsnica odnjegovale su u svojim njedrima na 1150-1300 m n/v plodnu udolinu polja, dugu 25 i široku 3-5 kilometara, a u njoj Blidinjsko jezero kao krasno plavo oko u glavi planinskih ljepotica.
9|1194269220|dynamic|BOBOVAC|Bobovac je najznačajniji i najbolje utvrđeni grad srednjovjekovne Bosne podignut na strmoj, stepenastoj stijeni južnih padina planinskog masiva Dragovskih i Mijakovskih poljica iznad ušća Mijakovske rijeke u Bukovicu, jugozapadno od Vareša.
Nalazi se nedaleko od sela Mijakovići i Dragovići, u općini Vareš. Gradu se može prići iz dva smjera, i to od Kraljeve Sutjeske ili od Vareša. Sastojao se od gornjeg grada s četvrtastom kulom, čiji ostaci i danas postoje, i donjeg grada, na stepeniku nižem oko 20 metara, poligonskog oblika oko 40 metara dužine i oko 25 metara širine, od čega se danas raspoznaje dvorište i bunar.
Podigao ga je ban Stjepan II. Kotromanić nešto prije polovine 14. vijeka. Bobovac je bio sjedište bosanskih vladara od perioda vladavine bana Stjepana II Kotromanića (prva polovina 14. stoljeća), preko svih bosanskih kraljeva i sve do prestanka bosanske samostalnosti turskim osvajanjem (1463.) Prvi put se u pisanim dokumentima spominje 1349. godine.
Njegov položaja i konfiguracija terena je omogućavao odbranu i bio je vojno i administrativno sjedište bosanskih kraljeva uz Kraljevu Sutjesku, koja je bila bez fortifikacija i imala više administrativno-politički značaj. U njemu se čuvala bosanska kraljevska kruna. Tu se nalazila i kraljevska grobna kapela za koju se pretpostavlja da je kralj Stjepan Ostoja naredio da se stara bobovačka crkva preuredi za tu svrhu. U njoj su bila sahranjena tri bosanska kralja: Stjepan Ostoja, Tvrtko II. Kotromanić i Stjepan Tomaš.
Zbog svog geostrateškog, vojnog i političkog značaja bio je meta napada osvajača. U bosansko-srpskom ratu 1350. opsjeo ga je srpski car Stefan Dušan, ali ga nije osvojio. Septembra 1407. godine grad je osvojila mađarska vojska i jedno vrijeme držala u njemu posadu u težnji da vrati na prijestolje svrgnutog bosanskog kralja Ostoju. (vidi: Bosansko-ugarski ratovi). Stjepan Tomašević (1461.-1463.), posljednji bosanski kralj, zbog neposredne opasnosti od Osmanlija, seli kraljevski dvor u Jajce.
Bobovac su Osmanlije opsjeli 19. svibnja a osvojili 21. svibnja 1463. nakon samo tri dana borbe. Jedni izvori navode da su se za grad vodile teške borbe i da su Osmanlije pod gradom upotrijebili topove koje im je slao Nijemac Jerg (Jörg) iz Nürnberga. Također se govori da je knez Radak, koji je upravljao u to vrijeme gradom predao Bobovac misleći da će za to biti nagrađen, ali su ga Osmanlije nakon predaje pogubili.
Brzi pad Bobovca, za koji se vjerovalo da može izdržati i dvogodišnju opsadu je iznenadio kralja Stjepana Tomaševića i onemogućio ga da sakupi vojsku i dobije stranu pomoć. Zbog toga su se i posade Visokog i nekih drugih gradova predale bez borbe. Nakon njegovog zauzimanja, Osmanlije su ga razorili ali su zbog njegovog izuzetnog strateškog značaja ponovo sagradili neke objekte potrebne za njihov boravak. Osmanska posada je boravila u Bobovcu sve do 1626. kada je napušten zbog gubitka strateškog značaja nastavkom osmanskih osvajanja prema sjeveru kada ostaje duboko u pozadini.
Kraljevska grobna kapela je rekonstruirana, ali nekim nepriznatim metodama tako da je njena vrijednost umanjena. Danas se tu nalazi mauzolej dinastije Kotromanića.|Bobovac je najznačajniji i najbolje utvrđeni grad srednjovjekovne Bosne podignut na strmoj, stepenastoj stijeni južnih padina planinskog masiva Dragovskih i Mijakovskih poljica iznad ušća Mijakovske rijeke u Bukovicu, jugozapadno od Vareša.
8|1194269100|dynamic|BORAČKO JEZERO|Boračko jezero leži na severoistočnoj strani planine Prenj, na nadmorskoj visini 397 m. Sa zapada ga okružuju strmi i šumoviti visovi Crne gore (1343 m), a sa istoka Tranjine (1055 m). Basen jezera je nastao u Boračkoj dragi procesom glacijalne erozije.
Jezero ima elipsast oblik. Dugačko je 786, a široko 402 m. Površina mu iznosi 0,26 km². Dužina jezerske obale je 2,4 km. Jezero je najdublje (17m) u užem (jugoistočnom) dijelu, a sadrži približno 2,5 mil.m³ vode, koja je zbog bistrozelene boje prozirna i do 8,3 m vidljivosti. Voda je najtoplija u avgustu (oko 25°C), a najhladnija u februaru (0°C).
Boračko jezero je poznato po pastrmci i rakovima. Vodom se snabdjeva iz Boračkog potoka te brojnih okolnih izvora, koji izviru čak i na dnu jezera. Iz jezera ističe rijeka Šištica, koja se nakon kratkog toka klisurom dugom 6 km i dubokom 60 m ruši 30 m visokim vodopadom u rijeku Neretvu.
Od Konjica je udaljeno 20 km i povezano je asfatnim putem. U neposrednoj blizini izgrađeni su objekti za smještaj. Boračko jezero je omiljeno izletište stanovnika Konjica, Sarajeva i Mostara.|Boračko jezero leži na severoistočnoj strani planine Prenj, na nadmorskoj visini 397 m. Sa zapada ga okružuju strmi i šumoviti visovi Crne gore (1343 m), a sa istoka Tranjine (1055 m). Basen jezera je nastao u Boračkoj dragi procesom glacijalne erozije.
7|1194269040|dynamic|BUŠKO BLATO / JEZERO|Buško blato (jezero) je prirodni nastavak Livanjskog polja. Nalazi se na 716 m nadmorske visine. Samo jezero ima površinu od 55,8 km², a ukupna zapremina je 782 miliona m³. Jedna trećina površine jezera nalazi se u općini Livno, a dvije trećine u općini Tomislavgrad. Svojom površinom ovo jezero jedno je od najvećih akumulacija u Evropi.
Projekt su zajednički 70-ih godina 20. vijeka izvele tadašnje vlasti BiH i Hrvatske, s tim da je u Hrvatskoj (mjesto Ruda, općina Otok) izgrađena hidroelektrana "Orlovac" (instalirana snaga 237 MW, prosječna godišnja proizvodnja 366 GWh), dok je na teritoriju Bosne i Hercegovine izgrađena akumulacija na površini od oko 50-ak km².
Maksimalna količina vode iznosi 800 miliona m³. Prihodi općina Livno i Tomislav Grad od voda Buškog blata su po neslužbenim podacima više od 750.000 KM. Buško blato raspolaže bogatstvom i raznovrsnošću ribljeg fonda ( šaran, pastrva, podbila, babuška, klen, som).|Buško blato (jezero) je prirodni nastavak Livanjskog polja. Nalazi se na 716 m nadmorske visine. Samo jezero ima površinu od 55,8 km², a ukupna zapremina je 782 miliona m³. Jedna trećina površine jezera nalazi se u općini Livno, a dvije trećine u općini Tomislavgrad. Svojom površinom ovo jezero jedno je od najvećih akumulacija u Evropi.
6|1194268980|dynamic|HUTOVO BLATO|Hutovo blato je jedinstveni park prirode i ptičiji rezervat. Smješteno je na pet kilometara od Čapljine, a prostire se na skoro 8.000 hektara u neretvanskoj dolini.
Razgledanje ovog parka je besplatno, a osim posmatranja, foto-safarija, postoji još nekoliko sadržaja u samom parku, kao što su kafe-restoran, organizacija izleta na specifičnim lokacijama, smještaj u hotelu, itd.
Sam park je u stvari močvara nastala od sistema rijeke Krupe, u tipičnom kraškom ambijentu. Rijeka Krupa i nema svoj izvor nego otiče iz Deranskog jezera (jednog od nekoliko većih jezera ovog područja. Ova rijeka je jedinstvena po osobini da teče u oba smjera (nizvodno i uzvodno). Naime, kada se poveća vodostaj Neretve ta rijeka potisne Krupu prema njenom izvorištu - Deranskom jezeru.
Hutovo blato je udaljeno oko 15 km od Jadranskog mora što uzorkuje primjetan uticaj Mediteranske klime. Poznat je i kao oaza u kojoj su smještene mnoge vrste ptica močvarnica i drugih biljnih i životinjskih vrsta. Klima, vegetacija i ostali činioci stvaraju povoljne uslove naročito za smještaj ptica. Takođe ga kao zimovalište koristi i određeni broj ptica selica, te se smatra jednim od najvećih zimovališta ptica u Evropi.
Ovdje su zastupljena i četiri tipa vegetacije: vodena, močvarna, livadska i šumska. U Hutovom blatu boravi oko 600 biljnih vrsta. Pored raznovrsnog biljnog i ptičijeg svijeta vode parka su bogate ribljim vrstama, naročito jeguljama i šaranima.|Hutovo blato je jedinstveni park prirode i ptičiji rezervat. Smješteno je na pet kilometara od Čapljine, a prostire se na skoro 8.000 hektara u neretvanskoj dolini.
5|1194268800|dynamic|JABLANIČKO JEZERO|Jablaničko jezero je vještačko akumulaciono jezero koje se prostire od Konjica do Jablanice, neposredno uz magistralni put M-17. Jezero je nastalo 1953. godine, izgradnjom lučne brane na Neretvi, 5 km uzvodno od Jablanice.
Visina brane je 80 metara i jezero se proteže uzvodno do Konjica. Površina jezera je 1440 ha, a zapremina oko 290 hmł pri maksimalnoj ispunjenosti vodom. Najveća dubina iznosi 70 metara, dok je dužina je oko 30 km.
Svojom ljepotom privlači poglede putnika, zadržava kupače i ribolovce na svojim obalama, a izuzetno je pogodno i za sportove na vodi. Već desetljećima slovi za svojevrsno vikend odmaralište ili u narodu poznatu frazu "zamjena za more".
Jezero je bogato mnogim vrstama ribe, od kojih ćemo navesti: pastrmku, glavaticu, strugaču, šarana, bijeli klijen, pijuricu, babušku, itd.|Jablaničko jezero je vještačko akumulaciono jezero koje se prostire od Konjica do Jablanice, neposredno uz magistralni put M-17. Jezero je nastalo 1953. godine, izgradnjom lučne brane na Neretvi, 5 km uzvodno od Jablanice.
4|1194268680|dynamic|NEUM|Neum je grad, turističko naselje i jedino općinsko središte Bosne i Hercegovine na Jadranskoj obali, smješteno na brdovitom priobalju zaljeva Neum - Klek. Općina ima površinu od 226 km2, stanovnika 5600, a u samome gradu živi oko 4000 stanovnika.
Neum je novi grad iznikao na strmim obroncima zaljeva u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća. Ime je dobio po "starome Neumu", smještenom 2 km od obale prema unutrašnjosti.
Izgradnja Neuma intezivira se izgradnjom Jadranske magistralne ceste 1965., a posebno nakon osnivanja općine 1978. Neumska rivijera duga je 9 km, a zbog razuđenosti obale ukupna dužina iznosi 24 km.
Radno vrijeme prodavnica tokom turističke sezone je produženo od 6 - 22 sata. Od 15. juna do 15. septembra prodavnice rade i nedjeljom i praznicima, dok tokom ostatka godine neradnim danima rade 4 dežurne prodavaonice. U gradu postoje dva bankomata smještenih u poslovnicama banaka Zagrebačka banka BH i Hypo-Alpe-Adria (pored Pošte i u hotelu Sunce). Radno vrijeme poslovnica je 07-14 sati. Radno vrijeme Pošte tokom ljetne sezone je od 07-22 sata.
Udaljenost od Neuma do Dubrovnika je oko 60 km, do Mostara oko 70 km, Makarske 90 km, Splita 130 km, Sarajeva 220 km... Magistralni putevi se redovno obnavljaju i održavaju, a propusna moć graničnih prelaza se svake godine povećava. Postoje tri benzinske pumpe koje rade 24 sata. Jedna se nalazi na putu iz Neuma prema Dubrovniku, dvije prema Makarskoj, a u samom Neumu tokom zime jedna, a tokom ljeta dvije benzinske pumpe. U Neumu postoje i dvije pekare, te Dom zdravlja koji radi 24 sata.|Neum je grad, turističko naselje i jedino općinsko središte Bosne i Hercegovine na Jadranskoj obali, smješteno na brdovitom priobalju zaljeva Neum - Klek. Općina ima površinu od 226 km2, stanovnika 5600, a u samome gradu živi oko 4000 stanovnika.
3|1194268560|dynamic|PLIVSKO JEZERO|U mjestu Jezero, između Jajca i Mrkonjić grada, Pliva se širi i stvara Veliko i Malo Plivsko jezero. Osim kupanja i roštiljanja Plivsko jezero nudi i mnoge zabavne sadržaje pa se čak i u noćnim satima može lijepo zabaviti.
Iz jezera voda Plive istice silovito i na posljednja tri kilometra svoga toka napravi deset prelijepih kaskada, da bi svoje putovanje završila u Jajcu na prelijepom i jedinstvenom vodopadu na svijetu.|U mjestu Jezero, između Jajca i Mrkonjić grada, Pliva se širi i stvara Veliko i Malo Plivsko jezero. Osim kupanja i roštiljanja Plivsko jezero nudi i mnoge zabavne sadržaje pa se čak i u noćnim satima može lijepo zabaviti.
2|1194268320|dynamic|ŠTRBAČKI BUK|Štrbački Buk je smješten kod sela Donji Štrbci, u neposrednoj blizini drzavne granice Hrvatske sa Bosnom i Hercegovinom. Štrbački Buk je sastavljen od nekoliko vodopada, jedan drugom u neposrednoj blizini a najveći slap je visok oko 24 metara i veličanstvena je slika u kojoj čovjek može uživati satima.
Rijeka Una se, zahvaljujući ogromonoj protočnoj snazi vode, velikom brzinom obrusava niz stjenovitu podlogu i tako se razbijajući od stijene stvara prekrasan bijeli zid koji posmatraču oduzima dah.
Ovaj veličanstveni dio rijeke Une je po svojoj, gotovo netaknutoj divljini, privukao raftere koji ga svake godine pohode uživajući u ljepotama rijeke Une i njenim nemirnim vodama koji u posmatračima izazivaju strahopoštovanje i divljenje.|Štrbački Buk je smješten kod sela Donji Štrbci, u neposrednoj blizini drzavne granice Hrvatske sa Bosnom i Hercegovinom. Štrbački Buk je sastavljen od nekoliko vodopada, jedan drugom u neposrednoj blizini a najveći slap je visok oko 24 metara i veličanstvena je slika u kojoj čovjek može uživati satima.
1|1194267660|static|VJETRENICA|Špilja Vjetrenica je od 1950. godine zaštićeni spomenik prirode koji predstavlja izniman znanstveni i turistički potencijal. Inače ovaj atraktivni prirodni fenomen lociran je na zapadnom rubu Popova polja u općini Ravno. Ako putujete autom do Vjetrenice iz Mostara, a preko Stoca i Ljubinja možete doći za sat i dvadesetak minuta.
Makadamskim putem od Ravnog do ulaza u Vjetrenicu ima nekih 5-6 kilometara. Treba napomenuti da se ne preporučuje hodanje po okolici tog puta zbog mina. Helem, vozeći se putem do ove atrakcije malo će te se sekirati za amortizere, ali po dolasku na lokaciju sva briga će biti otpuhana hladnim vjetrom koji puše iz ulaza u Vjetrenicu, a po kojem je ova špilja i dobila svoje ime.
U prostranim hodnicima i dvoranama ove špilje temperatura stoji na otprilike 11 stupnjeva Celzija, tako da se svakako preporučuje toplija odjeća za koju će vam biti svejedno da li će te je malo više isprljati ili možda i poderali.
Najznačajnija istraživanja vezana za ovu lokaciju izvršio je Karel Absolon u periodu između 1912. i 1914. godine otkrivši pred širom znanstvenom javnošću ovaj prostor. Danas su dijelovi špilje zapravo turistički uređene staze, a na čemu se počelo raditi još daleke 1940. godine. Značajan projekt uređenja špilje odvijao se od 1958.-61. godine, a od 1964. započeo je i proces elektrifikacije, pa je tako danas neki 600 metara (od do sada otkrivenih 6230 metara) kanala i osvijetljeno. Motel kao i neki drugi turistički sadržaji uništeni su u periodu agresije na BiH. Podsjetimo da je upravo napadom na Ravno 1991. godine započeo i napad na našu zemlju.
Nakon rata su 2002. godine poduzeti novi napori u smislu afirmiranja ovog prostora, a u sklopu kojih je izrađena i topografska karta, a potom 2004. godine u organizaciji Hrvatskog biospeleološkog društva iz Zagreba izvršena su i cjelovita istraživanja faune i staništa.
Vjetrenica je karakteristična po izuzetno raznolikom špiljskom bio-svijetu sa više od sto različitih vrsta, a čak je njih 35 prvi put pronađeno i opisano u Vjetrenici (locus typicus), među kojima su i spiljski puževi, pauci, račići, crvi i jedina spiljska hidra na svijetu. U špilji se nalaze i mala jezera.
Ukratko u pitanju je još jedan od kurioziteta naše turističke ponude, odnosno prostor o kome prvi zapisi datiraju iz 77. godine naše ere, a koja se po bioraznolikosti svrstava među prve lokalitete ove vrste na svijetu.
Pored bio-atrakcija spilja sadrži i "rijetke crteže konjanika i lovaca tipične za bosanske srednjovjekovne stećke, kao i ostatke ljetnikovca iz 16. stoljeća u kojem je lokalni plemenitaš spiljski vjetar koristio kao prirodni air-condition".|Špilja Vjetrenica je od 1950. godine zaštićeni spomenik prirode koji predstavlja izniman znanstveni i turistički potencijal. Inače ovaj atraktivni prirodni fenomen lociran je na zapadnom rubu Popova polja u općini Ravno. Ako putujete autom do Vjetrenice iz Mostara, a preko Stoca i Ljubinja možete doći za sat i dvadesetak minuta.
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258|1253320260|dynamic|ONE IN SEVEN GERMANS WANT BERLIN WALL BACK? |
One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back because they were better off when the country was divided, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday ahead of the 20th anniversary of its collapse on November 9, 1989.
The survey of 1,002 Germans by the Forsa institute published in Stern magazine said 15 percent of the country's 82 million long for the days when there were two Germanys. Some 16 percent pining for the Wall were westerners and 10 percent easterners.
The survey found that many westerners are bitter about higher taxes to pay for rebuilding the formerly communist east, where some 1.2 trillion euros ($1,762 billion) worth of state funds has been transferred in the last 20 years.
Eastern Germans are unhappy about income levels that are on average only 80 percent of western levels and that due to higher unemployment depopulation is decimating parts of the east, where the population has declined by about two million since 1990.
The poll found 55 percent of Germans believe unification could be helped if a "solidarity tax" to help fund the costs of rebuilding were abolished while 50 percent believe higher pensions for easterners would help ease east-west tensions.
|One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back because they were better off when the country was divided, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday ahead of the 20th anniversary of its collapse on November 9, 1989...
Despite a second consecutive victory at this year's Miss Universe, even Venezuela's hugely successful beauty factory is feeling the global pinch. 
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German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions. 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard. 
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According to the Jury the best feature film of the Competition Program on the 15th Sarajevo Film Festival is ORDINARY PEOPLE, by Serbian director Vladimir Perišić.
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About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said. 
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A mongrel has proven that dogs really are man's best friend when he helped rescuers find the body of his owner who was killed in a car crash in Australia. 
A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun. 
An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported. 
Sunderland midfielder Grant Leadbitter, explaining to a court why he was caught speeding, said he thought the police patrol car following him was in fact a car full of Newcastle United fans chasing him for a fight. 
A customer shopping at a discount supermarket store in Germany found stems of a poisonous weed in mixed salad bags, triggering concerns about potential health risks, the store said. 
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A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said. 
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India's unfancied rugby sevens side must bulk up if they hope to make an impact at next year's Commonwealth Games, eating seven meals and at least 15 eggs a day, the country's South African coach said on Friday. 
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Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google's online photo map service, police said. 
A Spanish bar is encouraging clients to insult its staff and offering free drinks for original or hilarious abuse. 
Kina je otkazala neke usluge najpopularnijeg internet pretraživača "Google" koji je dan ranije optužila da se ne suprotstavlja pornografiji u dovoljnoj mjeri.
MSNBC, CNBC, The Huffington Post and Twitter are all abuzz about an objection brought up by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to interview outtake footage confirming that, yes, like many people, President Obama swats flies...
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It's heart-wrenching. Baby elephants are ripped away from their mothers and forced into a life of abuse and humiliation that is reinforced with bullhooks, whips and electric prods. 
Uspješno je okončana akcija prkupljanja pomoći za Enu Feriz. 
Lions in Kenya are dying horrific deaths from carbofuran pesticide poisoning, a toxic chemical used on crops. 
Apple je izdao punu verziju Internet preglednika Safari 4 za platforme Mac OS X i Windowse. 
U periodu od 6. do 13. juna 2009. gdine u jajcu će biti održane 28. pozorišne igre Bosne i Hercegovine. 
Sa nepune dvije godine djevojčica Li Tiankvi prepoznaje više od 2'000 kineskih znakova, a svakog dana nauči nekoliko novih. 
Nakon poduže pauze, i jako dugo najavljivani četvrti album sarajevske grupe Sikter pod nazivom "Ego trip", od utorka je konačno u prodaji. 
Već se uveliko priča da će vrlo skoro, vjerovatno već naredne sedmice, Facebook mreža dozvoliti ponuditi svojim korisnicima da zamjene svoju bezličnu Facebook adresu prepunu brojeva, suvislim i pamtljivim imenom (kako to već odavno imaju Twitter i MySpace). 
Selo Linkenholt u Engleskoj, koje je prije nekoliko mjeseci stavljeno na prodaju, konačno je našlo vlasnika. 
Biser evropskog srednjevijekovnog graditeljstva, Karlov most u Pragu, ponovo je zbunio savremenu nauku i arhitekturu, pošto se upravo otkrilo da su drevni neimari u njegove stubove ugradili mahovinu. 
Astronauti Međunarodne svemirske stanice su u svoju čast nazdravili po prvi put ispivši prerađeni urin. 
Rukom pisana pjesma "Little Buddy" tada šesnaestogodišnjeg Boba Dylana uskoro će biti ponuđena na prodaju putem aukcije. 
Jedan hrast (Quercus robur) je najstarije drvo u Bugarskoj, ove godine puni 1664 godine. 
Amazon je početkom mjeseca predstavio Kindle DX, elektronski čitač većeg formata, prilagođen čitanju novina i udžbenika. 
Globalno istraživanje koje je sproveo PricewaterhouseCoopers pokazuje da su čitatelji spremni platiti za visokokvalitetne online publikacije. 
Google namjerava intenzivirati svoju saradnju s američkim novinskim kućama, a razmatraju se i novčane investicije. 
U britanskim vodama pronađena je neobična vrsta ribe koja, kako je ustanovljeno, izaziva halucinacije slične onima koje potiče LSD. 
Španski gradovi su zagađeni kao i većina drugih ali istraživanja pokazuju kako zrak u Madridu i Barceloni sadrži i kokain. 
U vrijeme kad je briga za okoliš ne samo popularna, nego i prijeko potrebna, tvrtka Coca-Cola je najavila proizvodnju nove ambalaže za svoja popularna pića koja će se točiti u barem djelomično ekološki prihvatljive boce. 
Donji dom francuskog parlamenta odobrio je danas zakon protiv piraterije na internetu koji vlastima omogućava da prate nelegalno "skidanje muzike i filmova" sa svjetske mreže te da isključuje prestupnike koji ponove prekršaj. 
Najsretniji ljudi na svijetu žive u zemljama sjeverne Evrope, rezultati su istraživanja Organizacije za ekonomsku saradnju i razvoj sa sjedištem u Parizu. 
Članovi nekadašnjeg legendarnog švedskog pop kvarteta ABBA Beni Anderson i Bjorn Ulveus su objavili nove pjesme nakon više od 15 godina. 
Posao čuvara australijskog tropskog ostrva, u trajanju od šest mjeseci, je pripao Britancu Ben Sautholu. 
Američki turisti koji su prije 25 godina odlomili komadić Koloseuma u Rimu uz izvinjenje su ga i vratili Vječnom gradu. 
Grupa adrenalinskih ovisnika iz Nikaragve je razvila novi ekstremni sport po imenu "volcano boarding", u kojem se učesnici takmiče spuštanjem niz padine aktivnih vulkana brzinom i do 70 kilometara na sat. 
Konzumiranjem male količine vina, od oko pola čaše dnevno, tokom dužeg perioda, može se značajno produžiti život, tvrde holandski stručnjaci sa Univerziteta Vageningen. 
Nakon glasina koje su kružile netom u protekloj sedmici o mogućoj prodaji mikrobloggerskog servisa i mreže Twitter, Googleu, Microsoftu ili Appleu, jedan od osnivača kompanije Biz Stone izjavio je jučer da servis "nije na prodaju". 
Mark Stivens, inženjer iz Cornvola, je porodio svoju suprugu nakon što je pregledao video snimak sa instrukcijama na najpopularnijem svjetskom video servisu "YouTube". 
Zvaničnicima seoske kineske oblasti Gongang u centralnoj provinciji Hubei je naređeno da puše cigarete lokalne proizvodnje kako bi se povećao prihod od poreza. 
Prijestolnica Austrije, Beč, je grad s najvećim kvalitetom života u svijetu, pokazala je godišnja studija konsalting firme "Merser", koja je obuhvatila 215 svjetskih metropola. 
Prosječan tinejdžer provede na internetu sat i 40 minuta sedmično tražeći pornografiju što iznosi približno 87 sati godišnje. Čini vam se puno ili malo?
Unska regata od ove će godine nositi epitet internacionalna ne samo zbog brojnih učesnika iz inozemstva nego i stoga što će biti realizirana zajedničkim snagama Bosne i Hercegovine i Hrvatske. 
Dvogodišnja Britanka Elise Tan-Roberts postala je najmlađa članica Mense s koeficijent inteligencije 156. 
Klimatske promjene mogle bi izbrisati neke najpoznatije svjetske turističke destinacije. 
Adamski su reciklirali, ponovno obradili i snimili svoj klasik, album Liveanddirect povodom 20. godina od objavljivanja ovog albuma.
Sjajni Kultur Shock je priveo kraju snimanje novog studijskog albuma. Album, pod nazivom Integration sadrži jedanaest novih pjesama: King, Build a Wall, Guerilla, Balcchanalia, Country Mohammed, Holy Day, Rose, Lazy, Agribusiness, Gore Gore, Words. 
Pomozimo roditeljima čija je kćerka bolesna, a nemaju mogućnost finansirati neophodan operativni zahvat koji je moguće obaviti samo u nekim od evropskih klinika. 
U Sarajevu će danas biti snimljena posljednja klapa dugometražnog igranog filma "Jasmina". 
Danas se navršava 23 godine od najstrašnije mirnodopske nuklearne katastrofe u historiji čovječanstva koja se dogodila u atomskoj elektrani u ukrajinskom Černobilu. 
Astronomi koji su proučavali džinovski oblak prašine u centru Mliječnog puta su otkrili kako bi on mogao imati ukus maline i mirisati na rum. 
Glavni grad Austrije će uskoro krasiti nekoliko hiljada novih javnih kanti za smeće. 
Naučnici koji su proveli dvogodišnje istraživanje u sklopu projekta kineske državne uprave za kulturnu baštinu tvrde kako je Kineski je zid duži nego se do sada vjerovalo. 
Na spomen dobrog starog "komodora" svakom malo starijem geeku zadrhti ruka, pogled odluta u daljinu, a u oku se pojavi suza. 
Ova potpuno funkcionalna modifikacija sastoji se od novog prenosnog kućišta, u bež boji sa logotipom Commodore, u kojem se nalazi 15-inčni ekran, dok hardware pripada Commodore 64-ci, a pridodat je iposebni čitač memorijskih karticama koji emulira floppy disk. 
Američki online gigant Google je objavio kako su u prvom kvartalu ove godine povećali dobit za 8,9 posto, dok su im prihodi porasli za 6,2 posto. 
Sva četiri optužena u slučaju The Pirate Bay download servisa: Peter Sunde "brokep", Fredrik Neij "TiAMO", Gottfrid Svartholm "Anakata" i Carl Lundstrom su krivi jer su, prema odluci suda radeći sa zajedničkim ciljem bili svjesni da je materijal koji se dijeli preko The Pirate Bay-a zaštićen autorskim pravima, a prekršiocima su olakšali kršenje zakona. 
Microsoft je zvanično objavio zatvoranje online enciklopedije - 
Orkestar okupljen zahvaljujući najpopularnijem svjetskom video portalu YouTube, preko kojeg su članovi održavali probe održao je zapažen koncert u njujorškom "Karnegi holu". 
Australijski naučnici su došli do otkrića kako tmurno vrijeme, iako nije dobro za raspoloženje, pozitivno utiče na mozak i pamćenje.
Daleko od očiju javnosti i za sad bez pretjeranog interesovanja medija, počela je dramatična trka prema tajnim, skrivenim jezerima koja se nalaze ispod Južnog pola. 
Kanadska Vlada odlučila je da iduće godine zatvori ambasadu u Bosni i Hercegovini zbog ekonomskih razloga i ubuduće će područje Bosne i Hercegovine nerezidentno pokrivati iz Budimpešte. 
Sjajna slovenska rock grupa Siddharta u najnovijem "Saga projektu" najavljuje novi EP, inače drugim po redu. EP je naslovljen Napalm 3. 
U doba opšte privredne krize u cijelom svijetu čini se da ipak postoje i oni koji nemaju takvih problema.
Tudor Ciora, dvadesetšestogodipšnji Rumun iz grada Sibiu je smislio originalan način da vrati novac koji je potrošio na nedavnu svadbu. 
Broj korisnika čuvene Facebook mreže je dostigao 200 miliona ljudi. 
Američki gigant Google uskoro preuzima internet servis za razmjenu kratkih poruka - Twitter. 
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Poslije pet mjeseci DJinga, VJinga, plesa, gužve, dima i rješavanja problema sa električnim instalacijama, Caffe bar Opera i Diskobajagi vam donose svoj prvi kompilacijski cd. 
Guano Apes je rock bend kojeg su 1994. godine u Njemačkoj osnovali Dennis Poschwatta, Stefan Ude i Henning Rümenapp, dok se pjevačica 
XVI internacionalni Prag film festival je okončan dodjelom još jednog Grand Prixa bosanskohercegovačkom filmu "Snijeg". 
Kineske vlasti će od 5. aprila 2009. godine ponovo dopustiti posjete stranih turista Tibetu. 
U Bosni i Hercegovini su u 2008. godini zabilježena 336'163 internet pretplatnika. 
Izvještaj je ugledao svjetlo dana nakon desetomjesečne istrage Information Warfare Monitora iz Otave i Svešteničkog centra za međunarodne studije, Univerziteta u Torontu, oni su sproveli istragu nakon zahtjeva ljudi iz okruženja Dalaj-lame sa željom da se provjeri da li je računarska mreža koju koriste pod nadzorom. 
Organizatori konkursa za čuvara australijskog ostrva u Velikom koraljnom grebenu - saopštili su kako su uspjeli napraviti odabir 16 finalista. 
Četrdesetdevetogodišnjoj Sarajki Samiji Kadić potrebna je žurna operacija moždane aneurizme – proširenja krvnog suda u mozgu. 
28. marta 2009. godine tačno u 20:30 sata, gradovi širom svijeta će isključiti svjetla na jedan sat u okviru akcije "
Jutros su na globalnoj mreži osvanule 
Izašla je najnovija verzija internet preglednika Internet Explorer 8 se može preuzeti sa Microsoft stranice. 
Facebook, društvena internet mreža koja već ima svoje jezičke verzije na oko 40 jezika, pokrenula je i nove dvije verzije na arapsku i hebrejsku jeziku. 
Danas se, 22. marta, u cijelom svijetu obilježava Svjetski dan voda.
Danas se obilježava Dan borbe protiv aparthejda - rasne diskriminacije. 
Na sjevernu poluloptu planete Zemlje danas će, 20. marta u 12:44 sati zakoračiti proljeće. 
Naučni tim iz Velike Britanije će na sjevernoj obali Španije u more pustiti pet riba-robota koje otkrivaju zagađenja u vodi. 
U okviru programa VIDEOart na ovogodisnjem Interground Sarajevo Festivalu bit ce uprilicene projekcije filmova bh autora: Alen Drljević, Christiana Biron, Damir Nemir Janeček, Elvir Muminović, Enes Zlatar, Faruk Lončarević, Ivan Ramadan, Šejla Kamerić i Timur Makarević. 
Film Aide Begić, "Snijeg" je proglašen najboljim dugim igranim filmom ovogodišnjeg "Birds eye View" filmskog festivala, posvećenog ženama filmskim stvaraocima, koji je od 5. do 13. marta održan u Londonu. 
Google se spremna za velike igre u telekomunikacionoj industriji,a tome je dokaz i najnoviji servis - 
Nastupom grupa "Flatline" i "Despotic bullet" večeras će u Access centru početi Peto izdanje Interground Sarajevo Festivala, koji će trajati do 28. marta.
Helsinški parlament građana i Fondacija CURE pozivaju Vas na X-PRESS sesiju “Slijepe i slabovidne osobe u medijskom ogledalu”, koja će se održati u subotu, 14. marta 2009. godine u 11 sati.
Akcija je podsjetnik zašto je još uvijek jako važno da na osmi mart prepoznamo dugi proces u kom su žene izborile i uživaju svoja prava - kao što vidimo kroz herstoriju, da je osmi mart dan kada inspirišemo žene u cijelom svijetu da se sjećaju svojih prava 365 dana u godini i kada izjavljujemo da nećemo unazad! Ne damo svoja prava! Pridružite nam se ispred katedrale u podne.
Mozilla je objavila novu verziju svog popularnog internet preglednika - 
NASA lansirala teleskop Kepler koji će tražiti planete slične Zemlji NASA je kasno u petak lansirala u Zemljinu orbitu teleskop Kepler koji će pokušati tražiti planete slične Zemlji na kojima je moguć život i koje se nalaze u orbiti oko zvijezda.
Opera Software je predstavila novu verziju svog internet preglednika - Opera 9.64.
La Linea ili kod naših obožavatelja ovog lika poznatiji kao "Bajum-badum" vjerovatno je jedan od najboljih i najpopularnijih crtanih filmova od kad je svijeta i vijeka.
Uprkos snijegu i temperaturi ispod nule, stotine američkih studenata, naravno i prikladno obučenih u zeleno, okupili su se prije nekoliko dana zahtijevajući da Kongres usvoji jedan sveobuhvatan zakon o energiji i klimi.
Bosnu i Hercegovinu je u oktobru ove godine posjetilo 57'194 turista, što je za šest posto više u odnosu na predhodni mjesec, a 9,9 posto u odnosu na isti mjesec prošle godine.
Zima u BiH i na sjevernu Zemljinu poluloptu ove godine stiže 21. decembra u 12.03 sati. Tog dana imat ćemo najdužu noć u godini, a obdanica će biti najkraća. To je dan zimskog solisticija ili zimske kratkodnevnice. 
Dosad nezapamćene poplave registrirane su na teritoriji gornjovakufske općine, gdje je usljed iznenadnog porasta nivoa Vrbasa došlo do odnošenja mnogih mostova u gradskim i prigradskim mjesnim zajednicama. 
Sarajevski bend “Letu Štuke” će za proslavu novogodišnje noći, na veliku radost mnogobrojnih fanova, svirati na centralnom dočeku Nove Godine ispred Vječne vatre u Sarajevu!
Nova 2009. godina će morati sačekati jednu sekundu prije nego što zvanično nastupi. Nauka koja brine o vremenu će odložiti početak 2009. godine tako što će dodati jednu sekundu službenim satovima.
Na Kupresu je zvanično otvorena zimska turistička sezona u Bosni i Hercegovini, pod nazivom Zimske radosti. Učesnicima i gostima manifestacije predstavljeni su skijaški centri u BiH, kao i dobitnici priznanja Zlatna turistička ruža. 
U posljednje vrijeme smo svjedoci ucestalijeg vandalizma i ubistava koji se provode nad divljim konjima na visoravni Kruge iznad Livna. Vrijeme je da napokon nešto učinimo kako bi ove plemenite životinje bile zasticene. 
U Delibašinom Selu u Banjoj Luci, u samostanu trapista Marija Zvijezda, ponovo je počela proizvodnja orginalnog sira Trapista. 
U prodaji je prvi jazz-funk album basiste, pjevača i kompozitora Dragana Rokvića "Funk Time".
Ovogodišnji PitchWise program bazira se na promociji mladih umjetnica, važnosti reciklaže i obilježavanju stoljetnice rođenja francuske autorice Simone de Beauvoir.
Travnik će napokon dobiti muzički festival vrijedan pažnje. Vizija Code Music Festa je da bude muzički festival na kome će neafirmisani muzičari iz Centralne Bosne dobiti priliku da nastupaju uz zvučna muzička imena...
Nova Wash&Go kolekcija sa Flexi-Volume formulom zadržava volumen i fleksibilnost vaše kose, bez obzira na vaš svakodnevni ritam života. Flexi-Volume formula utiče na sve vrste kose, pružajući volumen i fleksibilnost od korijena do vrha dlake.
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One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back because they were better off when the country was divided, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday ahead of the 20th anniversary of its collapse on November 9, 1989.