Numele unei nou nascute este format din 25 de nume ale unor celebritati din lumea boxului:

Her full name, which left register office staff in Perton, Wolverhampton reeling is: Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.

Un alt cuplu nu a reusit insa sa-i puna numele “4real” copilului lor:

New Zealand authorities have blocked a couple’s bid to officially name their new son “4real,” saying numerals are not allowed. Pat and Sheena Wheaton said they decided to name their new baby “4real” shortly after having an ultrasound and being struck by the reality of his impending arrival.

“The name has not at this stage been rejected,” Registrar-General Brian Clarke said in a statement Thursday. “We are currently in discussions with the parents … to clarify the situation.”

Clarke said the rules are designed to prevent names that are “likely to cause offense to a reasonable person.” Satan and Adolf Hitler were proposed names that have been declined, he said.

If no compromise has been reached by July 9, the baby will be registered as “real,” officials say.

Iar Patrick Knight, un texan condamnat la moarte si-a facut pagina pe MySpace.com pentru a solicita glume pe care sa le citeasca inainte de a muri spunand ca vrea sa moara razand:

A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing. Patrick Knight, 39, has been soliciting jokes on the Internet and plans to tell one of them before receiving a lethal injection, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said on Monday.

“He says he wants to keep his execution light,” she said.

Knight was sentenced to die for the August 1991 murder of his two elderly neighbours in Amarillo, Texas.

 Surse: YahooNews!

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Au aparut speculatii (mai ales pe “ilustrul instrument de scriere corecta a istoriei” denumit Youtube) referitoare la faptul ca i s-ar fi furat presedintelui George W. Bush… ceasul, cu ocazia unei bai de multime in Albania. Echipa lui Bush nu-i atat de idioata incat sa nu se astepte la asa ceva si sa nu-l fi instruit.

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The logo for the 2012 Olympics has been unveiled in the most significant move since London won the Games.The jagged emblem, based on the date 2012, comes in a series of shades of pink, blue, green and orange and will evolve in the run-up to the Games.

“This is the vision at the very heart of our brand,” said London 2012 organising committee chairman Seb Coe.

“It will define the venues we build and the Games we hold and act as a reminder of our promise to use the Olympic spirit to inspire everyone and reach out to young people around the world.

“It is an invitation to take part and be involved.

“We will host a Games where everyone is invited to join in because they are inspired by the Games to either take part in the many sports, cultural, educational and community events leading up to 2012 or they will be inspired to achieve personal goals.”
 

Video: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=2953334 http://www.london2012.com/Articol original: London 2012 logo revealed, Sport Hosts 04 June 2007

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JERUSALEM - The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl dubbed the “Polish Anne Frank” was unveiled on Monday, chronicling the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto — at one point watching a Nazi soldier tear a Jewish baby away from his mother and kill him with his bare hands.

The diary, written by Rutka Laskier in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz, was released by

Israel’s Holocaust museum more than 60 years after she recorded what is both a daily account of the horrors of the Holocaust in Bedzin, Poland and a memoir of the life of a teenager in extraordinary circumstances.

“The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter,” the teenager wrote in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. “I’m turning into an animal waiting to die.”

Within a few months Rutka was dead and, it seemed, her diary lost.

Articol original: Polish girl’s Holocaust diary unveiled, By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer

Care e probabilitate ca el sa fi fost gasit mai demult insa sa se fi asteptat momentul prielnic “lansarii” stirii? Sau, care ar fi fost posibilitatea ca el sa fi fost confectionat ? Dar hai sa nu fim paranoici…

Paranoia e un handicap nici pe departe o virtute, se stie deja. Astept inteligentii autoproclamati sau proclamati de neproclamati sa mai sustina ca scepticismul e si el odovada de inteligenta. Nu-i, nici n-a fost decat in imaginatia unora ce s-au imaginat in imagine de intelectual

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you’ve ever wondered how to give a man-hug, a newly relaunched online video site, VideoJug, is here to help.

VideoJug makes its debut in the U.S. on Sunday, aiming to provide the meaning on everything one encounters in life, if not the meaning of life itself.

More than 15,000 video clips explaining everything from how to tie a Windsor knot to how to cope with chemotherapy accompany the relaunch of the site. An additional 100,000 originally produced clips are promised over the summer.

The site endeavors to answer the question: “How do we do life?”

video jug, videojug

Articol original: Life’s instructions on redesigned VideoJug.com

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Fresh privacy fears have been sparked after it emerged that Apple has embedded personal details into music files bought from its iTunes music store.

Technology websites examining iTunes products discovered that personal data, including the names and e-mail addresses of purchasers, are inserted into the AAC files that Apple uses to distribute music tracks.

The information is also included in tracks sold under Apple’s iTunes Plus system, launched this week, where users pay a premium for music that is free from the controversial digital rights management (DRM) intended to protect against piracy.

The Electronic Freedom Foundation, the online consumer rights group, added that it had identified a large amount of additional unaccounted-for information in iTunes files.

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An Apple spokeswoman was unable to comment.

Articol original: Information hidden in iTunes music files sparks privacy fears, Rhys Blakely, Times Online

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 Romania a castigat Golden Palm cu filmul: 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

28 Mai 2007

 

 

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Romania incepe sa renasca, la fel ca orice lucru de pe pamant. Totu-i un ciclu. O sa vina bine si-o sa mai vina rau.

Zilele astea romanii fac furori la Cannes. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” face furori in presa Internationala fiind judecat ca unul dintre posibilele castigatoare.

Fara a pune la indoiala calitatea filmului - de care va trebui sa ma conving(inca nu l-am vizionat), nu pot sa nu atrag atentia faptului ca festivalurile trebuie luate doar ca publicitate si reactie a unui mic grup de oameni, nu ca un standard de calitate. Iti ofera o expunere mare, insa o recenzie bazata pe juriu(fie el specialisti sau public); dorintele publicului, imagine si publicitate(in cazul in care e vroba de premii pentru vanzari); dar mai ales conjuncturi.

E foarte bine ca Romania puncteaza inca un festival international si e si mai bine pentru imaginea noastra daca il castigam si sper sa nu ajungem sa facem lucruri pentru premii ci pentru evolutie.

Tuturor le place sa vada chestii spectaculoase, probleme de societate si lucruri prin care nu au trecut sau le-au lasat in urma de mult timp(aici intervine nostalgia). Un alt film cu un subiect incitant pentru straini: comunismul.

Putem uita totusi de comunism? Putem merge mai departe?… Putem sa ne desprinde de imaginea asta, sa o lasam in urma si sa evoluam? Filmele noastre castigatoare la competitii straine stralucesc doar prin subiect, insa in spatele acestuia mai trebuie sa evolueze celelalte. De aceea avem doar filme si nu revolutionari. De aceea avem succese de moment, mici si neraspandite la public. Suntem inca mici, alegem subiecte facile. N-avem curaj.

 Clip din 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Cat despre filmul acesta, din clipul de mai sus… pare cu mult mai bun decat Domnul Lazarescu, insa despre el si calitatea lui ma abtin, atat timp cat nu l-am vazut. Bafta Romania!

Informatii oficiale despre 4 luni, 2 saptamani si 2 zile pe site-ul Festivalului Cannes (2007) - link

Romanian Films from Cannes directly to TIFF (2007)  - link

Photo copyright AFP(Link din site-ul Cannes)

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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable “4D” image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.

Called CAVEman, the larger-than-life computer image encompasses more than 3,000 distinct body parts, all viewed in a booth that gives the image height, width and depth, the researchers said on Wednesday.

 ”Today, this kind of a model is unique in the world. It’s the only one that is complete,” said Christoph Sensen, director of the medical school’s Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics.

It cost somewhere between C$500,000 and C$2 million. “It’s very hard to guess, because it has taken many years, especially in Red Deer, with at least one or two artists constantly employed,” Sensen said.

(Sursa: Reuters.com)

Articol original: Virtual human puts doctors inside their patients, By Jeffrey Jones, Wed May 23, 8:16 PM ET

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O doctoriţă i-a tăiat copilului nişte vase de sânge care irigă penisul, iar băieţelul a fost foarte aproape de un şoc hemoragic.

Sursa: ProTV

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