Latest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines

India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay and Galadima in Nigeria. The OLPC team are, in their reports on the startup of the trials, delighted with how the laptop has improved access to information and ability to carry out educational activities. Thailand's The Nation has praised the project, describing the children as "enthusiastic" and keen to attend school with their laptops.

Recent good news for the project sees Uruguay having ordered 100,000 of the machines which are to be given to children aged six to twelve. Should all go according to plan a further 300,000 machines will be purchased by 2009 to give one to every child in the country. As the first to order, Uruguay chose the OLPC XO laptop over its rival from Intel, the Classmate PC. In parallel with the delivery of the laptops network connectivity will be provided to schools involved in the project.

The remainder of this article is based on Carla G. Munroy's Khairat Chronicle, which is available from the OLPC Wiki. Additional sources are listed at the end.

The Mumbai team (OLPC-India)
In setting up the first pilot of the project in India, Carla and the OLPC team worked with Navi Mumbai telecommunications specialists - referred to as the Mumbai Team - who located the school for the XO laptop trial and established a relationship with the staff, students and community of Khairat school. Liaising with a local who sponsors schools in the area, Mr. Iyer, Carla's chronicle states, "it turned out that they struck a gold mine in terms of kindness and pro-activity of the teacher, children, and community."

According to the Khairat Chronicle report the Mumbai team was in two parts, but with little to separate them. A strategic team, working for OLPC-India in general and getting the project off the ground, started up in July, with the team's Mr. Joshi visiting the village with Carla's group on a number of times. He attended parent's meetings and acted as an advocate for the OLPC project, stressing villagers' involvement and explaining the role of Carla's team.

Amit joined the team in September, bringing a technical background on the Linux operating system. He was introduced to the educational aspects of the project and assisted greatly with the technical aspects and community-building efforts.

On the whole, the Mumbai team were based in Navi Mumbai.

The OLPC team

In India from Late September, Carla was working on the educational side of the project, helping out as needed on technical issues and relations with the community. Carla was joined by Arjun and Manu early in October, working with Amit from the Mumbai team setting up the network infrastructure and testing it. Work on Marathi fonts was also carried out with Amit. After a little over two weeks during which the children were given their XO laptops and introduced to them the OLPC team left, providing long-distance support to the Mumbai Team and the Khairat community.

Khairat is a small village with around 200 people, placed near Mumbai in Maharashtra state. Carla described houses in the villages as "spacious and minimalist in their furniture." A section of each of the 20 or so house is set aside for cattle, only an outside door is present on each house, and cooking is done with a wood-fired stove. In most cases a partial second roof or attic is where people will sleep.

Children go to school 5 days in week, from Monday to Friday, from 10.30 AM to 5.30 PM and they attend also on Saturdays from 8.30 AM to 10.00 AM. The students are from 5 to 10 years old.

Khairat school (Vastishala Khairat-Dhangarvada) is a one-room schoolhouse, it is years old. The land to build it was donated by a villager. Carla was told that she used to go and help the construction workers with the building of the school. She also came to help organize the digging of the hole for grounding the server. The building itself was sponsored by a villager who has a lot of land in the area. He also supports, on a continual basis, with other items the school needs.

The schoolhouse has three cabinets. The one with glass panes is where the children keep their textbooks, and it also contains reading books that children can grab to read. On the top shelf, there is a statue of Ganesha, to whom children bring some fresh flowers. In one corner is the water bucket, glasses, and dishes. On the other, is the raw rice bucket and the server cardboard box that sometimes is a desktop for the teacher and other times a table to drink milky, sugary Indian tea. This arrangement is recent though, because he volunteered his desk for setting up the server.

A broad black strip is painted horizontally across all the walls, on which varied learning stuff is colorfully sketched with colored chalk, such as the Marathi and English alphabets, the water cycle, Mahatma Gandhi's face, the numbers in Marathi. Hanging from the ceiling, there's a fan and a few light-bulbs, which are rarely used because the sunlight that comes in through the door and the three grated windows is enough.

The first girl to arrive to school early in the morning sweeps the floor. The second girl to arrive helps her remove things from the corners. Other children help by taking out and placing at the entrance two small palm trees they keep inside when the school is closed. The older girls go to the village well for water to refill the water bucket and have water to drink during the day. They also count the rations of rice to be cooked for lunch and take it to the person who will cook it. Three rows are made with mats on the floor. The floor is the seat where the students sit, the surface on which they write, the boundless space they can use to adopt any position they find comfortable as well as to work in pairs or groups, and a classmate—or the teacher—can come and sit next to anyone to help.

The school is multilevel. Children from first to fourth standard take classes in the same classroom with the same teacher. Sometimes they all listen to the same explanation or work on the same assignment, but the teacher usually assigns different tasks to each level, and when the younger ones get stuck and he is busy working with other students, children from third and fourth standard help the first and second standard ones. They learn so much by always being in touch with the 'basics' and previously learned facts, knowledge, or skills, and by teaching others, they reinforce their knowledge. With the XO, they help each other by explaining or by pointing a finger at the screen or keyboard or by checking the work done.  And it's not necessarily the older ones who help the younger, nor age or grade level what determines how they group together. You can also see children by themselves, focused on their work, oblivious to what is going on around them, even to what the teacher is saying or doing—and in this case it is perfectly alright to not pay attention to the teacher.

Although the teacher conducts the activities and is the leader and most knowledgeable one in the room, there reigns an atmosphere of independent work and independent grouping and consultations. The smaller ones are natural scouts and keep on exploring the laptops on their own, and when they find something interesting or need some help, they go to others to show them their findings or be helped out.

The people in the village speak Marathi. The teacher speaks some English too. The children and the villagers talk to me in Marathi. Carla keep the communication channel open by smiling, which is easy and effective. Amit helps a lot by translating.

The plan was to just work with the teacher. However, as soon as he got his students back in school, the teacher started working with them and teaching them how to write their names in English and how to do several other things on the laptops.

The work with the teacher was on how to best use laptops as a tool to “learn learning” by expressing, constructing, designing, modeling, imagining, creating, critiquing, debugging, collaborating with the children, carrying out hands-on activities and project based work, retrieving specific data from the Internet, and publishing content and collaborative production of content on Wiki pages shared on the Internet.

Because one of the Third World's main problems is education, a Wikinews reporter has asked Carla about this question:

Przykuta: What do you think about education system in India?

P: Zana Brisks "Born into Brothels" film show that children have problem with their education, cause their mothers are prostitutes, but they take photos and they want to be photographers. Do you think that collaboration between OLPC, Kids with Cameras (children from Zana Briks documentary) and Wikimedia Foundation (I think about Wikimedia Commons) is possible?

P: Media don't want write about 3rd World's problems (too often). How can we change this situation? Is it possible?

Oct 3. Mr. Joshi came to Khairat school and organized a small impromptu parents' meeting. Few parents came because of such short notice. Basically, the idea was to explain the project to them and to invite them to take part in the learning of their children. The teacher explained the potential of the XOs in class and of all the  relevant stuff that was now at their children's fingertips for them to  learn or do, to which they had no opportunity before.

The students' names in this article are pseudonyms.


OLPC-Probelauf in Indien, Uruguay bestellt 100.000 Laptops

Khairat (Indien), 13.11.2007 – Die US-amerikanische One-Laptop-per-Child-Initiative („Ein Laptop pro Kind“) hat in einem weiteren Probelauf Kinder im indischen Khairat mit Laptops ausgestattet.

Im Verlauf des letzten Jahres wurde der XO Laptop in Probeläufen in Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay, Galadima in Nigeria und in den beiden brasilianischen Städten Porto Alegre und São Paulo an Schulkinder und Lehrer ausgeliefert.
Die thailändische Zeitung The Nation lobte das Projekt und beschrieb die Kinder als enthusiastisch und stark motiviert mit ihren Laptops die Schule zu besuchen.

Uruguay hatte Ende Oktober die erste verbindliche Bestellung von 100.000 Laptops gemacht. Die Geräte sollen an Kinder zwischen sechs und zwölf Jahren ausgegeben werden. Weitere 300.000 Geräte sollen 2009 folgen, um alle Kinder im Land zu versorgen.

Khairat liegt in der Nähe von Mumbai im indischen Bundesstaat Maharashtra. In der Schule in Khairat werden die Schüler montags bis freitags von 10.30 Uhr bis 17.30 Uhr (mit einer Mittagspause von 13.45 Uhr bis 14.45 Uhr) und samstags von 8.30 Uhr bis 10.00 Uhr unterrichtet. Die Schüler der ersten bis vierten Klasse sind in einem Klassenzimmer untergebracht. Der Lehrer gibt verschiedene Aufgaben für die verschiedenen Jahrgänge, aber die Schüler der dritten und vierten Klasse helfen bereits den jüngeren Schülern, wenn der Lehrer beschäftigt ist.


Leonard Skinner, namesake of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at age 77

Leonard Skinner, the namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 77. Skinner was a gym teacher and basketball coach and taught members of the group. His death was announced by his son, also named Leonard Skinner, who also said that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Skinner died at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor nursing home in Riverside at 02.30 a.m. His son said that he had a bowl of ice cream shortly after midnight. He had been at the home for about a year.

The coach taught the members of the group in the 1960s and was reportedly hard on the students. He later said in a 2009 interview that "he was just following the rules". He disputed the rumours that he was extra tough on them or that he kicked them out of school.

In later years he opened up his own bar and became friends with some members of the group and even introduced them at one of their concerts in Jacksonville.


Morto Leonard Skinner, fonte d'ispirazione per i Lynyrd Skynyrd

Leonard Skinner è morto all'età di 77 anni. Skinner fu un docente di educazione fisica e coach di basket e persino membro degli Lynyrd Skynyrd, cui gli devono il nome. Il decesso è stato annunciato da suo figlio, omonimo, il quale ha anche detto che il padre soffriva da tempo del morbo d'Alzheimer.

Skinner è morto preso l'ospedale di St. Catherine Laboure Manor a Riverside in Florida alle 2:30 del mattino. Prima del decesso, prima di mezzanotte, il famoso professore si era mangiato una vaschetta di gelato.

Skinner insegnò ai membri della band negli anni Sessanta ed è stato ritenuto severo con i suoi alunni. Più tardi, in una intervista del 2009 disse che stava «solamente rispettando le leggi». Negli ultimi anni aveva aperto un proprio bar ed era divenuto amico di alcuni membri del gruppo, i quali lo hanno inserito persino nella lineup in un concerto a Jacksonville.


Libricide plans on ice at University of Oslo

The plan to incinerate over 200 years' worth of archived newspapers at the University of Oslo was paused this week, following an article by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten publicising the intended destruction.

The unwanted archives take up 3 kilometres of shelf space, and neither the University nor the National Library are interested in retaining and storing the years of history any more.

The collection consists of both Nordic and non-Nordic newspapers, including Manchester Guardian, New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Figaro.

A planned incineration of them in 2002 was avoided by moving them into a warehouse owned by Nils Christian Bang at Follum Grend, near Ringerike. Edgar Learn Borg, retired supervisor of the collection, continues to be involved in the preservation of the collection which hasn't been accessed by researchers since its move.

The order came again to clean up the store.  Frode Meinich, technical director of the University, says that the collection is not unique, and indicated that the University needs temporary storage for some antiquarian furniture during renovation of a music facility  of the University.

In 2007, Frode Meinich told Aftenposten that a national program of infrastructure modernization was desperately needed. "For the time being we are managing to keep the ship afloat, but if something serious isn't done in the next few years we have a major problem".


Univerzita v Oslo pozastavila plán na likvidaci archivovaných novin

Plán univerzity v norském hlavním městě Oslo spálit více než 200 ročníků archivovaných novin byl o týden odložen kvůli tomu, že informace o záměru zveřejnil norský list Aftenposten.

Sbírka zahrnuje norská i zahraniční média, včetně Manchester Guardian, New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung nebo Le Figaro. Nechtěné archiválie zabírají na tři běžné kilometry úložných prostorů a ani univerzitní, ani Národní knihovna nemají o jejich uchování další zájem.

Likvidace těchto fondů už byla plánovaná v roce 2002, ale zabránil jí přesun materiálů do skladů, které vlastní Nils Christian Bang ve Follum Grendu poblíž Ringerike. O noviny pečuje důchodce Edgar Learn Borg, který se o ně staral už v předchozím úložišti. Od přestěhování ale o jejich studium neprojevil vůbec nikdo zájem. Proto následoval další příkaz k likvidaci. Provozní ředitel univerzity Frode Meinich říká, že tato sbírka není ničím unikátní, a tvrdí, že univerzita potřebuje skladovací prostory pro uložení starožitného nábytku po dobu plánované rekonstrukce hudebních sálů.

Před rokem Meinich v médiích vystoupil na podporu zlepšení infrastruktury univerzity s tím, že pokud se situace nezlepší, do několika let ji postihnou vážné problémy.

Tato zpráva byla založena zčásti nebo zcela překladem zprávy Libricide plans on ice at University of Oslo na anglických Wikizprávách.


Suspenden el plan 'libricida' en Oslo

27 de septiembre de 2008Oslo, Noruega —

El plan para incinerar periódicos de hasta 200 años de antigüedad en la Universidad de Oslo fue pausado esta semana. La suspensión ocurrió tras la publicación de un artículo sobre este plan en el diario noruego Aftenposten.

Los indeseados archivos ocupan cerca de 3 kilómetros de espacio y ni la Universidad ni la Librería Nacional están interesados en guardar más aún los años de historia.

La colección consiste de periódicos tanto nórdicos como no-nórdicos, entre ellos el Manchester Guardian, New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung y Le Figaro.

La incineración planeada de éstos en 2002 fue suspendida luego de que fueron trasladados a un almacén de Nils Christian Bang en Follum Grend, cerca de Ringerike. Edgar Learn Borg, supervisor retirado de la colección, sigue involucrado en la preservación de la colección que no ha sido accesible para investigadores desde que fue movida.

Nuevamente, se ordenó limpiar el almacén. Frode Meinich, director técnico de la Universidad, dice que la colección no es única, e indicó que la Universidad necesita almacenar temporalmente muebles antiguos para la renovación de la facilidad de música en la universidad.

En 2007, Meinich había sido citado por Aftenposten en el cual esgrimía como necesario un programa de modernización de infraestructura a nivel nacional. "Por el momento, nos hemos arreglado para mantenernos a flote, pero si algo serio no es hecho en los próximos años, tendremos un problema mayor", señaló.


Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington dies at 41

On Thursday, Chester Bennington, lead singer of US rock band Linkin Park, died in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 41. The Los Angeles county coroner confirmed Bennington's death; reportedly it was being investigated as a possible suicide.

A two-time Grammy award winner with the band, Chester Bennington joined Linkin Park when he was 23. Also featuring rapper Mike Shinoda, Linkin Park released their first album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000. The band went on to release six more albums featuring Bennington's voice, including One More Light, which was released this year. The band was scheduled to go on a tour for One More Light, but it has been canceled.

Their song Crawling, from Hybrid Theory, won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The band was also nominated for Best Rock Album and Best New Artist. A year after releasing Meteora, Linkin Park collaborated with rapper Jay-Z for the Collision Course EP in 2004 whose single Numb/Encore won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Meteora has sold more than 27 million copies, which featured the hit song Numb.

In his statement, Warner Bros. Records CEO Cameron Strang said, "Chester Bennington was an artist of extraordinary talent and charisma, and a human being with a huge heart and a caring soul." The Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said, "We have lost a truly dynamic member of the music community".

In 2013, Bennington performed at the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert, whose aim was to aid addiction treatment. Born on March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona, to a nurse and a police detective, Bennington recounted being abused in his childhood, molested by an older friend over the course of several years starting when he was seven or eight. In a 2008 interview with Kerrang!, he said, "It destroyed my self-confidence [...] Like most people, I was too afraid to say anything. I didn't want people to think I was gay or that I was lying. It was a horrible experience."

In an interview with Noisecreep in 2009, he said, "I don't have a problem with people knowing that I had a drinking problem. That's who I am, and I'm kind of lucky in a lot of ways because I get to do something about it." Of the band's Grammy-winning song Crawling, Bennington said the song was "about feeling like I had no control over myself in terms of drugs and alcohol."

His first marriage ended in a divorce, and he said, "I knew that I had a drinking problem, a drug problem, and that parts of my personal life were crazy, but I didn't realise how much that was affecting the people around me until I got a good dose of 'Here's-what-you're-really-like.'" In 2011, he told The Guardian, "When I was young, getting beaten up and pretty much raped was no fun. No one wants that to happen to you and honestly, I don't remember when it started [...] My God, no wonder I became a drug addict. No wonder I just went completely insane for a little while."

Bennington died on the day his singer friend Chris Cornell would have turned 53. Cornell hanged himself earlier this year. After Cornell's death, Bennington said, "I can't imagine a world without you in it."

Bennington is survived by his six children and his wife, Talinda Bentley, whom he married in 2006.


Musique : Décès de Chester Bennington, de Linkin Park

Chester Bennington, chanteur du groupe Linkin Park, a été retrouvé mort par pendaison jeudi chez lui à Los Angeles. La thèse du suicide a été retenue par les forces de l'ordre. Il avait 41 ans.


Morre aos 41 anos, o cantor americano Chester Bennington, vocalista da banda de rock Linkin Park

O cantor e vocalista da banda americana Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, foi encontrado morto em sua residência na cidade de Los Angeles, no Estado da Califórnia, sudoeste dos Estados Unidos. O médico legista do condado de Los Angeles confirmou à imprensa a morte de Bennington e está sendo investigado como um possível suicídio. Chester tinha 41 anos de idade.

De acordo com o site de notícias de celebridades TMZ (o mesmo que ficou conhecido internacionalmente por ser o primeiro a publicar a morte do cantor americano Michael Jackson em 2009), Bennington cometeu suicídio por enforcamento e que o cantor já havia enfrentado problemas com o álcool e com as drogas.

Nascido em 20 de março de 1976 em Phoenix, no Estado americano do Arizona, de mãe enfermeira e o pai detetive da polícia, Bennington relatou ter sido abusado na sua infância, molestado por um amigo mais velho ao longo de vários anos que começou quando tinha sete ou oito anos. Em uma entrevista de 2008 com Kerrang!, ele disse: "Isto destruiu minha autoconfiança [...] Como a maioria das pessoas, eu estava com muito medo de dizer qualquer coisa. Eu não queria que as pessoas pensassem que eu era gay ou que estava mentindo. Foi uma experiência horrível".

Vencedor de duas vezes do Grammy com a banda, Chester Bennington se juntou ao Linkin Park quando tinha 23 anos. Também com o rapper Mike Shinoda, Linkin Park lançou seu primeiro álbum, Hybrid Theory, em 2000. A banda lançou mais seis álbuns com a voz de Bennington, incluindo One More Light, que foi lançada este ano. A banda estava programada para fazer uma turnê para One More Light.

Sua canção Crawling, da Hybrid Theory, ganhou um Grammy pelo Melhor Performance Hard Rock (Best Hard Rock Performance). A banda também foi indicada para Melhor Álbum de Rock (Best Rock Album) e Melhor Novo Artist (Best New Artist). Um ano depois de lançar Meteora, Linkin Park colaborou com o rapper Jay-Z com o EP Collision Course em 2004, cujo single Numb/Encore ganhou um Grammy para Melhor Colaboração Rap/Sung (Best Rap/Sung Collaboration). Meteora vendeu mais de 27 milhões de cópias, que apresentou a música de sucesso Numb.

Seu primeiro casamento terminou em divórcio e ele disse: "Eu sabia que eu tinha um problema de beber, um problema de drogas e que partes da minha vida pessoal eram loucas, mas não percebi o quanto isso estava afetando as pessoas ao redor até que receba uma boa dose de 'Aqui-é-o-que-você-é-realmente'". Em 2011, ele contou ao The Guardian: "Quando eu era jovem, ser espancado e praticamente estuprado não era divertido. Ninguém quer que isso aconteça com você e honestamente, não me lembro quando começou [...] Meu Deus, não é de admirar que eu me tornei um viciado em drogas. Não é de admirar que fiquei completamente louco por um tempo".

Em uma entrevista com Noisecreep em 2009, ele disse: "Eu não tenho um problema com as pessoas sabendo que eu tinha um problema de beber. Isso é o que eu sou e eu sou um pouco sortudo de muitas maneiras porque eu chego faço alguma coisa sobre isso." Da banda ganhadora com a música Crawling, Bennington disse que a música era "sentir como se eu não tivesse controle sobre mim mesmo em termos de drogas e álcool". Em 2013, Bennington atuou no concerto beneficiente MusiCares MAP Fund, cujo objetivo era ajudar o tratamento de dependência.

Chester Bennington morreu no mesmo dia em que o cantor e seu amigo pessoal Chris Cornell, vocalista da banda Soundgarden, faria seu aniversário de 53 anos de idade, pois ele também se enforcou em maio deste ano, aos 52 anos. Após a morte de Cornell, ele disse: "Não consigo imaginar um mundo sem você nela" e posteriormente já havia admitido que queria cometer suicídio.

Em sua declaração, o CEO (diretor-presidente) da Warner Bros. Records, Cameron Strang disse: "Chester Bennington era um artista de extraordinário talento e carisma e um ser humano com um coração enorme e uma alma carinhosa". O presidente da The Recording Academy, Neil Portnow, disse: "Nós perdemos um membro verdadeiramente dinâmico da comunidade musical".

Inúmeros famosos e usuários usaram suas redes sociais pra expressar seus sentimentos por causa da morte do músico. Bennington deixou seis filhos, alguns do casamento anterior, incluindo a esposa Talinda Bentley, com quem ele se casou em 2006.


Вокалист Linkin Park Честер Беннингтон покончил с собой

20 июля 2017 года в Лос-Анджелесе обнаружен мёртвым вокалист группы Linkin Park Честер Беннингтон.

TMZ сообщает, что Беннингтон повесился.

На момент смерти ему был 41 год.

По информации TMZ, музыкант имел проблемы с алкоголем и наркотиками.

Раньше Честер Беннингтон признавался о том, что хотел совершить суицид.

По сообщениям TMZ, вокалист группы в последнее время дружил с фронтменом группы Soundgarden Крисом Корнеллом, который повесился 18 мая 2017 года.

20 июля 2017 года


Live 8 concert plans announced

In a press conference held at 13:00 UTC on Tuesday, Bob Geldof, Elton John, and Harvey Goldsmith announced Live 8, a set of simultaneous free concerts to be held in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Rome, and Berlin on July 2, 2005, to raise awareness of Make Poverty History, a campaign to get the richest nations to cancel debt and increase aid to developing countries.  The concerts are scheduled to occur just before the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, from July 6 to July 8.

"20 years ago, at the time of the original Live Aid concert, I was a self-obsessed drug addict.",  began Elton John.  "I've grown up since".  He then described the aim of the concerts to raise awareness in the richest countries of the world of the plights of the poorest, and how his work on global AIDS awareness had impressed upon him the lack of awareness and ignorance that exists.  "The Prime Minister of South Africa thinks that AIDS is something that is caused by poverty.  I wish!"

Bob Geldof thanked the corporations who had already come forward to sponsor the event, including the BBC and AOL.  In mentioning AOL he said that "20 years ago, almost nobody had a mobile 'phone", hinting at the possibility of AOL broadcasting the concerts to mobile telephones.  Geldof also thanked The Prince's Trust, which had already booked Hyde Park for July 2, for stepping aside in favour of Live 8.

Although the line-up is not finalized, the presence of several artists was announced.


Anunciados los planes para el concierto Live 8

En una rueda de prensa realizada a las 13:00 UTC del martes, Sir Bob Geldof, Elton John y Harvey Goldsmith anunciaron el Live 8, conjunto de conciertos gratuitos y simultáneos que se llevarán a cabo en Filadelfia, Londres, París, Roma y Berlín el próximo 2 de julio de 2005, con el fin de promocionar la Make Poverty History ("Que la pobreza sea historia"), una campaña que busca que las naciones ricas cancelen la deuda e incrementen la ayuda a los países en desarrollo. Los conciertos están programados justo antes de la cumbre del Grupo de los 8, que tendrá lugar en Gleneagles, Escocia, del 6 al 8 de julio.

"Hace 20 años, en la época del concierto Live Aid, yo era un drogadicto obsesivo", inició Elton John, quien agregó, "he crecido desde entonces". Luego, describió los objetivos del concierto para acabar la pobreza con la ayuda de los países ricos y cómo su trabajo para la concientización sobre el SIDA le ha impresionado debido a la ignorancia que existe sobre el asunto. "El primer ministro de Sudáfrica cree que el SIDA es algo causado por la pobreza. ¡Ojalá fuera así!"

Bob Geldof agradeció a las empresas que ya se adelantaron a patrocinar el evento, incluyendo la BBC y America Online (AOL). Al mencionar a esta última empresa, dijo que "hace 20 años, casi nadie tenía un teléfono móvil", dando pistas acerca de la posibilidad de que AOL transmita los conciertos a los celulares. Geldolf agradeció también a la asociación de caridad Prince's Trust, que ya había reservado el Hyde Park londinense para el 2 de julio y lo cedió para el Live 8.

Aunque no está del todo finalizada, ya se anunció la presencia de varios artistas.


Live 8 concerts around the world to "End Poverty Now"

Massive music concerts took place around the planet under the Live 8 banner in an effort to put pressure on the leaders of the eight richest countries in the world to end global poverty.

All concerts were timed to take place between noon and 10pm local time, with over a million people expected to attend concerts in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US, Canada, South Africa and Russia. The events were broadcast to a potential audience of five and a half billion people world-wide.

The largest concert was in the US in Philadelphia where, over the course of 7 hours, hundreds of thousands of people gathered to watch Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, Destiny's Child, Dave Matthews Band, and Black Eyed Peas among others. Philadelphia native Will Smith both performed and was the opening presenter.  Peak attendance, the maximum amount of people believed to be watching Live 8 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at a given time, is estimated to have been between 600,000 and 800,000.

In Hyde Park in London, 205,000 people watched acts including Elton John, Madonna, Coldplay, Robbie Williams and Pink Floyd. The concert was opened by Sir Paul McCartney and U2 playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - the first time the song has ever been performed live by a Beatle. It ended at 11.58pm with all of the acts coming on stage to sing one last time.

Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world (owning $46.5 billion) - appeared on the London stage to discuss the challenges facing the world, before introducing Dido. Later, Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the UN addressed the audience, thanking them for their support.

However, the first concert to open - in Japan - only drew 10,000 spectators, disappointing many.

The concerts follow on 20 years after the Live Aid concert organised by Bob Geldof, which was created to raise money for famine victims in Ethopia.

By contrast, the aim of Live 8 - also organised by Geldof - is not fund-raising but instead to apply pressure to the leaders of the G8 to end world poverty, which claims the lives of 50,000 every day.

The Live 8 organisers are urging the G8 to:

The Finance Ministers of the G8 agreed a plan last month to cancel the debt of 18 of the poorest countries to the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Fund, but are requiring other countries to end political and financial corruption before they become elegible for debt relief.

On Thursday the President of the United States, George W. Bush, announced that the US will double US aid to Africa by 2010 - increasing to $8.6 billion a year. Bob Geldof welcomed the news, saying "This is the first time we have heard this sort of language.

"This is very, very positive indeed."

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Several Italian bands really got the crowd going, but foreign bands such as Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were poorly received by the crowd.

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This was all Afrcan musicians plus Dido, guesting with Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour.

The Eden centre turned out to be an excellent site for TV or rather a web stream.

WOMAD was involved so there may be a record.

There was a weblink to South Africa and a live message from Nelson Mandela.

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„Live-8“ - „Keine Wohltätigkeit, sondern Gerechtigkeit!”

London (Vereinigtes Königreich), 02.07.2005 – Beim größten Solidaritätskonzert aller Zeiten in zehn Städten auf vier Kontinenten riefen weltbekannte Musiker und Schauspieler zur Hilfe und zum Schuldenerlass für Afrika auf.

Der Appell richtete sich an die Regierungschefs der reichsten Industrienationen der Erde, die sich in der kommenden Woche im schottischen Gleneagles zum Gipfeltreffen der so genannten G8 treffen wollen. Neben einem Schuldenerlass für die ärmsten afrikanischen Länder fordern die Veranstalter und Teilnehmer der „Live-8-Konzerte“ eine Verdoppelung der Entwicklungshilfe und eine Öffnung der Weltmärkte.

Zu den Mitgliedern der G8 gehören die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, Japan und Russland

Die Konzerte, an denen einige hunderttausend Menschen weltweit teilnahmen, und die nach Angaben der Veranstalter von mehreren Milliarden weltweit an den Fernsehschirmen, vor den Radios oder im Internet verfolgt wurden, fanden in London (Großbritannien), Philadelphia (USA), Paris (Frankreich), Johannesburg (Südafrika), Rom (Italien), Berlin (Deutschland), Moskau (Russland), Tōkyō (Japan) und Barrie (Kanada) statt. Zu den beteiligten Stars gehörten: Will Smith, Paul McCartney, U2, Pink Floyd, REM, Coldplay, Tote Hosen, Herbert Grönemeyer, Wir sind Helden, Aha, Madonna, Bon Jovi u.v.a. Organisator und Sprecher der Konzertaktion ist Bob Geldoff, der vor zwanzig Jahren einen ähnlichen Event ins Leben gerufen hatte.

Die Hauptveranstaltung fand im Londoner Hyde-Park mit über 200.000 begeisterten Zuhörern statt. Sir Paul McCartney eröffnete das Konzert zusammen mit der Band U2. Madonna, Pop-Ikone aus Kalifornien, wandte sich an die Zuschauer: „Seid ihr bereit eine Revolution zu beginnen? Seid ihr bereit die Geschichte zu ändern?“ Überraschend wandte sich in London neben Bill Gates auch der UNO-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan an die Versammelten und sagte: „Dies hier sind wirklich die Vereinten Nationen. Die ganze Welt ist vereinigt in Solidarität mit den Armen. Im Namen der Armen, der Menschen ohne Stimme und der Schwachen sage ich: Danke!“

In Südafrika wandte sich Nelson Mandela an die Menschen mit der Einschätzung, die G8-Führer hätten nun eine historische Gelegenheit, die Tür zur Hoffnung und der Möglichkeit einer besseren Zukunft für alle zu öffnen. Er fügte hinzu: „Wir wollen Taten. Es liegt in Ihrer Macht einen Völkermord gegen die Menschheit zu verhüten. Wir erwarten Ihre Führung!“

In Edinburgh (Schottland) demonstrierten 225.000 Menschen in einem Protestmarsch für den Schuldenerlass, um auf den G8-Gipfel Druck auszuüben. Papst Benedikt XVI. hatte an die Demonstranten eine Grußbotschaft gerichtet, in der es hieß: „Die Menschen in den reichsten Ländern der Erde müssen die Bürde auf sich nehmen, den schwer verschuldeten armen Ländern die Schulden zu erlassen.“


Na całym świecie trwają koncerty Live 8

Na Hyde Parku, Londynie w Wielkiej Brytanii rozpoczął się koncert Live 8, mający zwrócić uwagę państw z grupy G8 na biedę panującą w Afryce. Głównym hasłem akcji jest Make Poverty History (pol. "Niech bieda stanie się tylko historią").

Koncert w Londynie rozpoczął się o godzinie 13:00 czasu lokalnego (15:00 w Polsce). Pierwszy wystąpił Paul McCartney wraz z zespołem U2, którzy wykonali piosenkę "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Były Beatles wraz z Bono zaśpiewali tę piosenkę wspólnie, po czym U2 wykonało kilka utworów, m.in. "One", przy czym Bono pomiędzy piosenkami nawoływał wszystkich do pomocy Afryce.

Rankiem czasu polskiego podobny koncert rozpoczął się w Japonii, gdzie wystąpiła islandzka piosenkarka Björk, amerykańska kapela rockowa Good Charlotte oraz wielu japońskich wykonawców, m.in. grupa Rize która zainaugurowała koncert. Dzisiejszego dnia mają się także odbyć koncerty w Berlinie, Rzymie (w Circus Maximus), Paryżu i kilku innych miastach na świecie.

Na światowych koncertach ma się pojawić wiele zespołów i wokalistów "starej daty", m.in. Sir Elton John, grupa R.E.M., Sting (prawdopodobnie wystąpi z dawnym składem The Police), Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, Faith Hill, The Cure, Bryan Adams i Deep Purple.

Ponadto, na koncertach wystąpią także: Dido, hip-hopowiec Snoop Dogg, Robbie Williams, Linkin Park, Justin Timberlake, Celine Dion, oraz punkowe zespoły Green Day i Die Toten Hosen.


Lucas announces Star Wars for Blu-ray

After years of rumours George Lucas personally announced at Star Wars "Celebration V" Convention in Orlando the worldwide release of the Star Wars  Saga on Blu-ray in autumn 2011. All six films will be released as a box-set with high video- and audio-quality and containing additional features.

Specific details have not been mentioned, but a "deleted scene" was shown at the convention, where Luke Skywalker assembles a lightsabre. "Blu-ray is the absolute best way to experience Star Wars at home – in pristine high definition,” said George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars Saga. “The films have never looked or sounded better."

According to The New York Times, George Lucas said that they wanted to wait with the Blu-ray Disc release until market penetration was high enough, because they learned from the 1980s VHS release that an early release on a new home-video system can negatively influence sale figures.

Wikinews learned yesterday that Lucasfilm have issued copyright claims to YouTube regarding videos related to the convention and the deleted scene that is now slated for release. As a result, YouTube has removed at least two videos showing this content.


Orlando (Vereinigte Staaten), 15.08.2010 – Nach den jährlichen Gerüchten gab George Lucas persönlich auf der "Celebration V" Convention in Orlando bekannt, dass die vollständige Star Wars Saga weltweit auf Blu-ray im Herbst 2011 erscheinen wird. Alle sechs Filme sollen dabei als Boxset in bester Bild- und Tonqualität erscheinen und weitere Features enthalten.

Konkrete Details wurden noch nicht benannt, allerdings wurde auf der Convention bereits eine "Deleted Scene" gezeigt, in der Luke Skywalker ein Lichtschwert zusammensetzt.

Dieser Artikel basiert auf hdtvtotal.com: „Lucas verkündet offiziell: Star Wars auf Blu-ray im Herbst 2011“ (von Andreas -horn- Hornig) (14.08.2010, 21:59 Uhr) .


Manhattanʼs 'Little Spain' comes to big screen, documenting Hispanic immigration in New York City

The Spanish Benevolent Society announced on Tuesday a DVD edition of the film Little Spain, directed by Artur Balder, is now available on their official website. The film, which summarizes a part of Hispanic immigration in the United States displaying the history of New York City (NYC), is based upon a set of old photographs and testimonies showing a neighborhood called Little Spain in Manhattan, situated at the West End of 14th Street, in the time when it was densely populated by Spaniards and Hispanic immigrants.

According to the film's content and press release, Little Spain was populated by Spaniards, Puerto Ricans, and other Hispanic immigrants, located in south Chelsea and West Village, around the west end of 14th Street. The Spaniards tended to live in close proximity to one another; and, in many cases, in close proximity
to Spanish-speakers from countries other than Spain — such as Puerto Ricans in New York.

In the film, the Spanish-American director and journalist Artur Balder traces the journey of those who left Spain and South America in search of a better life in the United States, describing the story of its most important entrance port, New York City, and the formation of the Little Spain community.

The 60 minute, feature-length, documentary looks back at the founding of La Nacional in 1868 and the uptick in migration from Spain following its loss of Cuba in 1898; continuing through to the Hispanic apex in the area, after the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, finally charting the community’s sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s.

Well into the 1960s Spanish was still commonly spoken on 14th Street. The film also displays footage of the Santiago Apóstol festival, or St. James Day festival, which died out in the early 1990s as the remnants of the Hispanic community left that part of the city.

Artur Balder worked closely with New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and with the Film Society of the Lincoln Center in order to show the film in NYC. He is currently preparing two new projects: The Reality of the Imaginary, with Nobel prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa, Cervantes literature award recipient José Manuel Caballero Bonald, and artist Joan Castejón, expected to premier at the MoMA in 2015. The second project being with Armenian–American painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan and renowned art critic Donald Kuspit.

The film shows how Spain contributed to the vast wave of emigration of Europeans to the Americas which, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, transformed the three continents. The Spaniards were a very small proportion of US immigration compared to some of the other national or ethnic groups of immigrants that came to the United States, such as Italian, Irish, and Polish.


'Little Spain' de Manhattan chega em grande tela, documentando a imigração latino-americano na cidade de Nova York

A Spanish Benevolent Society anunciou nesta terça-feira uma edição em DVD do filme Little Spain, dirigido por Artur Balder, já está disponível em seu site oficial. O filme, que resume uma parte da imigração hispânica (ou latino-americana) nos Estados Unidos mostrando a história da cidade de Nova Iorque ("New York City", NYC), é baseado em um conjunto de fotografias e depoimentos antigas que mostram um bairro chamado Little Spain em Manhattan, situado no West End da 14th Street, no momento em que densamente povoada por imigrantes espanhóis e latino-americanos.

De acordo com o conteúdo e press release do filme, Little Spain foi povoada por espanhóis, porto-riquenhos e outros imigrantes hispânicos, localizado no sul do Chelsea e West Village, em torno do extremo oeste da 14th Street. Os espanhóis tendiam a viver em estreita proximidade um do outro; e, em muitos casos, em estreita proximidade com falantes de espanhol a partir de outros países que não Espanha, como os porto-riquenhos em Nova York.

No filme, o diretor e jornalista hispano-americano Artur Balder traça a jornada de quem deixou a Espanha e América do Sul em busca de uma vida melhor nos Estados Unidos, descrevendo a história de sua porta de entrada mais importante, New York City, e a formação da comunidade Little Spain.

Com 60 minutos, longa-metragem, documentário olha para a fundação de La Nacional em 1868 e o aumento na migração de Espanha após a sua perda de Cuba, em 1898; continuando até ao ápice latino-americano na área, após a Guerra Civil Espanhola de 1936 a 1939, finalmente traçar acentuado declínio da comunidade nas décadas de 1970 e 1980.

Até meados dos anos 1960 espanhol ainda foi faladas na 14th Street. O filme também mostra imagens do Santiago Apóstol, ou St. James Day, festival, que morreu no início dos anos 1990 como os remanescentes da comunidade hispânica que deixou parte da cidade.

Artur Balder trabalhou em estreita colaboração com o Museu de Arte Moderna (MoMA) de Nova York e com a Film Society of the Lincoln Center, a fim de mostrar o filme em Nova York. Ele está atualmente preparando dois novos projetos: The Reality of the Imaginary ("A Realidade do Imaginário", em inglês), com o ganhador do prêmio Nobel, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cervantes literature award beneficiário José Manuel Caballero Bonald e artista Joan Castejón, com previsão de premier no MoMA, em 2015. O segundo projeto será com o pintor armênio-americano Tigran Tsitoghdzyan e crítico de arte de renome Donald Kuspit.

O filme mostra como a Espanha contribuiu para a grande vaga de emigração dos europeus para as Américas, que, no final do século XIX e início do século XX, transformou os três continentes. Os espanhóis foram uma proporção muito pequena de imigração dos EUA em comparação com alguns dos outros grupos nacionais ou étnicos de imigrantes que vieram para os Estados Unidos, como italianos, irlandeses, poloneses.


Mark Webber wins 2009 German Formula One Grand Prix

Mark Webber gained his maiden Formula 1 win today at the German Grand Prix, after 130 races.  His Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel came in second, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa third.  Reigning champion Lewis Hamilton came last.

Webber started from pole position, but touched Rubens Barrichello at the beginning after a slow start.  He received a drive through penalty for this offence, which he served at the end of his fourteenth lap.  This enabled him to join back in to the race in first place.

Jenson Button remains first in the championship with 68 points, with Vettel and Webber overtaking Barrichello, taking second and third respectively.

After the win, Webber said "I lost Rubens off the start, I thought he had gone to the left but he went right and I banged into him. I had a drive-through and my engineer kept me calm.  It was a difficult winter, Sebastian showed in winter testing what the car could do, so I kept my motivation high and I was hurting a lot. The team had patience with me, everyone in Australia and a few people who doubted me too so hello to them as well. So thank you to everyone who helped me here."


Formule 1 : Mark Webber remporte le Grand Prix automobile d'Allemagne 2009

L'australien Mark Webber remporte le premier Grand Prix automobile de sa carrière à l'âge de 32 ans. C'est après 130 courses et 8 saisons en Formule 1 que Webber parvient enfin à remporter un GP malgré une pénalité infligée par les commissaires de course pour avoir touché au départ la voiture de Rubens Barrichello.

« C'est un jour incroyable pour moi », a-t-il répété. « Je voulais tellement gagner après Silverstone [où il avait fini deuxième]. Après la pôle, je savais que j'avais une bonne chance de remporter la course cette année. La seule chose qui aurait pu m'en empêcher, c'est la pluie, mais elle n'est pas tombée ».

Le championnat 2009 se retrouve complètement relancé après une remontée de l'équipe Red Bull-Renault.

* Les pilotes prenant part au Grand Prix avec le SREC sont signalés par la mention SREC.


Webber ganha o GP da Alemanha de 2009

O australiano Mark Webber, da Red Bull Racing, venceu a sua primeira corrida na Fórmula 1, dando à Austrália sua primeira vitória em 28 anos, ao ganhar o LXIX Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland. Seu companheiro de equipe, o alemão Sebastian Vettel, terminou em segundo lugar numa dobradinha para reduzir a vantagem do britânico Jenson Button, que chegou em quinto, na liderança do campeonato para 21 pontos. Felipe Massa, da Ferrari, completou o pódio.

Após erros sucessivos de estratégia e nos boxes, os carros da Brawn GP chegaram em quinto e sexto lugares, sendo que Rubens Barrichello, que largou em segundo e tomou a liderança logo na primeira volta, teve sua corrida prejudicada.

Nelson Ângelo Piquet, da Renault, chegou em 13.º lugar.


Mark Zuckerberg named 2010 Time Person of the Year

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named the 2010 TIME Person of the Year. He is the second-youngest person to be chosen as Person of the Year. TIME stated in the announcement, "Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S." and, "It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over."

Zuckerberg announced that he had been chosen Person of the Year via a Facebook status update, stating, "Being named as TIME Person of the Year is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected. I'm happy to be a part of that."

Others considered for the 2010 Person of the Year award included Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan;  the trapped miners in Chile;  Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks;  and the Tea Party movement.


Ο Μαρκ Ζάκερμπεργκ ανακηρύχθηκε Πρόσωπο της Χρονιάς 2010 από το περιοδικό Τάιμ

Ο ιδρυτής του Facebook Μαρκ Ζάκερμπεργκ ανακηρύχθηκε Πρόσωπο της Χρονιάς 2010 από το περιοδικό Τάιμ. Είναι ο δεύτερος πιο νέος  άνθρωπος μέχρι σήμερα, στον οποίο απονέμεται ο εν λόγω τίτλος. Το Τάιμ στην ανακοίνωσή του έγραψε, "Ο Ζάκερμπεργκ ένωσε το 1/12 της ανθρωπότητας σε ένα δίκτυο, δημιουργώντας έτσι   μια κοινωνική  οντότητα διπλάσια από τις ΗΠΑ" και ότι, "Ξεκίνησε σαν μια πλάκα, μια παρεκτροπή, αλλά μετατράπηκε  σε κάτι πραγματικό, το οποίο άλλαξε την ανθρώπινη κοινότητα σε μεγάλο βαθμό. Βλέπουμε σήμερα την κοινωνική ζωή μας μέσα από ένα  δίκτυο, το οποίο τουλάχιστον στα χαρτιά, έκανε τον Ζάκερμπεργκ έξι (6) φορές δισεκατομμυριούχο."

Ο Ζάκερμπεργκ ανακοίνωσε ότι εκλέχτηκε Πρόσωπο της Χρονιάς μέσω του  Facebook, όπου έγραψε ότι το  "Να γίνω Πρόσωπο της Χρονιάς αποτελεί  αληθινή τιμή και αναγνώριση για το πως η μικρή μας ομάδα έχτισε κάτι, το οποίο εκατοντάδες εκατομμύρια ανθρώπων  θέλησαν να χρησιμοποιούν για να κάνουν τον κόσμο πιο ανοιχτό. Είμαι χαρούμενος να είμαι μέρος αυτής της προσπάθειας."

Άλλοι υποψήφιοι για  "Πρόσωπο της Χρονιάς 2010" ήταν ο Χαμίντ Καρζάι, Πρόεδρος του Αφγανιστάν, οι παγιδευμένοι ανθρακωρύχοι στη Χιλή, ο Τζούλιαν Ασάντζ (ιδρυτής της ιστοσελίδας WikiLeaks) και το πολιτικό κίνημα Tea Party.

16 Δεκεμβρίου 2010


Mark Zuckerberg es nombrado persona del año 2010 por Time

El fundador de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, ha sido nombrado Persona del año por la revista Time, siendo así la segunda persona más joven en obtener esta mención. En su anuncio, Time declaró que "Zuckerberg conectó a un doceavo de la humanidad en una sola red, creando así una entidad social de casi dos veces el tamaño de los Estados Unidos".

"Comenzó como una broma, una diversión, pero se ha convertido en algo real, algo que ha cambiado el modo en el que los humanos se relaciones los unos con los otros", continuaba el anuncio de Time.

"Este año pasaron los 500 millones de usuarios. [...] La escala de Facebook es algo que está transformando nuestras vidas. Una de cada 10 personas en el planeta, excluyendo a China donde vive una de cada cinco personas del mundo", declaró el editor de Time, Richard Stengel.

Con tan solo 26 años, Mark Zuckerberg se convierte en la segunda persona más joven en recibir este galardón, tras Charles Lindbergh, famoso por haber sido el primer piloto en volar sobre el Atlántico. El proyecto de Zuckerberg comenzó cuando tenía 19 años, y estudiaba en la Universidad de Harvard, cuando creó el sitio web thefacebook.com. Desde entonces, la compañía creció hasta convertirlo en una de los multimillonarios más jóvenes del planeta, cuya firma generó 2.000 millones de dólares tan sólo en 2010.

Zuckerberg dio a conocer que había sido elegido Persona del año en su estado de su cuenta de Facebook. "Ser nombrado Persona del año por Time es un verdadero honor y reconocimiento de cómo nuestro pequeño equipo está construyendo algo que cientos de millones de personas quieren usar para hacer al mundo más abierto y conectado. Estoy feliz de ser parte de eso".


Марк Цукерберг стал Человеком года

Журнал Time назвал Марка Цукерберга, основателя социальной сети Facebook с более чем половиной миллиарда пользователей по всему миру, Человеком года. По мнению редакции Time, в течение 2010 года Цукерберг существенным образом изменил жизнь миллионов людей и оказал огромное влияние на события, происходящие в мире. «Это не просто новая технология. Это социальная инженерия. Это меняет то, каким образом мы общаемся друг с другом. Я действительно думаю, что это влияет на человеческую природу так, как ещё никогда до этого», — сказал в эфире телеканала NBC главный редактор Time Ричард Стенгел.

26-летний Цукерберг стал самым молодым победителем в этой номинации в истории — с тех пор, как в 1927 году первым Человеком года был назван пилот Чарльз Линдберг, в одиночку перелетевший Атлантический океан.

Впрочем, решение относительно Цукерберга далось Time с большим трудом: победителем читательского голосования на сайте журнала стал основатель WikiLeaks Джулиан Ассанж, однако итоговое решение редакции оказалось не в его пользу. Надо думать, по политическим соображениям.

17 декабря 2010 года


Michael Schumacher returns to Formula One to replace injured Massa

Seven-time world Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher announced his plans to replace Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari car in the FIA Formula One 2009 European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain.

Massa was recently injured after a spring got loose from Rubens Barricello's car and hit his head in the Hungarian GP. Schumacher is expected to replace Massa for at least one Formula One event until the recovery of the Brazilian driver. Schumacher will get ready for his return using a special training program, checking his recovery after he fell off a motorcycle.

The last time the "Red Baron" drove the Ferrari car was more than a year ago, in April 2008. If Schumacher starts in Valencia, it would be his first GP with Kimi Räikkönen as his team mate.

Massa and Schumacher were team mates during the latter's last season and the two are said to be close friends. Massa was in a medically induced coma for several days but took his first steps today and can speak coherently; it was also confirmed today that he can still see out of both eyes. Concern does still remain about potential damage to his left eye. Massa was due to leave intensive care Wednesday and may be walking fully within ten days, although doctors remain cautious in their outlook for the Brazilian, who was runner-up in last year's season.

There were different speculations about Massa's replacement: most notable and curious was that the double world championship winner Fernando Alonso was to negotiate with Ferrari after the Renault team was penalized to skip the GP on Alonso's home soil. Alonso was out of the recent Hungarian GP just after the first pit-stop cause of a loose wheel nut of the right front wheel. This incident not only stripped Renault of the possible podium finish, but also caused that penalty. To note, it was also the Hungarian GP of 2006 when Alonso was in the lead for most of the race, but ended it right after his pit-stop because off a badly attached right front wheel. That race was unexpectedly won by Jenson Button, who is now the championship leader.

In other news related to Formula One BMW Sauber announced plans to retire from the sport at the end of this season. FOTA says it will try to help the team to stay in Formula One, which could possibly mean moves similar to those when Honda was withdrawn from Formula One at the end of the previous season.


Michael Schumacher sustituirá a Felipe Massa

30 de julio de 2009Manarello, Italia —

El equipo Ferrari indicó que el retirado piloto alemán Michael Schumacher se reintegrará a la Fórmula 1 para reemplazar por el resto de la temporada al accidentado piloto brasileño Felipe Massa, quien sufrió una fuerte contusión en su cabeza durante las clasificaciones del Gran Premio de Hungría.

El alemán, quien se había retirado de las pistas en el año 2006, está conforme con la proposición de la escudería, quien anticipó "... en el fondo me gustan los desafíos y esto es un desafío...". Para su retorno, deberá comenzar un exhaustivo programa de acondicionamiento físico con el fin de establecer si aún está en condiciones de conducir un monoplaza de F1.

El posible retorno del piloto se producirá en el Gran Premio de Valencia, a disputarse a finales de agosto.


Formule 1 : Michael Schumacher pour remplacer Felipe Massa ?

Le pilote allemand Michael Schumacher a été choisi par la Scuderia Ferrari pour remplacer Felipe Massa, victime d'un accident lors de la séance de qualifications du Grand Prix de Hongrie, le week-end dernier.

Le septuple champion du monde de Formule 1 doit cependant passer une visite médicale pour pouvoir reprendre part à la compétition qu'il avait quittée le 22 octobre 2006.

Le baron rouge justifie ce retour par la loyauté envers l'écurie où il a passé 12 saisons : « Pour moi, le chapitre de la F1 était clos depuis longtemps, mais, pour des raisons de loyauté envers l'écurie, je ne pouvais pas ignorer la gravité de la situation ».

Felipe Massa s'est quant à lui remis de son accident et pourrait être transféré à la Pitié Salpêtrière dans la semaine. Il y serait soigné par le professeur Gérard Saillant qui est président-délégué de l'institut FIA dépendant de la Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) et qui s'est déjà occupé de sportifs tels que Michael Schumacher ou Ronaldo.


Formula 1: Michael Schumacher sostituirà Felipe Massa

C'era chi ci sperava e chi ci credeva, ma la scelta della Ferrari su chi dovrà essere il sostituto in Formula 1 dell'infortunato Felipe Massa ha comunque dell'incredibile: la scelta è ricaduta, infatti, sul sette volte campione del mondo Michael Schumacher.

Il tedesco inizierà presto un intenso programma di allenamento per abituarsi agli sforzi necessari per guidare le nuove monoposto di Formula 1: tra la F60 che dovrà guidare lui e le monoposto del 2006, ultima stagione a cui aveva preso parte, ci sono numerose differenze, soprattutto a causa delle nuove regole tecniche introdotte quest'anno.

Il suo impegno in Formula 1 partirà dal Gran Premio d'Europa 2009 che si disputerà sul circuito cittadino di Valencia il 23 agosto, mentre nessuna indicazione è stata fornita dalla Ferrari sulla durata di questo impegno. Forse Schumacher correrà per la Ferrari tutte le gare rimanenti della stagione, o più probabilmente correrà solo fin quando Felipe Massa non avrà recuperato completamente l'infortunio avuto nelle qualifiche del Gran Premio d'Ungheria 2009.

Sul suo sito ufficiale Schumacher ha dichiarato di aver accettato di sostituire il pilota brasiliano per gratitudine nei confronti della Ferrari: «Prima, la cosa più importante, grazie a Dio, tutte le notizie su Felipe sono positive. Gli auguro di nuovo il meglio. È vero che il capitolo della F1 per me si è chiuso da tempo e in maniera totale, ma è altrettanto vero che per ragioni di gratitudine e lealtà nei confronti del team non posso ignorare questa sfortunata situazione». Tuttavia, come consono allo stile del pluricampione, Schumacher non cela l'emozione e si dichiara pronto a gettarsi in questa nuova avventura: «Amo la competizione e quindi non vedo l'ora di affrontare questa sfida».


Schumacher correrá pela Ferrari durante a recuperação de Massa

Michael Schumacher, sete vezes campeão do mundo de Fórmula 1, irá substituir o brasileiro Felipe Massa na Ferrari, enquanto ele estiver em recuperação. Schumacher deverá passar por testes físicos antes de assumir o cockpit ferrarista, já no GP da Europa de 2009.

A última corrida de Schumacher, atualmente com 40 anos, na Fórmula 1 foi o GP do Brasil de 2006, em Interlagos, vencido por Felipe Massa.


Microsoft launches Xbox360 Game "Halo 3" World-wide

Microsoft Global announced that Xbox 360 first-person shooter Halo 3 launched world-wide during September 25 to 27. This launch of Halo 3 focuses on strategy, shooting, co-operating, and global linking between different languages.

In the United States, more than 10,000 retailers opened their stores at midnight on September 25. They provided a Halo 3 painted car as a grand prize. Gamers lined up for hours in excitement for the long awaited game to come out.

Shane Kim (Director of Microsoft Games Studio) awarded the first gamer who lined up for the launch at the Best Buy store in New York City, taking pictures with Jim Cush who dressed as "Master Chief", and remarked that other 37 countries will play this game with different languages except English, with the sales of 10 million game copies.

In Taiwan, after Microsoft's local division separately invited Taiwanese Band "Mayday" last Sunday (September 16) and SBL Yulon Dinosaur Team Players (Hsueh-lin Li and Chih-chung Chen) 4 days ago (September 22) at the "Halo 3 Pre-launch Carnival" in Taiwan, the company invited famous model Ruru Lin from Catwalk Co., Ltd. for the launch, and held a friendship match with 4 players who lined up from first place to fourth place.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Hong Kong held a "Halo 3: Ultimate Collection Exhibition" launch activity to show the Halo series figures, posters, game packs, and history. The first Chinese version of "Halo 3: Midnight Ultimate Madness" was published prior to Taiwan's and USA's release, at the Grand Century Place in Mong Kok, Kowloon in Hong Kong.


Halo 3 全球上市 軍事電玩熱 台灣、歐美湧現

引發戰略與射擊遊戲話題的Halo 3，25日全球同步上市，在歐美地區與台灣、香港，都以不同的方式進行慶祝，而歐洲地區因為時差關係，則須等到26日才會進行發售。

為了與台灣拼零時差發行，美國就已經提前發佈上市活動相關訊息，當中，上萬家在美國的電玩門市，都同時在當地時間凌晨零點準時開門，並且提供最大獎─Halo 3彩裝車讓全美地區的玩家進行摸彩，另外，根據美國知名電玩MVP大型網站GamescoreBlog表示，韓國籍微軟遊戲工作室（Microsoft Games Studio）負責人金善男（Shane Kim）也在紐約Best Buy商店中，將第一套Halo 3軟體頒給第一位排隊的幸運兒。

金善男表示，這套軟體除了英文版以外，在全球同步發行的同時，也會有其他37個國家，用不同的語言進行這套遊戲，因此會有17種語言的版本在各地發行，預料這套遊戲在全球，可以突破近千萬的發行量。

在台灣部分，台灣微軟繼上週日（16日）與週六（22日）邀請五月天與裕隆籃球隊球員熱場後，上市當天，邀請凱渥名模林葦茹扮演嫦娥，與士官長一同啟動這套遊戲的上市，而在台灣地區，也有近千位玩家參與這項活動，甚至，排隊前四名的玩家，也獲邀進行友誼賽。

另外，香港地區則是比台灣與美國更早拿到這套遊戲，香港微軟則是在旺角新世紀廣場舉辦了「《Halo 3》終極珍藏展」上市系列活動，包括了24日晚間，遊戲首賣當日的「Halo 3午夜終極降臨」，除了展示Halo系列的角色公仔、畫報、遊戲歷史以外，甚至還有讓Halo玩家引頸期盼的「《Halo》珍藏達人」挑戰賽，顯現香港地區的熱潮不輸台灣的上市系列活動。


Microsoft Taiwan holds "Halo 3 Pre-launch Carnival" in Taipei, Taiwan

Prior to the September 25 launch of "Halo 3" Microsoft Taiwan held "Mayday Fans Meeting" last Sunday (September 16) and "SBL Players Meeting" today, and set experiencing area at PAMC KMall in Taipei on continuous holidays of the Moon Festival (September 22 to 25).

A famous Taiwanese Band "Mayday" were invited by Microsoft Taiwan for the voice casting of "Halo 3" and they wrote a theme song named "Zhua Kuang (English Meaning: Crazy)" and produced its special MV with conjunction of "Halo 3" promotional videos. This special video is available before September 25 in the 5th Square of Station Front Metro Mall in Taipei.

Not only "Mayday Fans Meeting" at September 16, Microsoft Taiwan also invited Yulon Dinosaur Basketball Team players Hsueh-lin "Iverson" Li and Chih-chung "Virus" Chen have friendship matches with a 17-year-old girl player Shih-ching Wang. Ms. Wang showed her performance at the friendship matches with 3-straight-sets speedily winnings.

After the friendship matches, Microsoft Taiwan held a charity bidding event with a Xbox 360 console signed by Hsueh-lin Li and Chih-chung Chen and donated the charity earnings to Taiwan Fund for Children and Families. With the global launch of "Halo 3", Microsoft Taiwan helped the disadvantaged and poor children with this charity bidding.

After the pre-launch series, Microsoft Taiwan will invite Ruru Wei-ru Lin at the launch day of "Halo 3" on September 25 at PAMC KMall in Taipei.


Halo 3 台灣發行在即 暖身活動吸引人潮

在Xbox360的重量級電玩Halo 3於9月25日上市前，台灣微軟在這兩週於台北車站的站前地下街商圈，分別先行辦理的兩項重點暖身活動，首先是9月16日的五月天代言見面會，接著是9月22日的裕隆球員見面會，並且在週末與中秋節連續假期，在統一元氣館進行玩家體驗活動。

獲得台灣微軟之邀請，擔任Halo 3中文配音的台灣知名樂團五月天，不但為這套即將上市的遊戲，寫了代言主題曲「抓狂」，並且製作專屬MV，讓歌迷與玩家體驗射擊遊戲的震撼，而專屬MV也在上班日期間，在台北車站的站前地下街，與遊戲預告片同步播映，顯見台灣微軟對於Halo 3的上市充滿信心，而在9月16日，台灣微軟也舉辦了歌迷見面會，讓幸運被抽中的歌迷，可以和知名樂團五月天合影留念。

除了歌迷見面會，接著就是9月22日的籃球明星見面會，繼去年台灣微軟在X06中，邀請裕隆恐龍籃球隊的曾文鼎與周士淵兩位球員與玩家對戰受到好評後，台灣微軟也在上市前，邀請同屬裕隆隊的陳志忠與李學林，與曾在WCG台灣選拔賽出名，年僅17歲的女性射擊遊戲高手王士菁進行對戰。儘管李學林的奶奶家以前也是開電玩店，或是陳志忠平時也有培養電玩實力，資深的王姓射擊高手，仍然非常神速地，將兩位對手給擊敗，徹底展現台灣電玩界的實力。

友誼賽結束後，台灣微軟也邀請見面會的兩位球員─陳志忠與李學林，親筆在Xbox360主機上簽名，並隨即舉行主機義賣活動，將義賣所得捐給台灣兒童暨家庭扶助基金會，希望透過這項全球上市的活動，幫助貧困的兒童，為慈善盡一份心力。

台灣微軟也表示，在系列的暖身活動結束後，9月25日中秋節上市當天，也會邀請知名名模林葦茹親臨會場助陣，屆時將會擠進許多愛好射擊遊戲的玩家前往台北車站參與。


Microsoft Taiwan, IGS, GameFlier, and Softstar win the Popular Game Voting of 2008 Taipei Game Show

During the fourth day of the 2008 Taipei Game Show, held at the Taipei World Trade Center, visitors voted for their favourite participating companies and games at the "Popular Game Voting" competition.

According to the organizer Taipei Computer Association (TCA), this is the first-ever vote. It has two main categories, quality of the game itself and quality of the presentation at the convention. In the game section there were four categories: leisure game, PC console game, online RPG, and upcoming games. Balancing the vote, booth setup and stage activity were included. If a company won an award in this category, its notoriety is expected to rise and the company could see a great deal of opportunities to market games or its brand to the world.

Aside from the presentation class, winners from the game class were decided by votes from on-site, local gaming magazines, and the official website.

In the end, Microsoft Taiwan won all of the categories of the popular presentation class. In the game voting class, International Games Systems Inc. (IGS) won both popular leisure and upcoming game categories. Soft-World and Softstar Corp. respectively won popular online RPG and PC console game categories.


2008台北國際電玩展風雲遊戲票選 鈊象電子成最大贏家 台灣微軟攤位最風光

2008年台北國際電玩展，今（26）日進入黃金週末的最後一天，各家廠商激戰舞台活動的同時，參觀的玩家也藉由「風雲遊戲暨廠商票選活動」，在昨（27）日結束投票前，為各廠商與遊戲的表現打分數，除了參展商的「攤位裝潢」與「舞台活動」項目，以現場投票方式進行，遊戲部分則依照「線上RPG遊戲」、「休閒遊戲」、「單機遊戲」、「未來新遊戲」等部分，進行網路玩家、雜誌讀者、現場參觀者的綜合票選，因此競爭顯得格外激烈。

根據主辦的電腦公會表示，這項評選雖然與專業評審的「遊戲之星」獎項分開進行，但對於遊戲產業與消費者而言更具指標性，因為本次參選的遊戲當中，不乏有入圍「數位內容系列競賽」，以及「國產遊戲大賽」的遊戲。而得獎的作品，除了將有可能成為消費者的採購參考指標，更有可能在外銷市場上，為台灣打出一片江山。

雖然各家廠商都邀請代言人為產品站台，不過被稱之戰場的微軟、新力、鈊象、億泰利、遊戲新幹線等廠商，反而成為最強的一股勢力，但綜觀得獎的廠商，不難發現，本土自製的遊戲，仍然扮演提昇台灣本土遊戲人口的關鍵角色；最終，台灣微軟在攤位獎項中包下雙冠，而擁有大型機台與線上遊戲的鈊象電子，反而在遊戲票選中，技壓問鼎「遊戲之星」評審團大獎的大宇資訊，贏得四個獎項，再加上攤位獎項獲得雙亞的榮銜，因此成為本次活動的最大贏家。


Mime Marcel Marceau dies at age 84

The French mime Marcel Marceau died at age 84 yesterday in Paris. Emmanuel Vacca, Marceau's former assistant, announced his death on a French-Info radio station. Media reports also indicated his death was announced by his family.

Marceau appeared on stage for over 50 years without uttering a word. But, the off-stage chatty Marceau once said, "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop." His last known international tour was in 2005.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon said, "The mime Marceau will forever be the character of Bip."

Marceau was a French Jew who survived the Holocaust. Marceau was born as Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France on March 22, 1923.

No details about the cause of death or the funeral arrangements were immediately clear.


„Monsieur Bip“ 84-jährig gestorben

Paris (Frankreich), 24.09.2007 – Marcel Marceau ist tot. Der weltweit bekannte Pantomime starb am Samstag in Paris im Alter von 84 Jahren im Kreise seiner Familie. Über die Todesursache wollte sich seine Tochter Aurélia Marceau zunächst nicht äußern.

Marceau, der mit bürgerlichem Namen Marcel Mangel hieß, wurde am 22. März 1923 als Sohn eines jüdischen Metzgers in Straßburg geboren. Nach der Deportation seines Vaters nach Auschwitz arbeitete er aktiv in der Résistance. Den Namen Marceau, der in dieser Zeit in seinem gefälschten Pass stand und der ihm in der Zeit der deutschen Besetzung Frankreichs das Leben rettete, behielt er später bei.

Bekannt wurde Marcel Marceau besonders durch die Figur des tragikomischen Clowns „Monsieur Bip“, die er 1947 erfand. Damit gelang es dem Künstler, der oft als „Charlie Chaplin der Pantomime“ bezeichnet wurde, mit seiner „Compagnie de Mimes Marcel Marceau“ die durch den Film verdrängte Kunst der Pantomime wiederzubeleben. Marceau trat stets mit weiß geschminktem Gesicht, bekleidet mit einem gestreiften Hemd, auf und stand in mehr als 90 Ländern rund 15.000 mal auf der Bühne. Insgesamt 10 Tourneen führten ihn auch nach Deutschland, die erste davon schon im Jahr 1951.

1978 gründete er in Paris die "Ecole International du Mimodrame Marcel Marceau", in der Studenten heute die Kunst der Pantomime erlernen können.

Marcel Marceau wird seine letzte Ruhestätte auf dem Pariser Friedhof Père Lachaise finden. Wann die Beisetzung stattfinden wird, soll in Kürze von seiner Familie bekanntgegeben werden.


Muere el mimo Marcel Marceau

23 de septiembre de 2007París, Francia —

El mimo más famoso del mundo ha muerto, el francés Marcel Marceau, quien se hizo famoso por su personaje Bip, falleció en su residencia en París a los 84 años.

El artista, quien será enterrado en los próximos días en el cementerio parisino de Père Lachaise, era uno de los artistas franceses más famosos en occidente.

Marceau, cuyo nombre verdadero era Marcel Mangel pero tuvo que cambiar su nombre para huir de la matanza nazi (quienes mataron a su padre en 1944) de judíos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

El mimo nació en Estrasburgo, Francia, el 22 de marzo de 1923. Recibió dos premios Emmy por sus programas de televisión The Maurice Chevalier Show y Laugh In.

La frase que más destacó en Marcel Marceau es "la palabra no es necesaria para expresar lo que siente en el corazón".


France : le mime Marceau vient de disparaître

Marcel Marceau, de son vrai nom Marcel Mangel, alias le mime Marceau, vient de s'éteindre hier à l'âge de 84 ans. Né à Strasbourg d'un père boucher, d'une famille d'origine juive, il a fait partie de la Résistance aux côtés de son frère.

Artiste internationalement connu, notamment aux États-Unis avec son personnage Bip, créé en 1947, sa notoriété n'a jamais été démentie.

François Fillon, Premier ministre a salué « l'artiste, le maître, le résistant et exprime à sa famille toutes ses condoléances (…) Il était devenu l'un des artistes français les plus connus dans le monde. Il manquera à ses élèves et au monde du spectacle ».

De son côté, le Président de la République française, Nicolas Sarkozy, a rendu « un hommage dicté par l'émotion, l'admiration et le respect (…) Avec Marcel Marceau, la France perd un de ses ambassadeurs les plus éminents. Il restera présent parmi nous grâce à son souci de l'enseignement et de la transmission ».

L'artiste sera inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise à Paris, assure-t-on auprès de sa famille.


È morto Marcel Marceau

Il famoso mimo francese Marcel Marceu è morto ieri a 84 anni.

La notizia è stata data oggi dall'emittente francese Radio France Info che ha anche precisato che la famiglia dell'attore è già informata sull'accaduto.

L'attore, nato in 22 marzo 1923, è stato allievo del celeberrimo Etienne Decroux (conosciuto a Parigi nel 1949). Negli anni '50 trova il successo sia in Europa che negli USA.

Raggiunti gli ottant'anni ha cominciato a viaggiare per il mondo per diffondere il mimo fino a ieri, giorno della sua morte.


Musician Joni Mitchell hospitalised after found unconscious in home

Well-known Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was found unconscious on Tuesday at her Los Angeles home, and immediately taken to hospital, according to reports. An update on her condition appeared yesterday on her website.

The update yesterday on her website said, "Joni remains under observation in the hospital and is resting comfortably. We are encouraged by her progress and she continues to improve and get stronger each day." Webpage 'We love you Joni' was also created for fans on Facebook and Twitter to send Mitchell messages to get well soon.

A previous statement left on Mitchell's website on Tuesday said, "Joni was found unconscious in her home this afternoon. She regained consciousness on the ambulance ride to an L.A. area hospital. She is currently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits." They added, "More updates to come when we hear them. Light a candle and sing a song, let's all send good wishes her way."

According to an early report by TMZ, the seventy-one year old musician's condition was serious, and a 911 phone call was made from her home around 2:30 p.m. local time.

Rolling Stone, also claims that a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson explained to them that, though they could not reveal who was taken to the hospital at the time, paramedics were sent to Mitchell's house.

On her twitter account, CBC news producer Leslie Stojsic gave a conflicting statement to other reports on Mitchell's condition, saying, "Source tells me she's in hospital recovering after 'minor medical emergency,' was *not* found unconscious."  She also added, "I'm told now she's resting in hospital and is among friends. A good sign."

It did not take long for her condition in hospital to spread through the social media. Many tweeted prayers and well wishes; one of them being rocker Billy Idol. He tweeted, "Sorry to hear todays news about Joni Mitchell. I sang on her 'Dancing Clown' single many moons ago, all the best 4 her recovery."

Mitchell also reportedly suffers from Morgellons disease; a skin condition where people claim they have fibres coming out of their skin, along with tingling sensations. In her memoir, 'Joni Mitchell: In her own words,' released last year, the folk artist describes her experiences with the disease saying, "All the time it felt like I was being eaten alive by parasites living under my skin. I couldn't leave my house for several years."


Músico Joni Mitchell é hospitalizado após ser encontrado inconsciente em casa

Umas das conhecidas cantorsa e compositoras canadense Joni Mitchell foi encontrada inconsciente na terça-feira em sua Los Angeles, Califórnia, e imediatamente levado para o hospital, de acordo com notícias.

A declaração foi deixado no site da Mitchell na terça-feira, dizendo: "Joni foi encontrada inconsciente em sua casa esta tarde. Ela recuperou a consciência sobre a viagem de ambulância para uma área hospitalar LA [Los Angeles]. Ela está atualmente em testes de cuidados intensivos e passando por está acordado e de bom humor." Eles acrescentaram, "Mais atualizações para vir quando os ouvimos. Acenda uma vela e cantar uma canção, vamos todos enviar bom deseja seu caminho."

De acordo com o TMZ, que foi o primeiro a apresentar um relatório sobre a notícia, condição a 71 anos de idade do músico era grave, e uma chamada de telefone 911 foi feita a partir de sua casa por volta das 14:30, hora local.

Conversando com Rolling Stone, uma pessoa de raios dos Bombeiros de Los Angeles confirmou alguns dos eventos anteriores, dizendo paramédicos foi à casa de Mitchell e tomou um "indivíduo" para o hospital; alegando que não poderia revelar no momento em que Mitchell era de fato o paciente.

Refutando declaração "estado grave" do TMZ, Rolling Stone compartilhado um tweet do CBC News Produtor Leslie Stojsic que declarou: "Disseram-me que agora ela está descansando no hospital e está entre amigos - um bom sinal."

Não demorou muito para que a sua condição no hospital para se espalhar através da mídia social. Muitos twittou orações e desejos do poço; sendo um deles o roqueiro, Billy Idol. Ele twittou: "Desculpe a ouvir notícias de hoje sobre Joni Mitchell. Eu cantei em seu solteiro há muitas luas 'Dancing Clown', tudo de melhor para sua recuperação."


Musician Prince dies aged 57

Musician Prince died at home in Minnesota, United States yesterday.

A publicist confirmed his death.
"It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson has died".

A statement from the Carver County Sheriff's office said Prince was found in an elevator at his home at Paisley Park Studio. Emergency workers were called, but after they were unable to revive him, he was pronounced dead.

Following Prince's first album in 1978, he came to prominence in the 1980s.  His 1980s releases included 1999, Kiss, Purple Rain, and Sign o' the Times. He went on to record more than 30 albums.
During his career he sold more than 100 million records and had 47 songs reach the US Billboard top 100. Five of those songs, When Doves Cry, Kiss, Let's Go Crazy, Cream, and Batdance, went to number one. The song When Doves Cry was number one for five weeks.

In 1984 Prince starred in the movie Purple Rain, which was based on his album. The movie's song score won Prince an Academy Award for best original song score. Prince won seven Grammy awards and in 2004 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He also wrote songs released successfully by other artists, such as Manic Monday released in 1986 by the Bangles and Nothing Compares 2 U released in 1990 by Sinéad O'Connor.

The Minnesota Star Tribune reported an autopsy will be conducted to determine Prince's cause of death.


Mor Prince

El cantant nord-americà Prince Rogers Nelson, “Prince”, va morir als 57 anys aquest dijous dia 21. L'artista va ser trobat per la policia inconscient a la seva residència de Paisley Park Studios a Minneapolis, Minnesota. Es desconeix la causa de la seva mort.

La mort va ser notificada pel lloc d'internet TMZ.com i va ser confirmada pel publicista de Prince, qui va informar a l'agència de notícies Associated Press. El passat dissabte 16 d'abril va ser hospitalitzat per símptomes de grip.

Diversos fans han mostrat el seu condol a les afores de la seva residència.


Fallece el cantante estadounidense Prince a los 57 años

El cantante estadounidense Prince falleció a los 57 años este jueves. El artista fue encontrado inconsciente por la policía en su residencia de Paisley Park Studios en Minneapolis, Minnesota. Se desconoce la causa de su muerte.

El fallecimiento fue notificado por el sitio de internet TMZ.com y fue confirmado por el publicista de Prince, quién informó a la agencia de noticias, Associated Press. El pasado sábado 16 de abril fue hospitalizado por síntomas de gripe.

Varios fanáticos han mostrado sus condolencias en las afueras de su residencia.


Musique : décès du chanteur américain Prince

L'auteur-compositeur-interprète américain Prince, de son nom complet Prince Rogers Nelson, est décédé aujourd'hui à l'âge de 57 ans à son domicile dans le Minnesotta.

Le chanteur de pop, dont la carrière a débuté à la fin des années 1970, devient finalement mondialement célèbre en 1984 lorsqu'il tient le premier rôle du film musical Purple Rain dont-il interprète également la bande originale du même nom. Prince avait été brièvement hospitalisé en urgence vendredi dernier pour une grippe et du repos lui avait été recommandé.


Addio a Prince, icona pop

Lutto nel mondo della  musica:  a soli 57 anni scompare infatti il cantante e musicista statunitense Prince, icona pop soprattuto negli anni ottanta. L'artista è stato trovato morto ieri mattina nella sua casa di Minneapolis: i motivi del decesso non sono ancora stati chiariti.

A diffondere per primo la notizia della morte della popstar è stato il sito TMZ intorno alle 19:00 italiane, ma la notizia inizialmente non era stata confermata dall'entourage del cantante.

Il corpo esanime di Prince è stato rinvenuto intorno alle 9:43 del mattino (le 16:43 in Italia) nell'ascensore della sua residenza: i soccorsi, scattati immediatamente, si sono però purtroppo rivelati inutili, in quanto già alle 10.07 è stato dichiarato il decesso del cantante. Non si è certi se la morte prematura di Prince sia da ricollegare al malore accusato dal cantante solamente sei giorni prima, malore che ha costretto l'aereo personale del cantante ad un brusco atterraggio per permettere l'immediato ricovero.

Prince, al secolo Prince Rogers Nelson, era nato a Minneapolis il 7 giugno 1958. Nel corso della sua carriera, negli anni ottanta, vendette oltre 100 milioni di dischi. Tra i suoi brani più famosi, si ricorda Purple Rain, brano del 1984 che ha fatto da colonna sonora al film omonimo e che si è aggiudicato il Premio Oscar nel 1985.

La notizia della prematura scomparsa di Prince ha destato profonda commozione nel mondo dello spettacolo.

Tra i messaggi di cordoglio, si segnalano quelli dei colleghi Katy Perry, che ha twittato: «E così... Il mondo ha perso un sacco di magia. Riposa in pace, e grazie per averci donato così tanto», e di Robbie Williams, che ha scritto: «Ora anche Prince. No, no, no... Riposa in pace genio». La cantante Madonna, assieme alla quale Prince aveva inciso il brano Love Song, si è definita "devastata" dalla notizia.

Anche i fans di tutto il mondo hanno reso omaggio all'artista scomparso, radunandosi nella piazze ed interpretando le sue canzoni più famose. In onore di Prince, le strade di varie città statunitensi sono state colorate di viola, il colore preferito dal cantante, citato anche nel titolo della canzone Purple Rain.


Morre aos 57 anos, o cantor americano Prince


Умер Prince

Американский певец Принс (англ. Prince Rogers Nelson — Принс Роджерс Нельсон) скончался в возрасте 57 лет.

По одним данным, он умер в своём доме в штате Миннесота США, по другим — его тело нашли в парке Пэйсли (англ. Paisley Park) в Миннесоте сегодня утром.

Сообщается, что 15 апреля 2016 года у Принса случилось резкое ухудшение самочувствия и его частный самолет вынужден был приземлиться в Иллинойсе.

У музыканта был обнаружен тяжёлый грипп, но на следующий день он всё же решился выступить на концерте и уверить своих фанатов, что с ним все в порядке.

Принс, считается одним из создателей стиля «ритм-н-блюз».

Вышедшая в 1982 году пластинка Принса «1999» мгновенно сделала его международной суперзвездой.
Два трека из этого альбома вошли в список величайших песен всех времен по версии журнала Rolling Stone.

В 1984 году вышел самый успешный диск Принcа — Purple Rain.

За всю музыкальную карьеру певец получил семь премий Грэмми.

В 2005 году имя Принса включено в Зал славы рок-н-ролла.

После первых сообщений о смерти певца на время перестала открываться страница о нём в Английской Википедии, ссылаясь на перегруженность (скриншот).

21 апреля 2016 года


Muslim world condemns Pope's criticism of Islam

Pope Benedict XVI has enraged the Islamic world by quoting the 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos criticism of Prophet Muhammad's teachings on Tuesday, August 12, durring his six-day visit to Germany.

The Pope said "The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war.  He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached'."

Vatican spokesman Reverend Federico Lombardi clarified the quotation, saying "It certainly wasn't the intention of the Pope to carry out a deep examination of jihad and on Muslim thought on it, much less to offend the sensibility of Muslim believers."

Many Muslim leaders have condemned the comments, some of them stating that the Pope had fallen into "the trap of bigots and racists".

Mohamed Mahdi Akef, who was convicted of leading the Muslim Brotherhood, asked Islamic nations to break off relations with the Vatican, until the Pope apologises for his statements.  He said, "The Pope has aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world and strengthened the argument of those who say that the West is hostile to everything Islamic."  He also said, "The remarks do not express correct understanding of Islam and are merely wrong and distorted beliefs being repeated in the West" and that the comments "pour oil on the fire and ignite the wrath of the whole Islamic world to prove the claims of [hatred] of politicians and religious men in the West to whatever is Islamic".

In reference to the Pope's plan to visit to Turkey in November, Ali Bardakoğlu, head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, "I do not think any good will come from a visit to the Muslim world by a person who has such ideas about Islam's prophet. He should first of all replace the grudge in his heart with moral values and respect for others."

The Pakistani parliament unanimously passed a resolution saying, "This House demands that the Pope should retract his remarks in the interest of harmony between religions."  "The derogatory remarks of the Pope about the philosophy of jihad and Prophet Mohammed have injured sentiments across the Muslim world and pose the danger of spreading [bitterness] among the religions."

Din Syamsuddin, the chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Islamic organisation, said: "The Pope's statements reflect his lack of wisdom."  "It is obvious from the statements that the Pope doesn't have a correct understanding of Islam."

Hamid Ansari, chairman of the Indian National Commission for Minorities said, "The language used by the Pope sounds like that of his  12th-century counterpart who ordered the crusades."

During a brief interview of Prince Rehman Manjee in Chicago, IL, he is quoted saying, "The pontif is not a God or a super being, he is clearly a human being and is allowed to make mistakes, he would however do well to remember God will judge his mistakes the same as the rest of ours. If he truly has contempt for the Muslim world and his beliefs are in conflict with the official position of the church, then a simple statement should be made to that effect."

In Qatar, prominent Muslim scholar shaikh Youssef al-Qaradawi discounted The Pope's comments and said that Islam was a religion of peace and reason.

In Islam, the word "Jihad" itself has a variety of meanings depending upon context and interpretation; ranging from any inner spiritual struggle to openly religious warfare.

* "Pope sparks fury among Muslims" — ITV, September 15, 2006


Regensburger Papst-Rede löst Kritik und Proteste in der islamischen Welt aus

Regensburg (Deutschland), 17.09.2006 – Auf Kritik und zum Teil heftigen Protest in weiten Teilen der islamischen Welt stieß eine Rede von Papst Benedikt XVI.. In einer Vorlesung zum Verhältnis von Gewalt und Religion an der Universität Regensburg am 12. September hatte der Papst ein Zitat eines Kaisers aus dem 14. Jahrhundert verwendet, in dem dieser den Propheten Mohammed kritisiert hatte.

Der Papst hatte bei dem theologischen Vortrag aus einem Dialog zwischen dem im 14. Jahrhundert regierenden christlich-byzantinischen Kaiser Manuel II. Palailogos und einem persischen Gelehrten unter anderem die Worte zitiert: „Zeig mir doch, was Mohammed Neues gebracht hat und da wirst du nur Schlechtes und Inhumanes finden wie dies, dass er vorgeschrieben hat, den Glauben, den er predigte, durch das Schwert zu verbreiten.“ Diese Bemerkung des Kaisers, die der Papst zuvor als „in erstaunlich schroffer, uns überraschend schroffer Form“ vorgebracht qualifiziert hatte, stand im Kontext der Aussage von Benedikt XVI., dass Gewalt mit dem Wesen Gottes nicht vereinbar sei. Vor dem Zitat hatte der Papst zudem betont, auch Kaiser Manuel habe vermutlich bereits die Koransure gekannt, in der gefordert werde, „kein Zwang in Glaubenssachen“.

Die Folge der Äußerungen von Papst Benedikt sind nun weltweite Proteste moslemischer Kreise. Zuerst haben türkische Religionsführer Kritik geübt. Das Amt für Religiöse Angelegenheiten verlangte in Person von Ali Bardakoğlu eine Entschuldigung und stellte gleichzeitig die geplante Türkei-Reise von Papst Benedikt XVI. im November in Frage.

Die Muslimbruderschaft in Ägypten rief die islamische Welt zu Protesten gegen den Papst auf. Die islamischen Staaten sollten mit dem Abbruch der diplomatischen Beziehungen zum Vatikan drohen, falls die Äußerung nicht zurückgenommen werde. Die Organisation der Islamischen Konferenz (OIC) sprach gar von einer „Verleumdungskampagne“ des Papstes gegen den Propheten Mohammed.

Das pakistanische Parlament verabschiedete eine Resolution, in der die Bemerkungen des Papstes ebenfalls verurteilt werden. Es verlangt eine Entschuldigung des Vatikans. Der Vatikan versucht derweil, die Wogen zu glätten. Ein Sprecher sagte, der Papst habe nicht die Absicht gehabt, die Gefühle der Moslems zu verletzen.


Protestations dans le monde musulman après les propos de Benoît XVI sur l'islam

Les propos sur l'Islam du Pape ont déclenchés de vives émotions dans le monde musulman lequel exige de lui des excuses. Dans le but de calmer les esprits le Pape à présenté, par le biais du circuit officiel de communication du Vatican de sincères regrets, mais jugés insuffisant au yeux des musulmans qui se disent offensés.

De nombreux gouvernements islamiques ont fermement condamné les propos tenus par le Pape, lors de son discours à Ratisbonne, en Allemagne, pendant lequel il évoquait l'empereur Byzantin Manuel Paleologos II qui disait ceci : « Montre-moi ce que Mahomet a apporté de nouveau et tu ne trouveras que des choses diaboliques et inhumaines, comme son ordre de diffuser par l'épée la foi qu'il prêchait.» au cours d'une conversation entre le même empereur Manuel Paleologos II, de foi chrétienne (orthodoxe), et un Perse musulman (chiites) cultivé, à propos du christianisme et l'Islam.

Selon le spécialiste de l'islam à l'Institut pontifical oriental de Rome, le Révérend Robert Taft, le Souverain Pontife a voulu lancer le débat : « Le message qu'il envoie est très clair. La violence au nom de la foi n'est jamais acceptable, dans quelque religion que ce soit, et considère de son devoir d'interpeller l'Islam et qui que ce soit d'autre à ce sujet ».


NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space

On February 4, NASA will digitally transmit the Beatles song Across the Universe in the direction of the star Polaris, commonly known as the North Star.

This will mark the first time music has been sent into deep space. The song will be transmitted from the DSS-63 radio antenna at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain at 12:00 am UTC.

The broadcast celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song's recording, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, and the 50th anniversary of NASA itself.

Polaris is approximately 431 light years away from Earth, meaning it will take 431 years for the song to reach the star traveling at the speed of light.

NASA's press release includes statements from Beatle Paul McCartney, who tells NASA to "send [his] love to the aliens", and John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, who sees the event as "the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."

The idea was hatched by Martin Lewis, a Los Angeles-based humorist and Beatles historian.

"It never had the highest profile and is a bit of a forgotten classic," Lewis said of the song. "But it has universal appeal. It transcends ages, borders, language and other barriers."

NASA invites astronomy fans and Beatles fans alike to play the song simultaneously as it is being transmitted into space.


NASA lançará canção dos Beatles no espaço

No dia 4 de feveriero, a NASA transmitirá digitalmente a canção dos Beatles Across the Universe no sentido da estrela Polaris, sabido geralmente como a estrela norte.

Isto marcará a primeira vez que a música foi emitida no espaço profundo. A canção será transmitida da antena DSS-63 de rádio no complexo de comunicação do espaço profundo de Madrid, em Robledo de Chavela, Espanha em 12:00 am UTC.


Natalie Glebova is elected Miss Universe

The 23-year-old Canadian delegate Natalie Glevoba was elected on Tuesday morning as the new Miss Universe, in a ceremony held at Bangkok's Impact Arena.

Glevoba is a professional model, height 1.79 m (5'11"), who received her Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology Management and Marketing at Ryerson University. Born in Russia, she emigrated to Toronto at the age of 11. She beat four Latin American delegates in semifinals: Cynthia Olavarria (Puerto Rico), Renata Soñe (Dominican Republic), Laura Elizondo (Mexico) and Mónica Spear (Venezuela), as well as another 75 delegates from the same number of countries.

Chananporn Rosjan, from Thailand, won the Best Costume Award, while Gionna Cabrera, from Philippines, was chosen as Miss Photogenic and Tricia Homer, US Virgin Islands delegate, became Miss Congeniality.

Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell co-hosted the ceremony.

Glebova received the Mikimoto crown, valued in 250,000 dollars, from Australian Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe 2004. Besides, Natalie will live in New York for one year, in one of the Trump Towers, with  other several prizes. The first time a Canadian was elected Miss Universe was in 1982, when Karen Baldwin won the pageant.

Colombian designer Miguel De La Torre, who designed Glebova's wardrobe, declared that "Canadian beauty contestants have always been quite classical. It's the first time a Latin designer is chosen. (...) At the very first days, Natalie was quite low-key, because being too noticed is not good. To be with her is the best thing has ever happened in my professional life. Furthermore, to come here for the first time with two delegates (Glebova and Daniela Clerk from Nicaragua) and two gown dresses was a dream come true".

Glebova visited Colombia in April 2004 in order to take part in Miss Maja World pageant, held in the northern town of Corozal, Sucre, where she was the second runner-up, and went back there a few months ago to try the dresses designed by De La Torre. The Colombian designer has never participated at his country's national beauty pageant.

Thailand's prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the pageant was very positive for his country's tourism reactivation, after the tsunami tragedy. Thailand spent 6.5 million dollars in the pageant and used locations at Phi-Phi and Phuket beaches for the previous footages with delegates.


Natalie Glebova es la nueva Miss Universo

31 de mayo de 2005Bangkok, Tailandia — La canadiense Natalie Glebova, de 23 años, fue elegida la mañana del martes -hora local- como nueva Miss Universo, en ceremonia realizada en la Impact Arena de la capital tailandesa.

La modelo profesional, de 1,79 m de estatura, graduada de Manejo de Tecnología Informática y Marketing, nació en Rusia y fue criada en Toronto, a donde emigró cuando tenía 11 años. Glebova venció a cuatro latinoamericanas en la semifinal, la puertorriqueña Cynthia Olavarria, la dominicana Renata Soñe, la mexicana Laura Elizondo y la venezolana Mónica Spear, así como a otras 75 concursantes de igual número de países del mundo. La tailandesa Chananporn Rosjan ganó el premio al mejor traje típico, la filipina Gionna Cabrera fue elegida Miss Fotogenia y Tricia Homer, de las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos, fue elegida Miss Simpatía. El certamen fue presentado por los estadounidenses Billy Bush y Nancy O’Dell.

Glebova recibió la corona Mikimoto de perlas y diamantes, avaluada en 250.000 dólares, de la australiana Jennifer Hawkins, ganadora del certamen del año anterior, celebrado en Ecuador. Además, la canadiense vivirá por un año en Nueva York, en un apartamento ubicado en una de las torres del magnate Donald Trump, propietario del concurso, además de otros premios. La última vez que una canadiense recibió este premio fue en 1982, cuando Karen Baldwin fue elegida Miss Universo.

El colombiano Miguel De La Torre, quien diseñó el vestuario de la ganadora del certamen, declaró que "las reinas canadienses siempre han sido muy clásicas. Es la primera vez que llevan a un diseñador latino. (...) Los primeros días Natalie manejó un perfil muy bajo, pues tener un perfil muy alto no sirve. Estar al lado de ella es lo mejor que me ha pasado en mi vida profesional. Es más, venir por primera vez con dos reinas (Glebova y la nicaragüense Daniela Clerk) y con dos vestidos de coronación fue un sueño hecho realidad".

Glebova visitó Colombia en abril de 2004 para participar en el concurso Miss Maja Mundial, realizado en Corozal, Sucre (al noroccidente del país), en el que obtuvo el tercer lugar, y regresó al país sudamericano hace unos meses para probarse los vestidos diseñados por De La Torre. El colombiano nunca ha participado como diseñador en el reinado nacional de su país.

El primer ministro tailandés Thaksin Shinawatra afirmó que el concurso fue positivo en la reactivación del turismo, luego de la tragedia del tsunami del pasado 26 de diciembre. Tailandia invirtió 6,5 millones de dólares en el concurso y utilizó locaciones de las playas de Phi-Phi y Phuket para las grabaciones con las participantes previas a la ceremonia final.


Natalie Glebova é a nova Miss Universo

A canadense Natalie Glebova, de 23 anos, foi eleita na manhã da terça-feira (hora local) a nova Miss Universo, em cerimônia realizada na Arena Impact, na capital tailandesa.

A modelo profissional, de 1,79 m de estatura, graduada em Marketing e Gerência em Tecnologia da Informação, nasceu na  Rússia e foi criada em Toronto, para onde emigrou quando tinha 11 anos.

Glebova venceu  quatro latino-americanas na semifinal: a porto-riquenha Cynthia Olavarria, a dominicana Renata Soñe, a mexicana Laura Elizondo e a venezuelana Mónica Spear, além das outras 75 concursantes de outros países. A tailandesa Chananporn Rosjan ganhou o prêmio de melhor traje típico, a filipina Gionna Cabrera foi eleita Miss Fotogênica e Tricia Homer, das Ilhas Virgens dos Estados Unidos, foi eleita Miss Simpatia. O concurso foi apresentado pelos norte-americanos Billy Bush e Nancy Ou’Dell.

Glebova recebeu a coroa Mikimoto [1] de  pérolas e diamantes, avaliada em  250 mil dólares, da australiana Jennifer Hawkins, ganhadora do concurso do ano anterior, realizado no Equador.

Está previsto que a canadense vá morar por  um ano em  Nova Iorque, num apartamento localizado numa das torres do magnata Donald Trump, proprietário do concurso, além de  outros  prêmios. A última vez que uma canadense ganhou o concurso  foi em  1982, quando Karen Baldwin foi eleita Miss Universo.

O colombiano Miguel Da Torre, foi quem desenhou as roupas da ganhadora do concurso. Ele declarou que "as rainhas canadenses sempre foram muito clássicas. É a primeira vez que recorrem a um figurinista latino. (...) Nos primeiros dias Natalie usou um perfil mais baixo, porque ter um perfil muito alto não é bom. Estar ao lado dela é a melhor coisa que aconteceu em minha vida profissional. E tem mais, vir pela primeira vez com duas rainhas (Glebova e a nicaragüense Daniela Clerk) e com dois vestidos de coroamento foi um sonho feito realidade".

Glebova visitou a Colômbia em  abril de  2004 para participar no concurso Miss Maja Mundial, realizado em  Corozal, Sucre, no qual obteve o terceiro lugar. [2], e regressou ao país sul-americano há uns meses para provar  os vestidos desenhados por Da Torre. O colombiano nunca participou como desenhista no concurso nacional de  seu país.

O premiê tailandés Thaksin Shinawatra afirmou que o concurso foi positivo na reativação do turismo, depois da tragédia do tsunami em  26 de  dezembro passado. A Tailândia investiu 6,5 milhões de  dólares no concurso e utilizou locações das praias das Ilhas Phi Phi e das Ilhas Phuket para as gravações com as participantes prévias à cerimônia final.