Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio gana el Premio Nobel de Literatura

9 de octubre de 2008Estocolmo, Suecia —

El escritor francés Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura por la Academia de Suecia. Así, Le Clézio gana el prestigioso premio de 10 millones de coronas suecas (1,4 millones de dólares), por ser un gran "autor de partidas nuevas, aventura poética y éxtasis sensual, explorador de una humanidad que está por encima y por debajo de la civilización actual", según informó la Academia.

Su primer libro, Le Procès-verbal, fue publicado en 1963, cuando el escritor tenía 23 años. Ahora, con 68 años, recibe el Nobel de Literatura.

"Como un escritor joven en las postrimerías del existencialismo y la 'nouveau roman', fue un prestidigitador que intentó elevar las palabras por encima del estado degenerado del discurso de cada día y recuperar en ellas el poder de invocar una realidad esencial", expresó en su comunicado el Comité Nobel. "El énfasis en el trabajo de Le Clézio ha avanzado cada vez más en la dirección de una exploración del mundo de la niñez y de su propia historia familiar".

El escritor, ahora jurado del Premio Renaudot y autor de obras como La Fièvre, L'Extase matérielle, Terra amata, Le Livre des fuites, La Guerre, Désert y Le Chercheur d'or, es considerado una figura prominente de la literatura francesa.


Nobel z literatury dla francuskiego pisarza

Literacka Nagroda Nobla dla Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Nagrodę Nobla z literatury otrzymał francuski pisarz, którego rodzina wywodzi się z wyspy Mauritius, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio za nowe odkrycia, poetycką przygodę i sensualną ekstazę, badanie człowieczeństwa ponad i poza granicami cywilizacji.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio jest autorem 30 książek, których głównym tematem są zderzenia i interakcje kultury francuskiej z afrykańską, islamską i hinduską, przez które przebija się pierwotna natura osamotnionego na skrzyżowaniu kultur człowieka.


Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ganha o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2008

O escritor francês Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ganhou o prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2008. Esta é a primeira vez que um escritor francês ganha o prêmio desde 1985.

Segundo a Academia Sueca, Le Clézio é um autor "de novos começos, de aventura poética e êxtase sensual, explorador da humanidade além e abaixo da civilização atual".


Fransk författare vinner Nobelpriset i litteratur 2008

Den franska författaren Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio har tilldelats Nobelpriset i litteratur 2008 av Svenska akademien. Det prestigefyllda priset innebär att han kommer få en summa på 10 miljoner svenska kronor, för att han är ”uppbrottets, det poetiska äventyrets och den sinnliga extasens författare, utforskare av en mänsklighet utanför och nedanför den härskande civilisationen”.[1]

Hans första bok, Le Procès-verbal publicerades 1963 när Le Clézio var 23 år. Nu är han 68 och får Nobelpriset i litteratur och känns igen som en nyckelfigur inom den franska litteraturen.

"Som ung författare i efterdyningen av existentialismen och nouveau roman var han en besvärjare som försökte lyfta orden ur vardagsspråkets degenererade tillstånd och återge dem kraften att frammana en essentiell verklighet," skrev Akademien på sin hemsida. "Tyngdpunkten i författarskapet har alltmera förskjutits i riktning mot ett utforskande av barndomens värld och den egna släktens historia."

Författaren, numera jury i Prix Renaudot, har skrivit texter såsom La Fièvre, L'Extase matérielle, Terra amata, Le Livre des fuites, La Guerre, Désert och Le Chercheur d'or.


French broadcasters barred from saying "Facebook" or "Twitter" on air

The French institution of regulation of broadcasting media has recently prohibited the use of the words "Facebook" and "Twitter" on television or radio broadcasts; except where these social networks are a central part of a news report.

The regulation, issued by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), cites a 1992 statute governing the relationship between journalists and advertising, sponsorship, and "teleshopping". Mentioning the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" on air, in the eyes of the CSA, constitutes "clandestine advertising". CSA spokesperson Christine Kelly explained her organization's desire to set a level playing field when it comes to social networking: "Why give preference to Facebook, which is worth billions of dollars, when there are many other social networks that are struggling for recognition," she said. "This would be a distortion of competition. If we allow Facebook and Twitter to be cited on air, it's opening a Pandora’s Box — other social networks will complain to us saying, 'why not us?'"

Broadcasters now may not tell their listeners to "find us on Facebook", but rather "find us on social networks". However, they would still be allowed to name the social networking sites when either is involved in a news story.

Business Insider contributor Matthew Fraser sees this action as a form of animosity towards US culture: "Facebook and Twitter are, of course, American social networks. In France, they are regarded — at least implicitly — as symbols of Anglo-Saxon global dominance — along with Apple, MTV, McDonald’s, Hollywood, Disneyland, and other cultural juggernauts. That there is a deeply-rooted animosity in the French psyche towards Anglo-Saxon cultural domination cannot be disputed; indeed, it has been documented and analysed for decades. Sometimes this cultural resentment finds expression in French regulations and laws, frequently described, and often denounced, by foreigners as protectionism."

CNET's Chris Matyszczyk, on the other hand, suspects that Frenchmen will hardly miss the explicit references to social networks tacked onto the end of broadcasts. "I am confident that not one single French citizen will miss the now standard cliche at the end of each broadcast entreating every viewer to please keep in contact with the news station on one or other of the American social networks."


Les diffuseurs français interdits de citer « Facebook » ou « Twitter » à l'antenne

Le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) vient d'interdire l'utilisation des mots « Facebook » et « Twitter » à la télévision et à la radio, excepté quand ces réseaux sociaux sont au cœur de l'actualité. Le Petit Robert va quant à lui faire une place au tweet dans sa prochaine édition, même si l'on aura noté la différence d'orthographe entre la marque et le nom devenu commun[1].

Le CSA, autorité de régulation de l'audiovisuel, cite une loi de 1992, régissant les relations entre journaliste et publicitaires, sponsors et télé shopping. Selon le CSA, citer les mots « Facebook » ou « Twitter » à l'antenne constitue de la publicité clandestine. Le porte-parole du CSA, Christine Kelly, explique que l'organisation désire mettre les réseaux sociaux sur un pied d'égalité : « Pourquoi faire de la promo régulière sur un seul réseau qui, entre autre, lève des milliards de dollars ? Et pas un autre qui a du mal à se faire connaître ? On ne peut pas selon la loi, laisser applaudir une seule marque ». Pourtant hier soir, lors d'une émission politique, le journaliste cite « Dailymotion » sans aucune retenue et pour cause, le site internet la diffuse[2].

Les diffuseurs ne pourront donc plus dire à leurs auditeurs « retrouvez-nous sur Facebook » mais « retrouvez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux », ou encore « untel s'est exprimé sur les réseaux sociaux » au lieu de « s'est exprimé sur Twitter ». Toutefois, ils seraient encore autorisé à nommer les sites de réseautage social dans le cadre d'une actualité.

Matthew Fraser, contributeur du Business Insider perçoit cette interdiction comme une forme d'animosité envers la culture américaine : « Facebook et Twitter sont, bien sûr, des réseaux sociaux américains. En France, ils sont considérés — au moins implicitement — comme des symboles de la domination anglo-saxone, au même titre qu'Apple, MTV, McDonald’s, Hollywood, Disneyland et d'autre force culturelle irrépressible. Il y a une animosité profondément enraciné dans les esprits français envers le domination culturelle anglo-saxone qui ne saurait être contestée, en effet, cela a été étudié et analysé depuis des années. Parfois, ce ressentiment culturel trouve écho dans les réglementation française et dans les lois, et est fréquemment décrit et souvent dénoncé par les étrangers comme du protectionnisme ».

D'un autre côté, Chris Matyszczyk, de CNET, pense que les Français auront du mal à se passer des références explicites au réseaux sociaux à la fin des émissions. « Je suis persuadé que pas un seul citoyen français ne regrettera le désormais courant cliché à la fin de chaque émissions priant le téléspectateur à, s'il vous plaît, rester en contact avec la station sur l'un ou l'autre des réseaux sociaux américains ».


French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at age 100

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture, has died in Paris at the age of 100.

Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28, 1908 in Brussels, Belgium. Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lévi-Strauss lived in Brazil from 1935 to 1939. It was during this time that he undertook his first ethnographic fieldwork, conducting periodic research forays into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Rainforest. He studied first the Guaycuru and Bororo Indian tribes, actually living among them for a while. Several years later, he returned for a second, year-long expedition to study the Nambikwara and Tupi-Kawahib societies. It was this experience that cemented Lévi-Strauss's professional identity as an anthropologist. Edmund Leach suggests, from Lévi-Strauss's own accounts in Tristes-Tropiques, that he could not have spent more than a few weeks with any place and was never able to converse easily with any of his native informants in their native language.

The war years in New York were formative for Lévi-Strauss in several ways. His relationship with Roman Jakobson helped shape his theoretical outlook (Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss are considered to be two of the central figures on which structuralist thought is based). In addition, Lévi-Strauss was also exposed to the American anthropology espoused by Franz Boas, who taught at Columbia University on New York's Upper West Side. In 1942 in fact, while having dinner at the Faculty House at Columbia, Boas died of a heart attack in Lévi-Strauss's arms. This intimate association with Boas gave his early work a distinctive American tilt that helped facilitate its acceptance in the U.S. After a brief stint from 1946 to 1947 as a cultural attaché to the French embassy in Washington, DC, Lévi-Strauss returned to Paris in 1948. It was at this time that he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne by submitting, in the French tradition, both a "major" and a "minor" thesis. These were The Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.

Lévi-Strauss' later works are more controversial, in part because they impinge on the subject matter of other scholars. He believed that modern life and all history was founded on the same categories and transformations that he had discovered in the Brazilian back country – The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Naked Man (to borrow some titles from the Mythologiques). For instance he compares anthropology to musical serialism and defends his "philosophical" approach. He also pointed out that the modern view of primitive cultures was simplistic in denying them a history. The categories of myth did not persist among them because nothing had happened – it was easy to find the evidence of defeat, migration, exile, repeated displacements of all the kinds known to recorded history. Instead, the mythic categories had encompassed these changes.

Lévi-Strauss is survived by his wife Monique Roman and two sons.


Nécrologie : disparition de l'anthropologue Claude Lévi-Strauss

L'anthropologue social et académicien Claude Lévi-Strauss est décédé samedi dernier à l'âge de 100 ans, a confirmé l'Académie française.

Professeur honoraire au Collège de France, il en a occupé la chaire d'anthropologie sociale de 1959 à 1982. Il était également membre de l'Académie française dont il était devenu le premier centenaire.

Depuis ses premiers travaux sur les Indiens du Brésil, qu'il avait étudiés sur le terrain entre 1935 et 1939, et la publication de sa thèse Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté en 1949, il a produit une œuvre scientifique dont les apports ont été reconnus au plan international. Il a ainsi consacré une tétralogie, les Mythologiques, à l'étude des mythes. Mais il a également publié des ouvrages qui sortent du strict cadre des études académiques, dont le plus célèbre, Tristes Tropiques, publié en 1955, l'a fait connaître et apprécier d'un vaste cercle de lecteurs.


訃報 クロード・レヴィ＝ストロース氏 - 人類学者、「構造主義の父」

「構造主義の父」と呼ばれ、著書『悲しき熱帯』『野生の思考』などで知られたフランスの人類学者、クロード・レヴィ＝ストロース氏が10月30日（UTC+1、以下同様）、死去した。100歳だった[1][2][3]。AFP通信が11月3日、親戚筋の話として伝えた[1][2]。

ブリュッセルのユダヤ系の家庭に生まれた。パリ大学で法学と哲学を学び[1][2]、後に人類学に転向[3]。1935年から1939年にかけてブラジルのサンパウロ大学に赴任し[1]、先住民インディオ社会の調査を行った[2][3]。第二次世界大戦中は、ドイツの影響を受けたヴィシー政権下のフランスを逃れてアメリカ合衆国へ亡命[2]。この地で構造主義者の言語学者ヤコブソンと出会い、影響を受けた[1]。終戦後にフランスに帰国[2]。

ヤコブソンらの構造主義を文化人類学に導入し[1]、1949年に発表した論文「親族の基本構造」で構造人類学を樹立[3]。1955年に刊行された、ブラジルでの調査・経験を盛り込んだ紀行文『悲しき熱帯』がベストセラーとなった[1][3]。実存主義を唱えた哲学者サルトルとの論争でも知られている[1][2]。1973年にはフランス学会の最高権威であるアカデミー・フランセーズ会員に選出された[2]。

親日家であり、1993年に勲二等旭日重光章を受章[2][3]。浮世絵の収集家でもあった[3]。

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Antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss morre aos 100 anos

O antropólogo francês Claude Lévi-Strauss morreu aos 100 anos, em Paris, segundo informações da editora Plon, no último sábado (31). Fundador da Antropologia Estruturalista, é considerado um dos intelectuais mais relevantes do século 20. Ele sofria de Mal de Parkinson.

Belga criado em Paris, Lévi-Strauss iniciou seu grande projeto intelectual em 1934, quando foi convidado pela recém-fundada USP (Universidade de São Paulo) para lecionar sociologia. Viveu no Brasil entre 1935 e 1939. Lévi-Strauss conseguiu levar a etnologia ao grande público através de "Tristes Trópicos", um estudo dos comportamentos sociais dos índios brasileiros cadiuéus, bororos e nhambiquaras, de conteúdo marcantemente autobiográfico.

Pouco antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, foi convocado para combater em 1939, mas deu baixa por causa da origem judia, sendo que em 1941, refugia-se em Nova Iorque. Era membro da Academia Francesa desde 1973.


Umro Klod Levi-Stros

3. новембар 2009.Pariz/ Francuska (Beta) Jedan od najznačajnijih antropologa 20. veka, francuski utemeljivač strukturalizma Klod Levi-Stros (Claude Levi-Strauss) umro je u 101. godini, saopštila je danas Francuska akademija nauka, prenose svetske agencije.

Ideje Kloda Levi-Strosa koji se smatra utemeljivačem moderne atropologije, inspirisale su generacije autora iz svih oblasti društvenih i humanističkih nauka.

Za 60 godina naučne karijere, Levi-Stros je napisao veliki broj književnih i antropoloških klasika, kakvi su "Tužni tropi" (1955), "Divlja misao" (1963) i "Mitologika I-IV" (1964-1967).


French TV director Alain Jaubert talks about art programs in Taiwan

Alain Jaubert, director of the famous art program "Palettes" by Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne (ARTE) was invited by Taiwan Public Television Service (PTS Taiwan) and the French Institute in Taipei to talk about productions on his art program on January 19 in Taipei City. He also talked about some experiences and functionalities on art programs with the Chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation Mingchuan Huang.

According to PTS Taiwan, Jaubert failed at his first attempt to produce "Palettes" in 1984, but finally succeeded in 1987 after his proposal was recalled and Jaubery tried another production style to introduce history and background on establishments of notable pictures to Europe. This program was finally recognized and encouraged by administration centers from three ancient monuments (Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, and Pompidou Centre). This also echoed Jaubert's words in his speech: "Without support by art comrades and those administrations centers, 'Palettes' would not exist; I wouldn't have become notable in Europe."

Before the Executive Panel, the PTS Taiwan screened highlights from some art programs including "Pelettes" by ARTE and "Avant Guard Liberation" by Mingchuan Huang. After the screening, executives talked about specifications on art programs and forecasted the future of directions on art programs world-wide.


法國名導演亞倫·裘貝訪台 暢談藝術電視節目製作經驗

享譽法國與德國的美術節目「調色盤」（Palettes），其導演亞倫·裘貝（Alain Jaubert）應台灣公共廣播集團與法國在台協會的邀請，在今日舉辦專題演講，並與台灣地區知名紀錄片導演，也是國家文藝基金會董事長黃明川，就藝術類電視節目的製作，進行經驗分享與交流。

根據公共電視的資料指出，早在1984年，裘貝就曾經嘗試進行「調色盤」節目的製作，但是，正式的錄製卻是直到1987年，重新被人提起，並透過節目製作的方式，擺脫繪畫理論，向當地國人介紹知名畫作完成的故事後，反而獲得羅浮宮、奧塞美術館、龐畢度等三大古蹟管理中心的好評。因此，裘貝也在座談會中表示：「如果沒有藝術同好，沒有各古蹟管理機構的支持，或許就沒有這節目，甚至我也不會出名。」

而在高峰對談進行前，主辦的公廣集團播放了一些藝術節目的片段，讓與談的貴賓和觀眾深入瞭解藝術節目的歷史與功能，當中包含了「調色盤」與黃明川的「解放前衛」等節目，並在會中討論藝術節目的特色，與展望各國藝術節目的編導。


Full lunar eclipse due on March 3, 2007

There will be a full lunar eclipse starting on Saturday, March 3. Earth's passage between the Sun and the Moon will begin casting its shadow on the surface of the Moon starting at 20:18 UTC. The Moon will be totally eclipsed by the Earth's shadow between 22:44 and 23:58 UTC.

Cloudless conditions would make for a great viewing experience as the Lunar phase is now full. The color of the moon will be like that of copper.

In England, the lunar eclipse will occur between 8:18pm and until 2:24am.

A chart to calculate the time offset from UTC puts the eclipse starting at 3:18pm EST in North America. The moon will be totally eclipsed 21 minutes prior to sunset in that time zone. The moonrise will occur during the period it is eclipsed, at 6:01pm. Viewers will be able to see the moon re-emerge from the Earth's shadow, weather permitting.

The eclipse will take place during the Hindu festival of Holi.


Totale Mondfinsternis am Wochenende

01.03.2007 – Bei klarem Himmel kann in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag in ganz Mitteleuropa eine totale Mondfinsternis beobachtet werden. Um 22:30 Uhr tritt der Vollmond von Westen kommend langsam in den Kernschatten der Erde ein. Um 23:44 Uhr bedeckt der Erdschatten den Mond dann vollständig. Die totale Verdunkelung wird bis 0:58 Uhr dauern. Danach braucht der Mond noch etwas mehr als eine Stunde, bis er wieder vollständig aus dem Erdschatten herausgetreten ist.

Da das Sonnenlicht an der Erdatmosphäre gestreut wird, fällt auch während des Durchgangs durch den Kernschatten der Erde eine geringe Lichtmenge auf den Mond. Deshalb ist der Mond auch während der totalen Phase der Finsternis noch als blasse, rot-braune Scheibe am Himmel auszumachen.

Eine Mondfinsternis kann sich nur bei Vollmond ereignen, wenn die Erde in gerader Linie zwischen Sonne und Mond steht. Dass es nicht bei jedem Vollmond zu einer Finsternis kommt, liegt daran, dass die Bahnebenen von Erde und Mond um ungefähr fünf Grad zueinander geneigt sind. Dadurch wandert der Mond meistens nördlich oder südlich am Kernschatten der Erde vorbei. Die nächste totale Mondfinsternis ereignet sich am 21. Februar 2008.

Anders als totale Sonnenfinsternisse sind totale Mondverfinsterungen heute nicht mehr von herausragendem Interesse für die Wissenschaft. Dies war in der Epoche der großen Entdeckungsreisen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert ganz anders. Damals wurden die in weiten Bereichen der Erde sichtbaren Mondfinsternisse dazu genutzt, aus den Differenzen der Beobachtungszeiten an verschiedenen Orten die Unterschiede ihrer geographischen Länge zu berechnen.

Im März ereignen sich noch zwei weitere spektakuläre Himmelsschauspiele. Am 2. März verdeckt der Mond zwischen 3:38 Uhr und 4:11 Uhr den Planeten Saturn. Eine partielle Sonnenfinsternis wird  am 19. März in großen Teilen Asiens, des Nordpolarmeeres und Alaskas, jedoch nicht in Europa zu beobachten sein.


Astronomie : éclipse totale de la Lune dans la nuit du samedi 3 mars 2007 au dimanche 4 mars 2007

Publié le 4 mars 2007   Cette nuit a eu lieu un phénomène assez courant mais peu banal : une éclipse totale de Lune. Un tel phénomène arrive environ deux fois par an.

Les heures sont en temps universel.

Vers 20h18 (T.U.), samedi, la Lune a pénétré dans la pénombre avant de commencer d'être occultée par la Terre à partir de 21h30.

Vers 22h44, l'occultation était terminée et la phase maximale d'ombre est survenue vers 23h20. La Lune est toujours visible mais de couleur orange, les étoiles les moins brillantes réapparaissent. Le ciel s'est assombri comme un soir de nouvelle lune.

Ce n'est que vers 23h57, que l'astre des nuits a commencé à réapparaître, la fin de l'occultation totale se terminant à 1h11. Enfin, notre satellite a définitivement quitté la zone de pénombre à 2h23.


Stasera eclissi totale di luna visibile dall'Europa

Stasera è prevista un'eclissi lunare, che renda la Luna di colore rosso e con altre sfumature colorate. Lo spettacolo inizierà alle (ore riportate in ore italiane) alle 21.18 (inizio della fase di penombra), ma in tale periodo gli effetti visibili saranno solo parzialmente evidenti, con una parte della Luna che riceve meno luce del solito. Bisognerà attendere più avanti nella notte per vedere la Luna eclissarsi totalmente. Alle 22.30 inizierà la fase di eclissi parziale (in cui una parte della Luna entra in penombra). Alle 23.43 inizierà la fase di eclissi totale: da questo momento, per circa 1 ora e 15 minuti l'intera Luna resterà nella zona d'ombra e sarà possibile osservare la Luna assumere una colorazione rossastra, fenomeno dovuto alla luce riflessa dalla atmosfera terrestre verso la terra. Il massimo dell'eclissi di avrà alle 0:20 di domani domenica 4 marzo (ora italiana), la fase di totalità si concluderà alle 0.58, la fase di eclissi parziale alle 2.11 e la fine della fase di penombra alle 3.25.

L'eclissi di Luna, a differenza delle eclissi solari, sarà facilmente fotografabile.
Non ci saranno problemi per la visione (non ci saranno molte nubi) in Piemonte, in Liguria, Sardegna, Sicilia ed Emilia-Romagna, mentre sulle Alpi, gli Appennini, la Campania, l'Abruzzo, Molise e la Calabria tirrenica ci saranno un po' di più problemi vista la nuvolosità. Nelle regioni non citate ci saranno momenti di nuvolosità e di sereno, ma forse l'eclissi potrebbe essere visibile lo stesso. Un'eclissi lunare avviene quando la Terra si interpone tra il Sole e la Luna oscurando così quest'ultima o "colorandola" di vari colori. La Luna infatti non emette luce propria ma riflette quella del sole.

L'eclissi di Luna, nubi e altri fenomeni atmosferici permettendo, sarà visibile per tutta la durata del fenomeno in Europa e in Africa. Una parte dell'Asia e dell'Australia vedrà la Luna tramontare prima della fine completa del fenomeno, mentre quasi tutta l'America vedrà la Luna sorgere mentre è in corso il fenomeno. In Alaska, l'estremità più orientale dell'Asia, nella parte orientale dell'Australia e in gran parte dell'Oceania e delle isole del  Pacifico, l'intero fenomeno avverrà mentre la Luna non è visibile perché al di sotto dell'orizzonte.


3 marca 2007: Zaćmienie Księżyca

W sobotę o 21:18 rozpoczęło się zaćmienie Księżyca, kiedy to satelita Ziemi wszedł w jej półcień. Faza częściowa trwała od 22:30 do 2:11. Księżyc schował się w cień ziemski od 23:44 do 0:57, na 1 godzinę i 13 minut. W czasie fazy maksymalnej Księżyc w Polsce był ponad 40 stopni nad horyzontem. Transmisję zjawiska było można także oglądać w internecie.

Kolejne całkowite zaćmienie Księżyca wystąpi 28 sierpnia 2007 roku.


Full-length open source movie ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ is released online

Amateur filmmaker Solomon Rothman has released a full-length open source movie called 'Boy Who Never Slept.'

The movie is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license; this allows people to use, edit, or share the movie in any way (except commercially) as long as they credit the creators.

All of the raw unedited footage, including audio files, is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license; as long as the creators are credited, users can do whatever they want with the files privately or commercially.

The open source movie and original files are available for free download or streaming from a variety of sources, including direct downloading from the Internet Movie Archives, video distribution sites like Google video and Veoh, via file sharing networks like BitTorrent, and more. The full list is found on the official movie website.

The film centers on the life of an insomniac writer who meets a teenage girl online, and a friendship that grows into an unlikely love story wrapped in harsh reality. The movie deals with various issues, including the romanticization of love, age-related issues in relationships, like statutory rape (he's 23, and she's 16), and the idea of love in the online realm.

Rothman, a writer, amateur filmmaker and web designer, lives in the Los Angeles Area. He wrote, directed and produced the movie with his partner, A. Brown. Producing the movie for $200 while they were in college, they used friends as actors and later sold the camera on eBay to recoup the expense.

Rothman has spoken about the importance of exploring new possibilities in film making, especially for amateur filmmakers, “I believe that everyone has the ability to tell at least one good story and I wanted the world to see the power of the Internet Community as a distribution source for amateur filmmakers.  I released “Boy Who Never Slept” as an open source movie to encourage new filmmakers and to reach the largest possible audience on a budget absolutely anyone could afford.”

The movie is unrated; it explores adult themes and contains graphic language and brief nudity.


Le long-métrage open source ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ téléchargeable gratuitement

Le réalisateur de film amateur Solomon Rothman rend publique son film ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ (Le garçon insomniaque) sous licence ouverte.

Le film est disponible sous licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5, ce qui permet aux gens de le voir, le modifier ou le partager de toutes les manières possibles (sauf commerciales) tant que les auteurs sont cités.

Les métrages bruts, les fichiers sons, sont offerts sous licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, permettant leur utilisation aussi bien commerciale que privée, tant que les auteurs sont cités.


Fur fans flock to Toronto's Furnal Equinox 2019

From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the "furry fandom." Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event's featured guests were visual artists Moth Monarch and Cat-Monk Shiro, as well as the co-owners of US fursuit costume builders Don't Hug Cacti.

The event raised nearly CDN$11,000 for Pet Patrol, a non-profit rescue organization in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, run by volunteers. This exceeded their goal of $10,000, the funds needed to finish a rural sanctuary. The furry community is well-known for their charitable efforts. Along with direct donations, the funds were raised through a charity auction offering original artwork, and a fursuit design by guests of honour "Don't Hug Cacti." Last year, Furnal Equinox raised funds for a farm animal sanctuary.

While only 10–15% of people within the fandom own a fursuit according to a 2011 study, event organizers reported this year 908 of the 2240 attendees at Furnal Equinox brought at least one elaborate outfit to the event. The outfits are usually based on original characters, known as "fursonas".

Guests of Honour Cherie and Sean O'Donnell, known within the community as "Lucky and Skuff Coyote", held a session on fursuit construction on Saturday afternoon. The married couple are among the most prominent builders in the fandom, under the name Don't Hug Cacti. The scale of their business was evident, as Sean had made over a thousand pairs of "handpaws", costume gloves.

The couple encouraged attendees to continue developing their technique, sharing that all professional fursuit makers had developed different techniques. They felt that they learned more from failed projects than successful ones, citing the Chuck Jones quote that "every artist has thousands of bad drawings," and that you have to work through them to achieve. Cherie, known as Lucky, recalled receiving a Sylvester the Cat plush toy from a Six Flags theme park at age 10. She promptly hollowed the toy out, turning it into a costume. Creating a costume isn't without its hazards: the company uses 450°F (232°C) glue guns. They're "like sticking your hand in an oven."

Other programming included improv comedy, dances, life drawing of fursuiters, a review of scientific research by a research group at four universities called FurScience, a pin collector's social, and workshops in writing.

The "Dealer's Den" hall was expanded this year, with even more retailers and artists. While many offered "furry" versions of traditional products, at least one business focused on "pushing the boundaries of fursuit technology." Along with 3D printing a bone-shaped name tag when Wikinews visited, Grivik was demonstrating miniature computer screens that could be used as "eyes" for a fursuit. The electronic displays projected an animation of eyes looking around, blinking occasionally. The maker has also developed "a way to install a camera inside suit heads, to improve fursuiter visibility." He hopes the tech would reduce suiting risks and accidents. Without the need for eyeholes, fursuit makers would have "more options for building different eyestyles."


Nieuwe editie Comicon en Furnal Equinox in Toronto

In Toronto werd dit weekend een nieuwe editie van de Comicon en de Furnal Equinox gehouden.

De Comicon is voor popcultuur het grootste evenement van Canada. Internationaal bekende acteurs kwamen erop af, onder wie Ron Perlman, John de Lancie, John Rhys-Davies en Jaleel White.

Tijdens de Furnal Equinox staat Furry fandoms in het teken van het lentepunt. Dit tijdstip houdt in dat de dagen en nachten even lang zijn, een moment dat afgelopen woensdag 20 maart plaatsvond.

Een vrijwilliger van de Engelstalige Wikinieuws uit Canada was erbij en maakte twee fotoreportages.


Фотографии: Furnal Equinox 2019

С 15 по 17 марта в канадском городе Торонто прошел десятый Furnal Equinox. Ежегодное мероприятие посвящено «Фурри».

Разделение варьировалось от музыки до пола, от науки до искусства, охватывая десятки аспектов разнообразной субкультуры.

Гостями мероприятия были визуальные художники Моль Монарх (англ. Moth Monarch) и (англ. Cat-Monk Shira), известные как американские мастера по изготовлению костюмов для меховых костюмов Don’t Hug Cacti.

Мероприятие собрало почти 11 000 канадских долларов для Pet Patrol, некоммерческой спасательной организации в Китченер-Ватерлоо, Онтарио, которой руководят волонтеры.

24 марта 2019 года


Galician emigrant Rufino López receives 2013 Spanish-American International Award

Emigrant Rufino Lopez, born in Cedeira, Galicia, Spain in 1955, was awarded on Wednesday with the 2013 Spanish-American International Award by the Spanish Benevolent Society of New York.

Graduated in literature by the Lehman College of CUNY in 1976, Rufino Lopez has preserved his admiration to the great figures of Spanish literary and philosophical tradition, as Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset, or Cervantes, while shaping the Solera Restaurant, located in the city of New York for more than twenty years, near the United Nations Headquarters. Rufino is the only son of Galician Francisco Lopez, who emigrated to New York City as a construction worker in 1971.

While studying, Rufino Lopez worked in Italian and French restaurants, finding no Spanish restaurants that could represent the high value of Spanish cuisine in the Big Apple. In 1987 he founded his first restaurant, called Alcalá, in the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and in 1991 founded Solera Restaurant. Since its opening, in the days when the paella was made in Manhattan in a pot with a lid instead of the regional authentic way as made in Valencia, with a pan, the Executive Chef of Solera Restaurant at that time, Dominick Cerrone, began incorporating Spanish regional dishes prepared with fidelity to its Spanish origin, one of the marks of the restaurant.

The history of the Spanish-American International Award began in 2012, when the writer and filmmaker Artur Balder was awarded. Artur Balder, now a US citizen, directed the documentary Little Spain, which displayed the historical memory of the Spanish district of Manhattan. According to the website of the organization, the award was created with the mission to promote the image of Spanish emigration in the United States, and is given to promote the work of those who are contributing to the consolidation of the Spanish-American identity in the United States. The Spanish-American International Prize was created to support emigrants who have made an outstanding contribution to the Spanish-American identity and the American heritage.


Emigrante galego Rufino López recebe Spanish-American International Award de 2013

O emigrante de origem espanhol, Rufino Lopez, nascido em Cedeira, Galícia, em 1955, foi premiado na quarta-feira (30 de outubro) com o Spanish-American International Award concedido pela Spanish Benevolent Society de Nova York.

Licenciado ou Graduado em literatura pelo Lehman College da CUNY em 1976, Rufino Lopez tem preservado sua admiração para as grandes figuras da tradição literária e filosófica espanhola, Unamuno e Ortega y Gasset, ou Cervantes, enquanto moldando o Solera Restaurant, localizado na 216 West da 53 Street na cidade de Nova Ioque por mais de 20 anos, perto da sede das Nações Unidas.

Rufino é filho do galego Francisco Lopez, que emigrou para a cidade de Nova York como um trabalhador da construção civil em 1971. Rufino López já declarou nas várias entrevistas que seus estudos de literatura sempre lhe haviam inspirado à hora de dar forma a seu sentido da restauração espanhola em uma cidade de tão variados gostos como Nova Iorque. Em uma entrevista ao diário La Voz de Galicia, Rufino confessava "meu cozinheiro lhe dizia a Andy García que não chegaria a nada".

Enquanto estudava, Rufino Lopez já declarou que em sua época teve que trabalhar em restaurantes italianos e franceses, para poder melhorar sua situação econômica e se surpreendeu que não havia encontrando nenhum restaurante espanhol que expusesse o alto valor da gastronomia espanhola na Big Apple.

Em 1987, fundou seu primeiro restaurante, chamado Alcalá, no Upper West Side de Manhattan e em 1991 fundou Solera Restaurant. Desde a sua abertura, nos dias em que a paella foi feita em uma panela com uma tampa em vez do caminho regionais autêntico como fez em Valência, com uma panela em Manhattan, o Chef Executivo do Solera Restaurant nesse momento, Dominick Cerrone, começou a incorporar pratos típicos regionais espanhóis preparados com fidelidade a sua origem espanhola, convertendo-se a uma das marcas do restaurante.

A história do Spanish-American International Award começou em 2012, quando foi concedido ao escritor e cineasta Artur Balder. No caso de Artur Balder, agora um cidadão dos EUA, dirigiu o documentário Little Spain, que recuperava a memória histórica do bairro espanhol de Manhattan.

De acordo com o website da organização, o prêmio foi criado com a missão de promover a imagem da emigração espanhola nos Estados Unidos. A razão pela que a organização sem fins lucrativos, Spanish Benevolent Society of New York de entregar estes prêmios já sido para promocionar o trabalho de quem estão contribuindo à consolidação da identidade nos Estados Unidos, assim afirmam.

O Spanish-American International Award já nasceu para entregar-se a emigrantes destacados que tenham feito una contribuição à identidade hispano-americano.


Gaming executives gather for the 2008 Taipei Game Show

The 2008 Taipei Game Show, organized by the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), started at Taipei World Trade Center today and ends next Monday (January 28). World-class gaming experts, governmental officials, and companies from the digital content industry gathered there for trade opportunities and to experience exchanging in the gaming industry.

Before the opening of the 2008 Taiwan Digital Contents Forum, Minister of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China Steve Ruey-long Chen, looked on a bright side of the gaming industry and said to executives and media: "We (the public) witnessed the grown up of gaming industry as digital content industry brought up value of production on retail and arcade games and indirectly brought up the population of gaming people in Taiwan."

Before that comment by Steve Chen, the 2008 Taiwanese Cyber-Gaming Competition was set up by the organizer and Industry Development Bureau of Ministry of Economic Affairs, supervisor of the "Digital Content Development Project in Taiwan". The organizer said he hopes this competition can market MIT (Made in Taiwan) games to the world and directly discover gaming talents and developers.

Not only did officials and executives come, but the TCA, Taipei Orphans Welfare Association, and Taiwan Gaming Industry Association also held special charity biddings to help orphan kids in Taiwan. At this special event, the TCA invited Shih-yuan Chou, Sean Hsing-an Chen, Chih-chung Chen, Wen-ting Tseng, and Hsueh-lin Li as the charity ambassadors.

Even with the weather on the down side in Taipei, nearly 10,000 people visited the show. According to the TCA, the peak number of visitors are expected to be on the weekend after several entertainers and sports-people made their stops at the show earlier.


2008台北國際電玩展 產官學高層共襄盛舉

由台北市電腦公會主辦的台北國際電玩展，在產官學界高層的力挺下，今（24）日上午正式開幕，並將展至28日。除了本土遊戲廠商的參與，國際廠商與業界精英也在商機洽談會與數位內容研討會中，交換電玩產業經驗。

在數位內容產業研討會進行前，經濟部長陳瑞隆在開幕典禮致詞中表示：「台灣的電子競技與數位內容產業，都在向上提升，光是數位內容產業帶來的產值，就非常可觀，帶動了遊戲人口的成長。」事實上，電腦公會也和經濟部工業局合作，除了展示動漫作品，另外也舉行「國產遊戲大賽」，除了希望台灣自行研發製造的遊戲能名揚國際，甚至可以發掘更多電子競技的高手。

繼去年台灣阿茲特克盃電玩賽，與兒福聯盟合作公益活動，引起社會迴響後，電玩展的主辦單位，也和台北市失親兒福利基金會、台灣遊戲產業振興會合作，舉辦義賣活動，除了邀請裕隆恐龍籃球隊的李學林、陳志忠、陳信安、曾文鼎、周士淵等球員，擔任愛心天使，另外，包含遊戲產業振興會的旗下會員廠商，也透過失親兒的認養，讓消費與商業氣氛濃厚的電玩展，產生一股無形的暖流。

雖然台北地區的天候明顯地不穩，但第一天就已經有近萬位玩家參與這項盛會，顯見魅力依舊不減，主辦單位預估，參觀人潮將會在週末時段出現；另外，鑑於五月天及其他影藝圈人士將蒞臨展場參與攤位活動的關係，貿協也祭出噪音管制政策，並要求舉辦大型活動的廠商，注意噪音控制，以免受罰。


Garry Kasparov retires from professional chess

"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is battles, chess is struggles." said the longtime world champion Garry Kasparov at the height of his career. In a surprise announcement Friday, the grandmaster said he will retire. He went public with his intentions from Linares, Spain after winning a prestigious tournament there. The news comes as Kasparov, now 41, declared an ambition to devote his energy into the politics of his native Russia.

Alternately known as brash, emotional and brilliant, the maverick Kasparov could be a formidable opponent in the realm of politics.  He will partner with the Russian group known as the Committee 2008 (Komitet 2008), whose members are attempting to influence the 2008 Russian election that will replace Putin. The champion said he also wants to write books, with chess being among the subjects, but he will not play any more at the professional level.

Always mercurial in defeat, Kasparov lost his final game in tournament play in a stunning upset by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. The upset did not take away his victory at the tournament, but his announcement came after being bitterly stung in defeat.

At age 22, Kasparov became the youngest person ever to hold the title of world champion when he won it from fellow Russian, Anatoly Karpov, in 1985. The two players dominated the field until infighting in 1993 caused Kasparov to break away from the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and form the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In this forum he defeated British challenger Nigel Short. For a period of time, Kasparov, of the PCA, and Karpov, who reclaimed the top spot of the FIDE, both claimed to be world champions.  However, the ratings system developed by FIDE held that Kasparov was the stronger player.  The PCA eventually fell apart in 1995.

In 1996, Kasparov was at the top of his game, when a team led by IBM introduced Deep Blue,  the strongest of a new class of chess playing computers. In a highly publicized face-off of man vs. machine, Kasparov won the 6 game match. A year later, against an enhanced version of Deep Blue, he lost. He blamed the loss on a variety of factors, including fatigue against his tireless opponent.

While the machine found a new place in the chess world, and while a new generation of chess players favored speed chess, where the fast pace of play does not allow for deep calculation, Kasparov turned his attention to taking on the world.

The Kasparov vs. the World online chess game in June 1999 brought together chess players from around the world in a cooperative effort to beat the reigning world champion. With more than 50,000 individuals submitting move votes, Kasparov vs. the World was one of the largest interactive gaming events in history.  Kasparov won this match.


Kasparow kończy z zawodowymi szachami

Garri Kasparow, wielokrotny zdobywca tytułu mistrza świata w szachach, ogłosił wczoraj w Hiszpanii zakończenie zawodowej kariery.

Kasparow wydał oświadczenie po przegraniu ostatniej partii w wygranym przez niego turnieju rozgrywanym w położonym w Andaluzji hiszpańskim mieście Linares.

Przed tym turniejem podjąłem decyzję, że Linares 2005 będzie moim ostatnim profesjonalnym turniejem i dzisiaj rozegrałem moją ostatnią partię – powiedział na konferencji prasowej lider światowego rankingu  Światowej Federacji Szachowej (FIDE) od 1984 roku. Było mi bardzo ciężko grać pod taką presją, bo wiedziałem, że jest to koniec kariery, z której mogę być dumny.

Wyjaśnił też, że zrezygnował, bo nie widzi już żadnego nowego celu, który mógłby osiągnąć w zawodowych szachach. Kasparow został w wieku 22 lat najmłodszym szachowym mistrzem świata w historii, pokonując Anatolija Karpowa. Utracił tytuł w 2000 roku na rzecz Władimira Kramnika, ale mimo to jest uznawany za jednego z największych szachistów w historii. Jest też znany z pojedynków z komputerami. Po przegranej w ostatniej partii z komputerem Deep Junior (cały mecz skończył się remisem 3-3) również ogłaszał zakończenie kariery. Jako jeden z powodów odejścia wymieniał też fakt, że FIDE nie dała mu możliwości odzyskania od Kramnika tytułu.

Kasparow nie zamierza całkowicie zerwać z szachami. Będę grał w szachy, ponieważ bardzo to lubię, ale nie będę tego robił profesjonalnie. Mogę zagrać w symultanach albo w grach błyskawicznych, ale nic poza tym – stwierdził. Ma też zamiar pisać książki i zająć się polityką - jest jednym z liderów liberalnego ugrupowania Komitet 2008, krytycznego wobec prezydenta Putina i stawiającego sobie za cel zmianę władzy po wyborach prezydenckich w 2008 roku.


Gay play about Jesus Christ to open in Brazil

Brazil —
Brazilian plastic artist Alexandre Linhares has written and is producing a 75 minutes play titled Jesus pra Cristo (Jesus for Christ), containing homosexual themes and inspired  by the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar  by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In the play, Mary, the mother of Jesus is a transexual, Jesus is a punk revolting against the society, Mary Magdalene is a drug dealer, prostitute and homosexual, James is HIV positive and homosexual.  The cast includes homosexual and transexual actors.

The plot begins with a 15 years old transexual (Mary) who sees a angel announcing she will conceive the Savior of the World.  Later, Jesus begins to do miracles during World War III. Followers go after him. Jesus is charged with anarchism and condemned to death.

Alexandre Linhares, the author, tells how the play  idea was born:

The play is scheduled to open March, 18, as part of the Theater Festival of Curitiba.


Peça homossexual sobre Jesus Cristo no Brasil

O artista plástico Alexandre Linhares escreveu um peça de teatro com tema homossexual,  de 75 minutos,  chamada Jesus pra Cristo. A peça é inspirada na ópera rock Jesus Christ Superstar, de Tim Rice e  Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Na peça, Maria, a mãe de Jesus é uma transexual, Jesus é um punk revoltado contra a sociedade,  Maria Madalena é traficante de drogas, prostituta e homossexual, Tiago é HIV positivo e homossexual. Atores homossexuais e transexuais trabalham na peça.

A história é sobre uma jovem transexual de 15 anos de idade que tem a visão de um anjo, o qual anuncia que ela irá conceber o Salvador do Mundo. Mais tarde, Jesus Cristo, inicia sua peregrinação em meio ao caos de um mundo envolto numa Terceira Guerra Mundial. Várias pessoas vão atrás dele. Jesus é acusado de anarquismo e condenado à morte.

Alexandre Linhares, o autor, explica como nasceu a idéia da peça:

A estréia da peça está marcada para o dia 18 de março, como parte do Festival de Teatro de Curitiba.


Georgia panicked by fake Russia invasion broadcast

A Georgian television station sparked panic today when it broadcast a report containing a simulation of events that might occur if Russia invaded Georgia in an event similar to a war that took place a year and a half ago.

The fake report came only 18 months after a war between Georgia and Russia, and the broadcast, run by Imedi TV, was composed of footage from that conflict, as well as recorded statements from Russian and Georgian leaders.  Such footage included "reports" that Russian forces had bombed Georgian military bases and a civilian airport in the capital of Tbilisi. Additionally, the report claimed that Russian forces had killed Georgian soldiers in South Ossieta, the site of the 2008 war.

According to the network, the intention of the broadcast had been to show what could have happened if Russia had invaded again and killed Georgia's president.  To this end, the broadcast was bookended at the beginning and end with a notice that the events were a simulation of possible events.  The network did not, however, run such notes during the program itself, and many who watched it became alarmed by the events it covered.  According to one local news agency, Georgian emergency services had received a spike in the number of phone calls during the time the broadcast was on air.

Around two hours after the program finished, the network began running scrolling text on further programs, apologizing for the broadcast, and the head of Imedi's parent company issued a statement apologizing for the "distress" that the broadcast had caused.  Despite the apologies, which included one from a Georgian official, the reaction to the broadcast was generally one of opposition and anger.  The leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, issued a statement saying that, "This kind of experiment is a crime to our people and to humanity," and an opposition politician labeled the report as "disgusting."  One woman who had been affected by the 2008 conflict said that, "it wasn't right of them to do it."


Canal de televisión emite una falsa invasión rusa en Georgia

La emisora IMEDI-TV de Georgia –país de Europa oriental– transmitió anoche una noticia falsa sobre una supuesta invasión de Rusia en el país. El canal afirmó que tanques rusos habían alcanzado a la capital, Tiflis e incluso aseguró que el presidente Mijeíl Saakashvili había sido asesinado.

El falso informe era, según la BBC, un simulacro. No obstante, la mayoría de televidentes se perdieron el mensaje de advertencia que apareció sólo al principio de la emisión. Se saturaron las líneas de los servicios de emergencia y de telefonía móvil debido al pánico que generó el programa, que salió al aire en horario central.

El presidente del canal, George Arveladze, afirmó en su perfil de la red social Facebook que lamentaba el estrés provocado por el reporte. Según sus directivos, la intención del programa era mostrar algo que afirman que podría suceder. IMEDI-TV es una estación privada que apoya al gobierno.

La emisión también anunciaba que algunos líderes opositores habían llamado a los militares a amotinarse. La opositora y ex presidenta Nino Burjanadze, quien fue mencionada en el informe, manifestó: "Cada palabra sobre mí era una calumnia malintencionada y yo demandaré al canal de televisión IMEDI y a las autoridades".

"La forma en que el gobierno trata a la población es escandalosa –declaró Burjanadze a la agencia de noticias AFP–. Estoy segura de que cada segundo de ese programa recibió la aprobación de (el presidente) Saakashvili. Muchas personas sufrieron traumas psicológicos."

En 2008, Georgia y Rusia se enfrentaron militarmente por los territorios pro-rusos de Osetia del Sur y Abjasia, que Georgia reclamaba como propios. Tras menos de un mes de guerra, Rusia reconoció la independencia de ambas como países independientes.


Телевізійний сюжет про напад на Грузію призвів до паніки та скандалу

Репортаж грузинської телекомпанії «Імеді», що містив моделювання можливого вторгнення Росії до Грузії схожого на війну 2008 року викликав паніку серед населення, протести грузинської опозиції та осуд світової спільноти.

Паніка серед населення була викликана тим, що сюжет вийшов лише 18 місяців після закінчення війни між Грузією і Росією і багато глядачів сприйняли його за справжні події. Під час ефіру транслювалися кадри з минулорічного конфлікту, а також попередні записи заяв російського та грузинського президентів. В сюжеті також лунали повідомлення про те, що російські війська ніби піддавали бомбардуванню грузинські військові бази і тбіліський аеропорт. За версією телекомпанії, нове вторгнення мало бути викликане вбивством лідера сепаратистів Південної Осетії.

За твердженням «Імеді», цей сюжет мав намір представити, що могло б статися під час нового вторгнення Росія в Грузію. На початку та в кінці більш ніж півгодинного репортажу повідомлялося, що події не були реальними, однак більшість телеглядачів не помітили цього повідомлення і сприйняли сюжет за справжній початок військових дій. За даними місцевих аварійних служб, під час ефіру велика кількість людей телефонували про допомогу.

Приблизно через дві години після закінчили телепрограми, телестанція вибачилась за "занепокоєння", яке викликав цей сюжет. Незважаючи на це, репортаж викликав хвилю обурення та протестів як серед населення, так і опозиції, міжнародних спостерігачів. Голова Грузинської Православної Церкви Патріарх Ілля II виступив із заявою і назвав цей сюжет "злочином перед грузинським народом". Низка працівників телекомпанії, які брали участь у підготовці репортажу оголосили про намір піти у відставку.

15 березня 2010


German Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI

White smoke appeared today at 5.50 p.m. local time over the Sistine Chapel in Rome - the first sign that a new Pope had been elected by the Conclave of Cardinals. A few minutes later, the bells of St. Peter's Basilica began ringing, confirming the election. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger had been selected as the successor to Pope John Paul II as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, and will be known as Pope Benedict XVI.

The conclave of 115 cardinals started the process of electing a new Pope on Monday, April 18. However, it has taken two days for the required two thirds majority to be reached.

The new Pope appeared to the public within an hour of the first announcement. He appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and delivered a short address to the crowd in Italian.  Tens of thousands of people were in St Peter's Square to observe the results of the election.

The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger follows the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2.

Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger (born April 16, 1927) is pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly known as the Office of the Holy Inquisition) by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia. He was one of the most influential men in the Vatican and a close associate of the late Pope John Paul II. He presided over the funeral of John Paul II and also presided over the Conclave in 2005. During the sede vacante, he was the highest-ranking official in the Catholic Church.

On January 2, 2005, Time quoted unnamed Vatican sources as saying that Ratzinger was a front runner to succeed John Paul II should the Pope die or become too ill to continue as Pontiff. His see, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, has traditionally been an antechamber to the Papal seat.

However it is important to note that Ratzinger's election to the Papal office was by no means certain. In conclaves men who are considered papabile often are not elected to office. At times men considered certain to win the election did not win. This is expressed in the saying, "He who enters the conclave as Pope leaves as a Cardinal."

Ratzinger was considered to be Pope John Paul II's "right hand man" and also one of his closest friends and confidants, and during the Pope's final illness, he carried out many of the Pope's functions as leader of the Catholic Church.

Ratzinger has repeatedly stated he would like to retire to a Bavarian village and dedicate himself to writing books, but more recently, he told friends he was ready to "accept any charge God placed on him." After the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005 Ratzinger ceased functioning as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Ratzinger speaks ten languages and has received seven honorary doctorate degrees. He is an accomplished pianist with a preference for Mozart.

Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth during his teenage years, as was required by German law at the time. His father was very strongly anti-Nazi, and Ratzinger himself later deserted the German army.

He is the eighth German pope.

In April, 2005, he was identified as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine[1].


Habemus Papam!

Vatikan (Vatikanstaat), 19.04.2005 – Rom jubelt: Um 17:55 Uhr MESZ stieg weißer Rauch aus dem Kamin der sixtinischen Kapelle. Ab 18:04 Uhr MESZ begannen die Glocken von St. Peter zu läuten. Die Wahl des Papstes war damit durch den Vatikan bestätigt worden. Hunderttausende Menschen warteten auf dem Petersplatz auf das Erscheinen des 265. Papstes.

Um 18:45 Uhr MESZ trat der neue Papst auf den Balkon der Peterskirche vor die wartende Menge. Es handelt sich um den deutschen Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger. Er führt den Papstnamen Benedikt XVI. Mit dieser Wahl wurde erstmals seit rund 480 Jahren ein Deutscher zum Oberhaupt der römisch-katholischen Kirche gewählt.

Papst Benedikt XVI. hat von der Loggia des Petersdomes aus den Segen Urbi et Orbi erteilt. Er sagte zu den Menschen auf dem Petersplatz: „Ich bin nur ein einfacher demütiger Arbeiter im Weinberg des Herrn.“

Das Konklave der 115 Kardinäle zur Papstwahl hatte am gestrigen Montag Nachmittag, den 18. April 2005 begonnen und dauerte 26 Stunden.


Joseph Ratzinger es Benedicto XVI

19 de abril de 2005Ciudad del Vaticano —

El humo blanco salió hoy a las 17:30 (15:30 UTC) sobre el techo de la Capilla Sixtina en Roma, la primera señal de que el Cónclave 2005 ha elegido un nuevo Papa. Minutos después, las campanas de la Basílica de San Pedro comenzaron a sonar, confirmando la elección. El cardenal alemán Joseph Ratzinger ha sido elegido como el sucesor de Juan Pablo II y tomó el nombre de Benedicto XVI.

El anuncio del nombre del nuevo Papa fue realizado por el Cardenal Medina de Chile.

El cónclave de 115 cardenales inicó el proceso de elección del nuevo Papa el lunes 18 de abril. Sin embargo, ha tomado apenas dos días para obtener la mayoría de dos tercios necesaria para la elección.

Los testigos presentes afirman que hay tantas personas en la Plaza San Pedro para presenciar la primera salida del Papa como el día del entierro de Juan Pablo II.

La elección del cardenal Ratzinger se realizó como consecuencia de la muerte de Juan Pablo II el 2 de abril pasado.

El Papa Benedicto XVI, de nombre Joseph Ratzinger (nacido el 16 de abril de 1927) es el nuevo Papa de la Iglesia Católica Romana. En 1981, Ratzinger fue nombrado prefecto de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe por el Papa Juan Pablo II, doce años después fue nombrado Cardenal Obispo de la sede episcopal de Velletri-Segni y fue electo Decano del Colegio Cardenalicio en 2002, convirtiéndose en Obispo de Ostia. Es uno de los hombres más influyentes en el Vaticano y un colaborador cercano de su predecesor. Presidió las exequias de Juan Pablo II y el Cónclave 2005. Durante el periodo de Sede Vacante, fue el más alto responsable de la Iglesia Católica.


Joseph Ratzinger élu pape

Une fumée blanche est apparue aujourd'hui à 17:56 (15:56 UTC) au dessus de la chapelle Sixtine à Rome, le premier signe qu'un nouveau pape avait été élu par le conclave.

Quelques minutes plus tard, à 18 h 05, on a pu entendre sonner les cloches de la basilique Saint-Pierre, confirmant l'élection.

Le Vatican a annoncé à 18 h 43 que le cardinal Joseph Ratzinger avait été choisi comme successeur de Jean-Paul II, devenant ainsi le 265e pape de l'Église catholique romaine, et qu'il serait désormais connu en tant que Benoît XVI. Il est le 8e Allemand à devenir pape.

Le conclave des 115 cardinaux avait commencé le processus d'élection le 18 avril. Il a fallu 4 tours de scrutin répartis sur un peu plus de 24 heures pour que la majorité des deux tiers nécessaire soit atteinte.

Le nouveau pape est apparu en public vers 18 h 46, accueilli par une foule aussi nombreuse que celle qui avait accompagné Jean Paul II dans son agonie du 31 mars au 2 avril.

Il a pris possession de ses nouveaux appartements papaux aujourd'hui – lesquels étaient fermés depuis la mort de Jean-Paul II –, et a fait sa première prière en tant que pape dans la chapelle Sixtine.


Fumata bianca: eletto il nuovo Papa

Alla quarta votazione nel Conclave 2005, la terza di oggi, il comignolo sovrastante la Cappella Sistina ha emesso una lunga fumata bianca.

Dopo qualche minuto, alle 18.05, la campana di San Pietro ha iniziato a suonare a festa, confermando la veridicità della notizia, seguita dalle campane di tutta Roma.

Dopo appena un giorno e mezzo, il conclave, composto dai 115 cardinali chiamati a scegliere il nuovo Pontefice, ha dunque scelto l'erede del ruolo che fu di Giovanni Paolo II.

Intanto continua l'afflusso in Piazza San Pietro di romani e turisti, per assistere all'annuncio e conoscere chi è il nuovo Papa, mentre tutti i media si
sono sintonizzati subito sull'argomento.


Nieuwe paus als opvolger van Johannes Paulus II

De kardinalen hebben in een erg kort conclaaf van één dag besloten dat de achtenzeventigjarige Duitse kardinaal Joseph Ratzinger de nieuwe paus wordt. Even voor 18:00 steeg er grijze rook op uit het Vaticaanse schoorsteentje − het was dus onduidelijk of het zwarte (wat zou betekenen dat de kardinalen nog eens hebben gestemd en er nog geen nieuwe paus is) of witte (wat zou betekenen dat er een nieuwe paus is verkozen) was − en enkele minuten later bleek het witte rook voor te stellen en te zijn. Dit werd iets na zes uur bevestigd doordat de klokken luidden, om 18:45 werd na de legendarische Latijnse woorden Habemus papam (Wij hebben een paus) de naam van kardinaal die de nieuwe paus is, uitgesproken.

Ratzinger is Paus Benedictus XVI, en was zowat de grootste favoriet. De nieuwe paus is oud voor een paus en relatief conservatief, en volgt de in een coma gestorven paus Johannes Paulus II op. Het gaat om de eerste Duitse paus in 480 jaar. In zijn jonge jaren was Ratzinger erg progressief, maar na zijn tweede Vaticaans Consilie werd de man steeds conservatiever. Hij was de laatste jaren misschien wel de belangrijkste raadgever van Paus Johannes Paulus II, en kende zijn voorganger dus erg goed.

De nieuwe paus sprak op het balkon zijn zegen voor de gelovigen uit en uitte lof over zijn Poolse voorganger.


Habemus Papam! - Joseph Ratzinger został nowym papieżem Kościoła Katolickiego

Konklawe kardynałów wybrało kardynała Josepha Ratzingera na nowego papieża wieczorem we wtorek. Kardynałowie złożyli mu hołd w oknie Bazyliki Watykańskiej.

O godzinie 18:40, kardynał Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez wyszedł do wiernych zgromadzonych na Placu świętego Piotra i wypowiedział słynną formułę: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam! (pol: Obwieszczam wam wielką radość: mamy papieża!).

Papież Benedykt XVI podziękował kardynałom za wybór podkreślając, że jest następcą wielkiego papieża Jana Pawła II i jest jedynie prostym pracownikiem winnicy pańskiej. Następnie udzielił błogosławieństwa Urbi et Orbi wszystkim wiernym zgromadzonym na placu.

Joseph Ratzinger jest Niemcem urodzonym 16 kwietnia 1927 roku. Od 1981 był prefektem Kongregacji ds. Nauki Wiary. Pod koniec drugiej Wojny Światowej wstąpił do monachijskiego seminarium, a w 1951 roku otrzymał święcenia kapłańskie z rąk kardynała Michael von Faulhaberg. W czerwcu 1977 roku papież Paweł VI mianował Ratzingera kardynałem. W 2002 roku został wybrany dziekanem Kolegium Kardynalskiego i przez następujące trzy lata objął wiele funkcji w Kurii Rzymskiej. Kardynał Ratzinger był bliskim współpracownikiem ostatniego papieża, Jana Pawła II, i celebrował mszę świetą w czasie jego uroczystości pogrzebowych.


Começa o conclave para a escolha do papa

Uma missa realizada pelo cardeal Joseph Ratzinger foi realizada na Basílica de São Pedro antecedendo o início do Conclave, que teve início por volta das 17h40 (horário de Roma).

A primeira votação já foi realizada às 20h04 (horário de Roma) e não foi conclusiva. Mais duas rodadas de votações acontecem nesta terça-feira.

A cada votação uma fumaça sai de uma chaminé da Capela Sistina, onde estão os cardeais que estão a escolher o futuro papa. Se a cor a fumaça for branca, então é sinal de que os cardeais escolheram um nome para ser o próximo papa, se por outro lado, a cor da fumaça for negra, é sinal de que os cardeais ainda não chegaram a um acordo e que o Conclave continua.

19 de abril de 2005

Na manhã desta terça-feira já ocorreram duas votações. Todavia em nenhuma delas venceu um nome para ser o próximo papa, e a fumaça que saiu da chaminé da Capela Sistina foi ainda negra.

A fumaça que está a sair da chaminé da Capela Sistina está a confundir algumas pessoas. De vez em quando foi difícil precisar se a cor da fumaça era preta ou branca.

Por volta das 5h50 (hora local) de terça-feira,  uma fumaça branca saiu da chaminé da Capela Sistina. Os sinos tocaram às  18h04.  Acabava  de ser escolhido o novo papa da Igreja Católica.

O  papa número 265 da Igreja Católica é o cardeal alemão Joseph Ratzinger, braço direito de João Paulo II, que será chamado de Papa Bento XVI (Benedictvm XVI). Ele é o oitavo papa alemão. O nome dele  foi anunciado por volta das 18h40,  da varanda da Basílica de São Pedro.  O novo papa  surgiu minutos depois, aclamado pelo milhares de pessoas que preenchiam a Praça de São Pedro, o coração do Vaticano.

Com 78 anos, Joseph Ratzinger,   foi nomeado, em 1981, prefeito da Congregação para a Doutrina da Fé pelo Papa João Paulo II. Tornou-se Bispo Cardeal da Sé Episcopal de Velletri-Segni em 1993, e eleito Decano do Colégio Cardinalício em 2002, tornando-se bispo titular de Ostia. Considerado o homem mais influente do Vaticano,  era um dos mais próximos conselheiros de João paulo II, e era mencionado como o provável sucessor por muitos comentadores. De cunho considerado conservador, Ratzinger adotará possivelmente no seu Pontificado propostas semelhantes ao de seu antecessor João Paulo II.

Em suas primeiras palavras como Papa, Bento XVI lembrou da figura de João Paulo II, e disse ser apenas um "operário na vinha do Senhor", pedindo as orações de todos e contando com a assistência de Nossa Senhora para levar adiante o pontificado.

O resultado do conclave surpreendeu alguns pela rapidez do término, o que indicou unanimidade por parte dos Cardeais. Ratzinger escolheu o nome de Bento, lembrando o antecessor Bento XV, que lutou bravamente pela paz durante a primeira Grande Guerra e, também, de São Bento de Núrsia, considerado como o guardião da cultura e da fé da Europa durante os anos das invasões bárbaras.

Sobre o novo papa o o bispo auxiliar do Rio de janeiro, Dom Edson de Castro Homem disse:

O presidente do Brasil,  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, enviou uma mensagem para o novo papa:


Habemus papam

La ora locală 18:43 cardinalul Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez a ieșit la Balconul Bazilicii Sfântul Petru anunțând: "Dragi frați și surori, Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Josephum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Ratzinger qui sibi nomen imposuit Benedictum XVI". (Dragi frați și surori, vă anunț o bucurie mare; avem papă: Eminentisimimul și Reverendisimul Domnului, Cardinalul Domnului al Sfintei Biserici Romane Joseph Ratzinger care se va numi Benedict al XVI-lea).


Бенедикт XVI - ім'я нового Папи Римського

На конклаві обрано нового Папу Римського! Ним став кардинал Йозеф Ратцінгер, який обрав собі ім'я Бенедикт Шістнадцятий. Нового Папу було обрано на четвертому голосуванні конклаву.

Йозеф Ратцінгер мав найбільші шанси на це обрання, але існує приказка: «Хто йде на конклав, щоб стати Папою, повертається кардиналом». Отже нинішня ситуація практично не мала прикладів в минулому. Експерти по Ватикану кажуть, що Бенедикт XVI може бути проміжним варіантом перед більш радикальними змінами у Римо-Католицькій церкві.

19 квітня 2005


German director Christoph Schlingensief dies at age 49

German director Christoph Schlingensief has died at the age of 49. His death was announced by Oliver Golloch, a spokesman for the Ruhrtriennale festival. Schlingensief had been suffering from lung cancer but no official cause of death was given by the spokesman.

The film and theatre director worked on several films, plays, and operas throughout his controversial career.  Schlingensief directed films such as "100 Years of Adolf Hitler" and "The German Chainsaw Massacre".  He was arrested in 1997 for his exhibition of work called "Kill Helmut Kohl", aimed at the then Chancellor.

Besides plays shown in Germany, Schlingensief also worked in Austria and Switzerland.  He was the director of the Richard Wagner festival in both Bayreuth, Germany and Brazil.

During his time working in Bayreuth he said "Bayreuth will give me cancer." Coincidently, four years later Schlingensief was diagnosed with lung cancer even though he was a non-smoker.

Despite the cancer he continued to work on plays and films often watching them from a hospital bed. He married costume designer Anio Laberenz and founded an opera project in the African country of Burkina Faso with funding from the German government, all while battling the disease.

Bernd Neumann, Germany's state commissioner for culture, paid tribute to Schlingensief. He said Schlingensief "had had an immense influence on German-language film and theater". Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit said on Saturday that "a major talent in theater has left the stage."

Schlingensief is survived by his wife, Anio. No funeral plans have been released yet.


Christoph Schlingensief gestorben

Berlin (Deutschland), 23.08.2010 – Der deutsche Aktionskünstler und Regisseur Christoph Schlingensief ist am Samstag, dem 21. August, im Alter von 49 Jahren an Krebs gestorben. Schlingensief war durch seine oft provokanten Performances mit politischem und gesellschaftlichem Bezug einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit bekannt geworden. So brachte er in seinen Inszenierungen Behinderte und Kranke auf die Bühne. Bei einer Benefizgala im Deutschen Schauspielhaus drohte er ein mitgebrachtes Huhn zu töten, sollten die Gäste sich nicht spendabler zeigen.

Auf der Documenta X in Kassel provozierte Schlingensief mit einem Plakat mit dem Slogan „Tötet Kohl“. Shakespeares „Hamlet“ inszenierte Schlingensief 2001 in Zürich. Dabei ließ er echte und falsche ehemalige Neonazis auftreten und verursachte so einen lokalpolitischen Skandal. Auch in Österreich scheute Schlingensief nicht vor Provokationen zurück. Just während die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs unter Jörg Haider in der Regierung saß, ließ er unter dem Titel „Bitte liebt Österreich!“ zwölf vermeintliche Asylbewerber in einem mit dem Schriftzug „Ausländer raus“ versehenen Container vor der Wiener Staatsoper hausieren. Wie bei der Fernsehsendung „Big Brother“ sollte das Volk per TED entscheiden, welcher von ihnen Österreich zu verlassen habe.

Der Regisseur hatte bei den Bayreuther Festspielen 2004 „Parsifal“ inszeniert. Schon damals äußerte er die Befürchtung, an Krebs zu erkranken. Bekannt war dem in Oberhausen geboren Apothekersohn Schlingensief die Erkrankung seit 2008.


Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave

Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption.

Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a stand-alone product." Hölzle also said that as a "web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a Web browser. We weren't quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication." Google says that it will continue the service until the end of the year.

In May 2009, Google launched Wave as a private beta. A year later, it became open to the public. Wave is an email service that integrates social media features and capabilities into emailing. It integrates IM-like features into its service. The company released components of Google Wave as open source for those to create a similar service. "The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users easily "liberate" their content from Wave," Google said.


Google descontinuará Wave por baja participación de los usuarios

Google decidió descontinuar su producto de red social Google Wave, debido a que no generó el interés que la empresa deseaba al cabo de catorce meses de su lanzamiento.

Urs Hölzle, vicepresidente senior de operaciones, dijo que "Wave no tuvo la adopción del usuario como hubiéramos querido. No planeamos continuar desarrollando Wave como un producto en sí mismo". Hölzle también dijo que es una "aplicación web para comunicación y colaboración en tiempo real, y puso un punto muy alto lo que es posible hacer en un navegador de Internet. No estaríamos seguros de como los usuarios podrían responder a esta forma radicalmente diferente de comunicación.

El gigante de Internet anunció que continuará brindando el servicio hasta finales de 2010, y será difundiéndose entre sus adeptos como una herramienta de código libre.


Google's search index hits one trillion page mark

Google announced on July 25 that its search engine has indexed over 1 trillion unique web pages from all over the globe.

"We knew the web was big," the article on Google's official blog begins. "Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs." This article also discussed the indexing technology behind the stage.

Google, known as a popular international search engine, has servers all around the world to index web pages. With the rapid development of the Internet, the number of web pages with unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is growing by several billion per day. In 1998, Google had an index of only about 26 million pages. Within 10 years, that number has increased by 38 thousand times.

Originally called Backrub, Google gained popularity in the early 90s, and has since released products including Gmail, Blogger, and Google Apps.


גוגל חוגגת ביליון דפים במנוע החיפוש

גוגל הכריזה ב-25 ביולי כי הצליחה לאנדקס למעלה מאלף מיליארד דפים ייחודיים מכל רחבי העולם ולהכניסם למנוע החיפוש גוגל.

"ידענו שמרחבי הרשת עצומים", נכתב בבלוג הרשמי של גוגל. "אפילו לאחר שהסרנו את הדפים הכפולים הזהים, הבחנו באלף מיליארד כתובת אינטרנט ייחודיות". ידיעה זו בבלוג אף מוסיפה ודנה בטכנולוגיית האינדוקס העומדת מאחורי ההישג.

גוגל, הנודעת כחברה שמאחורי מנוע החיפוש הבינלואמי הפופולארי, מחזיקה בשרתי אינטרנט בכל רחבי העולם המשמשים לאינדוקס דפי אינטרנט. בזכות התפתחותה המסחררת של רשת האינטרנט, מספר דפי האינטרנט בעלי כתובות URL ייחודיות הולך וגדל בכמה מיליארדים בכל יום ויום. בשנת 1998, האינדקס של גוגל כלל רק 26 מיליון עמודים.כעבור עשור, מספר זה הוכפל פי שלושים ושמונה אלף.

בשנותיה הראשונות של תחרות מנועי החיפוש באינטרנט של שלהי שנות התשעים, השוואת מספר העמודים באינדקס של מנוע החיפוש נחשבה לשיטה הטובה ביותר להשוואת איכות מנועי החיפוש, בעוד שכיום המשתמשים נוטים לייחס חשיבות רבה יותר למידת הרלוונטיות של התוצאות המוחזרות למחפש על-ידי מנוע החיפוש לאחר שהזין שאילתה במנוע חיפוש דוגמת גוגל.

הגם שקיימים מנועי חיפוש רבים המוסיפים להתחרות בגוגל, הרי שתאגיד גוגל מחזיק יותר פטנטים מרובם, ובהם PageRank וניתוח-מלל, כמו-גם שירותים כגון Gmail, חיפושי WAP, Blogger, Google Earth, Google Moon ואפשרויות החיפוש המתקדמות והמותאמות אישית לכל משתמש ומשתמש.


谷歌网页索引数超过一兆（百万平方）

谷歌（Google）在七月25日宣称他们的索引到已经超过一兆（1,000,000,000,000，一百万的平方）的含有单独URL的网页。

“我们知道了互联网很大，”谷歌官方博客上的一篇文章说，“即使是去除了重复的网页，我们也找到一兆的不同的URL。”该文章同时介绍了谷歌公司後台网页索引的技术。

谷歌是全球性的著名的搜索引擎，在全球都有用于索引网页的服务器。随着因特网的迅速发展，网页数目与日俱增，谷歌的索引大约每天会增长几十亿的有单独URL的网页。在1998年，谷歌公司（当年中国亦称为Google）的索引数不过二千六百万，而在短短10年间，这个数字增长了超过三万八千倍。

在九十年代的搜索引擎的早期竞争中，网页索引数被认为是比较搜索引擎好坏的重要指标。而在今日，用户更关心搜索引擎返回网页的关联性，而不是大量的返回结果。

尽管搜索引擎行业的竞争十分激烈，谷歌公司拥有许多新技术，如PageRank、文本分析技术，以及各种服务，如著名的GMAIL（发布时罕见的为免费用户提供1GB的空间，在2004年发布时被认为是愚人节笑话，後吸引大量用户）、WAP搜索，博客服务，Google Earth，Google Moon和范围限定和个性化的搜索。


Google's YouTube to present its best video awards

This week Google's on-line video sharing website YouTube launches its own awards ceremony. The site will present the best user-generated videos posted during 2006 in seven categories. The starting point is Monday and users will end voting on Friday. Winners will get their trophies on March 26.

The categories that YouTube is going to present include: most creative or inspirational video, best series, as well as music video or commentary and best comedy. The last category, number seven, is called "most adorable video ever" and it is to continue the tradition of videos starring cats and dogs while asleep.

Those that are nominated are able to promote themselves on YouTube during the following five days. These users are also able to plead for votes.

The $1.65 billion Google's acquisition gathered a huge number of fans. According to Jamie Byrne, head of YouTube product marketing, 2006 was a pioneering year for sites that rely on user's content.

However, companies like Viacom, believe one category is missing - "Best Professionally Produced Copyrighted Video." Last week Viacom sued Google together with YouTube for more than $1 billion. The lawsuit states that the ever increasing popularity of YouTube is due to a massive uploads of copyrighted videos including "The Colbert Report" and "South Park".


YouTube organise ses premiers « YouTube Video Awards »

Le site Web de partage en ligne de vidéo YouTube, qui appartient à Google, organise cette semaine sa propre cérémonie virtuelle de remise de prix, titrée YouTube Video Awards.

Le site présentera, parmi les vidéos mises en ligne au cours de l'année 2006, les meilleures vidéos réalisées par ses utilisateurs. Le vote, qui a démarré lundi 19 mars 2007, s'achèvera vendredi 23 mars. Les trophées seront décernés lundi 26 mars.

Sept catégories sont prévues :

Les utilisateurs « nominés » sont habilités à faire leur propre promotion sur YouTube durant les cinq journées de vote.

Le site YouTube, racheté par Google pour une somme de 1,65 milliard de dollars US$, a attiré à lui un grand nombre d'utilisateurs. Selon Jamie Byrne, responsable chez YouTube de la mise sur le marché, l'année 2006 a été une année d'innovation pour les sites qui, comme YouTube, sont basés sur des contenus fournis par les utilisateurs.

Cependant, au sein de sociétés comme Viacom, certains semblent se persuader que, parmi les catégories mises en avant par YouTube, manquerait une catégorie « meilleure vidéo professionnelle copyrightée » (Best Professionally Produced Copyrighted Video). Viacom a en effet assigné Google et YouTube en justice, la semaine dernière, et leur réclame 1 milliard de dollars US$. La semaine dernière Viacom Google poursuivi en justice ensemble avec YouTube pour plus de 1 milliard de $. Selon les termes de l'assignation, la popularité toujours croissante de YouTube serait seulement due à des téléchargements massifs de vidéos protégées par de droit d'auteur, parmi lesquellesest en raison d'un massif télécharge de vidéos protégées par le droit d'auteur incluant l'émission satirique The Colbert Report ou encore la série Southpark.

La société YouTube attend de voir l'accueil réservé par le public à cette remise de recompenses, avant d'envisager de pérenniser le système. Jamie Byrne estime toutefois que, si l'essai est transformé, la cérémonie pourrait rapidement ne plus être simplement virtuelle mais intervenir dans la vraie vie.


Greece wins 2005 Eurovision song contest

The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was won yesterday by the entry from Greece, Helena Paparizou, singing My Number One, second place going to the entry from Malta and third place going to Romania.

The competition was held in Palace of Sports in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, after its entry, Ruslana, had won the 2004 contest singing Wild Dances.  Semi-finals had been held on May 19, 2005. 10 out of 25 countries with the highest scores in the semi-finals then joined 14 already pre-qualified countries in the final. Both events were televised across Europe.

More than 6000 spectators attended the event. Organisers hope that it will boost Ukraine's image abroad and increase tourism, while the country's new government hopes that it will also give a modest boost to the long-term goal of acquiring European Union membership.

Bulgaria and Moldova took part for the first time while Hungary returned after a hiatus since 1998. Lebanon had been expected to make its debut appearance but decided to withdraw. For the first time in the history of the contest, Ireland failed to qualify.

The hosts for the event were Maria "Masha" Efrosinina and DJ Pasha, a TV Presenter and Radio DJ.

Finally, it's important to note most countries now choose to sing in English rather than their native language, since rule changes permit the singer to perform in any language they want.
It is interesting to note that Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, who all automatically qualify for the final by right of paying the bulk of the budget of the European Broadcasting Union (Eurovision's parent organisation) all finished in the bottom four positions.


50. „Eurovision Song Contest” in Kiew

Kiew (Ukraine), 21.05.2005 – Griechenland hat den 50. „Eurovision Song Contest” mit 230 Punkten gewonnen.

Es war der erste Sieg für Griechenland. Mit dem Lied "My Number One" startete die Gewinnerin Helena Paparizou nach 2001 zum zweiten Mal beim Song Contest. Diesmal wurde sie tatsächlich Nummer eins. Damit hat sie den Grand Prix 2006 nach Athen geholt.

Deutschland belegte mit Gracia und dem Lied "Run & Hide" (Wegrennen und Verstecken) den letzten Platz. Sie erhielt vier Punkte, je zwei aus Monaco und zwei aus Moldawien. Bereits vier Mal lag Deutschland vorher auf diesem Platz, zuletzt 1995.

Nach Meinung deutscher und internationaler Grand-Prix-Experten hatte das schlechte Abschneiden nichts mit der Chartmanipulationen durch massenhafte CD-Käufe des Gracia-Produzenten David Brandes zu tun. Als Begründung gaben sie an, der Skandal wäre im Ausland kaum bekannt gewesen. Vielmehr gab der Unterhaltungschef des in Deutschland zuständigen Senders NDR, Jürgen Meier-Beer, dem deutschen Titel und der erkennbaren Unsicherheit Gracias die Schuld an dem Debakel.

In Deutschland wird nun über eine Änderung des Auswahlmodus in der nationalen Vorentscheidung nachgedacht. Jürgen Meier-Beer hat mittlerweile sein Aufgabengebiet beim NDR geändert und wird für den nächsten Grand Prix nicht mehr zuständig sein.


Eurowizja 2005 zakończona

Wczorajszego wieczoru zakończył się jubileuszowy, 50. konkurs piosenki Eurowizji. W tym roku konkurs odbył się w Kijowie, dzięki zwycięstwie w zeszłym roku reprezentantki Ukrainy Rusłany.

Pierwsze miejsce zajęła Greczynka Helena Paparizou z piosenką "My Number One" (Mój numer jeden) z 230 punktami, drugie miejsce zajęła piosenka z Malty (192 punkty), a trzecie z Rumunii (158 punktów).

W tym roku zadebiutowali reprezentanci Bułgarii i Mołdawii. Ta druga dostała się do finału i zajęła w nim 6 miejsce.

Polskim widzom najbardziej spodobała się ukraińska piosenka Razom nas Bahato w wykonaniu zespołu Greenjolly. Utwór ten towarzyszył pomarańczowej rewolucji w 2004 roku. Dzięki dzikiej karcie dostał się do ukraińskiego finału, a potem w nim zwyciężył. Aby uniknąć kontrowersji związanych z politycznym przesłaniem, słowa piosenki zostały zmienione.

Głosowanie odbyło się za pomocą SMS-ów i systemu audiotele. Relację wyników w języku polskim przeprowadził Maciej Orłoś.

We czwartek odbył się półfinał, w którym występowali reprezentanci Polski Ivan i Delfin. Ich piosenka "Czarna dziewczyna" zajęła 11. miejsce (na 25) zdobywając 81 punktów. Aby awansować do finału zabrakło im 5 punktów. Następny konkurs Eurowizji odbędzie się w 2006 roku w Atenach.


Greece, Greeks celebrate Independence day

Today, Greece and Greeks all over the world celebrate the Greek Independence day; the 25th of March, 1821, during which the struggle of the Greeks against the powerful Ottoman Empire started. The President of the Hellenic Republic, Carolos Papoulias, and the Greek Prime Minister, Costas Karamanlis, attended the great parade of the Armed Forces at the Constitution Square of Athens. Earlier, in the Orthodox Cathedral of Athens, Archbishop Christodoulos performed a Te Deum which was attended by the political and military leadership of the country.

The Greek Independence day was celebrated in all the large cities of Greece, including Thessaloniki, Patras, and Corinth where the local authorities had the opportunity to attend parades of the armed forces and high-school students.

Hellenism across the world celebrates the Independence day as well. From London to Melbourne, Greek communities organized events and parades in honour of March 25, 1821. The big parade in New York City, United States, will be attended by thousands of Greeks and Greek-Americans. The Greek government will be represented by the Secretary of State, Dora Bakoyiannis.

Bety Savourdou. "Armed Forces Parade. Messages of Unity" — ERT, March 25, 2006


Les Grecs célebrent la fête nationale


Greek singer Demis Roussos dies aged 68

Greek singer Demis Roussos died on Sunday in Athens.  The 68-year-old Roussos, born in Egypt, died in a private hospital. No official cause of death has been announced but the hospital said he had been there for some time. Roussos reached international fame in the 1960s and 70s. His hits included Forever and Ever, Quand je t'aime, and Goodbye.

Roussos, whose musical career started with work in cabaret, had success both as a solo artist and as part of a group. He belonged to progressive rock group Aphrodite's Child. After a successful career with Aphrodite's Child, Roussos went solo. His single Forever and Ever reached number one in several Single charts in 1973 and topped the UK Singles chart in 1976.

He and his family left Egypt in 1961, when he was a teenager, in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Before the move he had studied and performed music in a Greek church. He was 17 when he joined group The Idols; while with The Idols he met Vangelis, who he would go on to form Aphrodite's Child with.

Vangelis released a statement about the death of his former bandmate Roussos. He said  "Demis my friend. I have just arrived in London and I've been told that you decide to take the long voyage, I'm shocked because I can't believe that this happened so soon. Nature gave you this magic voice of yours which made millions of people around the world very happy. [...] As for me, I keep those special memories that we share together those early days and I wish you to be happy wherever you are. [...] Goodbye my friend goodbye. Love Vangelis."

Another tribute came from fellow Greek singer Nana Mouskouri. Speaking to French radio station RTL, she said "He had a superb voice, he travelled in the world [...] he loved what he was doing. He was an artist, a friend. I hope he is in a better world."

In 1985 he was a captive in the TWA Flight 847 hijacking.  He was held for five days, one of which was his 39th birthday.

During his later life Roussos lived in several countries including France, United States and England. In 2013 he was awarded the French Legion of Honour during a ceremony in Athens.


Cantor grego Demis Roussos morre aos 68 anos

O cantor grego Demis Roussos morreu no domingo em Atenas. Aos 68 anos de idade, Roussos, nascido no Egito, morreu em um hospital particular. Nenhuma causa oficial de falecimento foi anunciado, mas o hospital disse que ele tinha estado lá por algum tempo. Roussos alcançou fama internacional na década de 1960 e 70. Seus sucessos incluem Forever and Ever, Quand je t'aime e Goodbye.

Roussos, cuja carreira musical começou com o trabalho no cabaré, teve sucesso tanto como artista solo e como parte de um grupo. Ele pertencia ao grupo de rock progressivo Aphrodite's Child. Depois de uma carreira de sucesso com Aphrodite's Child, Roussos seguiu carreira solo. Seu single Forever and Ever alcançou o número um em vários Single individuais em 1973 e superou os UK Singles chart em 1976.

Ele e sua família deixaram o Egito em 1961, quando ele era um adolescente, no rescaldo da Crise de Suez. Antes da mudança, ele havia estudado e executou a música em uma Igreja Grega. Ele tinha 17 anos quando entrou para grupo The Idols; enquanto com The Idols que ele conheceu Vangelis, que ele iria passar a formar com Aphrodite's Child.

Vangelis divulgou um comunicado sobre a morte de seu ex-colega de banda Roussos. Ele disse: "Demis meu amigo. Acabo de chegar em Londres e eu tenho dito que você decidir tomar a longa viagem, estou chocado porque eu não posso acreditar que isso aconteceu tão cedo. Natureza te deu essa voz mágica de vocês que fez milhões de pessoas ao redor do mundo muito feliz. [...] Quanto a mim, eu deixo essas memórias especiais que partilhamos juntos os primeiros dias e eu desejo que você seja feliz onde quer que esteja. [...] adeus meu amigo adeus. [Com] Amor, Vangelis.".

Outro tributo veio da cantora grega Nana Mouskouri. Em declarações à estação de rádio francesa RTL, ela disse: "Ele tinha uma voz excelente, ele viajou no mundo [...] ele amava o que fazia. Ele era um artista, um amigo. Espero que ele está em um mundo melhor.".

Em 1985, ele foi feito refém no sequestro do Vôo TWA 847. Ele foi mantido por cinco dias, um dos quais era o seu 39º aniversário.

Durante a sua vida mais tarde Roussos viveu em vários países, incluindo França, Estados Unidos e Inglaterra. Em 2013 foi agraciado com a Legião de Honra Francesa, durante uma cerimônia em Atenas, capital da Grécia.


Guinness turns 250

On September 24, 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the St James' Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. 250 years later, Guinness has grown to a global business that turns over 10 billion euros (US$14.7 billion) every year.

Arthur's Day has been described by Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen as "an excuse for having a great party." Pub-goers across Dublin — as well as cities around the world including Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Cotonou, Hong Kong, and New York — raised their glasses in tribute to Arthur at exactly 17:59 p.m. to mark the year the drink was begun.  Ireland has issued a stamp for the event.

St James' Gate Brewery had grown to become Ireland's biggest by 1833 and in 1886 had grown to the biggest in the world, producing 1.2 million barrels of black stout each year.  Today, Guinness is enjoyed in 150 countries and 10 million pints are drunk every 24 hours — although Irish myth has it the brew tastes best in Dublin.


アイルランドのギネスビール、生誕250年

AFPBB News、CNNによると、アイルランドのギネスビールは、24日 (UTC±0) 生誕250年を迎えた[1][2]。

ギネスビールは1759年の誕生から今年で250年となり、発祥の地・ダブリン市のセント・ジェイムズ・ゲート醸造所でキネンパーティが催された。ギネスビールを初めて醸造したアーサー・ギネス氏にあやかって、当日は「アーサーズ・デイ」と呼ばれ、同醸造所には各国のギネス愛好家ら数千人が集まり、この記念日を祝った。[2]

アーサー氏の子孫であるローリー・ギネス氏（34歳）は地元ラジオ局の取材で「ギネス一族にとっても、ギネス社にとっても、今日はすばらしい日です」と喜びを語った[1]。

アイルランドのダブリン市内の複数のパブで音楽ライブが開かれたほか、市の観光名所・ギネス・ストアハウスではブライアン・カウエン首相がアイルランドの誇りとしてギネスビールを賞賛し、歌手のトム・ジョーンズ氏やローナン・キーティング氏らが歌うパーティも開かれた[1]。

このほか、世界150ヶ国以上で生誕を祝うイベントがあったと、ギネスビールのオフィシャルサイトが伝えた[2]。

創業者のアーサー・ギネス氏が1759年、セント・ジェームズ・ゲート醸造所を9000年の超長期賃貸契約で借り、ギネスビールを醸造。

1761年にアーサー氏はオリビア・ウィットモア氏と結婚。2人の間には21人の子供がおり、後にギネス一族と呼ばれるようになる。

ギネス一族は1997年、ギネスがイギリスのグランドメトロポリタン社と合併し、ディアジオ社の傘下入りするまで6代に渡って醸造所運営を行った。

現在も世界でギネスビールは愛され、世界150ヶ国で毎日1000万パイント（およそ570万リットル）が消費されている[1]。


Guitarist Les Paul dies at 94

Les Paul, the American jazz guitarist whose eponymous electric guitar remains one of the most popular and influential designs of musical instrument in modern history, has died at the age of 94 of complications from pneumonia.

Born Lester William Polfuss in 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, Les Paul was establishing himself as a jazz musician in Chicago when in 1939 he built "The Log", reputed to be the first solid-body "Spanish-style" electric guitar ever made. Discussions with Gibson Guitars led to the development of the Gibson Les Paul guitar, which with its unprecedented tonal properties (caused in part by its unprecedented weight) quickly established itself among players of both the emerging rock & roll style of music and the developing electric blues.

Paul was also a pioneer of recording techniques. Paul's experiments with multi-tracking in the 1940s led to a string of chart successes with songs like "How High The Moon", in which Paul's guitar work and then-wife Mary Ford's vocals appeared a novel many-layered setting, Paul playing up to eight guitar parts and Ford harmonizing with herself.

Although Paul entered semi-retirement in his 50s, he remained active and performing almost until his death; his last album was released in 2006. Les Paul received a number of accolades throughout his career: he was the recipient of numerous Grammy awards, an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the namesake of the Mix Foundation's Les Paul Award for "individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of audio technology." He was also the subject of two biographical films.

While Les Paul had no children, he is survived by a godson, the guitarist Steve Miller.


Zmarł Les Paul

13 sierpnia 2009 w szpitalu na przedmieściach White Plains (w stanie Nowy Jork) na skutek powikłań spowodowanych zapaleniem płuc w wieku 94 lat zmarł Lester William Polfus znany jako Les Paul (ur. 1915), amerykański gitarzysta jazzowy i wynalazca/konstruktor.

Znany jest jako twórca (wraz z pomocą Teda McCartya) modelu gitary elektrycznej zbudowanego specjalnie dla firmy Gibson, który nazwany został od jego imienia Gibson Les Paul. Choć prace nad instrumentem sięgają lat 20. to wypuszczenie na rynek nastąpiło w roku 1952 (inne gitary Les Paula zdobywały popularność od lat 40.). Gibson Les Paul charakteryzuje się konstrukcją typu solid body, w której korpus z litego drewna całkowicie zastępuje pudło rezonansowe. Sama konstrukcja instrumentu pozostaje do dziś niezmieniona[1].

W 1978 wprowadzony został do Grammy Hall of Fame, dziesięć lat później do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame natomiast w 2005 do National Inventors Hall of Fame (za wynalezienie solid body).

Innymi wynalazkami Les Paula jest m.in. overdubbing, delay czy technika wielośladowego nagrywania[2].

Les Paul, pomimo pogarszającego się zdrowia (chorował na artretyzm) aktywnie występował do końca lat 90.

Na Gibsonie stworzonym przez Les Pula grają m.in. Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Steve Hackett, Gary Moore, Zakk Wylde, Mark Knopfler, Billie Joe Armstrong, Slash, Frank Zappa czy Duane Allman.

Keith Richards, współzałożyciel i gitarzysta zespołu The Rolling Stones, na wieść o śmierci Les Paula powiedział: "Wszyscy musimy przyznać, iż bez Les Paula pokolenia zafajdanych typków naszej maści szwendałyby się po więzieniach lub czyściłyby kible. Wszyscy mamy wobec niego niewyobrażalny dług za całą jego pracę i talent.[3]" Sam Les Paul wspominał kilka lat temu o swoim wynalazku: "Nagle okazało się, że moc tego instrumentu stała się bardzo ważnym elementem muzyki. Ta gitara dawała siłę i ekspresję w wyrażaniu uczuć, była niesamowita."


Halloween events banned at Moscow schools

Schools in Moscow, Russia have been told by the city's department of education to not allow any Halloween-related events.

Alexander Gavrilov, press secretary of the education department, told Interfax, "The department's stance has remained invariable since 2003, when the leadership of the department sent a letter to Moscow principals, which bans holding Halloween events at their schools."

Gavrilov further said that the ban is because this holiday "includes religious elements, including the cult of death, the mockery of death, personification of death and evil, which contradict the secular nature of state educational institutions."

"This is destructive for the minds and the spiritual and moral health of pupils," he said. "It's not an attempt to block the celebration of this holiday completely, just in schools and colleges."


Halloween é proibido em escolas de Moscou

Escolas de Moscou na Rússia foram obrigadas pelo departamento municipal da cidade a não permitir a comemoração do Halloween.

Alexander Gavrilov, porta-voz do departamento de educação disse:"A posição do departamento não mudou desde 2003, quando a direção do departamento enviou uma carta a todos os diretores de Moscou banindo eventos relacionados ao Halloween nas suas escolas".

Gavrilov ainda disse que a probição existe porque a comemoração "inclui elementos religiosos, como o culto à morte, o escárnio da morte, a personificação da morte e do mal, o que contradiz com a natureza secular das instituições do estado".

"Ele Halloween é destrutivo para as mentes e espíritos, e saúde moral dos alunos", disse. "Isto não é uma tentativa de proibir a comemoração deste evento completamento, apenas nas escolas e faculdades".


Harris Wittels, Parks and Recreation executive producer, found dead aged 30

Harris Wittels, an executive producer on the comedy television series Parks and Recreation, has been found dead. The 30-year-old was found unresponsive at his home in Los Angeles by his assistant on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have announced they are investigating the possibility of a drug overdose.

Wittels had a history of drug abuse and spoke openly about his addiction and treatment in drug rehabilitation centers. As well as working as a producer he was also a writer, musician, and stand-up comedian. He performed a stand-up set in Hollywood the night before his death.

Wittels, from Texas, started work on Parks and Recreation as a writer before being promoted to producer and eventually executive producer. Parks and Recreation is in its seventh and final season. The last episode is due to be broadcast on NBC next week.

His other working credits include work on The Sarah Silverman Show and Eastbound and Down. He authored a book, Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty, which came from a phrase he coined on Twitter. #humblebrag was used as a term to describe the art of false modesty.

Tributes have come from across the world of television and comedy. Sarah Silverman called Wittels her "baby". She said on Twitter "You should know that Harris was brilliant beyond compare. That his imagination was without limit. That he loved comedy more than anything".

Parks and Recreation actress Amy Poehler said at a Variety event where she was being honored "I don't really feel like telling any jokes. Today, I lost a friend. I lost a dear, young friend in my life who was struggling with addiction."

Fans of Wittels also paid tribute to him. Posting on culture website The AV Club, one fan wrote "I don't mean to belittle what those who knew him are going through at all, I know how I feel is nothing compared to what they're dealing with, but it does feel like I lost a friend." Another posted "Been sitting here crying since I found out an hour ago. Just unbelievably awful. Said this elsewhere but I genuinely feel like I lost a friend, don't care how lame that sounds. RIP Harris."

An official cause of death will not be known until results are released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.