One Laptop Per Child: the dream starts to deliver by Staff Writers San Francisco (AFP) Nov 11, 2007 Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass produced in China as US nonprofit One Laptop Per Child strives to deliver on its promise...more
Awarded to Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee for her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer...more
Paying Peanuts For Clean Water by Staff Writers Mersin, Turkey (SPX) Nov 09, 2007 Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, the team describes how this readily available waste material can be used to extract toxic copper ions from waste water. The discovery offers a useful alternative to simple disposal of this ubiquitous food industry waste product.
COOL SITE - www.quantumshift.tvQuantum Shift TV is a 21st Century storyteller renewing the cultural values of community, care and interconnectedness through the use of leading edge technology and citizen journalism. We have been inspired by research from the Max Plank Institute in Germany confirming our belief that people are more likely to take positive action when they are seen to be doing so.
TURN DOWN - SWITCH OFF - RECYCLE - WALK Climate change is a global problem, and yet each one of us has the power to make a difference. Even small changes in our daily behaviour can help prevent greenhouse gas emissions without affecting our quality of life. In fact, they can help save us money. You control climate change! To find out more information about how to take control, choose an option below.
What began as a hobby became Madridvirtual.com, a collection of 360 Panoramic Photos of Madrid, taken at nightfall, when the city shows it´s highest splendour. Most of the photographs correspond to the Historic Madrid and they all have an historical and architectural review. The project began with the creation of a Multimedia CD ROM . Madridvirtual.com is now in the web offer Madrid´s beauty to everyone...more add to favorites Madridvirtual.com
Revealing the Truth to the World: Keeping the Pressure on to Stop the Slaughter The only way to stop the dolphin slaughter is to keep monitoring, advocating, filming, and bringing attention to it.
One of the main reasons that the killing continues is that very few people — in Japan and around the world — even know it is happening.
When the drive is over each day, the bodies of the dolphins are hauled away to the slaughterhouse for processing. Our team tries to photograph the butchering in order to get information out to the Japanese people, but we are constantly blocked by the Taiji dolphin killers.
The fishermen don’t want the public to know about their dirty, little secret, so they spend a lot of time hiding their activities. They know that if Japan and the world learn the truth about this barbaric practice, world opinion will immediately put it to an end.
The fishermen in Taiji told us not to take any photographs. They said that if our photos and video footage get out to the rest of the world, it would pressure the authorities in Tokyo to deny them permits for the annual dolphin slaughter.
We need to continue to return to Taiji to document the dolphin massacres and give the photos and video footage away to the media, free of charge. We will continue to encourage journalists to return to Japan with us. Exposing these crimes against nature to the world is crucial.
Stop the dolphin and whale killings in Taiji - Petition to Prime Minister of Japan
ASHBY DESIGN for Nomination GRAMMY award 2007 for the best recording package design. One of the best flash pages - inspiration for other designers add to favorites www.ashbydesign.com
Research Project May Revolutionize Apparel Industry by Staff Writers Mount Pleasant MI (SPX) Nov 02, 2007 Who hasn't wished for clothing constructed to fit his or her own body more effectively? Or for clothing that did a better job wicking away moisture? Or even garments that could keep the warmest areas of your body a little cooler and the coolest spots a little warmer?...more
COOL SITE - www.freerice.com . HOW TO PLAY Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance... (more)
This is an experiment without tricks nor edits. If you don’t believe what you’re watching, I invite you to try it yourself, so you can see the dramatic results for yourself. Can you imagine where the brown color has gone? The stain is now in our lungs, and that was just from one inhale. Image how a pack-a-day smoker’s lungs must look.If you’re wondering why I have a weird voice, it’s because I was a smoker, and now I need a device to speak to you. If you still don’t want to quit smoking, at least think about this: The lungs of our loved ones deserve something better.Every person can make a difference, simply tell your friends or just throw out some cigarettes, and we may all, save lives.Yours, for a Happy and Healthy Future ... more
Scientists Discover New Way To Make Water by Staff Writers Champaign IL (SPX) Nov 01, 2007 In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, by combining the two gases and igniting them with a spark, the instructor changes the gases back into water with a loud pop...more
Donkey power fuels ecological rubbish revolution by Staff Writers Rome (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 The Sicilian town of Castelbuono has replaced garbage trucks with donkeys and claims to be saving money as well as helping to beat global warming. Since last February, six donkeys have replaced the four rubbish trucks in the town of 10,000 people. By replacing garbage trucks with donkeys "we are making savings and making the world a better place" with less pollution, Castlebuono's mayor Mario Cicero said in a statement on the town's website...more
Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced To India by Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who have conducted a slew of new investigations honing down eruption timing...read more
I Want To Be A Space Millionaire by Michael Potter Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 I am high over the skies of New Mexico wondering what portion of the $2 million dollar combined Northrop Gruman Lunar Lander and NASA Centennial challenge monies is being awarded right this minute on the ground directly below me as I fl y overhead. On Friday at the X-prize CEO Summit luncheon event, John Carmack, co-founder of id Software, the company who brought the world, the game "Doom" and "Quake," now brings us Armadillo aerospace and his company's impressive Pixel vehicle as well as the sister craft Texel...more
1€ es una Fortuna ! Por cada peluche que compres, destinaremos €1 a UNICEF y Save the Children
IKEA EN MALAGA - Apertura 30 de octubre
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IKEA MÁLAGA Avenida Velázquez 389 29004 MÁLAGA (Junto a Centro de Ocio Plaza Mayor) Horario de apertura: horario Ikea Malaga - Horario de tienda Lunes a sábado de 10:00h. a 22:00h. horario Ikea Malaga - Horario de restaurante Lunes a sábado de 9:30h. a 21:00h. Días festivos locales cerrado: 8 de Septiembre, 19 de AgostoFestivos abiertos:12 de Octubre, 1 de Noviembre, 7 de Enero, 6 de Julio (Domingo)Domingos abiertos3 de Diciembre, 9 de Diciembre, 16 de Diciembre, 30 de Diciembre
CÓMO LLEGAR Linea de Autobús: Línea 10 Tren: Cercanías C1 Málaga-Fuengirola, parada Plaza Mayor. Por carretera: - Desde Málaga, Costa Este, Antequera y Granada: A-7 sentido Cádiz, salida Parador de Golf-Coín (dirección Coín), o por MA-21(antigua N-340) salida 2. - Desde Costa Oeste y Cádiz: A-7 sentido Málaga, salida Parador de Golf-Coín (dirección Coín).
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More than 2 million photos from Panoramio in Google Earth Google has bought Spanish photo sharing website Panoramio for an undisclosed sum, it said in its official blog. Google said since the start of the year photos on Panoramio can be linked to satellite photos at Google Earth. Panoramio, launched in Oct 2005, has 300,000 subscribers as of March and had 4 mln unique visitors in Februry and 30 mln page impressions. My photos in Panoramio
About Hallab Since 1881, Rafaat Hallab have been gratifying their customers' gourmet fantasies with the most delicious homemade oriental pastries. Still improving on the legacy of the past, Rafaat Hallab pastries are now a reference in Lebanese sweets. Their craftsmen choose the best of nuts, pistachios, pine kernels, and other vitamin-loaded prime ingredients to give you the finest of oriental sweets. The company policy is to maintain the quality of its products through selecting the best base ingredients and raw materials, improving the industry to satisfy its clients, and serving them faster worldwide by using modern packaging techniques, continuing to maintain this artistic and traditional handcraft through choosing qualified and experienced employees. This policy is implemented through the company's ISO 9001,2000 quality system, which covers all the company's operations and activities and applies to its different level employees. Now Rafaat Hallab s.a.r.l focuses on a special kind of customer, the person who wants high quality products, packed in a very appealing package. Our customers might be large corporations, small or medium businesses, or individuals. Our product is positioned very carefully: this is high-quality sweet products that combines high skill workmanship and innovation for the customer who understands quality, demand refine taste, and is willing to spend money on the best.
dropping knowledge encourages social change. Using advanced web technologies, the initiative with offices in Berlin, Germany and Cambridge, MA, USA, links the voices of individuals and organizations. The web-platform enables the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas, and start initiatives around the most pressing issues of our time. Events like the Table of Free Voices, campaigns like "ask yourself" and projects in cooperation with different partners create a meaningful bridge between the on and offline worlds.
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This is an experiment without tricks nor edits. If you don’t believe what you’re watching, I invite you to try it yourself, so you can see the dramatic results for yourself. Can you imagine where the brown color has gone?
heaven !!!
Since 1881, Rafaat Hallab have been gratifying their customers' gourmet fantasies with the most delicious homemade oriental pastries. Still improving on the legacy of the past, Rafaat Hallab pastries are now a reference in Lebanese sweets. Their craftsmen choose the best of nuts, pistachios, pine kernels, and other vitamin-loaded prime ingredients to give you the finest of oriental sweets. The company policy is to maintain the quality of its products through selecting the best base ingredients and raw materials, improving the industry to satisfy its clients, and serving them faster worldwide by using modern packaging techniques, continuing to maintain this artistic and traditional handcraft through choosing qualified and experienced employees. This policy is implemented through the company's ISO 9001,2000 quality system, which covers all the company's operations and activities and applies to its different level employees. Now Rafaat Hallab s.a.r.l focuses on a special kind of customer, the person who wants high quality products, packed in a very appealing package. Our customers might be large corporations, small or medium businesses, or individuals. Our product is positioned very carefully: this is high-quality sweet products that combines high skill workmanship and innovation for the customer who understands quality, demand refine taste, and is willing to spend money on the best.
My first day without smoking. Let`s start !!! 
Twenty years ago.
My first friends... and first shot
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