Freitag, April 16, 2010
Donnerstag, April 15, 2010
Volcano Island ESA Picture and Animation - ESA Bilder Vulkan Island
15 April 2010
This image, acquired today by ESA's Envisat satellite, shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away. more..
ESA: Animation of the ash plume from Icelandic eruption
Mittwoch, April 14, 2010
Dienstag, April 13, 2010
AP: Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now
JERUSALEM — Israel issued an "urgent" warning Tuesday to its citizens to leave Egypt's Sinai Peninsula immediately citing "concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai."
The statement from the Israeli prime minister's anti-terror office took the unusual step of calling on families of Israelis visiting the Sinai to establish contact with them. more...
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners Investigative Reporting - Purlitzer Preis für investigative Reportagen
Investigated Reporting
For a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).Awarded to Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine, for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. (Moved by the Board from the Feature Writing category.)
And
Awarded to Barbara Laker and Wendy Rudermanof the Philadelphia Daily News for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal.
Finalists:
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Michael Moss and members of The New York Times Staff for relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices (Moved by the Board to the Explanatory Reporting category), and Michael Braga, Chris Davis and Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for their in-depth reporting and computer analysis that unraveled $10 billion in suspicious Florida real estate transactions, triggering local and state efforts to curb abuses.
Sonntag, April 11, 2010
Telegraph UK: Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'
Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. more...
Spiegel online
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. more...
Spiegel online
Donnerstag, April 08, 2010
Saubere Kleidung Pressemeldung: Lidl betreibt Schönfärberei – Klage gegen die Täuschung von Verbraucher/innen
Die Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg hat eine Klage beim Landgericht Heilbronn gegen Lidl wegen unlauteren Wettbewerbs eingereicht. Sie wird dabei von der Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung (CCC) und dem European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) unterstützt. Das Bündnis fordert Lidl auf, Verbraucher nicht mit „Social Washing“ über die unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen bei ihren Zulieferern zu täuschen. Eine von der Kampagne für Saubere
Kleidung und ECCHR in Auftrag gegebene Untersuchung belegt schwerwiegende Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei vier Lidl
Zulieferbetrieben in Bangladesch. mehr auf pdf-datei...
Spiegel Online Artikel
Kleidung und ECCHR in Auftrag gegebene Untersuchung belegt schwerwiegende Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei vier Lidl
Zulieferbetrieben in Bangladesch. mehr auf pdf-datei...
Spiegel Online Artikel
Dienstag, April 06, 2010
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff
WIKILEAK
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com
German Magazine Mirror - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The New York Times
Reuter Press
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com
German Magazine Mirror - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The New York Times
Reuter Press
Montag, April 05, 2010
Toll Mounts From Quake in Mexico-U.S. Border Region - Erdbeben Mexico und US-Grenze
NYTIMES:
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 5, 2010
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 5, 2010
LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. more....
Donnerstag, März 25, 2010
NASA: Solar Cycle Prediction - Sonnen Zyklus Vorhersage
A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite
May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.
"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
"Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013." more...
Dienstag, März 23, 2010
New York Times: The End of Newspapers? Das Ende der Zeitungen?
By MARIE BÉNILDE
Published: March 16, 2010
Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don’t know it.
That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation’s conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America’s. more...
Published: March 16, 2010
Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don’t know it.
That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation’s conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America’s. more...
Sonntag, März 21, 2010
Donnerstag, März 18, 2010
Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer der DDR im Jahre 1990 - The freely elected People's Chamber of the DDR in the year 1990
Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer
Die erste und zugleich einzige frei gewählte Volkskammer der DDR konstituiert sich am 5. April 1990 im Palast der Republik. Der 10. Volkskammer gehören - einschließlich der Nachrücker - 409 Abgeordnete an. Nur drei Prozent der Abgeordneten sind auch schon Mitglieder der 9. Volkskammer gewesen. Zu ihrer Präsidentin wählen die Abgeordneten im zweiten Wahlgang die CDU-Abgeordnete Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.
The free elections to the People’s Chamber (Volkskammer) of the German Democratic Republic on 18 March 1990 completely transformed the character of that Parliament. Under the dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the People’s Chamber had been a sham parliament which, with one single exception, had always rubber-stamped the decisions of the state and party leaders until the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989. Now it transformed itself into a democratic parliament, whose members tackled a massive workload to carve out the path to the unification of Germ
Montag, März 15, 2010
CHRISTMAS SOUVENIRS - SOUVENIRS in Cologne, Germany
When I am on the way to the Televsion Station in Cologne , I am passing the Souvenir Shop of Rahim. His has a partiality for products "Made in Germany" e.g. Kuckucksuhren (watches)from the Black Forest or Christmas angles from the city of Seiffen in Germany. The shop is near by to the cathedrale in Cologne.
If you visit him, say best regards from me "Wolfgang , TV Journalist German TV". Please comment the visit on this blog.
Address:
BACHTER ACCESSOIRES
Komödienstrasse 15
50667 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Phone: 0049 (0) 221 9463806
Location:
Größere Kartenansicht
Sonntag, März 14, 2010
Samstag, März 13, 2010
Freitag, März 12, 2010
Donnerstag, März 11, 2010
Three strong earthquakes strike Chile-Earthquake Chile NEW - Neues Erdbeben in Chile
Three strong earthquakes strike Chile
11 March, 2010
Santiago, Chile -- Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing major damage in at least one city.A 6.9-magnitude earthquake at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later,A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
more...
Sonntag, März 07, 2010
Sonntag, Februar 28, 2010
Samstag, Februar 27, 2010
Montag, Februar 22, 2010
INTERPOL: 11 suspects wanted by Dubai Police in connection with murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhou
Link Interpol
BBC reports
JERUSALEM POST
ZDF German TV
DER SPIEGEL
Videos of CTTV cameras published by the Dubai Police. (gulfnews.com)
Samstag, Februar 20, 2010
CubeStormer - Roboter löst Rubik's Cube in max. 12 Sekunden
The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements now scanning and solving any 3x3x3 Rubik's cube combination in under 12 seconds
Donnerstag, Februar 18, 2010
Mittwoch, Februar 17, 2010
Dienstag, Februar 16, 2010
BBC: New flaws in chip and pin system revealed - Wissenschaftler der Uni Cambridge fanden einen Weg, um ohne die Geheimzahl einer Kredit Karte zu kennen , Geld abzuheben
by Susan Watts BBC
Most of us do not think twice about paying for something in a high street shop by keying in our pin. It is easy, fast and in most cases it works.
But scratch a little under the surface and there are persistent reports of people who say they have been the subject of fraud of one kind or another on their credit or debit card.
Now a team of computer scientists at Cambridge University has found a flaw in chip and pin so serious they think it shows that the whole system needs a re-write. more...
Sonntag, Februar 14, 2010
Dienstag, Februar 09, 2010
Study: Formation of carcinogens indoors by surface-mediated reactions of nicotine with nitrous acid, leading to potential thirdhand smoke hazards - Studie: Nikonablagerungen in Innenräumen erzeugen bei Luftkontakt krebserregende Substanzen.
"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
This study shows that residual nicotine from tobacco smoke sorbed to indoor surfaces reacts with ambient nitrous acid (HONO) to form carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). Substantial levels of TSNAs were measured on surfaces inside a smoker’s vehicle. more...
Mittwoch, Januar 27, 2010
Samstag, Januar 23, 2010
Mittwoch, Januar 20, 2010
Montag, Januar 18, 2010
Sonntag, Januar 17, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Report Via Amateur Radio
When telephones, internet, and power are cut off, Amateur Radio fills vital communications needs. Fred Moore of Florida, callsign W3ZU provides a radio/telephone patch for Jean-Robert Gaillard, callsign HH2JR, of Port au Prince. Audio captured by Brian Crow. Images (c) their respective owners.
HAITI EARTHQUAKE MAPS: DLR- Germany Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information - Emergency mapping & Desaster Monitoring about Earthquake Haiti
Earthquakes in Haiti on January 12, 2010
On January 12, 2010 a severe earthquake took place at the Coast of Haiti with a magnitude of 7.0 causing major damage. The epicentre was registred about 10 km deep and 16 km southwest of the capital city Port-au-Prince. In the city a large number of buildings such as the palace, government and UN-buildings, embassies and hospitals were affected or destroyed. Telecommunication as well as electricity and water supply failed.
More maps with higher resolution:
DLR- Germany Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information
Emergency mapping & Desaster Monitoring
DLR- Germany Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information
Emergency mapping & Desaster Monitoring
Freitag, Januar 15, 2010
Donnerstag, Januar 14, 2010
Video during the earthquake, Haiti - Video vom Erdbeben auf Haiti
The video shows buildings collapsing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
on LiveLeak
Mittwoch, Januar 13, 2010
Sonntag, Dezember 27, 2009
Mittwoch, Dezember 23, 2009
Obama calls local talk show: 'Barry from DC'
"Barry" dialed in to "Ask The Governor" to pay tribute to the man he almost picked for vice president and did tap for Democratic Party chair more on us today
Donnerstag, Dezember 17, 2009
350.org Actions worldwide
Am 24. Oktober organisierten Menschen aus über 180 Ländern über 5200 Aktionen anlässlich des globalen Klimaaktionstages rund um die Zahl 350. Jetzt sind wir in Kopenhagen und brauchen nochmals die Hilfe dieses unglaublichen 350 Netzwerkes, um sicherzustellen, dass wir einen Vertag kriegen, der uns auf 350 ppm zurückführen wird und das Überleben aller Völker und Nationen sichert. more...
Freitag, Dezember 04, 2009
Mittwoch, November 25, 2009
Investigative Story in Plusminus ARD 24.11.09-21.50 Uhr "Spenden - Leichtes Spiel für dubiose Vereine"
von Herbert Kordes
Es ist Samstag und sie sind wieder unterwegs: eine sogenannte Drückerkolonne aus Soest in Westfalen. Ein Transporter verteilt die Spendensammler auf kleine Orte im Münsterland, zum Beispiel den 2.000-Seelen-Ort Rorup. Eine junge Frau geht von Haus zu Haus. mehr.....
Story/Beitrag/Video ARD Mediathek: Plusminus "Spenden - Leichtes Spiel für dubiose Vereine"
Kamera: Wolfgang Rathgeber (TV Journalist /Autor)
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