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...
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.)
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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.
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...
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...
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
NYTIMES: 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....
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
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.
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.
"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
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...
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.....
This is a TV spot made by DAM to promote the 350 movement. 350 is an international movement that lobby's to bring down the carbon emission to lower than 350ppm. If the concentration of carbon continues to increase life as we know would cease to exist and humanity will suffer. Currently the carbon concentration is about 387ppm.
On the international day of climate action, which is the 24th October people from all over the world are going to do things which promotes the number 350 and which grabs the attention of the world leaders and media.
Divers Association of Maldives is having 2 events. One is the underwater cabinet meeting which would be chaired by the President of Maldives happening on the 17th of October. The cabinet would meet underwater using scuba and pass a declaration from the people of Maldives to the world leaders meeting and Copenhagen on December 2009 for the COP15. The other even which takes place on the international day of climate action, October 24th is the 24 hour underwater rally. 350 divers will go underwater to rally against climate change and call out for reducing carbon emissions.
This video is made with the assistance of veteran director Tedry Niyaz and Ahmed Fahudh Studio.
Jahr für Jahr ertrinken Urlauber, weil sie aufs Meer hinausgetrieben wurden. testmarkt hat die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen an Stränden, an denen es zu Todesfällen gekommen ist, unter die Lupe genommen.Sendung "markt" WDR Fernsehen Montag 05.10.2009 um 21.00 Uhr ... more/mehr
