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Angelina Jolie Slams Iraq War

Actress Angelina Jolie, a human rights campaigner, slammed Bush's policy on the Iraq war, arguing they spend too much money on arms and too little for fighting diseases.The actress, who recently adopted an Ethiopian baby girl named Zahara, whose parents are believed to have been Aids victims, is trying to aware the corporate world about Aids and HIV, because the business figures have the power to pressurize governments.She states: "I'm not saying I'm for or against war, but the amount that is spent every month, being, I think they said, five billion dollars, and to realize that we're spending 15 billion on AIDS, for over, what is it? Three years, five years?" Just a few days ago, Jolie revealed how worried she was when she brought Zahara from Ethiopia into the United States, because the baby was suspected of being infected with Aids.Angelina declared: "We didn't know at first. I was terrified, but prepared, because it is something I think we should all be ready to take on."
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Angelina Jolie Slams Iraq War

Actress Angelina Jolie, a human rights campaigner, slammed Bush's policy on the Iraq war, arguing they spend too much money on arms and too little for fighting diseases.The actress, who recently adopted an Ethiopian baby girl named Zahara, whose parents are believed to have been Aids victims, is trying to aware the corporate world about Aids and HIV, because the business figures have the power to pressurize governments.She states: "I'm not saying I'm for or against war, but the amount that is spent every month, being, I think they said, five billion dollars, and to realize that we're spending 15 billion on AIDS, for over, what is it? Three years, five years?" Just a few days ago, Jolie revealed how worried she was when she brought Zahara from Ethiopia into the United States, because the baby was suspected of being infected with Aids.Angelina declared: "We didn't know at first. I was terrified, but prepared, because it is something I think we should all be ready to take on."
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50 Cent vs. Kanye West

50 Cent has recently declared that he doesn't agree with Kanye West's statement that said “Bush doesn't care about black people”. He replied instead that "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God” and “people responded to it the best way they could.”It's not the first time 50 Cent opens a dispute with Kanye. He even said, joking about that: “I feel like Kanye West is successful because of me.”After 50 Cent, (hip-hop fans) was looking for something non-confrontational, and they went after first thing that came along. That was Kanye West, and his record took off." West's second album, "Late Registration", has remained near the top of the charts since debuting in August. As to the Bush dispute, Kayne West was only one of many to attack the US President.Filmmaker Spike Lee, who has set his mind to make a documentary about the Katrina aftermath, declared in an interview for Reuters: “I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color.There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans”, he added.50 Cent can be seen starting November 9 in "Get Rich or Die Tryin," a film about the rapper's life.
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Bruce Willis Offers $1 Million for Osama Bin Laden

Bruce Willis has offered a $1 million reward for anybody who captures or provides information that leads to capturing Osama Bin Laden and his followers, Ayman Al Zawahiri and Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the ones that are thought to have planed the September 11th attacks.The announcement was made while on the MSNBC television
show “Rita Cosby: Live and Direct”, where the actor also expressed his discontent with media coverage of the war in Iraq. Willis complained that the press reveals only one side of the war in Iraq, that is the bad one.“I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on”, he said.Bruce Willis, who was born into a military family in a US army base in Germany, is amongst the few entertainers that publicly support the US military campaign in Iraq.“Children are being taken care of, starting being inoculated, starting being looked after. Wherever these guys go they get thumbs up. They no longer have to contend with the terrorist leader”, Willis stated.But he also admits that he met few Iraqis, because most of the time there he traveled by a helicopter.
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50 Cent’s Movie Pulled from Pittsburgh Cineplex

50 Cent is saddened by the fatal shooting at a Pittsburgh-area theater where his movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin”’ was playing.The Loews Cineplex in West Homestead pulled the rapper's controversial semi-autobiographical flick on Thursday, a day after a man, Shelton Flowers, who had come for the opening night of Fiddy's film debut, got into an argument with others inside the bathroom around 11 p.m. The altercation spilled out into the concession area, where
gunshots erupted and Flowers was struck twice, according to eonline.com.The 30-year-old man died at the hospital.Nobody was arrested yet.According to Loews' Vice president of marketing, John McCauley, the theater chain was still trying to determine to what extent Get Rich may have been factor in the shooting. "We're unclear whether there is a direct connection", McCauley told Associated Press. "I feel for the victim's family in this situation", 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, said on ABC's The View on Friday. "But you know, these weren't kids. This was a 30-year-old man [who] had a dispute with three other guys", the famous rapper added.Paramount agreed to get some additional security at some theaters. The LA police took up posts on the rooftops of buildings near the famed Chinese Theater at the "In Da Club" rapper's Hollywood premiere last week.50 Cent’s movie has been slammed by community activists in Los Angeles and Philadelphia in the past weeks.The billboards promoting Get Rich or Die Tryin, showing 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone in the other, were removed from gang-ridden neighborhoods.Meanwhile, the film's soundtrack is expected to top the album charts next week and Vivendi Universal Games will release the 50 Cent videogame Bulletproof on November 22. Bulletproof will feature three new tracks and over eight hours of music from 50 Cent and other G-Unit members.
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George Popescu george.popescu@cyberculture.roSambata, 13 August 2005

Site-urile care indexeaza jurnalele on-line va scutesc de efortul de a le vizita
David Filo si Jerry Young nu se gandeau ca micul lor proiect de diploma, constand intr-un index al site-urilor de la acea vreme, se va dovedi una dintre cele mai de succes afaceri din lume. Cu toate acestea, Yahoo este astazi o marca recunoscuta pe tot globul. Pastrand proportiile, nici Alexandru Popescu nu a avut drept scop succesul atunci cand a lansat rss.mioritics.ro. Trebuia sa fie „un proiect de weekend”, dupa cum recunoaste chiar el. Astazi, acest site este singurul din Romania care indexeaza bloguri autohtone. Serviciul urmareste sursele (feed-urile) RSS ale blogurilor, atentionand cititorii asupra ultimei actualizari a fiecarui jurnal inscris in baza de date. Prin RSS, utilizatorii primesc automat, printr-un program specializat, fiecare text care apare pe jurnalele dorite. Este ca si cum ati folosi o singura aplicatie de e-mail pentru a colecta mesajele din toate conturile personale. Rss.mioritics.ro nu face decat sa treaca in revista blogurile romanesti si sa le urmareasca ritmul actualizarii, prin mentiuni de tipul: „proaspat”, „acum o ora”, „acum doua ore” etc., „ieri”, „de mult”.
O poveste mioritica
Alexandru Popescu este de profesie inginer electronist, dar rss.mioritics.ro se datoreaza momentelor sale zilnice de „pribegie prin cyberspace”. El a inceput acest serviciu in septembrie 2004, motivat de faptul ca nu gasea nicaieri o colectie satisfacatoare de bloguri romanesti. Intre timp, au aparut mai multe site-uri care colectioneaza surse RSS, unul dintre cele mai bune fiind www.timsoft.ro. Popescu este de parere ca la succesul serviciului au contribuit „simplitatea prezentarii si a utilizarii interfetei”. Blogurile din colectie sunt organizate pe cateva categorii: bloguri, stiri, ziare, Yahoo Groups, forumuri, altele. In baza de date exista acum peste 300 de surse si zilnic vin noi si noi cereri. „N-as avea nici o sansa sa le citesc pe toate zilnic. Ma uit insa pe noile propuneri si unele isi gasesc locul in colectia mea personala”, declara Popescu. Autorul site-ului romanesc este dezamagit insa de faptul ca multe dintre blogurile autohtone sunt abandonate repede si de aceea pot fi gasite mai mereu la categoria de actualizare „de mult”. Alexandru Popescu ar dori sa vada in blogosfera romaneasca „mai multa consecventa si, in general, mai multe bloguri specializate pe o tema data. Depozitele digitale ale experientelor personale sunt interesante, dar sunt mai greu de selectat”. Cat despre transformarea lui rss.mioritics.ro intr-un serviciu comercial, Popescu asteapta sugestii si eventuali colaboratori care au idei privind extinderea serviciului de indexare a surselor RSS.
Ping, Magpie, tag
Tehnologia din spatele surselor blogurilor este destul de simpla, dar numai o persoana cu unele cunostinte de programare poate dezvolta un astfel de serviciu on-line. Rss.mioritics.ro se bazeaza pe un compilator de surse RSS gratuit, denumit Magpie. Din ora in ora sunt chestionate automat blogurile din lista pentru a se vedea care au fost actualizate. In limbajul de specialitate, aceasta procedura se numeste „ping”. In orele pare se chestioneaza blogurile cele mai vechi, si in orele impare - cele mai noi. Astfel, nu exista riscul ca programul sa paraseasca sursa blogului inainte de a primi un raspuns de la el („time-out”). Liderul mondial incontestabil al „observatoarelor de bloguri” este Technorati.com. Acest serviciu urmareste non-stop ceea ce se intampla in blogosfera, semnaland cele mai active bloguri, cele mai discutate teme, indexand cuvinte-cheie, clasificand surse etc. Tag-urile de la Technorati au devenit un standard, ele reprezentand pulsul blogosferei. Cuvintele-cheie despre care se vorbeste in orice moment apar pe pagini organizate alfabetic, iar cele mai populare teme apar cu un corp de litera mai mare decat celelalte. Inscrierea oricarei surse RSS a unui blog la Technorati.com este simpla, iar indexarea jurnalului personal poate ajuta la dobandirea unei oarecare faime in blogosfera, fie ea romaneasca sau mondiala.

What about Britney Spears and Kevin Ferderline?

In the recent weeks there have been rumors saying that Britney and Kevin are heading for the split. The pop diva has been reportedly bothered by the fact that her husband isn't helping her with their newborn. He would rather party in night clubs than spend time at home. But Kevin also has reasons to be upset with his wife, as she reportedly laughed at him when the former dancer showed her his music. It has also been said that,
after a fight, Britney had kicked her hubby out of the house, and that he was living at a friend's apartment. But, after that, there was complete silence. Silence filled by Spears' representative, Leslie Sloane, with all sort of irrelevant information. After saying that Britney's marriage was 'OK', the publicist denied not the fight, but Spears' depression and tummy tuck.“She is not depressed, nor has she had a tummy tuck.She is a 23-year-old mom who was in amazing shape before she got pregnant and was able to get back in shape after the baby arrived.” So the eager media is still keeping an eye on the couple.

Scientists Find the T-Rex of Crocodiles

Scientists have nicknamed it Godzilla, but it really belongs in another movie, one not yet made but possibly titled: "Jaws Meets Jurassic Park."
The creature, whose discovery is being announced today in the journal Science, is a large sea-dwelling crocodile that lived 135 million years ago, in the middle of the dinosaur era.
Unlike most crocodiles today, this one possessed a snout that was short and stout, like that of Tyrannosaurus rex, and its foot-and-a-half-long jaws held 52 large teeth with serrated edges - the type that can tear chunks of flesh out of other large creatures.
"I'm sure it wasn't nice," said Diego Pol, a researcher at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University and a member of the research team. "A top predator role in the food chain."
Perhaps a dozen or more feet long, it was not the largest of all crocodiles, nor was it the only one that swam the seas. But it is notable for being so sharply distinct from most other crocodiles, which generally have long, slender snouts and a mouthful of more than 100 small sharp teeth, useful for catching fish.
"It's like a crocodile with a dinosaur head on it," said James M. Clark, who is a professor of biology at George Washington University but was not involved in the research. "This is something really new and unusual. In the realm of fossil marine crocodiles, it's a big deal."
Mark A. Norell, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, said this crocodile could have filled an ecological niche similar to that of modern-day killer whales.
Dr. Pol said it probably preyed on other marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs, which looked like dolphins, and plesiosaurs, the long-necked, slow-swimming reptiles.
Paleontologists have known about crocodiles living in the oceans since the 1800's, when their fossils were found in Europe. Some had even evolved flippers and a fishlike tail.
The research, financed by the National Geographic Society, was led by Zulma Gasparini, a paleontologist at the National University of La Plata in Argentina. She uncovered a complete, intact fossil skull of the new species, named Dakosaurus andiniensis, in the Patagonia region in 1996. The Science article culminates nine years of study, including preparing the fossil by removing the surrounding rock.
Despite its unusual shape, the 13-inch-long skull had telltale features like the shape of the nostrils, eye sockets and the roof of the mouth that indicated it was a crocodile. A detailed comparison by Dr. Pol with other marine crocodiles of the time indicated that the new species resembled the group with the flippers and fishlike tails.
When Dakosaurus lived, the area where the fossil was found was far to the north and far underwater, the bottom of a deep tropical bay connected to the Pacific Ocean.

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SEO - Google Optimization

Google is the most important search engine in the world! Not only has the number of searches on Googles Search Engine grown, but so has the number of web pages that Google has indexed (over 8.1 billion web pages in present).

When you makes a search, Google will go through the list of sites that are in its database and look for those pages that mention your words at least once. That's why u must include in the text content of your site the words or phrases with which you want to be found by Google at least onece, but is recommended to include them at least 5-6 times (or more). Also is very important thet these words to be used between the first 25 words on the page !

The most important aspects which Google uses in analysis of a web page are :
Words in TITLE TAG
Words in Links
Words in Headings
Words in Bold
More weight is given to first 25 words of text on a page
Having more than 250 words on a page helps
Subscribe to Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Page Rank

The Google Search Engine puts A LOT of weight on the text that is found in the TITLE tag. Most search results will show pages that have the searched words in the title tag. Title tag must be first after the "HEAD".

The words in TITLE must not repeat, the optimal number of used characters beeing 65. A common mistake of many web sites is that they have the same title tag on every page of their web site. Each page should have different title tags, depending on what that specific page has information on.

A very small factor, that can help is the use of "ALT" tags. These are the tags that a designer will put around a picture. You can view these tags by hovering your mouse over a picture, and then keeping your mouse still, and you will see the text for the ALT tag

Subscribe to Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) has a great importance for Google. Open Directory Project is a web directory in which all sites are approved by human editors, that means every site that subscribe is verified by a real person (editor) befor it's approved. This web directory it's used by Google as it's own. More About OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT .

Page Rank (PR) represents the value of a site for GoogleBot, measured by a note between 0 and 10. "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." - Google. For Example if 20 sites with PR 4 make a link to www.site.com then this will have PR4 as well, so it counts a lot the value of the sites which make link to www.site.com! (this example is not relevant, not necessary www.site.com will have PR4, it can have PR3 or more).

Now it's important to know that not all the web directories transfers of PR, that is if you have a link in these directories your PR won't grow, because these directories have a link to your site like this www.webdirectory.com/redirect.php?id=15. Google can't realise that this link goes to your site and it wont consider this a link to site. Links must be made like that < href="www.site.com"> text .
The best method to increase Page Rank is to subscribe in as many web directories which transfers PR as you can. Also to exchange links with sites that already have big PR. In Web Directory sectionyou will find a list with directories which transfer PR and have a big PR too. Page Rank modify after a period of time (a mounth or), so don't aspect of an imediate increase of it.
You can verify your Page Rank here http://rankwhere.com/google-page-rank.php or you can install Google Toolbar ! It's good to know that PR is different based on the URL that u will verify, for example http;//www.site.com has a different PR from http://site.com, though is the same site. This difference is the result of the way your link appears on different sites or directories

What Would Microsoft Do if Google Invented an OS?

There are some companies Microsoft is determined to defeat. The funny thing is that, despite what you might think, we are not talking about Linux, but about companies which will make lots of money out of fields not related to operating systems. Sony with its PlayStation and Apple with iPod are only two examples of companies that make money out of fields Microsoft would like to dominate. Recently, Microsoft has put another company on the “companies I wish they were dead” list: Google.And this is not about the recent conflict regarding the hiring of Kai-Fu
Lee, this is about Microsoft realizing it hasn’t caught the train to a thousand billion dollar market: searches and online advertising. With a MSN Search that owns only 5.5% of the market, Ballmer and his company can state as long as they want that Google will be defeated, because it’s hard to believe that’s going to happen in the next 20 years. How should Google respond to the Redmond giant’s bellicose statements? By trying to provide high-quality services, some would say. How would you feel if the ‘do no evil company’ would release a Google OS? Instead of accusing us of writing SF instead of IT news, take a minute of your precious time to think about this hypothesis. Google is non-conformist enough, and it has sufficient money and knowledge to be able to venture in this domain. The recipe? You take a Linux distribution (Google’s appetite for Open Source and Linux is no longer a secret), you mix it with Google’s knowledge on Internet searching, e-mail, security, programming and document indexing, you give it a name that includes Google and OS, and there you have it. Or if you want another image on how Google OS might look like, I recommend you this article. If two years ago, someone had predicted that there will be a browser to threaten Internet Explorer, he/she would have been recommended to see a shrink, but Firefox has proven that’s possible. Is there room for another OS? Certainly yes. Many times, Windows has been regarded as a necessary evil. Among the other two operating systems, Linux scares users and has the bad reputation of having a steep learning curve (which is not true, but that’s another story), and Mac OS X, is currently dependent on Mac hardware. It’s obvious that Windows is missing the challenge. Do you think that if Microsoft had been chased by another OS, it would have been so relaxed about delaying for so long the recently dubbed Windows Vista?There are some who think that Google should be frightened of having Microsoft on its tail, but things might be the other way around. After all, it’s up to us, the users. How about it, would you use a Google OS?

Lindsay Lohan Wants to Become A Student

Lindsay Lohan is seriously thinking to take some time off from her music and movie career. The young actress is said to have been planning to become a student at New York University.The 'Herbie Fully Loaded’ star is considering following in the footsteps
of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, hoping to combine further studying with her Hollywood jet-set lifestyle, according to fermalefirst.co.uk"I would go to NYU. I'm a New York girl, and it's easy to get to London and LA from here", the 19-year-old actress told the New York Daily News.Lindsay Lohan is also said to have signed on to star in a movie alongside her boyfriend Jared Leto. The couple is set to appear in a film about John Lennon's murder, titled 'Chapter 27'. Jared will play Mark Chapman, who shot the Beatles legend outside his New York apartment in 1980, while Lindsay will portray an obsessed fan who befriends the murderer. Shooting for the indie movie is due to start early next year.
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Paris Hilton Suspected to Have Pranked Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie is now being plagued by late night crank calls, for which she is said to suspect her former co-star, Paris Hilton.Richie and Hilton have been avoiding each other after an argument they had earlier this year. Apparently, Nicole has reportedly showed Paris' infamous sex tape, One Night In Paris', to some friends at a party. Hilton fumed and slammed her every time she had a chance. Worried that her show, The Simple Life, might end, Paris sent an apology letter to Nicole last month.One of Richie’s friends is quoted by America's MSNBC.com website as saying: "Nicole has been getting phony phone calls very late at night, practically every night, and she suspects the culprit is her ex-best friend. (…) Nicole doesn't have proof, but she's almost sure it's Paris."Nicole Richie has recently denied she showed Paris' sex tape at that party and insisted that she is no longer a friend of the famous hotel heiress because they simply grew apart."I would never do that. I'm sure it stirs up controversy, which I'm sure that Paris loves but I really have nothing bad to say about her. Today, we're no longer friends There's nothing that really happened, we've just grown apart", Richie confessed.Meanwhile, Paris Hilton is said to have been involved in a drink-driving incident, according to Digital Spy, UK. Apparently, the sexy socialite was in her $162,000 Bentley with boyfriend Stavros Niarchos, who was driving, when he smashed the car into the back of a large truck.

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Transylvania - Romania 's noble heart

Name of the publication: La Gazzetta del viaggatore
Country: Italy
Circulation: 120,000 copies
Name of the article: Transylvania – Romania 's noble heart
Date of issue: July/August 2005

You say Transylvania and there's Dracula. It certainly only happens to us, the Westerns. Because in Romania – in spite of the government's decision to build near Bucharest a theme park called “Dracula Park” – everybody knows very well that there is no connection whatsoever between the splendid Transylvania and Bram Stoker's literary fiction about the voivode Vlad Tepes. Famous for its landscapes and culture, Transylvania is known as Romania 's most Western region. The geography of this plateau, closed between the Carpathians chain and the wide Hungarian planes, has given to Transylvania (in other words the Ardeal – the region covered with forests) a unitary profile, with a wide variety of cultures because of its different populations which have not contaminated its unity and identity as a whole. That bustle of dominations – Hungarian and Hapsburg and partially Ottoman – couldn't have restrained from leaving marks in this region which, in spite of all this, still has a precise identity in the entire Romania . Transylvania already speaks of itself through the language of its walls. One should take as an example the fortified churches in Biertan, Homorod and Prejmer – lost bourgs among charming hills – that Unesco declared to be a patrimony of the humanity, or the catholic cathedral in Alba Iulia or Cluj Napoca or the splendid historic centers of the towns of Brasov and Sibiu or the medieval jewel named Sighisoara and the important castle of Hunedoara. The gothic and the romantic succeed and defy each other in an authentic contest of beauty where, from time to time, real testimonies of baroque become an integrant part (the Bruckenthal Museum in Sibiu, for example) or pure orthodox styles (such as the orthodox cathedral in Alba Iulia): strong narrations about what the Saxons, the Hungarians, the Germans, the Swiss and the Romans left behind. Places living in a multicultural environment - a very important expression in these parts of the world where road signs are written in three languages. Do not let yourself blinded by the current standards: the beauty of Transylvania (as well as that of Romania ) is not represented only by monuments and museums. It has a very intimate and quiet nuance and therefore it is more intense. Even in the poorest village such as, for example, the village of Sibileu where one can find the world's largest collection of icons painted on glass. Or, perhaps Rasinari where Emil Cioran was born. Or in other hundreds of unknown places such as Cris where the people work the land with a plough pulled by horses. Ancient people, of course, people who know how to preserve the value of gestures and rhythms that have entirely disappeared into our present world. And while looking ahead to in the future placed under the mark of development, this world is not ready to lose its most precious part: the noble and kind heart of Transylvania

SPA AND TREATMENT IN SOVATA WITH DANUBIUS HOTELS

It is called Sovata and it is the most well-known spa resort in Romania . It is one of Transylvania's surprises: in the very heart of a splendid forested landscape, at an hour distance from Sighisoara and Targu Mures, the heliothermal lake provides health to all those who have come here for treatment and wellness sojourns for years. The water of this lake is made of two parts: one of sweet water at the surface and the other salted, at the bottom; in spring, it can reach a temperature of more than 20 degrees at the surface and almost 50 degrees at the bottom. The high concentration of salt (almost 150 grams per liter) and the mineral and organic substances in the mud on the bottom make this lake to be a real source of health. Today Sovata and its lake have a great value thanks to a spa complex administrated according to high quality standards by the Hungarian group Danubius Hotels. Hotels, responsive structures and spa services provide sojourns and treatment at a high therapeutic level (especially for rheumatism dermatologic affections and gynecologic problems) as well as type wellness.

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