used to think
I had the answers to everything
But now I knowThat life doesn't always go my way, yea...
Feels like I'm caught in the middleThat's when I realized
CHORUS:
I'm not a girl, not yet a woman
All I need is timeA moment that is mine
While I'm in betweenI'm not a girl
There is no need to protect meIt's time that
I learn to face up to this on my ownI've seen much more than you know now
So don't tell me to shut my eyes
CHORUS:I'm not a girl, not yet a woman
All I need is timeA moment that is mine
While I'm in betweenI'm not a girl
But if you look at me closely
You will see it in my eyes
This girl will always find her way
CHORUS:(I'm not a girl)... I'm not a girl don't tell me what to believe
(Not yet a women)...I'm just trying to find the woman in me, yea
(All I need is time)...
Oh, all I need is timeThat's mine...
While I'm in betweenI'm not a girl...
Not yet a womanAll I need is time
A moment that is mine...
While I'm in betweenI'm not a girl...oooo.
Not yet a woman
quinta-feira, 26 de abril de 2007
quarta-feira, 25 de abril de 2007
My Inmortal
I'm so tired of being hereSuppressed by all of my childish fearsAnd if you have to leaveI wish that you would just leaveBecause your presence still lingers hereAnd it won't leave me aloneThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meYou used to captivate meBy your resonating lightBut now i'm bound by the life you left behindYour face it haunts my once pleasant dreamsYour voice it chased away all the sanity in meThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meI've tried so hard to tell myself that you're goneBut though you're still with meI've been alone all alongWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of me
I'm so tired of being hereSuppressed by all of my childish fearsAnd if you have to leaveI wish that you would just leaveBecause your presence still lingers hereAnd it won't leave me aloneThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meYou used to captivate meBy your resonating lightBut now i'm bound by the life you left behindYour face it haunts my once pleasant dreamsYour voice it chased away all the sanity in meThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meI've tried so hard to tell myself that you're goneBut though you're still with meI've been alone all alongWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of me
I'm so tired of being hereSuppressed by all of my childish fearsAnd if you have to leaveI wish that you would just leaveBecause your presence still lingers hereAnd it won't leave me aloneThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meYou used to captivate meBy your resonating lightBut now i'm bound by the life you left behindYour face it haunts my once pleasant dreamsYour voice it chased away all the sanity in meThese wounds won't seem to healThis pain is just too realThere's just too much that time can not eraseWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of meI've tried so hard to tell myself that you're goneBut though you're still with meI've been alone all alongWhen you cried i'd wipe away all of your tearsWhen you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fearsAnd i've held your hand through all of these yearsBut you still have all of me
The Love
"Love is patient, love is kind.It does not envy, it does not boast,it is not proud.It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,it is not easily angered,it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evilbut rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts,always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails."
Brazil's Lula seeks opposition support to clean politics
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) -- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked for opposition support on Monday to overhaul a political system vulnerable to corruption and said he would not seek a third term in 2010.
In the more than six months since Lula was re-elected on October 30, he has been able to negotiate an 11-party alliance that has a majority in both houses of Congress.
But disagreement on political reform within the alliance has forced him to seek opposition support for proposals to limit lawmakers' ability to switch parties and tighten campaign financing rules.
Politicians in Brazil often switch political parties for short-term electoral gains, making it difficult to forge lasting governing alliances.
"We now have to talk with the opposition," the former union leader said on his weekly radio address. "We all need to work to recover credibility in the political institutions, especially political parties."
Lula had pledged political reform last year after his own ruling Workers' Party admitted using illicit campaign funds in 2002. The party was also accused of bribing legislators to achieve a majority in Congress.
Lula played down opposition concerns on Monday that he wanted to reform the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2010.
"I have nothing to run for in 2010. When the president is no longer focused on a presidential election, it's much easier to govern a country," Lula said.
Lula met with Tasso Jereissati, head of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, last week to discuss political reform. He made several concessions to the PSDB, including giving the go-ahead for a steel plant in Jereissati's home state, the PSDB chief said.
In the more than six months since Lula was re-elected on October 30, he has been able to negotiate an 11-party alliance that has a majority in both houses of Congress.
But disagreement on political reform within the alliance has forced him to seek opposition support for proposals to limit lawmakers' ability to switch parties and tighten campaign financing rules.
Politicians in Brazil often switch political parties for short-term electoral gains, making it difficult to forge lasting governing alliances.
"We now have to talk with the opposition," the former union leader said on his weekly radio address. "We all need to work to recover credibility in the political institutions, especially political parties."
Lula had pledged political reform last year after his own ruling Workers' Party admitted using illicit campaign funds in 2002. The party was also accused of bribing legislators to achieve a majority in Congress.
Lula played down opposition concerns on Monday that he wanted to reform the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2010.
"I have nothing to run for in 2010. When the president is no longer focused on a presidential election, it's much easier to govern a country," Lula said.
Lula met with Tasso Jereissati, head of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, last week to discuss political reform. He made several concessions to the PSDB, including giving the go-ahead for a steel plant in Jereissati's home state, the PSDB chief said.
Perfect World
Simple Plan - Perfect World Simple Plan
I never could have seen this far
I never could have seen this coming
It seems like my worlds falling apart, yeah
Why is everything so hard
I don't think I can deal with the things you said
Just won't go away
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
I used to think that I was strong
Until the day it all went wrong
I think I need a miracle to make it through, yeah
I wish that I could bring you back
I wish that I could turn back time
Cause I can't let go
I just can't find my way, yeah
Without you I just can't find my way
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
I don't know what I should do now
I don't know where I should go
I'm still here waiting for you
I'm lost when you're not around
I need to hold on to you
I just can't let you go
Yeah, yeah
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
You feel nothing
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
I never could have seen this far
I never could have seen this coming
It seems like my worlds falling apart, yeah
Why is everything so hard
I don't think I can deal with the things you said
Just won't go away
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
I used to think that I was strong
Until the day it all went wrong
I think I need a miracle to make it through, yeah
I wish that I could bring you back
I wish that I could turn back time
Cause I can't let go
I just can't find my way, yeah
Without you I just can't find my way
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
I don't know what I should do now
I don't know where I should go
I'm still here waiting for you
I'm lost when you're not around
I need to hold on to you
I just can't let you go
Yeah, yeah
In a perfect world
This could never happen
In a perfect world
You'd still be here
And it makes no sense
I could just pick up the pieces
But to you
This means nothing
Nothing at all
You feel nothing
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Drugs and Alcoholism
Drugs
A drug is any biological substance, synthetic or non-synthetic, that when taken into the organism's body, will in some way alter the biological functions of that organism. This broad definition can be taken to include such substances as food. However more strict applications of the word prevail in everyday life. In these cases the word "drug" is usually used to refer specifically to medicine, vitamins, entheogenic sacrements, consciousness expanding and recreational drugs. Many natural substances such as beers, wines, and some mushrooms, blur the line between food and drugs and when ingested affect the functioning of both mind and body.
Drugs are usually distinguished from endogenous biochemicals by being introduced from outside the organism. For example, insulin is a hormone that is synthesized in the body; it is called a hormone when it is synthesized by the pancreas inside the body, but if it is introduced into the body from outside, it is called a drug.
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is generally defined as the consistent and excessive consumption of and/or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with an individual's normal personal, family, social, or work life. Alcoholism can potentially result in psychological and physiological conditions, as well as, ultimately, death. Alcoholism is one of the world's most costly drug use problems. With the exception of nicotine addiction, alcoholism is more costly to most countries than all other drug use problems combined..
While alcohol abuse is a prerequisite for what is defined as alcoholism, the biological mechanism of alcoholism is uncertain. For most people, alcohol consumption poses little or no danger of addiction. Other factors generally contribute for alcohol use to develop into alcoholism. These factors may include a person's social environment, emotional health and genetic predisposition.
What Goes Around Comes Around
Hey GirlIs he everything you wanted in a man?You know I gave you the worldYou had me in the palm of your handSo why your love went awayI just can't seem to understandThought it was me and you, babyMe and you until the endBut I guess I was wrongDon't wanna think about it(uh)Don't wanna talk about it(uh)I'm just so sick about itI can't believe it's ending this wayJust so confused about it(uh)Feeling the blues about it(yeah)I just can't do without yaTell me is this fairIs this the way it's really going down?Is this how we say goodbye?Shoulda known better when you came aroundThat you were gonna make me cryIt's breaking my heart to watch you run aroundCause I know that you're living a lieBut that's ok, baby, cause in time you will findWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundYeahNow GirlI remember everything that you claimedYou said that you were moving on now(on now)Maybe I should do the same(maybe I should do the same)The funny thing about that isI was ready to give you my nameThought it was me and you baby(baby)And now, it's all just a shameThat I guess I was wrongDon't wanna think about it(no)Don't wanna talk about it(hm)I'm just so sick about itI can't believe it's ending this wayJust so confused about it(uh)Feeling the blues about it(yeah)I just can't do without yaCan you tell me is this fairIs this the way it's really going down?Is this how we say goodbye?Shoulda known better when you came aroundThat you were gonna make me cryNow it's breaking my heart to watch you run aroundCause I know that you're living a lieBut that's ok, baby, cause in time you will findWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundYeahWhat goes around comes aroundYeahhhWhat goes around comes aroundYou should know thatWhat goes around comes aroundYeahhhWhat goes around comes aroundYou should know thatDon't wanna think about it(no)Don't wanna talk about it(hm)I'm just so sick about itI can't believe it's ending this wayJust so confused about it(uh)Feeling the blues about it(yeah)I just can't do without yaTell me is this fateIs this the way it's really going down?Is this how we say goodbye?Shoulda known better when you came around(shoulda known better)That you were gonna make me cryIt's breaking my heart to watch you run around(now it's breaking my heart)Cause I know that you're living a lieBut that's ok, baby, cause in time you will findWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back around(what goes around comes around, baby)What goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back around(what goes around comes around, baby)What goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundWhat goes around, goes around, goes around, don't go away, back aroundYeahYupYupYup(let me paint this picture for ya, baby)YupYou spend your nights aloneAnd he never comes homeAnd everytime you call him, all you get is a busy toneI heard you found outThat he's doing to youWhat you did to meAin't that the way it goesWhen you cheated, girlMy heart bleeded, girlSo it go without saying that should let the feeling hurtJust a classic case scenarioTell is always timeGirl, you got what you deservedAnd now you want somebodyTo cure the lonely nightsYou wish you had somebodyThat could come and make it rightBut girl, I ain't somebodyI'm out of sympathySee..What goes around comes back aroundI thought I told yaHey(hey)What goes around comes back aroundI thought I told yaHey(hey)What goes around comes back aroundI thought I told yaHey(hey)What goes around comes back aroundI thought I told yaHey(hey)Take it to em, JHey, hey, hey, hey(repeatedly till the end)HahaSeeYou shoulda listened to me, babyTake it to em, JBecauseWhat goes around comes back aroundHahahahaOohOoh-ooh-ooh-oohOohOoh-ooh-ooh-ooh
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”
Two New Producers, Lots of New Projects
LOS ANGELES, April 22 — Ashton Kutcher is no Merv Griffin, not yet at least.
"I don’t have a hotel," Mr. Kutcher said last week, referring to the Beverly Hilton, which Mr. Griffin, the former talk-show host and game-show producer, owns — not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars in other assets.
Give him time. For Mr. Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, his partner in Katalyst Films, a burgeoning production company, are two of the busiest television producers in Hollywood. Four years after turning an updated version of "Candid Camera" called "Punk’d" into a hit on MTV, they have shows that are either in development for or will soon appear on four of the five broadcast networks. The first of those shows, "The Real Wedding Crashers," has its premiere tonight on NBC. Loosely based on the 2005 film "Wedding Crashers," the new show features improvisational actors who, with the cooperation of the bride and groom, infiltrate a wedding to create chaos and, it is hoped, hilarity. The show is co-produced with New Line Cinema, which owns the rights to the film.
Meanwhile Katalyst has shot pilots for two other network shows that are candidates for the CBS and ABC fall schedules. The CW network has committed to two additional seasons of "Beauty and the Geek," a reality show that also has been sold in more than a dozen overseas markets.
MTV, having announced that this spring will mark the final season of "Punk’d," is also now presenting "Adventures in Hollyhood," a reality show that follows the exploits of Three 6 Mafia, the Oscar-winning rap group, as it adjusts to life in Hollywood. And MTV is also considering a new hidden-camera game show titled "Room 401."
To top it off, Katalyst is trying to break into feature films as well, with at least half a dozen projects under consideration, including efforts at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures.
Oh, and it also has a contract to develop Internet content for AOL.
"We’re learning the game," Mr. Goldberg said. "We’re clearly running on instinct, but I feel like we’re very much in tune with the culture."
They are not without experience, however. Mr. Kutcher, an actor whose recent films include "The Butterfly Effect" and "Guess Who," and Mr. Goldberg, who has worked as a producer in film and television, started Katalyst with an ample understanding of the ways of Hollywood.
The company, which is based in Hollywood and has 11 employees, already seems to be well down the road toward success. Its biggest payday so far has come from "Beauty and the Geek," a reality competition in which attractive women are teamed with nerdy men on challenges that play to each other’s strengths, like spelling bees and party planning.
The idea was brought to the company by Nick Santora, a television writer, who collaborated with Mr. Kutcher and Mr. Goldberg to develop the show. Among the overseas versions are "The Princess and the Professor" in Norway; "The Doll and the Nerd" in Italy, and "The Beauty and the Genius" in Estonia.
Other of the company’s shows have originated from within. The idea for "Adventures in Hollyhood," Mr. Kutcher said, came after he, like much of America, was enthralled by the exuberance of Three 6 Mafia when the group won an Oscar for its song "It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
"First, we punk’d them," Mr. Kutcher, 29, said, targeting the members of the rap group for a gag on the MTV show. "Great characters make great television, and it was obvious that they were unique and had a real genuine quality that’s infectious." After kicking around ideas, Katalyst came up with the scheme of moving the rappers to Hollywood and recording their introduction to the good life.
Katalyst also aims to develop scripted television series, and to that end in 2005 the company hired Karey Burke, a former executive vice president for prime-time development at NBC. Their first effort together is "Miss/Guided," a single-camera sitcom that was brought to the company by Caroline Williams, a writer on "The Office," and stars Judy Greer, who was featured on the short-lived CBS series "Love Monkey" and who had a continuing role as Kitty Sanchez on "Arrested Development."
A pilot episode of "Miss/Guided," which centers on a grown woman who returns to her high school as a guidance counselor, was shot by 20th Century Fox Television for ABC, which is considering it for its fall schedule.
"The Real Wedding Crashers," which NBC has been promoting heavily, is Katalyst’s highest-profile effort yet. The production is far more complicated than that for "Punk’d" and similar reality shows because the hidden-camera pranks take place over several days before a wedding. Various members of the wedding party are enlisted for a task — for example, taking the wedding dress to the tailor — and then become targets for practical jokes.
The show is shot in Las Vegas, in part, Mr. Kutcher said, because Nevada is one state that allows hidden microphones to be used as long as one participant in a conversation is aware that the conversation is being recorded.
And the "reveal," in which the target is made aware that he has been set up, does not take place until the end of the wedding reception, allowing a mountain of cringeworthy events to pile up and creating, at least in the initial episode, a rising level of anger, rather than mirth, among some of the weddings guests.
Whether the show will be extended beyond NBC’s initial six-episode commitment remains to be seen; the production of each episode is as complicated as, well, planning a wedding for close to 100 guests.
"It’s a beastly effort," Mr. Goldberg said.
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"I don’t have a hotel," Mr. Kutcher said last week, referring to the Beverly Hilton, which Mr. Griffin, the former talk-show host and game-show producer, owns — not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars in other assets.
Give him time. For Mr. Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, his partner in Katalyst Films, a burgeoning production company, are two of the busiest television producers in Hollywood. Four years after turning an updated version of "Candid Camera" called "Punk’d" into a hit on MTV, they have shows that are either in development for or will soon appear on four of the five broadcast networks. The first of those shows, "The Real Wedding Crashers," has its premiere tonight on NBC. Loosely based on the 2005 film "Wedding Crashers," the new show features improvisational actors who, with the cooperation of the bride and groom, infiltrate a wedding to create chaos and, it is hoped, hilarity. The show is co-produced with New Line Cinema, which owns the rights to the film.
Meanwhile Katalyst has shot pilots for two other network shows that are candidates for the CBS and ABC fall schedules. The CW network has committed to two additional seasons of "Beauty and the Geek," a reality show that also has been sold in more than a dozen overseas markets.
MTV, having announced that this spring will mark the final season of "Punk’d," is also now presenting "Adventures in Hollyhood," a reality show that follows the exploits of Three 6 Mafia, the Oscar-winning rap group, as it adjusts to life in Hollywood. And MTV is also considering a new hidden-camera game show titled "Room 401."
To top it off, Katalyst is trying to break into feature films as well, with at least half a dozen projects under consideration, including efforts at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures.
Oh, and it also has a contract to develop Internet content for AOL.
"We’re learning the game," Mr. Goldberg said. "We’re clearly running on instinct, but I feel like we’re very much in tune with the culture."
They are not without experience, however. Mr. Kutcher, an actor whose recent films include "The Butterfly Effect" and "Guess Who," and Mr. Goldberg, who has worked as a producer in film and television, started Katalyst with an ample understanding of the ways of Hollywood.
The company, which is based in Hollywood and has 11 employees, already seems to be well down the road toward success. Its biggest payday so far has come from "Beauty and the Geek," a reality competition in which attractive women are teamed with nerdy men on challenges that play to each other’s strengths, like spelling bees and party planning.
The idea was brought to the company by Nick Santora, a television writer, who collaborated with Mr. Kutcher and Mr. Goldberg to develop the show. Among the overseas versions are "The Princess and the Professor" in Norway; "The Doll and the Nerd" in Italy, and "The Beauty and the Genius" in Estonia.
Other of the company’s shows have originated from within. The idea for "Adventures in Hollyhood," Mr. Kutcher said, came after he, like much of America, was enthralled by the exuberance of Three 6 Mafia when the group won an Oscar for its song "It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
"First, we punk’d them," Mr. Kutcher, 29, said, targeting the members of the rap group for a gag on the MTV show. "Great characters make great television, and it was obvious that they were unique and had a real genuine quality that’s infectious." After kicking around ideas, Katalyst came up with the scheme of moving the rappers to Hollywood and recording their introduction to the good life.
Katalyst also aims to develop scripted television series, and to that end in 2005 the company hired Karey Burke, a former executive vice president for prime-time development at NBC. Their first effort together is "Miss/Guided," a single-camera sitcom that was brought to the company by Caroline Williams, a writer on "The Office," and stars Judy Greer, who was featured on the short-lived CBS series "Love Monkey" and who had a continuing role as Kitty Sanchez on "Arrested Development."
A pilot episode of "Miss/Guided," which centers on a grown woman who returns to her high school as a guidance counselor, was shot by 20th Century Fox Television for ABC, which is considering it for its fall schedule.
"The Real Wedding Crashers," which NBC has been promoting heavily, is Katalyst’s highest-profile effort yet. The production is far more complicated than that for "Punk’d" and similar reality shows because the hidden-camera pranks take place over several days before a wedding. Various members of the wedding party are enlisted for a task — for example, taking the wedding dress to the tailor — and then become targets for practical jokes.
The show is shot in Las Vegas, in part, Mr. Kutcher said, because Nevada is one state that allows hidden microphones to be used as long as one participant in a conversation is aware that the conversation is being recorded.
And the "reveal," in which the target is made aware that he has been set up, does not take place until the end of the wedding reception, allowing a mountain of cringeworthy events to pile up and creating, at least in the initial episode, a rising level of anger, rather than mirth, among some of the weddings guests.
Whether the show will be extended beyond NBC’s initial six-episode commitment remains to be seen; the production of each episode is as complicated as, well, planning a wedding for close to 100 guests.
"It’s a beastly effort," Mr. Goldberg said.
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Mr. Angry
THE muesli munchers who run our town halls turn my stomach - and soon they'll be turning yours too.Thanks to the latest piece of misguided lunacy from the green gestapo, our streets will be strewth with filth and squalor on a scale not seen since pre-Victorian days.By switching to fortnightly rubbish collections in order to pay for recycling, UK councils are trying to fight climate change on the cheap - and it makes me angry.
The new system is a clear and present danger to public health and council chiefs should face manslaughter charges if a child or OAP dies of listeria as a result.
It shows how little our councils REALLY care about the environment, it's just another excuse to cut corners and fleece us with spot fines for putting out rubbish on the wrong day.
That's why today I'm launching a campaign to Bring Back Our Binmen. What do you think?
Potentially Habitable Planet Found
WASHINGTON Apr 25, 2007 (AP)— For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."
The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away. But the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun.
There's still a lot that is unknown about the new planet, which could be deemed inhospitable to life once more is known about it. And it's worth noting that scientists' requirements for habitability count Mars in that category: a size relatively similar to Earth's with temperatures that would permit liquid water. However, this is the first outside our solar system that meets those standards.
"It's a significant step on the way to finding possible life in the universe," said University of Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor, one of 11 European scientists on the team that found the planet. "It's a nice discovery. We still have a lot of questions."
The results of the discovery have not been published but have been submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Alan Boss, who works at the Carnegie Institution of Washington where a U.S. team of astronomers competed in the hunt for an Earth-like planet, called it "a major milestone in this business."
The planet was discovered by the European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Silla, Chile, which has a special instrument that splits light to find wobbles in different wave lengths. Those wobbles can reveal the existence of other worlds.
What they revealed is a planet circling the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. Red dwarfs are low-energy, tiny stars that give off dim red light and last longer than stars like our sun. Until a few years ago, astronomers didn't consider these stars as possible hosts of planets that might sustain life.
The discovery of the new planet, named 581 c, is sure to fuel studies of planets circling similar dim stars. About 80 percent of the stars near Earth are red dwarfs.
Russia Bids Farewell to Yeltsin
By MARIA DANILOVA
MOSCOW Apr 25, 2007 (AP)— Russia bid a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, in a funeral presided over by some two dozen white-robed priests and a crowd of dignitaries including President Vladimir Putin and two former U.S. leaders.
Before the funeral in central Moscow, more than 20,000 people had filed through the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to view the body of Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76. After the viewing ended, dignitaries including former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush arrived and offered condolences to Yeltsin's black-clad widow Naina.
Many of the mourners said they admired Yeltsin for breaking the grip of monolithic Communism and moving the country toward full-fledged democracy and said they fear his successor Vladimir Putin is reversing the progress.
"I came here to pay respect to Boris Nikolayevich for everything he has given us: freedom and the opportunity to realize ourselves," said 73-year-old Svetlana Zamishlayeva. But now, she said, "there is a certain retreat from freedom of the press, from fair elections, from all kinds of freedom."
"The policy course that he set is being dismantled today," said Nikita Belykh, leader of the liberal Union of Right Forces party that has become increasingly marginalized during Putin's seven years in office.
He suggested that Yeltsin may have expected Putin to continue his policies when he resigned and turned over the presidency to Putin on New Year's Eve 1999. "We all make mistakes," Belykh said outside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Communist lawmakers meanwhile expressed resentment of Yeltsin's role in bringing an end to the Soviet Union. They refused to stand for a moment of silence called in Yeltsin's memory at the opening of the Wednesday session of the lower house of parliament, news agencies reported.
"We will never give honor to the destroyer of fatherland," Communist deputy Viktor Ilyukhin was quoted as saying by the RIA-Novosti news agency.
Yeltsin is to be buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, which holds the graves of many prominent Russian authors, musicians and artists.
Many countries sent lower-ranked retired politicians and diplomats to the funeral a reflection of the funeral's quick timing but also perhaps of Yeltsin's uncertain legacy as unsteady democrat, Communist scourge and incomplete reformer.
The Soviet Union was an atheist state, so it seemed fitting Russia's first post-Soviet president was accorded religious rites. Though he made appearances at church services, Yeltsin was not regarded as an overtly pious man, but the Russian Orthodox Church was grateful for his support.
"By his strength, he helped the restoration of the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the life of the country and its people," church spokesman Metropolitan Kirill said in a statement.
Yeltsin is widely remembered for his bold and principled stand against the 1990 hardline Communist coup attempt against Gorbachev and for launching Russia on the path to political pluralism.
"He gave us a choice not just a choice between cheese and ham, but the possibility to think for ourselves," said mourner Alla Gerber, the head of Russia's Holocaust Foundation. "He took us out of the claws of that terrible regime."
But Yeltsin disappointed Russians by failing to bring political, economic and social stability to the nation. Many were outraged, as well, by his sale of the nation's industrial might and natural resources in shadowy auctions, by the disintegration of the public health care system and by pensions that turned to cinders in the fires of raging inflation.
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MOSCOW Apr 25, 2007 (AP)— Russia bid a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, in a funeral presided over by some two dozen white-robed priests and a crowd of dignitaries including President Vladimir Putin and two former U.S. leaders.
Before the funeral in central Moscow, more than 20,000 people had filed through the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to view the body of Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76. After the viewing ended, dignitaries including former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush arrived and offered condolences to Yeltsin's black-clad widow Naina.
Many of the mourners said they admired Yeltsin for breaking the grip of monolithic Communism and moving the country toward full-fledged democracy and said they fear his successor Vladimir Putin is reversing the progress.
"I came here to pay respect to Boris Nikolayevich for everything he has given us: freedom and the opportunity to realize ourselves," said 73-year-old Svetlana Zamishlayeva. But now, she said, "there is a certain retreat from freedom of the press, from fair elections, from all kinds of freedom."
"The policy course that he set is being dismantled today," said Nikita Belykh, leader of the liberal Union of Right Forces party that has become increasingly marginalized during Putin's seven years in office.
He suggested that Yeltsin may have expected Putin to continue his policies when he resigned and turned over the presidency to Putin on New Year's Eve 1999. "We all make mistakes," Belykh said outside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Communist lawmakers meanwhile expressed resentment of Yeltsin's role in bringing an end to the Soviet Union. They refused to stand for a moment of silence called in Yeltsin's memory at the opening of the Wednesday session of the lower house of parliament, news agencies reported.
"We will never give honor to the destroyer of fatherland," Communist deputy Viktor Ilyukhin was quoted as saying by the RIA-Novosti news agency.
Yeltsin is to be buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, which holds the graves of many prominent Russian authors, musicians and artists.
Many countries sent lower-ranked retired politicians and diplomats to the funeral a reflection of the funeral's quick timing but also perhaps of Yeltsin's uncertain legacy as unsteady democrat, Communist scourge and incomplete reformer.
The Soviet Union was an atheist state, so it seemed fitting Russia's first post-Soviet president was accorded religious rites. Though he made appearances at church services, Yeltsin was not regarded as an overtly pious man, but the Russian Orthodox Church was grateful for his support.
"By his strength, he helped the restoration of the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the life of the country and its people," church spokesman Metropolitan Kirill said in a statement.
Yeltsin is widely remembered for his bold and principled stand against the 1990 hardline Communist coup attempt against Gorbachev and for launching Russia on the path to political pluralism.
"He gave us a choice not just a choice between cheese and ham, but the possibility to think for ourselves," said mourner Alla Gerber, the head of Russia's Holocaust Foundation. "He took us out of the claws of that terrible regime."
But Yeltsin disappointed Russians by failing to bring political, economic and social stability to the nation. Many were outraged, as well, by his sale of the nation's industrial might and natural resources in shadowy auctions, by the disintegration of the public health care system and by pensions that turned to cinders in the fires of raging inflation.
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Bad Dad
Call me an idiot, but I thought being a father would be a doddle: playing an almost god-like role (the giver of life), pinching the kid's sweets, playing the best games, getting adoring looks from foxy mums, and looking forward to living off the blighter in years to come.The nipper's only one week old, and I'm starting to think otherwise. If I were god, I certainly wouldn't have inflicted the missus with an infection and the kid with feeding problems. Both had to be rushed back to hospital. Both are now much better, and settling at home.
Speaking of home... I got a great child safety kit from Mothercare, and aside from the plastic plug socket covers, the most valuable item is the fridge lock. Not for the kid, mind - he's a few months to go before he's feasting on my Leffe - but for the missus. She's had nine months of being sworn off blue cheese, and now she's hellbent on making up for it. I don't think Mr Camberzola can produce the blue-veined wonder at the rate she's scoffing it, so this lock might just be the answer.
I think she's getting her own back, though. How long does it take to change a nappy? One week in, I'd hardly claim professional status, but I can rip through a change in a couple of ear-splitting minutes. The missus, on the other hand, can turn the torturous process into a feature-length film (a horror flick, no doubt). Sure, he's got to be clean. Fine, we dont' want a rash. But does that have to take fifteen minutes? Especially when he's bawling and I'm trying to sleep with a pillow over my ears.
And speaking of nappies, why doesn't a bright spark from Mothercare market a nappy with an outside indicator to show if the baby's had a woop-woop! It could either be a litmus paper style patch, or a see-through window. Perhaps I should go on Dragons Den. Perhaps I will, afterall, make my mint from this kid.
Global Heating
Global heating
In 1896 Svante Arrhenius Swedish chemist suggested that carbon dioxide being in the atmosphere by the industrial civilisation could heat the surface of the Earth. Bioligists who dealt with the life of the ocean said that it wasn’t possible. Sometimes some of them suggested that they should return to the problem.
Every spring the plants burst into flowers and take up carbon dioxide. Every au
tumn with the withdrawal of the flora carbon dioxide gets back to the air. Putting together the series of the different years we can receive a lifting curve. Every year a growing quantity of carbon dioxide gets into the atmosphere and at the end of the in-and out breathing series of the plants more and more remain in the air. Keeling-curve had clearly proved what people just wondered about up till then that by human activity carbon dioxide being let go into the air doesn’t absorb in the oceans and in the flora but it accumulates year-after-year in the atmosphere of the Earth: man changes the composition of the atmosphere.
Connection between the atmospheric carbon dioxide content and the temperature
According to theoretical considerations, calculations and experiments in relation with this matter, the present total atmospheric carbon dioxide content causes approximately 7 degrees higher temperature on the surface. This amount has increased with almost one-third in the last 150 years. A research team had analysed a millions of date of the part 50 million years and came to the conclusion that the oceans’ water also became warmer under the surface as far as 300 metres. Since the heat capacity of the water much higher than the air, therefore the water of the ocean took up this surplus. Obviously, a balance has been developing between the water and the air about it, so, in a billowy process this surplus will get loch from the ocean to the air. The warmer water steams are quicker that’s why on one hand more wetness gets into the air and that causes more rain, on the other hand quicker air lifting generates more powerful winds and steams and that last warmer air has greater energy, therefore it is more vehement mobile changeable.
The discovery wasn’t taken seriously in the beginning
Many people haven’t known it what "global darkness" or "global dimming" are caused by. This perception was contrasted with all the other scientific theories, it may have been forgotten for a long time and that can be the reason why only few people know about it.
measuring of sunshines
A very easy instrument is used for the measure of the sunshine. The substance of the measure is the following: they take a black plate, then measure that part of the plate which is reached by the sunshine, now much it becomes warmer than that side which isn’t reached by the sun.
As the longer-distance global views are concerned we know 3 things surely:
1. We know that the climate isn’t unchangeable (geological dates prove)
2. We know that the water-steam and the various "greenhouse-effect gases", among them firstly the carbon dioxide, what kind of role they play in the formation of the climate.
3. Finally are known that the atmosphere concentration of the greenhouse-effect gases permanently and significantly increases for decades.
The developed counties can reduce abroad, too.
The common realization (joint implementation) makes it possible that the developed industial counties, which are the greatest emitters, decrease the emit not only in their own county. A determined part of emit-lesson comes from such projects are accounted in their own country by the sponsors. If the bigger carbon-dioxide emitters of the industrialized counties really have to suffer the costs of the emit-decrease, they’re standing in front of enormous expenditures. However the greatest emitters and some states have already started the organization of projects of common realization, because as they said, they can find the most favourable solution for every participant, if they start the organization of common realization and clear development projects. The graph shows the 10 counties emit the greatest quantity of greenhouse-effect gases.
Global heating-now will it offect Hungary?
The climate-changing, global heating processes also offect Hungary of course: think of the continually more frequent or oughts of the Plain, or the decrease of the water level of Lake Balaton in the last few years.
It isn’t unambiguous now the quantity of rainfall takes shape.
Analysing the quantity of the rainfall there are no unambiguous conclusions at all. According to certain conclusions the quantity of rain and snow will increase in our country, according to others the opposite process will exactly happen. But the greatest problem isn’t this, but that in summer the proportion of rainfalls must decrease which is characteristic for the Great Hungarian Plain being endangered by drought.
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Suicide bombers kill 9 U.S. soldiers
Nine U.S. paratroopers were killed Monday when a pair of suicide bombers attacked a small U.S. patrol base in Diyala province, the U.S. military said. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. ground forces in Iraq since December 2005.
U.S. military officials said initial reports indicate insurgents used two 30-ton dump trucks full of explosives to attack what they call a combat outpost. The massive blast resulted in the northern and western walls of the compound collapsing. Remains of several troops were recovered from the rubble.
An additional 20 U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack.
The direct assault is a departure from the usual tactics of the insurgents, who in the past have been more inclined to use hit-and-run sniper attacks, or launch mortars from a distance.
The Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack in a posting on an Islamist Web site.
The same insurgent group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at Iraq's parliament complex two weeks ago.
The insurgents said that the U.S. confirmation of the Diyala attack "is a rare confession by the Americans about an operation against their soldiers" and that "God guided the soldiers of ISI to a new method of explosion."
The Diyala region is emerging as a major battleground in the Iraq war, along with Baghdad and Anbar province, with insurgents shifting their operations into the area.
The Diyala attack has jolted the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where all the dead and wounded soldiers are based, according to the U.S. military.
A Fort Bragg spokesman, Maj. Tom Earnhardt, said the Diyala attack is "the worst incident we've had in the whole global war on terrorism."
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U.S. military officials said initial reports indicate insurgents used two 30-ton dump trucks full of explosives to attack what they call a combat outpost. The massive blast resulted in the northern and western walls of the compound collapsing. Remains of several troops were recovered from the rubble.
An additional 20 U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack.
The direct assault is a departure from the usual tactics of the insurgents, who in the past have been more inclined to use hit-and-run sniper attacks, or launch mortars from a distance.
The Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack in a posting on an Islamist Web site.
The same insurgent group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at Iraq's parliament complex two weeks ago.
The insurgents said that the U.S. confirmation of the Diyala attack "is a rare confession by the Americans about an operation against their soldiers" and that "God guided the soldiers of ISI to a new method of explosion."
The Diyala region is emerging as a major battleground in the Iraq war, along with Baghdad and Anbar province, with insurgents shifting their operations into the area.
The Diyala attack has jolted the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where all the dead and wounded soldiers are based, according to the U.S. military.
A Fort Bragg spokesman, Maj. Tom Earnhardt, said the Diyala attack is "the worst incident we've had in the whole global war on terrorism."
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