Tuesday, March 25, 2008
BT phone customer kept waiting 20 hours Notme
When 51 year old Hannah King called the British Telecom's customer helpline, wondering why the engineer scheduled to install a new phone line failed to arrive, she wasn't expected to be put on hold for 20 hours.Grandmother of seven children, said: "I'm so angry I've been crying. My children are worried for me."The first time she dialed the 0800 number from her cell phone she had to endure for eight hours in a row the sound of piped music. The next day she called again, but was still unable to speak to an operator so she left the landline on hold & and drove to Newport to visit her children.She visited her doctor for a routine appointment, but during the consultation Hannah burst into tears and her doctor was so concerned that he prescribed her sedative Diazepam to relieve tension and anxiety.When she returned home the phone was still on hold. The next day she tried again as well but no reaction from BT.BT declared Saturday that the problem was caused by a "new customer management system."The group said in an official statement: "We sincerely apologise for any temporary problems customers may have experienced, and are working around the clock to improve the situation."
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070818/tod-britain-offbeat-telecom-company-bt-6058bda_1.html
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BT phone customer kept waiting 20 hours Notme
When 51 year old Hannah King called the British Telecom's customer helpline, wondering why the engineer scheduled to install a new phone line failed to arrive, she wasn't expected to be put on hold for 20 hours.Grandmother of seven children, said: "I'm so angry I've been crying. My children are worried for me."The first time she dialed the 0800 number from her cell phone she had to endure for eight hours in a row the sound of piped music. The next day she called again, but was still unable to speak to an operator so she left the landline on hold & and drove to Newport to visit her children.She visited her doctor for a routine appointment, but during the consultation Hannah burst into tears and her doctor was so concerned that he prescribed her sedative Diazepam to relieve tension and anxiety.When she returned home the phone was still on hold. The next day she tried again as well but no reaction from BT.BT declared Saturday that the problem was caused by a "new customer management system."The group said in an official statement: "We sincerely apologise for any temporary problems customers may have experienced, and are working around the clock to improve the situation."
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070818/tod-britain-offbeat-telecom-company-bt-6058bda_1.html
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Helmsley's dog gets $12 million in will Notme
Trouble is a lucky name after all. The white Maltese of the late Leona Helmsley inherited 12 million dollars, according to court documents made public in New York on Tuesday.She also wrote in her will "I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum." She also ordered that the mausoleum must be "washed or steam-cleaned at least once a year." She left $3 million for the upkeep.The fluffy pet overcame other grandchildren, two of Jay Panzirer's other children Craig and Meegan Panzirer, that got nothing for "reasons that are known to them," she wrote.Her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, was also left millions - on condition that he cares for Trouble in Helmsley's absence.Two of the billionaire's four grandchildren from her late son, Jay Panzirer, were left $5 million each, but only on condition they visit their father's grave once each calendar year.The chauffer, Nicholas Celea, was left with $100,000.Living a life full of opulence and greed, Leona Helmsley was named the "Queen of Mean", after she was charged in 1988 with tax evasion and subsequently being convicted. But her white Maltese surely doesn't consider her late owner as being mean.After her husband's death in 1997, she inherited $1.7 billion and a property empire that still controlled much of the Manhattan skyline.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Number one
by Lenka Lehenova
If you are excellent at school, you are number one. If you win some races, you are the first and number one. So if you are the best, you are just "the number one". Everybody wants to be number one. We would be happy if others called us "number one" or "hey, the best" or just "the one". It is really nice image but it is only dream. I don't think that people's envy would allow it but if you really want to be "number one" and you aren't brilliant sportsman or scientist you can just put this number on a place where everybody can see it. Where? You have a lot of possibilities. For example you can draw number one on your house or put it on your close. Yes, I know that everybody can do this and it isn't special!Do you want to be unique? O.k., no problem! Everything what you need is only 14 million dollars. Then you can buy automobile license plate with nothing only with the number "1". Do you think that it is very expensive and nobody would buy it? So you are wrong because somebody just bought it in United Arab Emirates. His name is Saeed Khouri, a member of a wealthy Abu Dhabi family and he bought it for a record price at a charity auction on Saturday. The reason why he bought it is that it is the best number and he wants to be the best in the world. There are no Arabic numerals and no letters, just only "1". Now he can drive by his car and all people will know him because of his "1". There is very popular to write on your license plate what you want for example some name or numbers. It is quite expensive but the record sale 14 million dollars surpassed also the 6.8 million dollars that was paid for an Emirati license plate at an auction with the number 5 on it. If you want to own a car with special number today you can. You just need money. Saeed Khouri is number one now not only because of "1" but also because he helped the people who need it. Proceeds from auction go to rehabilitation center for victims of traffic accidents.
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Unwanted hats and shirts
by Claudia Sonea
It has been a while since the American football team, New England Patriots (commonly called the "Pats" by sports writers and fans) has lost the latest Super Bowl disappointing millions of fans. They became in 2007 the fourth team in NFL history to complete a perfect regular season before being defeated by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII. There is a saying "one man's loss, other man's gain" and it has never been more real than now when all the shirts and caps proclaiming the victory of the New England Patriots have ended up in the hands of poor Nicaraguan children who were more than grateful. For them it was the nicest present ever and like Miriam Diaz, of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization, said it they are the winners. Luckily for them hundreds of shirts and caps, which had been manufactured in advance to celebrate the Patriots' expected victory over the New York Giants (and other garments are produced in advance so players and fans can put them on to celebrate immediately after the final whistle of the game) were given to the children in the southern city of Diriamba. World Vision has a strong bond with National Football League, or NFL, and every year helps out poor children in Latin America and Africa with the unwanted "winners" shirts of the team that actually loses the Super Bowl. It doesn't sound pretty good for them, but they are enjoying even the smallest thing. Somehow the bitter taste of such actions doesn't encourage me to cheer their action, but it is better than nothing. Wouldn't you say so?
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Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: Finding Miko
by Claudia Sonea
Animals are born with the instinct of survival, no matter if they are house animals or from wilderness. After a fire broke down in December at a house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a black and white cat disappeared. Its owner searched it long time after the incident, but unfortunately there was no trace of the cat. However, two weeks ago an animal shelter in Pueblo, Colorado, gave a call to the owner saying that the cat is with them. The main character of the story, the missing cat Miko, was probably scared and searching for a warm shelter hopped a tractor-trailer and rode it to Colorado that is some 240 miles away from its owner. Driven by the spirit of survival, Miko fled the house on fire and went looking for a protection. Animals never seize to amaze me, nor the technology. Lately there has been a trend in introducing a microchip in the pet's neck in order to have something to be identified if the collar is lost. Thus luckily for Miko who lost her collar, the shelter officials scanned the microchip in her neck and came up with her owner's name. All is well, when it ends well. An important thing we must learn from this story, besides the fact that animals have a very developed sense of survival, is that we need technology in so many areas that it has become a necessary evil. Don't hesitate in buying a microchip for your beloved pet, it assures a constant way to locate it. Bravo to Miko and the happy owner.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080218/ap_on_fe_st/cat_travels;_ylt=Aktw0xLskPLgW2vMpkMJOW.s0NUE
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Too much noise in Saint-Tropez
by Ana Maria Ciobanu
Jet setters in Saint-Tropez may be forced to stay on the ground after French authorities limited helicopter flights responding this way to a lot of complaints about the noise.Francoise Souliman, an official in the regional administrative centre of Draguignan said the decision to close the helipad accounting for about 30 percent of helicopter traffic to Saint-Tropez came after abuses of an agreement to limit flights.Saint-Tropez is a magnet for movie stars and rich status-conscious people and it has been this way since the 1950s when stars like Brigitte Bardot discovered it.Helicopters are a great way to avoid the traffic jams there and also a fast and comfortable way to get to other villages and marinas along the coast.Francoise Souliman stated: "There's a shocking noise at all times of the day and they're quite often flying over the marinas at Gassin so you've got helicopters flying very low."Last year a voluntary agreement authorized 1,200 flight movements a year and set some limits at certain times of the day. Around 5,000 flights were registered between June and August 2006, according to Francoise Souliman
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Crocodiles, cobras found in Saudi's luggage
by Notme dfsfs
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Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: The Pants Judge strikes again
by Corina Ciubotaru
America is a fine country where anybody can sue someone else over just about everything. For instance, a judge from Washington found it important to file a lawsuit against a dry cleaning company which, he claims, lost his pants. The more surprising aspect is that he has filed the appeal for $54 million and he intends to prove he means business. He took his trousers for an alteration and demanded $1,150 at first, when the people at the store said they couldn't find them. A few days later, the pants were located but Judge Pearson claimed those weren't his pants, and so the nightmare began for the owners of Custom Cleaners, the Chung family. Their legal fees were paid for by the sympathetic public, and this just goes to show that even regular people, though accustomed to bizarre lawsuits, admit this is a bit out of line. Judge Pearson requested money for every day the sign saying "satisfaction guaranteed" has hung above the cleaners' entrance, claiming the sign was a lie, and when the judge hearing the case dismissed it, there was no other choice but to file an appeal. The Chung family tried to end the whole thing by asking Mr. Pearson nicely to give it up, not demanding that he pay for their legal fees as well; the judge refused. Now, his job is also in danger. His term ended this year and a commission will decide next month if they grant him a full 10-year term. This is unlikely, as they have already sent Mr. Pearson a letter informing him that he might not be reappointed.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: The Dog Fashion
by Kamila Moravcikova
My neighbor used to have a tiny little dog. And she used to dress up that poor dog in really strange clothes as she thought her little pal looked cute. She wanted to be different and all those dog outfits were just results of her effort to be considered stylish and modern. Dog & she called him Little Peter - never expressed his opinion or feelings, he was just awkwardly jigging and following his owner, apparently trying no to lose the last bites of his dog self-esteem in loud pink dog jacket and moving as fast as it was possible in that uncomfortable suit. Maybe that's why the thing of dressing little dog pet into human clothes always seemed strange to me. I was confident about the fact that dogs were made to be dogs, that they had fur for some good reason and as we & humans & don't have any, we have to protect ourselves by putting on the clothes. But have you ever seen any dog looking into your eyes with begging stare that was clearly saying something like "please, I have to have that shoes, please, can I have them?"Actually, I just realized that dressing the dogs up isn't only the case of lonely older ladies or fashion victims, this trend has also hit the German police. They decided that their dogs need shoes! So the police dogs in Dusseldorf are going to get brand new shoes in police colors (available in three different sizes). But the Germans have good reason for this & they want to protect their dogs from injuring their pads as they sometimes have to walk on broken glass and they got hurt often. Well, this seems to be a good idea. Hopefully, they're not gonna get the whole police uniform anytime soon.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: There"s a new cat in town
by Claudia Sonea
Prime ministerial house has a cat again. The last famous cat was Humphrey, named after Sir Humphrey Appleby in the "Yes Minister" political comedy show. He died in March 2006, but everyone remembers how he came as a stray cat during the late premiership of Margaret Thatcher in 1989. During the John Major years he lived as a passive Conservative, but six months after Tony Blair came to power, he was no longer in the picture. Most of the people think Cherie, Blair's wife, is responsible for everything. Now, watch out everyone, there's a new cat in town and she's a beauty. Her name is Sybil after Basil's wife in the classic 1970s sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Despite the fact that she is sharing a thespian name with her predecessor, she is different by the fact that she comes with a family and not with the house. So the lucky owners are the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his wife Sarah and their two sons. Much of the details still remain a secret, but the truth is that she's not the first cat at Downing Street, that spot is already taken by none other than Wilberforce who came with Edward Heath and died in 1988. Who knew that behind every British prime minister there's cat standing and yawning? Hei kitty, kitty what secrets do you hide under your fur? Don't go away!she's about to tell.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070911/od_nm/britain_cat_odd_dc;_ylt=ApJSk3InS7qXgooXV3.mTx6s0NUE
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British couple's 22-year motel stop
by Notme dfsfs
A British couple spent more than £100,000 living in motels for 22 years although they had a flat in Sheffield.David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70 first tried out a Travelodge hotel in 1985 when they visited a sick aunt and they stayed at Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.They also stayed in one on the A1 at Newark, Nottinghamshire while they were visiting another relative, soon afterwards they moved in.The couple became permanently guest at Gonerby Moor Travelodge in July 1997, but they do return to their flat once a fortnight for mail.David Davidson, former Royal Navy sailor said: "We get great rates because we book well in advance and we even have our own personal housekeeper. All our bed linen is laundered, too. It doesn't get much better than that, does it?" They book with 12 months in advance and by doing so they get the cheapest rates, paying an average of £90 a week, that includes bills for heating, electricity and laundry.Officials of Travelodge will honor their most loyal guest by naming their room The Davidsons' Suite and mounting a plaque in the reception area to mark their 10th anniversary."We know Travelodge has really loyal customers throughout the UK but the Davidsons are unique - they've literally made a Travelodge into their home," said Paul Anstey, Travelodge's director of operations for the north.
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Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: Fate of the record ball is in the public hands
by Nina Gotzmannova
It's the most famous baseball ball in the world. First 42-year old San Francisco Giants player Barry Bonds hit it and broke all-time Major League home run record, then it was sold for unbelievable price $752,467 and now can people vote and decide what to do with it. The new owner, fashion designer Marc Ecko, has created a website www.vote756.com, where people can submit their votes. Options to choose from are three, send the ball to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y., mark it with a star or send it up straight to space. Any of these conceits has its own meanings. The Hall of Fame is no strange place for Barry Bonds or any of his possessions. His father was the former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, his godfather was Hall of Famer Willie Mays and his distant cousin is another Hall of Famer, Reggie Jackson. The ball will perfectly suit there, because Bonds got over the record of Hank Aaron's 755 homeruns. The second idea about marking the ball is less than positive. In 2003 Bonds was mixed up with BALCO affair, although he passed all steroid tests and the usage of performance-enhancing drugs has never been confirmed. According to Ecko's website "the idea that some of the best athletes in the country are forced to decide between being competitive and staying natural is troubling". Third idea is similar to second. Blasting the ball into space will dispose it. "Out of sight, out of mind", wrote Ecko. The voting will end September 25 on 11.59 PM. Ecko will reveal the result, number of votes and the final destiny of the ball afterwards. Unfortunately, the website doesn't contain the running results, so the final decision will be surprise for everyone.
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Suing God
by Claudia Sonea
Did God failed in answering your pray lately? Don't worry if He refuses to do the exact things that you want or give you the sum of money you need, because now you can sue Him. At least that is what Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers proved us after he actually did it last week. The reason was according to him the desire to make a point that anyone can file a lawsuit against anybody. The allegations he brought were that the Almighty made terrorist threats against the senator and his constituents, inoculated fear and caused worldwide death, destruction and terrorization of billions of the Earth's inhabitants. Senator Omaha supports his colleague and accuses God for the floods and hurricanes that killed a huge number of people. The entire comedy was started by another absurd lawsuit. Tory Bowen, sued Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront prohibited words such as "rape" and "victim" from a sexual assault trial where she was the accuser. She says that her free speech rights have been broken, but we may deduct that the real reason is judge's decision to declare a mistrial in the sexual assault trial because it was impossible to find sufficient evidence. Chamber calls the allegations as being inappropriate due to the fact that the Nebraska Supreme Court has already took a decision regarding the case and federal courts follow the decisions of state supreme courts on state matters. He said that his case has more solid grounds and proves that lately it has become too easy to sue someone. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf states that they are investigating if Bowen's case has legal basis and if not she and her attorneys will be sanctioned. So if you feel like you have nothing else better to do, just go and file a lawsuit, but first check out to see if you have or not legal grounds. Stay connected!
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'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria
by Notme dfsfs
After the mysterious meteorite crashed near the Peruvian town of Carancas, a populated highland wilderness near Lake Titicaca on the border with Bolivia, almost 600 people have presented symptoms like nausea, headaches and sore throats. Soon mass hysteria was created around the meteorite after people reported that the meteorite emanated noxious gases."Those who say they are affected are the product of a collective psychosis," Jorge Lopez Tejada, health department chief in Puno, the nearest city, told the Los Angeles Times.According to geologist there is no prove that the meteorite could cause the noxious fumes, and even the fact that it may not be a meteorite is still to discuss.According to witnesses, the ground was rapidly filled with ground water after impact and started to boil. Peter Schultz, a scientist from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. said that the crater looks like it was made in a water saturated soil. The meteor fragments that were found are described as being "fine grained, light grey, fragile rock material, with disseminated iron particles of one millimeter diameter."The exaggerate hysteria made amid the meteorite might seem to be a scenario from the famous novel in 1969 "Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton, where the main idea was that a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill."The Peruvian event seems to be a rare case where we may be witnessing collective anxiety that is approaching near hysteria," said Benny Peiser, a social anthropologist at John Moores University in England.
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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Prize for preventing bar fights
by Nina Gotzmannova
People like to compete, but what they like more, is winning and receiving prizes. Some awards are really prestigious and thousand of people are waiting with their breath held to know the results, another is famous, but not popular. There is no one who had never heard about Nobel Prize or Oscars, but who has ever heard about the Stockholm Prize in Criminology?This award maybe sounds absurd, but has more meaning than the famous Darwin Prize. The holders of Darwin Prize are usually lifeless and they deserve the prize because they were so stupid they are dead now, but Stockholm Prize in Criminology is the exact opposite. The awarded scientists or professors dedicated their research to prevent people to accidentally (or by purpose) harm each other.The 2008 Stockholm Prize in Criminology was awarded on 19 September to two scientists. The first one is British professor Jonathan Shepherd. A face surgeon from Cardiff sacrifices himself and spent uncountable amount of hours in different bars, just to finish his research into bar fights and how to prevent injuries from broken glass. His delightful time in pubs across the country led to the award and may be good advice for all bar fighters and fast-drinkers, who often loses control but don't want to explain their wives how the wounds on their cheeks face were made.Professor Shepherd share the prize with US professor David Olds from University of Colorado, who's work was less more dangerous. Instead of sitting in a pub professor Olds developed methods how to prevent child abuse. The effort of both scientists fetch them $ 150.000 which they will share. This was the third time the prize was administrated. Stockholm Prize in Criminology was announced by Swedish Minister of Justice in 2005 and since the eleven-headed jury of criminologists decides whose research is the best. Every year are awarded two scientists.
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070919/tod-sweden-crime-prize-research-britain-f62056d_1.html
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Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: 7 years marriage bid
by Claudia Sonea
Most absurd and contradictory, Gabriele Pauli, Bavaria's most glamorous politician, stated for the Reuters that marriage should be like a driving license. It should last no more than seven years and after that period if they want they can extend it or let it be automatically dissolved. She explained everything saying that the traditional view only inspires the couple the sense of security and that it is why such a law should be promulgated. Moreover, Peter Ramsauer, head of the CSU in Germany's parliament and former state premier Edmund Stoiber, accused her of smallness in thinking and she's arguing their Christian believes, according to European lawmaker Ingo Freidrich. She used this to accuse Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) - sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), for promoting traditional family values and utopist ideals about marriage. They are wrong because the holy institution of marriage cannot be regarded nor as a driving license, nor like a must. People should marry only if they are sure they can love and cherish the person next to her/him, no matter of the flaws. So they can wait to see what happens after; there are nu assurances that it will work. For Pauli it is obvious that marriage is not that good, twice divorced and at the age of 50 years old it's not easy anymore. Despite her age she has a lot of energy and stirs rumors by posing for a magazine, wearing long black latex gloves, shaking up her male-dominated and mainly Catholic party. For the leadership of CSU she has no real chances, mainly in front oh the Bavarian state economy minister Erwin Huber and German Consumer Minister Horst Seehofer. What will happen next? Stay connected.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/od_nm/germany_politics_marriage1_dc;_ylt=An0IK11WwfQX4Us1pt3eqmys0NUE
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Edited by: Katarina Bosanska
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Missed call, huh?
by Claudia Sonea
Well I guess that no matter where you are from, you have a name for when someone calls and hung up a half-second later without giving you the opportunity to answer. In Romania we call it beep, like in other parts of Africa, but there it is used also flash. In Sudan it's simply a missed call, while in Ethiopia it is miskin or pitiful call. The one that I like it is the French bipage. It's widely practiced and the booming mobile market faces with this phenomenon that it's growing fast from which mobile operators had not yet find a solution to get money. However, cell phones networks owners introduced programs like Orange Senegal who according to Kofiloto, Informa principal analyst, allows customers to send a 'Rappelle moi' ('Call me back') when their phone credit is below $0.10 (5 pence). With Safaricom Kenya, it is a 'Flashback 130' (limited to five a day - and with the slogan 'Stop Flashing! Ask Nicely'). Vodacom DR Congo's 'Rappelez moi SVP' service costs $0.01 a message. In the online Journal of Computer Mediated Communication will be published a study of this phenomenon written by Jonathan Donner, an India-based researcher for Microsoft who first discovered the flashing calls in Rwanda. And it shows among others that 20 to 30 percents of the calls made in Africa are half a second flashes. U.N. International Telecommunication Union showed that from 25.2 millions mobile users the figures showed an increase to 192.5 million mobile phone users in 2006. The missed calls also bother due to technical reasons, because according to Faisal Ijaz Khan, chief marketing officer for the Sudanese arm of Kuwaiti mobile phone operator Zain (formerly MTC) there are 355 million calls across the whole network every day in Africa and that might lead to the a network swamp. The reasons for giving a beep are numerous, generally it's because the user ran out of credit, or because you want to let the person next to you know that you were thinking of her/him or because it's a pre-established code. Cameroonian researchers Victor W.A. Mbarika and Irene Mbarika invented the name the booty call to express the beep followed by the message call me now. Will the mobile phone owners find a way of charging the missed calls? Stay connected and find out.
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070927/tod-uk-africa-beeping-cb1d00a_1.html
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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Apel pierdut, huh?
by Claudia Sonea
Cred ca indifferent de locul de provenienta, ai o denumire pentru atunci cand cineva te suna si o jumatate de sacunda mai tarziu inchide, ne oferindu-ti posibilitatea de a raspunde. In Romania ii spunem beep, la fel ca in unele parti din Africa, dar acolo de mai foloseste si flash. In Sudan se numeste simplu apel pierdut, in vreme ce in Etiopia i-se spune miskin sau pitiful. Cel mai multi mi place frantuzescul bipage. Este practicat peste tot in lume si piata de celulare in continua crestere se confrunta cu fenomenul care se extinde rapid si din care operatorii telefoanelor mobile nu au reusit sa gaseasca solutii pentru a face bani. Oricum, proprietarii retelelor de telefonie mobile au introdus programe ca Orange Senegal, care conform lui Kofiloto, analist principal la Informa, permit clientilor sa trimita un mesaj prestabilit precum Rappelle moi (suna-ma inapoi) cand creditul lor e mai mic de $0.10 (5 pence). Cu Safaricom Kenya, programul Flashback 130' (limitat la 5 apeluri pe zi si cu sloganul 'Incetati beepuitul! Cereti frumos'. DR Congo's 'Rappelez moi SVP' service costa $0.01 mesajulIn revista online Journal of Computer Mediated Communication va fi publicat un studio pe acest fenomen scris de Jonathan Donner, un cercetator al Microsoft cu sediul in India, care a descoperit pentru peima data apelurile pierdute in Rwanda. SI arata printre altele ca 20 si pana la 30 de procente din apelurile facute cu jumatate de secunda. International Telecommunication Union al Natiunilor Unite arata ca de la 25.2 milioane de detinatori de celulare in 2005, cifrele indica o crestere de pana la 192.5 milioane in 2006. Apelurile pierdute deranjeaza si din motive tehnice, deoarece spune Faisal Ijaz Khan, seful de marketing de la biroul pentru Sudan al operatorului telefonic sl Kuwaitului, Zain, spune sunt 355 milioane de apeluri pierdute de-a lungul retelei in fiecare zi in Africa si asta ar putea conduce la o impotmolire a retelei. Motivele pentru a da beepuri sunt numeroase, in general pentru ca utilizatorii nu mai au credit, sau pentru vor ca persoana iubita sa stie ca se gandeste la ea sau pentru ca este un cod pre-stabilit. Cercetatorii camerunezi Victor W.A. Mbarika si Irene Mbarika au inventat numele de booty call pentru beepul urmat de mesajul suna-ma acum. Vor gasi oare proprietarii de telefonie mobile o metoda de a taxa apelurile pierdute? Stati conectati si veti afla.
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070927/tod-uk-africa-beeping-cb1d00a_1.html
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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Heil Sudoku
by Claudia Sonea
Trying to kill your boredom? Do you want something entertaining to do during your flight or bus trip? Well don't worry, now you have Sudoku, a logic-based number placement puzzle. It's easy to play; you just have to fill a 9Ø9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3Ø3 boxes contains numbers from 1 to 9 only once. Now take one and give it a try. For its existence we thank Howard Garns, an American architect, while for its name we thank Nikoli, Japanese who published it in 1986 under this name that means single number. Beyond this petty commercial, the truth is that many people enjoy it and it's a worldwide hit since 2005. Furthermore, there are even competitions and the prizes are not negligible. The first US championship was on Saturday in Philadelphia and gathered more than 800 people from far distances like California and British Columbia. Many US newspapers use it since The Times of London began popularizing it in 2004. According to a Philadelphia Inquirer survey more than 56 percent of Americans have played this game. The winner, Thomas Snyder, is 27 years-old and a postdoctoral student of bioengineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and a Harvard University PhD. in chemistry. He succeeded to complete the advanced section in seven minutes and eight seconds; that is 3 minutes before his nearest rival. He returned home with $10000 in his pocket and with the desire to defend his world title in India next year. Although he played this game as a hobby, he now looks at it like at something meaningful. However, not everyone came for winning the prize; some came for the sake of the game like Alicia Leshner, 46, an intensive care nurse from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania or Jennifer Maienza, 49, a kindergarten teacher from Laurel Springs, New Jersey. All the 857 contest sat for 30 minutes in silence, while other 300 people watched them filling three rounds of Sudoku. Jay Devine, a spokesman of the event, said they did not expect so many people to attend and this game reunites people of all ages. Try it, who knows you might even like it.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071020/us_nm/usa_sudoku_dc;_ylt=AhbamOZEsoZrdvsTkltx9oCs0NUE
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Posted by: Jana Kalicka
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Heil Sudoku
by Claudia Sonea
Trying to kill your boredom? Do you want something entertaining to do during your flight or bus trip? Well don't worry, now you have Sudoku, a logic-based number placement puzzle. It's easy to play; you just have to fill a 9Ø9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3Ø3 boxes contains numbers from 1 to 9 only once. Now take one and give it a try. For its existence we thank Howard Garns, an American architect, while for its name we thank Nikoli, Japanese who published it in 1986 under this name that means single number. Beyond this petty commercial, the truth is that many people enjoy it and it's a worldwide hit since 2005. Furthermore, there are even competitions and the prizes are not negligible. The first US championship was on Saturday in Philadelphia and gathered more than 800 people from far distances like California and British Columbia. Many US newspapers use it since The Times of London began popularizing it in 2004. According to a Philadelphia Inquirer survey more than 56 percent of Americans have played this game. The winner, Thomas Snyder, is 27 years-old and a postdoctoral student of bioengineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and a Harvard University PhD. in chemistry. He succeeded to complete the advanced section in seven minutes and eight seconds; that is 3 minutes before his nearest rival. He returned home with $10000 in his pocket and with the desire to defend his world title in India next year. Although he played this game as a hobby, he now looks at it like at something meaningful. However, not everyone came for winning the prize; some came for the sake of the game like Alicia Leshner, 46, an intensive care nurse from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania or Jennifer Maienza, 49, a kindergarten teacher from Laurel Springs, New Jersey. All the 857 contest sat for 30 minutes in silence, while other 300 people watched them filling three rounds of Sudoku. Jay Devine, a spokesman of the event, said they did not expect so many people to attend and this game reunites people of all ages. Try it, who knows you might even like it.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071020/us_nm/usa_sudoku_dc;_ylt=AhbamOZEsoZrdvsTkltx9oCs0NUE
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Posted by: Jana Kalicka
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Christmas forever
by Claudia Sonea
Everyone heard about holiday madness, but few would have thought that a single holiday could actually make someone fanatic. Cindy Johnson from Lyndon Township declares herself an ornament addicted and a Christmas junkie and not without reason. She has 42 Christmas trees and she deck the halls with all of them. The story starts back in 1975, when some of us have not seen the light of day yet, so it has quite a history. Because there wasn't any more room on her Christmas tree for ornaments, she decided to buy another one, than another one and she did not stopped until she made a collection of 42. Of course some of them were given by people that bought a new one and now she has a collection called by her the Charlie Brown trees. As a sentimental collector, Cindy remembers where she got every ornament and that means a lot due to the fact that she has owns 2,000 Hallmark ornaments and 500 "generic" ornaments. Still, she doesn't want to stop and she loves the hunt for new ornaments every single winter season starting with Dayspring Gifts in downtown Chelsea from where she intends to acquire this year 100 more. Each of the ranch rooms is decorated with the exception of one bathroom, while each tree has a theme, which could be Winnie-the-Pooh or romance or cartoon characters. Furthermore, each ornament is carefully wrapped in its own box. So many "each" makes you think that it must be a tiring process when the Christmas passes to start packing up. The pride of the collection is a 7.5 feet high tree sitting in the family room and the smallest tree has 6 inches, but he's been looked after and Cindy bought its own tiny ornaments. She sees them as her children and she talks about them exactly like others would speak about theirs, therefore she finds it difficult to say which she likes the most. It's a nice hobby and it's lovely. Because she is such a Christmas lover, we wish that Santa bring her the desired present: the rare 1982 Hallmark Frosty Friends ornament. Merry Christmas, ho, ho, ho!
related story: http://www.mlive.com/holidays/index.ssf/2007/12/christmas_trees.html
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Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
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Teenagers and their "toys"
by Barbora Misakova
Police in Warsaw, Poland, couldn't believe their eyes. They had to arrest one 14-year-old teenager who tried to derail city trams in Lodz. The most serious on the whole situation was fact that this boy used homemade device which made all by himself!He tried to switch tram tracks from distance using infra-red and remote-control and caused that three times were these tracks really switched and once even the tram jumped the tracks. As polish officers found this device in suspect's home he will be probably indicted from others derailments in Lodz.Boy couldn't do anything else than to confess and take his responsibility for problems he caused to polish tram depots and now he is placed in a detention centre for juvenile delinquents. But he was the only teenager who tried similar dangerous things and caused problems. There are also other cases.Children are still more and more active, and in these days most of them is just bored by playing PC games or watching television. They want more action! And that's why many of them are just entertaining themselves by making various devices which in many cases hurt someone. It is also no problem to find instructs how to build up similar "inventions".There were many stories about how teenage boy made for example a bomb & just like one 16-year-old boy from Holland who just didn't want to go to school and that's why he threatened to let the school explode. Sometimes also happens that some child just calls to the school and says there is a bomb. Children are more and more shifty. That's why parents should be careful and should talk to their children not just to know them better but also to educate them and show them there are better ways how to play and entertain themselves!
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080109/tod-poland-accident-offbeat-7f81b96_1.html
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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Chris Cantell Discusses Odd News: Word of the year
by Claudia Sonea
Humanity is obsessed with words and why wouldn't it be? After all, we communicate through words, not only expressing opinions, but also revealing ourselves. Therefore there should be a contest that awards the favorite word of people. Well, now it is. The Macquarie dictionary, Australia's top dictionary, started a poll for readers to vote for their favourite new word in the latest annually updated online volume, offering a total of 85 words or phrases in 17 categories which are not specifically Australian, but reflect global trends in fields such as technology, health and the social scene. Some of the new words created as a result of expansion, intercommunication and worldwide technology development, are cyberathlete (a professional player of computer games), digital native (a person who grows up using digital media and communications systems, and thus has complete familiarity with them), globesity (the frightening phenomenon of fatness spread all over the world), which generated the words slummy mummy (mothers of young children who have abandoned all care for their personal appearance) or yummy mummy, tanorexia (an obsessive desire to have tanned skin, placing the sufferer at risk of skin cancer), manscaping (a grooming procedure in which hair is shaved or trimmed from a man's body, as from the back, legs, chest), etc. The fast pace of technology generated words like password fatigue that means a level of frustration reached by having too many different passwords to remember exposing the computer slave to data smog (electronic information as by emails, internet searches, etc., which, by its volume, impairs performance and increases stress). The voting takes place in the last weeks of January and at the beginning of February, the winner will be announced. Don't waste any more time, your word might be the lucky one. In any case you'll have a blast just reading the terms and their definitions. Recommended to those suffering of password fatigue as a way of relaxation. Enjoy!
related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080110/tod-australia-language-internet-offbeat-37b0eca_1.html
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These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.
Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Painting from trash worth $ 1 million
by Nina Gotzmannova
Supermodels are famous for habit going to second hand or thrift stores and buying designer goods for ridiculously low price. This way of spending money is not reserved only for those with too much of free cash and free time. In a second hand anyone can find quality goodies for a good price. But something else is to find something valuable in the street. Often people dispose old furniture if they don't like it anymore, and hope someone else will pick it up and keep it. But those things are never valuable.Until came this year. A painting, that was found in trash in New York, is a valuable lost treasure from the author Rufino Tamajo and it's worthy almost a whole million dollars. The founder, Elizabeth Gibson, has found the artwork probably four years ago and kept is as a nice wall decoration. But she saw the painting in a website and realized that the beautiful huge painting is actually a lost property and can cost lot of money.Gibson decided to return the painting to its previous owners, which had been missing the painting for 20 years. She received a $15,000 reward, but this sum of money is nothing in comparison with the actual price of the artwork. According to Sotheby's experts the painting can make up to $ 1 million in the auction next month. But thanks to this uncommon story the price may fly to an unexpected high and the new owner will not only have a wall decoration, but an interesting story behind it.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/od_nm/stolen_sothebys_dc;_ylt=AqrTTvNHPDenjQMQLRgTSnys0NUE
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Posted by: Jana Kalicka
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Missing a glove?
by Daniela Simkova
Jennifer Gooch, originally from Texas, founded a virtual "lost and finds" for gloves. This nice idea came onto her mind as she was in Pittsburgh during the snowy winter. Jennifer could not believe why there are so many gloves on the street and nobody cares for them. Nobody misses the other half of the glove pair. Jennifer Gooch then started onecoldhand.com web page in desire to get all the gloves reunited. But when she found a glove laying on the campus of her University, she was not sure if to pick it up. Somebody could come and look for his lost glove mate. So Jennifer developed a sticker method of letting people know where they can find their missing gloves. As Jennifer picked up the lost glove, she put the sticker on its place, with a note: "Missing a glove? onecoldhand.com.""It's kind of whimsical and bittersweet, It makes you feel there's this opportunity for benevolence," Jennifer expressed her attitude for the onecoldhand.com. She would like to spread One Cold Hand project to other cities. She is working in collaboration with two women who try to set up and run the onecoldhand-nyc.com in New York. Jennifer Gooch did not reunited any of the gloves she found, but she is still hoping. She said: "If I have one person find their glove, then the entire thing is totally worth it."
| by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
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These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.
Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
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Che Guevara memorabilia were bought by a bookstore owner
by Corina Ciubotaru
After 40 years from his death, some of Che Guevara's hair was sold at an auction along with other memorabilia, for $119,500. The package contained fingerprints, a lock of hair and death photographs and belonged to a former CIA agent, Cuban-born Gustavo Villoldo. He claims to have cut the piece of hair before burying his body in a hole on an airstrip and denies Fidel Castro's claim that the body was in Cuba. Guevara was Castro's most trusted ally during the revolution in 1959 and was killed by gunshot injuries on October 8th 1967 in Bolivia. Villoldo said he took the fingerprints, lock of hair and photos to prove the mission to kill Che was a success and that he was a murderer, not the revolutionary icon he was turned into by popular stories. Though an unusual yet interesting item, there was only one bidder for the lot, a 61 year old man who runs a bookstore near Houston, and who placed the bid by telephone; some media speculated that even Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's leftist President was interested in owning the package, but he has not placed any bids. The final buyer, Bill Butler, says he plans to display the memorabilia in his bookstore; there is no scientific proof that the hair actually belonged to the revolutionary Argentinian, but the auction house guarantees its authenticity. The Heritage auction house from Dallas took extra security protection after Guevara's family publicly stated they were disappointed someone would try to make profit from his death.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_fe_st/che_auction;_ylt=Agfqh1K0Uizhxh_pc6jK4lKs0NUE
| by Corina Ciubotaru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
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Posted by: Jana Kalicka
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Missing canoeist walks into a police station
by Daniela Simkova
Mr. John Darwin, a canoeist who got lost in 2002, walked into a police station in London. A man, whom everybody considered dead, is alive and we can assume he enjoys the freedom with his family. "Mr Darwin is fit and well and relatives have been informed of his whereabouts. It is not known at this time where he has spent the last five-and-a-half years," said a police spokesman. An expansive search in 2002 of all police officers presented at that time, even the coastguards headed into failure. They searched from Hartlepool coast to Staithes with no result of the search. Mr. John Darwin seemed "untraceable". "People die, have a funeral, they have a headstone, there is something to mark the fact they existed on this earth. But without a body, I don't know how we can mark John's life," was a reaction of Mr. John's wife Anne Darwin. "All I want is to bury his body. It would enable me to move on. It's difficult to grieve without bringing things to a close, but as it is I'm in limbo and there's nothing I can do." Mrs. Darwin's sadness was of great extend, she needed to have at least something that would help her to move on.Today is the end of this nightmare for both, Anne and John. They can live in harmony once again.
| by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.
Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
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An UFO viewed in Texas last week
by Ivana Bruderova
Every month about 200 sights of UFO are reported in America. The most of them in California, Colorado and Texas. Usually seen by one or only few people is marked as a concoction and soon being forgotten.The last UFO report from Stephenville,Texas differ with the fact, several dozens people claim they saw an flying object which looked like nothing they have ever seen before. They describe it as a large silent object,mile long, about half a mile wide with bright lights flying low and fast. The lights were changing configuration and some of them believe it was chased by fighter jets. In the same time mechanist Ricky Sorrell saw similar flying object in Dublin. He said he observed it several times. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something because it means I'm not crazy." continued Ricky.UFO was noticed during several weeks with several tens of people in several countries. They all describe it so alike. Very often the flying aircrafts are considered to be an UFO in the night, but the witnesses are sure the aircraft make much more noise as this object did . Mjr. Karl Lewis, spokesman of 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Forth Worth said no aircraft from his base was in this area at the January 8 when most of people reported UFO. But in his opinion it could be two commercial aircrafts and the sun rays during the sun set caused the lights seemed unusually bright. This case is still investigated with organizations dealing with UFO and no official statement have been issued yet.
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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova
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Bonnie and Clyde of 21st century
by Romana Schlesingerova
Killing duo, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are now a romantic legend, two people, who`s love had been interrupted by bad police guys. According to the famous movie, (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) it was an elegant couple, possessing a perfect image, fast cars and automatic guns. Just like two innocent turtle-doves, who meet up the crime scene by mistake and finally killed about 20 people. The couple met in 1930. Bonnie immediately dropped off her boring job of a waitress and begun to enjoy the life full of adventures in the gang of her new lover. Their carrier was turbulent, but at the end of the day not very profitable- thefts, bank robberies and gas station burglaries, brought them around 2000 dollar, which was a very funny income at that time. They were permanently on the run, slept over in wooden dwellings or car, which makes the elegant wardrobe from the movie only a magic film trick. To count all their crimes is impossible; they didn't have a plan in many cases and shoot after everyone. Their hate of police was bestial and after killing 9 policemen, the couple became a number one enemy of the state and hot candidates for an electric seat. Bonnie and Clyde died after 270 shots had been fired to their Ford V8. The satisfaction of this kind is not in use anymore, for the luck of a young couple from Philadelphia. Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and Edward K. Anderton, 25, were charged Friday with identity theft, forgery, unlawful use of a computer and a laundry list of other counts. They were lovers and partners as Bonnie and Clyde had been once. Maybe they will reveal the source of their inspiration and a new movie will soon arrive to our theatres.
| by Romana Schlesingerova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
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Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
Labels: CantellTV, Chris Cantell, Christopher Cantell, digital broadcasting, Odd News, SigEx Foundry, SigEx Telecom
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