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26th of April 1986 is a tragic day for the mankind. Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in Ukraine suffered from power increase which led to core explosion. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. The radiation levels in the worst-hit areas of the reactor building have been estimated to be 5.6 roentgens per second and considered that lethal doses are around 500 roentgens over 5 hours in some areas unprotected workers received fatal doses within several minutes. Radioactive materials have been released even 400 times more than in atomic bombing of Hiroshima. People feared for their lives. Not only the people in U! kraine and the other counties in The Soviet Union, the whole world was in fear because all this radioactive materials were traveling in a cloud all over Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Germany, Canada and United States of America. Mothers feared for their unborn children, they knew that the risk of having a child with Down syndrome and neural tube defects are much higher after that disaster. Thyroid cancer appeared much more often, lung cancer, people died from acute radiation. It was a stroke that the humanity will remember like one of the most severs. And these days I’m reading an article in a newspaper that says that “Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago”. Definitely strange but nothing tells the story better than the place itself.

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To, že vianoce prestali byť len o kresťanskom sviatku narodenia božieho syna, Ježiša už dávno, vieme všetci. Dnes sú skôr časom, kedy by si mali byť ľudia k sebe „bližší“. Nuž neviem, každopádne mám s vianocami spojenú predstavu dobrého jedla a toho darčekového chaosu, ktorý sa spúšťa niekedy v októbri. No niekedy to je o darčekoch a peniazoch, niekedy je to o ich hľadaní, dlhých prechádzkach po meste a obzeraní si výkladov (pre tých, ktorí neholdujú efektívne! mu, ale stále trochu nudnému eBay nákupu) a v neposlednom rade opäť ten ruch vianočného mestečka. Mestské doplnky, zeleno-červeno-žlté gule, stromčeky, svetielka, punče, ľudia na vianočných trhoch, rozhovory a opäť – komercia. Ja viem, ja viem, je to vlastne celé nejaké komerčné, ale azda je načase položiť si ruku na srdce a povedať si – áno, Vianoce dávno nie sú kresťanské, ani sociálne, ba dokonca ani nie také, aké boli v čase vašeho detstva. Vianočná atmosféra je vďaka výzdobe viditeľná po celom meste, ale na hlavnom námestí je predsa len o niečo hmotnejšia. Je to kruh vianočných stánkov, punčovej a slaninovej arómy pod patronátom obrovského ihličnatého stromu. Ide opäť! o tradičný koncept (mysli, nie historický, ale! skô ;r dobre známy). Každopádne sú na tejto zemi miesta, kde sa veci dejú inak, ako by sme predpokladali. Nejde o to ísť vpred, či vzad, smery sú rôzne a ľudská vynaliezavosť nenachádza hraníc. Je to azda prípad troch amerických miest, ktoré už tradične súťažia o nejlepší vianočný strom. Na tom teda nič nového nie je. Mestá Gloucester, Beals a Rockland majú spoločné jedno – silnú väzbu na rybolov, špeciálne homárov. Voda a rybárstvo sú pre nich tak dôležité, že sa rozhodli túto väzbu priznať aj vo vianočnom čase. Na námestiach týchto miest preto nájdete vianočné stromy, poskladané z pascí na homárov a rybárskych sietí...Gloucester dokonca vianočnú hviezdu nahradila umelou ! figurínou rybára, ktorý hľadí na more. V poriadku... Reakcie nechám na Vás a zaželám Vám ak nie tradičné, tak aspoň pokojné vianoce. V ničom inom som si neni istá..

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Christmas stopped being just about Christians and phenomenal story of Jesus, long, long time ago. Now it is the time when most of people come closer, have good food and of course spend a lot of time and money on gifts and presents. Well, sometimes it is about presents, sometimes it is about seeking and walking though the city (in better, but still more old fashioned way, not using boring and effective eBay), feeling the buzz of Christmas city, all those small and nice green and red trees, stars and urban accessories. It is about Christmas tree standing somewhere around the main square, it is about people visiting Christmas markets, drinking hot vine and chatting. I know, I! know there is a lot of commerce having nothing in common with the original concept, but come on, we have to accept it! We are miles and miles away from Jerusalem, Betlehem and even the way we have perceived Christmas as children. So now, when I pass the city I see Christmas everywhere, but the atmosphere is more visible on the main square in the circle of Christmas market under the protection of dominant, green Christmas tree. That is the original concept (means well known, not historical). But there are places in this world where everything goes in unpredictible directions. Everything can be abnormal, everything can be different although not beautiful or right. That leads my steps into three U.S. cities that take part in strange Christmas race – they fight for the best Christmas tree. Nothing interesting. But if we come closer to public spaces in Gloucester, Beals and Rockland, we will find the most surprising trees. All three cities are located in lobster fishing z! one with a strong attachment to this traditional way of living! . So pe ople have decided to make it visible even during Christmas. They made trees from lobster traps and nets and in Gloucester they even put artificial figurine of a fisherman looking at the sea instead of a top star. Sounds interesting? Oh, course. I let you to form your own opinions, but in case you would like to know more about these fishing trees go to the main websites of these New England cities, or better, go there and see them by yourself. Happy fishing Chrismtas!

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by Milota Sidorova for Ca! ntell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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After the great defeat in the mid-term elections for the Republicans, what's else left for Obama and friends but to joke about it? They are certainly going to remember this November as sad and "shellacking" (the word that the nation's father likes to use these days). The making fun is just so justified - because Democrats just showed their rivals way to the door out of the Congress. So, today is the Thanksgiving day. Every U.S. family is gathering at home for the traditional lunch, children are off school, parents don't work and the only occupation for the day is having the turkey and every other meal done perfectly. As a good exampler, Mr. Obama gathered his friends in t! he White House's Rose Garden on a Thanksgiving lunch. He invided few friends presidents. When I mentioned the joking thing, this was as well obvious for the lunch, too. He had his daughters company, too. And if you know that Americans can do just everything be a spactacle, even the turkey choice didn't go without a din. Obama explained how the two turkeys were picked out of 25 birds in, believe it or not, a competition was organized before a panel of judges and with music in the background. Oh my gosh! Obama even compared the competition to the one called Dancing with the stars, which is prettly popular in the States, where famous stars dance with a partner. "Except the stakes for the contestants was much higher. Only one pair would survive and win the big prize. Life." - Obama laughed. Obama wished all of U.S. citizens a happy holiday and didn't forget the brave soldiers that are not at home with their families. Happy Thanksgiving day to all the Americans!

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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Sometimes it seems a real pain in the ass to live in a big city and especially in a well reknown neighbourhood. Than you face with rules, rules, rules. You can not create your homes' outside look the way you want, you must have the order of things the way some "wiser" people think. I am happy to come from a smaller country (like Republic of Macedonia), where you don't have to bother so much with what someone else thinks about your yard and where, per instance, you can use the shiny sun as much as you want, and dry your clothes fulfilled with sunbeam. A 49-year-old lady Melinda Hackett has had problems with that kind of neighbor that was so boring that minded a fairy-tale t! ree-house that was in her proper yard. Hackett lives in the historic Manhattan neighborhood where legendary Mark Twain per example lived. Few years ago, she built a tree-house for her daughters in her Greenwich Village backyard. And , I suppose some good neighbor of hers didn't have a smarter thing to do one day and decided that he couldn't stand anymore that lovely view of the cedar tree-house, and called the police. But, lady Hackett simply didn't want to give up the fight and ruin her girls joy. She fighted few years in the courtrooms for that and finally succeeded. The thing is, the area where the tree-house is is a district with landmark status. It is interesting that the house where Hackett lives dates from 1860s and she had bought it from famous singer David Byrne. Who would believe that she would have so much headache only because of a tree-house, five years ago when she moved from rural parts of New York?

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Ponekogaš se čini deka e navistina naporno da živeete vo golem grad i ušte povekje vo dobro poznato sosedstvo. Togaš se soočuvate so pravila, pravila, pravila. Ne možete da si go iskreirate nadvorešniot izgled na vašiot dom kako što vie sakate, mora da go imate redot na neštata na način kakov što nekoi "popametni" lugje smetaat. Srekjna sum što doagham od pomala država (kako Republika Makedonija), kade ne mora da se zamarate premnogu so toa što mislat drugite za vašiot dvor i kade, na primer, možete da go koristete sonceto tolku kolku što sakate i da gi sušite alištata n! a primer polni so sončevi zraci. 49-godišnata Melinda Heket imaše problemi so takov vid sosed na koj mu bilo tolku dosadno što bajkovitata kukjička na drvo počnala počnala da mu smeta. Heket živee vo istoriskoto sosedstvo na Menhet kade isto taka živeel i Mark Tven. Pred nekolku godini, taa izgradila kukja na drvo ze nejzinite kjerki vo dvoroto vo Grinvič Vilidz. I, pretpostavuvam deka nekoj nejzin dobar sosed nemal popametna rabota da napravi pa eden den odlučil deka povekje ne može da go podnese toj simpatičen poglled na kukjičkata od kedar i ja povikal policijata. No, g-jata Heket ednostavno ne sakala da se otkaže od borbata i da ja uništi radosta na nejzinite devojčinja. Taa se borela pet godini vo sudnicite za toa i konečno uspeala. Problemot e vo toa što oblasta kade što se naogja kukjičkata e oblast so zaštiten status. Interesno e što kukjata kade #! 3;to živee Heket datira od 60-te godini na 19 vek i ja ku! pila od poznatiot pejač Dejvid Brn. Koj bi poveruval deka taa kje ima tolku mnogu glavobolka samo poradi nekoja kukja na trco, pred pet godini koga se preselila od ruralni delovi na Njujork?

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If you are one of those people who cannot imagine their lives without spicy food there is a challenge for you in the form of so called Jolokia pepper, which has been named the hottest chilli in the world. It even got its place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Jolokia chilli, often dubbed ghost chilli, comes from northeastern parts of India, it can be also found in Sri Lanka. The spicy heat of a chilli is measured at the Scoville Scale, which indicates the amount of a chemical compound capsaicin present. The scale is named after American chemist Wilbur Scoville who developed a test for rating the “hotness” of a chilli. Jolokia achieved SHU (Scoville Heat U! nit) rating of 1,001,304 as it was recorded at the Mexico State University in 2006. In comparison, Tabasco sauce has an SHU level of about 5,000. Due to its extreme characteristics the Naga Jolikia has several uses. Except for being used as a spice i tis added to homeopathic preparations for stomach ailments in India. Also in the northeastern regions of India, people use them to keep wild elephants away from their homes, either they are smeared on fences or made into smoke bombs. In 2009, India´s Defence Research and Development Organisation informed it would try to use the peppers in non-lethal hand grenates. "The chilli grenade is a non-toxic weapon and when used would force a terrorist to come out of his hideout,“ said lead scientist R.B. Srivastava from the Organisation. "The effect is so pungent that it would literally choke them." If you want to try the Naga Jolokia, certain preparations should preceed your attempts. Tolerance for the spicy increrases as ! you keep eating spicy food, So, at first you should master som! e less s tronger kinds of peppers and only then move on to the Jolokia.

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