Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a success for the IMF

The idea here is not to judge what is widely discussed everywhere. An investigation is running and will probably be the reflection of what really happened. We have no knowledge of the facts so we will only focus ourselves on what Mr Strauss-Kahn did when he was the head of the IMF. 1/ The achievementsThe reform of the voting rights:Six months were necessary for DSK to make members reach an agreement. The voting rights have been recalculated and now give more power to emerging countries. The IMF reached a consensus on the new distribution of votes that is much closer to what the world’s economy is like today. The improvement of the finances:The...

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Rob Summer's miracle

An electric stimulation on the spinal cord permits to Mr Summers to stay up on his legs and walk on a tapis roulant for a few minutes after 5 years.This new experimental treatment has been done in USA and is going to give a real hope to any person that, like Mr Summers, have lost the capability to move their body. ...

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LinkedIn values itself at $3billion!

LinkedIn will go public on New York Stock Exchange later this month. In order to do so, the company had to prepare a file containing its figures and valuations. From the file sent earlier this week to the Securities and Exchange Committee, LinkedIn estimates its valuation at three billion dollars. This committee acts as a gendarme of markets across the Atlantic. The start-up recognized in its presentation that its growth could slow down in the future but investments are being planned to increase the capacities of the site. The professional website could even not be profitable this year. In 2010, the network registered fifteen million dollars...

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Janice Tunnicliffe, forced to be without technology

Janice Tunnicliffe is a 55 years old woman, mother of two, from England,Everything started after she did a chemio therapy three years ago, the treatment has been successful but unfortunately it left another disease… the disease for technology (better known as electrosensitivity).What is Electrosensitivity?A unhealthy sensitivity (or sensitivities) to a particular source of electricity, for example mobile phones, computers, power lines or even minor electrical equipment. Symptoms are wide-ranging and can include skin problems, headaches, fatigue, fainting, light sensitivity, heart problems and much more. Electrical HyperSensitivity is a name...

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Monica Silva and “l’io dentro di me”

Monica Silva is a Brazilian artist based in Europe. Monica went to England in 1986 and after having spent 2 years in London she moved to Italy. She has been for eight years assistant director for national and international advertising production but then, in 2001, she needed to do something more, she felt the need to properly express her self and to show her knowledge! She started working in professional photography industry and after a while she became a member of “Nikon Pro Photographer” expanding her skills and knowledge. The thirst of sharing and communicate got bigger and bigger and then she decided to move to the world of art photography. She...

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A bit of fun: Amusing laws that have never been revoked!

We wanted to share with you a few amusing laws that still exist around the world:In Florida, try not to have a too big argument with your loved one. It is stipulated by law that if you break more than three plates a day because of an argument; you could end up in jail!In Kentucky, a law says, “no woman can be seen wearing a bathing suit unless she is with two police officers or equipped with a club”. An amendment has been added later saying that the law doesn’t apply to women who are less than 27kgs or more than 90kgs.In Kansas it is against the law to ask for ask ice cream if you are eating a cherry pie!In Ohio, it is against state law to get...

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Android Phones and Tablets are not secure!!

A German study revealed today that most of the phones and tablets using Android as an operating system are not secure. IT specialists of the University of ULM in Germany have demonstrated that the incredible amount of 99,7%(!!) of these terminals present a fault in security. Moreover, the breach is caused by Google itself and doesn’t come from another application.This negligence allows malicious people to access any kind of data but the ones of Gmail apparently. It means that someone can have access to Google servers and modify them. The diary, the contacts, the text messages and photo albums can also be seen by someone else.So if you are using...

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Gentlemen, to your coffee maker! It is for your own good!

An American scientific study has been published yesterday Tuesday. It shows that men who drink coffee in high quantity have fewer risks of developing a prostate cancer. From what we can understand of this study, men who drink six cups of coffee a day or more see the risk of having the most lethal type of prostate cancer decrease by 60%! The study has been published by the Harvard School of Public Health and demonstrates that it has been done seriously. Lorelei Mucci, the Harvard associated professor, asserted that "Few studies studied in detail the association between the consumption of coffee and the risk of developing a lethal cancer of the...

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Russia: the Kremlin explains to children why a country needs a political opposition.

The Kremlin launched yesterday on its website a section dedicated to Russian children. The goal is to make them understand why a country needs a “political opposition”. The section has been designed child-friendly and is full of coloured animations. Doing that, Russian administration wants to show that they highly consider the opposition and that it is not as marginalized as other countries think it is. The section is available on kids.kremlin.ru and is entitled “what is an opposition and why do we need it”. Kids can find a lot of questions-answers forms explaining the positive role of independent media or the importance of listening to...

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Bill Gates wants to “save 10 million lives before 2020”

This Tuesday, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and one of the biggest living philanthropists asked the world leaders to make vaccines’ research a priority in order to “ save 10 million lives" before 2020.He made this announcement during the 64th Health World Assembly, which gathers in Geneva about sixty Ministers and 1.800 delegates representing 193 members of the WHO. Bill Gates, in his speech, was speaking to donor countries and told them to invest more and more in vaccines and immunizations "even if you have to face budgetary crisis".. Gates stated that thanks to these new investments " Effective systems of immunization will put an end...

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Do you want to watch a future day?

This video shows us a "possible overview" of how a normal day could be in our next future, It's amazing to see how the people think and dream and actually apply themselves on the realization of their views. After having watched this video and actually believe that something like that will take place in the future I think our generation is completely different from the past ones. We are living in a "kind of present" that it's already a future because we strictly believe in new technology coming out and after a day is already a remote past! I was thinking about the complete different approach to the technology we have in comparison with our parents for example. Our parents that watched not so far ago the first man on the moon, but they were skeptical about mobile phones or Internet or...

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The “G8 of the Web” or the “eG8”, the next step for more control?

As you might already know, French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to organize a talk about the web, prior to the G8 meeting planned at the end of May. This reunion will be called the “G8 of the web” or the “eG8” and Mark Zuckerberg has just confirmed that he will attend the event organized by Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, on May 24th and 25th of this year.He was not supposed to come but after a while decided to “take the time to think about it". In the end, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, will be in Paris on May the 24th and 25th.This “eG8” seems quite interesting and Facebook’s young entrepreneur is one of the more than a 1000 decision-makers...

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Alaina Giordano got a premature death sentence

Mrs Alaina Giordano is a strong woman, her life is tough and she is fighting to have what she deserves. The next fight for Alaina will be to have the possibility to take her sons with her even if she is struggling with her medication to fight cancer. The explanation of the decision was: “children deserve a normal childhood and it’s better for them to stay with the wealthiest parent”. Are we saying that being ill is not normal? Do we want to raise our children under a cup of glass or do we want them to have an overview of what the life could, can and will be? The childhood is the most important period of everyone's life and all of us should...

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Facebook is now inspiring parents… sad or funny?

Looking for an original first name for their daughter, an Israeli couple was inspired by Facebook and named their baby " Like ", reported the daily paper Maariv today. The parents chose this first name according to the icon " Like " from the popular social network, which the Internet users use to mean that they appreciate the information posted by someone else." We named our daughter Like because it is modern and innovative ", declared in the Israeli newspaper the father of the baby, Lior Adler. "I verified that the first name existed nowhere else in the country because it was the priority for me ", he explains. " In our opinion, it is the modern...

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Stefano Ottomano: a brilliant inspiration

Stefano Ottomano is a young Italian composer born in Bari. He is a musician and a lecturer in several music schools in the south of Italy. Stefano has been always attracted by music and thanks to his bachelor degree and multiple master courses he attended with lecturers like: Leigh H. Stevens, Mark Ford, Ruud Wiener, Tim Adams, Emil Richards, etc.. he is now a complete musician with an amazing creativity. Mr Ottomano is not a common musician, he is also an author widely recognised; especially for the textbook: “Nuovo metodo di avviamento alla batteria per bambini”. He also is the composer of multiple movie soundtracks, and can show on his...

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Breaking news: 20 years old Australian dies tragically while “planking”.

Following our first article on the new trend called “planking”, our team wanted to share with you this tragic news. Acton Beale, 20 years old Australian living in Brisbane, died when he fell from a seventh-floor balcony while having his picture taken. We said before that the police was getting very concerned with people planking in Australia and what happened yesterday sadly proves them right.Ross Barnett, Queensland state police deputy commissioner, told reporters that Beale fell from a balcony railing while a friend was taking his picture on Sunday morning in Brisbane. The railing is believed to have been two inches wide. Because of this, Julia...

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ICC delivers an arrest warrant against Gaddafi

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced today that he has asked for international arrest warrants against Libyan leader Mouammar Gaddafi, his elder son Seif Al-Islam and the leader of the intelligence service Abdallah Al-Senoussi for crime against humanity."On the basis of the proofs we have collected so far, the office of the prosecutor has asked the preliminary chamber to deliver international arrest warrants against Mouammar Gaddafi, Seif Al-Islam and Abdallah Al-Senoussi ", declared Luis Moreno-Ocampo, during a press conference in The Hague, city where the ICC sits.Now, the judges of the ICC have different...

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The Cyberspace, a vital concern

The American presidency office has announced yesterday that the White House is ready to reveal this week its propositions regarding the international cooperation in the cyberspace. The document, which will be revealed today, is entitled " US International Strategy for Cyberspace" and has been long-waited by the International Community.It is the "first political document of this kind showing our global vision on the future of the international cooperation concerning the cyberspace", has explained the White House in a statement. The idea of the document is to show how America wants to emphasize several "partnerships with other countries and other...

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