Mar 1, 2012

Protest Against Internet Blocking Law in the United States

New York / Washington / Berlin - strike on the Internet: The English language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia is gone for the day on Wednesday by the network.

Internet Blocking Law

The creators of the web encyclopaedia in protest against two proposed U.S. legislation that, in the fight against piracy on the Internet drastic measures such as power locks. Many other sites such as Google on Wednesday took part in the protest were, but not offline. There was a coordinated resistance of this magnitude has never been found on the Internet. In the meantime, seems to support the U.S. Congress for legislation to erode gradually.

Critics argue that the planned infrastructure censored unpopular content and Internet users could be spoon-fed. To similar objections were last year also failed barrings plans in Germany. In this country, however, were not the focus of copyright infringement, but the fight against child pornography. The prohibited content will be deleted right now so that power locks are no longer necessary. The music and film industry is, however, even in Europe continues to be a lock for piracy on the net.

When Wikipedia was posted on Wednesday displayed instead of the usual English-language entries, a dark side, with a protest statement. Google search box placed under his link to an online petition against the law. For users in the United States, the colorful Google logo was covered with a black square. Throughout the network were also the world's popular web-blog "Boing Boing" and the online network Reddit. The homepage of the blog platform WordPress was "censored" full of black blocks with the label. Even the funny cat pictures known for fun side "I can have Cheese Burger" was a protest statement.

Feb 28, 2012

Hot Angelina Jolie's Leg is the Hype

At the Academy Awards Angelina Jolie caused a stir. Again and again looked out of her "dress hochgeschlitzten" right leg. As her "Hot Leg" is the hype. The Oscar-appearance by Hollywood star Angelina Jolie in hochgeschlitzten dress has caused such a sensation that her bare leg in the meantime developed into a star on the Internet. Not even an hour after Jolie was presented as a jury member on the stage her slim legs in full through the slit of her black velvet robe, Versace decreed, "The Leg" already has its own Twitter account.

Only a few hours later, Her twitter account "twitter.com/AngiesRightLeg" (via @ Roheena) gets 37,382 Followers There are some post which makes her too hot, like, Look at me, Don't forget about the leg, You have to admit I'm one hell of a leg and few more.

Hot Angelina Jolie's Leg is the Hype

The 36-year-old mother of several children took the provocative pose two times during the Oscars on Sunday night one: Immediately upon arrival, they set off a veritable flurry of camera flashes as she turned to the photographer. Since then her leg developed a life of its own: circulating on the Internet more and more photos of the Oscar-night, or current events, on which appears out of nowhere "The Leg".

Breast Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths

The number of women dying from breast cancer decreases. But researchers do not assume that mammography screening are responsible. That in many countries fall in the number of women who die from breast cancer, according to one study is not necessarily a consequence of mammography screening. More likely it is that new treatments and a better health system would have helped the researchers write in the online edition of the journal "British Medical Journal".

The team of scientists from France, Norway and Great Britain was in the study based on the assumption that the number who died from breast cancer of women in countries where the screening had been introduced some time ago to become more reduced than in other states.

Breast Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths
A radiologist considered X-ray images of a female breast. Mammography is a method for early detection of breast cancer

Accordingly, they formed three pairs of countries - Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium, Sweden and Norway. The states have a comparable health system, the risk of developing breast cancer, were also judged to be similar. However, in each country of a second pair of countries, mammography screening between ten and 15 years later, as introduced in the first.

The evaluation between 1989 and 2006 by the World Health Organization (WHO) collected data on breast cancer and mortality in different countries showed no significant abnormalities. Even compared to other countries, there were no major differences - regardless of whether the screening had been introduced sooner or later.

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