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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year 2012
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tintin' s profile
Hergé’s Timeline
Georges Remi was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1907.
Although he would go on to be one of the world’s most iconic cartoonists, Georges was not a particularly standout student as a young boy. Instead, he preferred to indulge in his love for adventure and games with his friends on the streets of Brussels. In secondary school, he joined the Boy Scouts. His drawing skills quickly caught the attention of the Scout leaders, and it wasn’t long before he was illustrating a Scout magazine and creating his first characters.
Herge’s Boy Scout character, Totor, was the inspiration for Tintin.
Although Tintin traveled around the world, Hergé stayed in Belgium for most of his life. In his later years, the artist and author managed to make trips to several countries and seefirsthand the places that inspired Tintin’s exciting adventures.
Hergé first drew Tintin in Le Petit Vingtième (the children’s pages of Le Vingtième Siècle) in 1929. The little reporter was an instant success in Belgium and beyond. By the 1950s, the Tintin adventures had become so popular that Hergé set up Studios Hergé. This not only supplied Hergé with a team of assistants and artists to expand the Tintin universe, it also freed him to do in-depth research for his stories, many of which took his characters to places that Hergé — and his devoted readers — had never seen.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tintin on film
Tintin 2: Horowitz says story 'still under discussion'
The first Tintin movie was released in the UK last week Writer Anthony Horowitz says there is still a question mark over which Tintin book will be adapted for the sequel to Steven Spielberg's chart-topping film.
Horowitz said earlier this year he had penned a script based partly on Herge's Tintin story Prisoners Of The Sun. "That was true a few months ago," Horowitz told the BBC, "but I can tell you that I think the second film is not going to be Prisoners of the Sun".
"What it is going to be is still under discussion."
He added: "I've had meetings with the directors and producers and we've talked about ideas and action sequences.
"At the moment I'm trying to put together a story that will please everybody. It's a very difficult one to do."
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is currently top of the UK and Ireland box office.
The motion-capture 3D blockbuster stars Jamie Bell as Herge's young roving reporter, alongside a largely British cast that also includes Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis.
The screenplay for the first film was written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
Peter Jackson, who produced the first film, is set to direct the Tintin sequel once he has finished work on The Hobbit.
Earlier reports had suggested that the second film would be based on both Prisoners Of The Sun and its predecessor The Seven Crystal Balls.
Horowitz, whose Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk was published this week, confirmed that he would be writing the second film but was yet to begin work on the script.
He said: "I am a huge Tintin fan I grew up on him and I'm looking to getting stuck in on this, but we're a little distant yet from actually having a script...
"The good news is if [Prisoners Of The Sun] is not the second film it'll be the third film so actually I could end up with two Tintins under my belt."
Horowitz's TV writing credits include Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Robin of Sherwood and Foyles War.
He is also the writer of the Alex Rider series of spy novels, and adapted the first - Stormbreaker - for the big screen in 2006.
Source : BBC News on Internet.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
US's economy trouble maker has revealed
US sues 17 big banks over financial-crisis losses
By Alexander Osipovich | AFP News – 11 hours ago
Enlarge PhotoA view of Fannie Mae headquarters is seen in Washington, DC, 2008. US authorities …
Enlarge Photo US authorities on Friday sued 17 major banks for losses on mortgage-backed securities …
US authorities on Friday sued 17 top US and foreign banks over "billions of dollars" in losses on mortgage-backed securities that plunged in value in the 2008 financial crisis.
In court filings the Federal Housing Finance Agency alleged that in some cases the lenders committed fraud in selling nearly $190 billion in securities to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which had to be bailed out by the government.
US firms targeted in the suits included Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, Ally Financial and First Horizon.
The foreign banks were Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Nomura, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Societe Generale.
The FHFA also sued two former mortgage giants -- Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch -- which are
In court filings the Federal Housing Finance Agency alleged that in some cases the lenders committed fraud in selling nearly $190 billion in securities to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which had to be bailed out by the government.
US firms targeted in the suits included Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, Ally Financial and First Horizon.
The foreign banks were Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Nomura, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Societe Generale.
The FHFA also sued two former mortgage giants -- Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch -- which are
Thursday, August 11, 2011
It' s Yoyo' s time
Stocks Dive Again on Europe, Economy Fears
Dow Sheds Nearly 520 Points; Investors Flock to Bonds Despite Record Low Yields; Rumors Swirl of Weakness in France.
By TOM LAURICELLA, MATT PHILLIPS and DAVID ENRICH
Stock prices tumbled Wednesday, led downward by some of the world's biggest banks. But bond investors offered a potentially more ominous assessment of prospects for the global economy, pouring money into the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds despite yields that are near their lowest levels in history.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 519.83 points, or 4.62% to 10719.94, more than wiping out the gains posted in Tuesday's sizable late-day rally. It was the Dow's fourth triple-digit move in five days and brings its declines since its April peak to more than 16%. The index is less than 500 points away from officially being in a bear market, defined as a decline of 20%.
Asian shares Thursday morning moved lower. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell 1.6%; Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.4%; South Korea's Kospi Composite dropped 1.8% after slumping over 4% at the opening; and New Zealand's NZX-50 was 0.1% lower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged to an 11-month low as investors were squeezed between fears of further contagion among European banks and the Federal Reserve's gloomy economic outlook. Paul Vigna has details.
.In Europe, rumors swirled about the health of French banks and the possibility that France could lose its AAA credit rating as the country's borrowing costs rise. The main indexes for stock markets in France, Germany, Spain and Italy each shed more than 5% of their value.
The market gyrations and clear worries about the health of the U.S. and European economies sparked a volley of phone calls between senior administration officials, including President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and European leaders. Mr. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also met with President Obama Wednesday, but no new steps were announced to address the market volatility.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been calling banks with increased frequency amid
Dow Sheds Nearly 520 Points; Investors Flock to Bonds Despite Record Low Yields; Rumors Swirl of Weakness in France.
By TOM LAURICELLA, MATT PHILLIPS and DAVID ENRICH
Stock prices tumbled Wednesday, led downward by some of the world's biggest banks. But bond investors offered a potentially more ominous assessment of prospects for the global economy, pouring money into the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds despite yields that are near their lowest levels in history.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 519.83 points, or 4.62% to 10719.94, more than wiping out the gains posted in Tuesday's sizable late-day rally. It was the Dow's fourth triple-digit move in five days and brings its declines since its April peak to more than 16%. The index is less than 500 points away from officially being in a bear market, defined as a decline of 20%.
Asian shares Thursday morning moved lower. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell 1.6%; Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.4%; South Korea's Kospi Composite dropped 1.8% after slumping over 4% at the opening; and New Zealand's NZX-50 was 0.1% lower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged to an 11-month low as investors were squeezed between fears of further contagion among European banks and the Federal Reserve's gloomy economic outlook. Paul Vigna has details.
.In Europe, rumors swirled about the health of French banks and the possibility that France could lose its AAA credit rating as the country's borrowing costs rise. The main indexes for stock markets in France, Germany, Spain and Italy each shed more than 5% of their value.
The market gyrations and clear worries about the health of the U.S. and European economies sparked a volley of phone calls between senior administration officials, including President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and European leaders. Mr. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also met with President Obama Wednesday, but no new steps were announced to address the market volatility.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been calling banks with increased frequency amid
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Stocks are on the sky again
Stocks Rally Ahead of Fed
By STEVEN RUSSOLILLO
NEW YORK—U.S. stocks rose Tuesday morning in what is expected to be another volatile session as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's policy statement and any hint that the central bank will be able to calm markets and boost the economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up 228 points, or 2.1%, at 11037. The index briefly turned negative shortly after the opening bell, but has rallied since.
Bank of America led the measure higher, rising 4.8% after tumbling 20% in Monday's rout. J.P. Morgan Chase gained 4%. The Dow fell 635 points on Monday, the sixth-biggest point drop in its history, to close at a 10-month low.
The blue-chip index fell beneath 11000 for the first time since November in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating. Jittery investors have fretted over government debt and the possibility that the economy could slide into another recession.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index climbed 26 points, or 2.3%, to 1145, led higher by financial and material stocks. Financial stocks were hit the hardest in Monday's drubbing. The technology-oriented Nasdaq Composite gained 61 points, or 2.6%, to 2418.
By STEVEN RUSSOLILLO
NEW YORK—U.S. stocks rose Tuesday morning in what is expected to be another volatile session as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's policy statement and any hint that the central bank will be able to calm markets and boost the economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up 228 points, or 2.1%, at 11037. The index briefly turned negative shortly after the opening bell, but has rallied since.
Bank of America led the measure higher, rising 4.8% after tumbling 20% in Monday's rout. J.P. Morgan Chase gained 4%. The Dow fell 635 points on Monday, the sixth-biggest point drop in its history, to close at a 10-month low.
The blue-chip index fell beneath 11000 for the first time since November in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating. Jittery investors have fretted over government debt and the possibility that the economy could slide into another recession.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index climbed 26 points, or 2.3%, to 1145, led higher by financial and material stocks. Financial stocks were hit the hardest in Monday's drubbing. The technology-oriented Nasdaq Composite gained 61 points, or 2.6%, to 2418.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
US Stock Exchange bloodbath
..World stocks slide further
By Ben Perry
AFP News – Sat, Aug 6, 2011.
Enlarge Photo.A display board showing the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong. Hong Kong shares dived …
Enlarge Photo.Closings for Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul and Taipei stock markets. Global stocks plunged …
AP - Sat, Aug 6, 2011.....Surprisingly robust US jobs data sparked only a brief rebound on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday, leaving investors scarred from a week of heavy losses brought on by slow growth and eurozone debt concerns.
European stock markets initially dived 3.0-4.0 percent after heavy falls in Asia, and rally quickly lost steam following the announcement that the US economy gained a net 117,000 jobs in July.
London's FTSE-100 index closed down 2.71 percent to 5,246.99 points for a weekly loss of 9.8 percent, wiping nearly £150 billion ($246 billion, 173 billion euros) off its total value over the last five days.
In Frankfurt, the DAX dropped 2.78 percent to 6,236.16 points, dropping 13.3 percent over the week.
In Paris, the CAC-40 slid 1.26 percent to 3,278.56 points to chalk up a record 10th consecutive daily loss. It lost 10.7 percent over the week.
In highly volatile trading, Madrid and Milan rebounded for part of the day on rumours that that the European Central Bank was preparing to buy hard-hit Spanish and Italian bonds, before falling back.
Madrid ended the day down 0.18 percent and dropped 10 percent over the week, while Milan fell 0.70 percent on Friday and lost 13.12 percent for the week.
Wall Street also opened higher on the surprisingly strong jobs data, but the rally quickly fizzled.
By Ben Perry
AFP News – Sat, Aug 6, 2011.
Enlarge Photo.A display board showing the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong. Hong Kong shares dived …
Enlarge Photo.Closings for Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul and Taipei stock markets. Global stocks plunged …
AP - Sat, Aug 6, 2011.....Surprisingly robust US jobs data sparked only a brief rebound on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday, leaving investors scarred from a week of heavy losses brought on by slow growth and eurozone debt concerns.
European stock markets initially dived 3.0-4.0 percent after heavy falls in Asia, and rally quickly lost steam following the announcement that the US economy gained a net 117,000 jobs in July.
London's FTSE-100 index closed down 2.71 percent to 5,246.99 points for a weekly loss of 9.8 percent, wiping nearly £150 billion ($246 billion, 173 billion euros) off its total value over the last five days.
In Frankfurt, the DAX dropped 2.78 percent to 6,236.16 points, dropping 13.3 percent over the week.
In Paris, the CAC-40 slid 1.26 percent to 3,278.56 points to chalk up a record 10th consecutive daily loss. It lost 10.7 percent over the week.
In highly volatile trading, Madrid and Milan rebounded for part of the day on rumours that that the European Central Bank was preparing to buy hard-hit Spanish and Italian bonds, before falling back.
Madrid ended the day down 0.18 percent and dropped 10 percent over the week, while Milan fell 0.70 percent on Friday and lost 13.12 percent for the week.
Wall Street also opened higher on the surprisingly strong jobs data, but the rally quickly fizzled.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
S & P downgraded long term US debt rank
S&P Strips U.S. of Top Credit Rating
By DAMIAN PALETTA and MATT PHILLIPS
A cornerstone of the global financial system was shaken Friday when officials at ratings firm Standard & Poor's said U.S. Treasury debt no longer deserved to be considered among the safest investments in the world.
S&P downgraded the U.S. government's AAA sovereign credit rating, an unprecedented action that could send shock waves through the global financial system. WSJ's Money & Investing Editor, Francesco Guerrera, reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
.S&P removed for the first time the triple-A rating the U.S. has held for 70 years, saying the budget deal recently brokered in Washington didn't do enough to address the gloomy outlook for America's finances. It downgraded long-term U.S. debt to AA+, a score that ranks below more than a dozen governments', including Liechtenstein's, and on par with Belgium's and New Zealand's. S&P also put the new grade on "negative outlook," meaning the U.S. has little chance of regaining the top rating in the near term.
The unprecedented move came after several hours of high-stakes drama. It began in the morning, when word leaked that a downgrade was imminent and stocks tumbled. Around 1:30 p.m., S&P officials notified the Treasury Department that they planned to downgrade U.S. debt and presented the government with their findings. Treasury officials noticed a $2 trillion error in S&P's math that delayed an announcement for several hours. S&P officials decided to move ahead, and after 8 p.m. they made their downgrade official.
By DAMIAN PALETTA and MATT PHILLIPS
A cornerstone of the global financial system was shaken Friday when officials at ratings firm Standard & Poor's said U.S. Treasury debt no longer deserved to be considered among the safest investments in the world.
S&P downgraded the U.S. government's AAA sovereign credit rating, an unprecedented action that could send shock waves through the global financial system. WSJ's Money & Investing Editor, Francesco Guerrera, reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
.S&P removed for the first time the triple-A rating the U.S. has held for 70 years, saying the budget deal recently brokered in Washington didn't do enough to address the gloomy outlook for America's finances. It downgraded long-term U.S. debt to AA+, a score that ranks below more than a dozen governments', including Liechtenstein's, and on par with Belgium's and New Zealand's. S&P also put the new grade on "negative outlook," meaning the U.S. has little chance of regaining the top rating in the near term.
The unprecedented move came after several hours of high-stakes drama. It began in the morning, when word leaked that a downgrade was imminent and stocks tumbled. Around 1:30 p.m., S&P officials notified the Treasury Department that they planned to downgrade U.S. debt and presented the government with their findings. Treasury officials noticed a $2 trillion error in S&P's math that delayed an announcement for several hours. S&P officials decided to move ahead, and after 8 p.m. they made their downgrade official.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Japan win women soccer world cup 2011
Japan wins 1st World Cup title in penalty shootout
By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer / 19 minutes ago
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)—Amid the sorrow that lingers throughout Japan, the determined women on its World Cup team may have brought a little joy.
Japan beat the Americans for the title in a riveting final Sunday, 3-1 on penalties after rallying from behind twice in a 2-2 draw. The star of the shootout was dogged goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori, who made two brilliant saves in the shootout.
All tournament the teammates poignantly reminded the world they were playing for their battered country, still reeling from the devastation of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Winning goalie Ayumi Kaihori of Japan made two saves in the shootout.
They held the gleaming trophy high above their smiling faces as confetti swirled around the podium, flecking their hair with gold.
“Before we went to the match tonight we had some commentary on television and we heard comments on the situation in Japan,” coach Norio Sasaki said. “We wanted to use this opportunity to thank the people back home for the support that has been given.”
This was Japan’s first appearance in the final of a major tournament, and they had not beaten the Americans
By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer / 19 minutes ago
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)—Amid the sorrow that lingers throughout Japan, the determined women on its World Cup team may have brought a little joy.
Japan beat the Americans for the title in a riveting final Sunday, 3-1 on penalties after rallying from behind twice in a 2-2 draw. The star of the shootout was dogged goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori, who made two brilliant saves in the shootout.
All tournament the teammates poignantly reminded the world they were playing for their battered country, still reeling from the devastation of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Winning goalie Ayumi Kaihori of Japan made two saves in the shootout.
They held the gleaming trophy high above their smiling faces as confetti swirled around the podium, flecking their hair with gold.
“Before we went to the match tonight we had some commentary on television and we heard comments on the situation in Japan,” coach Norio Sasaki said. “We wanted to use this opportunity to thank the people back home for the support that has been given.”
This was Japan’s first appearance in the final of a major tournament, and they had not beaten the Americans
Monday, July 4, 2011
Great story of this year 2011
Police: Train ticket helps crack 1957 Ill. killing
By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press
AP – Sat, Jul 2, 2011
...The grave site of Maria Ridulph at Elmwood Cemetery is shown in Sycamore, Ill., on …
....SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Charles "Chuck" Ridulph always assumed the person who stole his little sister from the neighborhood corner where she played and dumped her body in a wooded stretch some 100 miles away was a trucker or passing stranger — surely not anyone from the hometown he remembers as one big, friendly playground.
And, after more than a half century passed since her death, he assumed the culprit also had died or was in prison for some other crime.
On Saturday, he said he was stunned by the news that a one-time neighbor had been charged in the kidnapping and killing that captured national attention, including that of the president and FBI chief. Prosecutors in bucolic Sycamore, a city of 15,000 that's home to a yearly pumpkin festival, charged a former police officer Friday in the 1957 abduction of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph after an ex-girlfriend's discovery of an unused train ticket blew a hole in his alibi.
Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, has been held in Seattle on $3 million bail. A judge overseeing a Saturday court appearance for him said he had been taken to a regional trauma center but did not elaborate. She rescheduled his bail hearing for 12:30 p.m. Monday.
"I just can't believe that after all these years they'd be able to find this guy," Chuck Ridulph told The Associated Press at his duplex in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago.
A 65-year-old minister who mainly serves his area's senior citizens, Ridulph once shared a bedroom with his sister and already has his headstone placed on a burial plot next to her grave. With McCullough's arrest, he worries about a drawn-out legal process that will dredge up bad memories but also perhaps answer some nagging, stomach-churning questions about what happened to the little girl who loved to play dress up.
"It's in my every thought, even in my dreams," he said of his sister's death. "It was just like it was yesterday. It comes up all the time in conversation."
By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press
AP – Sat, Jul 2, 2011
...The grave site of Maria Ridulph at Elmwood Cemetery is shown in Sycamore, Ill., on …
....SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Charles "Chuck" Ridulph always assumed the person who stole his little sister from the neighborhood corner where she played and dumped her body in a wooded stretch some 100 miles away was a trucker or passing stranger — surely not anyone from the hometown he remembers as one big, friendly playground.
And, after more than a half century passed since her death, he assumed the culprit also had died or was in prison for some other crime.
On Saturday, he said he was stunned by the news that a one-time neighbor had been charged in the kidnapping and killing that captured national attention, including that of the president and FBI chief. Prosecutors in bucolic Sycamore, a city of 15,000 that's home to a yearly pumpkin festival, charged a former police officer Friday in the 1957 abduction of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph after an ex-girlfriend's discovery of an unused train ticket blew a hole in his alibi.
Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, has been held in Seattle on $3 million bail. A judge overseeing a Saturday court appearance for him said he had been taken to a regional trauma center but did not elaborate. She rescheduled his bail hearing for 12:30 p.m. Monday.
"I just can't believe that after all these years they'd be able to find this guy," Chuck Ridulph told The Associated Press at his duplex in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago.
A 65-year-old minister who mainly serves his area's senior citizens, Ridulph once shared a bedroom with his sister and already has his headstone placed on a burial plot next to her grave. With McCullough's arrest, he worries about a drawn-out legal process that will dredge up bad memories but also perhaps answer some nagging, stomach-churning questions about what happened to the little girl who loved to play dress up.
"It's in my every thought, even in my dreams," he said of his sister's death. "It was just like it was yesterday. It comes up all the time in conversation."
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Some photos from Jakarta city
The clouds for Cloud lovers ( left ) - Views of Jakarta city from centre to Southern ( right ). 
- To the port we go, trucks / containers goes to the harbour to export on the toll bridge.
Traffic in General Sudirman Avenue, Central Jakarta at peak hours, views to Northern ( left ) - The clouds for Cloud lovers ( right ).
I have a lot of work recently until 2 months later ( July 2011 ), so I brought you some photos when I go to do that works. See you next time !..... Bye !.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Last US WWI veteran dies at 110
BY MAURICE SCARBOROUGH
America’s last remaining World War I veteran has passed away at age 110.
“Frank Buckles enlisted in the Army at the age of 16, and then served as an ambulance driver. He was captured by Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Buckles was held as a prisoner of war for more than three years, before being freed by U.S. troops.”
KSBW
Buckles was the last of America’s Doughboys - and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki called him a - quote - “living link to an important era in our nation’s history.” But the New York Times explains Buckles almost missed his chance at making history.
“The Marines turned him down as underage and under the required weight. The Navy didn’t want him either, saying he had flat feet. But the Army took him in August 1917 when he lied about his age, and he volunteered to be an ambulance driver, hearing that was the quickest path to service in France.”
While Buckles’ military service ended after the war, his service to honor those who fought continued. During his life he actively advocated for a National World War I memorial in the nation’s capital.
“Buckles wanted the existing World War I memorial on the national mall in Washington to be restored and rededicated as a national memorial to all the veterans who died in that war.”
Fox News
Buckles’ wish for a national memorial in Washington has yet to come true, but his dream of being buried next to fellow service members and friends will become a reality.
“...with no wounds or medals for bravery, he was eligible under Arlington National Cemetery protocols only for inurnment in a vault for cremated remains. In March 2008, however, the Bush administration ordered a rare exception... Mr. Buckles wanted a grave site at Arlington and a traditional white marble headstone. And he will get his wish.”
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America’s last remaining World War I veteran has passed away at age 110.
“Frank Buckles enlisted in the Army at the age of 16, and then served as an ambulance driver. He was captured by Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Buckles was held as a prisoner of war for more than three years, before being freed by U.S. troops.”
KSBW
Buckles was the last of America’s Doughboys - and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki called him a - quote - “living link to an important era in our nation’s history.” But the New York Times explains Buckles almost missed his chance at making history.
“The Marines turned him down as underage and under the required weight. The Navy didn’t want him either, saying he had flat feet. But the Army took him in August 1917 when he lied about his age, and he volunteered to be an ambulance driver, hearing that was the quickest path to service in France.”
While Buckles’ military service ended after the war, his service to honor those who fought continued. During his life he actively advocated for a National World War I memorial in the nation’s capital.
“Buckles wanted the existing World War I memorial on the national mall in Washington to be restored and rededicated as a national memorial to all the veterans who died in that war.”
Fox News
Buckles’ wish for a national memorial in Washington has yet to come true, but his dream of being buried next to fellow service members and friends will become a reality.
“...with no wounds or medals for bravery, he was eligible under Arlington National Cemetery protocols only for inurnment in a vault for cremated remains. In March 2008, however, the Bush administration ordered a rare exception... Mr. Buckles wanted a grave site at Arlington and a traditional white marble headstone. And he will get his wish.”
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Happy New Year 2011
May our life journey on this Earth happily .............. Happy New Year 2011 for everyone !!!.
Photo credit : Flickr.com / Satyajit Basu.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Henrietta Lacks - Pioneering the Cure Cancer
‘Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Tells a True Story of Science, Ethics and Family
Photo: nih.gov HeLa cells as seen through a powerful microscope
FRITZI BODENHEIMER: And I’m Fritzi Bodenheimer with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the most important scientific discoveries of the last century -- the development of HeLa cells. Reporter Rebecca Skloot explores this in her book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” The book is a history of science, professional morals and the human story behind a famous line of cells.
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STEVE EMBER: For much of his career, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland had been working to find a way to grow human cells outside the body. George Gey and his team of researchers wanted to grow cancer cells in a laboratory. They believed scientists could study this illness to understand its causes and find a cure.
Dr. Gey tested many different human cells in many kinds of liquid. But the cells always died quickly. However, one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end. Cancer cells from a patient at the university’s hospital were more than just surviving. These cells were growing faster than anyone had ever seen before.
(MUSIC)
STEVE EMBER: For much of his career, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland had been working to find a way to grow human cells outside the body. George Gey and his team of researchers wanted to grow cancer cells in a laboratory. They believed scientists could study this illness to understand its causes and find a cure.
Dr. Gey tested many different human cells in many kinds of liquid. But the cells always died quickly. However, one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end. Cancer cells from a patient at the university’s hospital were more than just surviving. These cells were growing faster than anyone had ever seen before.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Bird are dying - fell from the top
Birds are dropping in droves. The thing is, it's perfectly normal.
In recent days, 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead in Arkansas. Dozens of jackdaws in Sweden fell from the sky as well. So did a few hundred turtle doves in Italy.
Associated Press
The natural questions: Are these deaths somehow linked by a common cause, a sign of an impending apocalypse or the result of a common environmental trigger? Biologists say it's unlikely.
"Large mortality events in wildlife aren't that uncommon," says Paul Slota, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., which has been tracking mass animal deaths since the 1970s. "In the last 10 years we have logged 188 cases just involving birds with mortality exceeding 1,000 animals per event."
The causes vary. Some animals starve. Others eat toxic food or get poisoned by people. Many die in severe weather, or succumb to pollution or bacterial and viral illnesses. In many causes, though, the cause remains a mystery.
In recent days, 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead in Arkansas. Dozens of jackdaws in Sweden fell from the sky as well. So did a few hundred turtle doves in Italy.
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Hundreds of dead birds cover the Morganza Highway in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., on Monday.
The natural questions: Are these deaths somehow linked by a common cause, a sign of an impending apocalypse or the result of a common environmental trigger? Biologists say it's unlikely.
"Large mortality events in wildlife aren't that uncommon," says Paul Slota, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., which has been tracking mass animal deaths since the 1970s. "In the last 10 years we have logged 188 cases just involving birds with mortality exceeding 1,000 animals per event."
The causes vary. Some animals starve. Others eat toxic food or get poisoned by people. Many die in severe weather, or succumb to pollution or bacterial and viral illnesses. In many causes, though, the cause remains a mystery.
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