Cel putin pina acum,mai rar am vazut asa lucrare ca a maestrului coolmiester,din anglia.
Un Coolermaster Cosmos s veritabil.
mai multe detalii aici
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Hot Tuning on youre PC powerd by Mit78
January 31, 2009
We welcome a new blogger with old experince , for proffesional area on hot cool pc’s.
We give you Modding Sistem.blogspot.com from fans to fans, from fanatics to fanatics, for body and soul, we give you the first post :
31 ianuarie 2009
o bijuterie….
Google has a temporar error, who damages visitors trust for navigation on interne.
Under every websait link , google exposes a messege:” this websait can harm you pc”
Google should remediate as quickly as posible the error and apologise also.
By Burca Alice Larisa
foreign policy blogs-Talking to Children About Conflict
January 31, 2009
Talking to Children About Conflict
January 29th, 2009 by Cassandra Clifford
Talking to our children about violence and war is difficult in its own right, as no parent wants to bring their child into the harsh reality that is our globalized world. And while yes, sheltering children from violence is ideal, it is not an option that holds feasibility for long. Soon children will catch a glimpse of the destruction the fills our evening news, see the images of death on the cover of the morning newspaper; hear something at school about a child in his class that was abused, etc. The reality of life is that most children two thirds of the worlds children live in violent conflict, making violence are part of everyday life. Helping children who live in environments of peace understand violence and conflict, and that children across the globe do not all live as they do, does not only help to be more prepared should they ever be faced with such situations, it also works to help prevent instances of violence and conflict. Children undoubtedly have a clearer understanding of human nature than adults tend to realize, and they tend to see past the political polarization that so often muddles’ the peace process.
So how do you talk to children about violence and conflict, with out leaving them daunted and distressed, but leave them empowered for peace? Start with letting them know that everyone does both good and bad things sometimes, but violence based on someone’s race, religion or gender is never ok. Work with them to see that real war and violence isn’t a black and white issue, there is no good guys versus the bad guys, and regardless of how gray the areas between the two sides are, atrocities such as ethnic cleansing and genocide, are never ok. Helping children to brake down the barriers between fantasy war and real war, by highlighting the realness of the victims, who are disproportionately children, lets them know that life and conflict do not always end with a storybook ending…that people die and lives are uprooted, and once peace comes there is still much to be done to help people rebuild their lives and maintain peace.
Help your children understand the world better and take time out once a week to learn a about a new culture, show them what a child’s life is life for someone their age in Brazil, China, India, Kosovo, Spain, Zambia… Why not have your child pick a country which they feel the most connected to, and work with them to find a way to give back; collecting clothing, donating their allowance, donate books to a school, etc. You and your child will not only have fun learning together, but you will be helping your child develop into a more cultured and tolerant person, and possibly even a future leader for peace! Peace begins with social responsibility and teaching our children that it is the only way forward is the only way to ever move towards sustainable peace.
See Books for Children , Resources for Children and Young Adults , Resources Teachers and Parents , and the other resource pages as well as the links for more resources and tools to help you talk to your children.
Links:
Talking to Children About Terrorism and Armed Conflict
Promoting Tolerance and Peace in Children
Kids on War, Peace and Terrorism
Tony Blair:Hamas should be part of the Middle East peace process
January 31, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) – Hamas should be part of the Middle East peace process, Tony Blair, envoy to the region of the international “quartet” of powers, said in comments published on Friday.
“I do think it is important that we find a way of bringing Hamas into this process, but it can only be done if Hamas are prepared to do it on the right terms,” Blair said in an interview with the Times newspaper, published on its website.
“If you do this in the wrong way it can destabilize the very people in Palestine who have been working all through for the moderate cause.”
With a shaky ceasefire in place after the war in Gaza, efforts are under way to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
The West supports the Fatah administration in the West Bank and says it will not talk to Hamas unless it renounces violence and recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
Former British Prime Minister Blair is the Middle East envoy for the quartet of Middle East peace negotiators — the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union.
(Reporting by Matt Falloon; editing by Andrew Roche)
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Iraqis voted enthusiastically behind barbed wire and rings of police
January 31, 2009
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By Wisam Mohammed and Michael Christie
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqis voted enthusiastically behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in a provincial poll they hope will solidify the war-battered country’s fragile security gains.
Iraq’s first election since 2005 will pick local councils in 14 of its 18 provinces and show whether Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining peace as U.S. troops begin to withdraw, almost six years after the invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is looking to use the election to build his own power base in the provinces before national polls later this year. Sunni Arab groups who boycotted the last provincial polls are hoping to win a share of local power.
There was something of a holiday atmosphere in many parts of the country. In normally traffic-choked Baghdad, children took advantage of a ban on cars to play soccer in the streets.
“How can we not vote? All of us here have always complained about being oppressed and not having a leader who represented us. Now is our chance,” said Basra voter Abdul Hussein Nuri.
At a polling station in a girls’ primary school in Kerbala, women in black robes and husbands carrying small children packed into classrooms to cast their ballots, watched by election monitors perched on tiny children’s chairs.
Airports and borders were shut and voters were frisked for suicide bomb vests and scanned for explosive residue. There were few security incidents by afternoon and car bans put in place to counter bomb attacks were being lifted early.
Three mortar rounds landed close to voting centers in Saddam’s home town Tikrit but caused no damage, and two civilians were shot in a quarrel with soldiers in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum.
Five candidates were assassinated in the run-up to the election — three of them just two days before the vote. But overall levels of violence have remained low.
“We think one, two or three incidents may happen. We expect it. This country is a newly born democracy,” said Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf.
The last election took place amid an al Qaeda-inspired Sunni insurgency and failed to halt sectarian slaughter that sharply worsened between Iraq’s once dominant Sunni Arabs and its majority Shi’ite Muslims. That violence has ebbed since 2007.
“The elections are not boycotted by any major community as has happened in the past,” Andrew Gilmore, deputy head of the U.N. mission in Iraq, told Reuters. “Above all it means these councils should be able to deliver a level of services.”
15 MILLION VOTERS
Just under 15 million of Iraq’s 28 million people are registered to vote for provincial councils that select powerful regional governors. Three Kurdish provinces will vote separately and the election was indefinitely postponed in Kirkuk, an oil-rich province divided between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen.
Around 14,400 candidates are competing for 440 council seats neighborhoodst campaigning made possible by the sharp drop in violence over the past 18 months. Brightly colored campaign posters cover the blast walls that divide Iraqi neighborhoods.
reuters.com
Hamas fired rocket on southern Israel
January 31, 2009
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A rocket fired by militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Saturday, causing no injuries, the Israeli military said.
The rocket, which landed near the Israeli city of Ashkelon, was one of a few to hit the Jewish state since a January 18 ceasefire with the Islamist group Hamas ended 22 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Israel usually responds to such rocket fire by attacking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
Some 1,300 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 700 civilians, according to a Gaza human rights group, in Israel’s offensive. Thirteen Israelis — 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rockets — were killed.
(Writing by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Dominic Evans)
reuters.com
U.S. Senator George Mitchell followed two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders
January 31, 2009
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By Adam Entous
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East envoy said on Friday that the new administration’s push for Israeli-Palestinian peace after the war in the Gaza Strip faced big hurdles and he warned of setbacks ahead.
The somber assessment by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell followed two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on shoring up a shaky ceasefire that ended Israel’s 22-day offensive against Gaza’s Hamas Islamist rulers.
In the talks, Israel has balked at fully reopening Gaza’s border crossings to allow reconstruction. Washington supports Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Iranian-backed Hamas for control of the passages, Gaza’s gateway to the outside world and a major political and economic prize.
Mitchell said consolidating the truce and “immediately” addressing the humanitarian needs of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents were the U.S. administration’s top priorities.
“Then we must move forward,” he added, citing Obama’s commitment to “aggressively” seek a peace deal.
U.S.-backed talks between Israel and the Palestinians stalled last year in discord over Jewish settlement expansion and the future of Jerusalem. Diplomats said reviving them after the war in Gaza would be very difficult and would take time.
In keeping with long-standing U.S. policy, Mitchell did not meet during his visit with Hamas, which won a 2006 Palestinian election but has been shunned as a “terrorist” group by Western powers for refusing to renounce violence and recognize Israel.
Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Western-backed Abbas and seized control of the impoverished enclave in June 2007.
“The tragic violence in Gaza and in southern Israel offers a sobering reminder of the very serious and difficult challenges and, unfortunately, the setbacks that will come,” Mitchell told reporters after touring a U.N. warehouse in Arab East Jerusalem packed with aid for Gaza’s residents.
But he added: “The United States remains committed to actively and aggressively seeking a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as between Israel and its other Arab neighbors.”
MORE AID, MORE TRADE
At the U.N. warehouse, Mitchell announced that Obama had approved $20 million in new assistance for Gaza. The money, which will go to two U.N. agencies and the Red Cross, will be used to provide food, medicine and shelter, officials said.
John Ging, who heads operations of the U.N. Palestinian refugees agency UNRWA in Gaza and met Mitchell in Jerusalem, told reporters in New York by videolink that UNRWA would be sending Israel a bill for damage to its buildings. But he said Israel had not responded to previous similar claims.
Israel’s goal in launching its offensive on December 27 was to force Hamas to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns.
Some 1,300 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 700 civilians, according to a Gaza human rights group. More than 5,000 Palestinians were wounded and thousands made homeless.
reuters.com
Somali leader vowed to end conflict in the Horn of Africa nation
January 31, 2009
By David Clarke
DJIBOUTI (Reuters) – Somalia’s moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed won the presidency on Saturday and vowed to end conflict in the Horn of Africa nation, make peace with neighbors and rule with honesty and justice.
Legislators applauded, and Ahmed smiled and raised his arms aloft, after winning the election around 4 a.m. local time (0100) in a run-off vote during an all-night parliament session.
Analysts say Ahmed has a real chance of reuniting Somalis, given his Islamist roots and the backing of parliament. But reconciling the country’s 10 million people and stopping 18 years of bloodshed remain a daunting task even for him.
Ahmed headed the sharia courts movement that brought some stability to Mogadishu and most of south Somalia in 2006, before Ethiopian troops invaded and ousted them from power.
“The conflict in Somalia will be resolved. We are urging our brothers in armed conflict to join us in peace-building,” he told parliament. “We will govern the Somali people with honesty and justice, and give them back their rights.”
After being sworn in at a hotel in Djibouti on Saturday morning, the Islamist will fly to the very country that chased him from Somalia to attend an African leaders summit. He then returns to Somalia to try and put together a unity government.
Legislators met in neighboring Djibouti due to the instability at home. But they hope they have elected a man able to isolate or even possibly bring on board hard-line insurgents, even if there is a risk the violence spikes in the short term.
Despite the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops earlier this week, and the Djibouti peace process intended to reconcile the government and opposition, hard-line Islamist insurgents led by al Shabaab have vowed to fight on.
Al Shabaab, which is on Washington’s list of foreign terrorist groups, said just before the vote that it would start a new campaign of hit-and-run attacks on the government — whoever came to power.
The group’s spokesman, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Mansoor, urged jihadists to make ready in comments after prayers in Baidoa, the former seat of parliament that al Shabaab overran this week.
MISINTERPRETATION OF ISLAM
Ahmed said those fighting to impose a strict version of Islamic law throughout the country had misinterpreted the religion and he would try to correct that.
He also said his government would not tolerate any abuse of power or corruption and treat neighbors with respect.
U.N. envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, hailed Saturday’s vote and called for a spirit of reconciliation.
“I hope and I am sure that the international community will lend its cooperation to the new authorities, provided they demonstrate their determination to promote a stable and tolerant Somalia,” he said after the election.
reuters.com
Chance for life-invest in intelligence
January 30, 2009
CHANCE FOR LIFE Foundation is a charity aiming to develop Romanian communities by empowering children and young people. By providing training for adults and challenging their conventional way of thinking, through social campaigns and educational, emotional and social support for children and youth. CHANCE FOR LIFE aims to shape the civic spirit of Romanians and contribute to the sustainable development of the communities all around the country.
We believe in children
Though Romania has had to confront a series of challenges over the years, we believe this is a wonderful country, where wonderful people live. Unfortunately, there are an enormous number of isolated communities, even within big cities, where people feel abandoned and hopeless. We believe that the key for a bright future is firstly held by children and the way they became adults. Therefore, the focus of our main programmes is children, their families and teachers, all champions of a better tomorrow. ()
We believe in the civil society
Chance for Life believes that nonprofit and governmental organisations are entrusted with the society’s most important functions – educating our minds, protecting our health, wellbeing and safety. We believe that the role of nonprofit organisations is crucial for the development of Romanian society and Romanian communities. They represent the initiatives of people that did not want to stay apart.
Unfortunately, the public faith in these institutions had been seriously diminished by poor image, poor communication and sometimes poor management. To restore the public’s confidence, organisations must increase the disclosure, analysis and dissemination of performance information. Chance for Life is committed to communicate periodically its financial results, and to reveal the achievement of our programmes and activities goals. ()
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Placido Domingo-The Legend looks back-The Met’s 125th anniversary
January 30, 2009
What goes through your mind when you think back on 40 years at the Met?
Little did I know at my debut that I would be singing here for so long— much less that my anniversary would coincide with the 125th anniversary of the house! It’s amazing that I’m still singing here and am part of this company, the theater in which I have spent more hours than any other theater in the world.
Last September, on the exact date of the 40th anniversary of your debut, the Met held an onstage dinner featuring tributes and performances in your honor. What was that like?
It was so emotional I could hardly speak. Life passes quickly. I can see myself coming to the Met with my children. I can see my boy who was not yet four years old in a pile of snow out in the plaza—and now he’s 43! The speed of life is incredible. You just want to stop the clock sometimes.
This month you’re taking on a unique challenge: revisiting Maurizio, the role of your Met debut in Adriana Lecouvreur.
For me it will be very poignant—it will bring me back to those years. I hope when I’m on stage I will feel as happy as I was in 1968.
Last season you added Oreste in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride to your repertoire. And the season before that you created the title role in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor. What pushes you to keep challenging yourself?
It is very, very important to keep doing new things. I’ve always looked for new parts. There’s so much repertoire—I often say that I think I will need three lives to do everything I want.
You’re known for learning roles extremely quickly. How do you do it?
Believe me, it takes me longer now to learn a role, if for no other reason than my schedule is very busy. I have to take care of two opera houses [LA Opera and Washington National Opera] and my singing, my conducting, the young singers in both opera houses, and Operalia [Domingo’s competition for young singers]. So it’s a lot to do. Of course, at the beginning of my career, I was only singing, so I would learn a role in no time. I think I’m just a quick learner.
What do you think is the secret to your longevity?
I think it’s a combination of things. At the very beginning of my career, everybody said, ‘Oh, Plácido’s not going to last because he works so much.’ That’s the phrase I kept hearing. But you carry the weight your shoulders are capable of carrying. I had such enthusiasm to search for repertoire that would fit me—even some repertoire that seemed dangerous for me. You always have to challenge yourself. It’s also very important that I have been able to prepare 80% of my repertoire alone. I sit at the piano and I learn the operas, just by playing them. I didn’t sing too much. Most singers go to coaches and do a lot of actual singing to learn an opera. I had the ability to play the piano, and by visualizing the piano and the text, I learned the operas almost without trying. But any singer who goes to a coach has to sing every day, probably between performances, when he’s tired. That amount of singing—I didn’t do it in coaching sessions, so I’m still able to do it now on the stage.
When you look back on the last 40 years—what are some of the unforgettable moments?
There are many, many, many—it’s impossible to name them all. But of course my debut, any opening night, any new production. I had some unforgettable performances with my ladies—sopranos like Tebaldi, Price, Nilsson, Caballé, Freni, Scotto, Verrett, Bumbry. The pairing with Sherrill Milnes in many, many performances was very special. Above everything, my collaboration with Maestro Levine, the conductor I have done the most performances with. And of course there’s my romance with the Met public, which has been unbelievable across the years.
At the 125th Anniversary Gala in March you’ll give us a sneak peek of the baritone title role of Simon Boccanegra, which you will sing for the first time next season. What attracts you to this part?
It has always been a role that I adored: the music, the contrast between the prologue and the rest of the opera, the drama. Then there’s the love between the father and the daughter, which reflects Verdi’s tremendous feeling for any kind of scene that involved fathers and children—because he was an unhappy father, who lost his children when they were little. I always said, ‘Near the end of my career, I want to do Boccanegra.’ It’s not that I want to be a baritone, but I want to do Boccanegra. And here it is! But I’m still singing tenor parts. These are not my last performances—not planned in any case. You never know. Every day, when I wake up in the morning, I ask myself the question, Am I still able to sing? And so far the answer has always been yes.
Adriana Lecouvreur opens on February 6. Plácido Domingo will also perform at the 125th Anniversary Gala on March 15.
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