US ends Iraq Active duties

The United States has indicated that after the last combat brigade on 19 August withdrawn from Iraq. President Obama had promised in his campaign to withdraw the troops that were in the end of the Iraq war since 2003-long occupation of the country stationed there. With the departure of the President was in the schedule, the combat mission “Iraqi Freedom” (Iraqi Freedom) 31 August discontinued.

According to press statement by the U.S. forces remain after the first September 50,000 soldiers in the country, but with no combat mission. The new mission called “New Dawn” (New Dawn see) before only a supporting and advisory role and should last until late 2011. After that, all U.S. soldiers have left the country. According to reports the New York Times is also thinking of doubling the current deduction to offset the number of mercenary troops to 7,000.

The impact of the deduction to the political situation in Iraq is uncertain. Since the parliamentary elections five months ago, it is in the coalition negotiations have not succeeded in forming a government.

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John Leguizamo Is the Sweeper

John Leguizamo from new news reports is going to star in a new movie called The Sweeper

In this new movie, he plays a drunk , cheating football player who bothers everyone on his team , ala The Pest

John hasn’t been in too many movies here recently, so I’m quite excited to see what will happen with his career. I loved him in the matrix , however this may be more interesting, football movies are either great or awful , so it will be interesting to see what happens with this new movie of his.

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Diciplinary actions for the french football team in South Africa.

The Disciplinary Committee of the French Football Federation has sanctioned several players from the France team after the disaster in South Africa last June. So, Nicolas Anelka has been suspended for 18 games for France after his insults against the national team. This case was revealed by the newspaper The Team following the defeat of the Blues ahead of Mexico in the group stage. This revelation was then led to the exclusion of the player of the national team.

To support the excluded player, Patrice Evra, Franck Ribery and several players were then plotted a strike of his training for the last qualifying match that could qualify France. Evra then scoop five games, Ribery and Jeremy Toulalan 3 one. However, the disciplinary committee acquitted Eric Abidal noting his explanations

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7.0 earthquake rocks New Britian & New Guinea

An earthquake in the western Pacific Ocean with a Moment Magnitude of 6.3 Mw on Monday, 16 August 2010, at 1:09 local time clock (clock 17:09 EDT on Sunday, 15 August) struck the west of the island of New Britain. When the earthquake it was a “deep” earthquakes with epicenter about 149 km west-northwest of the city Kandrian in 197.2 km depth.

The earthquake was the second strong earthquake in the region within two weeks. On 5 August had an earthquake with a Moment Magnitude of 7.0 Mw to the west of the island interrupted electricity and communication lines for almost three days.

Currently there are no reports of damage or casualties from the recent earthquake. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has been no tsunami warning.

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Fires damage police station on island

A series of fires in the night has to 16th August, the fire department of the island kept on their toes. At a total of five places, the forces needed, according to Mayor Petra Reiber delete eleven fires. The police, according to police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow against persons unknown on suspicion of arson.

According to the firemen all available fire trucks were in use. Approximately four hundred tourists spent the rest of the night in a hall of Sylt airport. The fire department was informed of 1:30 to 4:30 on the clock each fire.

In Westerland first dormitory burned some seniors a dumpster by the Workers. These fires were quickly extinguished. The people’s home, however, was the Workers’ clock in the morning shortly after three again the scene of a fire brigade. The fire in the building was cleared by the fire quickly. An employee of the nursing home suffered slight burns and smoke inhalation.

In Wenningstedt occurred in the early morning hours to a basement fire in an outbuilding of the Hotel Lindner. The local team leader Ralf Winter stated that the reason for the burning of linen was known. Because of this fire about 250 guests at the four-star hotels were evacuated precaution. The hotel is due to soot formation are not being habitable. Also near the hotel burnt to the cultivation of a restaurant. Three quarters of an hour later, firefighters had to move out again after Wenningstedt because the fire was reported two containers.

At the Community College Klappholttal between Kampen and List have been a farm building with dining rooms and an accommodation building for guests and staff a prey to the flames. The fire service was alerted at 2:31 clock. The fire was fought by 150 firefighters here. A policeman was also managed to drop in a further building on the 7.2 acre site set on fire tablecloths made of paper and brochures before the fire spread.

At 4:30 clock the fire was once again a burning dumpster reported in Westerland. Again, this fire on Wenningstedt way could be cleared by the emergency services quickly.

On the edge of the fire brigade were in a car accident in Tinnum with a fire engine three people slightly injured. To the vehicle was a total loss. The total damage could easily exceed one million euros.

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Star wars complete on blu-ray in 2011 and deleted scenes

According to the annual rumors were George Lucas in person at the “Celebration V” Convention in Orlando announced that the complete Star Wars Saga will be released worldwide on Blu-ray in the fall of 2011. All six films are to appear as a box set here in the best picture and sound quality and contain more features.

Specific details have not yet been named, was at the convention, however, have shown a “Deleted Scene”, composed of Luke Skywalker in a lightsaber.

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A report of the video entertainment site “VideoETA”, a news and information portal for new publications on the DVD market is fueling speculation that the Star Wars series would appear to match the 30-year anniversary soon on Blu-ray Disc.

The author of the report took a passage from the Quarterly Report of toy manufacturers “Hasbro to”: “[...] Looking ahead, Verrecchia said he expected Star Wars to continue to be a strong performer with Lucas planning a video release for this year’s 30th anniversary, a Star Wars animated TV show next year and a live-action Star Wars TV show in 2009. “Under continued:” He and his studio have a lot going on over the next several years to support the franchise. ”

Translated, this means: “[...] Verrecchia expected from the Star Wars movies still that they will be a strong performers because Lucas for this year’s 30th Anniversary of a video release, a Star Wars animated series for next year and a live-action Star Wars television series for 2009 planning. “He continued:” He and his studio have many things in the coming years in the planning stage to the franchise to support. ”

The vague term “video release”, ie, video publishing, led “VideoETA” to speculate that this publication on Blu-ray could be meant. Background: 20th Century Fox, which distributes the films of the company “Lucas Films’ favors, the Blu-ray technology. This assumption was not confirmed officially.

There are also other publications available. Among others, George Lucas announced at the film market “Show West Convention in 2005 that a further revision of the films were planned in order to convert a 3-D film format. There may be may be a simple DVD-Box, which includes all six parts. In addition, the episodes IV to VI have both the Special Edition as well as the theatrical version in the box. Until now only a collector of episodes IV to VI in the Special Edition, the theatrical versions and the episodes I to III in the trade.

George Lucas behaves more cautiously to new video technology. Thus, in 1997 the 20th anniversary of “only” brought out by new computer technology revisions as a special edition on VHS. Only in 2004 appeared the “Star Wars” episodes on DVD, although at that time, the market share of DVD was already relatively high. The fact that there are already high definition master tapes for all six parts, has been proved with the broadcasting of any part in the German pay TV channel PremiereHD end of last year. Rapid implementation of a successor to the DVD-media could very well be possible. At the moment, but can not be said that the fact that Blu-ray or the competing HD-DVD technology on the market are remarkable dissemination. It remains so until the 30-year anniversary on 25 May be seen what kind of gift to the fans it will be eventually.

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Singapore to host 2011 youth olympics

Candidate Cities

Following the decision of the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 5 July 2007 as part of its 119th Session to introduce the Youth Olympic Games, a youth version of the Olympic Games a candidate, first eleven cities for hosting the event. The candidate list was later reduced to two candidates. On 21 February 2008 sat down with the application of Singapore by 53:44 votes against the Russian capital Moscow.
Organisation

The budget of the First Youth Olympic Summer Games is around € 222 million, exceeding the originally budgeted costs threefold. With more than 100 million €, the IOC supported the event. The competitions held in 18 different sports, 12 of which previously existed only temporarily, and five for the hosting of the games were built. The opening and closing ceremonies are at The Float @ Marina Bay, instead of the weitweit largest floating stage, which was built in 2007 at the Marina Bay of Singapore.

The accommodations of the athletes and their carers was built on the grounds of the Nanyang Technological University. The program of the Olympic Youth Games provides that all participants stay for the entire Games in Singapore. The aim is to them as possible to come into contact with other young people and participate in cultural and educational programs.
Participating Nations

Around 3600 young people from all 205 countries with national Olympic committees are represented at the Games in Singapore, therefore, the number of participating nations at the Summer Olympics in Beijing surpassed 2008th Although the NOC was Kuwait after the attempt of political interference by the government of the country excluded from the event, but the Kuwaiti athletes may compete under the Olympic flag.

Germany is represented with 70 participants in 20 sports. Austria sent ten athletes and six athletes from twelve sports , for Switzerland enter 22 athletes in ten sports.  of Liechtenstein is the swimmers Julia Hassler and Simon Beck and the Judoka Patrick Marxer represented.

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Oracle to release Solaris to the open source community

Oracle said on Friday informed in an internal e-mail its employees about the future of Solaris, which is to appear next version 2011th mention in this message, the controller Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes also what future plans they have with OpenSolaris, the open source version of the operating system. Accordingly, the distribution of Open Solaris is actually set and the publication of source code is to follow only the binary distribution of Solaris. Recent users of OpenSolaris will, however, a simple upgrade to Solaris 11 Express be made possible. At the licensing is to change, according to this document, nothing. The support of open source projects like Apache, and Perl should be retained.

On 3 August was the OpenSolaris project communitiy Illumos launched because the group, according to the developers, not to his promise or about Sun’s joint development of the project was bound. This message is Oracle now officially working with the developer community outside of a group.

Sun Microsystems on 27 acquired by Oracle in January 2010 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. Sun Solaris also developed other than the Java platform and the same programming language and the MySQL database management system.

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North Korea to repay debts

The government of North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Il to the would pay a portion of its debt to the Czech Republic. The largely cut off from the global capital market country offers to pay with cash instead of with ginseng. The tuber is used for medical purposes and should do well among other things, memory and libido. Whether the Czech government responds to the offer, is currently uncertain. The fact that North Korea proposed a payment of debts in kind, in fact, has confirmed government spokesman.

With around ten million U.S. dollars in North Korea, the Czech Republic in the Cretaceous, five percent of them want to pay back the communist state now. Overall, the country whose economy is based primarily in the western world coveted food and the illegal trafficking in arms, about twelve billion dollars in debt. For the most part, these are costs to the military buildup. Creditors are mainly the former socialist states.

According to the Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes “would have to North Korea, depending on market value, twelve to deliver 20 tons of ginseng, to pay off at $ 500,000. The Korea Times reported, “North Korea has already sent a delegation with samples of the root to Prague in order to convince the local leaders. Tomas Zidek, Czech Finance Minister, said that his government had asked North Korea, instead of ginseng to supply zinc, since the annual consumption of the plant in his country amounts to only 1.4 tons per year. Zinc on the other hand one could at least make money.

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Columbia conflict may draw to a close

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos met on Tuesday to discuss yesterday for an interview to the simmering conflict for years between the two countries and especially since 22 July aborted relations resume.

Contrary to initial reports met the two leaders not in Bogotá, but in Santa Marta, the village in northern Colombia, died in 1830, the freedom fighter Simón Bolívar. After Chávez and Santos at the memorial of Bolívar’s thought, which began nearly four-hour talks.

The agreement includes the use of five commissions on economic and social issues, and a commission on security. Colombia had 22 July pictures, documents and videos presented, should the presence of 1,500 guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC on Venezuelan territory to prove. Chavez claimed the other hand, now also in personal conversation with Santos that the emitted Venezuelan patrol had found no camp of the FARC in the border area with Colombia. He also confirmed that his government “neither guerrillas, drug traffickers or even terrorists supported on Venezuelan territory, allowed or will allow.” Another reason for the discord between Caracas and Bogotá, Colombia was the agreement with the U.S. over the stationing of U.S. troops on Colombian territory. Chávez said it now that Colombia is a sovereign state and can take any form of agreement.

The process of rapprochement of the two states will be accompanied by the Union of South American Nations UNASUR under the Argentine Secretary Néstor Kirchner, who also had previously been instrumental in mediating in this conflict.

The mutual visits of ambassadors was also agreed upon, such as maintaining a direct and open dialogue between the heads of state.

A sensitive issue was omitted, namely the action, which was reintroduced by Álvaro Uribe of Colombia against Chávez in the International Court in The Hague.

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