Eurovision ’73 winner Anne Marie David discusses her four-decade career and the Contest, past and present

Monday, February 16, 2009

In the 1970s, she was one of the most popular female vocalists in France, and became well-known internationally. Anne Marie David, from Arles in the south of France, parlayed her initial success from playing Mary Magdalene in the French production of Jesus Christ Superstar into taking home the “grand prix” at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973. Her winning song, “Tu te reconnaîtras” (You will recognize yourself), became a Europe-wide hit that spring.

At the height of her popularity, David perfomed world tours, and even lived abroad in Turkey for a time. In 1979, she tried once again to win the Eurovision, and placed a respectable third. Her song “Je suis l’enfant soleil” (I’m a child of the sun) became similarly popular across France and in the Francophone nations.

As time went on, however, her place in the French music scene became less certain. Touring the world had taken a personal toll, and David decided to retire from music completely in 1987. However, with the help of her fan base, she was coaxed out of retirement in 2003 and is returning to a part of her life that she tried to leave, but never left her. Celebrating four decades in the music scene, David is looking forward to adventurous new projects and a newfound zest for life.

Anne Marie David corresponded with Wikinews’ Mike Halterman about her eventful career, her personal anecdotes regarding living abroad, her successes in past Eurovision contests and her grievances with the way the show is produced today. This is the second in a series of interviews with past Eurovision contestants, which will be published sporadically in the lead-up to mid-May’s next contest in Moscow.

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International participants showcase different industry cultures at 2008 Taipei Game Show

Friday, January 25, 2008

B2B Trade Area of Taipei Game Show, criticized by trade buyers last year, but accompanied with 2008 Taiwan Digital Content Forum, moved to the second floor at Taipei World Trade Center for world-wide participants with a better exchange atmosphere this year.

Not only local OBMs (Softstar Entertainment, Soft-World International Corp., International Games System Corp., …, etc.) but also companies from New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea showcased different specialists with multiple styles. Especially on South Korea, participated members from G? Trade Show (Game Show & Trade, All-Round, aka Gstar) showcased gaming industry of South Korea and the G? upcoming at this November with brochures.

In the 2-days Digital Content Forum, world-class experts not only shared industry experiences, members from Taiwan Gaming Industry Association also discussed and forecasted marketing models for gaming industry. With participations from governmental, industrial, and academical executives world-wide, this forum helps them gained precious experiences of digital content industry from several countries.

According to the Taipei Computer Association, the show and forum organizer, the digital content industry in Taiwan was apparently grown up recent years as Minister of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China Steve Ruey-long Chen said at Opening Ceremony yesterday. Without R&Ds from cyber-gaming, and basic conceptions from policies and copyright issues, this (digital content) industry will be fallen down in Taiwan. If this industry wanted to be grown up in sustainability, gaming OBMs in Taiwan should independently produce different and unique games and change market style to market brands and games to the world.

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Five convicted in abortion case in Portugal

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

A doctor, his assistant and three women who were found to have undergone abortion were convicted of violating abortion laws in Portugal.

The three women were found to have undergone abortion in violation of Portuguese law. Abortion is illegal in Portugal except where a pregnancy is caused by rape or when the health of the mother is in danger due to the pregnancy. Further, abortion cannot be performed after the first trimester (the end of 12th week).

Twelve other defendants, mostly women and their partners, were found not guilty. The doctor was sentenced to 3 years and 8 months in prison. His assistant was deemed an accomplice and sentenced to 1 year and 4 months in prison. The three women were given 6 month suspended sentences.

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All the defendants had earlier been acquitted of the charges in 2004 for lack of evidences. That decision was declared void by a superior court on appeal. The court decided that the medical examinations conducted on the women, which were performed without a court order or the presence of a state witness, were legal.

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The Many Benefits Of Foam Rolling Exercises

By Bethany Thomas

The use of foam rollers amongst health enthusiasts and athletes has grown over the years. As more and more people are continuously discovering the many health benefits of foam rolling exercises, it is expected we will see a lot more of these foam rollers in gyms, parks, homes and just about anywhere as long as exercise exists.

What is a foam roller?

A foam roller is a tubular piece of foam utilized to offer a soothing stretch and a kneading massage to the body. Its basic principle is to use the body’s weight to provide pressure while rolling over the foam. Foam rollers are effective in taking out pain, tightness and tissue adhesions. In addition, they also supply a unique way of stretching and various balancing exercises for the athlete.

Foam rollers can be bought in various colors, styles and designs. They also come in different sizes and densities to facilitate better exercise routines for the whole body. You can find foam rollers that are smooth, ridged or with knobs to provide a deeper and more effective massage. They can be used by both men and women of all ages.

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Foam Rolling Exercises to Achieve Optimum Athletic Performance

The benefits of using the different foam rolling exercises promote the body’s overall muscular and physical ability. It will make and keep you at your top condition as you prepare for any athletic or sport tournament.

Benefits of Foam Rolling Exercises

With foam rollers, you can choose to exercise every body tissue that needs kneading or gliding. You have power over the specific areas because you use your own weight to provide pressure as you roll over the foam. Focusing on your problematic areas will ease and alleviate pain brought about by too much or from lack of exercise.

-Foam rollers are perfect for stretching. Stretching is when you pull or lengthen your body parts. Foam rollers can target even the parts that are impossible or hard to stretch like the outer thighs. As an individual ages, the joints and the muscles lose elasticity and flexibility. Therefore, a restricted range of motion may develop. This occurrence will make simple daily activities difficult. Stretching can eliminate the tightening of the muscles and the joints and provide a good exercise to lessen muscle tension, augment energy and blood circulation, improve muscle coordination and boosts the joints’ range of motion.

-Foam Rolling Exercises help in the body’s rehabilitation especially after an injury. It provides a higher potential of eliminating injury or acquiring further injury while recuperating. Moreover, it also alleviates pain, soreness and muscle tension while breaking down scar tissues or myofascial adhesions. Scar tissue buildups as the muscles in the body incur injuries from our day-to-day activities including workouts and training programs. Myofascial adhesions are painful and in most cases, you don’t know that you have them. These adhesions restrict your movements and reduce your ability to carry out muscle activities to the optimum level.

-Foam rolling exercises are a recommended way of warming up or cooling down before or after a strength training or any workout program to reduce adhesions and muscle injuries. It also increases the ability of the muscles to recover easily and quickly.

-Foam rolling can also provide an invigorating deep tissue massage. It relaxes the muscles after training or workout. Foam rolling exercises can effortlessly target every part of the body that needs stretching. These muscles include the calves, illiotibial bands, hamstrings, gluteal muscles and the quadriceps. Foam rollers also promote optimal lengthening and range of motion to the spine and its surrounding muscles and tissues.

Foam rollers are Effective Therapeutic Tools

Foam rollers improve blood circulation in the muscles, tissues, skin, tendons, fascia and the ligaments. By allowing a good flow of blood to these vital areas, a perfect amount of nutrients and oxygen can nourish these parts to protect and offer rejuvenation and treatment. The excretion of waste from the different cellular and tissue levels will also provide higher chances of eliminating muscle and joint illness and injuries. Exercises with the use of foam rollers can also provide soft tissue therapies in a short span of time.

Foam rollers are efficient pain killing tools to reduce stiffness of the knees, hips and the spinal joints. Many result to acupuncture, surgical procedures, chiropractic adjustments and other medical or homeopathic treatments to treat pain caused by adhesions and inflexibility. It is time to let them know that a simple, inexpensive way is through the regular use of an efficient therapeutic tool – a foam roller!

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Australian cricket tour of Zimbabwe cancelled

Monday, May 14, 2007

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said his government has decided to not let the national cricket team go to Zimbabwe.

“We don’t do this lightly, but we are convinced that for the tour to go ahead there would be an enormous propaganda boost for the Mugabe regime,” Howard told ABC television. “The [Robert] Mugabe regime at present is behaving like the Gestapo towards its political opponents, the living standards of the country are probably the lowest of any in the world and you have an unbelievable rate of inflation.”

Reactions from Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe came quickly.

“The Australians are mixing politics with sport and the decision shows how desperate the Howard government is to isolate Zimbabwe,” junior information minister Bright Matonga told Agence France-Presse.

“Australia is one of the worst human rights violators in this whole world. Look what they have done to the aborigines and yet they have the audacity to stand up and claim to have the moral authority to condemn us. This is also a racist ploy to kill our local cricket since our cricket team is now dominated by black players as we slowly transform cricket from being an elite sport.”

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Day 1 report of Wikimania 2006

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Sunday, August 6, 2006

Wikimania 2006 is the second annual Wikimedia conference. Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it began August 4 and will run until August 6.

Wikimania began with a keynote presentation from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales played a short portion of a clip from a recent episode of U.S. television program The Colbert Report discussing Wikipedia. In the clip, Colbert says that “any website that has a longer entry on truthiness than Lutheranism has got its priorities straight.” His keynote continued by re-emphasising Wikimedia’s mission, as stated by Wales in a Slashdot interview: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing”.

Wales stated that Wikipedia is “not as good as Britannica — yet”. Additionally, he also stated that in the coming year, Wikipedia will be making “a turn towards quality”. “We have always had this goal, but we all know we’re not there yet – in the coming years one of the themes is going to be a turn towards quality.” said Wales.

He then introduced Brad Patrick, the general counsel and recently-appointed interim CEO of Wikimedia. Patrick said he found Wikimedia after reading Wales’ list Ten Things That Will Be Free on Lawrence Lessig‘s blog. After discovering the Wikimedia Foundation, Patrick emailed Wales about meeting for lunch. He had lunch with Wales a few months later and was hired as general counsel shortly after.

Wales went on to describe Wikia, the company he co-founded with Angela Beesley. He announced that Wikia has received venture capital, allowing them to hire full-time engineers to work on the MediaWiki software. He emphasized that Wikia, has “a total commitment to free knowledge and respect for communities.”

Later, Wales announced that the One Laptop Per Child project will be including Wikipedia as the first element in the content repository. He also announced that the board has approved Wikiversity as “a center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities”. Wikiversity will “create and host a range of free-content multilingual learning materials for all age groups in all languages”. It will be launched soon with a three language, six month, beta trial period.

Wales described a project called Wikiwyg: a WYSIWYG editor for the wiki. Wikiwyg is an attempt to make the wiki easier to edit. “An intelligence test by making it hard to edit, just does not work,” noted Wales. While the release date is uncertain both Wikia and Socialtext are devoting full-time engineers to the project.

Wales emphasized the need to focus on quality. He also briefly discussed the commitment in the German Wikipedia to rolling out a stable version. He stated that if we do not have it rolled out by next year’s keynote “we are making a big mistake”.

Wales finished his keynote by giving an update on his Ten Things That Will Be Free and proposing “that the foundation seek funding to hire community coordinator and recruiters for important languages where we currently do poorly”.

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Other notable speakers included Ward Cunningham, Lawrence Lessig, Eben Moglen and many members of the Wikimedia communities.

The day wrapped up with a poster reception and a party celebrating Wikia’s 250,000 articles and Wikia’s founders Angela Beesley and Jimmy Wales birthdays.

Archived copies of many of the presentations are available on the Wikimania wiki.

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Sweden’s Crown Princess marries long-time boyfriend

Monday, June 21, 2010

Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976 took place Saturday when Crown Princess Victoria, 32, married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, 36. The ceremony took place at Stockholm Cathedral.

Over 1,200 guests, including many rulers, politicians, royals and other dignitaries from across the world, attended the wedding, which cost an estimated 20 million Swedish kronor. Victoria wore a wedding dress with five-metre long train designed by Pär Engsheden. She wore the same crown that her mother, Queen Silvia, wore on her wedding day 34 years previously, also on June 19. Victoria’s father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, walked Victoria down the aisle, which was deemed untraditional by many. In Sweden, the bride and groom usually walk down the aisle together, emphasising the country’s views on equality. Victoria met with Daniel half-way to the altar, where they exchanged brief kisses, and, to the sounds of the wedding march, made their way to the the silver altar. She was followed by ten bridesmaids. The couple both had tears in their eyes as they said their vows, and apart from fumbling when they exchanged rings, the ceremony went smoothly.

Following the ceremony, the couple headed a fast-paced procession through central Stockholm on a horse-drawn carriage, flanked by police and security. Up to 500,000 people are thought to have lined the streets. They then boarded the Vasaorden, the same royal barge Victoria’s parents used in their wedding, and traveled through Stockholm’s waters, accompanied by flyover of 18 fighter jets near the end of the procession. A wedding banquet followed in the in the Hall of State of the Royal Palace.

Controversy has surrounded the engagement and wedding between the Crown Princess and Westling, a “commoner”. Victoria met Westling as she was recovering from bulemia in 2002. He owned a chain of gymnasiums and was brought in to help bring Victoria back to full health. Westling was raised in a middle-class family in Ockelbo, in central Sweden. His father managed a social services centre, and his mother worked in a post office. When the relationship was made public, Westling was mocked as an outsider and the king was reportedly horrified at the thought of his daughter marrying a “commoner”, even though he did so when he married Silvia. Last year, Westling underwent transplant surgery for a congenital kidney disorder. The Swedish public have been assured that he will be able to have children and that his illness will not be passed on to his offspring.

Westling underwent years of training to prepare for his new role in the royal family, including lessons in etiquette, elocution, and multi-lingual small talk; and a makeover that saw his hair being cropped short, and his plain-looking glasses and clothes being replaced by designer-wear.

Upon marrying the Crown Princess, Westling took his wife’s ducal title and is granted the style “His Royal Highness”. He is now known as HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland. He also has his own coat-of-arms and monogram. When Victoria assumes the throne and becomes Queen, Daniel will not become King, but assume a supportive role, similar to that of Prince Phillip, the husband of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II.

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China’s National Strength Ascended Period Sino Us Relations

By Jerri Lily

From the two governments and the mainstream political elite point of view, both sides are willing to seek a cooperative Sino-US relations

From the perspective of China’s diplomacy in 2010 will be a very special year.

On the one hand, China’s national strength has reached a new level of increase, second quarter of 2010 China’s economy ranks second in the world; the other hand, the situation of China’s diplomacy is facing ever more complex, not well at the beginning of Sino-US relations into the China since the summer in the East China Sea, Yellow Sea and South China Sea disputes with neighboring countries also suffered.

The complexity of China’s diplomacy and the complexity of Sino-US relations are synchronized to arise. Of course, the two governments also trying to control the situation, a stable relationship. Premier Wen Jiabao on September 22 in New York entitled “jointly create the bright future of Sino-US relations in the new period,” the speech, pointed out that in 10 years, after the international situation, China-US relations without a major ups and downs, the overall stable development momentum.

The recent Sino-US relations, in the past on the basis of some new features.

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New Features of the United States is that it will be at the beginning of all the cards are played within a short time out. Taiwan, the United States is always time to time to the past, trade, human rights, security and so on a rise in revolt, while very few shots on several issues. Now the beginning, the United States in human rights, trade, climate issues and areas such as nuclear proliferation, a comprehensive attack.

China deal with the United States also has new features, criticisms that there is in the oral action. In the trade sanctions, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the U.S. Commerce Department announced sanctions on Chinese products roughly the same amount the next day to make the anti-sanctions, and so on. These changes allow some U.S. public opinion and strategic experts believe that China “has become arrogant, aggressive.”

GDP in China overtake Japan, the world economy still faces the risk of second bottom when the two economic giants China-US relations is bound to affect the world economy. Also why, what volatility of Sino-US relations, the degree of concern will be out of the past.

First, the international situation has undergone changes in the objective. As the financial crisis, pressure loss, reduced demand for immediate cooperation, the original focus on some of the problems appear savings.

The second is subjective psychological factors between the two countries in 2009 to enhance bilateral relations between the two sides a good start in the psychological expectations, but reality does not meet this expectation, it had some degree of dissatisfaction and disappointment.

The third factor is the internal affairs of the United States. Although the recent National Security Strategy of view, I attach importance to Sino-US strategic relations between Obama, hoping that China will become the responsibility of the partners, global responsibilities, but his support rate fall in the United States, criticized in the control of the sound Sino-US relations, reduced ability to coordinate internally.

Fourth, the United States appeared less favorable to China’s collective psychology, the most important manifestations of their confidence in the American society, insecurity increased. Just at that moment, the Chinese due to the relatively small impact of financial crisis, the crisis properly, there is from the “one superpower and many” come to the fore the many powerful trend, Americans are particularly sensitive.

Fifth is the confidence in the growth, the national growth in the face of financial crises, natural disasters, outstanding performance, a successful Olympics and World Expo, the Chinese government and civil society confidence, the United States in dealing with Sino-US relations on a number of traditional practices is difficult to continue.

Sixth, with the reform and opening up, China’s social pluralism of interests emerged, views a wide range of phenomena, the Chinese Foreign faced with the need to consider more of the internal factors, which reduced the flexibility of the Chinese to adopt policies to strengthen the U.S. attitude.

Finally, with the overall national strength increased, and in 2000 the Chinese government’s “going out” strategy implemented, the interests of China’s overseas expansion of influence in Asia rising, causing unrest and the U.S. rebound.

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Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags

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They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter of grocery stores, and place a levy on other plastic bags, all to combat the country’s environmental problems stemming from the bags’ popularity.

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Anthrocon 2007 draws thousands to Pittsburgh for furry weekend

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Local caterers get ready for big business, as almost three thousand fans converge on the David L. Lawrence Convention Center over the Independence Day weekend for the world’s largest ever furry convention, Anthrocon 2007.

Many hope to renew acquaintances, or meet new friends. Others look to buy from dealers and artists, or show off new artwork or costumes. Some attend to make money, or even learn a thing or two. But one thing unites them: They’re all there to have fun.

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