Wednesday 15 July 2009

The absolutely nothing.


The absolutely nothing. Who is the dam in such way that doesn’t see the obvious? That day before the Rio Tinto – Chinalco 15.2 billion business my eye was pouring tears? Was my imagination or “medvedev” start being higher, whiter and more ‘handy’ at the Royal Stock Exchange? Like that boy trying to give a helping hand to an old and tired shogun. Almost at the same place the three musqueteers with the Blair’s Home Secretary Mr. Blunkett serving like a D’Artanian, only this time younger, of brother complexion, in good spirits and see everything. Cutting from Corn to the Princess street – I see the ex-Portuguese President Soares (that from revolutionary body-guards of 25 of April) in Karachi variant, with portfolio full of commercial proposals, almost run in my direction. Maybe I have a special gift to handle these officials? Maybe special talent to see difference between economical explanations and long, long, long, very long year’s excuses? Just because I am good like a конюх (i.e. groom)? Like a maestro orchestrating and than swing the normal everyday life encounters into some kind of fruition. Even if they smell like a oil painting. More yet if this is magic day of 15th

Legal row over National Portrait Gallery images placed on Wikipedia Tuesday 14 July 2009 20.53 BST The National Portrait Gallery has threatened legal proceedings for breach of copyright against a man who downloaded thousands of high-resolution images from its website, and placed them in an archive of free-to-use images on Wikipedia. There has been no formal response from the internet encyclopedia but Derrick Coetzee, who downloaded the images, promptly uploaded the letter from the London lawyers Farrar and Co, "to enable public discourse on the issue". He said he was taking legal advice . Photographs of works of art are protected by copyright in the UK, but not in the US, where Coetzee lives. All the creators of the original images are long since dead, but the photographs were only taken for the NPG as part of a £1m digitisation project in the last couple of years. The gallery stressed today that they hoped to avoid taking any further legal action, and said they were not considering suing Wikipedia. It said it would be happy for the online site to use low-resolution images but was "very concerned" about loss of revenue from copyright fees for the high-resolution versions, which form a significant part of its income.The projected gross revenue from fees in 2008/9 was over more than £339,000. The images include paintings, drawings and photographs. There are depictions of of politicians, such as George Canning, whose 119-day tenure as prime minister is the shortest on record; paintings, such as that of a charming portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire – subject of a hit biography and film – as a child; and other images of writers and artists including the famously romantic portraits of Byron, and a portrait picture of the pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron by her friend the artist GF Watts. The gallery is halfway through a £1m project to digitise its entire collection: over more than 60,000 images are already on its website. In March a new feature was added – giving a low-resolution version of the complete works , but allowing viewers to zoom in on sections of images in high resolution. In March, Coetzee found a way past this software, and captured 3,014 complete images in high resolution.

Plane crashes north-west of Tehran, 168 feared dead A Caspian Airlines flight crashed north-west of Tehran soon after take-off and all 168 people on board are believed to have been killed. The Iranian Tupolev aircraft was heading from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia's capital.AFP - An Iranian airliner crashed into farmland in the northwest of the country on Wednesday, and all 168 people on board are believed to be dead, officials and local media reported. The Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the city of Qazvin, northwest of the capital, shortly after takeoff from Tehran's international Imam Khomeini airport, local media said. Civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said 153 passengers and 15 crew members were on board the airliner, which was flying to the Armenian capital Yerevan. "The plane took off from the Imam Khomeini airport and 16 minutes later it disappeared off the radar and then it crashed," he said, giving the takeoff time at 11:33 am (0703 GMT). "We can not confirm anything more before we receive additional information from the team that we despatched at the crash site." State television's website said all aboard were "most probably were dead." "The passenger plane was completed destroyed and the wreckage was scattered everywhere," IRNA quoted Qazvin police chief Masoud Jafari Nasab as saying. "Most probably all passengers on board have been killed in the crash," he said, adding that the plane had crashed in farmland near the village of Janat Abad. English-language state-run channel Press TV said the plane was believed to be a Russian-built Tupolev. Iran, which has been under years of international sanctions, has suffered a number of aviation disasters over the past decade. Twenty-nine people were killed in September 2006 when an airliner came off the runway after landing in the eastern city of Mashhad and burst into flames. In November 2006, an Iranian military plane crashed on takeoff at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, killing all 39 people on board, including 30 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards force. Iran's civil and military fleet is made up of ancient aircraft in very poor condition due to their age and lack of maintenance. The Iranian regime is barred by sanctions from buying American Boeing planes or European Airbus craft when they include a significant number of US parts. Caspian Airlines was established in 1992 in Tehran, according to its website. It said it operates more than 50 regular and numerous charter flights each week between Iranian cities and international flights to Hungary, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus, Turkey.

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