Angelina Jolie in Foreign Commonwealth Office - Loondon, UK

After Cannes Film Festival actress Angelina Jolie arrived to meet government ministers ahead of a screening of her new film. She met the Foreign Secretary William Hague ahead of a screening of her new film 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' at the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on May 29, 2012 in London, England. Angelina Jolie spoke on the Foreign Secretary’s initiative on preventing sexual violence in Conflict, ahead of the screening.

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Nokia, Microsoft to boost mobile entertainment

Mobile-phone giant Nokia will start to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of wireless entertainment, like music and videos, the two companies said on Monday. The world's largest cell-phone maker Nokia will license. Microsoft’s Play Ready digital rights management (DRM) technology, and build it into its S60 software, the most widely used software platform in cell-phone industry. Microsoft’s technology allows people to share protected pieces of content -- like music, games or videos -- between mobile phones, PCs and other devices.Nokia's S60 software is used extensively in Nokia's line-up, but also in advanced cell phones of LGElectronics and Samsung Electronics. Its closest rival is Microsoft's own Windows Mobile. In 2005 the two companies signed their first co-operation agreement to take Windows Media player on to Nokia phones, raising many eyebrows as the two had been fierce competitors in the mobile software industry. As cell-phone prices decline, handset vendors are looking for new revenue from potentially lucrative software operations, while at the same time Microsoft is looking for new revenue from the mobile space. In June, Nokia said it would reshape its whole organization to better focus on software and services.Nokia said it expects many S60 and its lower-tier Series 40 phones, which are also included in the deal, using Play Ready technology to hit the market in 2008.

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Major computer viruses over the last 25 years

ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by its author, a ninth-grade student who was designing a practical joke.

BRAIN, 1986: "Brain" is the first virus to hit computers running a Microsoft Corp. operating system — DOS. Written by two Pakistani brothers, the virus left the phone number of their computer repair shop.

MORRIS, 1988: Written by a Cornell University graduate student whose father was then a top government computer-security expert, the virus infected an estimated 6,000 university and military computers connected over the Internet. Although viruses had spread over the Internet before, until "Morris" none was widespread.

MELISSA, 1999: "Melissa" was one of the first to spread over e-mail. When users opened an attachment, the virus sent copies of itself to the first 50 people in the user's address book, covering the globe within hours.

LOVE BUG, 2000: Also spread via e-mail attachment, "Love Bug" exploited human nature and tricked recipients into opening it by disguising itself as a love letter.

CODE RED, 2001: Exploiting a flaw in Microsoft software, "Code Red" was among the first "network worms" to spread rapidly because it required only a network connection, not a human opening an attachment. Although the flaw was known, many system operators had yet to install a software patch Microsoft made available a month earlier to fix it.

BLASTER, 2003: "Blaster" also took advantage of a known flaw in Microsoft software and, along with the 2003 "SoBig" outbreak, prompted Microsoft to offer cash rewards to people who help authorities capture and prosecute the virus writers.

SASSER, 2004: "Sasser" exploited a Microsoft flaw as well and prompted some computers to continually crash and reboot, apparently the result of bad programming. Although "Sasser" is hardly the last malicious software, the ones since then have generally received less attention as networks install better defenses and profit-minded virus writers try to avoid detection and removal of their works.

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Zuckerberg and Chan in honeymoon

After their unexpected wedding party, Zuckerberg and his bride Priscilla Chan, traveled to Rome for the weekend to spend some time together, as their honeymoon.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't really believe in privacy for the rest of the world, so it's not much of a surprise that the world doesn't believe in privacy for Zuckerberg.

Although they tried to blend in with the crowd, Zuckerberg and Chan were spotted by onlookers as they toured the Sistine Chapel and dined at Pierluigi's restaurant. Meanwhile unfortunately Mark’s Facebook fortune tumbled three billion dollars last week after the stock softened.

Biography: Oliver Norvell Hardy

Norvell Hardy was born in Harlem, Georgia, on January 18, 1892. Oliver was 48 in 1890 when he married Emily and he was not in the best of health. He died less than a year after Norvell Hardy was born. Emily was left with few prospects and five children to raise. It was a difficult time but Emily was resilient and hard working. She worked as a hotel manager in Madison and later in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Raising young Norvell Hardy must have been a challenge. He was not overly interested in gaining an education. Norvell acquired an interest in music and theater from tenants of his mother's hotels. He ran away from home to follow a theatrical group. He was sent to a boarding school nearAtlanta but he ran away from that, too. Since he had a good singing voice Emily sent him to Atlanta to study music and voice with a prominent musician but Norvell skipped lessons to sing in a vaudeville house. He was sent to a military college but again he ran away. He was enrolled at Young Harris College but shortly begged Emily to be allowed to return home. He toyed with the idea of studying law but finally decided that he had to follow his dream of a singing career.

Turkey

Turkey, land of beauty and history

Background:

Present-day turkey was created in 1923 from the Turkish remnants of theOttoman Empire. Soon thereafter, the country instituted secular laws to replace traditional religious fiats. In 1945turkey joined the UN, and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to protect Turkish Cypriots and prevent a Greek takeover of the island; the northern 37 percent of the island remains under Turkish Cypriot control. Relations between the two countries remain strained, but have begun to improve over the past few years. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Marxist-Leninist, separatist group, initiated an insurgency in southeast turkey, often using terrorist tactics to try to attain its goal of an independent Kurdistan. The group - whose leader, Abdullah OCALAN, was captured in Kenya in February 1999 - has observed a unilateral cease-fire since September 1999, although there have been occasional clashes between Turkish military units and some of the 4,000-5,000 armed PKK militants, most of whom currently are encamped in northern Iraq. The PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) in April 2002.

Geography

Soy could save breast cancer survivors

Eating moderate amounts of soy products can help lower the risk of death or recurrence in breast cancer survivors, a new study finds.

According to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a moderate to high intake of soy food is associated with a 29 percent lower risk of dying in breast cancer survivors.

The diet can also reduce the breast cancer recurrence rate by 32 percent in these women, the study showed.

Previous studies had revealed controversial results regarding the efficacy of adopting a soy-rich diet in breast cancer sufferers.

While the studies suggested that soy isoflavones, a major plant-derived phytoestrogens found in soy-rich foods may interact with tamoxifen — a drug commonly used to prevent breast cancer, the new research confirms the efficacy of the soy-rich diet in both users and nonusers of tamoxifen.

‘Patients with breast cancer can be assured that enjoying a soy latte or indulging in Pad Thai with tofu causes no harm and, when consumed in plentiful amounts, may reduce risk of disease recurrence,’ scientists concluded.

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Islamic art in recent years

In recent years the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from the Middle East. These artists draw inspiration from their own cultural traditions, using techniques and incorporating imagery and ideas from earlier periods. They are not so much reinventing Islamic art as they are repurposing it so that it becomes more clearly a vehicle for personal expression, freed from the constraints of patronage and functionality.

Writing in Arabic is a consistent and powerful theme in classical Islamic art, as can be seen throughout these Web pages, but it also resonates with many artists today as both an art form and a means of addressing their religious or cultural identity. One such artist is Ali Omar Ermes (Libya, active England, b. 1945), whose calligraphic work, fluidly rendered with a brush rather than the traditional reed pen, often focuses on a single letter. In his version of the letter kaf (K), the bold, black mark, dramatically offset against the light paper, recalls the black inscriptions on a white ground that characterize tenth-century ceramic wares from the eastern Iranian world. Although these works of art are widely separated by time and purpose, they share a common artistic vocabulary based in the Arabic alphabet. Situated among examples of classical Islamic art, the contemporary calligraphy is imbued with a sense of timelessness while it in turn pulls the historical objects into the present day, giving them a new relevance.

Reading Books to Babies (part1)

Why Read to My Baby?

You may wonder about the benefits of reading to your baby. Clearly an infant can't understand what you're doing or why. But you wouldn't wait until your child could understand what you were saying before you started speaking to him or her, right? And you wouldn't bypass lullabies until your baby could carry a tune or wait until he or she could shake a rattle before you offered any toys.

Reading aloud to your baby is a wonderful shared activity you can continue for years to come — and it's an important form of stimulation.

Reading aloud:

• teaches a baby about communication

• introduces concepts such as numbers, letters, colors, and shapes in a fun way

• builds listening, memory, and vocabulary skills

• gives babies information about the world around them

Believe it or not, by the time babies reach their first birthday they will have learned all the sounds needed to speak their native language. The more stories you read aloud, the more words your child will be exposed to and the better he or she will be able to talk. Hearing words helps to imprint them on a baby's brain.

Kids whose parents frequently talk/read to them know more words by age 2 than children who have not been read to. And kids who are read to during their early years are more likely to learn to read at the right time.