Topic: MUSIK - on February 18, 2009 at 9:34:00 PM CET
U2´s Vienna comeback gig snubbed by Jehovah’s Witnesses
Rock superstars U2 will not have a Vienna live comeback appearance this year as a Jehovah’s Witnesses’ event is blocking the stadium on the band’s preferred days.
The Irish four-piece reportedly planned to return to Austria on 7 or 8 August to perform at Vienna’s 51,000-seat Ernst Happel Stadium. However, the religious group has already leased the venue to hold a mass christening on both those days.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 18, 2009 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.
A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea tar pits. It's the largest known repository of Pleistocene ice age fossils.
Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on February 18, 2009 at 3:33:00 PM CET
Forstarbeiter schmuggelte 15 Kilo Drogen
Ein 51-jähriger Forstfacharbeiter ist am Landesgericht Feldkirch (Vorarlberg) wegen Drogenhandels zu vier Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Nach Ansicht des Gerichts hat er vor allem mit großen Mengen Marihuana gehandelt, 15 Kilogramm habe er aus der Schweiz eingeführt.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 18, 2009 at 2:28:00 PM CET
Nicht ohne meinen Joint
Er ist der Posterboy der Kiffer-Kultur: Bob Marley. Ein neuer Bildband lässt den toten Reggae-Paten wieder auferstehen - in den beliebten Relax-Posen. Richtig spannend dagegen sind jene Fotos, auf denen die zornigen jungen Männer des Reggaes zu sehen sind.
Welche Bilder fallen einem zu Bob Marley ein? Bob der Kiffer mit Joint im Mund, klar; auch Bob der Nachdenkliche, als Close-up-Porträt mit ernstem Blick; und vielleicht noch Bob der Bühnenprediger, die Gitarre umgehängt, die Augen zugekniffen und den Arm in die Luft gereckt. Zugespitzt gesagt: Das war's.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 18, 2009 at 2:23:00 PM CET
Dope-smuggler's "job-wanted" ad
This classified ad from a former marijuana smuggler looking for work was apparently placed in a Toronto paper (the Toronto Star? The Globe and Mail? The National Post?) around 2006 or 2007. It's got a lot of moxie -- certainly being a successful dope runner requires a fair bit of self-starting get-up-and-go and precision organizing. Still, I'm not convinced it's real -- anyone know more about it?
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 18, 2009 at 2:20:00 PM CET
Erstmals Cannabiskraut aus der Apotheke
Cannabiskraut als Medikament aus der Apotheke? Für eine erste Patientin ist das wahr geworden. Am 7. Februar erhielen sie und sechs weitere Patienten, die an chronischen Schmerzen, multipler Sklerose, Tourette-Syndrom und anderen schweren Erkrankungen leiden, vom Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM) in Bonn eine entsprechende Ausnahmegenehmigung.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 18, 2009 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Raids seize £50m of Afghan heroin
Hundreds of British and Afghan troops have seized heroin and drug-making chemicals in Afghanistan with a street value of more than £50m ($71m).
Defence Secretary John Hutton praised the troops' bravery and said the seizures in Helmand province would starve the Taleban of funding.
The raids on four drug factories, involving 700 troops, would also stop the drugs reaching UK streets, he said.
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Topic: TV - on February 18, 2009 at 2:16:00 PM CET
Der erste deutsche Open source Film: Route 66 - An American (bad) Dream
Germanys first Open Source movie. Feel free to share, modify or sell - just name the source: www.vebfilm.net
"An infectiously funny docu-drama road trip across America that you'll never forget." CINEQUEST
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 18, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay joy at charge change
Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped.
Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 18, 2009 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Steal This Film: Pirate Bay Trial edition
The creators of the Pirate Bay documentary "Steal This Film" have released footage from their next installment in honor of the trial of the Pirate Bay's founders (yesterday's hearings ended with a bang, when the prosecution dropped half the charges -- the more serious half -- after realizing they couldn't make the case stick).
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 18, 2009 at 11:09:00 AM CET
NLOTH LEAKS (AGAIN) ... THIS TIME BY UNIVERSAL AUSTRALIA
For the second time this month, an online music store has started prematurely selling No Line On The Horizon. This time, the Universal Music Australia store has made the entire album available as digital downloads, and fans all over the world are buying it up, putting it on file sharing sites, and sending it to friends. The album's out there now; no turning back. Update: Universal Australia is no longer selling the album; it was available for about 1-2 hours.
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