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Film project aims to raise £1 million to make a Creative Commons-licenced film Matt Hanson aims to raise £1 million to fund the production of a feature-length film which would be distributed freely via the internet under a Creative Commons licence, all funded through 50,000 people each donating Â£25 to the project, which he's called 'A Swarm of Angels'.

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Current Bolivian Minister of Hydrocarbons Andres Soliz Rada asks Bolivia's chief prosecutor to issue charges against former heads of Enron, its subsidiary Prisma Energy International, former President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, former Vice President Victor Hugo Cardenas, former Enron director for Bolivia Peter E. Weidler, several ministers during Sanchez's 1993-1997 presidency, and former executives of Bolivia's state oil company for “contracts damaging to the state, contravening the constitution and falsification of contracts.” Lozada is charged with genocide for his role in the Bolivian Gas War. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of Philippines signs a law that repeals the death penalty. In Vietnam, President Tran Tran Duc Luong, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and the Chairman of the Assembly Nguyen Van An resign, citing old age.

Prolific Television Producer Aaron Spelling, Dies at 83
Aaron Spelling was one of the most prolific television producers ever, with hits like "Dynasty", "The Love Boat" and "7th Heavean", dies today at age 83.

The cause of death was complications from a stroke suffered last Sunday said his publicist, Keven Sasaki.

New Web Search Engine Uses Only User-Generated Results
A new search engine, called Jatalla.com, provides search engine results pages (SERP) that are derived strictly from user-generated submissions.

The relevance ranking procedure relies upon "lexivotes", which consist of two parts: (i) a word or phrase (similar to a folksonomic tag, but potentially much longer than a traditional tag) and (ii) at least one URL. When a user submits a search query, all lexivotes that exactly match the search query are counted, and results are ranked according to number of votes.

Such an approach, which appears to be the first of its kind, differs from the approach of traditional search engines, which rely upon web crawlers to gather content and then analyze this content using one or more algorithms. Such a ranking mechanism may rank relevance according to links that link to a given Web page, as in the case of search engine leader Google, or some other ranking methodology.

Argentina score in extra-time; beat Mexico, get to quarter-finals
An epic round sixteen contest between Argentina and Mexico was won by a work of genius from Maxi Rodriguez, Saturday.

Juan Sorin hit a crossfield pass to the midfield player at the top right edge of the Mexican box. Rodriguez jumped to receive the ball and, in the same moment, chested high the way it had come. He met the descending ball 25 yards out with a perfectly timed left-footed volley and the ball arrowed over Oswaldo Sanchez into the opposite corner of the net.

The evenness and excitment of the match might easily be overshadowed by the winning goal. Though the shot totals were not high - Argentina had five shots on target to Mexico's three - the action was end to end.

Part of the reason for the excitment was while Mexico tried to keep a fast attacking pace Argentina attempted to slow the game down. There could have been more goals; both Argentina and Mexico defended well and had timely saves from their goalkeepers.

Mexico got off to the best possible start with a goal from a set-piece after five minutes. Pavel Pardo's cross from the right touchline was flicked on by Mario Mendez and Rafael Marquez slid in to score on a half volley at the far post.

For Argentina the equalising goal five minutes later was the best possible response to going behind. A corner kick was swung in low to the near post; Hernan Crespo raised his foot, Jared Borgetti stuck out his neck and between them the ball sped past Sanchez.

The match had its moment of controversy. Just before half time the Argentine goalkeeper rolled a ball to Gabriel Heinze. Somehow his defender let it go past him to Mexican striker Jose Fonseca. Heinze lunged to bring Fonseca down. Massimo Busacca judged Roberto Ayala to be the last defender and spared Heinze the red card.

Goalkeepers at either end made match saving contributions in the second half. On 53 minutes Roberto Abbondanzieri saved a defensive a clearance that deflected off Borgetti six yards from goal. Five minutes later Javier Saviola was through on goal; he went high and hard with the shot but Sanchez stuck out a strong left palm and batted the ball away for a corner.

Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez replaced Crespo and Saviola as Argentina sought to break the deadlock. A minute from time Tevez thought he was through on goal but Ricardo Osorio got back just in time and the game was destined for another 30 minutes and that special moment in extra time.

Argentina's win meant they would play their quarter-final match in the Olympiastadion, Berlin, against the host nation Germany on June 30.

All Renault front row for 2006 Canadian Grand Prix
Renault drivers Fernando Alonso and his teammate Giancarlo Fisicella won the front row on the FIA Formula-1 Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on an island in the St. Lawrence River.

Michael Schumacher qualified in fifth place after Kimi Raikkonen and Jarno Trulli. This qualifying session saw another good start from Nico Rosberg, the young Williams-Cosworth driver , he took six place. Schumacher's armour-bearer, Felipe Massa only managed tenth.

Bad luck for Jacques Villeneuve, canadian fans disappointed.

Version 0.44 of SVG image software Inkscape released
After 6 months of development, the Inkscape project released today a new version of their SVG-based GPLed vector drawing program. It features improved performance and many new features, such as a Layers dialog, better PDF export, configurable keyboard shortcuts and support for clipping and masking. Inkscape runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Inkscape started in 2003 as a fork of the vector drawing editor Sodipodi. Inkscape does not yet have as many features as the best commercial vector editors, but it is currently suitable for a wide range of applications. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete; most notably, it has not yet fully implemented SVG filter effects, animation, and SVG fonts. Inkscape is currently under active development which is indicated by the version number below one, new features were being added regularly.

Germany book quarter-final spot with 2-0 win over Sweden
A two goal burst from Lukas Podolski in the first 12 minutes put Germany through to the quarter-finals of the Fifa World Cup, Saturday.

Sweden did not get into the round of sixteen game against the host nation and were not helped when Teddy Lucic was sent off before half time. Lucic had tugged Miroslav Klose's shirt to stop a dangerous run, and received his second yellow card on a controversial call.

Podolski scored the goals but the supremacy on the field was due to captain Michael Ballack who, with his passes from midfield, controlled the game for the Germans. Klose was influential next to young Podolski in attack, setting up both goals.

In the fourth minute, Klose turned and split two Swedish defenders just outside the box. His shot was blocked by Andreas Isaksson, but Podolski was there to put in the rebound. Soon thereafter, Klose occupied three Swedish defenders with a run across the penalty area, sent a reverse ball into the centre and Podolski converted for his second goal of the match.

JÃ¼rgen Klinsmann's side did not hesitate to shoot; they kept 63 per cent of possession and Ballack dominating many chances were created. Germany had 21 more shots than Sweden in the game. Isaksson made some outstanding one-handed saves to keep the score at 2-0, from Klose and a Ballack effort which he tipped onto his right post.

Lars Lagerback's side played with just ten men in the second half but they nearly got the perfect start with a penalty after Christoph Metzelder pushed Henrik Larsson from behind. This was the referee's second controversial call, after sending off Lucic. Larsson took the spot kick but the 35 year old Swedish star shot just over the crossbar.

Argentina, the winner of match 50 versus Mexico, will meet the hosts in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Cheney defends stance on bank records
Vice President Dick Cheney has condemned the media for revealing a secret US government initiative which has investigated and tracked thousands of bank records and transactions. A consortium of banks in Brussels is responsible for maintaining a database known as Swift, which has been in operation for over five years. The operation is part of the US's War on Terror.

Cheney spoke of the media's involvement in revealing the operation as "making it more difficult for us to prevent future attacks against the American people". When asked about the clandestine nature of the operation, Cheney countered, "these are good, solid sound programs. They are conducted in accordance with the laws of the land".

Death penalty abolished in Philippines
Gloria Arroyo, President of the Philippines, has signed legislation abolishing the death penalty. This move comes on the eve of a visit to see Pope Benedict XVI and only two weeks after the legislation was confirmed by Congress. The change in sentencing law will lead to more than 1,200 prisoners having their sentences changed to life imprisonment.

Arroyo has made assurances that "we shall continue to devote the increasing weight of our resources to the prevention and control of serious crimes, rather than take the lives of those who commit them". She was keen to emphasise that her country was not soft on terrorism.

In the Philippines, the death penalty was originally abolished in 1987, but it was reintroduced in 1993. Since then seven people have been executed. Abolition of the death penalty has generally occurred in correlation with increasing democratisation in nation-states around the world. As of 2005, a majority of states (122) were abolitionist, and a minority (73) retained the death penalty.

Today in History
1865 - Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender in the United States Civil War.

1876 - Colonel George Armstrong Custer is killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

1950 - The Korean War, between North and South Korea, began.

1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.

1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 U.S. servicemen dead.

June 25 is Statehood Day in Slovenia

Quote of the Day

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
~ George Orwell

Word of the Day

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Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.

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