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Today 5,4 Million people are dying from smoking per year, world wide. Till 2030 the dead-toll will grow up to 8,3 Million per year. Dead-toll of smoking WHO predicts in 2015 up to 6,5 Million people will die per year. Today 2,9 Million people per year are dying from Aids, in 2015 4,3 Million and 6,5 Million in 2030 will die of Aids.

Production, sales & exports of cigarettes

i am so angry. i recently updated my 4G ipod clickwheel to the latest version of itunes 7.01 and now its killed my ipod. Having searched the web, looks like this is serious hardware/firmware issue which many many people are also suffering with. And the worst thing is there's no fix. Apple 5 R's: Reset, Retry, Restart, Reinstall, Restore just aint working this time. and its just not good enough.

Takashi's Season is a work by Yoshimasa Niwa presented recently at ACM 2006, Santa Barbara and Ars Electronica, Linz, a live shadow puppets/video performance. The shadows of the puppets manipulated by the puppeteer are synchronized with animation and sound in real time.
The behind the scenes images where the hands of the puppeteer pops onto the screen is interesting...a play with the virtual and the real.

I can't remember from where or whom I've heard this saying that " When we knows more and more, we start to care less and less." Sometimes, although it seems a bit sad, I do feel like this.

In a flipped out meta Columbia era, kids have to be ninjas to survive..

Thankfully they are! and are here! so, have the fear! and let this mammals alone.

http://www.realultimatepower.net

for more ninjas..

http://www.askaninja.com

ofcourse, there are and the Pirates..

http://maddox.xmission.com

An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Full text see link:
The Wall Street Journal Online

WARNING, do not read the following e-ssay if you feel easily insulted, aggressively harassed and potentially bullied by writing. The text may damage your view on particular products and disappoint all beliefs you had so far. I am an economical immigrant and not a native born English speaker, so several arrangements of words may not be in the usual order as you may expect and could be potentially misunderstood, because of improper use of the language. Its your own fault if you continue to read.

You can see two pioneers out of four, John Cage - MUSIK and Merce Cunnigham - DANCE, video about a ground breaking performance, written in 1955, performed in 1982.