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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143840352011-06-08T08:35:28.230+02:00One Page Daily - your onepagedaily assistant - www.onepagedaily.comonepagedaily editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291175685986247523noreply@blogger.comBlogger1241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14384035.post-1136323546385116682006-01-03T22:14:00.000+01:002006-01-04T16:27:13.666+01:00Wednesday 04 January 2006 onepagedailyyour one minute daily assistant on one page news - with a vision - your efficiency coach by and for world citizensone page essentials for Wednesday --------------->continuously updated news with a vision 2006 and never forget Friday 2 December 2005 Nguyen Tuong Van, hung in Singapore on Friday 2 December 2005 for drug smuggling . pretending to be a model city, they murder young life.. willingly and knowingly singapore: death spot in Asia sin or ? religious favour in Iraq- "Go to hell, enemy of God, kill him, kill him, cut it well, cut off his head," persons of the year:Bill,Bono & Melinda:they turned a corner in the drive to make poverty and disease history Gates foundation=32 billion dollarspeople who mattered 2005George Bush & Dick Cheney Condoleeza Rice Ariel Sharon Tony Blair Angela Merkel Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (the why not wipe out Israel Iranian president) Steve Jobs(sold 18 million Ipods) the google guys(Larry Page &Sergey Brin) Michelle Wie(16 year old golf Wunderkind)those who changed worldpope John II Rosa Parks(the black woman in a front seat) Ibrahim Ferrer(the Cuban Buena Vista singer) Zhao Ziyang(Tienanmen square) Simon Wiesenthal(holocaust survivor) prince Rainier III of Monaco Arthur Miller(death of a salesman) general William Westoreland(Vietnam) king Fahd(from bedouin kingdom to country of schools and hospitals);those who still hang people ... singaPOOR headlines:-yes, 2006 , we are any more there:the good news was wrong: twelve U.S. miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days are alive, the body of the 13th missing miner had been found dead but....the cruelty of fate…only one person found alive in the mine of West-Virginia, although the families where told that 12 had survived.-landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed or left missing more than 250 people on Indonesia's Java island, buried beneath tons of mud and rocks early Wednesday- peer-pressure in action… African leaders break silence over President Mugabe of Zimbabwe. His human rights record has been condemned for the first time by African leaders. -China on Wednesday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in its southwest province of Sichuan-stubborn Iran will restart its nuclear research program to put idle atomic researchers back to work- finally some justice?...the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Bush administration to cut back its direct foreign aid to Israel until the latter complies with calls to stop settlement expansion and work on the separation wall.- Dubai's ruler dies…The prime minister and vice president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has died.- one man’s meat is another man’s poison…a sold-out Hurricane Katrina bus tour, promising passengers a look at some of the city's most misery-stricken spots, was to make its inaugural run on Wednesday morning. Of the $ 35 ticket, $3 will go to Katrina related charity. -innocent or not innocent..but in any case brutal and stupid Virginia USA:) with less than two weeks left in Gov. Mark R. Warner's term, time is running out for him to arrange DNA testing that could determine whether Virginia sent an innocent man to the electric chair in 1992.-hot news:Australia had its hottest year on record in 2005, data showed on Wednesday, with meteorologists saying the rising temperatures were due to global warming.- the truth unveiled?...German documentary - on air ARD Friday Jan, 6th - claims new evidence that Castro had Kennedy killed-natural gas prices dropped Tuesday ;the Russian monopoly has promised to maintain deliveries and there is now an agreement on the price of the Gaszprom gas- long and dense snowfalls have brought havoc to southern Germany and Austria, triggering avalanches, felling trees, blocking roads and rail and cutting electricity to thousands of homes.- ...and the bombing continues in 2006: 2 assassination attempts against officials in Baghdad failed but a suicide car bomber killed seven people in an attack on a bus carrying police recruits.-and in Germany ...workers in a southern German town pressed their search in the snow Tuesday for survivors (at least 10 died) after a roof partially collapsed at a Bavarian skating rink. - India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Rajnath Singh as its new president, marking a shift to a younger leadership- will the Palestinian parliamentary elections go on as planned on Jan. 25? they might be postponed if Israel does not allows Palestinians from East Jerusalem to take part. -not from an Arabian bullet...: prime Minister Ariel Sharon had an operation to repair a small hole in his heart -dead , by accident: a Tanzanian national who fell ill aboard an Air Malawi flight and was subsequently pronounced dead had swallowed 177 tubes of cocaine, ;" three of which burst," ;three other surviving drug couriers had released between 20 and 30 tubes of cocaine, which they had inserted in their anus. -Austria has taken over the revolving EU presidency for six months on January 1.. - Japan's population to drop this year for the first time since records began more than a century ago - another campaign.. peacefull: Mexico's Zapatista rebels are emerging once again from their jungle hiding place ;the Zapatistas are going on a six-month tour of Mexico's 31 states as an "alternative project" to the presidential elections..weapons will be left behind. - 131 Ethiopian opposition leaders, aid workers and journalists - facing treason, conspiracy and genocide charges have been denied bail. The charges relate to protests over the ruling party's strongly disputed May 2005 poll win. Trial postponed to February. - democracy in Congo: main opposition party of Etienne Tshisekedi said that his Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) will take part in the polls due by July 2006. leisure and pleasure 10 good films in 2005: Cinderalla man Crach Good night and good luck Capote Brokeback mountain King Kong Transamerica Matchpoint Munich Walk the line- the end of luxury treats? international trade in caviar and other products made from the wild, endangered sturgeon fish has been banned for scientific reasons and to bring an end to illegal poaching in the Caspian Sea. - hip hip hurrah for the World Wide Web(www): today we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the very first web page.in 1990 ,launched byTim Berners-Lee ;the web a powerful liberating source that brought people closer together and shaped new businesses;the most popular website remains GOOGLE.- successful twin robots still on Mars: after 2 years, the NASA's twin robots that were expected to last three months are still motoring around Mars and have succeeded in their mission's main assignment: finding geologic evidence that water once flowed on Mars.- collecting Christmas trees to fight bird flu: because only one country supplies the main ingredient of tamiflu, doctors use pine needles from recycled Christmas trees to make more of the medicin ;they need half a million trees to make medication for 5 million people. stock markets: - Asia: Nikkei extends five-year highs on Wednesday, with exporters gaining on signs the U.S. Fed was nearly done raising interest rates, while stocks in Seoul and Sydney ratcheted to new highs- -Europe: European shares ended stronger but off the day's highs as U.S. stocks fell after a key gauge of factory activity showed slower-than-expected growth -America : Stocks sizzled, staring off the new year on the right foot, after the minutes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting seemed to support Wall Street's hope that the 18-month rate-hiking campaign is nearing an end 2005 Losers and winners Dow winners Boeing +37.4 % Hewlett-Packard +37.1 % Altria group 22.9 +22.9 % Dow losers-51.5 % General Motors -25.5% Verizon -16.6% IBM Nasdac winners and losers Sandish + 155.4 % Celgene + 136 % Apple comp. + 125.6 % Express scripts +122 % Google + 199.8 %- 40.4 % Mercury interactive - 32.7 % Verisign - 32.9 % Symantec - 32.2 % Biogen - 28.4 % Dell <a href="javascript:CNN_openPopup%28" toolbar="no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=620,height=430')""></a> commodities - oil : crude jumps back near $63 a barrel as Russia-Ukraine dispute stokes fears of supply disruption - gas supply: Russia and Ukraine settled the price dispute after Gazprom cut Ukrainian supplies from the pipelines. The price of 1,000 cubic metres of gas will change from $50 to the European market price value of $230, but Ukraine will be allow to mix it with cheaper gas from Central Asia. currencies - the Chinese yuan hit a record high of 8.0676 to the dollar, as China brings in a market-making trading system for the yuan, letting it float more freely against foreign currencies. Beijing still only allows the currency to rise or fall by 0.3% a day against the dollar. 1 Euro = 1,18 US dollar = 139,22 Yen = 9,15 Yuan 1 USdoll = 0,85 Euro = 118,03Yen = 7,75 Yuanabout the weather Europe:in central Europe (3°C cloudy in Brussels; 1°C cloudy in Berlin), in the South (11°C cloudy in Madrid) N-America: cloudy on the Westcoast (16°C in San Francisco), rainy on the Eastcoast (4°C in New York), East Asia: snow in the North (0°C in Beijing), sunny in the Southeast (22°C in Hong Kong) quotes of the year Condoleeza:"nobody is perfect even not the US" Ahmadinejad pres.of Iran: "Israel must be wiped off the map" or moved to Alaska cartoon in wordshurrah no caviar yes for the fish pc perfect couple p..cb condoleeza & bush keep the road jack keep the road side not in iraq..o tempora... o mores... China rules the waves ?one for the road "to love" is OK "being in love" is better end of the one page (daily) look into the future - nuclear power , the solution for the energy crisis-the Yuan has to and will be reevaluated thanks to China's competitive edge against the rest of the world -Japan's next 15 years sunnier than the last 15 -a positive bet : birdflu no epidemic human flu although allready a mass psychosis -once the president of the USA will be a woman will be black we bet on Condoleeza Rice -UN and all people of the world will be more and more in real control of their 'own' world there is :America and since a few decenia giant Asia , awakes; between the two world powers we find small but decisive miss Europe the cruiseship and the 'old folks'home getting old is a depressing prospect; if things go well, you may find yourself playing shuffleboard on a cruise ship if things go badly, your kids put you off to the old folks'hometomorrow (5 Jan) in history birthday: Yves Tanguy (1900) French painter, Friederch Durrenmatt (1921) Swiss writer, Alvin Ailey (1931) American chroegrapher 1463 - poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment 1896 - mention by an Austrian newspaper of Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery that will later be named X-Rays 1909 - Columbia recognises the independance of Panama 1845 - the Soviet Union recognises the new pro-soviet government of Poland 1968 - beginning of the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia: Alexander Dubcek comes to power 1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea today (Jan 4) in history birthday: Isaac Newton (1643) English scientist and philosopher, Louis Braille (1809) French teacher of the blind, Gao Xingjian (1940) Chinese-French Nobel Prize laureate in literature 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey 1717 - France, the Netherlands and ENgland sign the Triple Alliance against Spain which was becoming a superpower 1948 - Burma becomes independant from the UK1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik I fell to the earth from its orbit. The craft had been lauched on Oct. 4th, 1957.1960 - French author Albert Camus died in an automobile accident at the age of 46.1965 - Poet T.S. Eliot diex at age 76.1991 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to codemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories. yesterday (Jan 3) in historybirthday: Cicero (106 BC) Roman statesman and philosopher, Anna Pavlova (1885), J.R.R. Tolkien (1892) British writer and philologist1496 - References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. Th test didn't succeed and he didn't try to fly again for several years.1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.1777 - The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of Independence, in which George Washington defeated the Britisch forces, led by Cornwallis.1815 - Austria, Britain and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia 1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British,but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia 1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.1925 - Mussolini takes dictatorial powers over Italy1947 - In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age 92. He had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th state of the USA.1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century.1998 - China announced that it would spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.2004 - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing. the day before yesterday (Jan 2) in history 1492 - Granada surrenders in the Reconquista, as last Moorish state in Spain (Murcia)1860 - the discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced 1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives. 1905 - the Russian fleet surrender at Port Arthur during the Russian-Japanese war 1942 - The hilippine capital of Manila was captured by Japansese forces during World War II.1968 - Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplantation. three days ago (Jan 1) in history Birthdays: Bartolomé Murillo (1617), George Washington Carver (1860), J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) (1895)45 BC - the Julian calender is used for the first time 404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.1582 - the Gregorian calender is promulgated1622 - the Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th).1785- London's oldest daily paper 'The Daily Universal Register' (later renamed 'The Times' in 1788) was first published.1801 - The Act of Union of England and ireland came into force.1808 - import of slaves into the United States of America is forbidden1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.1887 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.1912 - the Republic of China is established 1939 - The Hewlett-Packard partnership was formed.1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churgill issued a declaration called the "United Nations". It was signed by 26 countries that vowed to create an internatoinal postwar World War II peacekeeping organization.1958 - The European Economic Community (EEC) started operations.1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.