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Malaysia Airlines flight to Beijing vanishes :News
South-east Asian states
have joined forces to search waters between Malaysia and Vietnam after a
Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on a flight to Beijing, with 239
people on board.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that flight MH370 had disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur.It had been expected to land in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).
Malaysia's transport minister said there was no information on wreckage.
"We are doing everything in our power to locate the plane," Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
"Our hope is that the people understand we are being as transparent as we can, we are giving information as quickly as we can, but we want to make sure information has been verified."
Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the focus was on helping the families of those missing. He said that 80% of the families had been contacted.
The plane went off the radar south of Vietnam, according to a statement on the Vietnamese government website.
Its last known location was off the country's Ca Mau peninsula although the exact position was not clear, it said.
The Boeing B777-200 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers, including two children, and 12 crew members.
'Very worried'
Malaysia's military said a second wave of helicopters and ships had been despatched after an initial search revealed nothing.
Territorial disputes over the South China Sea were set aside temporarily as China dispatched two maritime rescue ships and the Philippines deployed three air force planes and three navy patrol ships.
Vietnam also sent aircraft and ships while Vietnamese fishermen in the area were asked to report any suspected sign of the missing plane.
"In times of emergencies like this, we have to show unity of efforts that transcends boundaries and issues," said Lt Gen Roy Deveraturda, commander of the Philippine military's Western Command.
Malaysia Airlines is the national carrier of Malaysia and one of the largest in Asia
The pilot was Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, who joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981, Mr Yahya said.
A Vietnamese navy official told the BBC the plane had gone missing within Malaysian maritime territory.
Friends and relatives expecting to meet passengers from the flight in Beijing were instructed to go to a nearby hotel where officials were meant to be on hand to provide support.
"They should have told us something before now," a visibly distressed man in his thirties told AFP news agency at the hotel.
"They are useless," another young man said of the airline. "I don't know why they haven't released any information."
In Kuala Lumpur, Hamid Ramlan, a 56-year-old police officer, said his daughter and son-in-law had been on the flight for an intended holiday in Beijing.
"My wife is crying," he said. "Everyone is sad. My house has become a place of mourning. This is Allah's will. We have to accept it."
The plane had been flying at an altitude of 35,000ft (10,700m) and the pilots had not reported any problems with the aircraft, Fuad Sharuji, Malaysian Airlines' vice-president of operations control, told CNN.
How do I download or save a YouTube video to my computer?
YouTube has been designed to only allow users to watch
and view videos on their website. Many users want to save their favorite
videos to their computer so they can watch them without being connected
to the Internet or so they can watch them on other devices. Below are
the steps required for downloading and watching YouTube videos on your
computer for free.
Note: these steps are for saving a YouTube video and not saving only the audio of a YouTube video to an MP3 file.
Saving YouTube video as a video file on your computer
Today, there are several online websites that allow you to enter the URL
of the video you wish to save to your computer, and get a link to
download the file. Below is the simple three step process that will link
you to a page that
1. Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL of the video you wish to save. For example, below is a URL to a video on YouTube, the whole address would be copied.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ymHMgFAps
2. Once this address has been copied, paste that URL into the below URL text field and click the Download Video button.
3.
If done properly, a new window will open with available video formats
that can be saved. For most users we suggest the MP4 format, other
formats may include FLV, 3GP, and WebM.
YouTube boomarklet
If you plan on downloading several videos, use the
Computer Hope YouTube bookmarklet. See our
bookmarklet page for more
information.
Other YouTube download sites
In addition to using the above box to convert your
videos there are also many other websites and services that will allow
you to download YouTube videos. Below are just a few of our favorites.
Caution:
These services can be used to save any flash videos online and can be
used to save adult related videos, which unfortunately means when
viewing these pages you may be subjected to adult related content.
Watching a FLV video on your computer
Once the .flv file has been downloaded to your
computer, you'll need a player that supports .flv files. Below are a few
suggestions.
VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/
http://www.videolan.org/
Windows Media Player
Microsoft Windows users also have the ability of playing FLV files in Windows Media player with the right codec. Downloading and installing the CCCP codec will install this codec, as well as many other codecs you'll likely need in the future.
Microsoft Windows users also have the ability of playing FLV files in Windows Media player with the right codec. Downloading and installing the CCCP codec will install this codec, as well as many other codecs you'll likely need in the future.
Converting the YouTube video to a different movie format
There are dozens of different software programs and
online services available that will allow you to convert FLV files into
another format. Below is a short listing of some of the free services
and products we recommend.
Media Convert - An excellent online service that can convert FLV files into dozens of other formats.
http://www.media-convert.com/
http://www.media-convert.com/
Vixy - Another great online service that allows you to download and save YouTube video files to another format.
http://vixy.net/
http://vixy.net/
Joyaa รจ la piattaforma di Arcadja pensata per riservare opportunita
Joyaa รจ la piattaforma di Arcadja pensata per riservare opportunita' e nuovi servizi ad artisti, operatori del settore ed appassionati. Unire creativita' emergenti al dinamismo del web รจ la chiave per instaurare un circuito interattivo e condiviso tra gli utenti.
e mostre Raffaella Formenti, diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera a Milano nel ‘89.
Nel ’93 nasce la prima la “Torre informatica”, con materiali da imballaggio, esposta nel ‘97 in “ TRASH: quando i rifiuti diventano arte” al MART di Trento. Lavora sulla comunicazione ridotta a rumore visivo assemblando immagini e parole dall’informazione pubblicitaria.
L’attitudine con cui lavora รจ legata al concetto di DERIVA. Navigare nella realtร come si fosse all’interno di un cervello elettronico con molle scattanti in libertร : costante nel suo lavoro รจ infatti il riferimento al web, da cui attinge le terminologie e ne fa parodie cartacee, ridisegnando con ironia l’aspetto piรน fragile e umano nelle sue invasive installazioni.
FORMAZIONE: Nel 1989 diploma di Accademia di Belle Arti a Brera, Milano.
PERIODI: Dal ’92 lavora utilizzando i colori offerti dalla vita del consumatore costante, portando in studio e in galleria materiali da imballaggio e depliants pubblicitari ritrovati nei centri commerciali e nelle buche delle lettere del quartiere.
SOGGETTI: analisi ironica dell’affastellarsi della comun...
diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera a Milano nel ‘89, vive, lavora e parte da Brescia. Nel ’93 nasce la prima “Torre informatica”, con materiali da imballaggio, esposta nel ‘97 in “ TRASH: quando i rifiuti diventano arte” al MART di Trento, ora a Rovereto. Lavora sulla comunicazione ridotta a rumore visivo assemblando immagini e parole dall’informazione pubblicitaria.
XXI edizione del Salone del Restauro di Ferrara
La Direzione Regionale del MIBAC e il Dipartimento di Architettura di Ferrarasostengono l'importanza della diffusione di una cultura del restauro, che dal punto di vista architettonico sia in grado di attualizzare il bene culturale danneggiato dando ad esso nuovi significati vitali sia per l�...
e mostre Raffaella Formenti, diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera a Milano nel ‘89.
Nel ’93 nasce la prima la “Torre informatica”, con materiali da imballaggio, esposta nel ‘97 in “ TRASH: quando i rifiuti diventano arte” al MART di Trento. Lavora sulla comunicazione ridotta a rumore visivo assemblando immagini e parole dall’informazione pubblicitaria.
L’attitudine con cui lavora รจ legata al concetto di DERIVA. Navigare nella realtร come si fosse all’interno di un cervello elettronico con molle scattanti in libertร : costante nel suo lavoro รจ infatti il riferimento al web, da cui attinge le terminologie e ne fa parodie cartacee, ridisegnando con ironia l’aspetto piรน fragile e umano nelle sue invasive installazioni.
FORMAZIONE: Nel 1989 diploma di Accademia di Belle Arti a Brera, Milano.
PERIODI: Dal ’92 lavora utilizzando i colori offerti dalla vita del consumatore costante, portando in studio e in galleria materiali da imballaggio e depliants pubblicitari ritrovati nei centri commerciali e nelle buche delle lettere del quartiere.
SOGGETTI: analisi ironica dell’affastellarsi della comun...
diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera a Milano nel ‘89, vive, lavora e parte da Brescia. Nel ’93 nasce la prima “Torre informatica”, con materiali da imballaggio, esposta nel ‘97 in “ TRASH: quando i rifiuti diventano arte” al MART di Trento, ora a Rovereto. Lavora sulla comunicazione ridotta a rumore visivo assemblando immagini e parole dall’informazione pubblicitaria.
XXI edizione del Salone del Restauro di Ferrara
La Direzione Regionale del MIBAC e il Dipartimento di Architettura di Ferrarasostengono l'importanza della diffusione di una cultura del restauro, che dal punto di vista architettonico sia in grado di attualizzare il bene culturale danneggiato dando ad esso nuovi significati vitali sia per l�...
124 STORIE DI DONNE
dal 10 al 12 Marzo 2014
124 Storie di donne
Produzione Greco in Movimento
Regia Elisabetta Vicenzi
Spettacolo nato nel 2013, prende il nome dalle 124 donne uccise in
Italia nel 2012 a causa delle violenza di genere. Centoventiquattro
femminicid... The real life American Hustle - a crumpet factory boss' daughter from Watford
The real lives that inspired Christian Bale's Irving
Rosenfeld and Amy Adams' Sydney Prosser were Mel Weinberg and Watford
girl Evelyn Knight
Gliding into the New York restaurant in a figure-hugging cocktail
dress, Evelyn Knight gripped the arm of her new man. Scanning the room
through a fug of cigar smoke, the ambitious girl of 24, freshly arrived
from Britain, had no idea the men turning to stare at her were among the
most dangerous crooks in America. Nor did she know that her lover,
flamboyant fraudster Mel Weinberg, was on first-name terms with most of
them.
In fact he was a key associate of the Mafia lieutenants crammed into the dim booths of the restaurant, helping them dream up scams and protection rackets. And a few years on from that night in the late 1960s, Evelyn, daughter of a crumpet factory manager from Watford, Herts, would be arrested in the FBI’s biggest-ever sting operation?–?the inspiration for Oscar-tipped movie American Hustle.
The story of the Abscam sting, in which politicians were tricked into receiving bribes from a fake Arab sheikh, has already earned £104million at the box office. It is up for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Sydney Prosser, the role played by Amy Adams, is loosely based on Evelyn, who is now 71 and living quietly in a coastal retirement community in Titusville, Florida, where few neighbours know about her colourful past.
Evelyn married Mel in 1982 but they have since divorced. Despite a storm of publicity for American Hustle she is avoiding the limelight. He, however, talks fondly of his first dates with Evelyn while he was still married to second wife Marie.
Now 89, he recalls: “I first saw Evelyn at a swimming pool and I called her up. The first time I took her out I took her to a wiseguys place where they served a big Porterhouse steak with French fries and spaghetti. She had just come to this country. She finished her steak then asked me, ‘Have you finished yours?’ I said no, so she ate mine too!
“She was a very pretty girl. I told her I couldn’t take her home but gave her 20 dollars for a cab. A few days later she handed me the 20 back. I couldn’t believe she was so honest. Where I was from guys would cut your throat for 20 bucks.
“She had obviously been raised properly and didn’t lie about anything, unlike the people I hung out with. This is how honest she was: One day it was freezing cold. I said, ‘Here’s a couple of hundred bucks – go buy a coat’. She bought a plain, grey coat for 40 bucks, and gave me back the rest! I couldn’t believe it. She was not the type of girl that guys like me had seen before. What I liked most about her was her honesty.”
Which was ironic. As a career criminal, Weinberg was friends with hitmen working for feared mob boss Carlo Gambino. He had graduated from selling jackets with no back and smashing windows to boost trade for glaziers to scams where his mobster associates would stage shoot-outs with fake bullets and he would charge people $5,000 to make the “body” disappear. Then he began conning people with bad credit into applying for loans with a non-existent company called London Investors in return for an advance fee. The loans were always turned down but the fees were non-refundable.
One of the victims was singer Wayne Newton and, when the scam was discovered in 1977, the FBI arrested Weinberg for mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. Evelyn was accused of being his accomplice, allegedly posing as “Lady Evelyn”.
No charges were brought and the case never reached court –because Weinberg agreed to go undercover for the FBI.
“I told them I’d cop a plea if they let her off,” he says. “I expected to serve time. Then the FBI asked me to help them with four other cases. She was indicted with me but she was never involved. I would never talk business in front of her.
They didn’t really have anything on her, but she couldn’t take the pressure. Once I had set up the cases for the FBI all the charges were dropped.”
The plot of the film, starring Christian Bale in the Weinberg role , centres on Abscam, a fake firm used to lure politicians known to be corrupt. Agents posed as emissaries of an Arab sheikh offering suitcases of cash in return for favours.
She refuses to be drawn further, especially not about Weinberg, who she finally married after 17 years as his mistress. It was less than a month after his wife Marie committed suicide.
“Eve is and was a one of a kind,” Weinberg says. “I have never known a prettier girl. You could say she was the love of my life. She very English, very headstrong and she liked to do as she pleased.”
In fact he was a key associate of the Mafia lieutenants crammed into the dim booths of the restaurant, helping them dream up scams and protection rackets. And a few years on from that night in the late 1960s, Evelyn, daughter of a crumpet factory manager from Watford, Herts, would be arrested in the FBI’s biggest-ever sting operation?–?the inspiration for Oscar-tipped movie American Hustle.
The story of the Abscam sting, in which politicians were tricked into receiving bribes from a fake Arab sheikh, has already earned £104million at the box office. It is up for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Sydney Prosser, the role played by Amy Adams, is loosely based on Evelyn, who is now 71 and living quietly in a coastal retirement community in Titusville, Florida, where few neighbours know about her colourful past.
Evelyn married Mel in 1982 but they have since divorced. Despite a storm of publicity for American Hustle she is avoiding the limelight. He, however, talks fondly of his first dates with Evelyn while he was still married to second wife Marie.
Now 89, he recalls: “I first saw Evelyn at a swimming pool and I called her up. The first time I took her out I took her to a wiseguys place where they served a big Porterhouse steak with French fries and spaghetti. She had just come to this country. She finished her steak then asked me, ‘Have you finished yours?’ I said no, so she ate mine too!
“She was a very pretty girl. I told her I couldn’t take her home but gave her 20 dollars for a cab. A few days later she handed me the 20 back. I couldn’t believe she was so honest. Where I was from guys would cut your throat for 20 bucks.
“She had obviously been raised properly and didn’t lie about anything, unlike the people I hung out with. This is how honest she was: One day it was freezing cold. I said, ‘Here’s a couple of hundred bucks – go buy a coat’. She bought a plain, grey coat for 40 bucks, and gave me back the rest! I couldn’t believe it. She was not the type of girl that guys like me had seen before. What I liked most about her was her honesty.”
Which was ironic. As a career criminal, Weinberg was friends with hitmen working for feared mob boss Carlo Gambino. He had graduated from selling jackets with no back and smashing windows to boost trade for glaziers to scams where his mobster associates would stage shoot-outs with fake bullets and he would charge people $5,000 to make the “body” disappear. Then he began conning people with bad credit into applying for loans with a non-existent company called London Investors in return for an advance fee. The loans were always turned down but the fees were non-refundable.
One of the victims was singer Wayne Newton and, when the scam was discovered in 1977, the FBI arrested Weinberg for mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. Evelyn was accused of being his accomplice, allegedly posing as “Lady Evelyn”.
No charges were brought and the case never reached court –because Weinberg agreed to go undercover for the FBI.
“I told them I’d cop a plea if they let her off,” he says. “I expected to serve time. Then the FBI asked me to help them with four other cases. She was indicted with me but she was never involved. I would never talk business in front of her.
They didn’t really have anything on her, but she couldn’t take the pressure. Once I had set up the cases for the FBI all the charges were dropped.”
The plot of the film, starring Christian Bale in the Weinberg role , centres on Abscam, a fake firm used to lure politicians known to be corrupt. Agents posed as emissaries of an Arab sheikh offering suitcases of cash in return for favours.
Several
congressmen and a mayor were among those snared in the sting, which
secured 19 convictions. But the conman’s mistress in the film is an
ex-stripper from New Mexico who only pretends to be a Brit.
Evelyn,
who moved to the US in 1967, says on the phone from her Florida home.
“The movie is strictly fiction. They just took parts of the real story.”She refuses to be drawn further, especially not about Weinberg, who she finally married after 17 years as his mistress. It was less than a month after his wife Marie committed suicide.
“Eve is and was a one of a kind,” Weinberg says. “I have never known a prettier girl. You could say she was the love of my life. She very English, very headstrong and she liked to do as she pleased.”
The ex conman, who co-operated in the film’s production, is philosophical about how their relationship fell apart.
“We got divorced in 1998 and now she hates my guts,” he says matter-of-factly. “I guess I was never really affectionate enough. She hated the fact I dragged her into all this. She was nothing like that chick in the movie.”
Weinberg says that after the couple divorced Evelyn found work with NASA, looking after the monkeys that had been sent to space in their rockets.
“She loved those things for some reason,” he adds. “About six years ago she moved back near me. But she don’t talk to me no more – she’s very bitter over this. She is still real angry with me, but then she had to deal with all my crap so I don’t blame her.
“She hasn’t seen the movie yet... and I don’t think she ever will.”
86th Academy Awards nominees
March 2, 2014 — Host: Ellen DeGeneres
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Best Cinematography
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Best Documentary Feature
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Best Documentary Short
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Best Film Editing
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Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Best Original Score
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Best Original Song
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Red CARpet Charity Preview Gala
The date is set for the 2014 Red CARpet Charity Preview Gala – February 13, 2014
at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center held in the Pittsburgh
International Auto Show exhibit floor space! Austin’s Playroom Project,
an initiative of the Mario Lemieux Foundation, will be the primary
beneficiary of the event, which is run and managed by the Greater
Pittsburgh Automobile Dealers Association and Foundation.
2014 will be the third consecutive Auto Show preview event that benefitted Austin’s Playroom Project. Nearly $200,000 has been raised for playrooms in medical facilities in the Pittsburgh region, including funding for the Austin’s Playroom in the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital.
Austin’s Playroom Project seeks to benefit families and improve the quality of a child’s hospital experience whether as a visitor or patient by establishing cheerful playrooms that are safe, calming and comfortable.
2014 will be the third consecutive Auto Show preview event that benefitted Austin’s Playroom Project. Nearly $200,000 has been raised for playrooms in medical facilities in the Pittsburgh region, including funding for the Austin’s Playroom in the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital.
Austin’s Playroom Project seeks to benefit families and improve the quality of a child’s hospital experience whether as a visitor or patient by establishing cheerful playrooms that are safe, calming and comfortable.
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