A swarm of leaks

I read an article the other day on the online version of the economist.com and it talks about new upcoming leaking sites. Basically what it talks about is that WikiLeaks may die but leaking will not. There is already another leaking site which is called Cryptome, which was founded by two New York architects with libertarian leanings. It is also mentioned that there will start a new website, which is not named yet, in Germany.

It is also said that the rivals of WikiLeaks differ in their approaches to technologie and their methods. WikiLeaks seeks donations. The owner of the Cryptome site finances his site with money of his own pocket and the owner of the german site has not said how he will finance this site.

It seems that the new pages will be bolder with the material they disclose.
Mr. Young, the owner of Cryptome has already posted more than 58, 000 files. And the german site wants to allow the leakers to decide how their documents will appear.

In the future such websites will multiply, because the technologie is on their side.

I think it will be very interesting in the future, because when there are a lot of leaking sites, there will not be a chance for the states to have any secrets.

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Vocabulary:

to seek (benötigen): WikiLeaks seeks donations.

to be bold (kühn, mutig sein): The new pages will be bolder with the material they disclose.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was first celabrated in 1621 by the pilgrims who wanted to celebrate their first harvest. The Native Americans were invited to eat with the Pilgrims.

Nowadays it is celabrated on the 4th thursday in November. On this day the family comes together to have a typical Thanksgiving dinner.

Typical dishes are: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, etc.

The day after Thanksgiving is the "Black Friday". On this day the Christmas shopping season begins. There are a lot of discounts granted and the shops open very early in the morning.

In my mind Thanksgiving is very nice. The family comes together and they have a fantastic dinner.

Happy Halloween

Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallow's Eve.

Hallowed means holy. Eve is the day before a holy day. Halloween was an ancient British Celtic festival. At Halloween the souls of the dead returned. People lit bonfires to frighten evils spirits. Now bonfires are only burnt on November 5th. On Halloween children play trick-or treat. They hope to get money and if they don't get money, they play a trick on the people, who don't give them sweets.

My favourite advertisement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DykbPa4Lc

Farrah

Her name is Farrah. She is form Maryland, which is in the north east of Washington D.C. She is a single child, about which she doesn't care, because she gets everything what she wants from her parents. She is really bad at sports, but she goes to gym. In Austria she likes the mountains and she also likes the old buildings in the cities. She has already been to Perg, Saalbach, Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg. In her freetime she likes to listen to music and to watch films. In Europe she has already been to Germany, France, UK, the Nederlands, Greece and Switzerland.

The development of advertising

In the beginning of advertising during the Industrial Revolution, it was mainly used to promote novelties and fringe products.
Then there were a lot of new companies and so brand-naming became necessary.

The economic depression, which lasted from 1873 to 1894, brought on a crisis of over-production and under-consumption.
The smaller businesses realized that they would be in a better situation if they combined with other small businesses.

Lord Leverhulme was one of the first industrialists to realize that advertisements should contain "logical and considered" arguments as well as eye-catching and witty slogans.
Advertising of this period had reached the "stage of persuasion as distinct from proclamation or iteration", indeed advertise or bust seemed to be the rule of the day as bigger and more expensive campaigns were mounted and smaller firms who did not or could not, advertise, were squeezed or bought out by the larger companies.

Austrian economy suffers throwback

I read an article on austriantimes.at the other day and it talks about that the Austrian economy.

Basically what it says is that the Austrian gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first three months of 2010. It is also said that soaring mineral oil prices would not only keep investments low but also lead to declining spendings by Austrians.

The WIFO meanwhile stressed the Austrian economy would continue to recover from the impact of the economic crisis, but added that this process would occur slower than initially inspected.

What shocked me most was the fact that the Austrian gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first three months of 2010. It also shocked me that the process of recovering of the economic crisis would occur slower than initially inspected.

Let's go green

I have just heard a presentation and the name of it was "Let's go green". It talked about the environment, pollution and the climate change. It was a very interesting presentation because it concerns all of us.



Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats by facing the planet. There exist two types of climate changes. Natural causes, which are: earth's orbit, drifting continents, volcanic eruptions and sun's output.

And there are also human causes for example: Greenhouse gases.


It also talked about environmental pollution. There are three kinds of pollutions.

air pollution: noise pollution, tobacco smoke, etc.
water pollution: industrial pollution, farming wastes, etc.
land pollution: soil pollution, waste pollution, etc.

If you want to help saving life on Earth you can find some suggestions on the websites of WWF or Greenpeace.


To my mind we all should help saving life on earth, because it isn't difficult to help. I will help by recycling different kinds of materials and i will compost things which can be composted.

My comment about the presentation "tourism"

To my mind the blog was very good. The speakers were good prepared and they spoke fluently and the eye contact was also fine. And for me the content was very interesting

What i liked most was the explanation of the homepage. It was very interesting because they teached us how to manage to make a perfect holiday.

I also liked the pictures at the end of the presentation. So we could imagine how these buildings look like.

Well done girls!!

Press review

I read an article the other day on austriantimes.at and it talks about the fact that almost two thirds of skiers in Austria, Germany and the german-speaking part of Switzerland would be willing to use rental skis.

I thought you might be interested because skiing is a very popular sport in Austria.

Basically what it says is that in a study almost two thirds of responds said that they would use rental skis if the price was good and the skis were adapted to their individual needs.

It is also said that a whide choice of brands at rental shops were cited as an important factor in deciding to rent skis, but a quarter said that the high price of ski rentals put them off renting skis.

What surprised me most was the fact that two thirds of the german-speaking countrys would rent skis.