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Chip Shot: Intel Tops Chart with Action Film

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Intel’s action-packed “Chase” mini-movie has topped the Visible Measures Top 10 Viral Video Ad Chart. The 105-second-long film had 1.13 million views last week, meaning more people watched a cunning heroine get the upper hand on a couple of thugs than Evian’s roller-skating babies and ads from BlendTec, DC Shoes and Verizon, which also made the Top 5. “Chase,” which debuted Jan. 5, illustrates the performance and advanced features of Intel’s new 2nd Generation Core i5 processors. The spot demonstrates the performance capabilities of the new processors by creating an action-movie style chase sequence that takes place through a wide variety of program windows on a computer desktop. Filmed on location in Prague, Czech Republic, the video features a multitude of programs and sites, including Apple’s iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite.

Jan. 25, 1921: Robots First Czech In

January 25th, 2011 | No Comments

1921: A play about robots premieres at the National Theater in Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia.
R.U.R, (which stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Capek, marks the first use of the word “robot” to describe an artificial person. Capek invented the term, basing it on the Czech word for “forced labor.” (Robot [...]

Former Czechoslovak dissident, FM dies

January 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Former Czechoslovak dissident, Foreign Minister and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier died in Prague.

His wife Jirina told Czech new agency ÄŒTK that he died at the hospital after a long illness at the age of 73.

Lady Gaga sets pulses racing in Prague with see-through plastic dress

November 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Lady Gaga has taken her eccentric style to a whole new level. She recently performed in Prague with a see-through plastic dress that left little to the imagination, reports the Sun. But the â€˜Just Danceâ€™ singer did shy away from going completely starkers, with strategically placed duct tape covering her nipples and a pair of [...]

PM starts two-day Prague visit

November 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko CvetkoviÄ‡ started on Monday his two-day official visit to the Czech Republic.
CvetkoviÄ‡ met in Prague with Czech President Vaclav Klaus.

Tom Cruise has gone under the knife?

October 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Shots that show Tom Cruise zipping down a flying fox in Prague (shirtless) have sparked speculations that the actor has gone under the knife. The shots belatedly came to the attention of Woman”s Day via the gossip sites. The mag sought to advance the hypothesis that the action star has sought a doctor to help [...]

Czech envoy on lawless, criminal north

October 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Frustration is growing in Kosovo and unless EULEX implements laws, there could be violence, says Janina Hrebickova, appointed as Czech ambassador in Kosovo. She told Prague daily Pravo that violence could break out unless EULEX arrested Serb and other criminals.

Madonna Stalker Robert Linhart Vows To Keep Harassing Material Girl: â€œI Wonâ€™t Stop Until I Meet Her!â€

September 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

It looks like someone’s been watching too much Desperately Seeking Susan. A former New York City Firefighter is in trouble with the law after showing up at the Central Park West home of Pop Queen Madonna armed with ambition and billboards declaring his love.Police arrested Robert Linhart, 59, outside the star’s Central Park West apartment [...]

Kanye West 40-Minute â€œRunawayâ€ Short Film Will Be Longest Music VIDEO In History

September 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Kanye West will release the longest music video in history with the release of a 40-minute epic for his new â€œRunawayâ€ single, NY Mag reported on Wednesday.The music video will last just seconds longer than the currentl title-holder, Michael Jackson’s â€œGhosts,â€ which timed in at 39 minutes and 31 seconds. West said the film-noir-style movie will [...]

July 9â€“10, 1856: Visionary Tesla Born at Midnight

July 9th, 2010 | No Comments

1856: Scientific genius and visionary inventor Nikola Tesla is born at the stroke of midnight in the unassuming village of Smiljan, in what’s now Croatia. He wastes little time in revolutionizing the world through foundational developments in electromagnetism, electrical current, wireless power and communications, weaponry, robotics, computer science, mass media and much more.
“Tesla is like [...]

Disarmament and counter-proliferation: Old worry, new ideas

April 15th, 2010 | No Comments

After some moral victories over nuclear matters, America’s hardest test looms

TO HEAR Barack Obama talk about the “unprecedented threat” that terrorists might one day set off a nuclear bomb, it would be easy to assume that little has changed since the days of George Bush. But having adopted his predecessor’s diagnosis, Mr Obama is proposing a different treatment. Where Mr Bush disliked arms treaties and favoured muscular unilateral action—he invaded Iraq on the grounds that he could not afford to wait for proof of Saddam Hussein’s (non-existent) banned weapons to come in the form of a “mushroom cloud”—Mr Obama is performing an intricate multilateral dance.

His introductory bow came in Prague last year, when the president set out his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Then, in September, he held out his hand to Russia by announcing a reconfiguration of America’s anti-missile defence system. The couple’s twirl concluded last month with an agreement to cut each side’s nuclear arsenal to 1,550 deployed warheads. …

Material world

April 13th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama leads the effort to secure nuclear materials

BARACK OBAMA is hosting a two-day nuclear security summit with 47 heads of government in Washington, DC. A year ago, in Prague he announced a four-year initiative to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world. The risk that terrorists might acquiring a nuclear weapon, he said, “is the most immediate and extreme threat to global security”. According to the Belfer Centre at Harvard University, there is around 1.6m kg of highly-enriched uranium and 0.5m kg of weapons-grade plutonium in the world. The combined amount is enough to build more than 200,000 nuclear weapons. As the summit ends on Tuesday April 13th, President Obama will be cajoling countries to make individual pledges and sign a joint declaration to secure the world’s nuclear material.

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Obama seeks concrete action on nuclear security

April 10th, 2010 | No Comments

US President Barack Obama will urge nations to agree to steps to ensure nuclear-related material is safe and inaccessible to terrorists when he hosts an unprecedented international summit next week in Washington, advisers said Friday.
Obama wants to develop an action plan to set standards for securing nuclear stockpiles and accomplishing the goal within four years, [...]

Logic v politics

April 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev sign a new strategic arms-reduction treaty in Prague

HE HAD stopped over briefly in Prague for a handshake with Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, on a new strategic arms-reduction treaty—and a new start also, it is hoped, in relations with America’s still prickly cold-war rival. And then Barack Obama was due back in Washington to play host to more than 40 heads of government for his own nuclear-security summit on April 12th and 13th. Mr Obama wants pledges from them to secure nuclear materials around the world and to crack down harder on illicit traffickers, ahead of next month’s five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the world’s main bulwark against proliferation and nuclear terrorism.

Yet when it comes to recasting America’s own nuclear-weapons policy to deal more efficiently with the same threats, Mr Obama may have a battle ahead. In many ways, this week’s delayed nuclear posture review simply brings America’s official nuclear thinking into line with long-standing practice, including that of his more warlike predecessor, George Bush. With the demise of the old Soviet threat, nuclear weapons play a diminishing role in America’s defences. Like Mr Bush, Mr Obama plans instead to rely more on America’s array of powerful conventional weapons to deter future adversaries in a crisis. …

Russia asks U.S. to end missile shield

April 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Russia once again asked the U.S. to forgo a controversial missile defense program in Eastern Europe, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday. It comes days before the Russian and U.S. presidents were to meet in Prague to sign an historic nuclear weapons treaty.

The week ahead

April 4th, 2010 | No Comments

The leaders of Russia and America will sign a new strategic-arms reduction treaty in Prague

• BARACK OBAMA will meet Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, in Prague on Thursday April 8th to sign a strategic-arms reduction treaty. Over ten years this will cut the number deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 on each side. Delivery systems (missiles, bombers and the like) will be reduced to 700 apiece. That is still enough to wipe out whole continents, but it makes the Nobel peace prize sitting on Mr Obama’s mantelpiece look a little less like an invitation to hubris.

• THE foreign ministers of India and China will meet in Beijing on Monday 5th April. Asia’s two rising powers have a polite but tense relationship—thanks to their long-running and lengthy border dispute, and the sense that they are competing for the same slot as Asia’s dominant power. India’s foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, and his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, are expected to hold talks on bilateral, regional and global themes. …

America, Russia and arms control: It takes two

March 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Arms cuts get you only so far; a safer world needs tighter anti-proliferation rules too

WHEN Barack Obama promised, in Prague a year ago, to “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” and won a Nobel peace prize for it, even he felt that the accolade was a bit premature. His Prague to-do list was long: reduce the role of nuclear weapons in America’s defences; cut the number of nukes, too, in a bold new treaty with Russia; win Senate ratification of the test-ban treaty; seek a United Nations ban (or “cut-off”) on making fissile material for bombs; and meanwhile secure all nuclear materials from terrorist reach.

The real prize Mr Obama was after was international support for a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at its upcoming five-yearly review in May. For North Korea, Iran and others have battered its anti-nuclear foundations. …

U.S., Russia to sign new arms pact April 8

March 27th, 2010 | No Comments

The United States and Russia will sign a new treaty April 8 in Prague slashing their stockpiles of long-range nuclear weapons.
The new treaty will replace the START I agreement (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) signed in 1991 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. That treaty came into force in 1994 but expired December 5.

“U.S., Russia very close to nuclear treaty”

March 25th, 2010 | No Comments

A White House official said Wednesday that the United States and Russia are “very close” to an agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty. The official says that when a signing ceremony is held, it will be in Prague.

Rozlyn Papa Is Not The Woman Featured In Alleged â€œBachelorâ€ Sex Tape, Says Lexington Steele

March 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Former Bachelor contestant Rozlyn Papa is not the woman featured in sex tape being shopped around Hollywood, a porn star has claimed.

On Wednesday, 15-second video debuted on Pornhub.com that featured a Papa lookalike performing oral sex on well-hung adult film Lexington Steele. However, Steele recently stepped forward to ensure Bachelor fanatics that his partner [...]