Author: admin

united-nations: Friday is World Intellectual Property Day. This year’s theme is “Creativity – the next generation” to honor the talented and ingenious creators and innovators who are imagining how the world will look tomorrow.

UNESCO: World Book and Copyright Day 2013 Join the celebration Download books published over 100 years ago on Kindle, they’re free! Share your passion for an author and offer his book to people around you! Take this opportunity to discover something new from what you’re used to read. Leave a book on a park bench or a metro seat with a note saying “Happy Book and Copyright Day!” Find out how to send your old books to schools and libraries in countries facing a post-disaster situation.  Educate yourself on books pirating: respect for copyright encourages the dissemination of knowledge and rewards their creators and publishers….

I thought this was nice, too. sirades: I really like this picture. from https://www.facebook.com/usawtfm 

I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a long time and now I am happy to introduce the first in what I plan to be a series. Sunday Smacks are weekly round-ups of my favorite reads, most noteworthy happenings and everything I find worhty to mention here week by week. I haven’t used rss feeders before. I just decided recently to start using Google Reader to be able to catch up with all the blogs I was reading I was struggling to find the time to follow. But that was only days before Google Reader’s termination was announced (as timing…

newyorker: Today’s Daily Cartoon. For more cartoons, visit www.newyorker.com/cartoons

Serbia and Kosovo Reach Milestone Deal Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement aimed at overcoming ethnic enmities, a milestone that could enhance stability and help clear the path for membership in the European Union.

united-nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled by train to Washington, DC, on Thursday to take part in World Bank meetings on education, poverty reduction and more. Tune in on Friday between 11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT (15:00-16:10 GMT) when he and World Bank President Jim Kim hold an interactive online conversation on ending poverty. Details: http://bit.ly/ittakes419 Photo: Ban Ki-moon is seen here with UN Peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous and Oscar Fernandez-Taranco from the UN’s Department of Political Affairs.

On April 11, the birthday of famous Hungarian poet, Attila József, Hungary is celebrating the Day of Poetry. Here, one of the greatest Attila József poems to mark the occasion. Scroll down for English, Spanish, French and Russian translations. József Attila: Tiszta szívvel (1925) Nincsen apám, se anyám,se istenem, se hazám,se bölcsőm, se szemfedőm,se csókom, se szeretőm. Harmadnapja nem eszek,se sokat, se keveset.Húsz esztendőm hatalom,húsz esztendőm eladom. Hogyha nem kell senkinek,hát az ördög veszi meg.Tiszta szívvel betörök,ha kell, embert is ölök. Elfognak és felkötnek,áldott földdel elfödneks halált hozó fű teremgyönyörűszép szívemen. __________________________________________________________ Attila József: With a pure heart Without father…

united-nations: Sunday is World Health Day. This year the World Health Organization (WHO) places the focus on the global problem of high blood pressure which affects more than one in three adults worldwide. High blood pressure, a largely hidden disease due to the lack of symptoms, is a major contributor to heart disease and stroke – which together make up the world’s number one cause of premature death and disability.

The Arms Trade Treaty’s doubters | Turtle Bay Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the National Rifle Association are grabbing all the headlines for opposing an Arms Trade Treaty that is designed to prohibit the delivery of weapons to countries accused of committing gross human rights violations or subject to an international arms embargo. But they are not the only ones with misgivings about a new global arms trade treaty. In all, 23 governments cast abstentions, a gesture designed to show discomfort, if not open hostility, to the new arms accord. It would have been 24, but Venezuela, which has not…