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 Firsth time showed Turkey's song for 2009 Eurovision Song Contest 

Hadise'nin, Turkiye'yi 2009 Eurovision sarki Yarismasinda temsil edecek sarkisi ilk defa 2008'i 2009'a baglayan dakikalarda TRT ekranlarinda gosterildi.

izlemek icin tiklayin. dum tek tek

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http://videogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/Video.aspx?s=5&vid=3003

GIRL GAMES  

Funny and educational online flash games For your child.

Children creativity and imagination will improve with the use of these Make - up games ,

dress up games, cooking games,

DollHouse games .

These online games are easy to use your kids only has to click on her favorite dress and put it on the doll's body image. She can use her imagination to create all sorts of different looks. And will help her develop her own sense of fashion as well, since she will learn what looks and styles she likes.

Example Girl Games sites :

supergirlgames.net

1dressup.com 

Ambulans 

CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime FlorCruz worked on a farm in China's Hunan province during the 1970s

On December 18, 1978, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping gave his answer. In a Communist Party meeting in Beijing that day, the political elite adopted Deng's pragmatic program and launched economic reforms. New China was born.

People paraded in the streets to celebrate. Families gathered around the dinner table, uncorked wine bottles and toasted each other.

Thirty years hence, China's radical makeover is apparent.

China now is nothing short of an economic miracle. Its economy has grown at an average of 9.8 percent since 1978, making it the fourth largest economy in the world. Incredibly, China has pulled off the equivalent of reform, renaissance and industrial revolution in 30 years. Watch what Deng unleashed »

It's incredible because only three decades ago China was so poor and isolated.

I saw it up close when I worked on a farm in Hunan province, Chairman Mao's hometown, not long after I first arrived in China in 1971. For several months, I worked there with a production team planting rice, picking tea leaves, feeding pigs and digging ditches. Farmers worked hard and lived Spartan lives. Once, I attended a meeting to honor model workers; they were awarded bath towels and wash basins.  Watch FlorCruz describe China's transformation since his arrival in 1971 »

Today, my Hunan workmates have retired or changed jobs. The farm has disbanded, hit by the squeeze in state subsidies and by local and global competition. It has sold off its land to the local government and to real estate developers. Watch as China marks 30 years of reform »

Thirty years ago, there was little international trade. There were few tourists and few cars, but there were millions of bicycles on the streets. Now the streets are jammed with cars, and the air is polluted with fumes, grit and noise.

Beijing's neighborhoods used to be very quiet. Residents lived simple lives mostly in walled courtyards. A seven- or eight-story building was considered unusually high. Now they are dwarfed by skyscrapers which house fancy shopping malls and outlets like McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks.

Fashion used to be just as simple, and utilitarian Regulation attire was the so-called Mao jackets in blue, green and gray and baggy pants of the same colors. The unisex look was the norm. Now street fashion is varied and colorful, if not always chic.

Virtually everyone had a job 30 years ago, but they earned little money, and there was little to buy. Supplies of basic commodities were so tight that residents were doled out ration coupons, required to go with cash to buy cotton jackets and clothes, grain, and cooking oil. No coupons, no transaction.

Consumers in the late seventies coveted the so-called "four big things" -- a radio, a bicycle, a sewing machine and a wristwatch. And they were available only in special shops, like the Friendship Store. Now the new "big things" would include a Mercedes Benz, an apartment and a week-long vacation in Bali or Hawaii.

All this would have been inconceivable 30 years ago.

But Deng Xiaoping did conceive. Fondly remembered as the "chief architect" of China's reform and open-door program, he envisioned a modern, prosperous China and pointed the way forward.

Deng's reforms set off a series of seismic changes, starting in the countryside with the disbanding of the people's communes. He admonished farmers to work hard and get rich. The farmers responded enthusiastically. Later, Deng shifted the reform to the cities by experimenting with capitalism in designated Special Economic Zones and then spreading it nationwide.

Deng's reform was hailed as a Second revolution. When I worked as a reporter for Time Magazine (1982-2000) the magazine honored him as Time's Man of the Year -- not just once but twice.

There was opposition along the way. There was backlash from the Left and from the Right, as China oscillated from free-wheeling capitalism to puritanical communism. That's why there were political campaigns in and outside the party, like the one against "bourgeois liberalization" in the 1980s. And that was largely why the Tiananmen protests happened in 1989.

China has come a long way, but in my interviews with Deng's political successors, they made it clear that China will have to proceed cautiously and change step by step. "Cross the river while feeling the pebbles under the water," was the aphorism proposed by the former premier Zhao Ziyang. Why the caution? When I interviewed then President Jiang Zemin in 1999, he explained why. "There is no encyclopedia that China could simply copy and follow," he said.

China's reforms have brought about remarkable achievements, but they also triggered unintended consequences: rising unemployment, growing income gaps, environmental degradation, corruption, rising criminality and social unrest. China has done the easy part.

Now comes the hard part. China is facing the ripple effects of the global economic downturn: Chinese exports are declining, factories are closing down, workers are laid off en masse. China's leaders are facing one of the worst economic crises in 30 years.

It will take 30 years and more for China to find the right development model so it could change steadily without losing its national identity, ruining its environment and disrupting social and political harmony. Only then can they fully realize Deng Xiaoping's goal of a modern and prosperous China.

Source :CNN.com 

Spotlets pop up on a 'semantic Web' kiosk run by a pair of German researchers.

The idea behind the semantic Web, very broadly, is that things on the Internet will be described with descriptor languages so that computers can "understand" what they are.

An object might be a marked as a car part or a person, for instance. If objects were thus identified, an enormous network of linked data would emerge and machines, with their vast processing speeds, could suggest surprising and useful links that the human mind could never come up with, posing the possibility of a new sort of artificial intelligence.

The semantic Web is considered a key part of the upcoming "Web 3.0." It's starting to occur here and there, but widespread adoption is still a long way off.

A pair of German researchers have created an experimental kiosk that lets you easily use semantic Web capabilities -- even if you have no idea what they are. All that is needed is an iPhone and a finger with which to drag icons around on the kiosk's touch screen.

The kiosk takes advantage of the fact that MP3 files are "things" that have already been described in ways that machines can understand. That's because they have ID3 tags, which supply information on the artist and album.

An MP3 file on an iPhone is already a semantic annotated object, which means it's easily read by a computer.

Place the iPhone on the kiosk's surface and a circle appears around it. Next to that automatically appears a list of songs arranged by artist, title or genre.

Nearby on the screen are various "spotlets," intelligent agents that can perform different actions with the objects. One spotlet, for instance, plays MP3s that are dragged on top of it. There's also a YouTube spotlet.

Suppose you want to find videos related to Coldplay. Place your finger on the band's icon next to your phone and simply drag it on top of that spotlet. Instantly, icons for the first five videos from the YouTube search results appear around the spotlet.

Unwittingly, you've just done a search using semantic Web capabilities. Now, if you drag one of those icons onto the spotlet, the video will play. (Click here to watch a demonstration.)

Searching for new possibilities

These are just simple examples. Much more can be done with the system.

Other semantic Web tools are not nearly as fun. Consider, for instance, SPARQL, a query language. To find, say, music artists associated with the producer Timbaland, you'd have to type a long piece of convoluted code that most of us wouldn't bother to do.

"Complex operations should be hidden," says Simon Bergweiler, who along with fellow researcher Matthieu Deru, created the kiosk project at the Advanced Tangible Interface Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken.

The team also will soon launch a Web-site version of their system, where users can drag icons with a cursor instead of their finger. Users also can employ speech commands, which has interesting implications for home entertainment systems.

Reaching out to share the moment

But what the team really liked was the use of natural gestures.

"Via simple gestures, one can interact with content of Web 3.0 knowledge-bases without concrete knowledge of SPARQL or other Web 3.0 components," notes Bergweiler.

The idea is that their system can be used for quick and precise interaction with any rich semantic content. Real-world settings might include heavily trafficked places like airports or train stations, where they envision their kiosk ending up in the future. (They don't actually like the word "kiosk" -- they prefer "shared interaction space.")

You might want to quickly play a video from your iPhone to a group of friends, for instance, on a larger screen without the hassle of AV cables or any other setup.

"The idea of in-the-moment sharing and exploring in a public place, or even as a public event, is a very interesting one that I am surprised hasn't shown up in bars and at concert events," says Andrew Hawn, a strategist with consumer trend research firm Iconoculture.

Garage mechanics could also use such kiosks. Suppose mechanical parts have RFID antennas with semantic product memory. In that case, you could get technical data simply by placing a part on the surface of the kiosk.

The German team will soon set up interactive kiosks for German libraries to help visitors perform searches that involve context. Consider, for instance, searches like this: "Violin concerto compositions written by Mozart when he was in Salzburg." Or: "Books written by Nobel prize winners of the last decade."

Google and most other search engines cannot easily help with the desired context. "Only context information that contains the semantics can resolve and give an answer to these questions," notes Bergweiler.

A few new Web sites, like Cluuz.com, attempt to use semantics for better searching, albeit with their own approaches to the challenge.

Cluuz does better than Google with "Nobel prize winners 1990s," but it's worse at many other queries.

The semantic Web, when and if it fully blooms, will complement, not replace, the current Web. What's missing so far are enough fun ways to use it.

source cnn 

Connected countries with this chart.

Cables for connections underground and underwater (oceans) 

Sometimes cut these cables fisherman on oceans..