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'Paul': World exclusive 'RV Doorway' video

Monday, June 6 2011, 10:18 BST To mark the release of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's extraterrestrial comedy Paul on triple play Blu-ray (that's a Blu-ray, DVD disc and digital copy in one tidy bundle!) we've got a special world exclusive video introduced just for you, Digital Spy readers, by the stars themselves!

'RV Doorway' gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at just how much fun it was to make Paul for Pegg, Frost, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio. Watch the video of the Paul "cool party" below:

Paul is released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 13.

Mother's Day An unlikely Mother's Day gift from the man who brought you Saw.

The Tooth Fairy Meets the Tallest Man in the World!

November 8, 2010

Dear Parents,

Whooweee! Am I poopered! I literally just sat down only moments ago. I really have been that busy this week. In the time since I have been flying around the world to replace teeth with a little monetary gift for kids, I am quite positive this has been my longest week. At first I couldn’t figure out what could possibly be the cause for such a rash of children losing their teeth in one week. And then it dawned on me. Halloween! Of course!

In a given week I can get be called out to six or seven homes. But last week I went to 45! Well, 46, actually, if you count the poor child whose tooth cracked, rather than came out whole. In total I sent out 46 Tooth Fairy Certificates and between my wings and my wrists (from typing all those names), as soon as I am finished writing this update for you, I am going to sleep until tomorrow night!

One encounter in particular stood out for me (apart from the sweet and loveable Carolyn whose left incisor cracked) and is worth mentioning.

I was called to the home of famous basketball player (I wish I could mention his name), but I signed a non-disclosure agreement). I can say that he plays for the NBA and one of the colors in his team’s uniform is blue. He’s pretty tall; I think about 6 feet 12, or something. Oh wait, that’s 7 feet tall, isn’t it? He’s African American and he has three kids. Did that narrow it down for you? Okay, maybe not. ?

Anyway, his wife and he have such darling kids. The two older ones were told they could stay up and wait for me. You see, Jason and Molly, who are nine and 11 and they have telling their baby sister Sharon that I don’t exist. Their parents wanted to prove to them that I do. (Oh did you think I used their real names? I am not that gullible)!

No one was more surprised than Molly when I flew through the window just after 1:00 a.m. on Thursday night. I really tried to get to their home sooner but I was making stops in Nashua, New Hampshire, Clarksville, Mississippi, Oak Park, Illinois, Saginaw, Michigan and Eden, Minnesota. At least I had enough smarts to start on the east coast and work my way west. Goodness the United States is large! And I am only little being who’s less than 2 inches long!

Anyway, sorry, I digress, just in case you forgot…

So, I arrived at the home of the James family (for lack of a better name) and oh where was I? Oh yes, Molly! Well, as soon as I flew in, she is the first one who spied me. She let out a huge gasp and covered her mouth. “See, I told you she exists!” Yelled Jason.

“You liar! You insisted she was a fake, too. Stop telling tales.” Molly responded.

“I do exist. You can even touch me, but first, please tell me which way to your sister’s room. I have very important business to tend to.”

“May we follow you?” Asked Molly.

“Only if you promise not to make noise and wake up Sharon. Is that a deal?”

Upon finishing my sentence, the tallest man I have ever in my life seen came in from the kitchen to the family room. I flew toward him and hovered around his head as I sized him up. His voice was as low as his body tall. He extended his hand and introduced himself. His wife was suddenly beside him. She was pretty normal height, but pretty tall for a woman. I would say she was about 5 feet 11 or so. It was then I realized that their kids, who if you remember are only nine and 11 were as tall as a 13 and 15-year old. I was also mesmerized by their extraordinary good looks. “Are you a model Mrs. James?”

“Oh no, I am a professor. But thank you! That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever asked me.”

We all flew to Sharon’s room, scuse me, I flew, and they walked behind me. I did what I had to do and Molly and Jason asked how I did that so quickly?

“Practice. I have been doing this for 200 years.” Oops, I hadn’t meant to tell them how old I was.

“Would you like to see my memorabilia room?” Asked the tall and handsome basketball player. “I feel sort of silly having one and at first I wasn’t going to, but then my team won a few championships I thought it was silly putting them in our bedroom.”

“Oh please! You’re actually my last stop for the night. I would be honored. I have never been to the home of a basketball player. I have been to many celebrities’ homes, but they’re sort of funny people. I usually end up meeting with the assistant and never see them. So this is a real treat! Thank you!”

In this room, which was larger than my entire house, I saw several glassed cases with trophies, plaques, banners, autographed photos and copies of him on the cover of so many magazines. What a career this man has had. He explained that he was about to retire and that this was a good time. He’s had a wonderful career and he was very thankful to do what he’s loved most in this world. He said that he was considering going back to get his Master’s, in what he wasn’t sure.

I asked his wife about where she teaches and she and I chatted a good while about the University and her students. She was about to make tenure and she too was very happy to do something she loves.

I left their home with the warmest feelings. Molly and Jason gave me a hug and their parents joined in. I just loved them! Before I left, I asked if I could print out a Tooth Fairy Certificate so Sharon would have something immediate, since she missed all of this while she slept soundly with her cat.

Now with that, my dears, goodnight until next week.

Love,
The Tooth Fairy

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The World after Wikileaks

16 December 2010 Last updated at 11:46 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has caused outcry from governments around the world Things will be different after Wikileaks, but not in ways we might expect, says regular commentator Bill Thompson.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may not be Time Magazine Person of the Year for 2010 - that distinction has gone to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - but he has certainly managed to dominate the global conversation over the past few weeks.

The reverberations of Wikileaks publication of so many confidential and secret documents will be felt for many years, and he has attracted a large band of supporters, but the support for Assange is as much about his personal situation as it is an expression of support for what Wikileaks does or proposes to do.

To properly understand the philosophy that underlies his activity or his long-term goals, people should read Aaron Bady's compelling analysis of Assange's politics, as published on the zunguzungu blog.

Bady uses a close reading of an essay by Assange on State and Terrorist Conspiracies to argue that Assange sees modern governance as a conspiracy by those with power that goes against the interests and desires of the governed, and that Wikileaks exists in order to undermine the ability of governments to communicate secretly and diminish the power of authoritarian states.

Doing this, he believes, will force openness and lead to more progressive forms of government - or at least, less repressive ones.

It will also, inevitably, lead to a response from the institutions targeted, and in the last few weeks we have seen what happens when a state feels threatened.

Although it is not pleasant neither is it surprising: governments, like other complex systems, will act to preserve themselves and seek to damage or neutralise opposition, and nothing the US or other governments have done so far is exceptional.

Net conflict

In a statement dictated to his mother from his jail cell Assange said "we now know that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are instruments of US foreign policy", referring to the way in which these large companies had decided not to provide service to Wikileaks.

But nobody who has observed the growth of the internet could have been surprised by this.

Tim Wu and Jack Goldsmith wrote about this back in 2006 in their excellent book Who Rules the Internet, where they pointed out that government will always go after gatekeepers and choke points in their attempts to regulate online activity.

In that same year, Visa and Mastercard refused to pass funds to the Russian music download site allofmp3.com, even though the site was legal within Russia, but that attracted little attention because it was about cheap music and not freedom of expression.

Now we face a different sort of conflict, and it appears to be one that will shape the political landscape for years to come.

In the finale of the film Ghostbusters the eponymous heroes are obliged to challenge the god Gozer, but before he appears they are told that they must "choose the form of your destructor".

Gozer, they realise, will materialise in whatever monstrous form they imagine, and Venkman tells the others not to visualise anything. Unfortunately, it is too late - Ray has already thought of "the gentlest thing he could, something that would never hurt me" - at which point a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appears and proceeds to wreak havoc on New York.

Something similar lies behind the emergence of Wikileaks. Over the past two decades we have built the internet and the web and completed a process of digitisation that has turned most of the world's operational data into electronic form, from bank records to love letters to diplomatic cables.

Status quo

We have called forth the network age, and yet carried on in our daily lives as if nothing has really changed.

As a result we made this moment inevitable, even if it was impossible to predict the form our "destructor" would take.

Will Wikileaks usher in a new era of control, wonders Bill Thompson

Now it has materialised as a stateless, shapeless "international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and news leaks", as Wikipedia describes it.

That organisation is threatened from outside by some of the most powerful states in the world, whose capacity for action is enormous. It is also challenged from the inside, as internal mails and documents, made available online on the Cryptome site reveal.

But what really matters is that the disruptive power of the internet has been conclusively demonstrated, and the old order has been provoked to respond.

This is democracy's Napster moment, the point at which the forms of governance that have evolved over 200 years of industrial society prove wanting in the face of the network, just as the business models of the recording industry were swept away by the ease with which the internet could transmit perfect digital copies of compressed music files.

Napster was neutered by court action in the US, but its failure inspired peer-to-peer services that were far harder to control. The sharing of music is now unstoppable, and Wikileaks and the organisations that come after it will ensure that the same is now true of secrets.

Of course we should never underestimate the power of the state to reinvent itself, just as modern capitalism and constitutional monarchy seem able to do.

Wikileaks has exposed the inadequacies in the way governments control their internal flow of information, and organisations dedicated to transparency and disclosure will observe the tactics used to shut it down and adapt accordingly. But the state can learn too, and has the resources to implement what it learns.

I fear that Wikileaks is as likely to usher in an era of more effective control as it is to sweep away the authoritarian regimes that Julian Assange opposes.

He may look to a day when the conspiratorial power of the state is diminished, but I think we are more likely to see new forms of government emerge that exploit the capabilities of the network age to ensure their power is undiminished.

Bill Thompson is an independent journalist and regular commentator on the BBC World Service programme Digital Planet. He is currently working with the BBC on its archive project.

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Germany vs Spain live stream . World Cup 2010 Semifinals . The second semi-final match of the 2010 World Cup between Germany and Spain is a rematch of the final from Euro 2008. Spain won that contest 2-1, but it means nothing with regard to South Africa. Germany has won the World Cup on three occasions, but only as West Germany and never since the two Germanys were reunited in 1990.

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Iran and Egypt, Twin Outsiders of the Muslim World – By Mohamad Korrani at PBS Org

A resonant history of influence and inspiration suggests it is now the turn of the Iranian people, and soon.

[ comment ] Tahseen Bashir, the late Egyptian intellectual and erudite diplomat, once said that Egypt and Iran are the only two real countries in the region, and the rest are simply “tribes with flags.”

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The intellectual dialogue between Fatimid Egypt and Iranians was vast and multifaceted and Iranians responded by starting their own Ismaili movement. It failed politically but succeeded culturally, producing some of the grandest works of Iranian literature and thought like the Safarnama (Book of Travels) of Nasser Khosrow, the History of Beyhaghi, and the philosophy of Avicenna.

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Paksitan: World Wetland days celebrated in Qurumbar Valley – Pamir Times news

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Gilgit: Each year the World Wetlands Day (WWD) is celebrated throughout the world to commemorate the signing of the Ramsar convention on Feb 2nd 1971 in the Ramsar city of Iran.

The prime objective behind the celebration of the day is to reach out common masses and enhance their awareness level about the common environmental issues of wetlands and the feasible solutions at local level. For this purpose different awareness raising events are organized through out the world to mark the day and highlight the importance of wetlands in our ecosystem. Each year a special theme is selected with focus on these issues. This year the day was celebrated internationally with the theme; Forests for Water and Wetlands.

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