"Sollte der Mauerpark nicht erweitert werden, wird das für das Land Berlin teuer. Denn ist der Park im kommenden Jahr nicht mindestens zehn Hektar groß, muss Berlin 2,25 Millionen Euro Fördermittel an die Allianz Umweltstiftung zurückzahlen. Eine erste Frist war eigentlich schon im vergangenen Jahr abgelaufen, die Allianz gewährte dem Senat aber einen Aufschub. „Wenn das Land den Mauerpark nicht bis 2012 hinbekommt, dann ist die Verfallszeit erreicht. Das ist die letzte Deadline“, sagt Lutz Spandau, Vorstand der Allianz Umweltstiftung. Zwar halte man den größeren Mauerpark insbesondere für die Prenzlauer Berger für wichtig, jetzt müssten die Bürger aber sagen, was sie wollen. „Sonst könnte das ganze Konzept zum Mauerpark kaputt diskutiert werden“, sagte Spandau."

The TLD is meant to give pornographic websites a clearly marked home on the Internet, but it has gone through so many ups and downs over the last 11 years that it's almost a shock that it has finally gone through. Still, the measure didn't pass without opposition—nine ICANN board members voted in favor of .XXX, while three opposed and four abstained—and the vote went against the recommendation of ICANN's Government Advisory Committee.

"In their heyday, the Fab Five were widely portrayed as the root of all evil in college sports. They wore baggy shorts and black socks. They blasted hip-hop music in the locker room. They talked trash. A lot. Those types of uniforms and behavior might be commonplace today, but 20 years ago it was revolutionary, polarizing and heavily influential to a generation of young athletes. Although the Fab Five never got into serious trouble off the court, the players symbolized to many people a clear shift in the sports world and youth culture. Fans of all races and demographics spent millions of dollars on Michigan jerseys, shorts and the like, trying to capture a tiny slice of the group's mystique. By the end of their second year together, the Fab Five were routinely battered in the national media for the way they carried themselves. Articles and television reports painted them as brash villains or worse -- as thugs. Now, two decades later, Rose, Jackson, King and Howard have come together in ESPN's "Fab Five" documentary to tell the inside story of the freshman class that was feted as rock stars. Notably absent is Webber, the No. 1 recruit from the Class of '91, who isn't yet willing to discuss two sticky subjects: the payment scandal, which led to legal problems for Webber and the removal of the Fab Five's banners from Crisler Arena, and the infamous timeout gaffe at the end of the 1993 national championship game."  

"Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social Distortion and Youth Brigade – as they embark on their first international tour."

The Kalis series finally begins. Right off the bat, Josh clears up a few issues for everybody and we get right into things with how it all got started in Grand Rapids. Sean Sheffey appears and lets us know that Josh has always been a well respected skater, and Mike Blabac recalls when Josh helped him learn how to use his camera. Ted Lee provided the archival footage of a young Kalis, and if there had been more time we would have loved to show more of Ted’s incredible old footage that includes a New Deal demo with Ed Templeton and Mike Vallely. Enjoy.

"The revelations, contained in a July 18, 2008, cable obtained by Wikileaks, portray a massive, all-out effort by the Congress Party to win a confidence vote in India’s parliament that could have toppled the wobbly coalition government and doomed the nuclear deal. In the cable, written five days before the critical vote, a political aide to an influential Congress Party lawmaker told a United States Embassy diplomat that one small regional political party had already been paid millions of dollars in bribes for support. The aide also “showed the Embassy employee two chests containing cash and said that around Rupees 50-60 crore (about $25 million) was lying around the house for use as pay-offs,” according to the cable. Another Congress Party member told an American diplomat that Kamal Nath, a government minister, “is also helping to spread the largesse” and was offering jet airplanes as enticements."

"The moves in both states continue the fallout from the January announcement that Hospira Inc., the only American producer of sodium thiopental, had stopped making the anesthetic. The shortages began after the company suspended production in 2009 because of problems obtaining an ingredient. They now have become dire because the drug’s shelf life is typically no more than two years. Tuesday’s seizure by the Drug Enforcement Administration presumably responded to a February complaint lodged by a lawyer for Andrew Grant DeYoung, who faces execution for killing his parents and sister in 1993. The lawyer, John T. Bentivoglio of Washington, wrote Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. on Feb. 24 that Georgia’s Department of Corrections appeared to be importing sodium thiopental from a British distributor. Because the state does not have a federal license to import controlled substances, that would violate the Controlled Substances Act, Mr. Bentivoglio charged."  

"The US-Military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: "The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US." He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology, and any English-language use of social media by Centcom was always clearly attributed. The languages in which the interventions are conducted include Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto." "

Filmed by VPRO TV for Lola Da Musica 1998. Dutch Television. Featuring performances of: Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away), My Own Summer (Shove It), 7 Words. Ripped by slyartwork from VHS tape.

a game between athletico madrid and a.c. milan... torres (no.9) was 12 years old and scored 2 goals.

"Er stellt mir eine so kinderleichte wie schwindelerregende Rechenaufgabe: »Ein Kilo Koks kommt für 10000 bis 12000 Euro nach Secondigliano. Beim Weiterverkauf bringt das Kilo einen Reingewinn von rund 100000 Euro. Es gibt Dealer, die arbeiten rund um die Uhr und verticken bis zu zwei Kilo täglich. Und jetzt sag mir mal, wie viel da an einem Tag reinkommt?« Wenn man bedenkt, dass ein lokaler Dealerring bis zu fünfzehn Plätze bespielt, kommen allein mit Kokain drei Millionen Euro rein, und das alle vierundzwanzig Stunden."

The video gives us behind-the-scenes look at the infamous video for The Pharcyde's "Drop", directed by Spike Jonze and released in 1996. The Pharcyde and their private linguist, Robin Belvin, talk about how they learnt the words to the song backwards in just five days.

"Die Bundesregierung plant – entgegen bisheriger Ankündigungen - eine deutliche Absenkung des Schutzniveaus für Atomkraftwerke. Darüber berichtet das ARD-Magazin MONITOR in seiner heutigen Ausgabe... Dem Magazin liegen interne Regierungsdokumente vor, in denen die Verpflichtung der AKW-Betreiber zur Nachrüstung, insbesondere auch der sogenannten Altreaktoren, weitgehend abgeschafft werden soll. Hierfür soll auch das Atomgesetz geändert werden. „Wenn das Wirklichkeit wird, was in diesen Dokumenten steht, dann verdienen diese Papiere nicht die Überschrift Nachrüstung“, sagte der ehemalige Leiter der Abteilung Reaktorsicherheit im Bundesumweltministerium Wolfgang Renneberg gegenüber MONITOR."

"Felicia "Snoop" Pearson has spent much of the past two decades drawn to the gritty glamour of life on the streets, and nearly as much time and energy struggling to break free. Critics will see the arrest of the 30-year-old Baltimore actress on Thursday on drug charges as evidence that she's a career criminal — an image that only was heightened by her portrayal of a coldblooded assassin on HBO's "The Wire." But Pearson's friends, and there are many, are profoundly saddened by her latest run-in with police."

From my office in Otemachi, central Tokyo. Rough footage started 10 seconds into today's quake.

This interview is special on so many levels to us here @ UGHH, because we're huge fans of David Choe's work, but also, because somehow Van$tylez was able to crack the exterior of David Choe's skull and sip the juice from the inner recesses of his psyche. If I had any sort of psychiatric background, I would be able to give you something better for this description.. but instead I'll just suggest that you watch for yourself.

Synopsis: A hot chick installed a video camera in her ass to catch people checking her junk out.

He explained that the marriage market is becoming very competitive with so few girls. Chinese parents want to accumulate as much wealth as possible to ensure that their son can attract a wife. It is also important to provide sons with the best education possible. A competitive marriage market means that members of the disadvantaged gender must raise their game, which in China means greater wealth and education.

"The female officer became friends with the woman referred to in court as Miss A through Sweden's Social Democratic party, in which both are involved, according to Expressen. The pair corresponded on the internet 16 months before the allegations were made against Assange. Miss A commented on a Facebook update on the police officer's page as recently as 10 February, the paper said, and Miss A links to the officer's private blog from her personal page."

"Ich bin eine aufrichtige Sozialistin": Ein früheres NPD-Mitglied tritt als Kandidatin der Linken bei der Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg an. Monika Strub bestätigte der Süddeutschen Zeitung, Mitglied bei den Rechtsextremen gewesen zu sein - damals noch als Mann.

"To my knowledge — and I challenge the reader to offer one example — no-one in the entire history of photography, since its invention in 1826 by another Frenchman, Nicéphore Niépce, has produced an image like the Naudet film of American Airlines Flight 11. No other world-shattering event, as sudden, as rapid and as totally unexpected to the people of New York as the arrival of that plane was — which is why, essentially, nobody else got it — has ever been recorded on film: least of all with only six seconds to spare, after a 90-degree camera pan and with the buildings that were both about to be hit over the next 20 minutes centered in the shot, and framed by the buildings on the sides of the street next door, like curtains framing the action on a theatrical stage. There had been nothing like it in the previous 175 years, and there has been nothing like it since. In the putative "Complete History of Documentary Photography," in the chapter entitled "Accidental Pictures of Moments that Changed the World," the only name mentioned would be Jules Naudet's: how many other photographers have a whole branch of the art all to themselves? The unique 9/11 event was the subject of an equally unique photographic achievement."

"Die Propaganda schießt Tore: Wie der tschetschenische Republikchef Kadyrow gemeinsam mit Lothar Matthäus gegen eine brasilianische Weltmeisterelf verlor."

The music video for this song is a low budget black and white video and shows Biggie rapping at a party. Sean Combs appears in the video. This song was performed at a concert with friend-turned-rival 2Pac in 1994.

Prodigy, one-half of the legendary NY duo Mobb Deep, became a free man on Monday (March 7) after serving around three years behind bars for a weapons possession conviction.