Iran launched its second satellite into space this week and it plans to follow up by sending a live monkey this summer. The head of Iran’s space organization says a capsule containing the monkey will be sent to an altitude of 74 miles by the Kavoshgar-5 rocket, AOL reports. The…
Continue reading …The earth moved for two apparent lovers, but it wasn’t because of the Vancouver riots. Though the city went completely bonkers when the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup, people are captivated by “The Kiss.” Bizarrely, two lovers appear locked in a salacious embrace, lying in a stretch of street among…
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• Nearly two-thirds of applicants were unsuccessful • Next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June Nearly two thirds of the 1.9m people who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets missed out in the first round of sales. Figures show that a total of 1.2m people ended up with nothing, with only 700,000 – 36% – being successful. Those who missed out will be given the first opportunity to buy those tickets still available when the next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June. Some 3m tickets were bought in the first round, and a further 2.3m will go on sale, though 1.7m of these are for Olympic football matches and 600,000 for other sports. The London 2012 chairman, Sebastian Coe, told reporters: “We recognise that a lot of people who have as yet been unsuccessful in that application are clearly disappointed. That’s why we are absolutely determined to do everything we possibly can to get tickets to those people who missed out in the first application. “Our commitment is to get two thirds of that 1.9m people to buy a ticket for the 2012 Games if they want to – and we know they want to be there, they were involved in the application process and are mad sports fans.” All applicants will find out by email today whether they have been successful or not. Those told they have been successful will not be able to find out exactly which tickets they have until 24 June when they will be able to do so via their baskets in the online ticket system. The emails to the 1.2m unsuccessful applicants say: “We would like to invite you to take advantage of an exclusive opportunity to purchase some of the remaining tickets, in advance of those customers who were allocated tickets in the initial application phase. “From 6am on 24 June until 6pm on 3 July 2011 you will be able to request some of the remaining tickets on the London 2012 ticketing website.” Olympic Games 2012 guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …• Nearly two-thirds of applicants were unsuccessful • Next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June Nearly two thirds of the 1.9m people who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets missed out in the first round of sales. Figures show that a total of 1.2m people ended up with nothing, with only 700,000 – 36% – being successful. Those who missed out will be given the first opportunity to buy those tickets still available when the next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June. Some 3m tickets were bought in the first round, and a further 2.3m will go on sale, though 1.7m of these are for Olympic football matches and 600,000 for other sports. The London 2012 chairman, Sebastian Coe, told reporters: “We recognise that a lot of people who have as yet been unsuccessful in that application are clearly disappointed. That’s why we are absolutely determined to do everything we possibly can to get tickets to those people who missed out in the first application. “Our commitment is to get two thirds of that 1.9m people to buy a ticket for the 2012 Games if they want to – and we know they want to be there, they were involved in the application process and are mad sports fans.” All applicants will find out by email today whether they have been successful or not. Those told they have been successful will not be able to find out exactly which tickets they have until 24 June when they will be able to do so via their baskets in the online ticket system. The emails to the 1.2m unsuccessful applicants say: “We would like to invite you to take advantage of an exclusive opportunity to purchase some of the remaining tickets, in advance of those customers who were allocated tickets in the initial application phase. “From 6am on 24 June until 6pm on 3 July 2011 you will be able to request some of the remaining tickets on the London 2012 ticketing website.” Olympic Games 2012 guardian.co.uk
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• Nearly two-thirds of applicants were unsuccessful • Next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June Nearly two thirds of the 1.9m people who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets missed out in the first round of sales. Figures show that a total of 1.2m people ended up with nothing, with only 700,000 – 36% – being successful. Those who missed out will be given the first opportunity to buy those tickets still available when the next sales window opens at 6am on 24 June. Some 3m tickets were bought in the first round, and a further 2.3m will go on sale, though 1.7m of these are for Olympic football matches and 600,000 for other sports. The London 2012 chairman, Sebastian Coe, told reporters: “We recognise that a lot of people who have as yet been unsuccessful in that application are clearly disappointed. That’s why we are absolutely determined to do everything we possibly can to get tickets to those people who missed out in the first application. “Our commitment is to get two thirds of that 1.9m people to buy a ticket for the 2012 Games if they want to – and we know they want to be there, they were involved in the application process and are mad sports fans.” All applicants will find out by email today whether they have been successful or not. Those told they have been successful will not be able to find out exactly which tickets they have until 24 June when they will be able to do so via their baskets in the online ticket system. The emails to the 1.2m unsuccessful applicants say: “We would like to invite you to take advantage of an exclusive opportunity to purchase some of the remaining tickets, in advance of those customers who were allocated tickets in the initial application phase. “From 6am on 24 June until 6pm on 3 July 2011 you will be able to request some of the remaining tickets on the London 2012 ticketing website.” Olympic Games 2012 guardian.co.uk
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Locals ban Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains For a film-maker, getting lost in the jungle can be a source of amusing sketches, which can turn even more humorous if it’s a German tourist stumbling upon a makeshift cocaine lab run by fictional drug-traffickers. But coca growers in the Yungas region of Bolivia do not see the funny side. They have banned the screening of Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains. In the movie, the German tourist is kidnapped by drug traffickers who believe he is worth a lot of money. It’s all fiction, says the Bolivian filmmaker, but the coca growers are not convinced. They have even intimidated those who try to show the film. “The house of one of the people who helped us was burnt down,” said Sarabia. “They’ve threatened the actors who live in the Yungas that they’ll throw them out of their community, and they’ve called them persona non grata.” The young director protests that his comedy, while filmed in the Yungas, could be set in any jungle area of Latin America. “I was surprised that one of the leaders of the coca growers wanted to know who gave us permission to film a cocaine lab,” said Sarabia. A scene in the movie shows mean-looking men stumping their feet on coca leaves, the traditional maceration process in the production of illegal cocaine. “This person believes that what he’s seen in the movie is true but, in reality, that cocaine lab was our artistic recreation.” For the director, this is not just laughable but also an implicit confirmation that some of the coca legally grown in the Yungas for traditional and medicinal uses goes to drug traffickers. “This comment implicates the coca growers, that they do have maceration pits,” said Savadria. “He put his foot in his mouth.” The director, however, is pleased about the controversy because it has given the film very good publicity. “We now plan to launch it again. People now want to see it.” Bolivia Comedy Drugs trade guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Locals ban Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains For a film-maker, getting lost in the jungle can be a source of amusing sketches, which can turn even more humorous if it’s a German tourist stumbling upon a makeshift cocaine lab run by fictional drug-traffickers. But coca growers in the Yungas region of Bolivia do not see the funny side. They have banned the screening of Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains. In the movie, the German tourist is kidnapped by drug traffickers who believe he is worth a lot of money. It’s all fiction, says the Bolivian filmmaker, but the coca growers are not convinced. They have even intimidated those who try to show the film. “The house of one of the people who helped us was burnt down,” said Sarabia. “They’ve threatened the actors who live in the Yungas that they’ll throw them out of their community, and they’ve called them persona non grata.” The young director protests that his comedy, while filmed in the Yungas, could be set in any jungle area of Latin America. “I was surprised that one of the leaders of the coca growers wanted to know who gave us permission to film a cocaine lab,” said Sarabia. A scene in the movie shows mean-looking men stumping their feet on coca leaves, the traditional maceration process in the production of illegal cocaine. “This person believes that what he’s seen in the movie is true but, in reality, that cocaine lab was our artistic recreation.” For the director, this is not just laughable but also an implicit confirmation that some of the coca legally grown in the Yungas for traditional and medicinal uses goes to drug traffickers. “This comment implicates the coca growers, that they do have maceration pits,” said Savadria. “He put his foot in his mouth.” The director, however, is pleased about the controversy because it has given the film very good publicity. “We now plan to launch it again. People now want to see it.” Bolivia Comedy Drugs trade guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Locals ban Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains For a film-maker, getting lost in the jungle can be a source of amusing sketches, which can turn even more humorous if it’s a German tourist stumbling upon a makeshift cocaine lab run by fictional drug-traffickers. But coca growers in the Yungas region of Bolivia do not see the funny side. They have banned the screening of Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains. In the movie, the German tourist is kidnapped by drug traffickers who believe he is worth a lot of money. It’s all fiction, says the Bolivian filmmaker, but the coca growers are not convinced. They have even intimidated those who try to show the film. “The house of one of the people who helped us was burnt down,” said Sarabia. “They’ve threatened the actors who live in the Yungas that they’ll throw them out of their community, and they’ve called them persona non grata.” The young director protests that his comedy, while filmed in the Yungas, could be set in any jungle area of Latin America. “I was surprised that one of the leaders of the coca growers wanted to know who gave us permission to film a cocaine lab,” said Sarabia. A scene in the movie shows mean-looking men stumping their feet on coca leaves, the traditional maceration process in the production of illegal cocaine. “This person believes that what he’s seen in the movie is true but, in reality, that cocaine lab was our artistic recreation.” For the director, this is not just laughable but also an implicit confirmation that some of the coca legally grown in the Yungas for traditional and medicinal uses goes to drug traffickers. “This comment implicates the coca growers, that they do have maceration pits,” said Savadria. “He put his foot in his mouth.” The director, however, is pleased about the controversy because it has given the film very good publicity. “We now plan to launch it again. People now want to see it.” Bolivia Comedy Drugs trade guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Locals ban Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains For a film-maker, getting lost in the jungle can be a source of amusing sketches, which can turn even more humorous if it’s a German tourist stumbling upon a makeshift cocaine lab run by fictional drug-traffickers. But coca growers in the Yungas region of Bolivia do not see the funny side. They have banned the screening of Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains. In the movie, the German tourist is kidnapped by drug traffickers who believe he is worth a lot of money. It’s all fiction, says the Bolivian filmmaker, but the coca growers are not convinced. They have even intimidated those who try to show the film. “The house of one of the people who helped us was burnt down,” said Sarabia. “They’ve threatened the actors who live in the Yungas that they’ll throw them out of their community, and they’ve called them persona non grata.” The young director protests that his comedy, while filmed in the Yungas, could be set in any jungle area of Latin America. “I was surprised that one of the leaders of the coca growers wanted to know who gave us permission to film a cocaine lab,” said Sarabia. A scene in the movie shows mean-looking men stumping their feet on coca leaves, the traditional maceration process in the production of illegal cocaine. “This person believes that what he’s seen in the movie is true but, in reality, that cocaine lab was our artistic recreation.” For the director, this is not just laughable but also an implicit confirmation that some of the coca legally grown in the Yungas for traditional and medicinal uses goes to drug traffickers. “This comment implicates the coca growers, that they do have maceration pits,” said Savadria. “He put his foot in his mouth.” The director, however, is pleased about the controversy because it has given the film very good publicity. “We now plan to launch it again. People now want to see it.” Bolivia Comedy Drugs trade guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Locals ban Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains For a film-maker, getting lost in the jungle can be a source of amusing sketches, which can turn even more humorous if it’s a German tourist stumbling upon a makeshift cocaine lab run by fictional drug-traffickers. But coca growers in the Yungas region of Bolivia do not see the funny side. They have banned the screening of Adán Sarabia’s Los Gringos No Comen Llajua (Foreigners Don’t Eat Spicy Sauce) because it portrays them as narco-villains. In the movie, the German tourist is kidnapped by drug traffickers who believe he is worth a lot of money. It’s all fiction, says the Bolivian filmmaker, but the coca growers are not convinced. They have even intimidated those who try to show the film. “The house of one of the people who helped us was burnt down,” said Sarabia. “They’ve threatened the actors who live in the Yungas that they’ll throw them out of their community, and they’ve called them persona non grata.” The young director protests that his comedy, while filmed in the Yungas, could be set in any jungle area of Latin America. “I was surprised that one of the leaders of the coca growers wanted to know who gave us permission to film a cocaine lab,” said Sarabia. A scene in the movie shows mean-looking men stumping their feet on coca leaves, the traditional maceration process in the production of illegal cocaine. “This person believes that what he’s seen in the movie is true but, in reality, that cocaine lab was our artistic recreation.” For the director, this is not just laughable but also an implicit confirmation that some of the coca legally grown in the Yungas for traditional and medicinal uses goes to drug traffickers. “This comment implicates the coca growers, that they do have maceration pits,” said Savadria. “He put his foot in his mouth.” The director, however, is pleased about the controversy because it has given the film very good publicity. “We now plan to launch it again. People now want to see it.” Bolivia Comedy Drugs trade guardian.co.uk
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