Rihanna has radically changed hairstyle

By experimenting with Rihanna's appearance is used, it seems, everything. But she does not stop and continues to change.

Thus, even at the last concert Ri-ri showed long hair, painted in a beautiful dark color. Who would have thought that today the star of show dramatic changes.

The fact that Rihanna was painted in red color! Moreover, it is perfectly straightened hair.

It is worth noting that the new image did Ri-ri has a younger and more attractive.


Rihanna a few days ago:


 Rihanna today:













It is worth noting that the new image did Ri-ri has a younger and more attractive.
 

Syria has struck back at Israel

Controlled part of the Golan Heights, Israel has undergone May 6 mortar attack on the Syrian side, ITAR-TASS quoted the Israeli radio. According to the agency, two mortar shells exploded near the separation line in the southern part of the Golan without causing harm. Israel is preparing a complaint to the UN, reports "Interfax".

Iran has accused the West of supporting Syrian terrorists
States may authorize the supply of weapons to the Syrian opposition

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has reportedly inclined to think this firing randomly, but has filed a complaint with the relevant UN peacekeepers posted on the Golan.
At the same time the Israeli army suggested that the incident was not related to the recent Israeli bombardment of Syrian territory on May 4. How to find the Israeli media, the purpose of an air strike was not a research center near Damascus, and Iranian missiles, which went into the hands of militants "of Hezbollah." Human rights activists, in turn, announced more than 40 victims of the attack Science Center.
Bashar al-Assad, recall, has threatened to start a full-scale war against Israel after the attacks. The corresponding ultimatum Syrian leader sent through Russia to the United States, which Syria has been implicated in the attacks. Assad said a new attack on its territory by Israel will lead to an immediate response, and will be the beginning of the armed conflict. He expects to receive a response within 24 hours, noting that his army was deployed along the border of the latest Russian missiles "ground-to-ground" and air defense systems. What happens if a response is not received, is not known.

States may authorize the supply of weapons to the Syrian opposition

In the U.S. Congress a bill authorizing the supply of weapons to the Syrian opposition. It was initiated by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Robert Menendez.
"The Assad regime crossed the" red line "that forces us to consider all options, - he said. - In Syria and around it unfolds a major humanitarian crisis, and the U.S. should help tip the scales on the side of the opposition groups in Syria."
The proposed legislation, called the "Act of stabilization in Syria in 2013," provides military assistance to the forces of "the Syrian armed opposition." Count on this assistance will those rebel groups that will "meet certain criteria in the field of human rights, counter-terrorism and non-proliferation."
In this case, the bill prohibits the supply opposition forces man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). At the same time the bill provides for the imposition of sanctions against those found to be engaged in the sale of weapons, military equipment, as well as in the supply of petroleum products to Bashar al-Assad.
In addition, the paper proposes to create a so-called "transition fund" of $ 250 million, of which it is planned to finance the activities of the future transitional government of Syria.
At the end of last week, the Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel acknowledged that the U.S. is considering the possibility of arms opposition forces in Syria.

At the Central Park in New York in the lake-caught fish, "the stranger"

 
Predatory fish snakehead, nicknamed "frankenfish" and "messenger of hell," suddenly resettled in the ponds of New York, has caused a stir in Manhattan.









At the Central Park in New York appeared warning of the ponds dangerous "alien" when caught is asked to immediately contact the rendzherskimi or city services. This information caused panic among the residents.

Fish, reaching an average of about one meter in length, has an amazing vitality, can breathe air through nadzhabernym bodies and even crawl on land. Television series "River Monsters" Animal Planet calls snakehead "messenger of hell."
  The emergence of snakehead in ponds of Central Park was considered so improbable that formed the basis of a fantastic story in one of the parts of the animated series "The Penguins of Madagascar" where these fish inspire fear on the inhabitants of the park.

The death toll in the explosion of a factory in Bangladesh has risen to 700 people

The collapse of the building led to mass protests by workers

From the wreckage of an eight-building factory complex Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, struck two weeks ago, continue to take the body.

According to the latest war, the death toll exceeded 700 people, the BBC reported.

The collapse of the building, where they worked four textile factories, led to mass protests by workers in Bangladesh and criticism from abroad.

Working weaving factories more than a week protesting against the non-compliance by employers of safety rules in factories - as long as they return to work did not ask the Prime Minister of the country.

In the case of the collapse of the complex were arrested nine people.

Recall April 24 factory building in which several textile mills employed about three thousand people, collapsed on the set until the cause. Cracks in the walls of the building were seen before the tragedy, which caused panic among the workers, but the owners of the building were assured that there was no danger.

How puppy smugglers feed Hong Kong's love affair with big dogs

 

(CNN) -- Getting an introduction to Tiger - a 176 pound (80 kilogram) Tibetan mastiff kept on the roof space of a cramped five-story village house in Hong Kong's New Territories -- is a complicated process.

The first step is to stand as far away from his cage as is humanly possible; on just 600 square feet of roof space -- and with Tiger a barking, growling, slavering ball of caged fury - nowhere is really quite far enough away.

The next step is for his owners to check that all doors are secured and that no one the dog doesn't know is wandering around. One of his owners then enters his cage, slips his chain off the hook bolted into the wall and wraps it tightly three times around his hand.

Outside the cage, Tiger undergoes a personality change.

Now happily around his owners, he's a placid, bearlike, drooling ball of household pet. Just don't pat him if you don't know him.

 

The current vogue for Tibetan mastiffs in mainland China -- where the nouveau riche have reportedly paid as much as US$750,000 for prize-winning specimens -- has reached Hong Kong, though keeping big dogs in a city where the average flat size is just 484 square feet (45 square meters) presents a dangerous challenge.

Tiger's owners, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, know only too well how much trouble a Tibetan mastiff can cause.

 

A pack animal by instinct, and traditionally bred by Tibetan tribesmen to protect flocks against large wild predators such as wolves and snow leopards, the breed can be hostile to those it considers a threat to its family.

"We used to keep Tiger in the house and he was fine with everyone," his owner told CNN. "But one day, the front door was left open, he got out and attacked a neighbor. The breed 'locks on' when they bite and this guy had to have 20 stitches.

 

"Fortunately for us, the neighbor understood about dogs and was quite reasonable about the whole thing, but it cost us $HK2,000 ($257 in U.S.) in fines," he said.

Hong Kong-based vet and animal behaviorist Dr. Cynthia Smillie said Tibetan mastiffs, apart from being ill-suited to Hong Kong's muggy tropical climate, are temperamentally a poor fit in this densely-populated city where a high level of socialization is demanded of people let alone big dog breeds.

She said of the two Tibetan mastiff she had dealt with, one had already been put down after attacking a man and hospitalizing him for several weeks.

"It's a very unsuitable dog for your average pet owner regardless of whether it's in Hong Kong or anywhere else -- you need to have a lot of experience to handle these dogs appropriately," said Smillie.

"They come from the Himalayas and because they haven't been bred in the West for a long period of time, they are still regarded as a primitive breed. So many of their instincts are hard-wired -- they have that deeply protective guarding instinct and they're very wary of strangers.

 

"Unless they're very well socialized as young dogs, they have the potential to be protective in situations that are not threatening. They can be quite reactive to perceived threats although they're very gentle with their own families and even with children."

Demand for the breed in Hong Kong -- often fueled by celebrity owners such as rock star Paul Wong formerly of the Canto rock group Beyond - has fueled a thriving, and sometimes illicit, business in mainland China.

While Hong Kong, as a non-rabies zone, has stringent import restrictions on pets, requiring at least four months quarantine for dogs and cats imported from mainland China, it's not difficult to find pet shop owners in nearby Shenzhen that can deliver a Tibetan Mastiff to the front door of a Hong Kong apartment within two weeks.

 

"Don't worry about taking the dog over yourself," said a pet shop owner in Shenzhen's Nanshan District, a high-end strip of pet shops punctuated by the occasional wine cellar, an accurate pitch to the tastes of China's status-conscious middle class. "We can put it into the animal hospital next door for two weeks so that you know it's healthy and then our people will take it over the border for you.

"The couriers have a 'special relationship' with the border authorities so it's no problem. Depending on the color you want, a Tibetan mastiff costs about 17,000RMB ($2,900) and I'll have to check on the delivery.

 

 

"Just to give you a rough idea, a small dog costs about 700 Renminbi to deliver and the price goes up depending on its size." 700 Renminbi is about $113 U.S. dollars.

Asked if he gets a lot of orders from Hong Kong, he produces a manila folder with a sheaf of some dozen or more orders from the special administrative region.

"Actually, pets in Shenzhen are so cheap that a lot of people make good money selling the dogs again in Hong Kong. It's a good business for them."

Fiona Woodhouse, the deputy director of welfare at Hong Kong's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says puppy smuggling -- often feeding the demand for status symbol dogs - represents a real threat to Hong Kong's high standards of public health.

"We are very concerned about this," she said. "If you go to pet markets in China, people will offer to get the dog to Hong Kong for you, but in a lot of our advertising we ask pet buyers not to do that because it's a serious risk.

"Firstly, you don't know how the animal has been kept or bred and there's a welfare issue for the mother and the puppies. Secondly, there's a disease risk with normal dog diseases such as parvovirus and distemper. But thirdly, and more importantly for the whole of Hong Kong, there's the risk of rabies.

"Hong Kong is rabies-free; we've got very good quarantine system and vaccination system but obviously smuggling puts that at real risk," she said.

She says demand for status dog breeds in Hong Kong comes in waves and normally follows the release of Hollywood films and popular television shows.

"We might get a lot of huskies after a film like 'Below Zero', chihuahuas after all the 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' films, dalmations after '101 Dalmations.' So we do get cycles, but they tend to be driven by popular culture rather than pure status over who's got the most expensive dog," she added.

Ultimately, the problem of space in Hong Kong has driven home the reality of keeping inappropriate dogs in a highly urban environment. Woodhouse says the SPCA is seeing fewer instances of people keeping three Great Danes in 400 square foot flat.

"I can't say we don't get that anymore, but it's less of a problem than we used to see," she said.

"Way back in the early '90s when pet keeping was becoming popular -- and a lot of the animals were imported from overseas into Hong Kong -- you'd see the scenario where people would turn up with two St. Bernard puppies saying they couldn't afford the vet bills.

"I'd tell them 'Look, if you can't afford the vet bills, how are you going to afford to feed them? Because I can tell you, the bills you'll see today will be nothing next to what you'll have to pay in food in three months' time'."

 

When It Is, How It Began, What to Do

People at an Earth Day event lift their bicycles in Budapest, Hungary, on April 22, 2012.

Photograph by Attila Volgyi, Xinhua/Eyevine/Redux

 

More than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2013—the 43rd anniversary of the annual day of action on the environment.

This year's theme is The Face of Climate Change, chosen to highlight the "mounting impact" of global warming on people worldwide, according to the Earth Day Network, the group founded by the first Earth Day organizers.

The Earth Day Network is asking people to become their own "climate reporters" by sending their pictures and stories of people, animals, and places threatened or affected by global warming, according to the group's website. (See a map of global warming effects.)

On or near Earth Day, an interactive display of the images will be shown at events around the world, including next to federal buildings in countries that produce the most carbon pollution.

"The Face of Climate Change will not only personalize and make real the massive challenge that climate change presents, it will unite the myriad Earth Day events around the world into one call to action at a critical time," Franklin Russell, director of Earth Day at Earth Day Network, said in a statement.

Earth Day has come a long way since its founding in 1970, when 20 million participated across the U.S. (See pictures: "The First Earth Day-Bell-Bottoms and Gas Masks.")

Find out when it is, how it started, how it's evolved, and what you can do.

When Is Earth Day?

Every day, the saying goes, is Earth Day. But it's popularly celebrated on April 22. Why?

One persistent rumor holds that April 22 was chosen because it's the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.

"Lenin's goal was to destroy private property and this goal is obviously shared by environmentalists," the Capitalism Magazine website noted in a 2004 article perpetuating the theory.

Kathleen Rogers, president of Washington, D.C.-based Earth Day Network, said in 2010 that the rumored communist connection is untrue.

Instead, April 22, 1970, was chosen for the first Earth Day in part because it fell on a Wednesday, the best part of the week to encourage a large turnout for the environmental rallies held across the country, Rogers said.

"It worked out perfectly, because everybody was at work and they all left," she said.

Earth Day is now celebrated every year by more than a billion people in 192 nations around the world. (See pictures of quirky Earth Day stunts.)

Mad People and a Frustrated Politician

Earth Day's history is rooted in 1960s activism. The environment was in visible ruins and people were mad, according to Rogers.

"It wasn't uncommon in some cities during rush hour to be standing on a street corner and not be able to see across the street" because of pollution, she said.

Despite the anger, green issues were absent from the U.S. political agenda, which frustrated U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, whose campaigns for the environment through much of the 1960s had fallen flat.

First Earth Day "Took off Like Gangbusters"

In 1969 Nelson hit on the idea of an environmental protest modeled after anti-Vietnam War demonstrations called teach-ins.

"It took off like gangbusters. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country," Nelson recounted in an essay shortly before he died in July 2005 at 89.

"The American people finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air—and they did so with spectacular exuberance."

Nelson recruited activist Denis Hayes to organize the April 22, 1970, teach-in, which today is sometimes credited for launching the modern environmental movement.

By the end of 1970, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had been born, and efforts to improve air and water quality were gaining political traction.

"It was truly amazing what happened," Rogers said. "Blocks just tumbled."

Earth Day Evolves

Earth Day Network is pushing the Earth Day movement from single-day actions, such as park cleanups and tree-planting parties, to long-term commitments, such as this year's theme of climate change.

For those whose inner environmentalist speaks loudest on April 22, Earth Day Network's Rogers encourages them to make a public commitment to take an environmental action.

Ideas promoted by the Earth Day Network include pledging to educate friends and family on global warming or buying green products such as energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).

According to Rogers, everyone is part of this generation, which marks the transition from the industrial revolution to the green revolution.

"It is also about the green generation of energy and the generation of green jobs. ... The name [Green Generation], whenever I say it to people, they have their own idea of what it means, which is exactly what we want."
(Check out National Geographic and Google's live Hangout on Earth Day at 12 p.m. on April 22, 2013.)

10 Interesting Facts About the Irish

Gregory Myers March 17, 2013

St Patrick’s Day is here, and it is celebrated in all corners of the world, by people of many different nationalities. While many people mainly use the day as an excuse to drink an untold amount of booze, it is still—first and foremost—a day to celebrate Irish heritage and culture. Considering this we thought it would be appropriate to regale you all with fascinating information about Irish culture and history. For those with Irish heritage, it is about more than drinking alcohol, though we do enjoy that too. It is about celebrating our unique roots, our history and the impact we have had on the world.

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Inventors

Fact: The Earls of Rosse were great inventors.
The Earls of Rosse, in Ireland were great inventors and in their castle studied things such as photography, engineering and other marvels. Their castle contained much photographic equipment and science of all sorts held great sway over many generations who lived there. Most famous, however, is the Rosse Telescope, which was built in the 1800s by one of the Earls and held the record for largest telescope in the entire world for the better part of a century. The telescope had a reflector that was 72 inches in diameter, which was incredibly impressive for its time. The telescope was known as the Leviathan, due to it’s incredible size.

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Dracula

Fact: Dracula may actually have been inspired by the Irish legend of Abhartach.
This one may surprise many of you; it turns out that while many believe the legend of Dracula from Bram Stoker’s famous novel was inspired by Vlad Tepes, that may not actually be the case at all. For those Romanians who want Vlad the Impaler’s name to be cleared on this matter, you are in luck. Bram Stoker was actually born in Ireland and raised in Dublin, and had never even been to Eastern Europe in his life. Irish legends included stories of chieftains and other important figures drinking blood. But more specifically there is the legend of an Irish wizard and chieftain who was known by the name of Abhartach, and one historian believes that he was the true inspiration for Dracula. In the legends Abhartach basically was a vampire king, and in Irish folklore Dracula actually means something closer to “bad blood”, than anything else.

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Halloween

Fact: Halloween was derived from an Irish festival.
If you like the holiday of Halloween, you may know that it originated from Pagan tradition, but you may not realize that it was the Irish again who started it all. The Celtics saw it as a time when our world and the spirit world were most connected to each other, and it was called Samhain. Of course when the Christians took over the holiday, they called it “All Hallows’ Eve”, and then later changed the name to “All Saints Day”. Halloween is one of the most stubborn Holidays, however, in that no matter what Christian influence has been exerted, much of the practices of the day are still very much of pagan origin and not just on the surface. Halloween is still known as the day when the spirit world crosses over into our realm, and is practiced as such by many.

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Feast Day

Fact: St. Patrick’s Day is much more solemn in Ireland and less about drinking.
Around the world and especially in the United States of America, St. Patrick’s Day has become an excuse to drink cheap green beer and get completely hammered. However, in Ireland where the holiday originated it, it is celebrated in a much more solemn manner. In fact, in Ireland it is celebrated much more as a holy day. Now, don’t get the impression it is not celebrated at all. After observing St. Patrick’s Day, it is quite common to go to the pub to socialize and have a few drinks, it is Ireland after all. However, many of the parades and festivities on St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland were actually caused by American influence.

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White House

Fact: An Irishman designed the White House.
In 1792 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson organized a competition to decide who would build the domicile of the President, and the man who won was an Irishman named James Hoban. James Hoban was not only born in Ireland, but he also studied architecture in his homeland as well. Not only did he design it, but he also built it, and more than once. After the White House was destroyed in 1814, Hoban had to design and build it all over again. Only a true Irishman would be so stubborn. You can never keep us down.

5

Snakes

Fact: St. Patrick’s clearing of the Emerald Isle of snakes isn’t true.
The legend says that St. Patrick cleared the Emerald isle of snakes; this has become such a widely popularized myth that it is believed by nearly everyone. It is also, completely untrue. The truth is that Ireland never had snakes in the first place. According to researchers, the last time Ireland had snakes was probably millions of years ago. The ice age would have killed all of the snakes, and by the time the ice melted Ireland was separated from other countries that still had the nasty buggers. The main point is that as far as scientists are able to deduce, snakes have not existed along with people during any time in Ireland’s history.

4

Magic

Fact: A spell in Madeleine L’Engle’s popular time quartet is derived from a prayer by St. Patrick.
Madeleine L’Engle, despite being attacked for having magic in her series the Time Quartet, was a Christian and strongly influenced by her beliefs. In her novel A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace is taught a sort of rhyming prayer by his sister’s mother in law that was taught to her by her grandmother, who was Irish. The rhyming prayer in A Swiftly Tilting Planet:
“At Tara in this fateful hour
I place all Heaven with its power
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the strength it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness:
All these I place
By God’s almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness!”
St. Patrick’s rune goes by many names, and is a rather long prayer of protection that can be read here. The part that the prayer above is based on can be seen below:
“I arise today
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun
Brilliance of moon
Splendor of fire
Speed of lightning
Swiftness of wind
Depth of sea
Stability of earth
Firmness of rock.”

3

Pirate Queen

Fact: The infamous Pirate Queen Grace O’Malley was Irish.
The infamous Queen of the pirates, Grace O’Malley, was an Irishwoman, if it wasn’t already clear by her name. She was said to be completely fearless, skilled both when it came to strategy in battle, and in politics as well. The woman was notorious, rebellious and a consummate pirate who none dared cross. She gained her reputation by fighting on the front lines as hard as anyone else, rallying her men against their enemies. Legend has it that in one battle; she gave birth at sea and then joined in a fierce battle the very next day, turning the tide against her enemies.

2

America

Fact: The Irish may have discovered America first.
Some say Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America, as the poem goes “in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. Some suggest that the first to discover America were the Vikings, or perhaps the Chinese, but there is another legend in regards to which country first sailed to the America’s. According to one legend, an Irish monk called St. Brendan set out on an expedition to find paradise and after seven years discovered an island that was so large that even after forty days they could not reach the far shore. The monks returned home with the news, this voyage was said to be undertaken in the sixth century, which is much earlier than many of the other first discoveries of America. It should be clear, of course, that this legend has not been proven.

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St. Patrick

Fact: St. Patrick was not actually Irish.
St. Patrick is well known for being the patron saint of Ireland and having a day named for him that most of the world uses as an excuse to get incredibly drunk. However, St. Patrick, despite popular belief, was not actually Irish. St. Patrick was the son of Romans who were living in Britain, legend says he was kidnapped and taken as a slave to the Emerald Isle where he helped herd sheep. However, even more interesting is a recent study performed by Cambridge University that suggests a completely different take on the popular legend. According to the study, he may actually have gone to Ireland of his own accord and sold slaves himself so that he wouldn’t have to be drafted into a job as a tax collector for the Romans.

Gregory Myers will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with his Leprechaun friends and you can follow his ramblings on twitter