Monthly Archives: July 2009

It may not have been the kind of performance she had become used to, but world indoor 800m record holder Jolanda Ceplak was nonetheless content with her first outing after a two-year drug suspension. The 32-year-old Slovenian, who received a … Continue reading →

Save £362, 7 Nights In Ljubljana At £477 Per Party, Accommodation Only With sights such as Ljubljana Castle, beautiful Lake Bled and the spectacular Iski Vintgar gorge nearby, Ljubljana with its lively mix of theatres, museums and galleries is one … Continue reading →

MLADINA (CROATIA), 19 July 2009 – Slovenian rider Matevz Irt (Honda Team MB) became the winner of the tenth event for the FIM MX3 World Championship in Croatia. Pierre Alexandre Renet (Suzuki Bodo Schmidt) finished second, Alvaro Lozano (Yamaha Ausio … Continue reading →

Finland was a part of the Russian Empire from 1809 and the Napoleonic Wars to independence during the revolutions in 1917, but it had been a part of the Kingdom of Sweden for centuries before this. Composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) … Continue reading →

On July 21-25, 2009, SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) in cooperation with KIBLA MMC (Slovenia) and the Asia-Europe Foundation brings together the largest delegation of new media artists for ASEUM – the first international new media art festival in the … Continue reading →

I love cultural arbitrage: taking words, images, ideas from one place on earth (or time in history) and importing them into a new context where they’re suddenly fresh and striking again. This is, of course, common practice, so just like … Continue reading →

Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, has died at the age of 93. LBJ stuck him with a war that McNamara didn’t want to fight (and that LBJ restrained him from fighting fully), and McNamara ended up bearing … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking a lot about the common interests that people seem to have everywhere concerning good governance and proper access to people in political power. I am currently in Slovenia for some fieldwork and I am going to write … Continue reading →

Alex Bogomolov (second from right) is presented his $10,000 check by Gotham Tennis officials (left to right) John Curtis, Warren Rand and Joel Kassan AMAGANSETT, N.Y. July 5, 2009 – Alex Bogomolov of Long Branch, N.J. defeated Noam Okun of … Continue reading →