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 two-year ban from the sport after testing positive for EPO in 2007, returned to competition in a Slovenian Grand Prix meet in this northeastern city on Tuesday evening, winning a low-key 800 in 2:07.13. “I was nervous,” said Ceplak, who was welcomed with

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 of Europe’s must-visit cities. And with the Ljubljana Festival (until 27 August), plus some great savings to be had at Keycamp’s Ljubljana Resort, there’s never been a better time to visit. Ljubljana Resort offers a first class range of facilitie

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 Racing Team) third.read the entire article

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) was born to a family from the Swedish-speaking minority. He became a committed patriot and learned the Finnish language, abandoned his law studies at Helsinki and devoted himself entirely to music. He was especially fascinated with Finland’s national epic, the Kal

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 Philippines – that kicks off 6:00PM at Gweilos, Makati for everyone to experience what new media art is. Fostering a Culture of Knowledge-Sharing “The festival aims to become a catalyst for a cultural, educational, and technological ex

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 financial arbitrage, it takes a lot of work to stay ahead of the pack. And systems like Ffffound and Tumblr have become great levelers: They’re like financial markets, automatically “pricing in” new information about what’s cool. Oh, you like that retro-chr

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 the brunt of the blame. As a coincidental counterpoint, read the WND article about how military victory in Vietnam was turned into defeat by the relentless and inaccurate spin of our traitorous domestic media machine. In other news, the rioting by Uighurs in Xinjiang has

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 a bit over the next couple of weeks about this topic (governance) as it is becoming central to the work that I am doing here for my research. Anyhow, this is just a short post, but here’s some food for thought: continued… Tomorrow, I have been invited

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 Israel 20-18, 17-20, 10-8 to win the $10,000 first prize at the first annual Gotham Tennis Academy “Hamptons 20-Ball Open” Sunday at the Napeague Tennis Club. The unique single day event featured first-to-20-point match formats beginning with a groun