The 10 nominations for this year's Sakharov prize for democracy and human rights campaigning were unveiled in the European Parliament on Wednesday (30 September). Each of the candidates put forward at a joint meeting of the foreign affairs, development and human rights committees has the support of a political group in the parliament or at least 40 MEPs. Last year's winner, Hu Jia, is celebrated in the European Parliament The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet physicist and political dissident who advocated civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. Mr Sakharov, who died 20 years ago this December, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. This year's candidates include Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian gynaecologist and resident of the Gaza Strip, who has campaigned for peace with Israel despite losing his three daughters in the bombardment of the strip in January.
The 10 nominations for this year's Sakharov prize for democracy and human rights campaigning were unveiled in the European Parliament on Wednesday (30 September).
Each of the candidates put forward at a joint meeting of the foreign affairs, development and human rights committees has the support of a political group in the parliament or at least 40 MEPs.
Last year's winner, Hu Jia, is celebrated in the European Parliament
The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet physicist and political dissident who advocated civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union.
Mr Sakharov, who died 20 years ago this December, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
This year's candidates include Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian gynaecologist and resident of the Gaza Strip, who has campaigned for peace with Israel despite losing his three daughters in the bombardment of the strip in January.
An exclamation mark cannot be registered as a trade mark, European judges have ruled. Joop!, a German clothing and perfume company, had applied to register two versions of the punctuation mark, one for a simple exclamation mark, the other inside a rectangular frame.The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg said that the public would see the symbols as simply "an eye-catching gimmick".
Joop!, a German clothing and perfume company, had applied to register two versions of the punctuation mark, one for a simple exclamation mark, the other inside a rectangular frame.
The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg said that the public would see the symbols as simply "an eye-catching gimmick".
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I just got my Google Wave invite. No, I'm already out, so I can't send one to you, sorry. But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity. See, the first thing you notice is that you can see people chatting live in Google Wave. That's really cool if you are working on something together, like a spreadsheet or a Word document. But it's a productivity sink if you are trying to just communicate with other people. It also ignores the productivity gains that we've gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
I just got my Google Wave invite. No, I'm already out, so I can't send one to you, sorry.
But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity.
See, the first thing you notice is that you can see people chatting live in Google Wave.
That's really cool if you are working on something together, like a spreadsheet or a Word document.
But it's a productivity sink if you are trying to just communicate with other people.
It also ignores the productivity gains that we've gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
