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Half of Europe”s airports are planning to open today

EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas hoped that on Monday, 19 апреля, 50% of the airspace over Europe will be safe for flight, and half closed airports will be able to resume work.

As the BBC , S. Callas called the current situation in Europe is extremely fragile “and pledged that the European authorities are working to find solutions that would not harm safety.

On Monday morning the airspace of 17 European countries remains closed because of Europe covered with a cloud of volcanic ash, formed as a result of volcanic eruption in Iceland.

On Monday day must pass a teleconference of Ministers of Transport of the European Union, which will decide on further action of the European authorities in connection with the continuing activity of the volcano.

However, the European branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) and the Association of European Airlines (AEA), brings together 36 major airlines in Europe, declared that “the eruption of the Icelandic volcano is not unprecedented, and the measures takeee1n in other countries in the case of volcanic eruptions, do not require the restrictions that were introduced in Europe “. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Airlines began to murmur because of the closure of airspace

After the abolition of the last days of 36 thousand flights due to volcanic eruption Eyyafyatlayokudl in Iceland, the airline is growing dissatisfaction with the closure of airspace in many countries in Europe.

As the “Deutsche Welle” , heads of airlines “Air Berlin”, “Deutsche Lufthansa”, Netherlands “KLM” and “Austrian Airlines” expressed doubt that a giant cloud of volcanic ash, covering Europe, still represents a danger for air transport.

Chairman of the Board “Air Berlin” Joachim Hunold, in particular, pointed out that the airspace was closed only on the basis of Computer simulations carried out in one of the centers in London. The representative of the “Lufthansa” Klaus Walther said that his airline on April 17 surpassed 10 large aircraft from Munich to Frankfurt at a height of 8 thousand meters, and they all arrived at their destination without any damage. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Microsoft Office 2010″ is already on the way

latest version of the world”s most popular office suite – “Microsoft Office 2010 – is ready. The next “office” has reached the stage of RTM (Release to manufacturing) – when the program is sent to the factory to print CDs. Told in his blog vice president of “Microsoft” Takeshi Numoto.

“RTM – is the final milestone for software development process. Our team of engineers put heart and soul into something, to achieve it”, – quotes the vice-president of channel “Vesti” . He also thanked the “more than 5000 organizations and partners,” who helped “Microsoft” to test the package. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Spanish ship near Somalia has destroyed a vessel suspected of piracy

Spanish ship “Victoria” killed off the coast of Somalia, a fishing vessel suspected of piracy. This was reported by the press office of the Naval Forces of the European Union, leading to the Indian Ocean fight against piracy.

As the “News” , April 15 helicopter, based on the Spanish ship “Victoria”, from the air found the vessel suspected of piracy. The audit revealed on it “large stocks of fuel, weapons and ammunition”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

April 18 at the Krakow airport imposes restrictions

Sunday, April 18, at the Krakow Balice airport imposed severe restrictions on the movement of passenger aircraft.

As BELTA informs , these measures are related funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynski, who died April 10 in a plane crash near Smolensk.

April 18 from 5.00 to 12.00 airport will only take on special flights. The same restriction will last a few hours in the evening.

modification of the airport due to extreme security measures. Thus, the planes Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev landed in a group of similar ships, in case of attack by terrorists could not know, on board a car is President.

addition, Krakow airport is not suitable for such large numbers of ships in the short time interval.

Due to the fact that in Balice is no place for parking of about 80 aircraft of official delegations of the cars, the passengers disembarked and headed to park in Katowice, Prague and Bratislava. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Medvedev said that Russia has returned to Latin America

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev not believe that the return of Russia to Latin America should cause concern among other countries. This is the Russian leader said during a visit to Argentina.

As the “Vesti” , in particular, Medvedev said: “If someone touches it and we give a damn “.

” I got the impression that the White House in Washington, sitting by sensible people, and if so, they will not be taken with caution (the return of Russia in Latin America), “- said the president of Russia.

“Russia has returned to Latin America, we are very actively promoting our interests. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Russia does not intend to take part in operations in Afghanistan

President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed that Russia does not intend to participate in peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

“We have a history of In Afghanistan, the history of the Soviet period. This is a difficult page of our history, and I”m not sure that our society is ready once again to open this page “, – said Dmitry Medvedev, quoted by the TV channel Vesti” .

At the same time, the President of Russia stressed that Russia “will not stand aside” from the international efforts for political normalization in Afghanistan. “We agreed (with the West, – ed. ) on cooperation – from the military transit to humanitarian assistance”, – he said.

“But most importantly – give an opportunity to develop the Afghan political system. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bakiyev is ready to resign if he will guarantee security

President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev , who left the capital of the republic after the riots, said that he would resign only if the interim government will provide security for him and his loved ones.

“will resign if ensure my safety and my family. And secondly, to ensure order, and stop walking on the streets with weapons”, – said K. Bakiyev at a press conference in Jalal-Abad , quoted by BBC.

Bakiev also invited the head of an interim government Rosa Otunbayeva in Jalal-Abad in the negotiations and promised her security. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Translate German Terms with Software that Makes Contemporary Communication as Simple as the Click of a Mouse

A new computer user interface technique makes it possible to use the movement of your mouse to see the meaning of words. See German, Spanish or Russian translated into English. No mouse clicks required. See the meaning of words by simply moving your mouse. No Clicks Required!

Do you frequently browse Web pages in foreign languages? Do you often work with documents written by your German, Spanish or Russian counterparts? Are you reading product documentation in a foreign language? What do you do if you bump into an unknown word, or if the meaning of a sentence is not clear?

If you are like most of us, you probably have some sort of a dictionary. You know, some kind of a paper book, and you have to open the book and go through page after page to find the word you are looking for.

That sounds slow, and too slow for the modern age of e-books and digital everything. Having an old-fashioned paper dictionary is fun, but using it is a real waste of time compared to modern electronic counterparts.

So what can you do if you encounter a word you don't know? Typically, you'd select a word with a mouse, copy it into the clipboard, launch your electronic dictionary, and paste the word from the clipboard. It is also possible to download german english dictionary.

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President of Bulgaria will not fly a Tu-154 “

After the crash near Smolensk, in the death of the President of Poland, Bulgaria has suspended operation of the aircraft Tu-154 “President George Pirvanova. Told a representative of the Ministry of Transport of Atanas Kostov.

As the channel “1 1″ , in particular, the representative of the Ministry of Transport of Atanas Kostov said: “Flying a plane of the President (Bulgaria) were terminated. Current grounded all aircraft of this type repealed until pending the exact cause of the accident (Polish aircraft )”.

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