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Elizabeth II

The Queen of Britain will get the yacht, which price is 90 million dollars from British government. The Queen Elizabeth II is already 60 years on the throne. The government supported the idea of the gift, but they will not buy it with budget money.

“The government will support the project politically not financially.” – stated the representative of Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The government emphasize that the money of taxpayers will not be spent on it, but they do not specify how they will support it.

The project is initiated by Minister of Education Michael Howe. He said that they should establish the fund, which will attract financial resources from wealthy entrepreneurs.

Queen Elizabeth has no yacht already 15 years. The last ship “Britannia” was written off and transferred to National Museum of British Fleet in 1997.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

Index of Economic Freedom

In the ranking of Economic Freedom Index the index of Georgia was deteriorated in one step in 2012. In joint ranking of American Fund Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal Georgia is on 34th place.

In this ranking countries are divided into 5 categories: free, mostly free, relatively free, limited free and mostly not free.

Georgia is in the group of relatively free countries.

The free countries in this Index are:  Hong – Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. The last three places occupy Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea.

According to Economic Freedom Index Georgia is ahead of all neighbors: Russia is on 144th position, Azerbaijan - 91, Armenia – 39 and Turkey – 73th place.

American Fund Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal studied the economic situation of 179 countries around the world.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

Optimistic businessmen

Georgian businessmen are named as the world’s most optimistic entrepreneurs. The analysts of British consulting company Grant Thornton International composed the rating of optimistic mood according to countries. Georgia has the highest point in this rating.

The Georgian entrepreneur’s believe in future is estimated as 78%. The Peruvian businessmen have the similar figures.

According to study authors, business circles are now divided in two parts – developing countries, where entrepreneurs have hope of success and Europe, which is expecting the economic collapse.

In the world’s top five of the fastest developing countries (Brazil, Russia, South Africa, India and China) the most optimistic mood was found in Brazil. The index of their sentiment was 74%, on the second place is India with 58%. China has 22%, Russian entrepreneurs have -4% believe of future.

The worst results showed Spain (-62%) and Japan (-72%).

The leading European countries: Italy has -20%, Britain -35%, France -46%.

In this rating were totally 40 countries.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

Barack Obama and Michael Saakashvili

On 30 January, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Georgian president in the Oval Office. It is reported by The White House‘s web site.

“Two presidents will discuss the strategic partnership charter between Georgia and USA and to strengthen the relation in trade, tourism, energy, science, education, cultural and security fields. President Obama will stress the importance of our military cooperation.” – writes the White House web site.

It also notes that Obama confirm Georgia’s territorial integrity in the internationally recognized borders.

The White House official information indicates that it is already passed 20 years from establishing diplomatic relations between U.S. and Georgia.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

wikipedia

The world’s famous online encyclopedia – Wikipedia ceases to work for a day.

The web-page with this one day strike protect against the bills (SOPA and PIPA), which are currently considered U.S. Congress.

If this bills will be adopted in United States, the government will have right to close any site , which distribute unlicensed content.

The main supporters of the law are major Hollywood film studios, they mostly incur losses because of pirates. The White House says that the document cannot be affirmed, but nowadays there can be served.

The founder of internet resource – Jim Wells called on the students to save their homewokr before the stirkes.

Stop SOPA and PIPA Bills

The U.S. Congress will reconsider bills about PIPA and SOPA.

The protest of internet industry leaders have had an effect – U.S. congress decided to send back infamous bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) for revision.

As it was reported, eBay, Facebook, AOL, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Yahoo and many others made ​​a public condemnation of SOPA. Also BSA (Business Software Alliance) Alliance, which approved it at first, now refused to support this bill.

The criticism of the bill was made by the largest web-based resources Reddit and Wikipedia, intending to protest against limited access to visitors to their sites in this environment.

Senate Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that “very controversial” SOPA will not be put to the vote, till in respect of the bill is not found consensus.

The author of a bill Lamar Smith said that the project needs further development, which will estimate how much influence SOPA will have on the Internet.

In particular, he stated that from the text Stop Online Piracy Act should be deleted the paragraph on limiting access to pirate sites by blocking DNS.

As it is known, in parallel with SOPA is promoted the less “famous” project PIPA, which provides additional tools to combat the spread of pirated content on Web sites that do not fall under the jurisdiction of the United States. It is planned to prevent financial transactions with such sites and prohibit the links to them by blocking their access at the DNS.

Lawyers say that both projects are in fact a tool of internet censorship. In addition, they put in a very unfavorable conditions ISPs and domain registrars, because they have to perform a punitive function of a court sentence.

On Saturday President Barack Obama made an entry in his blog and criticized the SOPA and PIPA in the current form. According to him “the adoption of the law threatens freedom of expression on the Internet and undermines the development of global networks.” But he does not plan to veto the law and hopes that it still can be taken in some form.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

53 cats

Swedish couple from the South Stockholm have been recently accused for cruel attitude to animals because they had 53 cats without due care.

They were forced to pay a fine. According to the Inspectorate for the Animals, 53 cats were taken into custody.

During the checking the house inspectors also found 1 kitten with paralyzed hind legs and a few dead cats in garage.

The pair was accused of committing cruelty to animals. Most of the cats had been exhausted. They were found in an inappropriate situation, stinking with their own urine.

The pair received a suspended sentence and a fine of $1100 and $ 900 respectively. The court found that imprisonment cannot be made to the sentence, because the fact of animal abuse cannot be proven.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

Louis Vuitton perfume

The famous French brand Louis Vuitton wants to enter in perfume world by creating his scent with LV label.

Louis Vuitton teamed up with this goal with the world famous perfumer Jacques Cavalier-Belletryu, who participated in creating of such famous scent as Poème from Lancôme, Dior Addict, and l’Eau d’Issey.

This famous nose, who was educated in Grasset, in the world capital city of luxury perfumes, began working in January. There is no information on the composition of flavor. According to WWD Louis Vuitton will focus on finding the rare flowers.

Now fashion and perfumery go together. Notable examples for this are Dior, Armani, Lempicka, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld who most recently released its aroma.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

The happiest nation in the world

Happy is not the one, who has everything, happy is the one who lacks. As sociologists found out, the happiest nation on the planet lives in Iceland.

The last survey showed that the global average 53% of the population is happy, while in Iceland 73% of the inhabitants said that they are fully satisfied with their lives and consider themselves happy.

Only 7% of inhabitants said that they are not satisfied with their lives, 19% said that they are not satisfied with everything, 1% abstained.

On average on the planet, in addition to 53% happy people there are 13% of dissatisfied, 31% remain neutral and 3% preferred not to talk about their attitude to life.

The lowest level of satisfaction with life is in Arabian countries, where one in the five residents says that they are happy. In addition, only a quarter of respondents in Western Europe expressed the satisfaction with their life.

The greatest satisfaction with life is in Africa and Latin America, where two thirds of people said they were happy.

Despite the fact that GDP in USA is greater than in the total Western European countries, Americans are dissatisfied with their lives.

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze

Trondheim - Norway

The research of the cost of living 2011 determined that the most expensive cities (excluding rent) are Trondheim and Stavanger in Norway, they are followed by Zurich in Switzerland.

The study was focused on 45 products and services. 23 000 independent members compared more than 241 000 prices. In a study New York has been used for calculations as a base city, it scored 100 points. All the rest cities were compared to New York and currency were compared with U.S. Dollar and Euro.

Tokyo Scored 135.23 points, which is about three times more than Manila with 47.34 points.

The most expensive cities of 2012 are:

Trondheim, Norway (188.91)

Stavanger, Norway (171.32)

Zurich, Switzerland (152.84)

Oslo, Norway (152.03)

Geneva, Switzerland (146.24)

Bern, Switzerland (142.44)

Lucerne, Switzerland (139.94)

Perth, Australia (139.63)

Bergen, Norway (138.79)

Tokyo, Japan (135.23)

Sydney, Australia (132.39)

Adelaide, Australia (129.60)

Monaco, Monaco (128.15)

Copenhagen, Denmark (123.82)

Edinburgh, UK (122.52)

Melbourne, Australia (121.53)

Dublin, Ireland (119.56)

London, UK (118.52)

Aarhus, Denmark (115.96)

Canberra, Australia (115.89)

Author: Tamar Tsintsqiladze