Chicago Tribune - 11/29/13, Reuters, Staff, WGN-TV
Protester Myron Byrd is arrested and led into a police vehicle after he and others blocked North Broadway Street during a demonstration at a Wal-Mart store on the North Side on Black Friday. (Alex Garcia / Chicago Tribune)
The internet is disrupting video entertainment as we know it.
The television has long been a central fixture of the American home, starting with the introduction of basic newscasts and baseball games in the 1930s, and slowly evolving into a place where families could gather to watch films, sitcoms and premium cable channels. But data on television ratings show that Americans are increasingly turning off their televisions, as numbers show plummeting viewership.
Lake BAIKAL ICE live sound. Unbeliveable!
Real video from IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT». We playing on frozen water of deepest and oldest Lake Baikal with pleasure and delight in the soul:)
Video created by Natalia Vlasevskaia for BAIKALSTORY
Image: 1000's of protesters descend on Thai oil giant PTT's headquarters in Bangkok this week - demanding it be re-nationalized after its privatization under Thaksin Shinawatra, part of a larger plan to sellout Thailand's infrastructure and natural resources to foreign corporations - the same corporations backing Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra as she prepares for her brother's return to power.
Heracleion, a much prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.
