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"WAVE" No.39
January 2010
Editorial
Topic of the Issue
Interview: Caleb Weinstein, Discovery Networks
Discovery
Networks continues to invest
We will continue to strengthen Discovery's portfolio of channels and bring the
highest quality programming to our viewers. Discovery is the world's number one
nonfiction media company in the world, reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative
subscribers in over 170 countries. We produce factual programming on a breadth
and depth that is unmatched around the world, and we are constantly looking at
what is next... >>
Interview: Christos Tsemberas, Grand Casino Beograd
The
premier entertainment venue in five years
Our
main target is to develop to a focal point of the city's social life, a place
where people may experience excellent service, enjoyment and fun and also to become
an attraction that will help developing tourism in Belgrade. Although we are on
this market for more than two years we are still a new product, interesting and
exciting, and we expect to continue growing even through these trying times
Interview: Eric Lallier, Hewlett Packard Group
We
will continue investing in Serbia and the region
If you look at the region, all the national markets are currently declining,
narrowing, but HP's market share is growing. We enlarged our presence in almost
all markets in the region - Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia
Politics
Politics
in 2009
A
new Beginning
Elected in November 2008 and assuming the office in
January 2009, Barack Obama is the first Afro-American President of the American
nation. His election came as a relief for many, after the previous tenures, in
times of war and within a financial crisis that was affecting all sectors of the
American economy... >>
Society
Project "Central-Eastern
Europe - a region of chances and crises"
Quo
vadis Central-Eastern Europe?
An intercultural
workshop will take place on March 4-7 in Berlin. Participants can be students
at the age of 20-28 from Germany, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary. The project is
made by students, international experts and organization "MitOst e.V."
from Berlin, Germany. You can apply by writing an essay about an interesting present-day
topic in concerning Central-Eastern-Europe, as a correspondent from your country.
Deadline for applications is closing - January 24... >>
Association of Hispanists
Energy,
knowledge and effort
After only two years, young hispanists have successfully realized dozens
important projects which had the aim to promote hispanism in Serbia and increase
the quality of Spanish language and Hispanic literatures education. Lead by that
idea, they spread their activities into six sections gathering more than 100 members
and created a network of institutions and associations with whom they cooperate
successfully... >>
Economics
Economics in 2009
Crisis
and solutions
Global financial and economical
crisis was the main topic of previous year, just like a year before, too. Its
symptoms in different countries and its effects over the working domains were
the most visible in 2009, but there are few more events you shouldn't forget...
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Culture & Arts
Cultural
events in 2009
"Long
live the King"
Madonna played 85 shows, drawn over 3.5 million fans and grossed 408 millions
dollars. This 50-year-old icon got excellent critics for her appearance and ability
of dancing and singing all the time of her show. On the other hand, the most shocking
news in 2009 was death of 50-year-old singer, dancer and entertainer Michael Jackson...
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Latin American soap operas as a cultural phenomenon
TV
instead the home fireside
The number of viewers of telenovelas, of those who lead the parallel life
through misfortune of Kassandra, Lovisna and Esmeralda is bewildering. At the
recently held out panel at the Student Culture Center in Belgrade, PhD Maja
Volk and MA Katarina ©makić talked about the reasons for the great
popularity and the cultural phenomenon of Latin American soap operas. The platform
was held out within the series of lectures "The Contemporary Culture of
Latin America", as a part of the project The Rhythm Culture... >>
Science & Tech
Forbes'
list on "The World's Smartest Cities"
Time
for happy-faced towns
In the transition for
a new year, some cities were given a surprisingly special present: a place on
the list of The World's Smartest Cities. As the author of this list says,
being smart is not simply a synonym of being green. It requires a three-legged
key stool of strong infrastructure, attractive economy and savvy urban planning.
Among these ten special god-blessed places, imagine my flabbergasted feeling at
breakfast time when I saw my home town at the top... >>
Technology Highlights of 2009
Global
e-Village
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon... Wave, Windows 7, iPhone, Kindle... So
many things, new technologies, improved versions... Some of them you shouldn't
forget when you think of previous year... >>
Sport
Sport in 2009
Bolt
moves the borders
The most interesting events in the year behind us, according to WAVE Magazine
choice: world records of Usain Bolt, unsportsmanlike way of France's qualification
to the World Football Championship, World Championship in water sports, Eurobasket
and the Universiade in Belgrade... >>
Entertainment
Holidays in Hispanic world
We
have Santa Claus, and they...
In
Serbian culture, the children are impatiently expecting gifts from Santa Claus.
However, in some countries, commonly hispanic world, there is a tradition that
gifts come from so-called Reyes Magos or the Three Kings, named
Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar. These kings, according to Catholic teaching,
are representatives of the pagan peoples, and they were invited by God in his
kingdom announcing the birth of the Savior... >>
Funny New Year's custom in Spain - 12 grape
grains
Sweet
New Year's Eve
Every
31st December on the square Puerta del Sol in Madrid, bell strikes the last 12
seconds of old year, and during that period people should eat 12 grape grains,
one grain for every stroke. According to belief, if they succeed, they will have
luck in the next year. It is assumed that the number 12 was taken because of the
number of months of the year... >>
and
much more in all sections... explore!
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