Ecosalon: The Green Gathering

 took about a week, but Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade finally apologized for making racist remarks about the pureness of Americans, or lack thereof.

“I made comments that were offense to many people,” confessed Kilmeade. “Looking back at those comments I realize they were inappropriate. For that, I sincerely apologize.”

He originally said this:

KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species and other ethnics–

CARLSON: Are you sure you are not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now?

KILMEADE: The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that’s the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish.

Japan has compiled a plan to cut the annual number of suicides by roughly 8,000 over the next 10 years in a bid to bring down one of the worst suicide rates among industrialised nations.

 Japan saw a surge in the number of suicides in 1998 amid economic woes stemming from high-profile bankruptcies in the financial industry the year before and the annual number of suicides has exceeded 30,000 every year since then.

 Last year, there were 32,325 suicides in Japan, or 25.3 per 100,000 people, according to government data. Males accounted for over two-thirds of the total and health problems were the most common motivation, followed by economic woes.

 To improve the situation, the government unveiled a package of measures this week aimed at bringing down the number of suicides to pre-1998 levels over the next 10 years.

 That would mean bringing suicides down close to the 1997 total of 24,391. Suicides in Japan jumped in 1998 to 32,863 and hit a record 34,427 in 2003.

 Steps to be taken include promoting counseling services at school and increasing mental health awareness in the workplace.

 Other measures include building more fences on train platforms to prevent people from jumping in front of trains, and making available free filtering software that limits access to Internet sites that promote suicide.

 International statistics show that Japan has the second- highest suicide rate among Group of Eight industrialised countries, behind only Russia. 　

 According to data available on the World Health Organization’s website (http:/www.who.int/en/), the suicide rate in Japan was 24.1 per 100,000 people in 2000, compared to 39.4 in Russia. Suicide rates for other G8 countries include 18.4 in France and 10.4 in the United States.

No religious prohibition exists against suicide in Japan and it has long been seen as a way to escape failure or save loved ones from embarrassment.

In recent years, an increasing number of Japanese have died in group suicides after meeting online via suicide Websites.

 While the number remains a fraction of the total, police say the number of people who died in Internet-linked group suicides totaled 54 in 2004, up from 34 in 2003.

Liu peng as a special guest to NBA lakers star Kobe Bryant issued the Asian association awarded the “primary branch of global ambassador”. Bryant said he was honored very pleased to be able to get the prize. And have the opportunity to exchange with China’s young athletes and world youth. He thinks the basketball is a global language, the sports will contact Chinese with American. It can make Asia young people to be in touch with the American basketball. He considered it is very well worth effort. Bryant said this summer, will travel to China to help poor areas in China’s project, and communication with related cooperation about charity and sports. After the ceremony, kobe Bryant and huangyuejin vice President declared set up China foundation. Bryant will help poor students finish school,and establish the basketball school, promote the popularization of Chinese professional basketball players and competitive level.

The  Picture of“ Headless” man sweep away swing make passers terrified.

One day I saw a coat on the swing like a man on there as the swing move with wind .but I didn’t saw the man’s head .It’s so terrible .There was a people sitting on the swing only saw his clothes at the first, looked carefully and found as strong wind and more sand the swing man put clothes to cover the head. This phenomenon is very scary.

The  Picture of“ Headless” man sweep away swing make passers terrified.

One day I saw a coat on the swing like a man on there as the swing move with wind ,but I didn’t saw the man’s head .It’s so terrible .There was a people sitting on the swing only saw his clothes at the first, look carefully and found as strong wind and more sand the swing man put clothes to cover the head. This phenomenon is very scary.

　Hundreds of Japanese students whose schools have been closed this week to contain a swine flu outbreak have instead flocked to karaoke parlours with their friends.

　　　　Hundreds of Japanese students whose schools have been closed this week to contain a swine flu outbreak have instead flocked to karaoke parlours with their friends, club operators said.

　　　　Authorities in and around Osaka and Kobe cities have shut more than 4,000 schools, kindergartens and colleges after the first swine flu cases were confirmed Saturday and the number of infected reached 178 by Tuesday.

　　　　Tens of thousands of students have been asked to stay away from schools and avoid leaving home if possible — but many teenagers are clearly bored.

　　　　“About 10 different groups of high school students came here yesterday,” a karaoke club manager in Osaka, Yoshikatsu Ishida told the reporters.

　　　　He said he declined to accept the young customers when he found they were supposed to stay at home while their schools were closed.

　　　　Another karaoke club manager said: “We suddenly had a number of high school students after 2:00 pm yesterday, right after the announcement that schools would close for a week.”

　　　　“All of our karaoke rooms were full at one point, and I’m expecting something similar today,” he said. “I don’t have the right to say something like ‘you should stay at home.’”

　　　　An Osaka prefecture official said: “We’ve asked schools to close down and let students stay at home unless there’s a special need to go out.”

　　　　Asked about the students’ karaoke bar visits, he told the reporters: “We’ll observe the development ahead.”