Based in Portugal, Aenima began in 1997 by guitarist Rune (ex-Millennium) and singer Carmen (ex-Poetry of Shadows, ex-Isiphilon). Their shared philosophy of a higher esthetic spirituality through music was the impetus for Aenima - a play on the Latin word anima meaning soul. As songwriters, the vision for the new band would beat a path laden with organic rhythms and more emotional textures, yet always flirting with the darker aspects of sound.
Nowan is a Progressive Rock band from Madrid - Spain, that is going to act in Portugal for the first time in their career.
Where: Santiago Alquimista, Lisbon, Portugal
When: 16th of December 2006
Doors open: 22h00
Nowan: 23h00
AEnima: 23h45
Tickets: 10
Listen to AEnima .
Listen to Nowan .
is a developed by the French company . It is based on the game engine (also from Nevrax), which is GPL'd already.
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Destruction of precious habitat, air pollution, water pollution, impacts on threatened species all of these will be the result if the Polish government allows the building of the Via Baltica expressway as an international transport corridor to continue on their planned route without the proper environmental assessments.
Join with OTOP (BirdLife Poland), WWF Poland, CEE Bankwatch Network and thousands of concerned people around the world in a protest against the Polish government, and encourage them to stop flaunting European environmental law, and respect nature and Europe s outstanding natural heritage (more information about and ).
I am writing to you to express my concerns about the construction of the "Via Baltica" expressway in north-east Poland - a region with irreplaceable wildlife protected within the Natura 2000 network.
In 2004 the Polish Government declared that it would decide the route of the European Transport Corridor I ("Via Baltica") only after conducting a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), but this promise is now being broken as individual sections of road 8 are being upgraded to international standard in advance of the SEA results.
I call on you to stop upgrading parts of road 8 to international expressway standard until the SEA results are available and the least destructive route for the Via Baltica international corridor agreed upon.
The picture in this blog post was taken there.
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It would decriminalise millions of Britons who break the law each year by copying their CDs onto music players.
Making copies of CDs and DVDs for personal use would have little impact on copyright holders, the IPPR argues.
Copyright issues have, in the past, been steered too much by the music industry, the report said.
IPPR deputy director Dr Ian Kearns said: "When it comes to protecting the interests of copyright holders, the emphasis the music industry has put on tackling illegal distribution and not prosecuting for personal copying, is right.
"But it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have that is the job of government."
Report author Kay Withers said: "The idea of all-rights reserved doesn't make sense for the digital era and it doesn't make sense to have a law that everyone breaks.
To give the IP regime legitimacy it must command public respect."
Intellectual property laws are currently being reviewed by the government.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has asked chairman Sir Andrew Gowers to report his findings back ahead of the pre-budget report in November.
The IPPR is hoping to influence this with its report, entitled Public Innovation: Intellectual property in a digital age.
Its key recommendation is that any policy regarding Intellectual Property policy should recognise that knowledge is a public resource first and a private asset second.
The so-called knowledge economy is growing fast as the traditional manufacturing of goods is replaced by more intangible assets.
With it is a growing paradox in which intellectual property is both a commercial and cultural resource.
"The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share ideas and content," the report says.
"Knowledge must, therefore, perform the roles of both commodity and social glue, both private property and public domain," it adds.
The report looks at how Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies - which restrict the sharing of music or other intellectual property - are affecting attempts to preserve electronic content.
It argues that the British Library should be given a DRM-free copy of any new digital work and that libraries should be able to take more than one copy of digital work.
Ms Withers said: "We charge the British Library as being the collective memory of the nation and increasingly it has to archive digital content.
"More and more academic journals are delivered digitally but copyright laws aren't designed to deal with digital content."
She said there was often a conflict between DRM and accessibility technologies which needs to be addressed.
"Someone with poor sight may use a screen reader technology and may have to change the format of the content to use it but some DRM technology isn't sophisticated enought to take this kind of thing into account," she said.
The report also calls for the government to reject calls from the UK music industry to extend the copyright term for sound recording beyond the current 50 years.
Now, when in UK they have to tell this obvious things out lout and try to defend UK citizens, I'm all but sorry that in Portugal what we have is that only try to earn more money by .
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Anyway.
.. Way to go IPPR!
You can read their full report .
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