The opera, while attracting Star Trek fans from around the world, also invited some honoured guests. On April 18, a radio message was broadcast to the assumed location of Qo'nos, the Klingon home planet, approximately nine light years away.

The Klingon are known as passionate opera-lovers. However very little is known about their highly evolved form of musical expression here on earth.

Floris Schönfeld has managed to lay his hands on some fragments of a masterpiece of the batlh jachlut or Honorable Battle opera.

Its title is ‘u’, which can be translated as ‘universe’ or ‘universal’. It will be the basis for the opera ‘u’, the first complete, authentic Klingon opera here on earth.

"Klingon opera uses the principle of musical combat," a section of the opera's website reads. "Beauty in Klingon music comes from the impact of two opposing forces. To quote a well known Klingon proverb qa’ wIje 'meH masuv or 'We fight to enrich the spirit.’

"The Klingon orchestra is made up of various indigenous Klingon instruments, some that have never been heard on earth before."

The opera took three years to write and the project is spearheaded by the KlingonTerranResearchEnsemble, a group that actively researches Klingon culture and historic documents.

The Klingon opera project ‘u’ has been running for about two years now. In this time the KTRE and Floris Schönfeld have given numerous performances and lecture in The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as being invited to the artist-in-residence program of Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York. The premiere of the opera is planned for September this year on the location of the Celestial Vault, a land art piece by James Turrell in Kijkduin.

‘u’ is a Zeebelt production.

‘u’ was developed in part at the Watermill Center for the Performing Arts in Watermill NY

The nearly 17-year-old Medy celebrates her birthday on Sunday in front of the camera in the nightclub Hooizolder Westkapelle village in Zeeland the Netherlands.

Besides nearly a thousand guests there will also be international stars on her very expensive party, according to the AD.

Who Medy exactly is and where she lives is kept secret.

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According to the institute, the so-called social trust in Europe is only larger in the Nordic countries.

Residents of the European countries were asked if they think in general most people can be trusted or that they think you can not be too careful in dealing with others.

Nearly 65 percent of the Dutch said to have trust in other people. Denmark has the highest score with about 75%. Turkey with 15% has the lowest score.

Also the faith in Dutch politicians, police and legal system is relatively high, CBS reported. Europe appears to be losing faith.

Miss Desiree is a natural beauty "I have not even fake nails and no extensions in my hair. I am the way I look.

Desiree Van den Berg was crowned Miss Netherlands 2010 at the Finale held at the Theatre De Efteling. Desiree is the 23 year old beauty from Santpoortis and stands 1.76m tall. She will represent Netherlands at Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas.

83 beauty queens plan to show off swimsuits, evening gowns and quick-thinking interview skills in hopes of impressing a panel of celebrity judges and winning the 2010 Miss Universe crown.

The winner will replace Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez, who gave Venezuela a second consecutive win by taking the title at age 18 last years. The South American country has won six titles since the pageant started in 1952.

The pageant hosted by rocker Bret Michaels and NBC correspondent Natalie Morales will air live on NBC and Telemundo and be distributed in some 190 countries and territories.

The contest, co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, will be judged by celebrities including 2010 Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek and actress Jane Seymour.

Donald Trump owns the Miss Universe Pageant and he spoke about the event, “It doesn’t get hotter than being in Las Vegas during the month of August. Add more than 80 of the world’s most beautiful women converging to compete for the crown of Miss Universe along with Bret Michaels, Natalie Morales, Orianthi and John Legend & the Roots…Las Vegas is going to be scorching hot!”

22% would rather read a good book and only 11% prefer sex.

Sleeping is still the most favorite activity in bed with 63%, according to a recent study among 1238 Dutch people.

The bed is the favorite place for reading a book for 44%. The couch comes in second place with 41%. Also reading on the toilet, bath, beach and public transport are preferred, but these places are with 2.5% considerably less popular.

The book wins as favorite reading material (68%). 29% of respondents prefer to read a magazine. 20% prefer the newspaper, 14% prefer to dive in the advertising leaflets and 2% indicate that they prefer something else to read.

When asked what the most special place was where people had ever read, there were extraordinary answers. There are people who read on the back of a camel, during working hours or even in the shower.

Twitter, Hyves or Facebook can be a valuable addition to traditional forms of communication, according to the argument.

"Especially in crisis, it is good if the community is also involved in social media. You can see what is going on and can pick up rumors and possibly weaken them, "said spokesman Ton Boon Thursday Against Domestic Management.

Boon gave a course on using social media to employees of the various Government districts of Amsterdam such as the fire department and health care authorities.

Services like Twitter have a significant impact, according to the spokesperson, when after a recent subway accident, rumors, movies and photos on the micro blog appeared within minutes. Boon said to be surprised with the large amount of errors that were distributed.

Boon hopes to become part of social media communication plans. "Now it is mainly still pioneers. But you cannot build a network when there is a crisis, then everything needs to be ready, such as an official Twitter account of the municipality to which you refer. "

The 14-year-old Laura would like to be the youngest sailor ever to sail around the world. To avoid the press, she did not leave the port of the Portuguese city of Portimao, like many media expected, but from a different port.

The departure marks the official beginning of her solo sailing trip around the world. She made her final preparations In Portugal the last two weeks.

On the Canary Islands she might wait until the end of the hurricane season before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Laura attempts to break the record of the Australian Jessica Watson. She finished her solo trip a few days before her 17th birthday. Laura Dekker becomes 17 on September 20th, 2012.

In Newsweek’s first-ever Best Countries top 100 ranking, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being—education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and political environment—and compiled metrics within these categories across 100 nations. A weighted formula yielded an overall list of the world’s top 100 countries.

The Netherlands scored better than the US and Germany. Especially our liberal education system is praised.
Finland topped the poll, followed by Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Luxemburg, Norway and Canada.

The top ten are many European countries.

The top 10 best countries to live includes:
1. Finland
2. Switzerland
3. Sweden
4. Australia
5. Luxemburg
6. Norway
7. Canada
8. Netherlands
9. Japan
10. Denmark

"If everything goes as planned, she will leave the port of Portimao on Saturday," he says.

The major solo sail trip around the world for the 14-year-old Laura Dekker will start with the departure from Portugal. On the trip from the Netherlands to Portugal, she was still accompanied by her father. Together they tested the electronics of her boat Guppy.

If the boat is seaworthy, Dekker wants as quickly as possible head for the Canary Islands. There they might wait the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean off that can last until December.

Laura won a prolonged battle when a court in Middelburg released her from the guardianship of Dutch child protection agencies that had blocked her attempts to leave last year when she was still 13. The authorities said being alone and absent from school for so long would be harmful for her education and psychological development. That was the last obstacle to the cruise to begin.

If her attempt is successful, she will be the youngest sailor ever to sail around the world. The Australian Jessica Watson now holds the record.

Apple released a new iPad commercial yesterday, airing it on primetime television and posting it to the company's iPad site and YouTube page.

The ad features a series of quick shots showing off various capabilities of the device beginning with the statement "IPad is..." before moving through several adjectives and related apps. For example, a brief appearance by The Photo Cookbook is followed by "delicious." Flipboard is followed by "current," the astronomy app "StarWalk" and iBooks.

Watch the great new Apple iPad commercial below, that shows off what the device can do very nicely.

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