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ht Hipsters Hipsters is a  contemporary subculture - it is a group of young people ages 20 to 30 years old which is in opposition to the mainstream.  They  come from the circle of intelligentsia and universities. Characteristic things Hipsters are interested in  counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of arts and Indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. A very interesting thing is that they often do not even consider themselves hipsters. They want be to be a kind of alternative in all areas of live. http://www.flavorwire.com/65207/exclusive-hipster-style-council-leaks-dress-code Specific fashion. A typical hipster must be an alternative to the mainstream, we haven’t got a typical fashion of that group of people still they have some characteristic  features. A  hipster  wears colorful clothes, this is a very important factor in hipsters' life. The style should be  vintage - inspired fashion, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, a

Celebrity gossips

Why do so many people care about celebrities and gossips associated with them? Why are there a dozen or more TV shows that are just devoted to celebrity gossip? Why are there so many magazines about stars? But while I am not much interested in celebrities, I am extremely interested in why other people are so interested in them. Here are some of my theories. We will always be interested in celebrity news because it gives us an opportunity to let our minds immerge in a fantasy world that is much more glamorous than our own. We can dream that the attractive celebrity we admire may want to hang out with us one day and we will go for coffee and a stroll in the park. We may fantasize about the celebrity's world in order to take us away from our own real lives.  We love to read stories about stars and see them on the news when they started out as the boy or girl-next-door and have made big career. This gives us hope that it could happen for us some day. Perhaps a director or produc

Sources of information in XXI century

  Information is one of the most underrated  things in our life. Sources of it  evolved throughout the ages - from the primal ones (like speech) through  newspapers to electronic mass media. But now we should ask ourselves - where do we get information from? In my opinion there are two main sources - television (news programs) and the internet. News programs (also news programme, newscast or news shows) are specific kind of TV programs - in big epitome they are regulary scheduled programs that report current events. It can include live or recorded interviews by field reporters, opinion poll results, expert opinions, and occasional editorial content. The biggest news channels are BBC, CNN and Foxnews . Fakty w TVN24 In Poland  we have two main news channels - TVN24 and TVP Info - they reach about 10% of Polish viewers - about 3 million people. But it is nothing when you compare them to the main TV news broadcasts - Fakty, Wiadomości and Teleexpress. Altogether

SUN OBSERVATORY

SUN OBSERVATORY SOHO, t he Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind. SOHO was launched on December 2, 1995. The SOHO spacecraft was built in Europe by an industry team led by prime contractor Matra Marconi Space (now EADS Astrium) under overall management by ESA. The twelve instruments on board SOHO were provided by European and American scientists.  Nine of the international instrument consortia are led by European Principal Investigators (PI's), three by PI's from the US. Large engineering teams and more than 200 co-investigators from many institutions supported the PI's in the development of the instruments and in the preparation of their operations and data analysis. NASA was responsible for the launch and is now responsible for mis