An Australian website is giving the event a touch of intergalactic mandar messages by allowing users to send SMS missives space.

From Wednesday until August 24, people who want an experience that is not of this world can visit www.HelloFromEarth.net to post messages of no more than 160 characters to be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the outer planet system solar nearest similar to Earth, and therefore more chance of harboring life.

The expected time of arrival, however, is about 20 years, said the website. And there is no guarantee of response.

"It's like 'a message in a bottle' sent to the stars. What is interesting is not just whether someone is listening, but what you tell people to possible intelligent life on another planet," said the spokesman of the project, Wilson da Silva.

"Hello From Earth (Hello from the Earth) is our way of showing that science can make the impossible possible. We have reached the moon and now we can talk to the stars," said a statement.

Messages to be transmitted from the compound of Canberra Deep Space Communications, with close cooperation of the U.S. space agency (NASA), are part of National Science Week in Australia, which celebrates the scientific achievements of the country and wants to raise awareness the population of the importance of science.

Science Minister, Kim Carr, has introduced the first message: "Hello from Australia, the planet we call Earth. The messages express the dreams of our people for the future. We want to share these dreams with you."

"When I was a child, like many Australians, looking fixedly at the stars and wondered what would have out there. Now science has allowed me to send a personal message that can answer this question," said Carr

According to The Washington Post published today, the research on mental health and causes of suicide among soldiers are performed within a period of five years and is endowed with 50 million dollars.

The study, which was carried out on about 500,000 people on active duty soldiers, retirees and their families, will work the Army, the National Institute of Mental Health, University of Health Sciences of the Uniformed Services and the Universities of Harvard, Columbia and Michigan.

Investigators seek information on each soldier conscripted into the army in the next three years, as well as about 90,000 soldiers already in rows, according to the Pentagon.

Although the suicide rate among soldiers has been traditionally lower than among the civilian population in the last two years both have been matched.

The Army secretary, Pete Geren, said that in June-the last month for which figures were available, there were no suicides among soldiers, but had confirmed 11 deaths of soldiers that were still under investigation.

While the number of suicides in the ranks of the Army has fallen since March is too early to establish what factors may have influenced this, "said Geren.

Among the many factors identified as causes of suicide include post traumatic stress disorder, family problems and alcohol abuse, said Robert Ursan, director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, appointed last month to front of the interdisciplinary team to begin the survey in January.

Another factor affecting the recurrence of allocations in the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, added Ursan.

"It's a much more complex set of factors aggregates," said the expert. Missions abroad are increasing the stress in the family, but are clearly not a decisive factor. "

The Army, which along with the Marines are more troops in military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, this year that required every soldier to complete a course on stress, depression and suicide prevention.

"Although suicide can affect anyone seeing men as soldiers in tasks that require the use of combat arms, between the ages of 18 and 27 years, are most vulnerable," said the brigadier general who heads the Colleen McGuire Task Force on Prevention of Suicide, Army.

The Government of Bolivia to analyze an international tribunal to defend the dance heritage The Devil boliviano, with the use of a typical costume of the dance that will peruana Karen Schwarz in the Miss Universe.
The Minister of Culture Pablo Groux, said that studies use the courts to claim that dance is not Peruvian and Bolivian origin, the ministry said in a statement. The official also sent a letter Monday to the Miss Universe contest in which explains the background on The Devil and asked not to speculate on its origin boliviano. Schwarz's decision made on the show dressed as a Miss Universe diablesa of dance led to the rejection of the authorities of Bolivia, who defend the status of national heritage of this dance, emblematic of the carnival the city of Oruro. However, Peruvian authorities maintain that the devil danced in the south of their country two centuries before in Bolivia. The Ministry of Culture has also sent letters to his foreign colleague, David Choquehuanca, the Bolivian ambassador in Peru, Franz Solano, and the director of the National Institute of Culture of Peru, Cecilia Bakula. According to the release of such portfolios, in Bolivia the typical costume of the devil has been used in a national beauty Rosario Rico Toro in 1990, Veronica Pino Ximena Rico in 1992 and Toro 2002. It also cites the Declaration as a history of the Carnival of Oruro as the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001 by UNESCO and the foundation on November 25, 1904, the "Great authentic traditional Oruro Devil."

And finally, the issue of four stamps in 1968, 1987, 1997 and 2002 of The Devil in Series of Dances and Folklore Boliviano a decree of February 23, 1995 which states Artistic Heritage, Folklore of the National Carnival Oruro.