This Bravenet is pioneer in the field of webs. It has got loads of fantastic features. But why it left a bit behind its rivals. I also moved to blogger and wordpress. (you can check on alexa.com)

My own reasons are:

1. This bravenet is rather heavy and slow to upload its pages, compared with others.
2. It comes together with stupid pop up windows in many occasions.( that is my main reason. I normally don't impress those kinds of service whether it is free or not. Nowadays,
3.  there have been thousands of free service provider without pop up windows. 
4. It links to some of the red sites according to McAfee Site advisor.
5. Normally bravenet mails go to junk mail folder.(there must be some reason freemail providers do like that)

 

   

     * Mandela became the oldest elected President of South Africa when he took office at the age of 75.

    * He speaks fluent Afrikaans, a language disliked by many black people because of its roots in colonialism.

    * Mandela is known for his fondness of Batik textiles. He is often seen wearing Batik shirts, known as "Madiba shirts", even on formal occasions.

    * In 2003, Mandela's death was incorrectly announced by CNN when his pre-written obituary (along with those of several other famous figures) was inadvertently published on CNN's web site due to a lapse in password protection.

    * The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, wants a statue of Nelson Mandela installed on the north terrace of Trafalgar Square, although thus far he has run into opposition.

    * As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dick Cheney voted against a congressional resolution calling for Mandela's release from prison. Years later, Mandela would call Cheney a "dinosaur".[16]

    * Mandela spoke in the Olympics "Celebrate Humanity" campaign with the words:

    For seventeen days, they are roommates.
    For seventeen days, they are soulmates.
    And for twenty-two seconds, they are competitors.
    Seventeen days as equals. Twenty-two seconds as adversaries.
    What a wonderful world that would be.
    That's the hope I see in the Olympic Games.

    * According to the Time 100, he is one of only four people in history to have shaped both the 20th century and the early 21st. The other three are Bill Gates, Pope John Paul II, and Oprah Winfrey.

    * The Nelson Mandela Invitational charity golf tournament, hosted by Gary Player, has raised over R 20 million for childrens charities since its inception in 2000.

Source: Wikipedia

Bashar al-Assad (Arabic: بشار الأسد‎, Bašār al-Asad) (born September 11, 1965) is the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Regional Secretary of the Baath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad

Standing about 6' 3", Assad has a distinct physical build. He speaks English from an intermediate to an advanced level and is fluent in French, having studied at the Franco-Arab al-Hurriyet elite school in Damascus, before going on to medical school at the University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine. He then went on to get subspecialty training in ophthalmology in London's academic hospitals. He is married to Asma' al-Akhras, a Syrian Sunni Muslim whom he met in Great Britain, where she was born and raised.

 
Asma al-Assad (born August 11, 1975) is the First Lady of Syria. Born in London, England, she married Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2000, having previously pursed a career in merchant banking.

 
Unlike previous Syrian First Ladies, she has maintained a higher profile at state, diplomatic, and charitable events. Since 2004 Asma al-Assad has held a Honorary Doctorate in Archaeology from La Sapienza University, Rome.

 She is the daughter of prominent Syrian physician Fawaz Akhras.

 Fawas Akhras is a London, England-based, Syrian cardiologist. He is a founding Director of the British Syrian Society and is involved with a number of Syrian causes.

 FAWAZ AKHRAS is the Clinical Director of Cardiac and Medical Health Services and Consultant Cardiologist at the Cromwell Hospital in London. He completed his postgraduate studies at King College Hospital-University of London, where he also obtained his higher degree in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

 In 1992 during his post as Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals, he was appointed Chief of Cardiology at King Fahd Military Hospital in Jeddah where he was responsible for the creation of a new cardiac department. This proved to be an exciting challenge and culminated in a state of the art fully operational non-invasive and interventional cardiac programme.

 He developed the first interventional cardiac research programme in Syria, which has subsequently led to their integration into multi-centre European research studies. His work at present is focused on his primary interest in interventional cardiology, which provides the platform for his on-going clinical research. He is the principal investigator of the Syrian arm of an international study of 5,000 real world (unselected) patients with coronary artery disease looking at the long-term results of the Infinnium Paclitaxel Eluting Stent (IPES) in such patients.

 Such an achievement came on the back of his extensive experience in clinical cardiac research. He has published a large number of research papers in international medical journals, and presented numerous lectures at both national and international scientific conferences. He is also known for his marked contribution to the development of the first physiological pacemaker, which is now widely used around the world in the treatment of patients with heart block.

 He is the recipient of several awards in recognition of his personal contribution to clinical and scientific research in cardiology that bridge the basic and clinical sciences.

 He is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the British Cardiac Society, the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the British Society of Echocardiography.

 He is actively engaged in teaching and he is a member of the Order of William Harvey for Education in recognition of his commitment to education at the American College of Cardiology.

 
He is a founder member and Co Chairman of the British Syrian Society in London and Damascus.

 
Sources:

Wikipedia

http://www.britishsyriansociety.org

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is a founder of Wikipedia and a member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates Wikipedia and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

A veteran leader of the Karen rebel movement in Myanmar, fighting one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies, has died aged 79, a rebel official said yesterday.
General Bo Mya, whose Karen National Union (KNU) has waged guerrilla war against the central government since 1949, died late on Saturday in a Thai hospital near the border of eastern Myanmar, a senior KNU official told Reuters.
“He passed away after suffering from several diseases so severe that he could not walk for three years,” said the official, who declined to be named.
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