вторник, 3 июля 2012 г.
четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.
Delays apology
West: Rail operator First Great Western has apologised topassengers for disruptions between Bath and London yesterday.
Network Rail has been carrying out overnight engineering work inthe Pangbourne area, just west of Reading, and it overran …
The Legality of Conditional Preferences to Developing Countries under the GATT Enabling Clause
An issue that has plagued the GATT/WTO system since its inception has been the question of how to handle the needs of both developed and developing countries in one coherent system. As developing countries make up approximately 75 percent of WTO membership,1 this is a very real concern for the future of the WTO. Accepting that developed countries have an obligation to support developing countries as they seek to develop, WTO members, in 1979, enacted the Decision on Differential and More Favourable Treatment, Reciprocity and Fuller Participation of Developing Countries (the "Enabling Clause").2 The Enabling Clause suspends the GATT's general most favored nation ("MFN") rule and allows …
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среда, 14 марта 2012 г.
Open your eyes to area history
WHEN the outside temperature is minus seven degrees and you aregiven the choice of walking six kilometres around Llangadog orstaying in a warm office with a steady supply of hot tea, what wouldyou do? It was a tough choice but donning my thermals and my dustywalking boots was a decision that I did not regret.
The reason for my wintry expedition was to try out a themed walkthat has been written by Landscape Archaeologist, Stuart Fry. '2000years of history -- a walk through Lanes and Lines in the TywiValley' is one of six walks that have been developed by the TywiAfon yr Oesoedd Project.
The walk, or cycle route begins on Llangadog Common.
I met …
Christmas concert caps big year for Rogers
Kenny Rogers: `Christmas from the Heart' 8 tonight and SaturdayPheasant Run Resort Mega Center, 4051 E. Main, St. Charles Singleseats sold out; hotel/show packages still available Call (630) 584-6300 Kenny Rogers may have immortalized the phrase, "know when tohold 'em/know when to fold 'em" in the song lyrics of his classic hit"The Gambler" some 20 years ago, but truth be told, Rogers is oneentertainer who's never considered folding his cards and walkingaway.
In fact, the 60-year-old Rogers is back on the charts and enjoyinga tidal wave of success these days, sparked by last summer'snostalgic baseball song hit "The Greatest," which he performed in pre-game mini-concerts …
American who joined Libyan rebels returning to US
LINTHICUM, Maryland (AP) — An American writer is returning home after spending more than five months in solitary confinement in Libyan prisons, then joining the rebel forces who opposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Matthew VanDyke's family says he's flying from Cairo to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Saturday.
Earlier this year, the 32-year-old VanDyke was working on a book and film about …
PPG Industries says 2Q profit almost doubles
PPG Industries Inc., which makes paint and industrial coatings, reported Thursday its profit almost doubled in the second quarter as volume rose 10 percent and the company benefited from stronger demand as industrial activity picked up around the world.
The results easily beat analyst expectations and the company said although its business hasn't yet returned to pre-recession levels, it is steadily improving.
The company earned $272 million, or $1.63 per share, in the three-month period ending June 30, up from $146 million, or 89 cents a share, a year ago.
The quarter's results include a charge of a penny per share after taxes to reflect the …
The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture
The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture by Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson InterVarsity Press, December 2005 $14, ISBN 0-830-83329-3
These authors analyze the power of hip-hop and encourage churches not to denounce it but to embrace it as a tool for reaching today's youth. The writers explain in great detail the components of hip-hop, its origins and its potential for bringing young people closer to God. Because they are both pastors, Jackson and Smith offer credible firsthand information on the growing relationship between hip-hop and the church. They can directly relate to their targeted audience.
To strengthen their argument, the authors connect …
Opposition scores big win in Taiwan legislative elections
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China two months before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.
President Chen Shui-bian, who has been criticized for aggravating relations with China by promoting policies to formalize Taiwan's de facto independence from the mainland, resigned as chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, immediately after the extent of the defeat became clear.
"I should shoulder all responsibilities," Chen said. "I feel really apologetic and shamed."
His …
U.S. shouldn’t be in Libya
Events in Libya are horrible, but the U.S should not be involved. We need to stop trying to be the "world police."
We have so …
ALEX BAG
ALEX BAG EDITED BY RAPHAEL GYGAX AND HEIKE MUNDER ZURICH: JRP RINGIER (DISTRIBUTED IN THE US BY ARTBOOK DAP). 230 PAGES. $55.
IN 1995, AS MATTHEW BARNEY became famous for his opulent, surrealist film epic, video artist Alex Bag rose to stardom as a kind of anti-Cremaster, creating no-budget video art with little more than cheap wigs, bedsheet backdrops, appropriated television clips, and stuffed animals. In Unfitted Fall '95, Bag played a student at SVA, reporting on each semester in a satirical video diary, which she punctuated with sketches that featured warring toys, a fake phone-sex commercial, and Bj�rk explaining how a TV works. Now, Bag's first monograph has finally been …
QB Hill helping Detroit progress without Stafford
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Matthew Stafford, sure. Ndamukong Suh, you bet.
But there's no way the Lions looked ahead to the 2010 season and figured on veteran quarterback Shaun Hill playing a major role.
The Lions acquired Hill in the offseason as a backup to Stafford, a former No. 1 pick. But it was Hill who was the offensive star of Detroit's first win of the season, a 44-6 thumping of St. Louis over the weekend. In his fourth start since Stafford's injury in the season opener, Hill threw for 227 yards and three touchdownsin the much-needed victory.
"I wish so badly that it didn't take so long to get this feeling, but it does feel great to get a win in the way that we …
Obama looks for Iraqi political gains
Despite continuing violence in Iraq, President Barack Obama says he thinks the bigger challenge there is finding a political agreement among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.
Obama says the security situation in Iraq is actually showing improvement, and that the level of violence is not what it once was. A series of attacks this week has claimed more than 200 lives, just days before a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraqi cities.
Obama says the violence will probably continue for "some time."
He told reporters Friday that he has not seen the kind of "political progress" that he'd like to see among Iraq's various factions. Obama says if their disputes are resolved, there will be a further improvement in bringing down the level of violence.
вторник, 13 марта 2012 г.
Voting Rights Anniversary Marked
If it hadn't been for a feisty woman named Susan B. Anthony, whoinsisted on registering to vote and then doing exactly that in 1872,despite the risk of incarceration, the vote would have been a longertime coming. After all, as history shows, those holding power havebeen reluctant to share it.
So Saturday seems the appropriate day for Sherr's hourlongspecial, "Susan B. Anthony Slept Here" (the show airs at 9 p.m. onChannel 7).
Part history lesson, part travelogue, the program visitsmemorials to Anthony and other American women who made their marks inhistory.
Its genesis is a 1994 book by Sherr and Washington-based writerJurate Kazickas, Susan B. Anthony Slept Here, a tome of nearly 600pages.
Sherr acknowledged that "Yes, I'm slightly obsessed with SusanB. Anthony. She's wonderful. She's our hero. She's the mother ofus all, to quote Gertrude Stein - the absolutely brightest star inthe 19th century firmament. Imagine going on trial for the act ofcasting a ballot."
In addition to visiting landmarks, Sherr's special is itself alandmark of sorts: She said it is the first time anyone has made atelevision program about American women who paved the way.
The idea for the television special took hold, Sherr said, aftera conversation she had with Robert Iger, then president of ABCEntertainment.
ABC supplied Sherr with a red convertible that she drives tovisit the sites where heroines lived or were honored.
Those places include Anthony's home in Rochester, N.Y., and thecourtroom in Canandaigua, N.Y., where she was tried in June, 1873; amuseum in Beaumont, Texas, honoring athlete Babe Didriksen Zaharias,and the Irvington, N.Y., home and Indianapolis offices of Madame C.J. Walker, who developed a line of cosmetics for black women andbecame a millionaire.
There's also a visit to the stark landscape of New Mexico,adopted home of painter Georgia O'Keeffe; the statue in Greenville,Ohio, of 5-foot-tall sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who thought womenshould receive equal pay for equal work; the Philadelphia grave ofsinger Bessie Smith, finally marked in 1970 when two fans - one wassinger Janis Joplin - raised the money for it, and a planetariumhonoring teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe.
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