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30 November 2010
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BFI will distribute lottery money to film-makers, the culture minister Ed Vaizey announces
Mark Brown, Arts correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 November 2010 19.22 GMT
There are still lots of questions. How much bigger will the BFI have to become? How much more money will it get? How many film council staff will transfer? Vaizey said he expected a detailed transfer plan to be sorted in the new year.
The job of attracting foreign – principally Hollywood – studios to Britain will go to Film London, but Vaizey stressed that it would be working for the whole of the UK, not just the capital.
"Those are the things that the industry really wanted to hear."
Since then, Vaizey has consulted widely and also announced today that he was setting up a ministerial film forum to meet every six months or so to debate issues and concerns.
Vaizey also announced that the eight regional screen agencies outside London would be streamlined into a single body, Creative England.
29 November 2010
Greg Dyke's response to DCMS proposals
From the BFI website today:
The BFI will become the lead strategic body on film and the distributor of Lottery funds to UK film-makers from April 2011, Minister for Culture and the Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has announced.
Greg Dyke, Chair of the BFI, has issued the following open letter to the film industry:
You will have heard that in a speech he gave this morning, Ed Vaizey has asked the BFI to take responsibility for film policy in Britain. Under this umbrella is the distribution of Lottery funding. Also included are certification, the Media desk, support for film in the nations and regions, and education.
It is a bold move to create a single body to champion film across the whole of the UK and provide a clear focus internationally.
In his speech, Ed Vaizey also confirmed an ongoing commitment to the tax breaks and he reaffirmed that lottery funding is expected to increase from £27m currently to over £40m by 2014. We obviously welcome both decisions.
This move will mean a major transformation for the BFI. In the immediate term we will be working closely with staff at the UK Film Council to make sure that the skills, expertise and knowledge needed for this new world are retained. For some time we have deliberately held back from making new appointments to the BFI Board, but now that we understand the full scope of our new responsibilities, we can begin the process of recruiting the new Board members. In particular we will be looking to appoint new Governors who are active in the film industry.
Also in the short term, we hope to make more money available for film in the coming year, increasing the size of the Production Fund in 2011-12 from £15m to £18m – that's an increase of 20%. This is possible because we will be making significant overhead savings.
We are looking forward to working even more closely with our colleagues in each of the Nations and with those across the English regions through the new "Creative England". We currently have a good relationship with Film London that is set to be come stronger and this announcement from Government has already become a catalyst for a new drive to promote British film, with initial pledged partnership commitments from BBC Worldwide, BAFTA and Odeon plus, we anticipate, many others.
Of course all of this is subject to the inevitable process of due diligence which will take several months, but we aim to move quickly and to work in an inclusive and collaborative way to develop a new, exciting and coherent vision for film in Britain going forward.
BFI to oversee funding for British cinema
British Film Institute to oversee 60% rise in movie industry lottery funding
Culture minister Ed Vaizey praises the efforts of the UK Film Council but says it is time for the industry to move into a 'new chapter'.
guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 November 2010
The culture minister, Ed Vaizey, today said the British Film Institute would assume the lion's share of the responsibilities of the defunct UK Film Council and announced a 60% increase in lottery funding for the UK industry.
Vaizey added that the BFI would be a "single voice" for British film and described it as an exciting new page in the history of the industry in the UK.
He said the amount of lottery funding available to the UK film industrywould increase from £27m today to £43m by 2014.
He praised the contribution of the BBC and Channel 4 to UK film-making and called on BSkyB to invest in British movies as they had done in domestic television.
Vaizey said the BFI would be in charge of delivering government policy on film and the distribution of lottery money.
It remains unclear how much will be saved as a result of the controversial axing of the Film Council and the transfer of the majority of its powers to the BFI.
But Vaizey said: "I am pretty certain that we are going to save significant amounts of money going forward and we will see a significant amount of those savings going into film production."
He added that he did not want to "denigrate" the efforts of the film council, which had been a "great success", but said it was time for a "new chapter".
More details soon...
British Film Institute to oversee 60% rise in movie industry lottery funding | Film | guardian.co.uk
14 November 2010
Update on funding bodies for British cinema
From the Daily Mail yesterday:
Curtains for UK Film Council as film charity takes over
Last updated at 10:48 PM on 13th November 2010
The British Film Institute, the charity chaired by former BBC chief Greg Dyke, is to take over the UK Film Council's role handing out lottery funds to film makers. An announcement is expected from Culture Secretary Jeremy hunt next week.
The Government has pledged to abolish the Film Council in its 'bonfire of the quangos'.
The council was behind hits such as Bend It Like Beckham, Tamara Drewe and the Last King Of Scotland, though it also had its share of flops such as Sex Lives Of the Potato Men.
While the BFI is expected to handle the council's £15 million a year funding to film makers, the Arts Council will handle some of the administration to avoid any conflict of interest.
Curtains for UK Film Council as film charity takes over | Mail Online
22 October 2010
More details of cuts to film-sector funding
From Screen Daily today:
Non-Lottery, non-BFI film funding to be chopped in half as part of UK's budget cuts
21 October, 2010 | By Mike Goodridge
After yesterday's sweeping cuts across the board by the UK government, it has emerged that film-sector funding outside Lottery funds and the British Film Institute (BFI) has been slashed by over 50%.
The Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) has confirmed to Screen that the annual grant-in-aid budget for film in each of the next four years will be around £18.618m, down from £23.9m in the year 2010/11. After counting the BFI's newly reduced annual budget, that leaves just £4.655m for all other film activities (excluding Lottery development/production funding which the government has pledged to maintain at current levels).
That £4.655m will have to cover:
- inward investment and the work of the British Film Commissioner
- National and regional screen agencies
- research and statistics
- film exports
- certification (assessing which films qualify as British and are therefore eligible for Lottery funding and/or UK Film Tax Relief)
- diversity initiatives
- anti-piracy initiatives
- co-production support
- The UK MEDIA Desk activities
- Sponsorship of work such as The UK Film Centre at Cannes
At the UKFC, these functions had a 2010/11 budget of £9.37m (that figure does include UKFC overheads).
The total grant-in-aid budget for film over the next four years will be £73.755m, of which £55.137m goes to the BFI.
Cuts had been anticipated but the 50% figure for non-BFI and non-Lottery funding is a stiff reduction and confirms the fear of many in the industry that, while Lottery funding and the tax certification are safe, other areas of the film business will suffer.
UKFC chairman Tim Bevan expressed his fears to a Parliamentary Select Committee earlier this week, saying "The UK Film Council created joined-up thinking. The great danger of the Film Council being closed down is various activities being put out to disparate bodies, and that joined-up thinking goes away."
The challenge for the bodies which inherit these functions is to minimise the hit in funding by absorbing them into its own administration and management. (The Government says that it will announce its post-UKFC plans by the end of the year.)
Bearing in mind that the government has stressed the value of inward investment and the tax credit, the assumption is that they will remain robustly supported. Meanwhile regional screen agencies are anticipating a cut in funding along the same 15% lines as the BFI.
Non-Lottery, non-BFI film funding to be chopped in half as part of UK's budget cuts | News | Screen
20 October 2010
Spending review cuts BFI budget
From Screen Daily today:
BFI budget to be cut by 15% over four years
20 October, 2010 | By Sarah Cooper
The British Film Institute's budget is to be cut by 15% over four years, it was announced today (Oct 20) as part of the UK Government's Spending Review.
On first glance, the grant in aid cut is not as significant as the BFI's previously predicted 25%, although a spokesman for the organisation said that it was "still too early to say what the full impact is."
Reacting to the news, the BFI's director Amanda Nevill said that whilst the organisation had been "looking at the best options to protect our staff and all key activities, the reality is that the BFI will have to change shape and re-scale considerably over the next 12-18 months."
She added that the organisation would "approach this challenge with imagination and courage and remodel the BFI so that its contribution to this country's film success remains vital and valued."
It is not clear at this stage whether any redundancies will be made.
The news comes during the middle of the BFI's London Film Festival.
Today's Spending Review also revealed that the total budget for the Department of Media, Culture and Sport will be reduced from £1.4bn to £1.1bn by 2014/2015.
Chancellor George Osborne said that there would be a 41% reduction in administration costs at the department. As part of the cuts, The Arts Council England will also see its budget being slashed.
He confirmed the abolition of 19 of the 55 DCMS-sponsored quangos. However the review shed no further light shed on a potential UKFC successor for the administration of the tax credit and lottery funding.
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt, said of the cuts: "To deal with an unprecedented financial deficit we have been forced to make some incredibly difficult decisions. By cutting bureaucracy and waste and prioritising the services valued by the public we will be able to protect our sporting and cultural core for the long term."
The Arts Council England is having its budget cut by almost 30%.
BFI budget to be cut by 15% over four years | News | Screen
16 September 2010
Update on discussions about future of British cinema
From the BBC News website today:
Parties approached to take over Film Council duties
Industry figures discuss the future of British film
Four parties have been asked by the government to consider taking on the responsibilities of the recently axed UK Film Council, the BBC understands.
The BBC was one body asked to consider taking a lead role in distributing lottery money to film projects.
Channel 4, the British Film Institute and the Film London agency are also believed to have been approached.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey met with key industry figures this week to discuss future public funding of UK film.
Mr Vaizey said the meeting was one of many that would take place before a final decision on future government support is later this autumn.
"I want a robust and co-ordinated strategy to promote the UK as the best place to invest in film-making and to provide real support and advice to film-makers and investors alike," he said.
"I want to make sure that public funds generate value for a wider audience and are focused where they can really make a difference."
According to the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz, the industry itself believes the Arts Council should have a role in film funding.
"Industry insiders say the simplest mechanism would be for the Arts Council to act as the go-between as they're already a lottery distributor."
Founded in 2000, the UK Film Council had an annual budget of £15m to invest in British films.
Earlier this week its chief executive John Woodward announced he will be leaving the organisation in November.
BBC News - Parties approached to take over Film Council duties
15 September 2010
Consultations on future of British cinema
From the BBC News website today:
UK film future set for discussion
Future public funding of UK film will be discussed by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and key figures in the movie business later.
The Government is expected to plough more National Lottery cash into film, despite announcing the abolition of the UK Film Council by 2012.
In July, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the organisation would be axed to save money.
Mr Vaizey said he wants a "robust" strategy to keep UK filmmaking thriving.
Among the figures attending the meeting are representatives of the British Film Institute, the Arts Council, the BBC and Pinewood and Shepperton Studios.
Mr Vaizey said this meeting will be one of many that will take place before a final decision on future government support will be made later this autumn.
In a statement, he said: "There is no question that public support for film is continuing."
He suggested that lottery funding will increase from next year and the film tax credit will remain in place.
"I want a robust and coordinated strategy to promote the UK as the best place to invest in film making and to provide real support and advice to film makers and investors alike," he said.
"I want to make sure that public funds generate value for a wider audience and are focused where they can really make a difference."
Funded by the National Lottery, the UK Film Council has invested about £160m into more than 900 films over the last 10 years, including box office successes like Bend It Like Beckham and Streetdance 3D.
Since the announcement was made to abolish the organisation, which employs 75 people, dozens of leading film-makers, including Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood and Bill Nighy have written to the government protesting the decision.
On Monday, the head of the organisation - John Woodward - announced he was resigning.
03 September 2010
Amanda Nevill interview
08 August 2010
Hunt replies to critics in the Observer
01 August 2010
Hunt reaffirms commitment to the arts
Letters from Jeremy Hunt and Brian Winston in the Guardian yesterday:
Our commitment to the arts is rock solid
The Guardian 31 July 2010
Polly Toynbee claims (Comment, 28 July) the government wants to replace public funding of the arts with private. That is simply not the case – I have always argued that private funding should be in addition to, not instead of, public money. Why? Because state funding offers stability over many years which usually philanthropy cannot. It also, with a proper arm's-length relationship, allows creative risk-taking and artistic freedom that is not always possible with other forms of funding. But the arts, too, should play their part in helping to reduce the deficit.
So we need to protect the arts, which in this country are probably the finest offered anywhere in the world. We also need to explore whether the government can do anything else to help. That's why I returned the lottery to its original four pillars, which will lead to a significant boost in arts funding. That's why I am concentrating on removing costs from the parts of my budget that are not frontline. That is also why we are right to explore whether philanthropy can be increased, with the important caveat that this will be more difficult for smaller organisations, especially those outside London. Restoring the nation's finances is in the interests of all our sectors. We don't yet know what cuts we will have to make to our budget in the autumn spending review, but this government's support for the arts remains rock solid. The 2 million people in our creative industries and our reputation as a society that is both civilised and creative demand no less.
Secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport
• As a governor of the British Film Institute at the time of the creation of the UK Film Council, I have to demur from Colin McArthur's description of the BFI's support for the UKFC as "treacherous" because the council was "designed to supplant it" (Letters, 29 July). The council was not so designed, but rather it represented a rational plan to focus official support for the film industry. The BFI's cultural functions were left untouched. OK, I will admit to naivety. The Film Council rapidly became a quango to give quangos a bad name – its chief executive earning more than the director of the Tate. He and its bloated staff have palpably failed to build a self-sustaining film industry. But we were not to know that in 2000. Not all of us at that time despised the BFI "as a ghetto peopled by unworldly intellectuals". For me it was rather a matter of its patchy record of support for production. McArthur's touching belief in the "irony" of the BFI surviving the Film Council is probably just as naive as my belief a decade ago that the Film Council was a good idea. The BFI is surely just as threatened by this government's Kulturkampf as any other cultural organisation.
Professor Brian Winston
University of Lincoln
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Poles abroad urged to document, report 'anti-Polish' statements
After Holocaust law row with Israel, Warsaw senate leader writes letter seeking to defend 'Poland's good name'; Berlin condemns 'shameful' move
WARSAW — Poland's senate leader has appealed to Poles living abroad to report to the authorities any statements deemed to hurt "Poland's good name" — part of a wider campaign by the government to defend the country against what it calls "historical untruth" and "slander."
The letter, posted recently on the Senate's website and reported by German media Thursday, is linked to a controversial new law that penalizes attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany during the World War II to the Polish nation. The government insists it is not to block historical research, but critics say its wording is unclear.
The legislation that criminalizes accusing the Polish nation or state for the crimes of the Holocaust has sparked a diplomatic crisis with Israel, which says it will inhibit free speech about the Holocaust. The United States also strongly opposes the legislation, saying it could hurt Poland's strategic relations with Israel and the US.
Observers say the campaign, which also includes ads on YouTube, is a means for the ruling Law and Justice party to consolidate its power by rallying voters around the idea that Poland needs to be defended against a hostile outside world.
In his letter sent last week to Polish organizations in the world, Senate Speaker Stanislaw Karczewski appealed to millions of their members to "document and react" to signs of anti-Polish sentiment and "statements and opinions that hurt (Poland's good name)," and to report them to Polish diplomatic missions.
The letter acknowledges individual Poles committed shameful deeds during the war, but that they were not typical of the entire nation.
In Germany, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party called the letter "regrettable."
"This partisan tactic consists of spreading the feeling in Poland that they're being treated unjustly abroad," Norbert Roettgen told the Thursday issue of the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
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The condemnation in Israel came from across the political spectrum, with some lawmakers accusing the Polish government of outright Holocaust denial as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day last month.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Polish law "baseless" and said, "history cannot be rewritten."


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Nokia N8 Symbian 3 Overview
I came across this interesting video of the Symbian 3 interface being shown off. I have noticed something in all those UI overview video also, the little nugget is that if you tap any button on the interface too quick it doesn't register, now you might call that a bug or something but my iPod touch does the same thing Apple actually made it a feature when the original iPhone launched so there you go, that particular feature or bug whatever you call it happens in this video a lot.
Web TV gets shown off as well which is neat as we haven't seen that much off it although it does get s system error 😦 but we are told its a pre production error and there some bugs in the software apart from that its the same usual, although worth checking out though.
BTW I had a quick chat with the guys at Rovio Mobile on twitter the guys of the brilliant game "Angry Birds" and I asked them when Angry birds is coming for devices other than N900's and they replied saying once Symbian 3 devices are like the N8 and other then it will be released all good then 😀
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August 22, 2010 at 10:22 pm
system error!!!!!!
August 22, 2010 at 11:41 pm
yea. I hope they fix all the bugs or the blogs will hit them very hard.
August 23, 2010 at 11:33 am
probably n8 can't handle flash video correctly so system error…
August 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Yes, yes, that must be it, despite N8 showing Flash video perfectly many times before. Yes you must be right…
August 23, 2010 at 10:32 pm
AhahahA PERFECTLY??
you must take more attention when you see n8 demonstration in flash video playback…..
August 24, 2010 at 12:32 am
Yep, perfectly. I'm sorry if you have an eye problem – have you been to the doctor? 😉
August 23, 2010 at 3:39 am
The N8 looks great. The UI, fonts and amoled screen make a good first impression. I am starting to dig the widget homescreen.
August 23, 2010 at 5:05 am
"angry birds" you said… Its the best game between all games i have in my iphone… i enjoy angry birds more than any other game like Splinter cell conviction, avatar, princ of persia, assassins creed, NFS shift, Asphalt 5, metal gear solid, modern combat, ray man 2 and alot alot of games……. i hope nokia n8 will get all these games too..))
August 23, 2010 at 2:11 pm
i dont see why not games like that were available for older nokia handsets
although id like snes psp emulators instead (like we've seen on the N900)
August 23, 2010 at 5:57 am
I think, the user here was more casual in using the phone, hence not registering the taps properly or may be he is used to some other phones, who are more sensitive than N8.
But i think, Nokia has done this purposely, i.e it is a feature and not a bug. Why?
So that you any slight accidental slight touch doesn't get registered as an input,(even though it is cap. screen), but you have to touch little prominently to register the input vs. an accidental input.
It makes sense to me. Question is whether others think like Nokia or not and how the online blogs manipulate people's mind by their reviews and short-sighted comments.
August 23, 2010 at 8:23 am
Hary: It makes sense to me too. Nice to see that some people still use their brain in this part of the universe, it's rare at these bloggy days. 🙂
It would be interesting if they programmed a phone that reacted on the slightest touch and let people try it out. Now that would be pure education. 😀
In my opinion too many people have tools to communicate nowadays.
August 23, 2010 at 8:57 am
Ya, but this is still our speculation. If Nokia really has designed it like that, then i think they should
educate people on that with some good videos on how to use the touchscreen and what to expect and what not to expect. If i was Nokia, i would do it asap before bloggers/others get a hand to the phone and start bashing this.
August 23, 2010 at 2:13 pm
or maybe its in the settings so you can adjust the time it takes to register (if it is a feature)
August 24, 2010 at 2:44 am
I don't think there should be so many settings required. Yes, there might be sensitivity settings like in current S60v5, but i would not have any settings to set time it takes to register. I am confident, Nokia would not do such a mistake.
August 23, 2010 at 8:37 am
I'm optimistic about this product,I have a feeling that it will be a good phone, one to remember.
August 23, 2010 at 9:49 am
I just watched the video. Jesus christ, what's up with this dude and his unsure wiggling with the thumb?? Can't people see that sometimes he's intention is not even to scroll the screen? He just wiggles his thumb because his unsure or he got somekind of cramp. =)) Just watch the video again and follow his thumb movement.
August 23, 2010 at 9:56 am
He just doesn't seem like a very experienced touchscreen user, he's so careful with the touching so I understand that the phone won't react. I get the same effect with my htc hero sometimes when I use it but then I realise it was my own fault for beeing too uncertain with the push.
August 23, 2010 at 2:14 pm
im not really in the know about home screens so how many home screens do other handsets have if 3 isn't as many?
August 23, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Swipe Keyboard is coming for the Nokia N8.
August 23, 2010 at 4:48 pm
That's great! Can't wait for them to announce multi-touch for keyboard typing. Also hopefully we'll able to get custom 3rd party keyboards on the market. Not that i don't like the original one but it would be nice to have a variety of keyboards to choose from =)
August 24, 2010 at 9:28 am
I've got an N8 camera question that i don't where i could pose it so ill place it here ^^
couldnt nokia make the camera record at 1080p? just to win spec #s even if it wouldn't be a significant improvement?
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I have seen these creatures walking about the pool of Camporsevoli but never thought I would find them swimming IN the pool. I woke up early on Saturday Morning and went for an early swim in the grand pool of Camporsevoli. It was so peaceful and worth waking up for. As I was doing some side stroke laps, I notices these two little guys hanging on for dear life and katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-63864944317882217152007-07-24T09:48:00.000-05:002007-07-24T10:27:29.493-05:00Winding down...I leave on Thursday morning for the country again. I will be happy to out of Firenze for awhile. I am getting sick of the same old scene I see day in and day out. The girls are great and I am glad it will be awhile until I get to be back in Florence alone again. I need to get away. I spent the day with Maria and Emma(her cugina). Carolina is still with Nonna Elvira and her other cugine, katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-2985005625221939872007-07-20T03:46:00.000-05:002007-07-20T03:49:14.834-05:00Correction!Thanks to my friend Tina, who is apparently better with counting than I am, I have actually been 6mos already. I will have lived here for 7 months altogether. CRAZY HUH???!! Thanks again Tina!!!katerinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-65773249106804572432007-07-18T05:28:00.000-05:002007-07-19T04:50:04.641-05:00I'm Ready for the Beach...I have been working with the girls for the past 3 days. I am beat. I am off now for 4 days total and I am enjoying it. It is hella hot but I am dealing with it as I usually do. I just except the fact that I will be sweating all day and I can't do anything about it.I have been trying to reflect a little here and there on my adventure as it is winding down. Very little because if I think too katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-69712379850172467762007-07-07T07:10:00.000-05:002007-07-08T08:46:26.832-05:00Italy and meI have been constantly thinking about family these past few weeks. It makes me me wonder why I keep leaving them.Italy has made me who I am today, has made me conquer feats I never thought of achieving. A place where I meet people all over the world, old and new, come in and out of my life while I am living here. I find that even if you get annoyed with your parents, family, you will katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-76773972108515417662007-07-03T06:56:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:37.499-06:00Many BlessingsMy friend Joan (above) has arrived in Firenze, this time while I am here as well. Italia is how we connected originally back in 2002. It is great to have her here and show her all the places that connect us.Yesterday I have Maria all to myself for the afternoon. She is so cute and sweet....my buddy. I am trying desperately to add these videos I took but it is taking so long on Youtube.....I will katerinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-19259715389559391632007-06-25T04:37:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:37.652-06:00The Hotness continues...I am lucky to have the pool of Elena and Pifi at my beck and call. Alas even when I am in the pool these days it is like bath water. So not as refreshing as I hoped. But still I wouldn't give that option away for a second.These days it seems people have been on edge, perhaps because of the heat. I found out yesterday that Franco, the backbone of Lorenzaccio, passed away on Friday. He had katerinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-72750485292464471682007-06-20T08:17:00.001-05:002008-12-11T15:24:38.074-06:00Yet another cut...quite a bitHere are the flowers I bought when my Mom was here. They are blooming strong in the Florentine sun. Just like me I am pressing on and enjoying this adventure I call MY LIFE.Eccomi....A bit shorty short short...ehh it grows back....I am happy with it. Different and Chic!! It feels great, a change, change that I like. It makes me look skinnier. Always a plus. Maria was a little afraid it katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-87757154005238691172007-06-18T05:24:00.000-05:002007-06-18T06:54:37.389-05:00Enjoying the MomentThis weekend we bid farewell to our friend Lauren who went back to Texas for a few months. She will be returning in and around August to start school again. Although it was a rather emotional ride of a weekend, I was able to enjoy it with friends. On Friday I headed to Venezia for the Heineken Jammin' Festival to see Pearl Jam, The Killers...and many more. On my way there I am looking out the katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-27024169147851578382007-06-13T16:11:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:38.788-06:00The Women in my lifeI have met incredible, strong, fearless women since this journey began. I have yet to talk about all of the above strong, fearless women in my life. So I thought I should give you all some insight on these acquaintances, long-term friends, connections at first sight, bosses, and teachers.I would like to start with the most recent encounter I had with Melinda, from Living in Florence. She and Ikaterinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-78588445292209789682007-06-10T06:41:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:39.209-06:00Crazy imagesHere is my brother with a pope. They got to talking and then headed to a bar outside the Vatican Museum. It was friend at first sight...Here is my brother after me driving my INCREDIBLE driving to Montalcino...He never screamed once. I love him.Here is where you have to park when you pick up your children after a school performance...Can you get out of that pickle???katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-82781170717983975702007-06-04T04:59:00.000-05:002007-06-05T08:49:07.589-05:00Thoughts that keep you up...I was in San Casciano this weekend with the fam. It was a rather hectic weekend but I felt I accomplished a lot for V and the other English family that was visiting V and G. It has become more and more homey when I am with them. V definitely has changed her attitude towards me since my parents came. I'm glad it was a success!Do you ever think of people that you could have been nicer to back katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-32705947564347587042007-05-30T02:52:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:39.407-06:00Mighty Kites! Forte Dei Marmi and some Englaaashhh...My parents and my brother are departing Italia as of 1:50pm from Roma. It was a fabulous vacation with my family. They got to meet most if not all of my friends except Simo and Paolo from Joshua. All of them were kind and sweet to my family. Even debbie downer...I noticed being on this vacation with my parents and my brother, that I LOVE them dearly obviously, but I think I might(if I can katerinafiorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-19538823499558322312007-05-17T07:00:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:40.027-06:00MagicBabyet!!!Check this group out!!In true fashion, I am going to introduce all my blogging friends, friends back home, and family to amica mia, Francesca and her fabulous band, MagicBabyet.here is the link to their myspace music page: MagicBabyet MySpace MusicAlso this is their website, it is still under construction at the moment: MagicBabyetOn this site, you can hear her piercing, sexy voice and kick ass sound. She sings in katerinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-33868410251531622012007-05-14T05:30:00.000-05:002007-05-14T05:38:53.669-05:00My Hot TopicThese days have been extremely warm. Suitable weather for when my parents arrive this Friday. I have also been going to school for the past week trying to absorb as much italian and conversation as possible. And of course, I have been with the girls a lot as well. I have been enjoying the company of my friend Daniella at the seaside, as well as eating and drinking in Piazza Signoria. More andkaterinafiorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29494734.post-8708849979694695232007-04-30T09:59:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:24:40.178-06:00Rainy DayToday I felt like a kid jumping in the puddles on this rainy day. All of a sudden in the centro of Firenze it started pouring. Good thing I was inside Michael Collins having a beer and a grand ole chicken sandwich. Even though it was raining, and the fact I had to ride my bike home in the pouring rain, I was having a a great time. I was splashing thru puddles and found myself giggling out katerinafiorehttp://email@example.com


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Black Leather 41cm (16.5") Wild Hearts Double Wrap Bracelet
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When global warming skeptics use the unchanged global air temperature from the past decade to argue that Earth is not warming, this illustrates several misunderstandings, reports Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science. About 90% of the solar heat trapped by the atmosphere gets absorbed by all levels of the oceans, which cover most of the planet. Because many other factors influence surface air temperatures on short timescales, these data are noisy, and so it's easy to cherrypick temporary flat periods, like the past decade, to wrongly claim that global warming has stopped. Most ocean heat accumulation occurs close to the surface. The best ocean heat measurements are for the 0–700 meter layer, which accounts for over 60 percent of overall global warming, with the last 30% stored in deeper layers. While heat accumulation in the top 700 meters has slowed in recent years, it has accelerated in the deeper700–2,000 meter oceanic layer. NOAA data show that overall, the oceans have accumulated more heat in the past 15 years than the previous 15 years. And it's that extra surface heat that makes bad storms, like Hurricane Sandy, even worse.
Join the swelling numbers of voters TELLING Congress they'll vote for Clean Energy candidates here: http://signon.org/sign/we-are-the-clean-99?source=c.em.cp&r_by=487176 . This is an ongoing campaign (the next Congressional election is in 2 years!) so please, spread the word. It's our way of telling Congress that a strong clean energy voting bloc is out there. This is how YOU can make a difference.
Cherrypicking to Deny Continued Ocean and Global Warming by Dana Nuccitelli, originally published here, at Skeptical Science: http://www.skepticalscience.com/cherrypicking-deny-continued-ocean-global-warming.html


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Comedy and errors with Khanyisa Bhunu
by: Lerato Motsiri - 31 August 2017
It has been eight years since Khanyisa Bunu ditched the blackboard and chalk for a life on stage delivering comedic punchlines and laughter. We caught up with the teacher turned comedian and actress at DRUMBeat Festival to see what has been going on in her life since making the big move. It's hard to miss...Read more
Here's the vinegar ad you've been asking for
by: Live Staff - 3 April 2017
In the past few months, you may have seen some tweets and Facebook posts questioning why we've never seen a vinegar ad. Crazy, right? Well, you can finally die in peace now. Filmmaker Ofentse Mwase (aka Uncle Scrooch) collaborated with popular internet vloggers Fash Ngobese and TaFire and production house, Tribal Media House. We won't...Read more
What Joe Mafela's legacy means to me as a "born free"
by: Carlos Ncube - 20 March 2017
My first memory of Joe Mafela is that of him playing S'dumo, particularly the fact that he used to recycle teabags. His tendency to do this made him a running joke in my family. We'd always say we'd do the same if we fall on hard times. The news of his death this week really...Read more
Okay Wasabi makes viral parodies of your favourite rap songs, and the Internet loves him
by: Athenkosi Guntu - 16 February 2017
George Mnguni (24), known online as Okay Wasabi, hopes to become a comedian in the future, and get into TV, having a show similar to the Pure Monate Show. But for now, he has the Internet eating out of the palm of his hand, with his viral parody videos. His parody of DJ City Lyts's...Read more
Some vital advice for first-years from two of SA's top vloggers
by: Sabelo Mkhabela - 26 January 2017
University is a strange place for a first-year, and completely different to high school. Popular YouTube vlogger Sibu Mpanza recently teamed up with fellow vlogger and founder of the YouTube series Broke Niggaz, Menzi Anarchadium, to give some advice to first-years. Some of his tips include, "Don't allow anyone to bully you in varsity" and...Read more
Mark Fitzgibbon is a vlogger who's adding "Cape humour" to YouTube
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Totally in his comfort zone at the UCT Radio office, Mark Fitzgibbon reclines in his chair and humorously explains how busy and chaotic most of his days are. He's currently juggling his postgraduate science degree, with being a radio personality and a Youtube sensation. Mark Fitzgibbon has become a hit online and in Cape Town...Read more
#VIPYouthFest – Laz Gola
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Comedian Laz Gola, one of the performers at the LiveSA #VIPYouthFest talks politics ahead of his performance at the fest. video by Bans ProductionRead more
Proverbial Funny Man or Political Commentator?
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by KAY TATYANA SELISHO People hear the word debate and everything immediately gets serious and staunch and then Deep Fried Man comes along and turns the Live VIP debate into something completely different. I, for one, had no idea what to expect until he got up, guitar in tow, and taught us our ANC's (read:...Read more
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National Arts Festival Review (July, Grahamstown)
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Do you see it? Dark rings around the eyes, big blonde hair, and a glittery jacket with…(shudder) shoulder pads. The 80s are back! Run for your lives!
It's not a bad look, except for those damn pads. Pads have no place in a woman's wardrobe, unless she's going to bleed on them.
I also took a look at a recent Vogue magazine while getting my hair cut. The article in the back, where they get away from couture and into stuff people in "the midwest" are supposed to wear showed a gal in a little cotton top and shorts, and said something like, "Faded florals and ticking stripes for under $500. We're charmed!" In this economy, I'm surprised the editor isn't being burned in effigy.


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Published on : Friday, September 1, 2017
Uzbekistan and the UNWTO had discussed the plans for cooperation in tourism, with a view to promote Uzbekistan in the international tourism market.
Samarkand hosted the meeting of the Chairman of the State Tourism Committee Aziz Abdukhakimov and Secretary-General of the UNWTO Dr. Taleb Rifai, according to the information published on the official website of Uzbek Foreign Ministry.
This visit perfectly harmonized with the international festival "Shark Taronalari," and became a convenient platform for mutual exchange of opinions and experiences about the development of tourism in Uzbekistan.
During the meeting, long-term plans for cooperation with UNWTO, on promoting Uzbekistan in the international market as a recognizable tourism destination, were discussed.
Also, development of the country's tourist brand and plans for marketing the country's entrance in the highly liquid tourism markets, China, Russia, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia in particular were discussed.
An agreement, to facilitate the training of personnel in tourism sphere, in particular the hotel business, was also done.
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There is no quality control on this bitch anymore because I pretty much post anything.
But I like talking to Daniel. And then I like posting our conversations.
Me: Daniel. be honest. you promise?
Daniel: about? being honest
Me: do you think i have a stalker?!
Daniel: do you want one
Me: no. i think there is a reasonable explanation. but it would be nice wouldn't it
Daniel: no. no. are you insane? do you not watch movies or read the news?
Me: right. i mean, that's creepy then
Daniel: have you ever heard of a story that ended well with a stalker involved?
Me: hmm. no.
Daniel: ok. so why would you want one
Me: should i be scared then?!
Daniel: no
Me: i want to know who left the damn cookies
Daniel: you shouldn't eat the food
Me: i wont. Duh. im not that dumb
Daniel: plus it knows you are jewish. it got you a jewish gift bag
Me: yeah i noticed that. its purim today
Daniel: yes
Me: maybe it was the jew boys who visit me on fridays
Daniel: ask him and what jewish boy?
Me:: he comes on shabbas and when im home, i let him talk to me. he wants to save me.
Daniel: wow. ok thats not weird
Me: they always walk around the buildings giving out literature
Daniel: so you think a jewish boy walked on purim to your building and waited for someone to let him in and then left it and walked home?
Me: no. maybe he left it for others too. i dont kow. it was just a suggestion. sheesh!
Daniel: its purim. he cant ring the bell. he cant buy things
Me: oh. maybe he bought it last week. and maybe he waited for someone to open the door.
Daniel: right
Me: isn't that better than a stalker
Daniel: very likely. yes
Me: i was just throwing ideas out. stop yelling at me with your sarcasm
Daniel: im not yelling. Maybe. a little yelling
Me: this is like the time you mocked me and my monkey disease
Daniel: but im actually worried now. i thought you wrote that as a gag like your mom or dad gave you that. like grandmas buy those
Me: i dont just make things up
Daniel: well i thought you did cause not everyone has a stalker
Me: now im worried. should i hire security
Daniel: no. it hasn't exposed itself to you yet. it will first try to meet you and when you are repulsed it will turn to evil
Me: really?
Daniel: well probably
Me: well good then
Daniel: you can't get a restraining order against a person you don't even know.
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Memories of My Grandmother
I was sitting opposite a woman on the train today who smelled like my grandma. I assume she had the same perfume that my grandma used to wear. I never knew what it was, but she smelled of it, her flat smelled of it, her clothes smelled of it. Even after she died, that smell lingered in the empty flat.
She's been dead ten years now, my grandmother. I guess I don't think of her as often as I should. Suddenly, with that smell, a smell I haven't encountered since she died, all these memories came back. I remember her face. Soft skin lined with many wrinkles (when I was a child I called them 'crinkles'). Her hair was thinning – she wore it dyed reddish brown, short and curly. She went to bed every night with it adorned with curlers like Hilda Ogden. She had bad feet – swollen and bunion-ridden. She had bad legs – riddled with varicous veins. She had dentures that didn't fit properly, and she would make an inadvertent whistling noise with any word that contained the letter 'S' (including of course my name).
She always seemed old to me, as I suppose most people regard their grandparents. Yet in spite of that she was full of boundless energy, running around with me and my sister when we were children, even after our parents were worn out.
I sometimes regret the fact I didn't always have time to listen to her stories. I regret the fact that at times I thought she drove me crazy. She didn't live long enough to see any of her grandchildren get married, or to meet any of her great-grandchildren (she had five granddaughters, including me, and three of the others have kids now).
But it's strange that I haven't thought of her in a long time, and suddenly all these memories come to the surface, all because of a perfume a stranger on the train was wearing. I have heard it said that the sense of smell is the most powerful sensory trigger for memory. I think perhaps this must be true.


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The Budget 2010 lock-up for media and economic and financial analysts will be held on Thursday 20 May from 10.30am at the Banquet Hall in Parliament Buildings.
Documents will be available from 10.30am and Treasury officials will also be available from that time to answer technical questions arising from any of the Budget documents.
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If you would like to access the Banquet Hall prior to 10.30am in order to set up equipment, Treasury officials will permit access from 10.00am for that purpose.
Two Auckland-based media organisations, Television New Zealand and the National Business Review, have requested that the Treasury provide access to Budget 2010 documents under embargo conditions. In response to this request, provision has been made for up to 20 media representatives to attend a secure lock-up to be held at TVNZ studios in Victoria St West. There will be no Treasury officials at the Auckland lock-up authorised to answer technical questions and no Ministerial representatives, although two Treasury staff will attend to help administer security around the event.
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Ratings Downgrade? SoftBank's Son Can Sleep Easy
If ever there was a company that needn't worry about a credit-rating downgrade it would be a junk-scored Japanese one.
Enter SoftBank.
After increasing its total debt sixfold in five years, the owner of stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo is nearing a level that could prompt Moody's to lower it deeper into speculative territory from its current Ba1 standing, Bloomberg News reported Monday. Founder Masayoshi Son is unlikely to lose much sleep.
For starters, markets have already effectively downgraded SoftBank's debt. Implied yields on SoftBank's 10-year notes have risen 54 basis points over the past 12 months, even as the return on similar maturity Japanese government bonds fell 41 basis points and Treasuries dropped 52 basis points.
That increase in borrowing costs is also greater than what companies usually pay when they move to Ba2 from Ba1. The average difference in global spread between those two levels for outstanding 10-year debt is currently seven basis points. Of course, for a company that's about to add to an existing $120 billion debt pile via a $32 billion acquisition, every basis point counts. But sometimes it's even cheaper for Ba2-rated companies to raise money than it is for Ba1 ones:
SoftBank also has the benefit of geography. In Japan, where interest rates are negative and there are very few high-yield issuers, capital markets will probably continue to welcome the company with open arms.
Finally, ratings firms are notoriously slow moving. Moody's has a stable outlook for SoftBank and would typically have to first revise that to negative before any downgrade. It also takes about 18 months to review a company's credit score. By that point, Son could easily have sold some assets and reduced debt.
SoftBank's deteriorating creditworthiness may be making headlines but it's unlikely to keep Son from a good night's sleep.
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