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Post n°24 pubblicato il 18 Febbraio 2011 da ufeiqcmydt
Tag: sisma LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Directors F. Gary Gray and Jon M. Chu are looking like the hot candidates to direct Paramount Pictures' "G.I. Joe" sequel. The franchise follow-up is a high-priority project for the studio, which hopes to have production underway by June for a 2012 release. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has met with a number of directors in recent days, including Gray, Chu and "Unknown" director Jaume Collet-Serra. Paramount execs will commence their talks this week. Chu, of course, is no stranger on the studio lot, having directed "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," which opened to $29.5 million last weekend. Before that, he directed two installments in Disney's "Step Up" dance franchise. For that matter, neither is Gray, who directed "The Italian Job" for Paramount to $168 million worldwide in 2003. He was last in theaters with the 2009 action thriller "Law Abiding Citizen." Released in August 2009, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" grossed $150.2 million domestically and $152.3 million internationally for a total of $302.5 million worldwide. "Cobra" was directed by Stephen Sommers, who previously announced he wouldn't be returning to the franchise. (Editing by Zorianna Kit) I Miss You .Innovation in Contemporary Japanese Composition .Superbad .Another Chance (remixes) .Ocotober promo
Post n°23 pubblicato il 16 Febbraio 2011 da ufeiqcmydt
Tag: america WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. farm and business groups on Monday said they were stepping up efforts to win congressional approval of long-delayed free trade pacts with Colombia and Panama in the next five to six months. Bill Lane, Washington director of governmental relations for Caterpillar, told reporters he was increasingly optimistic Congress would approve the two deals, and a third pact with South Korea that President Barack Obama already plans to send to Congress. "It think all three will be done before the summer recess, will be enacted," Lane said at a briefing on a trip a U.S. business delegation is making to Panama and Colombia this week to highlight business opportunities of the pacts. The delegation also includes representatives from Citibank, General Electric, IBM, Wal-Mart and the National Pork Producers Council. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told Congress last week that President Barack Obama had directed him to intensify talks to resolve problems with the Colombia and Panama pacts, which were signed in November 2006 and June 2007, respectively. In the case of Colombia, that requires addressing strong Democratic party concerns about killings of Colombian labor leaders and the failure of the Colombian government to prosecute many of those responsible for the crimes. A USTR team is traveling to Colombia this week to gather the latest information on that situation. Colombia says its overall murder rate fell 45 percent between 2002 and 2009 as the government regained control of territory previously controlled by illegally armed groups and criminal organizations. Killings of union members also fell from 196 in 2002 to 28 in 2009, the Colombian government says. Meanwhile, a coalition of U.S. farm and food organizations on Monday wrote Obama to urged him to finalize the Colombia and Panama agreements. "Four years of trade benefits for U.S. farmers, ranchers and food processors have now been forfeited by our inaction on these agreements, and competitor countries have taken advantage of this lapse to grab U.S. market shares," the coalition said. "It is time to bring this situation to an end." U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk met last week with Panama Vice President Juan Carlos Varela to discuss that pending bilateral agreement. The United States wants Panama to make additional labor reforms and implement a tax information exchange agreement the two countries signed last year. (Reporting by Doug Palmer; Editing by Eric Walsh) Chocolate Blanco .Resent and the April Sunshine Shed .(of Madness) .Ragga DJs volume1 .Global DJ Broadcast (23 march 2007)
Post n°22 pubblicato il 16 Febbraio 2011 da ufeiqcmydt
Tag: myself and i As Egyptians , CNN's Wolf Blitzer : "First Tunisia, now Egypt, what's next? " Ghonim, aof the country's democratic uprising against Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime, replied with two words: "Ask Facebook." "I want to meet [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg one day and thank him, actually," Ghonim said. Dictators are toppled by people, not by media platforms. But Egyptian activists, especially the young, clearly harnessed the power and potential of social media, leading to the mass mobilizations in Tahrir Square and throughout Egypt. The Mubarak regime recognized early on that social media could loosen its grip on power. The government beganbeforetwo days later. In addition to organizing,to share information and videos. Many of these digital offerings made the rounds online but were laterand news outlets around the world. "This revolution started online," Ghonim told Blitzer. "This revolution started on Facebook." Egypt's uprising . In each case, protestors employed social media to help oust an authoritarian government--a role . But there was no revolution in Iran, as President Ahmadinejad cracked down brutally on protesters. While "Twitter Revolution" might have made for snappy headlines, social media alone wasn't enought to topple a strongman. For a social media to work, it still needed a deliberate mobilization of activists on the ground. So the "Twitter Revolution" talk proved premature and led to some backlash. Evgeny Morozov writes in his new book,that only a small minority of Iranians were actually Twitter users. Presumably, many tweeting about revolution were doing so far from the streets of Tehran. "Iran's Twitter Revolution revealed the intense Western longing for a world where information technology is the liberator rather than the oppressor," Morozov wrote,In his book, Morozov writes how authoritarian regimes can use the Internet and social media to oppress people rather than such platforms only working the other way around The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, in a much-talked-about piece in October, wrote how the It's true that tweeting alone--especially from safe environs in the West--will not cause a revolution in the Middle East. But as Egypt and Tunisia have proven, social media tools can play a significant role as as activists battle authoritarian regimes, particularly given the tight control dictators typically wield over the official media. Tomorrow's revolution, as Ghonim would likely attest, may be taking shape on Facebook today. (Photo of Egyptians in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on Feb. 11, 2011: AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill. Photo taken by NBC correspondent Richard Engel and uploaded via Twitter) A Horrible Week in a Frame Without Perspective .Hazui .We Can not Get Enough .Musique ET Cinema Du Monde - Europe de Lest .Nothing Goin on
Post n°21 pubblicato il 08 Febbraio 2011 da ufeiqcmydt
Tag: war of ages SAN JOSE, California (AFP) – Fifth-seeded Denis Istomin and number seven Lleyton Hewitt reached the second round of the ATP Tour SAP Open with straight-set victories. Uzbekistan's Istomin on Monday snapped a three-match losing streak with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over ATP tour newcomer Roman Borvanov of Moldova. Istomin reached the semi-finals in his San Jose debut last year, falling to eventual champion Fernando Verdasco. Australia's Hewitt advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Germany's Bjorn Phau. Former world number four James Blake opened his 2011 campaign with a victory, downing qualifier Jesse Levine 7-5, 6-1. Levine took the first break to go up 5-4, but managed to win just one more game the remainder of the match as Blake converted four of his 11 break point chances. Blake, who fell out of the top 100 after battling knee and shoulder injuries last season, said he hoped the problems were behind him. "The main goal right now is to stay healthy and to keep doing everything I need to to keep the body right and then go out there and see how I can perform if I?m healthy," he said. In other matches, American Donald Young defeated German Dustin Brown 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, Michael Russell edged fellow American Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-2, and wild card Tim Smyczek defeated Colombian Robert Farah 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. The opening night of the tournament featured an exhibition match in which France's Gael Monfils defeated 14-time Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras 7-6 (7/4), 6-4. Monfils emerged the winner in a lighthearted contest, taking a camera from a photographer to snap Sampras at one point. Sampras, 39, was appearing in an exhibition here for the fourth straight year. He displayed his serve-and-volley skills while bantering with the crowd. "Physically, that's the most I've served and volleyed in the last seven years," Sampras said. "Not easy. Gael is a great mover, returns well and made me work really hard on my service game. All in all, I'm very happy with the way I played." This exhibition marked Monfils' debut at the San Jose tournament. He will no doubt be hoping his first appearance will follow the pattern of Verdasco's last season, when the Spaniard followed up an exhibition win over Sampras by winning the title. Materia .Special K . Donnie Darko (Soundtrack and Score) .Status Enquiry .Hungry Days
Post n°20 pubblicato il 08 Febbraio 2011 da ufeiqcmydt
Tag: giocatori TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp reported a 47.6 percent drop in quarterly profit, hit by slumping Japanese car sales and a firm yen that underlined its exposure to loss-making exports, but lifted its forecast as cost cuts kicked in. Domestic rival Nissan Motor Co is seen suffering a drop in October-December profits and Honda Motor Co has already posted weaker results for the period. But the decline at Toyota is set to be the deepest given its heavier exposure both to unprofitable exports from Japan and to the shrinking Japanese market. "Compared with other Japanese automakers, Toyota has greater exposure to the domestic market and therefore is more subject to the negative impact of the country's slow economic growth," said Kazuyuki Terao, chief investment officer at RCM Japan. "(The revised outlook) is slightly above the market consensus, but since the company had been widely expected to raise its forecast, it's no surprise." Toyota exported more than half of its Japan-made vehicles last year, making a loss on many of them with the dollar well below the rate of 90 yen that President Akio Toyoda has said is the minimum to keep Japan's manufacturing sector competitive. GLOBAL SALES FORECAST For the full year to March 31, the world's biggest automaker lifted its forecast for annual operating profit to 550 billion yen ($6.68 billion) from a cautious 380 billion yen, after profits for the first nine months exceeded that figure. A survey of 23 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S forecast annual operating profit of 489 billion yen for Toyota, trailing expected earnings at smaller rivals Nissan Motor Co and Honda Motor Co. The carmaker also nudged up its global sales forecast to 7.48 million vehicles from 7.41 million, with domestic sales expected to reach 2.02 million vehicles compared with an earlier prediction of 1.99 million. It kept its U.S. forecasts unchanged at 2.09 million units Toyota's October-December operating profit was 99.07 billion yen, down from 189.1 billion yen in the same period a year earlier, while net profit fell 38.9 percent to 93.63 billion yen. Wide-ranging estimates from nine analysts surveyed by Reuters put Toyota's third-quarter operating profit at an average 70.6 billion yen. Profits made in China are not counted on the operating level at Toyota, which reports under U.S. accounting rules. Toyota, which stayed ahead of General Motors Co as the world's biggest automaker by a thinner margin last year, built 3.28 million vehicles in Japan last year, compared with 992,000 for Honda and 1.13 million for Nissan. Toyota shares have risen 18 percent in the past three months versus a 13 percent gain in Tokyo's broad TOPIX index. Honda gained 22 percent and Nissan rose 13 percent. Before the results were announced on Tuesday, Toyota ended trading unchanged from the previous day at 3,490 yen, while the TOPIX gained 0.4 percent. ($1=82.32 Yen) (Editing by Anshuman Daga and Edmund Klamann) Little Lies part 2 .Last Rights .Glaurung .BTTB radio mix N-093 (Jul 13) .Alternative Times volume 27
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