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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
easyJet to Start London Gatwick ? Bucharest Service from mid-October 2013
Posted 09 July 2013 12:20
Update at 0840GMT 09JUL13
easyJet from 17OCT13 is introducing London Gatwick ? Bucharest operation, where the low-cost carrier will offer 4 weekly flights. Planned operational schedule from 27OCT13 as follow.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
USA: Blockhouse - Fort Simcoe State Park, Washington
In the 1850's, conflicts arose between the Indians and the newly arrived American and European miners and settlers. In response to these problems, the Army built Fort SImcoe on this site approximately 35 miles southwest of the city of Yakima, Washington. Construction began in 1856, and the fort served as an advanced post of the Ninth Infantry Regiment until 1859 when it was turned over to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indian Agency provided services to the Reservation Indians from reading and writing to trade skills. During this period some of the fort buildings were removed while other agency structures were constructed. In 1923 the Indian Agency moved to Toppenish and although the fort was abandoned, efforts soon began to preserve it. Restoration projects by an Indian Civilian Conservation Corps crew in the 1930's saved some of the fort structures. In 1953, the land was leased to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission from the Yakima Nation.
This panorama was taken in USA
This is an overview of USA
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Obama sees no threat in China rivalry for Africa business
By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal
PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday.
Suggestions that he has allowed China to steal a march over the United States in doing business with Africa have dogged Obama's three-nation swing through the continent, but he said the increased Chinese engagement was beneficial for all.
"I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa.
The more countries invest in Africa, the more the world's least developed continent can be integrated into the global economy, the first African-American U.S. president said.
"I want everybody playing in Africa. The more the merrier."
China has greatly expanded its reach in Africa since the start of the new century. It overtook the United States as Africa's largest trading partner in 2009, a February report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed.
China's advantage in trade stems mostly from how much it sells to Africa. Chinese exports to the continent in 2011 were almost triple the level of U.S. exports.
When it comes to investment flows, however, the picture is different. Data for 2007-2011 suggest U.S. foreign investment flows to the region were larger than China's, the GAO said.
"China's role as an investor, aid donor and financier is not outsized," Johns Hopkins University China scholar Deborah Brautigam wrote recently.
"Although Western countries fret about China's growing role in Africa, the United States alone disbursed more official finance to African countries than China did in 2010."
Still, China's influence looms large over the continent, partly because it has been so aggressive in its courtship.
Beijing and Washington should be partners in Africa to foster development and peace, said an official Chinese commentary after Obama's made his remarks.
Obama's stops in South Africa and Tanzania mirror a visit in March by then newly named Chinese President Xi Jinping, which could be seen as rivalry between the two superpowers on the African continent, state-run news agency Xinhua said.
"This mentality belongs to the past. It results from the West's biased perception of China's role in Africa," Xinhua said. "It also misses the bigger picture in which Beijing and Washington, instead of being competitors undermining each other's efforts, can actually work as partners in promoting Africa's development."
RESTING ON ITS LAURELS?
Obama's visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania will bring to four the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa that the U.S. president has visited in the last four years. He stopped briefly in Ghana in his first term.
In contrast, Chinese presidents and vice presidents have visited 30 African countries over the same period, said Mwangi Kimenyi, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
There is also a sense that the United States may be resting on its laurels.
"There hasn't really been a presence of U.S. companies since 1994, taking advantage of the new opportunities," Haroon Bhorat, a professor at the University of Cape Town said recently, speaking of South Africa.
"So, you've seen new emerging markets entering into other emerging markets like South Africa and taking advantage of economic opportunities in a way where the U.S., already with a foothold, arguably hasn't done enough."
Obama's aides have argued that he has had two wars and a deep economic crisis to deal with since he took office in 2009.
Obama has also said that U.S. interactions with Africa have included goals of social and political development, unlike those of China, which he said were more narrowly focused on commercial benefits.
"A lot of people are pleased that China is involved in Africa," he told reporters travelling with him on Friday.
"On the other hand, they recognize that China's primary interest is being able to obtain access for natural resources in Africa to feed the manufacturers in export-driven policies of the Chinese economy."
That relationship makes Africa an exporter of raw materials but does not create jobs in Africa and is not a sustainable model over the long-term, he added.
In Pretoria on Saturday, Obama urged African nations to be tougher negotiators in accepting investments from abroad.
"You produce the raw materials, sold cheap and then all the way up the chain somebody else is making the money and creating the jobs and the value," he said.
"Make sure that whoever you're dealing with ... you're getting a good deal that's benefiting the people here and that can help to spur on broad-based development."
(Additional reporting by Terrill Yue Jones in Beijing, Writing by Pascal Fletcher and Mark Felsenthal, Editing by Gareth Jones and Michael Perry)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sees-no-threat-china-rivalry-africa-business-031602563.html
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TheGrill: Was 'Iron Man 3' a Movie or a Treaty With China?
By Lucas Shaw
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Iron Man 3" has made more money in China than any other U.S. production this year, grossing more than $125 million at the box office to-date. That's almost double what "Man of Steel," which opened to $117 million in the U.S., is on track to make.
So what was the secret?
Chris Fenton, president of the movie's co-financier and co-producer DMG Entertainment, credited pressing the right levers with the Chinese film commission.
"'Iron Man 3' was as much an act of diplomacy as a movie or a piece of business," Fenton said Friday during a keynote speech at TheWrap's TheGrill @Locations Conference.
DMG is one the top companies producing movies in China, partnering with Hollywood studios and production companies to secure release for its movies in the world's second-biggest market.
That means consulting with Chinese officials in advance, casting Chinese actors and, in the case of "Iron Man 3," releasing a different version of the movie in that country.
"As a conglomerate of partners, we decided let's do what's for the best of the movie around world, but put in extra bonus footage for the Chinese to say, ?Hey look, this stuff was great but didn't perfectly fit into what we were trying to get in there - but it was too good not to use,'" Fenton said.
Yet Fenton emphasized there is no universal solution. Every film requires a different approach, which is where DMG's background in advertising and marketing proved vital.
Selling the Chinese on "Twilight" required looking at the success of movies like "Titanic" and playing up the Romeo and Juliet nature of the love story. With "Resident Evil 4," DMG pointed to the volume of pirated DVDs sold from earlier movies in the franchise.
When it came to "Looper," Rian Johnson's time travel thriller, DMG suggested a much bigger alteration, pushing Johnson and his producers to change a major part of the movie. The future was going to take place in France. DMG suggested changing that to China.
While the producers were initially wary, the suggestion paid off when they began to show tests of the movie.
One of the crowds' favorite lines came when Jeff Daniels advised Joseph Gordon-Levitt not to move to France.
"He says, ?I'm from the future, you don't wanna go to France you wanna go to China.' It was great to see that test well," Fenton said.
While most in the United States view the Chinese as being repressive and restrictive in limiting what movies can play -- and what they say - Fenton argued there was nothing unique about China's behavior.
"If the roles were reversed, the U.S. would be using the leverage they have," Fenton said. "You see it every day with different trade issues - tires, chicken meat, auto parts - all kinds of little trade imbalances. They do like western movies, but they also give an edge to its own industry so it can get on solid footing."
Yet, as with everything, there are limits.
"We're not telling Marvel to call Captain China."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thegrill-iron-man-3-movie-treaty-china-000639050.html
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
AP PHOTOS: The career of James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his indelible role as mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's "The Sopranos," died while on vacation in Italy at age 51. While Tony Soprano was a larger-than-life figure, Gandolfini was exceptionally modest and obsessive ? he described himself as "a 260-pound Woody Allen." HBO called the actor a "special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone, no matter their title or position, with equal respect."
Gandolfini's performance in "The Sopranos" was career-making, but he worked steadily in film and on stage after the series ended. He earned a 2009 Tony Award nomination for his role in the celebrated production of "God of Carnage." He played Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama "Zero Dark Thirty." Here are some images that celebrate Gandolfini's career.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-career-james-gandolfini-031701392.html
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