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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Rains or Not, India Is Falling Short on Drinkable Water
[unable to retrieve full-text content]That people in one of the rainiest places on the planet struggle to get potable water is emblematic of the profound water challenges that India faces.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Turkish bonds, lira flat after debt auction; Turkcell up
ISTANBUL, March 12 (Reuters) - Turkish bond yields and lira
steadied on Tuesday after a debt auction that produced a yield
close to expectations.
In the stock market, Turkcell rose on the appointment of
independent board members.
By 1517 GMT, the lira was at 1.8025 to the dollar
, virtually unchanged from 1.8020 late on Monday.
Against its euro-dollar basket it weakened to
2.0770, from 2.0724.
Turkey's treasury issued a 15-month zero-coupon bond at an
average compound yield of 5.71 percent, close to a Reuters
forecast of 5.67 percent.
The yield on the two-year benchmark bond
closed at 5.81 percent, only one tick away from Monday's close
at 5.82 percent.
Istanbul's main share index closed up 0.27 percent
at 83,347.54 points, slightly outperforming a fall of 0.5
percent in the global emerging markets index.
Shares in Turkcell closed up 3.03 percent after
the state Capital Markets Board appointed three independent
board members. A long-running share dispute has prevented the
mobile phone company's board from meeting or distributing
dividends for two years.
(Writing by Seltem Iyigun; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-bonds-lira-flat-debt-auction-turkcell-155347444--sector.html
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
89% Django Unchained
All Critics (228) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (202) | Rotten (26)
Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.
Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.
Genre-movie-mad writer-director Quentin Tarantino's foray into Western World is a pretty grave disappointment.
Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.
Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.
Django Unchained is the most brutal film Quentin Tarantino has ever made.But the movie is also exciting and ironic and, at times, explosively funny: Even at his most serious, Tarantino can't help but entertain and show you a good time.
Tarantino is, in essence, a classicist who invests the bulk of his drama and tension in lengthy dialogue exchanges that are infinitely more compelling that his elongated sequences of cathartic violence.
Still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare.
This bloody, hilarious, shocking, and righteously angry film is the kind of great art and great trash [Tarantino] aspires to make.
...compulsively watchable for the majority of its (admittedly overlong) running time...
I had a good enough time to wish that it had been better.
Part-blaxploitation film, part-spaghetti Western and all-Tarantino, 'Django Unchained' comes charging at its audiences with guns a-blazin'. It's not quite up to par with 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,' but it's still Tarantino - enough said.
Overlong, overblown and overly self-indulgent. But excess is what Tarantino does. And just as he won't put one word in his characters' mouths when he can have them utter 10; he won't dispatch a bad guy with one bullet when he can discharge a dozen.
It would seem that this film's irreverence isn't a case of didn't-try-can't-fail dismissiveness, but rather something more innocuous: it's simply the world interpreted through Tarantino's boisterous perspective.
The funniest western since Blazing Saddles, the bloodiest since The Wild Bunch and the most visually stylish since The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.
Guilty of almost every indulgence [Tarantino] has ever been accused of...but it's hard to hold it against him, when the results are this bloody good
Ultimately enjoyable, if a little underwhelming, if nothing else we can be grateful to Django Unchained for allowing the phrase "that's the worst thing since Quentin Tarantino's Australian accent".
Impolitic though it might be to suggest it, there's something extremely satisfying about the violence here-though, for my money, it resides less in seeing these racist thugs get their comeuppance, than in the director's staging of it.
it's fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche - only to set loose a bad motherf*cker to set it right.
Thrilling, stylish, funny, brutal, superbly-acted, sharply written and wonderfully offensive.
Django Unchained is a joy. It's fun and foolish, unhinged and unapologetic.
Possibly Tarantino's most thoughtful and even political film to date.
Tarantino is starting to look more and more like an angry teenager in his bedroom going, "Wouldn't it be good if..."
Whereas there was savage beauty and irony in the '60-'70s violence of Penn, Peckinpah, and Leone, the coda of 'Django Unchained' is mere benumbing splatter.
It's a big, crazy, hugely entertaining, multilayered piece of filmmaking - a fierce but fiercely intelligent testament to Tarantino's frequently questioned filmmaking proclivities and certainly among the best films he's made.
Trazendo alguns dos melhores momentos da filmografia de Tarantino, ainda culmina em um cl?max longo e violento que certamente levar? os f?s do diretor a orgasmos de sangue.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/django_unchained_2012/
Friday, February 22, 2013
Oscar Pistorius bail hearing nearing decision
Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius' father Henke Pistorius, right, with his children Carl, center,, and Aimee, left, watch as Oscar Pistorius walks in during his bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? The defense and prosecution both completed their arguments Friday in Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing, with the magistrate soon to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed or if he must stay behind bars pending trial in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
The prosecution vehemently opposed bail to Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair in a case that has transfixed South Africans and brought international media attention to the nation's justice system and police capabilities.
Pistorius is charged with one count of premeditated murder in the Feb. 14 killing of Reeva Steenkamp. He says he accidentally shot her, thinking she was a dangerous intruder inside his home, lurking in a toilet stall off his bedroom.
Pistorius' hands trembled as he said "good morning, your worship" as the session began in Magistrate's Court in Pretoria, South Africa's capital. For the first time in the hearing, two representatives of the Steenkamp family were present in court, sitting behind and to the left of Pistorius in the public gallery.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel called Pistorius' version that he shot Steenkamp accidentally improbable and argued that Pistorius did not have to have planned the killing for days in advance for it to be premediated.
"He planned it that night when she (Steenkamp) locked herself in (the toilet)," Nel said in response to a question from the magistrate on why Pistorius hadn't staged a break-in at his home to make his story look more believable. "The fact that we have only one survivor of that tragic night is difficult for the state."
Pistorius' defense lawyer, Barry Roux, brought up culpable homicide as a possible charge for the first time in the case when answering questions from the magistrate.
"He did not want to kill Reeva. He had no intent to kill Reeva," Roux said as Pistorius began weeping again ? like he has done for much of his bail hearing.
Roux said it was impossible for Pistorius, as famous as he is and with his prostheses, to escape South Africa before trial and bail should be granted.
"Let me tell you how difficult it is for this man to disappear from this world," Roux said.
Prosecutor Nel earlier countered that everyone, whether disabled or famous or otherwise different from the majority, should be treated equally under the law. Nel noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is famous but is now holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex-related charges.
Nair, the magistrate, will decide if Pistorius can be freed with conditions or if he is held until trial. Pistorius faces the sternest bail conditions in South Africa because of the seriousness of the murder charge, meaning his defense lawyers have to prove there is an "exceptional" reason for him to be freed.
Stephen Tuson, an adjunct law professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a practicing attorney, told The Associated Press that poor health, a weak state case or a disability could be reasons to grant bail to a person accused of murder. But the "exceptional" circumstances Pistorius would have to prove to be freed are not established absolutely by law and are applied considering the individual merits of each case.
"(The matter of exceptional reasons) is not defined," Tuson said. "We've had to have this concept expanded by the courts on a case by case basis."
Pistorius' defense has dedicated much of its argument in the bail hearing to questioning the state's case against Pistorius and trying to discredit the police investigation into Steenkamp's shooting. Lead investigator Hilton Botha was removed from the case Thursday following his bungled testimony for the prosecution and replaced by the South African police's top detective, Vinesh Moonoo ? who was in court Friday.
Defense lawyer Roux also stressed Pistorius' disability Friday and said it was one of the reasons why he couldn't easily flee the country.
"He cannot, cannot go unnoticed through airport security. When he goes through the security at the airport, there's every time a commotion because the system would react," Roux said. He added that Pistorius also needs medical treatment for his stumps and has to have his prostheses adjusted on a monthly basis.
In arguing against bail, Nel sought to portray Pistorius as a spoiled celebrity with an inflated sense of self who believed he was above the law. Nel also said selfishness could be driving expressions of remorse by suspects such as Pistorius.
"All that I feel sorry for is myself," Nel said of Pistorius. "I've shot her and my career is done."
Pistorius' longtime coach Ampie Louw had said before proceedings began that he is considering putting his runner back in training if he is granted bail to allow him to "get his mind kind of clear."
Louw said he realizes that the Olympic athlete might not be emotionally ready to give any thought to running.
"The change is that he is heartbroken, that is all," Louw said in the courtroom, surrounded by reporters and television cameras. "For me it is tough to see that. Not to be able to reach out and sit next to him and say 'Sorry, man, it was a terrible accident.' But I cannot do it, I must just sit here in court and that's all.
"The sooner he can start working the better," said Louw, who was the person who convinced the double amputee to take up track as a teenager a decade ago.
He has been held at a police station in Pretoria since last week, but suspects who are denied bail are typically held in a prison.
Roux argued on Thursday that the evidence backs Pistorius' statement that he shot through a toilet door at his home because he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, killing her by accident.
"I think there will be a level of shock in this country if he is not released (on bail)," Roux said in court.
Opposing bail, Nel argued that Pistorius was too willing to shoot. The prosecution says Pistorius planned to kill his 29-year-old girlfriend, a model and budding reality TV star, after an argument in the early hours of Valentine's Day.
"The reason you fire four shots is to kill," Nel said.
Louw said he might put Pistorius ? who overcame the amputation of his lower legs as a baby to compete at last year's London Olympics ? back on a morning and afternoon training routine if he is freed, believing it might help him to be able to run track again.
"You must give him space," the coach said.
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AP Sports Writer Gerald Imray contributed to this report from Johannesburg.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
NBA Director Says Lil Wayne Is Not Banned From NBA Events
NBA Director Says Lil Wayne Is Not Banned From NBA Events
Posted by Jeremy Thomas?on 02.19.2013
Posted by Jeremy Thomas?on 02.19.2013
He says it isn't true...
Despite Lil Wayne's claims, he is not banned from all NBA events. Mark Broussard, who is the senior director of basketball communications at the NBA, told TMZ that there is "no truth at all" to Wayne's claims that he was is banned from all events because of his problems with the Miami Heat after he was kicked out of a game for rooting for the LA Lakers.
Wayne made the claim during a concert in Houston over the weekend.
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London Fashion Week 2013: Cara Delevingne's top Autumn/Winter catwalk looks
With her bubbly personality and strikingly good-looks, it's no surprise that the model is in high demand and every pop star wants to be her friend.
But as fashion week draws to a close for another season, we take a look back at Cara's best looks on the catwalk.
Kicking off day four of LFW, the 20-year-old strutted her stuff down the catwalk for Peter Pilloto.?
In a mix of bold and unusual prints, the Britsh model wore a geometric monochrome dress with a signature splash of yellow mustard.
| ABOVE: Cara creates a more feminine look as she walks the catwalk for Matthew Williamson |
Her second look demonstrated the season change as Cara wore a similar patterned outfit with a striking fur collar.
Two thumbs-up for the awesome prints Peter.
Next up was the catwalk for Matthew Williamson in a more casual-chic look.?
Starting in an over-sized aqua lace print top and pleated mustard skirt, we can't imagine Cara rocking a night out with Rihanna in this look.
| ABOVE: The 20-year-old takes on a more edgy look for Topshop Unique |
She later however, heated things up in a metallic silver pencil skirt which is definitely a look everyone will be trying to rock this season.
Topshop Unique's autumn/winter collection was more fun and edgy compared to the other looks as Cara worked her magic with these cool designs.
Her looks included a glitzy sequin two-piece and wet look skirt - very hot.
Cara also took to the catwalk for fashion designer Issa where the hot model couldn't have looked more sophisticated.
In a flowing feminine maxi and wide-brimmed hat, we're sure designer fan Kate Middleton would have loved the collection.
So with more then enough catwalks under her belt, we think it's fair to say that Cara is the face of LFW.
| ABOVE: Cara walks for Kate Middleton's favourite designer Issa |
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NYT says Tesla Model S review the result of shaky judgment, Musk calls it even
The dust-up over the New York Times' Tesla Model S review may have left no real winners, but that doesn't preclude at least trying to reach the truth. According to the newspaper's Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, the final answer rests where it often does: in between the two extremes. Following interviews with driver John Broder, Tesla staff and others involved in the tale, the scrutineer believes the review was conducted honestly, but that improper decisions and less-than-precise notes led to the charging woes and accusations of deception that characterized the drive. Broder should have topped up the way the company recommends, but wasn't planning on dragging anyone through the mud, Sullivan says. Whatever you think of her verdict, it's enough for Tesla founder Elon Musk to relax -- he's already saying that the inspection "restored" his trust in the Old Gray Lady's integrity. About the only demand we have left is to get enough Supercharger stations that there's never a repeat incident.
Filed under: Transportation
Source: New York Times, Elon Musk (Twitter)
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/18/nyt-says-tesla-model-s-review-the-result-of-shaky-judgment/
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