Success at the Oscars has vaulted Christoph Waltz from a little-known Austrian character actor to the toast of Hollywood. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his portrayal of a suave Nazi officer in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds." The only German-speaking Oscar winner this year admits he's shell-shocked by his sudden fame. Clutching the Oscar he won for best supporting actor, Christoph Waltz, 53, seems overwhelmed by his success. Behind the stage of the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, he smiles at the crowd of wellwishers and politely says "good evening," as if he's just arrived at a cocktail party. It certainly has been a good evening, for him. The Austrian's portrayal of a ruthless yet debonair Nazi officer in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won him the cinema industry's most coveted award, and he's the only representative of the German-speaking film industry to have won one on Sunday night. Michael Haneke's critically-acclaimed "The White Ribbon," nominated for best foreign film, was passed over.
Clutching the Oscar he won for best supporting actor, Christoph Waltz, 53, seems overwhelmed by his success. Behind the stage of the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, he smiles at the crowd of wellwishers and politely says "good evening," as if he's just arrived at a cocktail party.
It certainly has been a good evening, for him. The Austrian's portrayal of a ruthless yet debonair Nazi officer in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won him the cinema industry's most coveted award, and he's the only representative of the German-speaking film industry to have won one on Sunday night. Michael Haneke's critically-acclaimed "The White Ribbon," nominated for best foreign film, was passed over.
Sarah Palin drew a straight line from Alaska to Alberta as she told a sold-out, largely adoring crowd in Calgary that the province gets her message of less government, lower taxes and development of natural resources. <...> The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse. "We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," she said. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?" ...
Sarah Palin drew a straight line from Alaska to Alberta as she told a sold-out, largely adoring crowd in Calgary that the province gets her message of less government, lower taxes and development of natural resources.
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The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse.
"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," she said. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?" ...
google and mozilla unhelpful... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
someone, you rock. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
it's sorted anyway, and i will not update until someone has crafted the extension, it's too convenient to live without, and i cant see much difference in the firefoxes anyway, 3.5 works dandy.
ta to ceebs, too. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
It should. Mine has. Anyway, you can switch off automatic updates in Options, wherever they are.
in firefox 3.5.8 this option is found in preferences, > advanced> update.
if anyone cares about how i did it, i erased firefox, then dragged the unpacked app from another computer onto a flash card (c.52megs), then dragged it onto the hard drive. it didn't want to go into the app folder, but made it onto the hard drive anyway, and now shows up in the apps folder, loike it sposta.
so nice to have trib ext back, firefox felt really dumbed down not having it... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
what bothers me is seeing harry potter on my tahini label.
should i switch brands? i like the friendly sun face that used to be on the peanut butter lid as a kid.
i must be a pagan, i saw its lips move!
if jesus is in marmite, who's in the marmalade?
and patum pepericum, that's from sirius.
~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Interesting post by Craig Murray about another attempt to silence some journalists using Britain's libel laws - ever popular with users, if not those who fall foul of them. They've got Geraldine Proudler of Olswang - who specialises in "reputation management issues" - to write to various publications who have chosen to highlight the work Tory MP Tony Baldry has done for one James Ibori. He, for the record, is a Nigerian politician. The UK government has frozen £21m of his assets. They are a lot of assets for a man who earned $25,000 per annum as Governor of Delta State between 1999 and 2007.
Interesting post by Craig Murray about another attempt to silence some journalists using Britain's libel laws - ever popular with users, if not those who fall foul of them.
They've got Geraldine Proudler of Olswang - who specialises in "reputation management issues" - to write to various publications who have chosen to highlight the work Tory MP Tony Baldry has done for one James Ibori.
He, for the record, is a Nigerian politician. The UK government has frozen £21m of his assets. They are a lot of assets for a man who earned $25,000 per annum as Governor of Delta State between 1999 and 2007.
Some readers will know that the post I wrote earlier this week about Tony Baldry MP and James Ibori has been taken off this site. More on that in due course. In the meantime, I would recommend that everyone take a look at this blog post from Will Jordan, which I believe is both fair comment, and self-evidently in the public interest. It seems to me that the core issue here is, as Craig Murray also points out, the extent to which it is appropriate, in a modern democracy, for MPs to hold down second (and third, and fourth and fifth) jobs without creating serious conflicts of interest which threaten to compromise their independence as MPs. Tony Baldry has been at pains to stress the extent to which his work as a barrister is distinct from his activities as an MP. And yet the website of his own legal chambers, One Essex Court (accessed and archived 6/3/10), seems to blur this distinction, stating that: Recent Heads of Chambers include Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, a leading Conservative MP for over twenty years, and Parliamentary connections are maintained under One Essex Court's current head Tony Baldry MP. The question of whether or not individual MPs are currently "acting within the rules" is, to my mind, secondary to this much larger question of whether the rules, in their current form, are really doing an effective job of maintaining the robust independence we need from our Parliamentarians in order to sustain a healthy democracy.
Some readers will know that the post I wrote earlier this week about Tony Baldry MP and James Ibori has been taken off this site. More on that in due course.
In the meantime, I would recommend that everyone take a look at this blog post from Will Jordan, which I believe is both fair comment, and self-evidently in the public interest.
It seems to me that the core issue here is, as Craig Murray also points out, the extent to which it is appropriate, in a modern democracy, for MPs to hold down second (and third, and fourth and fifth) jobs without creating serious conflicts of interest which threaten to compromise their independence as MPs.
Tony Baldry has been at pains to stress the extent to which his work as a barrister is distinct from his activities as an MP. And yet the website of his own legal chambers, One Essex Court (accessed and archived 6/3/10), seems to blur this distinction, stating that:
Recent Heads of Chambers include Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, a leading Conservative MP for over twenty years, and Parliamentary connections are maintained under One Essex Court's current head Tony Baldry MP.
The question of whether or not individual MPs are currently "acting within the rules" is, to my mind, secondary to this much larger question of whether the rules, in their current form, are really doing an effective job of maintaining the robust independence we need from our Parliamentarians in order to sustain a healthy democracy.
In July 2009 Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague asked North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry to chair the Conservative Party's Human Right Commission. The Commission is made up of approximately 20 members, including members of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, senior members of the voluntary side of the Conservative Party, and a number of Conservative Parliamentary Candidates, who have a particular interest in Human Rights. The Conservative Human Rights Commission seeks to work with other groups concerned about Human Rights and to ensure that the importance of Human Rights is kept high on the political agenda. "The Conservative Human Rights Commission has been doing some very good work since its inception in 2005 under the leadership of Gary Streeter MP and then Stephen Crabb MP, who has become an Opposition Whip," said Tony Baldry. "By definition, much Human Rights work is done painstakingly, country by country and amongst the members of the Conservative Human Rights Commission are those who have an outstanding expertise and record on campaigning in support of Human Rights in countries such as Burma, China, North Korea and Zimbabwe, and more recently, in support of the Human Rights of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. That work will continue.
In July 2009 Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague asked North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry to chair the Conservative Party's Human Right Commission.
The Commission is made up of approximately 20 members, including members of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, senior members of the voluntary side of the Conservative Party, and a number of Conservative Parliamentary Candidates, who have a particular interest in Human Rights.
The Conservative Human Rights Commission seeks to work with other groups concerned about Human Rights and to ensure that the importance of Human Rights is kept high on the political agenda.
"The Conservative Human Rights Commission has been doing some very good work since its inception in 2005 under the leadership of Gary Streeter MP and then Stephen Crabb MP, who has become an Opposition Whip," said Tony Baldry. "By definition, much Human Rights work is done painstakingly, country by country and amongst the members of the Conservative Human Rights Commission are those who have an outstanding expertise and record on campaigning in support of Human Rights in countries such as Burma, China, North Korea and Zimbabwe, and more recently, in support of the Human Rights of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. That work will continue.
Soirée-débat: "L'Etat Pyromane: que proposer face à la France de Nicolas Sarkozy?" (La Bellevilloise, mercredi 10 mars, 19h30)
Débat sur l'identité française, fermeture de la jungle de Calais, bouclier fiscal, statut de La Poste, juge d'instruction,... La présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy et son activisme ont suscité de nombreuses controverses et des débats trop vite écartés à cause du rythme effréné des réformes. A l'occasion de la parution de son dernier essai, L'Etat pyromane, Terra Nova revient sur les principales politiques à l'oeuvre, et avance des orientations alternatives. Les auteurs, acteurs engagés de la société civile, viendront livrer leur grille de lecture du sarkozysme et échanger sur leurs propositions pour changer la France. AvecJean-Pierre Dubois, président de la Ligue des Droits de l'homme, Guillaume Duval, rédacteur en chef d'Alternatives économiques, Olivier Ferrand, président de Terra Nova, Pierre Henry, directeur général de France terre d'asile, Serge Portelli, vice-président au tribunal de Paris, président de la 12ème Chambre correctionnelle, Joël Roman, philosophe et directeur de la collection Pluriel, Benoît Thieulin, directeur de la Netscouade, créateur de La Coopol. Et Alexandre Aidara, Ariane Azéma, Francis Ginsbourger, William Leday, Maurice Ronai, Bernard Rullier, Benoît Thirion.
Débat sur l'identité française, fermeture de la jungle de Calais, bouclier fiscal, statut de La Poste, juge d'instruction,... La présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy et son activisme ont suscité de nombreuses controverses et des débats trop vite écartés à cause du rythme effréné des réformes.
A l'occasion de la parution de son dernier essai, L'Etat pyromane, Terra Nova revient sur les principales politiques à l'oeuvre, et avance des orientations alternatives. Les auteurs, acteurs engagés de la société civile, viendront livrer leur grille de lecture du sarkozysme et échanger sur leurs propositions pour changer la France.
AvecJean-Pierre Dubois, président de la Ligue des Droits de l'homme, Guillaume Duval, rédacteur en chef d'Alternatives économiques, Olivier Ferrand, président de Terra Nova, Pierre Henry, directeur général de France terre d'asile, Serge Portelli, vice-président au tribunal de Paris, président de la 12ème Chambre correctionnelle, Joël Roman, philosophe et directeur de la collection Pluriel, Benoît Thieulin, directeur de la Netscouade, créateur de La Coopol.
Et Alexandre Aidara, Ariane Azéma, Francis Ginsbourger, William Leday, Maurice Ronai, Bernard Rullier, Benoît Thirion.
Admission : 2€
Address, directions and contact info at the above link.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to go. The march of civilizations is a series of defenses that man has put up against the dread of pure existence.
