Lyon to smash Liverpool tonight ???

keep to the Fen Causeway

Composers and singers from seven countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America have been flocking this week to Havana's 13th Festival of Contemporary Music. The festival began on October 30 and will end on November 8. The organizing committee has confirmed the presence of musicians from Argentina, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Japan, and of course, Cuba.

Goldman's Q3 results: zero negative days: 36 (out of 65) days they make more than $100m.....

...what can one say?

Never was so much piss taken out of so many by so few.

Modern conservatives engage in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.Galbraith

and it is CALL CENTER!

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft signed contracts with Cuba on Tuesday to search for oil along Cuba's northern coast and said it was looking at procuring more areas for exploration in a step forward for the island's oil hopes.

Zarubezhneft signed up with state-owned Cuba Petroleos for four almost contiguous blocks, two onshore and two offshore in the Gulf of Mexico just east of Cuba's most prolific oil field in Varadero.

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela's energy minister on Tuesday lowered the South American OPEC member's 2015 oil capacity target by 13 percent, but remained upbeat on expansion overall, especially in the Orinoco heavy oil belt.

Rafael Ramirez told an oil conference on the island of Margarita that Venezuela's capacity should rise from 3.0 million barrels per day now to 4.25 million bpd by 2015.

SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuelan soldiers blocked the main border crossing with Colombia on Tuesday after President Hugo Chavez's government said paramilitaries were behind the killing of two soldiers.

In the latest violence in an often lawless region between the Andean neighbors, a gang of four men on motorbikes ambushed and shot dead the Venezuelan soldiers at a checkpoint in western Tachira state on Monday.

LA CEIBA: Garifuna leader Céleo Alvarez Casildo recognizes that the imminent restitution of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales is an important step toward returning peace to the nation, but he says that the crisis isn't totally resolved.

"The simple fact that there is a written agreement between parties in conflict really doesn't resolve the crisis that inflicts the Honduran people," said the leader, who was national president of the Medical Workers Union (Sitramedhys) in the 1980s.

IDG: Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability

ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.

Countries including Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as the European Union and U.S. have been negotiating an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) over the past two years to combat the growing problem of counterfeit products ranging from designer clothes to downloadable music...

Under existing laws in the U.S., the E.U. and elsewhere, ISPs are granted immunity from prosecution for illegal activities carried out by subscribers across their networks. This new global trade agreement appears to contradict the legal status quo, said Michael Geist, a law professor at Ottawa University, Canada.

This provision would mean that every country that signs up to ACTA must allow content owners such as record companies and Hollywood studios to sue ISPs for failing to stop their subscribers from illegally sharing copyright-protected material such as music and movies...

Europe appears willing to back up the U.S.'s plans to make ISPs more liable for the content on their networks, according to Joe McNamee, European affairs specialist for Digital Rights Europe, a free speech and privacy pressure group.

The prevailing E.U. law on the matter of ISP liability is the e-commerce directive, which grants service providers protection from prosecution as long as they are just the conduit and not involved with the sender or receiver of illegal content.

Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom Wednesday that he was acquitting three other Americans.

Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

In US, it's "Yes, we can", in Europe, it's "Yes, we should"

| The Biggest Loser | 3 Nov 2009

The players are feeling somber after saying goodbye to their friend Abby. But Ali cheers them up with the news that they are headed to Washington DC to help motivate a nation into eating right and getting healthy. The players board their plane and most of them celebrate because they no longer need a seatbelt extender.

"The segment featured the contestants - overweight folks trying desperately to lose weight -- harvesting vegetables in First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Kitchen Garden, with the help of assistant chef Sam Kass.

The gang then went into the kitchen and made a big salad. The contestants and the hosts lavished praise on the Obamas for setting a positive example on healthy eating. That was followed by a video about hunger in America that so prominently featured Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, it could have been a re-election commercial."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

In late October, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed Assembly Bill 1176 (Ammiano). gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf. The veto reads as follows: