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2011年1月31日 星期一
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2011年1月27日 星期四
Bruno Mars, Cafe de Paris, London, review
Bruno Mars, Cafe de Paris, London, review
An almost ludicrously entertaining set from the man of the moment. Rating: * * * *
Flashing his choppers : U.S musician Bruno Mars performs an intimate gig onstage at the Cafe de Paris, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, in Piccadilly, London. Photo: AP Photo/Joel Ryan
By Neil McCormick 9:32AM GMT 26 Jan 2011
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The fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra is a big opening gambit, at once cheesily over familiar (from 2001: A Space Odyssey and a thousand sporting broadcasts) yet still promising spectacle and glory. Bounding energetically on stage in a sharp, black suit and tie, flashing his choppers like a dental model and swinging a Stratocaster, Bruno Mars is clearly not short of confidence. On his London debut, the Hawaiian-born, LA-based singer-songwriter delivered an almost ludicrously entertaining set with all the pizzazz of a veteran showman.
Mars is man of the moment, number one in the single and album charts. With his black pompadour and boyishly handsome Latino looks, he comes across like an old-fashioned pop idol, from long before Simon Cowell annexed the concept.
And there is something of the early rock-and-roll era’s freshness and innocence in his upbeat, romantic take on pop. To listen to his breakthrough hit, Just the Way You Are (no relation to the Billy Joel song), you might judge him a cheesy featherweight with a sweet, high soul voice and sure touch with a hookline.
His album, 'Doo Wops and Hooligans', is full of melodic, happy, easygoing, neatly crafted pop, touching lightly on soul, rock and reggae, some of it so twee it sounds like themes from imaginary sitcoms. But, live, there is a heat and intensity to Mars that I would never have guessed from his recordings, aligned with a swaggering musicality and showmanship that hints at the versatility of Prince.
Backed by a tight, rocking drums/bass/keyboards combo, with his writing partner Philip Lawrence on backing vocals and MC duties, songs are amped up, slowed down, and twisted around, so that even smouldering ballads can suddenly switch to percussive funk and power-chord rockers, with Mars effortlessly moving up the gears from honey-dripping soul crooner to rock belter, while firing off sharp guitar solos. It is still, for the most part, kind of cheesy, but nonetheless impressive, like a Fifties teen idol doing a stint as a wedding singer with a red hot bar band.
Indeed, it was on the LA covers band circuit that 25-year-old Mars paid his musical dues, and he shows his roots by dropping in snatches of classic hits to expand his own repertoire, seguing from a rip-roaring Beatlesque take on Money into the loping reggae of Billionaire (the inescapable hit he provided last year for Travie McCoy), and comically (but nonetheless impressively) blending Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit with Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. For all the musical muscle-flexing, the predominantly young female crowd seem content to gaze in admiration and sing along to choruses.
I am, I confess, utterly baffled by the appeal of his whiny chart-topper, Grenade, in which he offers to catch a grenade, jump in front of a train and take a bullet in a brain for his girlfriend.
The girls, however, clearly find Mars’s suicidal declarations deeply romantic. As long as he continues to deliver them with such entertaining panache, I’ll come along for the ride.
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2011年1月26日 星期三
Oil-Rig Contractors' Liability Takes Focus at Hearing
WASHINGTON—A proposal to extend liability for an oil spill to contractors such as Halliburton Co. and Transocean Ltd. was among the ideas floated Wednesday morning at a U.S. Senate hearing on the Deepwater Horizon incident.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon (D., Ore.) pressed witnesses from a panel appointed to investigate last year's spill on whether Congress should consider "a separate federal certification and bonding requirements for the drilling contractors," particularly those who operate in deep water.
The liability cap, which currently applies to operators like BP PLC and not their contractors, is one of the central issues being debated in Congress in the wake of the spill. Lawmakers have disagreed on how much to raise the current $75 million cap or to do away with the cap entirely.
"If all you do is lift the liability limits, we will continue to have this finger pointing routine" after an incident, said Mr. Wyden, the third-highest ranked Democrat on the Senate committee that monitors energy issues.
William Reilly and former Sen. Bob Graham, co-chairs of the panel President Barack Obama appointed to look at the spill, pushed back at Mr. Wyden and suggested the liability remain on operators like BP, who would then keep contractors in line.
The panel's 380-page report, released earlier this week, faulted oil firms for their role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and identified systemic problems with government oversight and industry safety, giving federal agencies and Congress a long list of recommendations to address those issues.
Among the recommendations that would require an act of Congress to enact: higher fees on the industry to fund environmental reviews of drilling sites, stabilized funding for federal regulators, more funding for research and development to improve oil spill response, and an increase to the $75 million cap on liabilities for oil companies following a spill.
"We've done what we can do," Mr. Reilly told the Senate committee. "Now it's over to you."
Write to Ryan Tracy at ryan.tracy@dowjones.com
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2011年1月25日 星期二
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2011年1月23日 星期日
Matthews got more than just a hair bigger
Blog: Jay Walking
CHICAGO — Here’s the skinny on how the Packers beat the Bears today to get to the Super Bowl: Fat stats by Aaron Rodgers, sure, but another key is the guy, once so thin he didn’t have a single athletic scholarship offer, who can climb under the skin of Jay Cutler.
Look at all 255 pounds of Clay Matthews now, after a 131⁄2-sack season on a bad leg, because of a motor that could drive him to NFC Defensive Player of the Year award in just his second season.
“He’s had a tremendous season, just tremendous,” Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
In Green Bay, where Ray Nitschke roamed, they know tremendous, and the Bears of Bill George, Dick Butkus. Mike Singletary and now Brian Urlacher have had some linebackers, too.
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Clay Matthews #52 of the Green Bay Packers
“So much history,” Matthews said. “It’s only my second year, but I can take a big step [toward recognition] with a win this weekend.”
There’s going to be some good, old-time roaming and hitting today, the way a championship should be settled between the NFL’s two oldest rivals. So strap on your old leather helmet, old-timers, the kind Matthews figures Urlacher wore as a rookie.
“I can’t remember when I started remembering him,” Matthews said. “He’s still plays with that same energy and emotion, making plays I admire.
“Ten-plus years. It’s something special to play for a year or two.”
Matthews would know. As a junior at Agoura (Calif.) High, Matthews was 6-foot-1, 165 pounds, even thinner than his prospects of carrying on the family name in football.
Grandpa Clay played five years for the 49ers in the 1950s. Uncle Bruce made the Hall of Fame on the offensive line of the Oilers and Titans.
Dad, Clay Jr., who played the most games of any linebacker in history (Browns and Falcons), was the defensive coordinator at Agoura and was afraid to put his son on the field.
“His mom was giving me the business, but he wasn’t ready,” Clay Jr. said “He wasn’t very big and wasn’t very strong.”
It couldn’t have been easy being a Matthews and being no good. But even before Clay had hair running down to his shoulders, he still had a head on them.
“In all honesty, I wasn’t looking that far ahead,” he said. “When I wasn’t good enough my junior year, I just wanted to play as a senior, didn’t really see some big end in sight.”
Big-time schools, even little-time schools, saw the end as Grade 12. Not one offered a scholarship, so he walked on at USC, where his dad played.
“I thought I could come in on Day 1 and be the guy,” Matthews said. “Maybe I was crazy to have that mindset, but obviously that’s better than saying you can’t.”
He put on a red shirt for a season, made some special-teams plays the next, and earned a full ride. Though his hair grew outside his helmet, the media guide bio still ran the old crew-cut photo.
“Mom said I was more handsome than that and needed to take a new picture,” he said. “I liked it because it showed where I’ve come from: the skinny walk-on.”
Twenty-four NFL teams remained unimpressed enough to pass him over until the Packers took Matthews with the 26th draft pick in the 2009 draft, their second of the first round.
“He does give hope to a lot of guys because he wasn’t big enough and fast enough,” said Matthews’ college coach, Pete Carroll, now with the Seahawks. “Now, he’s perfect.”
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is a chance his dad never had in 19 seasons.
“I’m a second-year player already in the NFC Championship Game,” Matthews said. “But this is truly an opportunity you shouldn’t squander.
“You don’t know when you’ll get back.”
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2011年1月22日 星期六
Zambezi River Sunset over Namwi Island (Series)
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2011年1月21日 星期五
21st January 2011
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Frost clings to the trees in the sun on the banks of Coniston Water in the English Lake District.
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I will not censure Mario Balotelli, says Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini
I will not censure Mario Balotelli, says Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini insists he has no problem with Mario Balotelli's liking for stirring controversy.
Courting controversy: Mario Balotelli (left) seems to like self publicity Photo: AFP
By Telegraph staff and agencies 10:59AM GMT 20 Jan 2011
The outspoken Balotelli was at it again this week, declaring in an interview with new Italian newspaper Extra Time that he was part of the best strike force in the world and that Wayne Rooney was not even the number one forward in Manchester.
Maybe it was not the wisest comment from a player who is again sidelined with a knee injury. But Mancini remains unconcerned.
"I haven't read the interview so I don't know what he has said," Mancini said. "But he likes to joke sometimes and these things are jokes.
"We live in a free world. If someone wants to say something, it is better that he does. I respect every opinion.
"We are not in a war. We are free to say what we want."
Balotelli is currently in the United States stepping up his rehabilitation work on the injury he sustained over Christmas.
It could be another month before the Italian is in action again, when Mancini would like to see him perform to his potential on a regular basis.
"He is continuing to work and maybe he can come back to play in three or four weeks," he said.
"It is important he shows his talent here. For his future it is important for him to improve and this is the best championship in the world."
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2011年1月20日 星期四
Kultur in New York
Heute ging es zu den New Yorker Standards, die jeder einmal besucht haben sollte. Rockefeller, 5th Avenue, Central Park, Apple Store ;) , Ground Zero und seine Kirchen, Wallstreet, Freiheitsstatue usw.
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2011年1月19日 星期三
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Fri, Jan 14th, 2011 Lost Male Dog - Kilmeena Hil, Westport, Mayo
Fri, Jan 14th, 2011 Lost Male Dog - Kilmeena Hil, Westport, Mayo
Missing since Fri Jan 14th, a male dog (microchipped), under 5 years old. He is neutered
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2011年1月16日 星期日
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I can recommend this site...but the hammerheads was visiting the beaches every morning, in only 3 feet deept, searching for stingrays..........
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Liverpool v Everton: there are no weaknesses in Anfield side, says Kenny Dalglish
Liverpool v Everton: there are no weaknesses in Anfield side, says Kenny Dalglish
Thirteenth in the Premier League, beaten 10 times already this season, a Merseyside derby looming and just five points from the foot of the table. Had anyone other than Kenny Dalglish dared to suggest that Liverpool’s side contains no weaknesses, they would have been hounded from Anfield.
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By Rory Smith 11:00PM GMT 14 Jan 2011
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“I think if you look at the team, there’s nothing that’s really weak, so that is a positive,” said the Scot on Friday, contrary to all received wisdom.
It is well known that Liverpool’s team is not good enough. As Rafael Benítez, the man blamed in most quarters for that plight, might say: fact.
Yet Dalglish has returned time and again in his first week in 20 years as Liverpool manager to the idea that the side he has inherited is not the ragtag mix of has-beens and never-will-bes as has been perpetuated.
Even after defeat to Blackpool, he insisted that the players at his disposal “look good enough” to wear the red shirt he graced with such distinction. If Dalglish, Anfield’s ultimate arbiter, believes in his squad, the Kop is not likely to disagree.
How, then, to explain that the Scot will trace those familiar steps from dressing room to dugout, bowing his head to pass under the ‘This Is Anfield’ sign, to take the rousing ovation of his public on Sunday with Liverpool in such dire straits?
“There are a lot of good footballers here,” he said. “Some aren’t realising their potential at the moment, but the only thing that’s stopping them is a bit of confidence and a little bit of luck.
“If you believe you can turn it, then you have got a better chance of being more fortunate than we have been. The players have to believe in what we are doing and what they are capable of doing.”
For almost two years, though, that belief has been conspicuous by its absence. Dalglish has clearly made it his mission to instil confidence back into a side devoid of faith.
It is easy to see his logic: for too long, Liverpool’s fringe players have been informed that they have little reason to believe in their abilities. Benítez, of course, spent much of his time bemoaning the lack of transfer funds at his disposal to replace them. Roy Hodgson, too, made it clear that Anfield’s fortunes rested largely on Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Pepe Reina.
Dalglish, though, is cast in a very different mould. The Liverpool sides he played in and the first generation of Liverpool sides he managed were built on collectivist lines. The man anointed as royalty in these parts is driven by a streak of socialism.
“There is not a team in the league that would not appreciate having Stevie [Gerrard] or [Jamie] Carragher in their team,” he said of the two men he will miss most against Everton. “We are no different. They are two big players. They won’t be available tomorrow but they are not important to us tomorrow.
“The important ones are the ones who are available. From within that, we have to find leadership. There is not any one person who will be designated leader. They have all got responsibilities and they cannot shy away from them. I don’t think they will.”
Dalglish’s return to Anfield, he admits, will be emotive, all the more so for the identity of the opposition. “Anfield is and always has been special,” he says. “If the supporters are pleased to see me sitting there, they will not be as pleased as I am.”
He insists, though, that is not a matter of “I”, but “we”. “It is all very well being romantic, but we have to start winning games.”qtdz
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2011年1月15日 星期六
Pian del tivano #2
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2011年1月14日 星期五
Waiting in Winter II
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2011年1月11日 星期二
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2011年1月10日 星期一
Reefs in Taba 2
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Fish swimming in a reef off Taba Heights beach in Egypt
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2011年1月9日 星期日
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We supposedly got about 21 inches over night, and we are getting about 2 inches an hour....
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2011年1月8日 星期六
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