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2011年2月28日 星期一
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2011年2月27日 星期日
Sheffield United 0 Derby County 1: match report
Sheffield United 0 Derby County 1: match report
Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Sheffield United and Derby County at Bramhall Lane on Saturday Feb 26 2011.
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By Peter Gardner 6:57PM GMT 26 Feb 2011
There is precious little fun being a Sheffield United supporter these days especially if, like Micky Adams, who also happens to be the manager.
Adams, a lifelong Blades fan, fulfilled a career ambition when becoming the struggling Bramhall Land Club's fourth incumbent of the season in December since when he has failed to see his new charges win once in 12 encounters.
That is a disastrous sequence and one which must leave him considering his long term future in South Yorkshire.
Adams arrived with a not inconsiderable pedigree - it included promotion campaigns with previous clubs - from Port Vale.
He replaced John Carver who acted in a caretaker capacity when Gary Speed departed to manage Wales after cutting his club managerial teeth as replacement for Kevin Blackwell, dismissed in the wake of a poor start to the club's fourth season Championship following their controversial relegation from the Premier League four years ago.
Defeat at Scunthorpe in midweek forced United into the bottom three. A further reverse here left them anchored second from bottom with little likelihood of improvement for a side whose last victory was 13 games earlier, ironically over currently second place Swansea.
Despite their second half monopoly over an equally poor Derby for whom this was only their second victory since the turn of the year, Sheffield's long ball approach was largely ineffective as they attempted to wipe out the 27th minute lead Theo Robinson had given the visitors.
Balls played in from the flank provided easy pickings for the visiting defenders and the Derby manager Nigel Clough said: "I though my two centre half's were immense, we got a break when we needed it and though this was an important win we will not know the full extent of how important it was until the next few weeks have elapsed.
"I am delighted, however, because it has put some light between ourselves and the bottom three."
Despite their second half pressure, home chances were few and far between. The best thing in the first half when John Brayford headed off the line twice in quick succession, first from a Neil Collin's header and then a Richard Cresswell shot.
Derby's response was more effective, a diagonal ball finding Daniel Ayala who squared from the left for four Robinson to deliver at the far post.
Cresswell fired over from close range and despite six added minutes, home huff and puff never looked like succeeding as Derby resolutely defended in depth to ease their own relegation worries
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2011年2月26日 星期六
Former paramedic Freddie Noboa is seriously ill from his toxic exposures.
Former paramedic Freddie Noboa is seriously ill from his toxic exposures.
Former paramedic Freddie Noboa, who worked in the rescue effort at Ground Zero after 9/11, is seriously ill from his toxic exposures.Dr. Wajdy L. Hailoo, the Medical Director of The WOrld Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at the Queens Clinical Center, examines Freddie Noboa.
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2011年2月25日 星期五
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2011年2月24日 星期四
Liverpool 1 Sparta Prague 0; agg 1-0: match report
Liverpool 1 Sparta Prague 0; agg 1-0: match report
Read a full match report of the Europa League game between Liverpool and Sparta Prague at Anfield on Thursday Feb 24 2011.
Elation: Dirk Kuyt broke the deadlock in the dying minutes of the game Photo: GETTY IMAGES
8:00PM GMT 24 Feb 2011
Dirk Kuyt headed a late winner to snatch victory in Kenny Dalglish's first European tie at Anfield following his return as Liverpool manager.
Kuyt finally broke the resistance of a determined Sparta Prague side with the only goal of a testing Europa League affair five minutes from the end of the second leg at Anfield.
Both sides had squandered numerous chances in a scrappy round of 32 encounter but Liverpool's superior quality was eventually rewarded by the hard-working Kuyt.
David Ngog, Joe Cole and Raul Meireles had also gone close in front of a sell-out 42,949 crowd which further underlined the gathering momentum of Dalglish's new regime.
Sparta, backed by 3,000 of their own raucous fans, contributed fully to an eventful, if low-quality, clash but were eventually undone as Kuyt profited from a late corner.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, absent for the two previous games with a groin injury, was not risked and his dynamism and precision was missed throughout.
Christian Poulsen, whose partner had a baby earlier in the week, made little impact in a central role while Cole, starting for the first time under Dalglish was quiet on the left.
The former Chelsea midfielder looked determined to kickstart his faltering Reds career, however, and broke clear early on to send over a looping cross which clipped the bar.
The opening stages were lively and suggested the game, which ultimately lacked quality, would be far more eventful than the drab first leg.
Liverpool appealed for a penalty in the second minute when a Meireles free-kick bounced and caught Manuel Pamic on the hand but nothing was given.
At the other end Libor Sionko headed over from a Kamil Vacek cross and a dipping shot from Vaclav Kadlec narrowly missed the target.
Both goalkeepers were tested by headers, Jose Reina first claiming a firm effort from Sinoko.
Sotirios Kyrgiakos then went close to handing Liverpool the lead when he rose to meet a Meireles corner but Jaromir Blazek saved well to his right.
Reina had a scare when he failed to claim a corner but Sionko was unable to take advantage and Meireles missed a good chance when he scooped a cross from the rampaging Martin Kelly over.
Blazek had an uncomfortable moment when he spilled a long-range shot from Cole, who had cut in from the left, but Liverpool could not capitalise.
Ngog tried his luck from distance as the ball dropped invitingly but miskicked as he turned to shoot.
Ngog had a better chance moments later as Kuyt cut inside to tee him up but the Frenchman chipped tamely at Blazek, who almost gifted a rebound opportunity to Cole but recovered.
Lucas also saw a 25-yard shot drift narrowly wide just before the interval.
Liverpool were forced to withdraw one of the first half's better players in Kelly at the start of the second period, but were able to replace the right-back with the experienced Jamie Carragher.
The hosts started brightly after the restart with Meireles volleying narrowly wide and then creating another attack with a superb long ball for Kuyt.
Kuyt raced on into the area and pulled back for Ngog but the lone striker again fluffed his shot.
Sparta also continued to threaten but Reina got down well to cut out a cross from Ondrej Kusnir.
Liverpool met more frustration as they tried to prise an opening with Kuyt having a shot blocked and Cole heading wide midway through the second half.
Liverpool pressed further with Meireles playing in Ngog but Blazek denied him.
Kyrgiakos was forced off for treatment after a clash of heads with Tomas Repka left him with a nasty cut above the eye.
He returned just as defensive partner Daniel Agger was forced off with injury and replaced by Martin Skrtel.
Kuyt, along with Meireles, had been one of Liverpool's most forthright players in the second half and his efforts were rewarded with his winner.
The Dutchman jumped above the defence five minutes from time to head firmly past Blazek and put the Reds into the last 16.
Cole should have added a second when he raced through on goal in injury time but sliced his shot wide.
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The Best Olympic Performances So Far
So who is the most dominant Olympian of the Vancouver Games so far?
A round of applause, please, for Switzerland's Simon Ammann, who whipped the competition in both individual ski jump events, and, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of results, gave the Olympics' second-most-dominant performance when he conquered the large hill.
To figure out how much stronger the leader of each sport is than the average participant in the event, we compared the winning time or score with the number of standard deviations from the mean. This is basically a statistical way of leveling the playing field. Indeed, Mr. Ammann's gold came in second, with a margin of 2.02, trailing only Vincent Jay's gold medal in the men's 10-kilometer sprint biathlon. However, the Frenchman had Mother Nature on his side and probably would not have won had it not been for a freak snowstorm in the middle of the race. Mr. Jay started early in a race with a staggered start and was essentially finished by the time the snow was slowing down the field.
The formula also shows just how slim the margin is between glory and misery in the Olympics. According to the analysis, the tightest field was in the women's 500-meter speed-skating race in which Korea's Lee Sang-hwa won by a microscopic 0.05 second. Meanwhile, Canadian Jon Montgomery will never pay for another drink on home soil after his gold in skeleton, but his razor-thin 0.07-second victory over Latvia's Martins Dukurs scored a 0.41 on our dominance scale (the second smallest). That 0.07 second might have been the difference between being on your home track or 7,000 miles from home.
Matthew Futterman
Write to Matthew Futterman at matthew.futterman@wsj.com
Margin Calls
To figure out which athletes won their event in the most dominant fashion, we determined who won by the highest number of standard deviations from the mean of the field.
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+12.2 s
2.13
Simon Ammann, SUI
Large Hill Ski Jumping
+14.2 pts.
2.02
Emil Hegle Svendsen, NOR, 20K Ind. Biathlon
+ 9.5 s
1.96
Martina Sablikova, CZE
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+2.09 s
1.93
Shani Davis, USA
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+0.18 s
1.81
*Individual events through Monday
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page D10
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2011年2月23日 星期三
HALLSTATT by Wolfgang Wildner
HALLSTATT, Austria,
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Russia's WTO Membership Faces Hurdles
BRUSSELS—Russia's membership in the World Trade Organization will be a central item on the agenda when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits down with European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday—but the country is still seen facing a rocky road to secure entry.
Mr. Putin will tell the EU "that Russia hopes to finalize WTO accession in the next few months, and certainly by the end of 2011," Vladimir Chizhov, ambassador to the EU, told reporters Tuesday.
However, despite their formal declarations of optimism about its prospects, business leaders and trade officials from the U.S., EU and the WTO say Russia's entry is far from a foregone conclusion.
If it does get in, it could also struggle to meet WTO requirements, they say. Among the problems: a complex customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus, steep tariffs, controversies over how to value imported goods, and corruption.
"The business community is still skeptical," says Anka Schild, an analyst with Business Europe, the Brussels-based alliance of industry lobbies.
The issue is of big importance to global trade because Russia is the only major economy in the world not bound by the WTO's limits on import tariffs and its legal system for adjudicating trade disputes.
With a gross domestic product of $1.48 trillion in 2010 and a trade surplus of $137 billion, the world's biggest after China and Germany, Russia would be a more attractive market if it were more open, say Western officials.
Formally, Russia has been a candidate since the WTO's inception in 1995. However, Moscow has never pushed hard to join, because its biggest exports, oil and gas, are tariff-free, and cutting import tariffs could threaten jobs and factories.
That has changed, Russian officials say, because the country badly needs to integrate more with the global economy. Foreign investors want more guarantees. "Without WTO access, modernization and innovation will be very difficult," Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said in Brussels last year.
Foreign companies are enthusiastic. Consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble Co. has four plants and 4,000 employees in Russia, and imports raw materials and ingredients. "Market barriers would be substantially lower," says Scott Miller, the company's director of global trade affairs. Tariffs would also come down and be more "predictable," he says.
Another winner: Boeing Co. Russia is expected to buy more than 1,000 new commercial aircraft over the next two decades if it joins, as tariffs on wide-body commercial aircraft would fall to 7.5% from 20%.
Political issues remain. Each one of the WTO's 153 members has a veto. For example, Georgia, which fought a 2008 war with Russia, could block membership, although it has said it won't. Other complications: The U.S. Congress hasn't repealed a 1974 law imposing higher tariffs on Russia for restrictive emigration policies on Jews and Moscow must eliminate fees on foreign airplanes flying over Siberia.
Once in, WTO members have to comply with a voluminous rule book. China, which joined in 2001, "was far ahead of Russia at the same stage in its accession," says an EU official.
After the financial crisis, Russia increased tariffs on a range of factory-made goods. The tariffs are costing EU companies $820 million a year, according to Business Europe.
Russian diplomats say they will reduce the tariffs, but only after the country joins. Until then, "Russia is by no means obliged to bind its import tariff duties," the Russian Trade Ministry wrote in response to questions from The Wall Street Journal.
Before 2009, Russia was the U.S.'s second-biggest export market for big combine harvesters, trailing only Canada. In 2009, the tariff was hiked to 25% from 5%. U.S. exports of combine harvesters fell to $2.9 million in the first 10 months of 2010 from $93.3 million in 2008. The big beneficiary: BelAZ, a Belarussian combine manufacturer.
Western companies also complain that Russian customs overbill them on tariffs.
Russian officials say importers cheat by underestimating the value of their shipments. Two-thirds of customs violations, "are accounted for by fraudulent customs declarations that indicate lower customs value of imported goods," the Russian Trade Ministry said.
In response, customs sometimes sets the value of products higher than listed, so they can charge a higher tariff—setting off regular conflict with importers. "There are court disputes over this all the time," says Vladimir Tchikine, a Moscow-based trade lawyer with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP.
Since Russia started a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, two other non-WTO countries, not all the tariffs, rules and regulations have been harmonized among the three countries, say EU and U.S. trade officials. That means products can be routed among these countries to minimize tariffs.
Russia also caps the quantity of some imports to protect domestic producers. On Nov. 11, Livingston, N.J.-based Myperfectcolor LLC, a family-owned business, received a $1,500 order from a U.S. State Department contractor based in Russia for four small barrels of gray and white-tinged spray paint.
Director Jason Shaw shipped the paint via FedEx on Dec. 10. It was rejected because it exceeded a limit on paint imports. "This is the first international trade issue we've had," says the 42-year-old.
The government contractor who is Mr. Shaw's customer confirmed the latter's account of the event. FedEx declined to comment, as did Russian trade officials.
"A lot of rules are interpreted in arbitrary fashion by Russian authorities," says an EU official.
Russia ranked 154th out of 178 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2010 corruption perceptions index. "Exporting to Russia is legally simple," says Mr. Tchikine. "It's in the application of the rules that you can sometimes encounter problems."
If Russia wins entry and doesn't fix these problems, trade partners could win the right to hit its exports with retaliatory sanctions. "You want to clean up these problems before you get in," says Iain MacVay, a London-based trade lawyer with Steptoe Johnson LLP. That could cause delays.
Still, Western businesses say WTO membership for Russia remains compelling. "Isn't it better to have [Russia] attached to these rules and constrained by this system?" asks Randi Levinas, executive president of the Russia-U.S. Business Council.
Write to John W. Miller at john.miller@dowjones.com
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2011年2月22日 星期二
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Your Long Lost Fake Friend
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2011年2月20日 星期日
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2011年2月18日 星期五
Into the Trees
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Snowshoeing at Potato Hill Sno-Park with the family for New Years. We learned the hard way that this trail does not lead to the top of Potato Hill.
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2011年2月16日 星期三
User Post: Why I love Zumba so much...
At last Saturday's Zumba class, my fearless workout partner and I started talking to some of our comrades about what gets us out of bed on Saturday morning excited to go workout. The answer was frighteningly simple. It's fun. As women of all shapes, sizes, races, and ages work our butts off in the dance studio each week, the hour passes ridiculously fast and we sweat, laugh, and generally just have a great time.
While exercising... I'll be honest, I've never thought that was possible.
It probably won't surprise you that I don't like to exercise very much. Actually, I think that's true of a lot of people, overweight or not, but no one likes to admit that - it doesn't exactly make you sound like the picture of health. Working out, no matter how great you feel afterward, can be a chore. My ADD tendencies also cause me to get bored of an exercise routine easily and I have to find some way to change it up.
Well, my friends, all that changed when I discovered Zumba. I'll admit, I was terrified at first. Those of my readers that actually know me know that I am not the queen of grace and coordination. I'm not super rhythmic, and I've definitely never have the self confidence to "shake what my Mama gave me," which, frankly, is a lot. So before my first class I had a few heart palpitations, but I survived them. And I tried it. And I loved it.
I still do. And here's why - when you go to a Zumba class, you're welcomed. It doesn't matter if you're a size 2 or a 22, they want you there. And they want you to have fun. No one watches you and thinks, "hmmm... she really shouldn't be doing that." You go in there, you don't take yourself too seriously, dance, and you have a good time.
Oh, and you burn over 500 calories. It was in a report released last week - totally worth looking silly, if that bothers you.
I'm never going to be a fitness nut. It's just not in my wiring. But by going to Zumba three times a week and eating well (better), I'm seeing results. And I'm ecstatic. So find a class and "Join the Party." You'll be glad you did.
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2011年2月15日 星期二
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2011年2月14日 星期一
January 2011 - Snow. Again.
January 2011 - Snow. Again.
Forbidden Drive in Fairmount Park the morning after.
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Canada Needs a Major Rally to Hit Medal Goal
As if losing an Olympic hockey game at home to their rivals to the south wasn't bad enough, here's some more bad news for Canadians: Their country is on pace for its worst medal haul since 1992.
But no one is panicking just yet. At least not the brass. Canadian Olympic Committee President Michael Chambers said Sunday that although the U.S. dominated the first week of the Games, the second week would go to the host nation, predicting as many as 13 new medals for Canadian athletes.
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Patrick Chan of Canada reacts after his routine in the men's figure skating short program.
Is Mr. Chambers being overly optimistic? Not necessarily. The second week is back-loaded with events Canada is supposed to dominate. An aggregate score of predictions from five national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, had the Canadians winning 17 medals this week, in everything from women's bobsled to men's curling. But the prognosticators haven't handicapped Canada well so far. They had the country winning 10.3% of the medals through Monday afternoon, and it only won 5.7%—a pace worse than Canada had in the Games in Turin, Salt Lake City, Nagano and Lillehammer. All five publications expected medals for the Canadians in men's downhill and women's skeleton, and they ended up with nothing. All five have the men's hockey team medaling, and its path is suddenly much trickier after Sunday's loss to the U.S.
Regardless, there's almost no chance the Canadians will match their original "Own the Podium" goal of 35 medals, which would require them to take home 26.3% of remaining medals. No one has won at that rate in the Winter Games in 75 years.
Disown the Podium
Here is how Canada is doing in these Winter Olympics compared with previous Games.
OLYMPICS
TOTAL MEDALS WON
TOTAL EVENTS
% MEDALS WON
Vancouver 2010
9*
159
5.7
Turin 2006
24
252
9.5
Salt Lake City 2002
17
234
7.3
Nagano 1998
15
204
7.4
Lillehammer 1994
13
183
7.1
*Through Monday afternoon (53 events)
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page D10
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2011年2月13日 星期日
Chocolat Gift
My Valentine's chocolates from my friends Dagger and Sasu <3
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Looking north up the River Avon, towards Pulteney Bridge and the weir. Parade Garden is just over the other side of the river along this stretch and where I was stood to take this.
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2011年2月12日 星期六
Empty cornish waves
Empty cornish waves
Fragments from a beautiful day at Porthcurno.
A million thanks again for all the kind words and well wishes over the past few days. Mother & baby are still at hospital but doing well. I expect there will be many more baby pics in the near future, but i just wanted to wait till William was feeling completely better and out of the NICU before posting more.
Squeezing in a bit of work this morning and catching up with some Getty submissions on the theme of the UK coast, which seeing as i'm very rarely far away from one piece of the UK coastline or other is a subject close to my heart.
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2011年2月11日 星期五
mfa.boston.tiffany.dragonfly • swirl
mfa.boston.tiffany.dragonfly • swirl
See the original photo in 1st comment below. Created with the Amazing Circles tool of dumpr.net.
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2011年2月10日 星期四
Jekyll Island sunrise
Jekyll Island sunrise
While reprocessing some older shots, I came across this one that is worth posting.
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Opec raises oil production to tackle $100 prices
Opec raises oil production to tackle $100 prices
Oil prices above $100 (£62) per barrel have finally forced the world's cartel of energy producers to raise their output, as demand looks set to hit a world record this year.
Opec raised oil production by 400,000 barrels per day to 29.7m barrels Photo: Reuters
By Rowena Mason 8:19PM GMT 10 Feb 2011
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The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), whose members include Iran and Saudi Arabia, raised production by 400,000 barrels per day to 29.7m barrels.
Demand for Opec crude was revised up by around 400,000 barrels per day to 29.8m but the group said higher prices would dampen this in the coming weeks.
"The down risk for the total world oil demand forecast lies with international oil prices," Opec said. "Should strong prices remain, this will lead to a reduction in the use of transportation fuels."
Opec members have been reluctant to call an emergency meeting to deal with prices of more than $100.
However, on Thursday Brent crude fell almost $1 to around $101.
It came as Gunther Oettinger, the European commissioner, said Europe could cope with oil at $100, but expressed concern for world prices in the long term given that Saudi Arabian reserves could be overstated by up to 40pc.
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2011年2月9日 星期三
Horto Florestal de Campos do Jordo
Horto Florestal de Campos do Jordo
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2011年2月8日 星期二
Treasury Report Steps Up Yuan Criticism
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury refrained from labeling China a currency manipulator but took a tougher line than in past years, saying the yuan is "substantially undervalued," warning "progress thus far is insufficient and that more rapid progress is needed.''
The Treasury's much-awaited report on China's currency reform steps up the rhetorical heat from the last update in July, which merely called the yuan "undervalued" instead of "substantially undervalued."
The Treasury is required to review twice a year whether China and other nations are manipulating their currencies. Such a declaration against China could have major ramifications for the international financial system as it could set off a trade war between the U.S. and its largest trading partner. The U.S. so far has stopped short of calling China a currency manipulator, and instead has used speeches and diplomacy to pressure the country to free its grip on the currency's value.
Chinese President Hu Jintao, during his Washington visit last month, said China was committed to exchange-rate reform. Since China announced last June that it would restart a program to make its currency more flexible, the yuan has appreciated around 3.7% against the dollar.
The report is likely to disappoint many U.S. lawmakers. With U.S. manufacturers complaining their products are being outsold by Chinese goods made at a cheaper cost, helped by an exchange rate they say is kept unfairly low, lawmakers wanted Treasury to name Beijing a currency manipulator and are threatening to pass punitive legislation. The Obama administration held up publishing the report until after Mr. Hu's visit. Legislators had called for the administration to press Mr. Hu on the exchange rate.
"It's as plain as the nose on your face that China manipulates its currency. It's just as plain that the only way to address this problem is for Congress to act," said Sen. Charles Schumer, (D., N.Y.), a lead critic of China's exchange rate policy, on Friday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.) also criticized the administration for not labeling Beijing a currency manipulator. "China has been given a free pass on its currency practices for far too long," he said, adding that Congress needed to hold its largest trading partner to account.
Pressures on China's economy may help to drive that change. "It is in China's interest to allow the nominal exchange rate to appreciate more rapidly, both against the dollar and against the currencies of its other major trading partners," the Treasury said. Without greater flexibility, Beijing risks fueling excessively rapid growth of credit, and creating upward pressure on property and equity prices, which could threaten growth, it said.
Including inflation, the Treasury estimates the yuan's move is equivalent to an annual rate of 10% a year. China has also started relaxing restraints on the use of the yuan. The Treasury said these reforms will over time "contribute to a more market-determined exchange rate."
The undervalued yuan is also harming other emerging-nation economies, which could help the U.S. in its negotiations at the Group of 20 nations conference later this month. Countries such as Brazil, which have more open exchange rate policies, are dealing with a surge in investment that threatens to overheat their economies, the Treasury said, leading in some cases to over-valued exchange rates.
Despite the often-fierce rhetoric, no key lawmaker has introduced a bill trying to punish China for how it manages the yuan since Republicans took over the house. Big U.S. companies have warned against sparking a trade war with China, saying it would be more productive to protect their interests in other areas, such as defending intellectual property rights.
Eswar Prasad, a Cornell University economist and former China expert at the International Monetary Fund, said the Treasury's approach is constructive and avoids bringing "things to a boil." The report, "takes a carefully calibrated approach to Chinese currency policy, conveying a clear message on the need for more currency flexibility but without using language that would damage relations with China," Mr. Prasad said
The Treasury said it would continue to closely monitor yuan appreciation.
The report studied ten countries' exchange rate policies that account for over three quarters of U.S. trade.
—Luca Di Leo contributed to this article.
Write to Ian Talley at ian.talley@dowjones.com
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British Reporter Denied Entry to Russia
U.K. newspaper the Guardian said its Moscow correspondent has been denied entry into Russia, in a move the paper said was a sign of pressure on the foreign media reminiscent of Cold War-era expulsions.
Russian officials weren't available to comment late Monday on the deportation of Luke Harding. U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague raised the issue with Russian officials in phone call Monday, a spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.
"We have been in contact with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including through a call from the foreign secretary, to seek clarity on this decision," a spokesman for the foreign office said Monday night. "We are awaiting a reply."
Mr. Harding said in a telephone interview that he was refused entry to Russia when he returned to Moscow from London on Saturday. Though he had a journalist's visa valid until May 2011, Mr. Harding said, immigration officials told him without explanation that he was not being allowed into the country and would be deported. After being held for about an hour, he said, he was put on a plane back to London.
Mr. Harding, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent since 2007, had often written critical articles about the Kremlin and its policies, particularly in the volatile Caucasus region. He also authored a number of articles about allegations of high-level Kremlin corruption in U.S. diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks. Mr. Harding's expulsion came as the Guardian unveiled "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," a book he co-authored with the paper's investigative editor David Leigh.
"This is clearly a very troubling development with serious implications for press freedom, and it is worrying that the Russian government should now kick out reporters of whom they disapprove," said Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, part of Guardian Media Group PLC. He called Russia's treatment of journalists a matter "of great concern."
Russian officials have often expressed unhappiness about critical coverage in the Western press, but rarely have they resorted to limiting visas for foreign journalists.
Mr. Harding said he had received a number of complaints about his coverage from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which handles visas and accreditation for foreign journalists, particularly in the last year.
In November, he said, ministry officials told him his accreditation wouldn't be renewed at the end of the year because of two alleged violations of internal-travel restrictions inside Russia. Mr. Harding said he dismissed those as "pretexts." After intervention at that time by the British government, Mr. Harding said, Russian officials agreed to extend his visa until May 2011.
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Lloyd assembly at Kangaroo Point, Qld
Lloyd assembly at Kangaroo Point, Qld
Assembly of the Lloyd Hartnett using parts imported from Borgward
Sir Laurence Hartnett, father of the Holden car, built Lloyd cars in 1957 in a plant at Kangaroo Point, queensland. I found a few pictures related to this brief operation.
I believe about 3000 were made before Borgward went out of business.
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2011年2月7日 星期一
Lockerbie documents: Labour 'did all it could' to secure bomber's release
Lockerbie documents: Labour 'did all it could' to secure bomber's release
The former Labour Government did "all it could" to help Libya secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Britain's most senior civil servant is to admit today.
David Cameron will today publish around 150 secret documents related to the Lockerbie bomber's release
By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor 10:16AM GMT 07 Feb 2011
David Cameron will this afternoon publish a dossier of 150 pages of letters, memos and minutes related to the case after he promised Barack Obama, the US President, to review all the paperwork and see what could be made public.
In an accompanying report, Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, concludes: "Policy was, therefore, progressively developed that Her Majesty's Government should do all it could, while respecting devolved competencies, to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish government for Mr Megrahi's release under the Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) or for release on compassionate grounds.
"Such an approach was understood across all relevant departments."
The Daily Telegraph last week published documents obtained by the website WikiLeaks showing Bill Rammell, a Foreign Office minister, secretly advised Libya how to secure Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi's release on compassionate grounds.
The PTA was signed by Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, in 2007. Jack Straw, the then Justice Secretary, originally wanted to exclude the bomber from the agreement but dropped his objection after Libya used a multi-billion pound oil deal with BP as a bargaining chip.
Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, released Megrahi for compassionate reasons in August 2009 on the basis his prostate cancer meant he had less than three months to live. However, he is still alive in Libya more than 17 months later.
Mr Cameron and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, issued a joint statement at the weekend in which they "strongly agreed" that the decision had been a mistake.
Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, was freed from jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
It was claimed that his prostate cancer meant he had no more than three months to live. He is still alive more than 17 months later.
Today's documents are thought to include further information about the extent to which ministers under Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's leadership were willing to help the Libyans to secure a multi-billion pound oil deal for BP.
Their publication by the Cabinet Office is expected to undermine the Labour government's claims further that it did not interfere in the decision, which was the devolved Scottish Executive's responsibility.
Mr Cameron has previously insisted the decision was made by Scottish ministers alone, but agreed to release the documents during his first official meeting with Barack Obama last July to quell growing American anger.
Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, has since overseen a review of "all the paperwork" related to the case. It is expected that some key passages will be redacted but officials said the publication would not be a whitewash. A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "It's quite a comprehensive review."
It is understood the release will show Labour ministers were "complicit" in efforts to free the bomber. Mr Blair was instrumental in striking a 2007 prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Gaddafi, signing the "deal in the desert" just hours before BP unveiled a £500 million oil contract with Libya.
Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, has admitted originally wanting to exclude Megrahi from the PTA. He dropped his objection after Libya used its deal with BP as a bargaining chip.
The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Bill Rammell, a former Foreign Office minister, sent Libyan officials legal advice on how to use the bomber's cancer diagnosis to ensure he was freed.
Mr Cameron discussed the release with Mrs Clinton at a security conference in Munich at the weekend. A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister and Secretary of State strongly agreed that the release of the Lockerbie bomber had been a mistake."
A spokesman for Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, said: "The UK Government's position changed from autumn 2008 towards one of seeking to facilitate Megrahi's release."
But he said the Executive paid "no heed" to UK ministers and the bomber's release was "based upon the precepts of Scots Law, and not on foreign policy, economic, or any other considerations."
Scottish ministers will also publish some papers detailing their discussions about Megrahi with their Westminster counterparts. Sources close to Mr Salmond said the documents would "vindicate" his administration, showing it acted in a straightforward manner, while UK ministers tried to fix trade deals.
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Morning on the Bay Central.
Morning on the Bay Central.
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2011年2月6日 星期日
Votes For Women
Votes For Women
Taken at an Edwardian Weekend at Crich Tramway Museum. I particularly like the expressions on their faces. She really seams to be 'looking down her nose' at him.
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2011年2月5日 星期六
New York Society for Ethical Culture
New York Society for Ethical Culture
Central Park West, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America
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The meeting house of the New York Society for Ethical Culture is one of the finest works of the architect Robert D. Kohn and one of the few buildings in New York City designed in the Art Nouveau style. Built in 1909-10, the building provided an appropriate meeting place for the Society, and it became a tangible symbol of the Society's work.
The New York Society for Ethical Culture was founded in 1876 by Dr. Felix Adler, son of a Reformed Jewish rabbi, who had himself been trained in the rabbinical tradition. On May 15 of that year Dr. Adler addressed an organization meeting of several hundred people at Standard Hall on 42nd Street and Broadway.
The Ethical Movement as conceived by Adler was intended "to unite in one group, in one bond, those who had this religious feeling and those who simply cared for moral betterment ... Our ethical religion has its basis in the effort to improve the world and ourselves morally."
The organization grew rapidly and moved from its original meeting place at Standard Hall to Chickering Hall and then in 1892 to Carnegie Hall. Dr. Adler also trained interested young men as Leaders who founded new Societies throughout the United States.
One of the Society's most important activities was its school which set up a system of "unsectarian moral instruction ... to demonstrate practically how ethical ideas might be conveyed to the minds of children independently of theological dogmas."
In 1897 a committee was appointed to find a site and raise funds for a permanent Society building. The school building at 63rd Street and Central Park West, designed by the firm of Carrere & Hastings--with Robert D. Kohn as associated architect—opened in 1904. Kohn, a close friend of Felix Adler, designed the meeting house at 64th Street and Central Park West which was built in 1909-10.
Kohn was a pioneer in his use of the Art Nouveau style for this building, as heretofore it had come to the United States from Europe only in the form of architectural fittings and objets d'art. Kohn received his architectural training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and his Art Nouveau work grew out of the Beaux-Arts style.
Working with his wife, the sculptor Estelle Rumbold Kohn, they achieved a new architecture to adorn the city both in the Ethical Culture building and in the New York Evening Post building. It is of particular significance that Kohn was not only the architect for the Ethical Culture meeting house but was at one time a Leader of the congregation and served as President, of the Society from 1921-44.
A contemporary account in Architecture magazine states "... the Ethical Culture Society's building is certainly quite the best piece of Art Nouveau architecture yet designed in this country, and compares well with the magnificent German department store buildings whose excellence is so great as to almost promise a future for this style."
- From the 1974 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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2011年2月4日 星期五
Titans interview Giants' Fewell
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans have interviewed Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell for their head coaching vacancy.
Along with Atlanta offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey, they are the first candidates interviewed from outside the Titans organization.
The Titans confirmed Friday they completed formal interviews with Fewell and Mularkey. The team is not commenting any further until they conclude the search to replace Jeff Fisher.
Mularkey is the first candidate interviewed by Tennessee who has been a full-time head coach. By interviewing Fewell, who was the Bills interim head coach in 2009, the Titans satisfied the Rooney Rule by talking with a minority candidate.
Fewell, who completed his first season with the Giants, also interviewed with the Panthers, Browns and Broncos, and was considered by the 49ers.
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2011年2月3日 星期四
Snow. Plow.
The frozen sea
The frozen sea
More of the edge of the ice sheet over hudson bay. I was intrigued by the streaming patterns of white (ice, I assume) in the wonderfully blue water.
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2011年2月2日 星期三
Ipanema's Landscape
Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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