Archive for December 2009
Blog:How to Choose Good Boots
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Blog:Lions coach Ian McGeechan knighted
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 8:38 pmIan McGeechan is to be knighted in recognition of his Mbt trainers achievements over more than 40 years as a rugby player and coach. The Scot heads the list of sportsmen and women who are recognised in the New Year’s Honours List today, which includes Jenson Button and Beth Tweddle, who won world championships this year in Formula One and gymnastics respectively and are appointed MBE.
McGeechan, 63, took charge of the British and Irish Lions in South Africa last summer, the fourth time that he had been head coach for the quadrennial tour and his first at the helm since 1997, when the Lions beat the same opponents 2-1 in a thrilling series. Although the Lions were beaten 2-1 this year, they came within a kick of matching the world champions. The second international in Pretoria was tied 25-25 in stoppage time when Morné Steyn kicked a penalty goal from within his own half to win the match.
No one embodies the Lions spirit better than McGeechan, who was assistant coach to Sir Clive Woodward on the 2005 tour to New Zealand and toured as a player ghd straighteners in 1974 and 1977. The squad of 1974 is regarded as the Lions’ greatest: they went undefeated through the 22-match tour to South Africa, with McGeechan playing at centre in all four internationals.
He played 32 matches for Scotland and was a successful coach for his country and for London Wasps. Gavin Hastings, who played in the Scotland team who won the grand slam in 1990 and captained the Lions in 1993, both under McGeechan, led the tributes.
“There’s probably nobody that deserves this more for what Mbt he did for Scotland and the Lions,” Hastings said. “He’s been a very good ambassador for the sport.” McGeechan dedicated the honour to his family and said that his “passion for rugby and sporting excellence remains undimmed”. He has ruled himself out of coaching the Lions on their next tour, to Australia in 2013, but is expected to be involved as a consultant.
Button was honoured after a year in which he won his first drivers’ championship in Formula One. Ross Brawn, who was team principal of Brawn GP, for whom Button raced, has been appointed OBE in recognition of 30 years of success in the sport.
“I’m incredibly proud to have [become] a British Formula One world champion,” ghd hair straighteners Button said. “But to be recognised by the Queen and the British people is a tremendous honour.”
Tweddle won her second world title, in the floor exercise, at the O2 arena in southeast London in October. She said the honour had come as “a total shock” and gave credit to her younger fans after an error on the asymmetric bars in London had knocked her out of contention in her favourite event.
“It was hard to pick myself up but I had the support of all the young fans,” she said. “Children react differently to setbacks and they didn’t care that I had lost. They still cheered me on and that gave me the strength to succeed in the floor competition.”
Claire Taylor, the England cricketer and the first woman to be named Mbt sale one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year, was also appointed MBE after a year in which England won the Ashes, World Cup and World Twenty20. She said that her highlight was an unbroken stand of 122 with Beth Morgan in the semi-final of the World Twenty20 at the Brit Oval that helped England to beat Australia with three balls to spare.
Catriona Matthew, the golfer who won the Women’s British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes last summer only 11 weeks after giving birth, said that her MBE award was “the icing on the cake”. Other sporting honours went to Jimmy Armfield, the former England football captain and Blackpool full back, who is appointed CBE for his community work in Lancashire, and Jason Roberts, the Blackburn Rovers striker, who has been appointed MBE under the list for Grenada, the country he represents.
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Blog:If style matters, go for buying MBT shoes
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Blog:The Collector: Benedicto Cabrera
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 7:58 pmVisitors strolling the grounds of Benedicto Cabrera’s home will get a quick view of some of the Filipino painter’s passions: Plants, sculpture and other remnants of ghd straighteners the culture of the northern Luzon region pepper his four-hectare spread in Baguio.
Some recent additions to the landscape, such as the bonsai in the garden and carp in the pond, are gifts from admirers hoping to move up the long waiting list of buyers for the work of BenCab, as the famous painter is also known.
The artist’s new compound, completed earlier this year, includes three contemporary-style concrete and glass structures. There’s a hangar-like painting studio — neat, yet filled with books and small random objects. Across from it is the cottage Mr. Cabrera, 67 years old, shares with his partner, Annie Sarthou. And a few steps away, his extensive collection of contemporary Filipino artworks and tribal art sits displayed in a personal museum that is open to the public. An inveterate collector, Mr. Cabrera says he no longer knows how many pieces he owns.
“With collecting you learn,” says the perpetually curious artist.
Named a National Artist by the Philippine government in 2006 — the highest recognition given to Filipinos who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts — Mr. Cabrera owns hundreds of archive-worthy antique materials on the Philippines, including maps and books and old photographs. Some have inspired his paintings, which are prized for their draftsmanship and reflections on Filipino identity. He also owns one of the largest collections of Northern Philippine tribal objects as well as hundreds of Filipino works of contemporary photography,Mbt shoes painting and sculpture.
“I love looking at them,” says Mr. Cabrera. “I find inspiration in them.”
One of his most-treasured items is a small wooden model made by Arturo Luz (born in 1926) as a prototype for an outdoor sculpture that now stands in Manila. Mr. Cabrera first spied the miniature — a modern interpretation of a tribal god called an anito — in the early 1970s, when he visited the London home of Jaime Z[oacute]bel de Ayala, then the Philippine ambassador to the United Kingdom. Mr. Z[oacute]bel, whose family company commissioned the work, noticed Mr. Cabrera’s interest in the Luz maquette and gave it to him.
Born in Manila, Mr. Cabrera trained at the fine arts department of the University of the Philippines. He moved to London in the 1970s, after meeting and marrying an Englishwoman; they had three children, now grown. He returned to his homeland in 1986, after a divorce, and settled in Baguio, a mountain retreat about a six-hour drive north of Manila.
His children, who live in Europe and the U.S., visit him once a year. They share his love for his collections and art. “The middle one, Mayumi, shifted to art now,” he says. “She used to model and was taking psychology. But she has been drawing and now taking fine arts in Los Angeles.”
Mr. Cabrera’s own art keeps him busy. He recently had an exhibition at the Andrew Shire Gallery in Los Angeles. Some of his work is part of the Singapore Art Museum’s exhibition “Thrice Upon a Time: A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines,” which runs until Jan. 31. Mr. Cabrera also is preparing for a one-man show of his drawings at his museum next year. And in June, he’ll begin his second artist-in-residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute.
Why do you have a museum as part of your home?
I want to put some of my things in a proper setting. I was inspired by some artists in Bandung [Indonesia]. But I want to display other things aside from my own work for people to admire, so I have tribal art and contemporary art.
When did you begin collecting?
I started collecting comics when I was young. When I got into the arts, I could not afford to buy books so when I used to come across articles on the arts in a magazine,ghd hair straighteners I would cut it and then have it all book bound. It was a good reference. When I started to make money, in the 1960s, I was introduced to santos [statues of saints that date from the country's time as a Spanish colony, 1565-1898]….Maybe it was my affinity to sculpture that made me collect santos.
When I got married we traveled. We went to India, Kathmandu and I started collecting Oriental things like thangkas [Buddhist painted or embroidered artworks] and Buddhas. In the 1970s, when I was living in London, we started dealing in these things….We rented a stall in a flea market. This is where I met other collectors and I started concentrating on Filipiniana. Then you could get maps of the Philippines for cheap. My first map I got in Rome for a dollar. Now it is worth about 35,000 pesos ($755). It dates from 1575.
What happened to the santos?
I sold them [in the 1960s and 1970s before moving to England].
Do you miss them?
I do. I wanted to focus on maps, books and prints. I have travel books from as early as the 1630s. When I came back to live in the Philippines, I sold some of my maps to start life again….I was forced to sell because I didn’t have much money. I have been attracted to Japanese ukiyo-e, woodblock prints. I started collecting and stopped….The price of the maps went up. You learn, and then you have to part with it sometimes.
How did you build a collection about the Cordilleras (the northern Philippine mountain region with tribal cultures from precolonial times)?
The postcards, photos and maps I came across in London. There were whole albums. These objects I started collecting when I was making money from my paintings, so this was in the late 1980s to early 1990s. But even before that I was already interested. I used to come across nice pieces but I could not afford them in the early days.
What attracts you to Cordillera art?
The sculptural quality and the culture that goes with it. They use [these objects] for rituals. I am also attracted to the patina. You can feel if it is old. In London I met a lot of dealers in tribal art. I was attracted to pieces from Benin and Nigeria. I said, “Filipinos also have tribal art.”
Is tribal art-collecting popular in the Philippines?
Yes. There was a good collection that Imee Marcos [Ferdinand and Imelda's eldest daughter] bought. There are a number of collectors. But not everyone likes them. Some discount Mbt shoes , because they are Christian, have to sell because it is considered “idolatry.” But for me it is art.
What are your favorites in your collection of works by Filipino masters?
I like the Luz. And the Jos[eacute] Joya. The Cesar Legaspi. Early Lee Aguinaldo. Because of the stories behind them and because they were our first abstract paintings. They were done in the 1960s, at the height of abstract expressionism. This was when painters were painting not for buyers. At that time it was hard to sell works. Now many of our artists are [sold] at international auctions.
How did you become interested in the work of younger artists?
The pieces in my collection have some affinity to my work and what I’m interested in. Most of them are figurative. I go to exhibitions, particularly when it’s their first, the works are still reasonably priced.
What attracts you aesthetically?
Skill: That is what is missing now. A lot modern art now is mostly conceptual. It is sloppy. I’m old school. I look for good composition…and I like artists who are innovative.
Name some young Filipino painters you like.
Roland Ventura is very skillful. He just draws so well. Some thought he made digital prints because his work is so fine. Elmer Borlongan paints from memory. He doesn’t base it on photographs, which a lot of artists do now. Even I do it sometimes. I also like Mark Justiniani.
And photography?
I love photography. When I worked as a layout artist for [Manila's] Sunday Times magazine in the early 1960s, I got my first camera. Romy Vitug is in his 70s now. He’s a cinematographer but he is very good at photography. I learned techniques from him, he learned composition from me. I like Emmanuel Santos and his narrative approach to photography. He uses a traditional film camera. I also have a collection of 60 pictures by [the late Filipino photographer] Eduardo Masferr[eacute]. He was selling them as postcards. I used to buy them for 2.50 pesos (about 13 cents)Mbt sale, and they are original photos. Now reproduction prints are $300. He made images of the [indigenous Filipino] tribes in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Why are you purchasing some of your old paintings?
There was a time when I could not afford to keep my own work. I don’t have any early work of my own. It was a struggle before, so I was able to buy a few back recently.
One you bought back was an early painting of a “Sabel,” a female figure draped in rags. What does Sabel represent?
Sabel started as a symbol of the oppressed and conditions of the country where we have a lot of poor people. In the beginning, she was social commentary. I’ve used it to make a very Japanese style or almost abstract. It became my icon.
Why do you like plants?
In London I had very little space. With bonsai you can have many trees in one small space. You can bring it in and admire it. I train it and all that. I make the time. But now I have a forest so I don’t add bonsai anymore….One collector realized I like bonsai. So he said: “I’ll give you bonsai from China.” He gave me 14. Wow. It’s the Filipino utang na luob, where you have to return the favor. He got two paintings last year.
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Blog:The Leader-Nike shoes
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Blog:Markets put Nightmare on Wall Street behind them
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | 8:46 pmThe FTSE 100 hit its highest level yesterday since the collapse of Lehman Brothers as Mbt trainers the market’s year-end rally continued.
The blue-chip index rose for the fifth consecutive session, gaining 35.2 points to 5,437.61, beating a close of 5,416.7 points the day before the US investment bank filed for bankruptcy in September last year. The FTSE is now up almost 22 per cent this year.
Henk Potts, a market strategist at Barclays Wealth, said: “Equities are moving inexorably higher, with the corporate picture looking good into the year-end, ghd straighteners even if the macro one remains pretty cloudy.”
The number of shares traded was low, with many people in the City on holiday and investors repositioning their portfolios for the year-end responsible for most of the trade.
The mining sector, responsible for much of the index’s gains in the run-up to Christmas, was once again the main driver, amid higher metal prices.
Sterling remained flat against the dollar, giving back gains made earlier in the day as investors rushed to catch up after the bank holiday on Monday.
The pound rose Mbt by 0.8 per cent to hit $1.6070, before paring these gains and falling back below $1.60.
Sterling also remained unchanged on the trade-weighted index at 79.4 — matching its lowest level since November 30.
The euro gained against the pound, rising by 0.3 per cent to 90.13p after peaking at 90.33p — its highest level since December 14.
Shares on Wall Street were largely unchanged as stagnant house prices cancelled out Mbt sale any joy from data showing a rise in consumer confidence.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 1.67 points down at 10,545.41 in light trading.
The Conference Board’s Index of Consumer Confidence rose in December, but only because consumers felt that the future was looking brighter.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller Home Price Index showed that house prices across ghd hair straighteners America’s 20 biggest cities were flat in October.
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Blog:Tips for Ordering Nike Tennis Shoes Wholesale
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Blog:Britain in line for Europe’s fastest railway
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | 8:31 pmA blueprint for the fastest railway in Europe will be handed to the Government today for approval ghd straighteners .
Ministers hope to decide on a detailed route for a high-speed link between London and the West Midlands by March, so that voters can make a decision at the general election, The Times has learnt.
Construction would begin in 2017, with the first trains running by 2025 if the project, which would cost tens of billions of pounds, wins approval.
“In terms of new policy, high-speed rail is my top priority over the next three months,” Lord Adonis, Mbt shoes the Transport Secretary, told The Times.
He hopes to win cross-party approval for the high-speed line to the Midlands. on which trains will travel at up to 200mph. The Government aims to publish a White Paper by the end of March, setting out a detailed route for the first phase of construction and a broad outline of a network running north of Birmingham to Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and on to Scotland. Once complete, journey times between London and Edinburgh would be cut to 2 hours 40 minutes.
The three main political parties are, in theory, committed to high-speed rail. Consensus on a specific route may be more difficult once the impact on marginal seats in the West Midlands is taken into consideration. Party political division may also emerge over how the network should connect to Heathrow and the Crossrail project and over ghd hair straighteners. the shape of the high-speed railway north of Birmingham.
Today Lord Adonis will receive a 1,000-page report by High Speed Two (HS2), a company set up in January to consider the case for high-speed rail travel. It sets out a favoured route to the West Midlands, drawn to within 5m in urban areas and 25m in open country. The report will also present three alternative schemes for a wider high-speed network. Similar routes were proposed last autumn by the Conservative Party, which sees high-speed rail as an alternative to airport expansion in the South.
Railway insiders say that HS2 has identified a station in North London that could be expanded to accommodate a huge increase in passengers. The railway will be designed to carry 18 trains, each 400m long and carrying 1,100 people, every hour. Euston and St Pancras are thought to offer the best potential for major growth.
Lord Adonis is understood to favour an interchange with Crossrail, the £16 billion project running east to west through London and with Heathrow. Although he will not make a formal response to the HS2 report until March, The Times understands that Lord Adonis would look favourably on a second London station to the west of the capital, providing links to both transport hubs.
The Government believes that high-speed rail would save business travellers’ time, add much-needed capacity to the railway, reduce carbon emissions and spur economic growth and regional regeneration.
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Cross-party support for a detailed plan would help to win the inevitable planning battle when the proposals are put out to public consultation next summer.
Lord Adonis hopes to take high-speed rail “above party politics”. He said: “I am very happy to give credit to the Tories and Lib Dems for championing this cause.”
Theresa Villiers, the Shadow Transport Secretary, said: “This is a live political issue.” But, she said, despite positive mood music, the Government had not yet made a firm commitment.
“If we win the general election, construction can start in 2015,” Ms Villiers told The Times.
In 2008 the Conservatives set out a £20 billion plan to build a high-speed line from London to Leeds, with construction costs met by the public purse — and the remainder by the private sector.
Business leaders predict a £55 billion boost to the economy if the project goes ahead and are demanding a binding agreement from all parties that the next government will build high-speed lines.
Today’s report from HS2 will set out the business case and environmental impact of a high-speed rail Mbt sale system.
Assuming that Lord Adonis approves, the project will move swiftly into the political realm.
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Blog:Bonus tax may lead JP Morgan to scrap London HQ
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 9:20 pmJP Morgan may scrap plans to build a £1.5 billion headquarters Mbt sale in London because of concerns about the 50 per cent tax on bonuses and Britain’s regulatory crackdown.
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s chief executive, expressed anger at the tax and other issues in a telephone call with Alistair Darling this month.
Mr Dimon is understood to have made clear his frustration that the bank, which emerged as one of the strongest banks from the financial crisis, would be caught by the tax, which was announced by the Treasury along with the Pre-Budget Report.
JP Morgan is among several large banks that are worried that Britain is becoming an increasingly unfriendly place to operate. As well as the bonuses tax, senior financiers are concerned that new rules emerging from the Financial Services Authority ghd hair straighteners will impose far greater scrutiny and restrictions on institutions than previously.
A JP Morgan executive said of the call between Mr Dimon and Mr Darling: “There were no threats made on the call and we have made no decisions on people or buildings based on the super-tax announcement.”
JP Morgan is one of several banks that are beginning to consider whether they should continue to have significant operations in London. It employs thousands of staff in the UK, which is the headquarters for its European operation.
The bank must decide Mbt whether to go ahead with its planned new headquarters in Canary Wharf soon, as it has an option with Songbird Estates, the developer, to pull out of the deal by the end of next year. That decision is hanging in the balance and many in the City believe that the bank will not go ahead with the building.
Analysts believe it probable that HSBC will move away from Britain. The bank revealed in the autumn that it was reorganising its senior management structure. Michael Geoghegan, its chief executive, will move to Hong Kong in the new year.
Barclays may also consider its options. The bank signalled its willingness to move its head office when it pledged to relocate to Amsterdam as part of its offer for ABN Amro in 2006. Some think that the bank could be tempted by a move to New York,ghd straighteners after its acquisition of Lehman Brothers last year. John Varley, the chief executive, has publicly criticised the Treasury’s 50 per cent tax, which will be levied on all UK and foreign banks operating in London on bonuses that exceed £25,000. Mr Varley said: “I think that London could well be damaged by this.”
The Treasury believes that most banks will not pull out of London because the tax is very likely to be a one-off, running from December 9, 2009, to April 5, 2010.
The Government has reserved the right to extend the levy, but it is not planning to do so unless it believes that a significant number of financial institutions plan to avoid the tax by delaying bonus payments.
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