Bye Bye Antarctica

Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica.

Journalist killed in Moscow

Radio Liberty Russia – В Москве убит корреспондент Первого канала российского телевидения Ильяс Шурпаев.
Его тело с ножевыми ранениями и ремнём на шее найдено в квартире, которую он снимал.
Шурпаев – выходец из Дагестана, 1975 года рождения.
На телевидении он делал репортажи о событиях на Кавказе.

Broke Tibet

Paramilitary police pose for a
photo in the main square in Zhongdian, in an area known as Shangri-La,
in China’s southwest Yunnan province Friday March 21, 2008. Thousands
of troops converged on foot, in trucks and helicopters in Tibetan areas
of western China on Friday as the government stepped up its manhunt for
protesters in last weeks anti-government riots in Tibet’s capital.

(AP Photo/Greg Baker)

Japan Fashion Week 08: IZREEL

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Japan Fashion Week 08: h.NAOTO

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Japan Fashion Week 08: HIROKO KOSHINO

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Japan Fashion Week 08: garconshinois

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Japan Fashion Week 08: Yukiko Hanai

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Japan Fashion Week 08: YLANG YLANG

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Japan Fashion Week 08: HISUI

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Japan Fashion Week 08: Né-net

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Japan Fashion Week 08: MIKIO SAKABE

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MIKIO SAKABE

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Japan Fashion Week 08: mintdesigns

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mintdesigns

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Japan Fashion Week 08: zechia

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Japan Fashion Week 08: KAMISHIMA CHINAMI

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KAMISHIMA CHINAMI

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Про що домовились Путін та Ющенко у Москві

Радіо Свобода – Україна і Росія домовились врегулювати питання газової заборгованости.

Про це повідомив Президент Росії Владімір Путін по закінченню засідання міжвідомчої комісії «Ющенко-Путін» у Москві.

За його словами, компанію «Ґазпром» влаштовують пропозиції української сторони і залишилося лише оформити їх офіційно.

«Сьогодні від наших партнерів ми почули, що найближчим часом
розпочнеться погашення заборгованості, і ми домовились щодо принципів
співпраці на 2008-й і на наступні роки. Пропозиції українських
партнерів влаштовують. Сподіваємось, що усі домовленості будуть
виконуватись», – зазначив Володимир Путін .

У відповідь Президент Віктор Ющенко пообіцяв, що Україна вже
післязавтра розпочне повертати борг за російський газ у сумі понад
мільярд доларів.

Але зазначив, що за спожитий у листопаді та грудні газ платитимуть
по ціні 130 доларів за тисячу кубометрів. А от з нового року газ уже
оплачуватиметься за новою ціною.

«Щодо постачання на 2008 рік, то ми домовилися, що базова ціна вхідна 179 – вона зберігається», – зауважив Віктор Ющенко.

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London Fashion Week 08: PPQ

“Lily Allen and Sophie Ellis Bextor joined Peaches Geldof and Rod
Stewart’s model daughter Kimberley Stewart in the front row for the
funky, 50s-inspired show by PPQ”

review from Hilary Alexander, Telegraph’s fashion editor here

PPQ

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Ukrainian Parliament. 12/02/2008

Pro-russian opposition blocking work of parliament over cooperation with NATO

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Регіонали розблокують парламент. Тимчасово

Фракція Партії регіонів розблокує роботу парламенту для розгляду соціальних законопроектів. Про Торговельну палату, про сільську медицину й прожитковий мінімум і можливо – про скорочення Збройних сил.

Вечірнє пленарне засідання має стартувати о 1600

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London Fashion Week 08: BIBA

“

IT was all in the (prolific) details at Biba
this afternoon, where embellishment and embroidery came thick and fast.
Drawing on an evening aesthetic which referenced such artists as Gustav
Klimt and Camille Rose Garcia, the setting – Claridge’s Ballroom -
couldn’t have been more apt, or a better way to signal that this season
the Biba girl is all about one thing: glamour, but with an impish twist“

Catwalk report by british Vogue here

BIBA

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London Fashion Week 08: Jaeger London

“To gauge what’s going on at Jaeger,
you have to understand the British term “the high street”: It’s the
stretch of affordable fashion that supposedly takes in everywoman—a
market that has recently been characterized by plummeting prices and a
matching slump in standards. Jaeger sits at the upper end of that
segment, a brand with the historical aura of a good-but-boring name
about it, squarely set in the middle-income, middle-aged bracket, and
not afraid to say it”

Show review by american Vogue here

Jaeger London

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London Fashion Week 08: Paul Smith Women

Complete collection and catwalk review on Style.com

Paul Smith Women

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Saudi authorities ban St. Valentine’s color. No red roses

In an annual crackdown ahead of Cupid’s big day, Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has swept through the oil kingdom and ordered florists and gift shops to remove every item of red until Friday, the Saudi Gazette reported today.

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Primaries08: Who will win Maryland, Virginia and D.C.

Today Maryland, Virginia and D.C. hold their primaries. Who will win – see NBCs Nightly News report

Ющенко привезе з Москви газ за 190$

Коммерсантъ Росія має власні прогнози щодо сьогоднішнього візиту Віктора Ющенка до Москви:

Если
“Газпром” недавно настаивал на продаже газа по $314,7 за тысячу
кубометров при прямых поставках, а “Нафтогаз” — на $179,5 за тысячу
кубометров при любом посреднике, кроме RosUkrEnergo, то сейчас позиции,
похоже, стали смягчаться. Очевидно, что компромисс может содержаться в
установлении какой-то промежуточной цены, например $190 за тысячу
кубометров в среднем на 2008 год, и пересмотре схемы поставок с заменой
посредника на 2009 год. Примечательно, что до сегодняшнего дня ни
Владимир Путин, ни Виктор Ющенко не сказали ни одного критического
слова в адрес RosUkrEnergo, которая имеет все шансы проработать как
минимум до 2009 года, в отличие от “Укргаз-Энерго”. Как рассказал “Ъ”
один из участников газового рынка Украины, “с середины января работа по
старым схемам сворачивается, спокойно и без спешки”. 

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Мінус УкрГазЕнерго Плюс РосУкрЕнерго

Російські “Ведомости” дають власний прогноз сьогоднішній зустрічі українського та російського презедентів:

Накануне сегодняшней встречи президентов Украины и России Виктора
Ющенко и Владимира Путина в самом украинском руководстве возникли
разногласия. Секретарь совета национальной безопасности и обороны
Украины Раиса Богатырева и руководитель секретариата Ющенко Виктор
Балога выступили против идеи премьер-министра Юлии Тимошенко устранить
и Rosukrenergo (RUE), и «Укргазэнерго» (СП «Нафтогаза» и RUE) из схемы
поставок газа на Украину и перейти к прямым контактам между
госкомпанией «Нафтогаз Украины» и «Газпромом». Днем Тимошенко выразила
готовность временно потерпеть наличие RUE в схеме поставок, но
непременно исключить из нее «Укргазэнерго». Источник в RUE считает, что
RUE бояться нечего, а устранение с украинского рынка «Укргазэнерго»
будет стоить «Газпрому» значительной выгоды, которую он может
компенсировать только повышением цены.

«Газпром» готов к изменению схемы поставок, но только после того,
как будут закрыты все старые долги и если условия экспорта газа на
Украину для «Газпрома» не ухудшатся, заявил «Ведомостям» представитель
компании Сергей Куприянов. Замруководителя секретариата Ющенко
Александр Шлапак вчера же сообщил, что предправления «Газпрома» Алексей
Миллер по телефону говорил Балоге даже о прямых поставках газа на
Украину «Газпромом». Куприянов отказался комментировать слова Шлапака.
Вчера «Газпром» заявил о переносе сокращения подачи газа на Украину с
утра на вечер вторника.

Сотрудник «Нафтогаза Украины» заявил «Ведомостям», что для Украины
обмен повышения цены на прямые поставки приемлем, но «масштабы
повышения должны быть предметом переговоров, резкого роста цен
украинская экономика не выдержит». На переговорах с «Газпромом»
«Нафтогаз» выдвигает две ключевые позиции: погашение задолженности за
газ, образовавшейся в 2007 г., по ценам 2007 г. и устранение
«Укргазэнерго».

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Bikes and London Mayor’s Campaign

Cycling credentials became the center of election campaign for new mayor of London. Today’s chief of british capitol, Ken Livingstone, announcing a £500m investment in cycling in the capital. This will apparently be spent on a massive network of “cycle super
highways” to cut across London and a “hire-and-ride” bike scheme (based
on the extraordinarily successful Paris “Velib” example). Independent asks in leading article, why only London should benefit from such lavish investment in country, where almost a quarter of car journeys are less than two miles, a distance that can be cycled in less than 15 minutes:

The Government periodically makes supporting noises towards cycling,
but very little funding has materialised to encourage it as a method of
transport. We remain decades behind countries such as the Netherlands
and Finland when it comes to the provision of cycling routes. And the
amounts spent by the Government on facilitating cars far outstrip the
sums set aside for those on two wheels.
Cycling is on the move. But ministers seem trapped in a mind-set in
which cars come first. The moment has come for them to give way.

Байки стали центром передвиборної кампанії з обрання мера Лондона. Дійсний голова британської столиці повідомив про старт 500 мільйонної інвестиційної програми впровадження велосипедного руху. Вона містить прожекти будівництва ,байк-хайвеїв та розгалудженої схеми станцій прокату двоколісних. Independent запитує у кавер-статті, чому таку програму має експлуатувати лише столиця, у той час як у всій країні більше чверті авто-подорожей  довжиною менше двох миль – відстань, яку байком можна подолати за 15 хвилин. Настав час для велосипедів в Об’єднаному Королівстві, але чиновники й досі затиснуті у стеріотипах першости автівок.

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The End for Hillary?

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks
at a campaign stop at the National Council of Negro Women Building in
Washington, Monday.

(Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)

She lost four primary contests over the weekend, was expected to lose three
more Tuesday, and faces an uphill battle in the two that follow. Her campaign chief has stepped aside amid signs of dissension over a flawed strategy. Is it begining of an end for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?

Would a month of good news for Obama create unstoppable momentum? Did
Clinton’s campaign commit a critical error by assuming the race would
effectively end on Feb. 5? IHT tries to predict:

The nature of the Democrats’ proportional system, which makes it hard
even for the winner of primaries to build up a large lead quickly, will
help keep Clinton in the race. And her deep and widespread political
ties give her an edge among the uncommitted superdelegates, mostly
party officials, who could decide the final outcome. That’s where a decade of contacts and favors can pay off. But if it comes down to that, you’re talking about hand-to-hand combat.

Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of
Wisconsin, in Madison, said his state was one place where Clinton could
interrupt Obama’s run.

“The only island of hope for Clinton in February potentially is
Wisconsin,” he said. So far, he said, the Clinton camp appeared unsure
how much time and money to devote to that contest.

Wisconsin could play to Clinton’s strengths, he added. “It’s a primary,
not a caucus state, and he’s done better in caucuses; it’s a Midwestern
state with a large working class, a large white population and lower
income population, a big union presence. There’s just a question
whether her campaign can do the kind of fund-raising and organizational
things needed.”

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Russia shuts university that displeased Putin/ Росія почала закривати університети, які не подобаються Путіну

The European University at St Petersburg (EUSP) has been forced to
suspend its teaching after officials claimed that its historic
buildings were “a fire risk”. On Friday a court ordered that all
academic work cease, classrooms be sealed and the university’s library
shut.

Academics at the EUSP said the move was politically
motivated – and followed a row last year over a programme funded by the
European commission to improve the monitoring of Russian elections. The
university accepted a three-year, £500,000 EU grant to run a project
advising Russia’s political parties on matters such as how to ensure
elections are not rigged.

Last October, the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, launched a vitriolic attack on the EUSP – which has
close links with universities in the UK and US – accusing it of being
an agent of foreign meddling.

Европейський Університет у Санкт-Петербурзі змушений припинити навчання після того, як місцева влада заявила, що історичні будівлі навчального закладу не відповідають пожежній безпеці. Через це установі “запропонували” закритися назавжди.

В університеті говорять, що це цілком політичне рішення – ЕУСП у минулому році отримав ґрант на 500 тис еврів від Европейської Комісії для вдосконалення моніторингу виборчого процесу та освітньої програми із прозорости голосування в Росії. У минулому жовтні Путін згадував ЕУСП як аґента “зовнішнього втручання”.

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Yahoo says ‘No’ to Microsoft

Search engine company rejecting $45 billion offer from software giant, saying it ’substantially undervalues’ assets and earnings potential

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Grammy 08: CNNs highlights

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Fried dolphin on menu in Japan

“Stay Away. It’s Japanese tradition”, – says to environmentalists locals. But answer me a simple question – what is common between ‘tradition’ and killing highly intelligent animals with modern bouts and  hi-tech weapons just for another menu line.

Here is piece story by CNN:

Fishermen hunt dolphins about every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean. The sounds of waves crashing onto a rocky shore mingle in Taiji with the screeching wails of dolphins being chopped and hacked to death by fishermen.

Locals know they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it’s a tradition hundreds of years old. And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering chickens or cows.

CNNs shocking video where japanese fishermen catch dolphins here

And here YouTube video how Japanese treat dolphins. Just not for sensitive people.

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Fried dolphin on menu in Japan

“Stay Away. It’s Japanese tradition”, – says to environmentalists locals. But answer me a simple question – what is common between ‘tradition’ and killing highly intelligent animals with modern bouts and  hi-tech weapons just for another menu line.

Here is piece story by CNN:

Fishermen hunt dolphins about every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean. The sounds of waves crashing onto a rocky shore mingle in Taiji with the screeching wails of dolphins being chopped and hacked to death by fishermen.

Locals know they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it’s a tradition hundreds of years old. And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering chickens or cows.

CNNs shocking video where japanese fishermen catch dolphins here

And here YouTube video how Japanese treat dolphins. Just not for sensitive people.

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Fire destroyed South Korea’s national treasure

A fire has destroyed Namdaemun, South Korea’s oldest wooden structure and a national treasure

Before

foto onekarabiannights.wordpress.com

AFTER

EPA/STR

[Reuters]

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Grammy 08: Catchy moments

Here catchy moments of Grammy 2008 by Rolling Stone’s fotos

Amy Winehouse hugs her mother after receiving the Record of the Year
award for her record “Back to Black” during the 50th annual Grammy
awards on February 10, 2008 in London.
Photo: Getty

Beyonce performs with Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008
Photo: Getty

Nominee for Album of the Year Kanye West performs at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.
Photo: Getty

Aretha Franklin and Bebe Winans perform onstage during the 50th annual
Grammy awards held at the Staples Center on February 10, 2008 in Los
Angeles, California
Photo: Getty

Singer Cher introduces Beyonce and Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008
Photo: Getty

Daft Punk pose backstage after making their first ever appearance at
the Grammy Awards to perform with Kanye West at the 50th Grammy Awards
in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008
Photo: Getty

Rihanna performs with the Time at the Grammy Awards on February 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California

Alicia Keys performs with a film of the late Frank Sinatra at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008

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Grammy 08: Best show performances

Beyonce & Tina Turner

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Kanye West

Kanye West Mother Dedication


Rihanna & The Time

Alicia Keys & John Mayer


Grammy 08: Winners

Biggest music event this year and here is it’s WINNERS:

Record Of The Year

(Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.)

Rehab

Amy Winehouse

Mark Ronson, producer; Tom Elmhirst, Vaughan Merrick, Dom Morley, Mark Ronson & Gabriel Roth,
engineers/mixers

Track from: Back To Black

[Universal Republic Records]

Album Of The Year

(Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s),
Recording Engineer(s)/Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other
than the artist.)

• River: The Joni Letters
• Herbie Hancock
  Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Corinne Bailey Rae,
  Luciana Souza & Tina Turner, featured artists; Herbie Hancock &
  Larry Klein, producers; Helik Hadar, engineer/mixer; Bernie Grundman,
  mastering engineer
  [Verve] 

Song Of The Year

(A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first
released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility
Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Rehab
Amy Winehouse, songwriter (Amy Winehouse)
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records; Publisher: EMI Music Publishing]

Best New Artist

(For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year,
the first recording which establishes the public identity of that
artist.)

Amy Winehouse

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records]

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

What Goes Around…Comes Around
Justin Timberlake
[Jive]

Best Pop Vocal Album

(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
[Universal Republic Records]

Best Dance Recording

(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.)

LoveStoned/I Think She Knows
Justin Timberlake
Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass & Timbaland, mixers
Track from: FutureSex/LoveSounds
[Jive/Zomba]

Best Rock Song

(A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock & Metal
songs. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names
appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Radio Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
Track from: Magic
[Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen]

Complete Winners-List on Grammy.com

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Amy is Back: Grammy 08

She’s most exciting thing that happed with music for last decades and she’s back. Amy Winehouse wins 5 Grammies yesterday. Music gives her second chance.

Amy sings at Grammy08

Here her reaction on first Grammy last night

And media are shocked too

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Who will win Grammy 08

Rolling Stone asked stars and made own predictions about this year’s Grammy wiiners

ALBUM OF THE
YEAR

Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience
& Grace
Vince Gill: These Days
Kanye West: Graduation
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni
Letters

Who should win:

Kanye West: After
three brilliant albums in a row, the rapper is long overdue for his
first Album of the Year win.

RECORD OF THE
YEAR

Beyoncé: “Irreplaceable”
Foo Fighters: “The Pretender”
Rihanna feat. Jay-Z: “Umbrella”
Justin Timberlake: “What Goes Around . . . Comes
Around”
Amy Winehouse: “Rehab”

Who should win:

Rihanna: Last year’s
most ubiquitous pop song, “Umbrella” may be more annoying than
“Rehab,” but it’s also more irresistible.

BEST NEW
ARTIST

Amy Winehouse
Taylor Swift
Paramore
Ledisi
Feist

Who should win:

Amy Winehouse: The
nominating committee may have been overly generous with the
headline-grabbing crooner, but for this one she’s a no-brainer

BEST FEMALE POP
VOCAL

Christina Aguilera: “Candyman”
Nelly Furtado: “Say It Right”
Fergie: “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
Feist: “1234″
Amy Winehouse: “Rehab”

Who should win:

Feist: The indie
queen’s gorgeous ditty grew on us with each passing listen, while
the others just got more and more irksome.

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New York Fashion Week 08: Derek Lam

“Derek Lam’s show felt as if
it were set in a funeral home, with the walls and runway shrouded in
black; and the models, some wearing lace blindfolds, were dressed for a
party in Monte Carlo, where they would sneak upstairs to crack a safe
with David Niven.
I’m not saying it was a dark collection, but the word black appeared in
Mr. Lam’s program notes 88 times — and there were only 44 looks.”

Eric Wilson
NYTs fashion blogger

more of his review here

Derek Lam

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New York Fashion Week 08: Calvin Klein

“I WANTED it to be orderly – as in sharp, strong“

more of catwalk report in british Vogue

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New York Fashion Week 08: Zac Posen

“It’s just the girls I love to
dress,” he said backstage before the show began. “It’s not a very
derivative theme collection. It’s about propositions of how our woman
dresses. It’s Minnie Mouse and Olive Oil meets Helmut Newton. It’s the
fetish of fashion“

British Vogue about Zac Posen new collection

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New York Fashion Week 08: Tommy Hilfiger

“Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie ‘O’ were Hilfiger’s muses for
next autumn/winter and, extraordinarily, there was not an item of
menswear in the entire parade”

review by Hilary Alexander Telegraph’s fashion editor here

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New York Fashion Week 08: Vera Wang

“
“THAT was couture,” said a fashion insider to Vera Wang, after the designer’s autumn/winter 2008-9 presentation at Bryant Park this morning. “You should be showing in Paris”“

Review by british Vogue here


Photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Photo: Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times

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New York Fashion Week 08: Marchesa

“With the Vanity Fair Oscar party canceled and the fate of the
awards show itself still in the balance, Georgina Chapman and Keren
Craig were smart to scale back the number of red-carpet dresses in
their presentation. What their Hollywood clients need now is something
less grand, but not—and this is key—something less glamorous”

Runway review on Style.com

Marchesa

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New York Fashion Week 08: Isaac Mizrahi

“Many of these clothes—like a black tunic dress with crystal and fur
embroidery—had an old-Hollywood-at-home feel to them, though a red
sweater suit read very Jacqueline Kennedy, very first lady. Mizrahi’s new position will have him designing clothes that fall between fast fashion and the couture lab”

Runway review on Style.com

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New York Fashion Week 08: Anna Sui

“For next autumn./winter, Anna’s creative juices had been galvanized by
the pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau, Tiffany lamps, Fortuny, a visit to
Vancouver where she checked out the Pacific Northwest American Indian
community and the current exhibition in New York at the Neue Gallery of
the work by Gustav Klimt. Whew!”

review by Hilary Alexander Telegraph’s fashion editor here

Complete collection here and video here

Anna Sui

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New York Fashion Week 08: Benjamin Cho

“It sounds kind of weird, but I literally craft day and night”

Runway review by american Vogue here

Benjamin Cho

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New York Fashion Week 08: MICHAEL KORS

“If there was any doubt as to the muse – or era – Kors was channeling, the Amy Winehouse remixes helped clarify his point“

Review by british Vogue here

“The clothes on the catwalk were pure ‘Grace’ and the ‘reel life’
fantasy was made even more tangible by the snatches of Hitchcock movie
themes interwoven into the soundtracks”

impressions of Telegraph’s fashion editor Hilary Alexander here

“I think I’m jealous of Michael Kors.
He has such a good time. He doesn’t take anything seriously except, of
course, business. His show on Wednesday was a blaze of Hollywood chic
in the late 1950s and early ’60s: Lauren Bacall
in a cloqué sheath, girls in tweed slacks, poor-boy sweaters, mink
coats, mohair pullovers and black cocktail dresses with taupe pumps.The clothes are so cheerful that you’d feel like the worst jerk to mention the Balenciaga flower prints”

Cathy Horyn, NYTs fashion blogger

MICHAEL KORS

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Michael Kors [men]

“”Men love clothes in Hollywood,” Michael Kors said backstage
before his show. “I’m sure Eric Dane thinks about clothes more than his
wife, Rebecca.” The Danes were in the front row, alongside costar Ellen
Pompeo, Debra Messing, Raquel Welch, Sigourney Weaver, and Natasha
Richardson, to see Kors’ take on something he called “The Reel Life,”
mixing timeless and tabloid. For the men, in their heavy horn rims and snap-brim hats, it was more Cary Grant with the mean streak of Mad Men. It worked”

More foto on Men.Style.com

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Michael Kors [men]

“”Men love clothes in Hollywood,” Michael Kors said backstage
before his show. “I’m sure Eric Dane thinks about clothes more than his
wife, Rebecca.” The Danes were in the front row, alongside costar Ellen
Pompeo, Debra Messing, Raquel Welch, Sigourney Weaver, and Natasha
Richardson, to see Kors’ take on something he called “The Reel Life,”
mixing timeless and tabloid. For the men, in their heavy horn rims and snap-brim hats, it was more Cary Grant with the mean streak of Mad Men. It worked”

More foto on Men.Style.com

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New York Fashion Week 08: Marc by Marc Jacobs

“Eighties new wave, with just enough
modernism to keep things feeling fresh – exactly what his fans (like
front row attendees Fergie and Rachel Zoe) love“

Review by british Vogue here

“There was a definite 60’s vibe at Marc Jacobs’ ‘Marc’ showing, the
younger, funkier line the designer aims at the naughty-but-nice
daughters of his more sophisticated customers”impressions of Telegraph’s fashion editor Hilary Alexander here

“The main events at Marc by Marc Jacobs were the pegged trousers and the tunic dresses in tweed and leather with stand-up collars. The collection was ’80s cute, with houndstooth-check skirts, a banana-yellow sweatshirt dress, bright pink bags and strappy ankle boots.”

Cathy Horyn, NYTs fashion blogger

MARC JACOBS

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New York Fashion Week 08: Marc by Marc Jacobs

“Eighties new wave, with just enough
modernism to keep things feeling fresh – exactly what his fans (like
front row attendees Fergie and Rachel Zoe) love“

Review by british Vogue here

“There was a definite 60’s vibe at Marc Jacobs’ ‘Marc’ showing, the
younger, funkier line the designer aims at the naughty-but-nice
daughters of his more sophisticated customers”

impressions of Telegraph’s fashion editor Hilary Alexander here

“I think I’m jealous of Michael Kors.
He has such a good time. He doesn’t take anything seriously except, of
course, business. His show on Wednesday was a blaze of Hollywood chic
in the late 1950s and early ’60s: Lauren Bacall
in a cloqué sheath, girls in tweed slacks, poor-boy sweaters, mink
coats, mohair pullovers and black cocktail dresses with taupe pumps.

The clothes are so cheerful that you’d feel like the worst jerk to mention the Balenciaga flower prints”

Cathy Horyn, NYTs fashion blogger

MARC JACOBS

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Marc by Marc Jacobs [men]

” That’s always going to be the problem with this show. The girls look sensational; the boys look like second fiddles”

More foto on Men.Style.com

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: RODARTE

“The Mulleavys turned their imaginations loose on “the connection
between the Kabuki tradition and that of modern Japanese horror films”

Runway review, detail shots and video on Style.com

RODARTE

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Michael Bastian

“Bastian claimed that his new gig as menswear designer for Bill Blass
has liberated him to get more personal with his own line. “What must I
do to make you love me?” was the poignant plea woven into a scarf”

Complete review by Men.Style.com

Michael Bastian

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The Tragedy of Britney Spears

New issue of RollingStone poses almost-obituary-like article about Britney Spears. Clicks on her 24 videos, all photos and articles – it’s very sad to see, when such things publishing about living people. And magazine also posts a shocking piece of daily life ex-pop-princess:

Only a few kids are in the store, a young girl with her brother
and two blondes checking out fake-gold charm bracelets. Britney
rifles the racks as the Cure’s “Pictures of You” blasts into the
airless pink boutique, grabbing a pink lace dress, a few tight
black numbers and a frilly red crop top, the kind of shirt that
Britney used to wear all the time at seventeen but isn’t really
appropriate for anyone over that age. Then she ducks into the
dressing room with Ghalib. He emerges with her black Am Ex.

The card won’t go through, but they keep trying it.

“Please,” begs Ghalib, “get this done quickly.”

One of the girls runs to Britney’s dressing room, explaining the
situation through a pink gauze curtain.

A wail emerges from the cubby — guttural, vile, the kind
of base animalistic shriek only heard at a family member’s
deathbed. “Fuck these bitches,” screams Britney, each word ringing
out between sobs. “These idiots can’t do anything right!”

Ghalib dashes over to console her, but she’s already spitting,
growling, throwing a big bottle of soda on the floor so that it
begins to spill underneath the curtain, and then she’s got a box of
tissues and is throwing them on top of the wet floor along with
piles of discarded merchandise. A new card finally goes through,
but by then Britney is out the door, leaving her shirt on the
ground and replacing it with the red top. “Fuck you, fuck people,
fuck, fuck, fuck,” she keeps screaming, her face splotchy and red
as she crosses the interminable mall floor, the crowd behind her
growing larger and larger. “Leave us alone!” yells Ghalib.

The siblings run after Britney to get a video to put up on
YouTube, and some of the shopgirls run after her to hand off the
merchandise she left behind, and there’s an entire bridal party
wearing yellow T-shirts who have pulled out camera phones too. A
crush of managers in black shirts and gold name tags try to keep
the peace, but the crowd running after Britney gets larger, and now
the shopgirls have ­started to catch up to her, one of them
slipping spectacularly in her platform shoes, grazing her elbow.
She pulls herself up, mustering the strength to tap Britney’s
shoulder. “Um, I’m from the South too,” she mumbles, “and I was
wondering if I could get a picture with you for my little
sister.”

Britney turns to Ghalib and grabs his arm. “I don’t want her
talking to me!” she screams. She whirls around and stares the girl
deep in the eyes, her lips almost vibrating with anger. “I don’t
know who you think I am, bitch,” she snarls, “but I’m not that
person.”

Нове видання RollingStone пропонує майже-некролог статтю про Брітні Спірз. Кліки на її 24 відео, всі фото та статті – дуже сумно бачити, коли таке пишуть про живих людей. Журнал друкує також шокуючий кусень сьогоднішнього повсякденного життя екс-поп-принцеси:

Лише кілька людей у магазині: дівчина із братом та дві блондинки, які зацікавились підробними золотими браслетами. Брітні порпається серед вішалок із одягом, потім хапає завузьку рожеву сукню, кілька подібних чорних та фривольний дуже короткий червоний топ, речі, що вона полюбляла у сімнадцять, але вже не надто актуальні у її віці. Вона зникає разом із бойфрендом Галібом у кабінці примірятися. За секунду він з’являється із її чорною АмеріканЕкспрес.

Картка не приймається.

“Будь ласка”, благає Галіб, “зробіть це швидше”.

Одна із консультантів прямує до рожевої завіси пояснити ситуацію.

Із кабінки чується низьке, дике виття. “Fuck these bitches”, – кричить Брітні й вже хлюпає. “Ці ідіоти нічого не можуть зробити правильно!”.

Галіб кидається до неї, але запізно – вона плюється, рикає та кидає додолу велику пляшку із содовою, яка розливається під кабінку. А потім вона хапає бокс із тканинами та перевертає їх на мокру долівку, де вже мокнуть речі, які Брітні вже міряла. Нова картка спрацьовує, але вона вже вибігла з магазину, полишивши свою футболку на підлозі й замінивши її червоним топом. “Fuck you, fuck people,
fuck, fuck, fuck”, кричить вона, йдучи молом, а позаду тим часом зростає юрба. “Залиште нас у спокої!” попереджує Галіб.

Дівчині із натовпу вдається прорватися до Брітні та зупинити її за плече. “Ну… Я теж з Півдня”, мямлить вона, “і я подумала, чи можу я зняти тебе зі мною й моєю сестрою?”.

Брітні повертається до Галіба й стискає його руку. “Я не хочу щоб вона говорила до мене!”, промовляє вона й повертається до фанатки, зазирає їй в очі і з люттю промовляє: “Я не знаю, хто ти думаєш я така, сучко. Але я не та людина.”

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Super Tuesday 08: Winners

abcnews foto

Clinton and McCain win big states, but Obama stays
close in overall delegate count

Super Tuesday victory roundup

OBAMA (13)

AK, AL, CO, CT, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, UT

CLINTON (8)

AR, AZ, CA, MA, NJ, NY, OK, TN

McCAIN (9)

AZ, CA, CT, DE, IL, MO, NJ, NY, OK

• 
  ROMNEY (6)

AK, CO, MA, MN, ND, UT

• 
  HUCKABEE (4)

Al, AR, GA, TN

Dlegate count – the leaders so far

 

Democrats – 2025 delegates needed
Clinton		760
Obama		692
Republicans – 1191 delegates needed
McCain		570
Romney		251
Huckabee		175

NewYork Fashion Week 08: Oscar de la Renta

“Recession? What recession? The Federal Reserve may have just lowered
interest rates again, but Oscar de la Renta is still laying on the gold
leaf. With pop chanteuse Regina Spektor at the grand piano in his 583
Park Avenue show space, the designer sent out a Fall collection of
impeccable clothes for gals young and old who are accustomed to the
good life”

Complete review by american Vogue here

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: MALO

“Fall found Roberto Rimondi and Tommaso Aquilano and their models going
around in circles. The show was held on an oval catwalk, and there was
a round-and-round theme to embellishments and patterns. But however well crafted the clothes were, in the end they were overwhelmed by the concept.”

Complete review by Style.com here

MALO

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Halston

“There’s been just a bit of buzz about the Halston relaunch. How could
there not be, when the king of Hollywood heat, Harvey Weinstein, is the
man behind the project, and Tamara Mellon and Rachel Zoe are both at
his side? The label’s new creative director, Marco Zanini (Donatella
Versace’s longtime first designer), is understandably no match for
those outsize personalities, but it’s his clothes that have to do the
talking, and their moment finally came this afternoon at the Gagosian
Gallery”

Complete review by american Vogue here

Halston

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New York Fashion Week 08: Monique Lhuillier

Photo: Louis Lanzano/Associated Press

Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Photo: Louis Lanzano/Associated Press

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New York Fashion Week 08: blogs

NYTs fashion blogger Cathy Horyn shares her impressions about yesterday’s New York Fashion Week shows with Oscar de la Renta, Thom Browne, Carolina Herrera and Halston collections:

Browne’s show made me laugh. I kept thinking “Dumb and Dumber,”
especially when two guys came out sharing a trouser leg and wearing a
straight face. There was a fellow in a gray feather suit, too. What can
I say? Sometimes I think that Browne just goes around and around,
really not breaking out of the tasks or fascinations he has given
himself. A lot of the clothes are jokes, but every so often he poses
some interesting questions about tailoring and proportions.

And here U can find almost-real-time dispatches from New York Fashion Week by NYTs fashion editorial on The Moment Blog.

A dress from Halston’s fall 2008 collection. (Diane Bondareff/Associated Press)

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Will Super Tuesday be so Super?

Senator John McCain started the day with a rally at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.
Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

If for Republicans it will be absolute dead fight, in Democratic side candidates lowering their expectations. Polls suggests that primaries results would be neck to neck for Obama and Clinton. For tomorrows morning headquarters of these nominees already have a siding strategy. About this knows more Newsweek:

But now that the fabled day has arrived, with Clinton and Obama all but
tied in the polls, the Clinton camp is rolling out a new storyline.
“The results are likely to be close and inconclusive,” communications
director Howard Wolfson said Monday. “Right now, we are looking at a
fight that will go on way beyond tomorrow.”

With both sides predicting a tossup, the Clinton team is starting to
map out the next month of the battle, when the Democratic race heads
into what one adviser calls “latte liberal territory.” They expect
Obama to have a strong showing in Maryland, Virginia and the District
of Columbia. On Feb. 19, Washington, Wisconsin and Hawaii—where Obama was born and
spent much of his childhood—hold their primaries. The Clinton team
doesn’t expect Hillary to have an advantage again until the contests
scheduled for early March.

Voting at P.S. 6 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Photo: Annie Tritt for The New York Times

NYT pointing out too about question “Will Super Duper Tuesday be actually so Super for Democrats?”.  NYT’s columnist Ron Klain thinks that absolute victory for one “donkey” candidate could be in 3 ways only:

• 1. An upset win in the other’s home state.
• 2. Particularly strong support from Hispanic voters.
• 3. Someone takes the big “mo.” (He thinks that momentum still matters quite a bit. If one candidate
  racks up victories in an overwhelming number of the states (say, 16 to
  18 of the 22) or in the four larger states that are neither’s home
  state (California, Massachusetts, Georgia and New Jersey), that
  candidate would have a huge advantage going forward, even if the
  night’s delegate tally came out even.)

Outside the Fourth Ward voting place at First Baptist Church in Fulton, Mo.
Photo: Shana Wittenwyler for The New York Time

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Луценко в.о.

На зустрічі із жертвами “Еліта-центр” Віктор Ющенко назвав Юрія Луценка виконуючим обов’язки міністра внутрішніх справ.

Салют кучмівському минулому.

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Стали відомі забов’язання України під час вступу до СОТ

Їх опубліковано штаб-квартирою СОТ. BIN.com.ua подає скорочений огляд:

Киев также обязался, что после вступления в ВТО торговая деятельность
госпредприятий Украины будет полностью согласовываться с условиями этой
организации, а все госпредприятия будут работать на коммерческой
основе. Помимо того в течение одного года после вступления Украина
будет предоставлять информацию ВТО о деятельности этих компаний, а
также регулярно составлять доклады для членов ВТО о развитии программы
приватизации.

От физических лиц и компаний, желающих производить экспорт или импорт,
не будет требоваться физическое присутствие или наличие инвестиций в
Украине. Им необходимо будет только зарегистрироваться в
соответствующих органах, говорится в документе.

Киев также взял обязательство, что после вступления Украина отменит и
не будет устанавливать количественные ограничения на импорт либо другие
нетарифные меры, которые не предусмотрены соглашением ВТО.

Помимо того Украина отменит запрет на импорт автобусов, грузовиков и машин старше восьми лет.

Більше тут

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Lame-Duck Budget

President Bush holds up a laptop
computer containing the 2009 budget during a meeting with his cabinet
at the White House in Washington February 4, 2008.

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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Ukraine became a WTO member/ Україна приєдналася до СОТ

Радіо Свобода – Генеральна рада СОТ схвалила приєднання України до Організації.

Протокол про це підписали Президент Віктор Ющенко й генеральний директор Організації Паскаль Ламі.

Церемонія підписання відбулась після засідання Генеральної ради СОТ у Женеві (Швейцарія).

А повноправним членом Світової організації торгівлі Україна стане через 30 днів після ратифікації документа у Верховній Раді.

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Thom Browne

“Welcome to the craziest show on earth!”

runway review here

Thom Browne

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Nautica

“Appropriately for an Olympic year, New York fashion week opened with a
shot of high-octane activewear, courtesy of Nautica. The inspiration
was the sport of ice-sailing, whose speed and ferocity were established
with an opening video, so the literalness of the aerodynamic
second-skin items that came down the catwalk was scarcely a surprise”

Nautica

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New York Fashion Week 08: Z Zegna

“Maoist luxury? Don’t laugh. Gildo Zegna is a menswear visionary, and he
and creative director Alessandro Sartori have seen the future in a
paradoxical collision of utilitarian uniformity and idiosyncratic
self-indulgence”

review from Men.Style.com

Z Zegna

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Vera Wang Lavender

“The cozy, old-world atmosphere of
Bobo, a town house restaurant in the West Village, was a fitting
setting for Vera Wang’s first-ever runway show for her lower-priced
Lavender Label collection”

runway review from american Vogue

Vera Wang Lavender

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Rachel Roy

“Georgia O’Keeffe meets Cold Mountain for the Park Avenue set?
That would be one way to describe Rachel Roy’s Fall collection. Before
her show, the designer said she was interested in the intersection
between Native American and Colonial styles, but brought up-to-date for
the women of today”

review from Style.com

Rachel Roy

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Alexandre Herchcovitch

“Though Herchcovitch worked heavily with standaway architectural shapes
that had a certain sixties futurism and boxy menswear-inflected
tailoring, he maintained a sense of the female form”

Complete runway review here

Alexandre Herchcovitch

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Lacoste

“The collection was inspired by Megève, the Alpine resort popularized in
the twenties by the Baronne Noémie de Rothschild, who was fed up with
the crowding at St. Moritz”

Runway review on Style.com

Lacoste

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New York Fashion Week 08: Elie Tahari

Elie Tahari

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Diane Von Furstenberg

“Diane von Furstenberg channeled the forties in a show she dubbed
“Foreign Affair” for the three cities her imaginary muse visits: first
Berlin, then Shanghai, followed by Manhattan”

Complete review on Style.com

Diane Von Furstenberg

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: DKNY

““Eclectic Glamour,” trumpeted the
notes at DKNY, where the first showing was so shoulder-to-shoulder
packed that you wondered if everyone but you knew that Madonna or
Justin Timberlake was giving an impromptu concert. Nope, people were
there for the clothes, and there was a lot to see”

Review from american Vogue here

DKNY

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NewYork Fashion Week 08: Jovovich-Hawk

“What separates this collection from a trip to the vintage store? Not so
much, really, except that it’s edited and filtered through the rock ‘n’
roll sensibilities of Jovovich and her fellow model-turned-designer
Carmen Hawk”

Review from Style.com here

Jovovich-Hawk

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NewYork Fashion Week08: Preen

NEW YORK, February 3, 2008 – Now in
their second season in New York, Thea Bregazzi and Justin Thornton
settled on a pair of very American inspirations for their Fall
collection: Kurt Cobain’s grunge and the Adrian Lyne romp 9 1/2 Weeks. Review from american Vogue here

PREEN

FALL 2008 READY-2-WEAR

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Go Vote

“Just a little reminder that if you live in a Super Awesome Incredible
Tuesday state you should go vote today. And if you don’t live in such a
state but do know people who do, you should exhort them to vote.
Participation is essential”

Matthew Yglesias
blog-journalist

Monica Almeida/The New York Times

Tammi Jaeger pouring a beer representing Senator Barack Obama of Illinois at a Barney’s Beanery in Santa Monica, Calif.

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SuperTuesday08: Voting Troubles to expect

Super Tuesday is first serious test for new american voting system, which forces absentee voting. Beside technical and weather problems are expect, there are a number others and they can delay reporting final tallies until early Wednesday, NYT gives notice:

Several states are expecting a higher than usual turnout, which
could increase bottlenecks in precincts with too few voting machines.
The growing popularity of absentee voting is also contributing to
possible delays because the ballots take more time to process and often
arrive at the last minute.

Voting experts have raised concerns
about at least five states using paperless touch-screen machines, which
could make recounts impossible in close races or cases of computer
failure. And the rush by states to move up their caucus and primary
dates has shortened the amount of time voting officials have to hire
and train poll workers.

Monica Almeida/The New York Times

Damaged California absentee ballots were copied so they could be counted by machine.

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Хто кого блокує

Сьогодні пані Кільчицька, заступниця київського мера, була особисто присутня у парламентських кулуарах. Вона знервовано слідкувала за долею блокування президії. Якби воно не вдалося, у зареєстрованого сьогодні законопроекту про створення Тимчасової слідчої комісії з розслідування протизаконних дій київської влади з’явився би шанс бути розглянутим.

Як й у аналогічної депутатської пропозиції докопатися до протиправних схем поставок газу до України та ролі у них РосУкрЕнерго.

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Регіонали не БЛОКУВАЛИ, а РОЗБЛОКОВУВАЛИ

“Фракция Партии регионов не блокировала работу Верховной Рады, а наоборот, она пыталась ее разблокировать”

Ярослав Сухий
народний депутат
фракція Партії Регіонів

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Хорошковський придбав “Українські Новини”

U.A. Inter Mediа Group купила 100% акцій інформагенції

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На сьоьгодні ВР фінішувала. Спікера насилу закрили у його кабінеті

Нардепи полишили залу засідань, після того, як голова фракції “НУНС” В’ячеслав Кириленко повідомив їм – засідання ВР продовжено не буде. Регіонали та комуністи заблокували спікера у його власному кабінеті.

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В Україні світовий блокбастер знято з кінопрокату через мову.

У світі стартувала прем’єра найдорожчого в історії европейського кіна “Астерікс на Олімпійських іграх”. Цього не відбулось лише в Україні, де стрічку зняли з кінопрокату через відсутность україномовного дублювання. Її кінопрем’єра успішно відбулась на столичному ринкові Петрівка.

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Sea Change

Mostly of us don’t know about it nothing. Even satellites can’t picture it. But it is. A shocking reality of nowadays – gigantic rubbish island twice bigger than the size of continental United States…

Більшість з нас нічого про це не знають. Навіть супутники з космосу не можуть це сфотографувати. Але це існує. Шокуюча реальність сьогодення – гігантський острів із сміття, вдічи більший за територію континентальних Сполучених Штатів…

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Super-Mega Tuesday Starts

A supporter of Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama dances in the crowd during a rally
in East Rutherford, New Jersey, February 4, 2008 on the eve of the
‘Super Tuesday’ primaries.

(Jason Reed/Reuters)

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What is SuperTuesday ?

What is SuperTuesday ?

Wiki english and russian

Map of the United States showing the states holding caucus and primary elections on en:Super Duper Tuesday of the 2008 en:U.S. presidential primary cycle.

Key:

• Purple: states holding elections for both parties (19)
• Blue: Democratic Party (United States)^en-only elections (3)
• Red: Republican Party (United States)^en-only elections (2)

Image by and ©2008 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!)

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Microsoft-Google battle

IHT thinks it could be a longtime fight:
 

Moreover, the size and complexity of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is such
that a government review is unlikely to be completed quickly,
particularly in an election year, and may not be final before a new
administration takes office in 2009.

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Бійка у Раді/ Fight in Ukrainian Parliament

 

Ukraine’s parliament Speaker
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, background, centre, gestures as he heads the
parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. Members of
pro-President Viktor Yushchenko and Premier Yulia Tymoshenko parties
surround the speaker, to stop members of the opposition Party of Region
from blocking the session.

(AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Members of pro-President Viktor
Yushchenko and Premier Yulia Tymoshenko parties, top, surround the
parliamentary speaker’s rostrum, to stop members of the opposition
Party of Region from blocking the session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday,
Feb. 5, 2008. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko delivers his annual
address to Parliament later in the day.

(AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Unian

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Chad

Reports said bodies of dead fighters and civilians lay in the streets
yesterday, and that hundreds of people had been injured. At least
15,000 people have fled over the border into Cameroon, and aid agencies
have warned that assistance to more than 200,000 refugees who flooded
into eastern Chad from the Sudanese province of Darfur, as well as
150,0000 internally displaced people, is under threat.

More than 1,500 rebels attacked the capital, N’Djamena, on Saturday
after a swift 500-mile advance in pickup trucks mounted with machine
guns from the east of the country, near the border with Sudan. After
initially cornering President Idriss Déby in the presidential palace,
the rebels were forced back with dozens of tanks and helicopter
gunships, and were outside the city yesterday.

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Chad’s foreign minister, Ahmad Allam-Mi, told Radio France
Internationale that “the battle of N’Djamena is over”. But the rebels,
who accused Déby of corruption and autocracy during his 18-year rule,
said the retreat was tactical, and that they would attack again.

People carry their belongings as
they pour across the Ngueli bridge over the Logone-Chari river into
Cameroon fleeing fighting in N’Djamena February 4, 2008.

(Emmanuel Braun/Reuters)

Репортери повідомляють, що тіла повстанців та мирних мешканців лежать просто на вулицях, ще сотні поранені. Щонайменше 15 тисяч людей перетнули сусідній камерунський кордон, рятуючи життя від військового повстання у Чаді.

Понад 1.5 тисячі повстанців у Суботу атакували чадську столицю Нджамену, після того як здолали кілька сотень кілометрів дороги з східних провінцій країни, що межують із Суданом. Та їм не вдалося здобути президентський палац – їх відкинули поза межі міста десятки танків та гелікоптерів. Міністр закордонних справ Чаду заявив, що “битва за Нджамену завершена”. Проте повстанці, які звинувачують Президента Чаду Ідріса Дебі у корупції та автократії протягом його 18літнього правління, запевняють, що відступ тактичний й вони атакуватимуть знову.

The wreckage of a burnt car
following fierce clashes in Ndjamena. Rebels who attacked Chad’s
capital Ndjamena over the weekend said Tuesday they accepted the
principle of an immediate ceasefire, and blamed France for creating
“enormous” civilian casualties.

(AFP/File/Sonia Rolley)

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Президент вимагає в Уряду додатково 19 млрд грн

Вчора Ющенко зобов’язав Уряд збільшити кошторисні витрати на 19 млрд грн, переважно на фінансування армії та НАК “Нафтогаз України”. Говорять, ніби уряд може знайти лише половину коштів для ініціятив глави держави. “Коммерсантъ-Україна” впевнений, через це масштабне державне витрачання Президент теж включається у початок президентської кампанії:

Эксперты объясняют такие
существенные бюджетные инициативы президента тем, что он и
премьер-министр начали предвыборную президентскую кампанию и теперь
будут постоянно соревноваться в обещаниях, а бюджет, по мнению эксперта
Бюро экономических и социальных исследований Владислава Комарова, стал
их заложником.  Старший экономист центра “CASE-Украина” Владимир
Дубровский уверен, что госпоже Тимошенко все же придется
профинансировать расходы на вооруженные силы, так как именно от нее
исходило предложение перевести армию на контрактную основу, что без
дополнительных затрат и модернизации невозможно. Но предложение по
финансированию “Нафтогаза” аналитик называет сомнительным.

Какие дополнительные расходы президент требует профинансировать при коррекции бюджета на 2008 год, млрд грн

Оборонная сфера 11,5 Покрытие убытков НАК “Нафтогаз Украины” 5 Возмещение НДС 2 Строительство доступного жилья 0,5 Трансляция телерадиопрограмм 0,1165 Реконструкция концерна РРТ 0,0406 Всего 19,1571

 

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Ukrainian Clan Politics/ Клановая политика

Український Президент активно сприяє кумівству у політиці і це соромить країну, яка намагається інтегруватись у европейський культурний простір. Так KyivPost коментує призначення президентської доньки Віталіни головою Нацради з питань благодійности:

Многие не могут понять, что может знать двадцатишестилетняя женщина
об управлении благотворительной организацией, в которое вращаются
многие и многие миллионы долларов,  и о том, как работать с наиболее
влиятельными (и иногда причастными к коррупции) бизнесменами Украины.

Наша Украина позиционирует себя как политическая сила, лучше всех
воплощающая европейские ценности. Конечно, непотизм проник во все
общества до некоторой степени. Но одним из столпов современной западной
цивилизации является идея, что наиболее квалифицированных женщин и
мужчин берут на работу, независимо от семейного, этнического или
расового происхождения.

Ukrainian President are active maintainer for nepotism and it shames country, which tries to integrate with Europe culture. These words KyivPost has picked up to comment on presidential daughter’s  assignment for National Charity Council chairman:

Just what a 26-year-old knows about running a
multi-million-dollar charity and dealing with Ukraine’s most powerful
(and in some cases, corrupt) businessmen is beyond most people.

Our Ukraine presents itself as a political force
that best exemplifies European values. Certainly, nepotism permeates
all societies to some degree. But among the pillars of modern Western
civilization is the notion that the most qualified woman or man gets
the job, regardless of family, ethnicity or race.

Vitalina might be bright, but appointing his
daughter to such a position only casts a shadow on Yushchenko’s
self-declared commitment to transparency and honest politics. Her
appointment is the latest chapter in a series of nepotism jokingly
referred to by Ukrainians as “kumivstvo,” referring to Yushchenko’s
tendency to appoint family and relatives to government posts. In
Ukrainian culture, kums and kumas are not only the parents of
godchildren, but close members of the family who may expect preferences
and favors.

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Tymoshenko’s interview for Euronews/ Інтерв’ю Тимошенко Euronews

EN: “Ukraine remains split in two; orange, and blue and white. Is this what’s stopping the country from moving forward?”

YT:
“I think two problems need to be solved to reunite the Ukrainian
people. The first is that politicians have to stop stirring issues
dividing the west and east of Ukraine. The second is that people need
to feel a sense of justice, of the rule of law. People need to know
their government cares about them, with fair pensions, salaries, jobs,
and access to housing and medical insurance. We’ve been independent for
17 years now, and we’ve done next to nothing about these things”.

EN:
“You and Viktor Yushchenko were the leaders of the Orange revolution,
then you worked together as president and prime minister, but only
briefly. how do you get on today?”

YT: “After the Orange
revolution we didn’t have a parliamentary majority, and the former
regime retained control. This is why the revolution ran into so many
problems. Today there’s unity, and that’s the perfect base to effect
real reforms in the country. What I want to say is that for me the
revolution was about more than coloured ribbons, it was about ideas and
principles. They give my life, and the lives of my team, meaning and
direction. What we want is to speed the moment when Ukrainians will
realise they didn’t spend all that time in the public squares for
nothing. They did it to change their politicians, and change the
country. This is my faith, and I try and follow it daily”.

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EN: Україна лишається розділеною навпіл. Чи це те, що зупиняє країну на шляху вперед?
T: Я думаю, що дві проблеми потрібно вирішити аби відновити єдність українського народу. Перше – політики мають припинити чіпати теми, що розділяють схід та захід України. Друге – люди мають відчути значення справедливости, правил та закону. Людям необхідно знати, що їх держава піклується про них, справедливими пенсіями, зарплатами, робочими місцями та доступом до житлового і медичного страхування. Ми незалежні вже 17 років проти й досі нічого незроблено з цих речей

Повний текст та відео тут

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Тимошенко розказала про новий Податковий Кодекс

Тимошенко про Податковий кодекс: ”зменшення, зниження, спрощення”. Він прийматиметься лише після громадських обговорень.

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Звіт Human Rights Watch по Україні

“Політична криза, яка тривала протягом 2007 року, вкотре завадила провадженню вкрай необхідних реформ.
Серйозною проблемою залишаються тортури та брутальне поводження з боку правоохоронців. ЗМІ в цілому не піддаються тискові з боку держави, проте й досі мають місце факти утисків ЗМІ та окремих журналістів. Зберігається проблема недостатнього забезпечення прав міґрантів та особ, що шукають притулку. Уряд не вдається до необхідних кроків із викоренення порушень прав людини, що сприяють розповсюдженню ВІЛ/СНІДу”

Human Rights Watch
правозахисна глобальна організація
звіт з дотримання прав людини
в Україні 2007го року

Повний текст доповіді Human Rights Watch щодо України російською та українською тут

Етер Радіо Свобода Україна (31 Січ 08) присвячений звітові HRW викладений тут

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ParisFashionWeek 08: Givenchy Sping 08 Couture

Spring 2008 Couture

Givenchy – Runway

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ParisFashionWeek08: Christian Lacroix Spring08 Couture

Spring 2008 Couture

Christian Lacroix – Runway

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