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Wayne Chisnall (Free subscription) | yesterday
This month I will be participating in the PARK ART FAIR INTERNATIONAL © GENEVA 2009. You find out more about the fair at this address - www.pafi09gvagb.blogspot.com or by contacting the organiser directly at exhibition@laurencelongueville.ch DETAILS FROM BLOG: Exhibition Dates: 19 - 28 November 2009 Geneva Switzerland Parking de Villereuse Adddress: angle rue de la Terrassière et rue de...
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All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Microsoft is making available for download the near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of its "Geneva" framework, the technology officially known as Windows Identity Foundation. Meanwhile, a new test build of the Microsoft Oslo modeling platform is waiting in the wings.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
• Hadron collider halted again by power cut • Scientists stop testing for relaunch after fowl play It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A quick update on the Glen Beck WIPO case . The verdict is in, and Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza's totally killer pleadings were sufficient to convince the WIPO panelist to deny Glen Beck's complaint against the website GlenBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990 . Since Randazza regrettably did not write the decision, it is not particularly hilarious, but it is pretty scathing. We, as Americans,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Geneva - Some 50 United Nations peacekeepers implicated in cases of sexual abuse have been disciplined and punished over the past three years, a spokeswoman for the world body said Friday. This year alone 33 military personnel implicated in cases of ...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With an official debut soon at SIHH 2010 in January here is a peek at two new Vacheron Constantin watches - the Historiques 1955 (round dial) and 1968 (square dial). Both watches are going to be smaller in size and much thinner than what we are used to. The 1955 is 36mm wide and the 1968 watch is a 35.2mm wide square. Vacheron Constantin is on this "vintage kick" lately. so expect to see...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Matthew Jones GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November, the United Nations warned on Friday. … An estimated 4,600 people along the Indian Ocean coast and Kenya's northeastern region have already fled torrential rainfall,...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. WRH permalink
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Guardian says that accused Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hassan was "the son of Palestinians from a village near Jerusalem." The New York Times says, "His mother’s obituary, in The Roanoke Times in 2001, said she was born in Palestine in 1952." This got me to wondering about a contradiction in the standard pro-Palestinian Arab narrative that the world has swallowed whole. We...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - Some pigs, turkeys and household pets have become infected with the H1N1 flu, but the pandemic virus does not yet appear to be spreading quickly among animals, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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D.C. Confidential (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Petrified : MICR : Geneva, CH This sculpture, by Zurich artist Carl Bucher, is called The Petrified and "denounces the violation of human rights and appeals for tolerance." It stands in the courtyard of the Museum of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent, which is next to the Red Cross/Red Crescent Headquarters in Geneva. Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 11/09
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R. Scott Clark (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
There’s a piece today on Calvin in the NYT. If you get to Geneva, be sure to visit the Museum of the Reformation, not far from St Pierre. It’s a fair piece and gives a sense of the ambivalence of the on the part of the citizens of Geneva. They happily celebrated Rousseau’s 300th but [...]
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A Luxury Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Blink has recently opened a base in Geneva to allow those in central Europe to benefit from its low prices, and has launched an advance purchase scheme – Blink Foresight. The Foresight scheme is much like jetcards that are offered by private jet firms such as NetJets. However, they differ in that Blink charges per [...]
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traimi | 22/09/2009
Brabus Ultimate High Voltage was unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show and represents the production version of the Smart Fortwo Brabus Electric Drive Concept which made its debut back in March at the Geneva Motor Show.
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traimi | 16/09/2009
The new 2010 Vw Polo made its debut back in March at the Geneva Motor Show and continued the same design line inaugurated by the Golf VI. The German tuning house ABT decided to improve the looks of the small hatchback and revealed today at the Frankfurt Motor Show its new tuning program which consists in a new front bumper, new side sills, rear spoiler and a new rear apron with integrated air diffuser