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United re-name Old Trafford’s north stand after Ferguson Posted: 05 Nov 2011 08:57 AM PDT United re-name Old Trafford's north stand after Ferguson LONDON, Nov 5 — The north stand at Old Trafford is being re-named "The Sir Alex Ferguson Stand" in recognition of his achievements as Manchester United's manager, the club announced as he celebrated 25 years in the job this weekend.  The club is also commissioning a statue of the 69-year-old Scot who has brought 37 trophies to United since he took control on Nov. 6 1986.  Ferguson walked on to the Old Trafford pitch today through a guard of honour formed by the players before United's Premier League match against Sunderland and looked overwhelmed as United's chief executive David Gill announced the honour to the crowd.  Ferguson addressed the crowd before the kickoff and wrote in his programme notes: "It has all been a fairytale dream — give or take the occasional nightmare."  A huge banner was on display in the ground reading: "The Impossible Dream, Sir Alex Ferguson Made Possible."  Steve Bruce, now the manager of visitors Sunderland who was in the United team when Ferguson led the club to their first English title for 26 years in 1993, added in his tribute: "There will never be another manager like Sir Alex."  Among the many tributes to Ferguson was one from Barcelona's manager Pep Guardiola, tipped as a possible successor when he eventually retires.  Speaking in Barcelona, Guardiola said: "I'd like to congratulate him and tip my hat. I'd like to have the ability, like him, to always be able to re-build my team around competitive players." — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

FIFA allows minute’s silence for Remembrance Sunday Posted: 05 Nov 2011 08:41 AM PDT A car drives pass the FIFA headquarters in Zurich. FIFA, criticised for not allowing England to wear the poppy emblem on their shirts in a friendly against Spain next week, will permit a minute's silence before the match to be played. – Reuters pic BASEL, Nov 5 – FIFA, criticised for not allowing England to wear the poppy emblem on their shirts in a friendly against Spain next week, will permit a minute's silence before the match to be played on the eve of Remembrance Sunday. World soccer's governing body said in a statement: "Following further correspondence (it) has approved the FA's request for a minute's silence to be observed prior to kick-off, when England host... Spain at Wembley on Nov. 12." The statement added: "FIFA fully acknowledges the significance of the poppy appeal and the ways in which it helps commemorate Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 each year. "As a multinational organisation comprising over 50 different nationalities, the significance of this date will also be observed by many of its employees, who will remember family members too." But on wearing poppies on shirts, the statement explained: "FIFA's regulations regarding players' equipment are that they should not carry any political, religious or commercial messages. "FIFA has 208 member associations and the same regulations are applied globally, and uniformly, in the event of similar requests by other nations to commemorate historical events." – Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Lady Gaga gets TV Thanksgiving night special Posted: 05 Nov 2011 02:39 AM PDT US singer Lady Gaga smiles during a news conference in New Delhi. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, Nov 5 —So, will she wear a turkey-and-stuffing dress?  Lady Gaga is coming for Thanksgiving, via a 90-minute, prime time television special on ABC on November 24 which she will direct herself, the network said today.  "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving" will feature Gaga performing eight songs for friends and family, as well an interview with Katie Couric.  Performances will include a duet of "The Lady is a Tramp" with Tony Bennett, as well as her newest single, "Marry the Night." And what holiday special would be complete without "White Christmas"?  "We all know Lady Gaga is a phenomenon," said Couric. "This is a chance to see more of who she is beneath the wild costumes and staged musical numbers," hinting that the singer known for her over-the-top theatricality might eschew outfits like the famous meat dress she wore at the Video Music Awards.  Celebrity chef Art Smith will stop by to help Gaga, 25, prepare a Thanksgiving feast of deep-fried turkey and waffles for her guests, ABC said.  The pop music phenomenon will also open up about her relationships with family and friends, share stories from her past and reflect on what her life is like now living in the white hot spotlight of fame, ABC said. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Tom Ford ‘thrilled’ to reprise Bond styling Posted: 05 Nov 2011 02:31 AM PDT (Left-Right) French actress Berenice Marlohe, British actor Daniel Craig and British actress Naomie Harris pose at a photocall of the 23rd film in the James Bond series; in central London. — AFP pic LOS ANGELES, Nov 5 — Tom Ford "could not be happier" about dressing Daniel Craig in upcoming Bond movie Skyfall, scheduled for international release late 2012.  It was revealed November 3 that the designer will be reprising his styling duties for the spy thriller, which is currently being filmed and stars the British actor along with new Bond girls Bérénice Marlohe and Naomie Harris.  Designer-and-director Tom, who helmed 2009 drama A Single Man, dressed current 007 Craig in Skyfall's 2008 predecessor Quantum of Solace.  He thinks the fictional spy perfectly encompasses his eponymous label's sleek aesthetic.  "I couldn't be happier to be dressing Daniel Craig again," explained the designer in an announcement of the collaboration.  "James Bond epitomises the Tom Ford man in his elegance, style and love of luxury. I am thrilled to move forward with this iconic character."  Daniel's Bond attire will be handmade in Italy and will include the mandatory tailored suits as well as suave accessories and Tom Ford eyewear.  Tom isn't the first designer to offer his services to a movie costume department. Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld was the natural choice for costume supervision during the making of 2009 Coco Chanel biopic Coco avant Chanel.  Highlights included a specially made remake of Coco's iconic monochrome suit for leading lady Audrey Tautou.  Meanwhile, siblings Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte got caught in a heated debate back in January after collaborating on a series of costumes for last year's ballet thriller Black Swan.  Costume designer Amy Westcott was given credit come awards season, after Kate and Laura had reportedly not negotiated credits in their initial contract. — AFP-Relaxnews Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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Diners choosing tap water over other beverages Posted: 05 Nov 2011 02:46 AM PDT Diners in the US are choosing tap water over pricier beverages. NEW YORK, Nov 5 — Water snobbery seems to be slowing to a trickle, according to a new market report which found that tap water is the one of the fastest growing beverages ordered at US restaurants.  In the latest industry report, to gauge the dining scene in the US, analysts with market research group The NPD Group found that while beverages like soft drinks and alcohol have been declining over the past five years, tap water servings have increased by 2.8 billion since 2006.  Currently, tap water represents eight per cent of the 50 billion beverages ordered at restaurants, the report says, mostly because of its cost: free.  Over the last few decades, the bottled water industry has succeeded in turning a common natural resource into a fashion statement and status symbol, with brands like Evian, Perrier and San Pellegrino striking celebrity and designer collaborations, and snobby servers thumbing their nose at patrons who deign to ask for tap water.  But a crusade against bottled water led by environmental groups, health warnings about sugary drinks and a downturn in the economy seems to have brought consumers back to humble tap water and eroded elitist attitudes and sheepish embarrassment, even in high-end restaurants.  "Although the economy and high unemployment are factors in tap water's upswing and beverage servings declines, some beverages, like carbonated soft drinks were declining prior to the recession," pointed out report author Bonnie Riggs.  Analysts also noted that while the iced tea market continues to grow, other growth categories include smoothies, iced and slushy drinks and speciality coffees.  Meanwhile, over the past five years, servings of revenue-generating drinks have decreased by six percent — or 2.7 billion orders. Carbonated soft drinks and brewed coffee — which represent nearly half of all beverages served — experienced the largest dip.  The report, released October 26, was based on the results of a survey that polled 5,500 adults over the age of 18. — AFP-Relaxnews Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

Snickering encouraged at NY caricature exhibit Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:36 PM PDT A hand-coloured etching entitled "French Liberty, British Slavery" by James Gillray (British, 1756-1815). — Reuters pic NEW YORK, Nov 5 — Snickering is strongly encouraged at an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Giggles and guffaws that typically would be met with a cold stare in the museum's hushed galleries are the goal of "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine", which runs until the beginning of March. "Oh! This is horrendous!" laughed Richard Miller, 81, a New York City abstract artist enjoying the show with friends. Miller was looking at a grotesque drawing of a drooling, runny-nosed baker, a spoof on culinary hygiene in the 18th century by Britain's Thomas Rowlandson, who is considered one of the greatest contributors to caricature's Golden Age — the late 1700s to early 1800s. A lithograph entitled "The Past. The Present. The Future" by Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879). — Reuters pic The 162 pieces in the exhibit — pulled from the museum's collection of 1.2 million drawings and prints — chronicle how sarcasm blossomed as an art form from the 1600s until today. Arranged to spotlight the influence early caricaturists had on future generations, the show inadvertently reveals that mankind basically has three jokes that it has been telling for centuries — about food, sex, and power. "The show is about humour but it also has this deeper side," said associate curator Constance McPhee, who with curator Nadine Orenstein spent two years creating the show. A major focus of the exhibition is the rich and politically powerful, skewered with abandon by artists who largely escaped censorship often faced by writers. Irreverent and crude Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain and for a shorter time in France, satirical drawings were regularly posted in storefront windows of print shops, attracting crowds who then bought the prints for albums shared at night with family and friends. "Like we have the Daily Show or Saturday Night Live — it's that shared political humour," Orenstein said. Hilariously irreverent and at times shockingly crude, some of the drawings seem more likely to be ripped from the pages of a humour magazine than selected from the archives of a museum. "The French usually maintain a modicum of civility, except here," said Orenstein, gazing at a print that surfaced before the French cracked down on caricaturists in 1835, insisting they gain approval first from any person they planned to draw. A print by an anonymous artist called "The Bombardment of All the Thrones of Europe" takes Catherine the Great to task for her unsuccessful attempts to organise foreign military expeditions against revolutionary France. It shows the Russian empress bare breasted and under scatological assault from all sides, including a vomiting King Louis XVI and a dozen bare-bottomed revolutionaries, the "sans-culottes", who send flatulent insults in her general direction. Caricature, from the Italian words carico, to load, and caricare, to exaggerate, began in Europe in the 1600s after admirers began copying drawings of grotesque heads by Leonardo da Vinci, who was known for his fascination with physical perfection but was equally mesmerized by abnormalities. It quickly became popular, and it wasn't long before serious artists turned to caricature to earn money, including painters such as Francisco Goya of Spain and France's Eugene Delacroix, who are included in the show. Others worked strictly as visual humorists, such as Britain's James Gillray. The exhibit includes his 1787 drawing "Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast", in which he flays the reigning royals — King George III, Queen Charlotte and George Prince of Wales — for their unabashed greed and miserly ways. The drawing shows the three sitting around a dinner table piled high with cash, ladling money down their gullets, which are already stuffed like a pelican's filled pouch. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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PPSMI: Muhyiddin nafi keputusan Putrajaya lewa Posted: 05 Nov 2011 02:14 AM PDT MUAR, 5 Nov – Timbalan Perdana Menteri  Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin menafikan kerajaan membuat keputusan sambil lewa berhubung pemansuhan dasar Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI). Beliau yang juga Menteri Pelajaran berkata, pemansuhan dasar itu dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan selepas melakukan kajian terperinci mengenai keberkesanan dasar itu. "Semua anggota Parlimen termasuk daripada pembangkang menyokong apabila kita laksanakan dasar Memartabat Bahasa Malaysia Memperkukuh Bahasa Inggeris (MBMMBI) untuk mengganti PPSMI," katanya selepas menghadiri majlis korban perdana di Dewan Sri Pekembar di sini, hari ini. Beliau berkata, hasil daripada kajian kementerian menunjukkan hanya di antara lima hingga tujuh peratus keseluruhan sekolah di bawah kementerian yang menggunakan Bahasa Inggeris ketika melaksanakan PPSMI. Majoriti daripada sekolah-sekolah yang lain, katanya, menggunakan dwibahasa atau Bahasa Malaysia sepenuhnya di dalam PPSMI sejak dasar itu dilaksanakan pada 2003. Mengenai saranan pemimpin pembangkang supaya kerajaan mengurangkan bilangan kakitangan awam, beliau meminta, banyak pihak supaya mencabar parti-parti pembangkang melaksanakannya di negeri-negeri yang diperintahnya terlebih dahulu. "Jikalau pembangkang memerintah negara, kita tahulah bahawa mereka akan memberhentikan banyak kakitangan kerajaan," katanya dan menambah, banyak pihak juga mencabar pembangkang supaya melaksanakan saranan itu di Pulau Pinang dan Selangor terlebih dahulu. Penjawat awam yang sehingga ini berjumlah satu juta orang diperlukan bagi memastikan sistem penyampaian kerajaan berjalan dengan licin bagi kemajuan negara, katanya. Muhyiddin berkata, kerajaan sememangnya mahu memantapkan perkhidmatan awam negara kerana sumbangan mereka penting dalam memastikan pertumbuhan ekonomi negara berjalan lancar. "Sumbangan kakitangan awam terhadap negara adalah amat besar dan mereka yang berkhidmat dengan cemerlang perlu diberikan ganjaran yang setimpal," katanya. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

MBMMBI: Sesi penerangan minggu depan, kata timbalan menteri Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:19 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Nov – Sesi penerangan kepada pihak sekolah  mengenai dasar Memartabatkan Bahasa Malaysia dan Memperkukuhkan Bahasa Inggeris (MBMMBI) dijangkakan akan bermula minggu depan secara berperingkat, kata Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong. Beliau berkata penerangan kepada pihak sekolah dibuat ekoran sesi penerangan peringkat kementerian yang diadakan Menteri Pelajaran Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin semalam. Muhyiddin yang juga timbalan perdana menteri turut memberi penerangan kepada  Kabinet semalam. Wee memberitahu pemberta di sini hari ini Kementerian Pelajaran sedang menyiapkan surat pekeliling mengenai MBMMBI yang akan diedarkan ke Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah dan Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri, lapor Bernama Online. Mengenai kenyataan bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad bahawa penghapusan sistem Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI) akan menyebabkan Malaysia ketinggalan dalam bidang sains dan matematik, beliau berkata negara sepatutnya mencontohi negara ekonomi besar lain yang berjaya walaupun rakyat mereka mempelajari sains dan matematik dalam bahasa ibunda masing-masing. "Saya ambil contoh China. Mereka tidak menggunakan bahasa Inggeris, namun  masih mampu melancarkan roket," katanya menambah bahawa penguasaan bahasa tidak menjamin kepada penguasaan ilmu sains dan matematik. Ditanya mengenai tempoh peralihan pelaksanaan PPSMI ke MBMMBI yang dikatakan mengambil masa terlalu lama, beliau berkata tempoh itu adalah normal. "Peralihan dari satu sistem ke satu sistem yang lain memang mengambil masa. Dahulu peralihan dari pengantar bahasa Inggeris ke bahasa Melayu pun mengambil masa 12 tahun," katanya. Full content generated by Get Full RSS.

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