Archive for September, 2010

The attractions in Barrow

I want to travel to furness next month with my family. We haven’t traveled for a long time, i asked many of my friends for the attractions in furness, they just give me a advice that i can surf the internet for details. The Internet is popular in those years, we can find almost everything and anything we need online. I like shopping online, and almost all the products in my home are bought online, such as furniture, rugs, food, perfume, book, cloth, shoes and so on. I fell the internet just is knowledge base, it make our life more convenient and funny. It is a good idea for all of us to look for the information we need before we travel to someplace. When i surf the internet for the funny things in furness, there are many useful and helpful reviews of barrow in furness. It is also known as barrow, and it is a industrial town. The town is situated at the tip of the Furness peninsula bordered by Morecambe Bay. Barrow was a small fishing hamlet within the parish of Dalton-in-Furness. Barrow has been referred to as a ‘gateway to the lakes. Barrow itself has several tourist attractions, including the dock museum, indoor market, hollywood park, cornmill crossing, cornerhouse retail park, hindpool retail park and walney road retail park.

If you are interested in Barrow, here i want to recommend a good site to you, on that site you can find the local barrow directory of website and local attractions easy. There are all the information of Barrow include arts & culture, hotels & accommodation, pets & animals, cars & transport, industrial & industry, education & training, legal & finance, pubs & clubs, travel & tourism, garden, news, internet & web design barrow and so on. It is a simple site, but it is useful and helpful. If you want to add a url , it is also good to you. I can find the information of attractions and weather on that site. There are 26 categories and 105 website links, with this site, i think we will have good days in Barrow.

 

Obama signs small business bill into law to spur hiring, growth

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday signed a small business bill into law to help small firms spur hiring and expansion, one move of the Obama administration’s package to accelerate the economic growth and job creation efforts.

U.S. Congress on Sept. 23 passed a long-delayed bill that the Obama administration proposed to help small businesses with easier credit and tax incentives to create jobs.

The bill will create a 30-billion-dollar federal fund to help smaller banks issue loans to small businesses and cut taxes by 12 billion dollars over the coming decade.

With fellow Democrats facing pressure from recession-weary voters in November congressional elections, Obama was stepping up efforts to create more jobs and reduce the stubbornly high 9.6 percent unemployment rate.

 

Colombian senator barred from public office for ties with rebel group

Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba has been barred from public service for 18 years for allegedly having ties with a rebel group, the Colombian Public Ministry said Monday.

The Public Ministry said that during investigations into the killing of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) chief Raul Reyes, they found out she had ties with the rebel group.

The investigation was started when files were found on the computers of the FARC chief, who was killed in 2008. Cordoba is considered to have gone too far in her role as mediator between the FARC and the Colombian government.

According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, Cordoba was mentioned in Reyes’ documents as “Teodora,” “Teodora de Bolivar,” “La Negra,” and “La Negrita,” and she maintained close ties with the FARC, going beyond the goal of seeking a humanitarian exchange.

“It was proved that Senator Cordoba ordered and requested the FARC to release hostages’ proofs of life in order to favor the government of other countries,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, Chamber Representative Ivan Cepeda said this decision is unfair.p “I heard the news with sadness and sorrow. It is a decision I consider unfair, and we are against (it), and we will proceed by legal means. Senator Cordoba has been a victim of a lot of persecution in the country for her humanitarian work,” Cepeda said.

 

Spanish celebrities support general strike

The interior defense dines under the sabotage.

Celebrities of the Spanish cultural community on Sunday voiced their support for a general strike to be staged on Wednesday.

Leaders of the country’s two main labor unions — UGT and Comisiones Obreras, CC.OO — held a meeting at the weekend, accompanied by actors, singers and writers.

The strike was called to protest the government’s labor reforms, pension freeze and wage reductions for public employees, which are part of a package of measures introduced by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to combat the economic crisis and cut the state deficit.

“People could lose their jobs because they had a flu now. Never in our wildest nightmares did we think that could have happened,” said CC.OO leader Ignacio Toxo.

President of the Spanish Actors’ Union Jorge Bosso promised his members would support the strike call.

“We are going on strike because there is an abusive labor reform that affects all workers,” he said.

“Culture is not just for decoration, it is economically important and it is important to show people values,” UGT leader Candido Mendez said.

 

ETA hints at permanent ceasefire

Basque separatist group ETA said on Sunday that it could be prepared for a permanent and verifiable ceasefire in northern Spain.

Two ETA members made the remarks in an interview with Gara, a newspaper which is generally supportive of ETA.

“The objective resides in the democratic resolution of the political conflict … that means we have to act with responsibility to everyone,” they said, implying that ETA is looking for a change of attitude.

“It is important for all parties to be able to act in equal conditions in which civil and political rights have been established. It is important to deactivate the situation of pressure, inertia and violence,” they said.

“ETA is prepared to take that step and also to go further if the conditions are created which allow that to happen,” they added.

ETA called for a truce on Sept. 5 and issued a further call for negotiations two weeks ago in the face of skepticism from the Spanish society.

All of Spain’s political parties have criticised ETA’s failure to specify whether the truce was temporary or permanent and pointed out that the group’s four previous truces had all been ended with a return to violence.

The Spanish government has so far refused to change the way it has acted toward ETA and has recently arrested nine members of a group with close links to ETA.

ETA’s campaign for the independence of the Basque region in northern Spain and southwestern France has claimed more than 800 lives in the past 40 years.

 

Gunmen release 2 of 7 kidnapped people in S Philippines

Two of the seven victims kidnapped on Thursday in Southern Philippines have been released unharmed, officials said on Friday.

“They were already released. We are working out others will also release soon,” Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters Friday afternoon.

The victims came from Davao city and were heading to Marawi when they were taken by 15 armed men led by Commanders Basit and Joel Kasanguan late Thursday afternoon.

Philippine security forces have launched a pursuit operation against suspects.

The motive behind the kidnapping remains unknown but the official said it could be retaliation to an earlier abduction of a certain Aris Lidasan of Lumba Bayabao town in Lanao Sur on September 13.

Clan war or rido is common among warring clans in Southern Philippines. Sometimes, the hostilities could last for decades until a peace pact is reached usually through mediation by religious leaders and the payment of blood money.

Among major causes rido include land disputes, particularly those caused by disputed government surveys or ancestral land claims; political rivalries, mostly election-related; crime- related, including murder and proliferation of illegal drugs, competition over resources and businesses.

 

Philippines secures 434 mln USD anti-poverty grant

The Philippine government on Friday secured a five-year 434 million U.S. dollar anti-poverty grant from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), a statement of the U.S. state firm said.

Aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth, the compact is intended to support reforms and investments to modernize the Bureau of Internal Revenue, expand and improve a community-driven development project, Kalahi-CIDSS, and rehabilitate a secondary national road in Samar province in Central Philippines.

Among its major projects are: the Revenue Administration Reform Project which will focus on increasing the efficiency and sustainability of revenue collection through a redesign and computerization of business processes; the Kalahi-CIDSS project which plans to build infrastructure like water systems, clinics, and schools in select poor communities; and the Secondary National Roads Development Project which will build and repair 222 kilometers of Samar Road to reduce transportation costs and increase commerce between the provinces of Samar and Eastern Samar.

“The Philippines compact is a results-focused program promoting sustainable economic growth. This example of country-designed solutions strives to move the poor from poverty to prosperity,” MCC Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes said in the statement.

 

Pakistani players much concerned about security during Delhi Commonwealth Games

Confusions spread among 75 members of Pakistani contingent to participate in the 19th Commonwealth Games (CWG) next month in India after the world media and sports boards had shown dissatisfaction over the facilities and security situation at the venue in recent days.

“Our contingent was planned to leave on Sept. 29 for the Commonwealth Games and before that we wanted to have our own security clearance,” Arif Hasan, president of Pakistan’s Olympic association (POA), told Xinhua on Thursday.

Hasan confirmed that it was true that POA had some reservations and queries about the security arrangements for players at the Games Village in Delhi.

“No doubt we were assured by the CWG organizing committee that our squad will be given foolproof security during the tour but we had decided to ensure it more carefully,” Hasan added.

According to Hasan, Pakistan was ready to be part of the mega event but media reports and sports associations’ objections over the lazy preparations of the venue and substandard facilities at Games forced us to be more careful.

Pakistan had announced to send its security team led by Ahmed Mukaram, assistant inspector general of Police from Islamabad, to check and ensure the fool proof security planned by Indian authorities.

Pakistani security team will leave the country for India on Sept. 26 and will be bound to report back well ahead of contingent departure scheduled on Sept. 29.

 

Australian Labor Party nominates Harry Jenkins to be Speaker in parliament

Australian Labor Party on Friday re-nominated Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Jenkins to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“Harry Jenkins will be our candidate for Speaker,” Labor front- bencher Anthony Albanese told ABC News in Melbourne.

Meanwhile, Coalition MP Alex Somlyay on Friday has turned down an offer from the Government to become deputy speaker, and pair his vote with Labor Speaker Harry Jenkins.

“I support the Coalition’s decision to reject any pairing arrangements for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions on the basis that such a pairing is inconsistent with the Constitution,” Somlyay said in a statement.

MPs will elect the Speaker and a deputy when parliament sits on Tuesday, the first time it has met since the Aug. 21 election failed to give either of the major parties an absolute majority.

If Somlyay agreed to Labor’s offer, it would have helped Labor keep its two-vote majority in the House of Representatives, but would have angered his Coalition colleagues.

The offer came after the Coalition refused on Thursday to agree to provide a pair for a Labor Speaker.

Albanese accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of being a ” wrecker” who did not want to play a constructive role in the parliament.

“Under those circumstances the Labor Party believes it is important to have the best and most experienced person for the job, that is why we will be nominating Harry Jenkins,” Albanese told ABC News.

 

Five non-member countries invited to Seoul G20 Summit

The South Korean government will invite five non-G20 member countries to the upcoming G20 Seoul Summit in a bid to enhance its effectiveness and representativeness, the summit organizer said Friday.

According to the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, it has sent invitations to leaders of Vietnam, Singapore, Malawi, Ethiopia and Spain to participate the Seoul Summit which is slated for Nov. 11-12.

Among the five countries, Malawi, the Chair of the African Union, and Ethiopia, the Chair of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), have been selected to strengthen the representation of the African region at the Seoul Summit.

Vietnam, the Chair of ASEAN, and Singapore, Chair of the Global Governance Group (3G), were invited to reflect the opinions of non- member countries, in light of the fact that the Seoul Summit will be the first G20 Summit to be held in Asia, the committee said.

Also, Spain will be present at the Seoul Summit as one of the ten largest economies in the world and a participant in the past four G20 Summits, according to the organizer.

The decision came in accordance with principles agreed upon by the G20 Sherpa to whom are endowed rights to regulate and arrange agendas for the summit, the committee said.