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(Drama) Separate Tables (Tables séparées) DVDrip [1958]

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div class="center"div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/9a/fc/0009fc9a.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/9a/fc/0009fc9a_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_654490"//a/divbr/ b(Drama) Separate Tables (Tables séparées) [1958]/bbr/ RIP+UP | XviD-111748 | mp3@128 | 656x384 | English (French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, English, German idx+sub in file) | DVD Cover Sticker | 1h36 | 900 Mbbr/ USA b1958/bbr/ Director Delbert MANN br/ br/ bStarring/b Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylorbr/ br/ This film version of Terence Rattigan's 1955 West End hit features a stellar ensemble cast. The film follows the interplay of a group of lonely characters who are staying at a slightly shabby seaside hotel in Bournemouth. The term "separate tables" refers to the practice of seating single guests at their own tables in the dining room, and serves as a metaphor for the characters' fear of intimacy. Major Pollack (David Niven) is a retired officer who likes to wax eloquent about fanciful acts of heroism in WWII North Africa, and Sybil Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr) is a repressed spinster boxed in by an oppressive mother (Gladys Cooper). John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), a cynical, hard-drinking, occasional writer, is surprised by the sudden arrival of his ex-wife Ann (Rita Hayworth). Though Ann's legendary beauty is dimmed by age, Ann and John both reach tentatively for some human contact. SEPARATE TABLES, a work that now seems relatively tame, was controversial in its day for attempting to deal with sexual problems, however obliquely. The all-star cast is excellent, but it is the genius of Wendy Hiller, in a small part, that steals the show.br/ br/ Pendant l'arrière-saison, seuls les résidents permanents fréquentent l'Hôtel Beauregard tenu par Miss Cooper. La sérénité du lieu est troublée par l'arrivée de la ravissante Ann Shankland, venue rendre visite à son ex-mari, John Malcolm, un alcoolique qui entretient une relation discrète avec Miss Cooper. Pendant ce temps, Mrs Railton-Bell découvre que sous des dehors plaisants, le Major Pollock n'est pas celui qu'il prétend être.../div

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Condoleezza Rice: South Africa must pressure Mugabe to quit

Guardian Unlimited

- 5 hours and 40 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/53819?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Condoleezza+Rice%3A+South+Africa+must+pressure+Mugabe+to+quitch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Zimbabwe%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CCholera+%28News%29c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Chris+McGrealc7=2008_12_05c8=1129494c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Zimbabwec13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FZimbabwe" width="1" height="1" //divpThe US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said today that it was "well past time" for Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe to step down./ppRice called on other South African nations to take the lead on pressuring him to quit./pp"It's well past time for Robert Mugabe to leave," said Rice, who was in Copenhagen as part of a European farewell tour before President Bush leaves the White House on January 20./pp"The fact is there was a sham election, there has been a sham process of power-sharing talks and now we are seeing not only political and economic total devastation... but a humanitarian toll of the cholera epidemic," she said./ppHer comments came as South Africa announced it will send a team of senior government officials to Zimbabwe next week to assess the country's growing food crisis and determine what aid is needed./ppZimbabwe [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe] has declared a national health emergency and appealed for international help as it battles a cholera outbreak that has killed 570 people and infected around 12,700. The move appeared aimed at winning aid from countries and organisations that have been isolating Robert Mugabe's regime./ppBritain joined the EU and other international organisations in immediately pledging assistance. Gordon Brown said the UK was helping because the cholera outbreak showed that Zimbabwe was a failed state with a government unable to protect its citizens from disease./ppKenya's prime minister, Raila Odinga, said that intervention should mean removing Mugabe from office. "Power-sharing is dead in Zimbabwe and will not work with a dictator who does not really believe in power-sharing. It's time for African governments to take decisive action to push him out of power."/ppThe cholera outbreak has been triggered by years of neglect of water systems, resulting in open sewage running through some townships. Nearly half the deaths have been recorded in the capital, Harare. Doctors believe many more in rural areas have not been recorded./ppThe World Health Organisation (WHO) said the fatality rate - 4.5% of those contracting cholera - was more than four times greater than it normally is when managed with re-hydration salts and medicines./ppThe epidemic has spilled over to neighbouring South Africa. Thousands of Zimbabweans are believed to cross the border, often illegally, each day. A cholera centre has been set up in the South African border town of Musina./ppThe chairman of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, Douglas Gwatidzo, said the state of emergency was overdue: "They should have done that two or three weeks ago when the figures of cholera-related deaths were still low. However, it's better late than never."/ppThe European commission has pledged more than $12m (£8m) to contain the outbreak. The International Red Cross and WHO are supplying drugs./ppIn a statement released by Downing Street, Brown said: "The international community's differences with Mugabe will not prevent us [helping]. We are increasing our development aid and calling on others to follow suit. For once we agree with the government of Zimbabwe: this is a national emergency."/ppThe state-run Herald newspaper quoted Zimbabwe's health minister, David Parirenyatwa, as appealing for help to get the main hospitals working again after staff stopped coming to work because their pay did not cover the cost of transport./ppZimbabwe's economy continued its collapse under the weight of hyperinflation, which is officially put at 231m%, but is said by economists to be much higher./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe"Zimbabwe/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cholera"Cholera/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ADyWU1ibIq8yNedwB8kGrC43uSE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ADyWU1ibIq8yNedwB8kGrC43uSE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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It is World Wide Internet, For Real This Time

GigaOM

- 14 hours and 35 minutes ago

For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place - the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil and China, we are seeing the Internet traffic shift away from its historic US centricity. The trend was confirmed by our friends at Telegeography who have put together a clever Internet Map of the world.

They point out that in 1999, 91 percent of Asia and 70 percent of African Internet capacity connected to the US. In 2008, only 54 percent of Asian countries’ international Internet capacity connects to the US, while only 6 percent of African countries bandwidth connects to the US, as Europe has become more of an Internet hub for Africa. According to their study, the International Internet capacity grew at a compounded annual rate of 57 percent between 2002 and 2008. In 2008, international Internet bandwidth rose 62 percent over 2007 as backbone operators continued to upgrade their networks to meet rising traffic requirements.

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Telegeography says the most annual growth was on optical cables that connected to Latin America and South Asia, which increased 119 percent and 112 percent, respectively, between 2007 and 2008. “The declining share of traffic routed via the U.S. actually reflects a healthy trend in the development of the global Internet,” said TeleGeography Research Director, Alan Mauldin.

My long standing belief is that today’s network patters are like trade route patters of the Industrial age, and mirror the economic shifts in our societies.

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Zimbabwe declares cholera emergency

Guardian Unlimited

- 17 hours and 2 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/74821?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Zimbabwe+declares+cholera+emergencych=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Zimbabwe%2CCholera+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Chris+McGrealc7=2008_12_05c8=1129204c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Zimbabwec13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FZimbabwe" width="1" height="1" //divpZimbabwe has declared a national health emergency days after playing down an escalating cholera outbreak that has already claimed more than 500 lives. The move appeared aimed at winning aid from countries and organisations that have been isolating Robert Mugabe's regime. /ppBritain joined the EU and other international organisations in immediately pledging assistance. Gordon Brown said the UK was helping because the cholera outbreak showed that Zimbabwe was a failed state with a government unable to protect its citizens from disease. /ppOfficially, more than 560 people have died from cholera and about 12,000 have been infected after an outbreak triggered by years of neglect of water systems, resulting in open sewage running through some townships. Nearly half the deaths have been recorded in the capital, Harare. Doctors believe many more in rural areas have not been recorded. /ppThe World Health Organisation said the fatality rate - 4.5% of those contracting cholera - was more than four times greater than it normally is when managed with rehydration salts and medicines./ppThe epidemic has spilled over to South Africa, and the government there said it would hold an urgent meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe, where millions of people are also facing severe food shortages, a teetering health system and rampant hyperinflation. /pp"There are very clear signs ... people are beginning to die of starvation. South Africa and SADC [the Southern African Development Community] can't just fold our arms," said a government spokesman, Themba Maseko./ppHowever, Kenya's prime minister, Raila Odinga, told the BBC that intervention should mean removing Mugabe from office. "Powersharing is dead in Zimbabwe and will not work with a dictator who does not really believe in powersharing. It's time for African governments to take decisive action to push him out of power."/ppThe chairman of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, Douglass Gwatidzo, said the state of emergency was overdue: "They should have done that two or three weeks ago when the figures of cholera-related deaths were still low. However, it's better late than never."/ppThe European commission has pledged more than $12m (pound;8m) to contain the outbreak. The International Red Cross and WHO are supplying drugs. /ppIn a statement released by Downing Street, Brown said: "The international community's differences with Mugabe will not prevent us [helping]. We are increasing our development aid, and calling on others to follow suit. For once we agree with the government of Zimbabwe: this is a national emergency."/ppThe state-run Herald newspaper quoted Zimbabwe's health minister, David Parirenyatwa, as appealing for help to get the main hospitals working again after staff stopped coming to work because their pay did not cover the cost of transport. /ppHowever Zimbabwe's economy continued its collapse under the weight of hyperinflation, which is officially put at 231m percent but is said by economists to be much higher./ppThe Zimbabwe dollar lost more than 60% of its value yesterday after the limit on cash withdrawals from bank accounts was officially raised to Z$100m. The expected flood of scarce cash on to the streets saw the value of a new Z$100m drop from pound;33 to pound;10 in minutes. /ppLong snaking lines formed outside banks long before opening time. Thousands of people waited patiently, but by the end of the day many had still not got their money./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/zimbabwe"Zimbabwe/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cholera"Cholera/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2gqOhSUrVvC-t0dqgs-031-4w1c/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2gqOhSUrVvC-t0dqgs-031-4w1c/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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