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Souvenez vous, Information Architects qui avaient utilisés il y a quelques années
un format plan de métro pour représenter le fameux Web 2.0. Ce format a depuis
été repris par quelques designers pour représenter d'autres univers comme
celui de la musique, celui du corps humain et plein d'autres. Et comme c'est plutôt
esthétique je vous en mets 7 pour le prix d'un!
Alberto Antoniazza ‘Rock N’ Roll’ Map
Le corps humain de Sam Loman
L'univers par MWA
Web Trends d'IA
La carte des US par Senex Prime
L'univers de Shakespear
Une vision des liaisons de transport au niveau mondial
The UK advertising industry has bravely decided it can continue to accept millions of pounds from
the state to create alarming climate advertisements, despite inaccuracies and a storm of
complaints from parents. The principled decision, from the admen's self-regulatory body the ASA,
follows 939 complaints about the UK energy ministry DECC's "Drowning Dog" prime time TV and
cinema ad (aka "Bedtime Story") , which cost £6m, and four
related posters....
Anti-government protesters threatened Monday to begin collecting hundreds of liters of blood to
toss on official buildings as they step up their efforts to bring down Thai Prime Minister Abhisit
Vejjajiva's administration.
David Cameron failed to prove as big a draw as Gordon Brown to ITV viewers after an average of 1.7
million watched an interview with the Conservative leader last night, compared to 3.8 million who
tuned in to see the Prime Minister last month.
Les quatre entrepôts de la coopérative Système U dans l'Est sont restés
bloqués lundi par des grévistes pour la 5e journée consécutive à
Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), Saint-Vit (Doubs), Saint-Just (Ain) et Rumilly (Haute-Savoie), selon la
direction mulhousienne et les syndicats.
Une partie des salariés des quatre principaux entrepôts qui approvisionnent plus de
200 magasins dans le Grand Est doit être consultée sur une prime exceptionnelle brute
de 100 euros, proposée dimanche lors d'une réunion de la direction (…) -
Les Flash actu humanite.fr
Israeli ambassador to Washington says ties with US in 'crisis of historic proportions' amid row
over settlement plans
Israel's relations with the US are at their worst for 35 years amid a continuing row over Jewish
settlement plans in East Jerusalem, the Israeli ambassador to Washington admitted today.
The Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologised for announcing the plans during a visit
last week to Israel by the US vice-president, Joe Biden. "I recommend not to get carried away and
to calm down," he said yesterday.
But he refused to cancel the programme and his attempt to downplay the dispute was exposed today
when Israel's ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, admitted that relations between the two country
had reached a historic crisis.
"Israel's ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 ... a crisis of
historic proportions," Oren was quoted as saying in the Israeli media.
Unnamed Israeli officials have told Associated Press that the US is pressing Israel to scrap the
building project. Israel's foreign ministry has refused to comment on either report.
Senior figures in the Obama administration have been unusually forthright in expressing
frustration at the plans. On Friday Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, said the
announcement was "insulting", and yesterday David Axelrod, one of the architects of Obama's
election victory, said the timing was "very destructive".
Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, he said: "This was an affront, it was an insult but most
importantly it undermined this very fragile effort to bring peace to that region."
The announcement last Tuesday that thousands of new homes were planned in Jewish settlements in
East Jerusalem came on the eve of Biden's arrival in the region for discussions to restart
"proximity talks" between Israel and Palestinians, with the US mediating. Almost immediately, the
news prompted Palestinian leaders to pull out of the new round of talks.
Israel has agreed to slow construction of settlements in the West Bank but has refused to halt
building in East Jerusalem. Israel considers East Jerusalem, which it captured in the 1967 war,
its sovereign territory and Netanyahu has spoken frequently in defence of settlements there.
Prime minister indicates future plans amid speculation election could result in minority
government
Gordon Brown said today he intends to "keep going" as Labour leader even if the party loses the
general election.
The prime minister signalled his intention to carry on in the event of a drubbing at the polls as
part of a wide-ranging interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme this morning, in which
he also admitted that allegations that he sometimes bullied his staff had been "damaging".
The prime minister was put on the spot over his plans amid growing speculation that voters could
return a minority government after the general election, which is expected to take place on 6
May.
Two polls at the weekend provided further evidence that the Tory lead is shrinking. YouGov in the
Sunday Times gave the Tories (on 37%) a four-point lead over Labour, down one point on the
Conservative lead in the Sunday Times poll the week before.
ICM in the Sunday Telegraph gave the Tories (on 38%) a seven-point lead over Labour, down two
points from the Conservative lead in the ICM poll for the same paper seven days earlier.
Brown insisted he would "keep going" in response to being asked whether he owed it to Labour to
quit as leader if he failed to secure a decent majority.
He told the programme: "I owe it to people to continue and complete the work that we've started
of taking this country out of the global, financial recession. To be honest, going around the
country, I feel there's more to do to improve the health service, more to do to give people
better opportunities, more to do for women on maternity pay and equal pay, more to do against the
discriminations that still exist. We've got this campaign to get more women in the boardroom as
well."
Pressed on whether he would quit, he said: "No, I'll keep going because I want a majority. I'll
keep going."
His comments followed a report in today's Times which quoted an unnamed senior minister
suggesting that Brown would hope to remain Labour leader in the event of defeat at the polls.
The minister was quoted as saying: "Don't underestimate Gordon. Unless the rejection at the polls
is large and personal, there is no reason for him to go quickly."
Brown was pressed on the programme about the extent of detail voters could expect on public
spending before the general election.
He said there would be "more information" in the budget, but admitted there was "uncertainty"
because of unemployment.
"We have announced cuts and there will be more information in the budget," he said.
He added: "At the moment we are not absolutely sure what's happening to employment and
unemployment. We don't know yet what savings we can get from cutting or keeping unemployment
down, but that runs into billions of pounds. If we have these savings, we can use them to fund
departments. If we don't have these savings, it makes it more difficult. So there is a degree of
uncertainty at the moment about what we can do in the future."
He insisted that hospitals, schools and policing would have their funding protected. He
acknowledged that was only for two years, but sought to reassure voters that the protection would
remain after that period.
"I think you can be reasonably sure that the protection for health and education and policing
will be continued," he said. "You will get the spending round in due course."
Brown also told the programme that his decision to begin talking publicly about his personal
life, which included a recent TV interview with Piers Morgan in which he talked about the death of his baby daughter,
Jennifer Jane, was because the way he was represented in the press "is just not me".
He had decided to open himself up to any questions to show "that there is no way I can be as
one-dimensional as the newspapers are presenting so I decided that was the best thing to do".
The prime minister admitted that allegations in a book by the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley that he
had bullied staff had been "damaging" but defended his behaviour in the job and indicated he had
not modified his conduct since.
"I'm a very tough person," he said. "I don't think you can be in a job I am coming from a pretty
ordinary background ... without being strong-willed and determined."
He also rejected claims that he treated female colleagues as "little more than window dressing"
– an accusation levelled at him by Caroline Flint when she stepped down as
Europe minister last summer – or that he felt more comfortable with men than
women. "No, I feel more comfortable with women than men," he laughed, "and I have worked very
closely with the women who have worked with me."
HDI a récemment publié une mise à jour logicielle pour son boîtier
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Le suivi des...
Anti-government protesters threatened Monday to begin collecting hundreds of liters of blood to
toss on official buildings as they step up their efforts to bring down Thai Prime Minister Abhisit
Vejjajiva's administration.
Anti-government protesters threatened Monday to begin collecting hundreds of liters of blood to
toss on official buildings as they step up their efforts to bring down Thai Prime Minister Abhisit
Vejjajiva's administration.
Après avoir longtemps sévi à Tunis, la
pièce s’installe pour un mois au Tarmac de la Villette (Paris XIX ).
J’ai pu aller voir la pièce ce samedi, et franchement je vous la recommande.
Certains de mes amis ont déjà vu la pièce à Tunis et ils affirment
qu’il y a au moins 30% de modification pour adapter la pièce à
l’audience.
Je suis donc un peu restée sur ma faim . Cela n’empêche pas que le voyage entre
le jeu des acteurs sur scène, la musique et les témoignages assez crus soit
intéressant.
Rendez-vous donc au
Tarmac de la villette jusqu’au 3 avril. Les représentations ont lieu du mardi au
vendredi à 20h, le samedi à 16h.
et en plus ce n’est pas excessivement cher de 12 a 16 euros.
Â
En prime voila la video Ech bya par jawhar basti et Anissa Daoud
¿Qué hace que veamos la televisión a través de
internet? A simple vista es un tanto ilógico pensarlo… cambiamos nuestro
cómodo sofá y la tele del salón por una silla o butaca en frente de un
ordenador, y ahí pasamos horas y horas viendo cosas, muchas de ellas, series y programas
de televisión. Algunos tienen un media center y conectan internet al televisor, o las
series descargadas de internet al mismo. Y otros lo tienen más fácil con un equipo
grabador. Pero… ¿cuáles son los motivos reales por los que
nos hemos movido a internet? Nielsen ha revelado unos interesantes datos de un
estudio que echan por tierra aquella máxima de que internet está canibalizando a la
televisión.
Según este estudio la gente vé televisión vía internet
porque…
... un 54% de los entrevistados olvidó ver un
episodio concreto cuando se emitió en TV.
... un 47% quiere ponerse al día con una temporada
de alguna serie porque se ha perdido bastantes episodios.
... un 33% quiere ponerse al día con la temporada
anterior antes de que empiece la nueva.
... un 32% olvidó grabar un episodio.
Estos son algunos de los datos del estudio, que efectivamente demuestran que la televisión
como modelo tradicional no está desapareciendo, sino que está continuando por
la nueva vía que internet supone para ella. No es que estemos cambiando nuestra
forma de ver y disfrutar las cosas, sino que el medio ha evolucionado de forma
natural hacia una tecnología que lo mejora y lo complementa. La parrilla programática
no es más que un sistema de disponibilidad de espectadores, al igual que el prime time,
sistemas únicos hasta la popularización de las series y programas en internet.
En mi opinión, no podría seguir todas las series que sigo actualmente de forma
tradicional, a través de una efímera emisión televisiva hasta su
edición en DVD, por compatibilidad programática, por horario y ritmo de
vida, y por más motivos. Aparte de la inmediatez que necesitan muchos seguidores
en sus shows, se hace cada vez más innecesario el tiempo de espera entre ventanas de
explotación estadounidenses y españolas (concepto que bien se han cerciorado las
cadenas estos últimos meses, como con ‘Lost’ o ‘The Pacific’). A
todo esto se le pueden sumar muchas más ventajas que no son ninguna novedad, como la
ausencia de cortes publicitarios molestos o la versión original subtitulada.
Gordon Brown today demanded that the Unite union call off its planned British Airways cabin crew
strike, a dispute which the Prime Minister said was "unjustified" and "deplorable".
Gordon Brown today demanded that the Unite union call off its planned British Airways cabin crew
strike, a dispute which the Prime Minister said was “unjustified” and
“deplorable”.
PM turns on Unite union as talks with its leadership fail to produce a breakthrough and a
three-day stoppage by cabin crew looms for this weekend
Gordon Brown has labelled a looming British Airways cabin crew strike as "unjustified and
deplorable" this morning, as the government steps up the pressure on the Unite trade union.
The prime minister turned on one of the Labour party's biggest donors after conversations with the Unite leadership failed to produce a breakthrough at the weekend.
Asked in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour whether Lord Adonis, the transport
secretary, was right in yesterday calling the strikes "totally unjustified", Brown said: "I
agree. It is the wrong time, it is unjustified, it is deplorable, we shouldn't have a strike. It
is not in the company's interest, it is not in the workers' interest and it is certainly not in
the national interest. I hope that this strike will be called off."
Meanwhile, British Airways is preparing to announce its strike-breaking schedule later today
after pledging it will run up to seven out of 10 flights during a three-day cabin crew walkout
due to begin on Saturday.
Despite calls from Unite to resubmit a last-ditch peace offer, BA appears set on getting through
the strike this weekend, which will be followed by a four-day walkout from the following
Saturday. BA's chief executive, Willie Walsh, said yesterday that he hopes to run up to 70% of
BA's daily schedule during the walkouts - meaning that around 490 flights will still operate each
day. More than 500,000 passengers will be affected by the seven days of strikes but BA has
already offered full refunds to anyone who has booked to travel with the airline between 19 March
and 31 March.
"I don't want to mislead people, we're not going to be able to operate all of our schedule,
that's clear," Walsh told the Sunday Telegraph. "It will be more than 50% but probably won't be more than
70%." He added: "We are looking to maximise the number of destinations we serve in the interests
of our customers. We want to get as many of our customers to their destination as possible." BA
plans to counter the cabin crew strike with 1,000 volunteer flight attendants drawn from its
38,000-strong workforce and 23 aircraft leased from other operators, complete with their own
crews. However, the airline has admitted that the onboard
service on many flights will be limited.
Preparations for the strike are also under way at Unite. Representatives of its cabin crew
branch, Bassa, are meeting police at Heathrow today to discuss where to place picket lines. Bassa
also sent its 12,000 members a critique of the now-defunct BA offer last night. The offer
includes a partial repeal of the cabin crew staffing cuts that triggered the strike, alongside a
three-year pay deal and a proposal to put new, lower paid recruits on to a separate fleet of
aircraft. Unite's proposal includes a one-off 2.6% pay cut this year, which matches a similar
move by BA's pilots, and the return of about 700 cabin crew to BA aircraft. More than 1,100 cabin
crew posts have been removed by BA since November following a voluntary redundancy scheme and a
part-time working programme.
"In our opinion, it was far from a good offer, some nice words but not much substance," said
Bassa.
Government measures force card providers to reduce the costliest part of a debt first, saving
card holders millions of pounds in interest payments
Credit card firms will be forced to change the way they make customers pay off their debts, in a
move that could save 9 million borrowers a typical £225 each a year, the government
announced today.
The move is part of a package of measures to tackle indebtedness unveiled this morning by the
prime minister, Gordon Brown.
Currently, when cardholders transfer a debt to a card provider at a low or zero rate of interest,
and subsequently buy items on the card at a higher rate of interest, often around 20%, most card
companies force them to pay off the cheaper debt first when they make repayments.
This makes the costlier debt on the card last longer, thus prolonging the debt and earning the
card companies more interest.
Today, the government said it would introduce legislation to stop the practice, known as "adverse
order of payments", in a move that will save 9 million of the country's 30 million cardholders
around £500m a year, according to one building society.
The package of measures, which have been agreed with the credit card and store card industry,
gives consumers five rights:
· Right to repay: consumers' repayments will always be put against the
highest rate of debt first. For consumers opening new accounts the minimum payment will always
cover at least interest, fees and charges, plus 1% of the amount they have borrowed.
· Right to control: consumers will have the right to tell their providers
never to increase their credit limit, and the right to reduce their limit at any time.
· Right to reject: consumers will be given 60 days to switch provider if
informed of an increase in their interest rate, and will be able to reject the offer of any
increase in their credit limit.
· Right to information: consumers at risk of financial difficulties will
be given guidance on the consequences of paying back too little; and all consumers will be given
clear information on increases in their interest rate or their credit limit including the right
to reject.
· Right to compare: consumers will have an annual statement that allows
for easy cost comparison with other providers.
In addition, the government said it would protect consumers who were at risk of financial
difficulties by banning card providers from increasing their credit limit or interest rate, and
allow consumers to access their credit records for free or just £2.
Brown said: "Step by step we are reinventing the financial services industry after the global
financial crisis and moving the balance of power back towards consumers.
"These new rights will put an end to the irresponsible lending practices that people have been
most concerned about, and help cut the cost of borrowing."
Positive order of payments
The changes follow the Credit and Store Card Review launched by the government last year. It
received responses from more than 5,000 members of the public, as well as receiving input from
all the country's card issuers and a number of consumer bodies.
A government spokesman said it became clear from the responses that the majority of cardholders
were not aware they were being made to pay off their cheaper debts first. When they understood
the issue, he said, it was the area in the review they were most keen to see changed.
Nationwide and Saga are the only two card issuers that do not use an adverse order of payments
system. Other credit card firms are expected to be given until the end of 2010 to change their
system.
Nationwide's product and marketing director, Chris Rhodes, said: "This review is excellent news
for the consumer. A positive order of payments would mean that consumers can trust that when they
make a payment it will go to paying off their most expensive balance first. That would be good
news for anyone who cannot, or chooses not to, pay off their credit card debt in full."
Melanie Johnson, chair of the UK Cards Association, said: "We are pleased that our evidence on
unsolicited credit limit increases and the repricing of existing debt has conclusively shown that
existing practices do not need to be overhauled.
"We believe that, overall, the outcome of the review is balanced and will give consumers the
greater control and convenience that the industry and the government wish to provide."
She added: "Now that we have agreement in place we can focus on the important task of
implementing these changes so that customers can benefit."
However, the association said the changes were likely to cost the industry around £533m
over the first two years – double the cost of the package of proposals it had
put to the government.
This could mean some providers consider introducing annual fees to recoup these losses.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pulled ahead on Sunday in early results of an
election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but a divided vote suggested long and
fraught talks to form a government are ahead.
Alors que la sortie du prochain film de Tim Burton approche, le jeu vidéo Alice au pays des
Merveilles s'illustre à travers ces images. Le studio Etrange Libellules nous transpose dans
la peau des compagnons d'Alice, afin d'aider la jeune fille à survivre aux
péripéties de son aventure au Pays des Merveilles. Vous devrez résoudre de
multiples énigmes dans un temps imparti et combattre les soldats de la Reine avant qu'ils ne
kidnappent la fillette. Chaque personnage aura ses propres capacités, on pourra donc changer
à tout moment de compagnons en fonction de la situation. Notons également la
qualité graphique du jeu qui reproduit au mieux l'ambiance funèbre des films de Tim
Burton.Le jeu vidéo sortira un jour après le film, soit le 25 Mars prochain, sur DS
et sur Wii.En prime voici le trailer du jeu :
Abhisit Vejjajiva ignores call from thousands of red-shirted Thaksin Shinawatra supporters in
Bangkok
Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters retreated from a military base today in Bangkok,
after the prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, who was holed up at the compound, rejected their
demand to dissolve parliament.
The demonstrators, many from the poor northern areas of Thailand who back the ousted former prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra, gave a deadline of noon today for a parliamentary dissolution that would have led
to fresh elections.
A defiant Abhisit appeared live on television refusing to give in, but he hinted at a willingness
to compromise. This appeared to have done enough to disperse a largely peaceful demonstration
outside a military base, where Abhisit has stayed since the protests began on Friday. But later,
explosions at another military base in the city wounded two soldiers.
"Asking for the dissolution of parliament before noon in exchange for a halt to the
demonstrations, we all agreed it can't be done. However, it doesn't mean the government coalition
parties and I won't listen to their ideas," the prime minister, said flanked by members of his
coalition.
Around 40,000 red-shirted demonstrators had marched on the military
compound, where they were greeted by songs composed by the Thai king, in a bid to keep things
calm. After the deadline passed, the protesters began to return their base – a
boulevard in the old part of the city.
In an address, one of the protest leaders, Veera Musikapong, said new methods would be used to
put pressure on the government.
The protesters, known as the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, believe Abhisit
took office illegitimately with the support of military and the ruling elite who were alarmed by
Thaksin's popularity among the poor.
Thaksin, who became prime minister in 2001 and whose party easily won two elections, was ousted
by a 2006 military coup for alleged corruption and abuse of power.
He spoke to a rally by video link last night from an undisclosed location, thought to be Dubai,
urging the 150,000-strong crowd in Bangkok to continue their struggle peacefully.
"The people who caused the problems in the country these days are the ruling elites," Thaksin
said.
The Red Shirts' last protest in Bangkok, last April, deteriorated into rioting that left two
people dead, more than 120 people injured and buses burned on thoroughfares before the army
quashed the unrest.
Thailand has experienced political turmoil since early 2006, when anti-Thaksin demonstrations
began. In 2008, when Thaksin's political allies came back to power for a year, his middle-class
opponents dressed in yellow and occupied the prime minister's office compound for three months,
as well as seizing Bangkok's two airports for a week.
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Tony Abbot, the outspoken and often controversial leader of the Australian Liberal party has risked
offending the country's Aborigines by accusing Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister, and his ministers of
political correctness and 'tokenism' when they acknowledge the indigenous population as the
country’s traditional owners while speaking at official functions.
Le 14 mars, l'opposition géorgienne a accusé le gouvernement de se trouver
derrière le faux reportage, diffusé en prime time, selon lequel des tanks russes
étaient entrés dans la capitale à l'appel de l'opposition, causant une
panique dans tout le pays.
Baroness Stern talks about her landmark review into the handling of rape
complaints. She tells the Guardian's Rachel Williams we shouldn't solely focus
on conviction rates but instead give equal weight to care and support of victims - whether or not
the case goes to trial.
A Guardian enquiry by David Leigh reveals that more than 80 university bosses
now earn more than the Prime Minister. The highest paid gets 474 thousand pounds a year. Many
more make do with just over 300 thousand.
When TV reports tell you that the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli has been killed in
another Russian invasion what do you do? The Guardian's Moscow correspondent Luke
Harding jumped into action only to find it was a TV spoof.
And the Guardian's Northern Editor Martin Wainwright paints us a picture of
Hadrian's Wall as it's lit up from end to end.
Streaming through Bangkok in a convoy of trucks, vans and motorbikes, anti-government protesters
this morning headed for a key military base where Thailands prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has
been holed up in a temporary command centre.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-government protesters in Bangkok plan to march to a military
base on Monday to step up pressure on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and
call fresh elections.
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