- In praise of… reclaiming cities | Editorial
Clearing our cities of cars for a day can bring a breath of fresh air in more ways than oneThe retreat of the car began, implausibly enough, in Bogotá in 1976, when the Colombian capital began handing over its streets to cyclists on Sundays. Six days a week the main motorways into the city are packed with traffic; on the seventh they are coned off, and filled with cycling, walking and rollerblading citizens. Now, many years after it should have done, Britain is following suit. Last Sunday an estimated 85,000 people took part in London's Sky Ride, along closed city streets, joining others in Manchester last month, Birmingham next Sunday and other towns and cities too. The draw is not just communal exercise, but a chance to see a changed city, quieter, on a human rather than a mechanical scale. Something of the same feeling follows a heavy snowfall, for a few hours before the stuff turns to unpleasant grey slush, or a big city marathon. Normal routines are disrupted; people talk; cars are held back; cities look different. There is pleasure in such unexpected shared experiences, an engagingly different taste of urban life without the need to travel away from it. Each August in Paris the expressway along the River Seine is buried beneath 1,357 tonnes of sand and handed over to the public as a beach, though the river itself is judged, sadly, too dirty for swimming. Given British summer weather, a beach might fail on the Embankment or Princes Street. But the success of Sky Ride shows people want to cycle. For a time, at least, the car does not always have to come first in the city.Road transportCyclingguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
日車の清算我々の都市は、車のoneThe隠れ家以上の方法に始まり、implausibly十分ボゴタ1976年、ときにコロンビアの首都日曜サイクリストへの道を引き渡す始めた新鮮な空気をもたらすことができる
- Gaza women fume over Hamas' water-pipe ban
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - There are few pleasures left for Gaza's 1.5 million people, squeezed by both a blockade and Hamas efforts to impose its strict Muslim lifestyle. And women here just lost another one.Gaza's Hamas rulers... ガザ市では、ガザ地区 - いくつかの快楽ガザの150万人のために、両方の封鎖とハマスの努力、その厳格なイスラム教徒のライフスタイルを課すことによって圧。残っている
- Pope's pantry a hymn to glories of grease
Italians impressed by Pope Benedict's good health and quick mind at the age of 83 have been shocked to learn that the German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.The glimpse... イタリア人はローマ教皇ベネディクトの健康と迅速な心で83歳の時に、ドイツの司教のお気に入りのレシピは揚げ、バターと肉食pleasures.The垣間見るの自殺ミックスさ学ぶためにショックを受けている印象...
- Recluse wrote for his own pleasure
Jerome David Salinger, the son of a Scots-Irish mother and a Jewish businessman - a prolific importer of cheeses and meat - was raised in uptown Manhattan.Troubled at school, he was sent to a military academy in Pennsylvania at... ジェロームデイビッドサリンジャーは、スコットランドの息子とアイルランドの母とユダヤ人の実業家-チーズと肉の多作のインポータ-学校でManhattan.Troubled山の手、彼はペンシルベニア州の陸軍士官学校に送られてきた育てられた...
- TDC all at sea over invitations to meet Ukrainian president
Readers may recall our piece yesterday about the official visit of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. There has been some displeasure surrounding the visit. For one thing, it appears to have received scant publicity, so a number of people who would like to have heard about it have not.
読者は昨日ウクライナ大統領ヤヌコビッチの公式訪問についての私達の作品を思い出すことがあります
- Murdoch attacks Amazon prices
The era of US$9.99 electronic books could soon be a thing of the past. News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire includes HarperCollins books, home to authors like Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich, made clear his displeasure with the low price Amazon has set for electronic books.
米国の時代に9.99ドル、電子書籍、すぐに過去のものになることができます
- Bumper year seen for online travel market
The mainland's online tourism market is booming as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels for pleasure and the use of credit cards and the internet soars, analysts say.
中国本土のオンライン旅行市場はますます裕福な中産階級が急成長して喜びのために、クレジットカードとは、インターネットが上がるの使用の旅、アナリストたちは言う
- Pakistanis Living on Brink, and Too Often in the Dark
To stem frustration over an energy crisis, government officials ordered power-saving measures that seemed to aggravate the problem as well as stifle some Pakistanis’ remaining pleasures. エネルギー危機不満を止めるには、政府関係者だけでなく、問題を悪化させるいくつかのパキスタン。。u0026#39;残りの喜びを抑えるような省電力対策を命じた
- Turkey expresses pleasure with release of Iraqi election results
Turkey Saturday expressed pleasure with release of Iraqi election results, saying Iraqi government should be formed as soon as possible to solve country's problems by using political means, a Turkish official statement said.
The statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said another important stage regarding stability efforts, political process and democratization in Iraq would leave behind after Iraqi federal court approves results in the next couple of days.
Results announced by t ... トルコ土曜日、イラク政府はすぐにトルコ語の公式声明によると政治的手段を使用して、国の問題を解決するために可能な限り形成されるべきだ、イラクの選挙結果のリリースと喜びを表明した
- The differences between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama
Why the two politicians have not enjoyed the rapport of their predecessorsBinyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama, who took office within a month of each other, have not enjoyed the warm rapport felt between many of their predecessors.Obama's early demand for a halt to settlement expansion in the West Bank was met with evasion and foot-dragging by Netanyahu, who clearly believed he had outflanked the new US president.A temporary freeze was eventually wrung out of Israel. But things went further downhill when a big settlement housing project was announced during vice-president Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem in March.The White House made its displeasure known during Netanyahu's subsequent visit to Washington when the customary photo opportunity was humiliatingly denied to him.The US was further angered by Israel's deadly interception of the flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, followed by its refusal to accept demands for an international inquiry.Ahead of today's attempts to publicly paper over the cracks between the two sides, many Israeli commentators have been critical of Netanyahu for endangering the traditionally close and supportive relationship between the two countries.Barack ObamaBinyamin NetanyahuUnited StatesIsraelPalestinian territoriesHarriet Sherwoodguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
2つの政治家は、そのpredecessorsBinyaminネタニヤフとバラクオバマ、それぞれ他の1カ月以内に就任の親密な関係を楽しんでいないなぜ温かい親密な関係を楽しんでいない自分predecessors.Obama。。u0026#39;の多くの間感じたの解決に停止拡張のための初期需要だ西岸は、脱税と足はネタニヤフ、明らかに彼は米国の新president.A一時凍結を側面攻撃と信じていたのをドラッグして満たされた最終的にイスラエルの絞ったでした
- Lower Ninth | Theatre review
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe Donmar Warehouse has moved into this Whitehall studio for a 12-week season to promote the work of young directors. Charlotte Westenra, the first beneficiary, has come up with a fine, well-acted production of a 70-minute play by Beau Willimon. However, though set during the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, it ultimately lacks real drama.Willimon appears to have taken a hint from Paul Chan's alfresco Waiting for Godot, performed in the hard-hit ninth ward of New Orleans. He shows us two African-Americans stranded on a rooftop, hoping for rescue, the corpse of a friend at their feet. Malcom, a tough guy turned Bible student, and his young companion, E-Z, bicker, banter and play guessing games to pass the time. What emerges is an uneasy father-son relationship, relieved by Malcom's occasional retelling of Bible stories – the best of which offers an alternative version of the Flood in which Noah becomes the ultimate black survivor.But Willimon resorts to one particularly desperate dramatic device, easily guessable from the programme, to keep the situation going. And it strikes me as bizarre that his two characters hardly refer to the one subject that would be uppermost on their minds: the staggering federal and civic incompetence that saw so many lives sacrificed.The pleasure lies in the performance. Ray Fearon as Malcom displays a formidable power that suggests he could have punched something more than a Bible in his time, and Anthony Welsh is full of raw anger as the younger man. Despite Westenra's vividly atmospheric production, though, Willimon's play is a self-conscious piece that tells us little about the criminal negligence behind the disaster.Rating: 3/5TheatreHurricane KatrinaNatural disasters and extreme weatherMichael Billingtonguardi トラファルガースタジオ、LondonTheドンマーギャラリーは、若い監督の作品を促進するための12週間は、シーズンに向けて、このホワイトスタジオに移動しています
- By the book: Turkish literature
From classical to contemporary, historical to travel, what to read for inspiration on TurkeyIstanbul, Memories of a City, Orhan PamukPoignant, lyrical childhood memoir from Turkey's foremost writer that brings the monuments, dilapidated Ottoman villas, backstreets and waterways of the anarchic, unusual city of his birth brilliantly to life. One of his earlier works, Black Book, is a fictional evocation of Istanbul in the repressive mid-1980s, a twisted detective novel that tackles the question of Turkey's cultural identity and reveals the city to be complex and crumbling. Faber and Faber, £9.99A Fez of the Heart, Jeremy SealA wry, lively quest for the heart of a country by way of the history of a hat that symbolises Turkey's cultural fault line. Not so much a book about headgear as an eccentric, entertaining portrait of a contradictory country culturally and spiritually at odds with itself, which reveals the tensions of Turkish life.Picador, £7.99Turkish Coast Through Writers' Eyes, VariousExcellent anthology of classical and contemporary writings, from the Odyssey and Plutarch to Freya Stark and Louis de Bernière, that examines the stretch of coast from Izmir to Antalya, covering subjects as varied as archaeological discovery, the march of Alexander's army, the pleasures of the hammam and Turkish cooking.Eland, £12.99Rebel Land, Christopher de BellaigueAcclaimed account of a journey to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to examine the legacy of the violent conflict between Turks, Kurds and Armenians. Intensely personal and rigorously researched, it throws light on a dark subject, sifts fact from propaganda, partisan accounts and vague oral histories, and allows the reader to make up their own mind. Bloomsbury, £8.99 Lords of the Horizon, Jason GoodwinA loosely c 古典的な現代に、歴史から、どのようなTurkeyIstanbulにインスピレーション、思い出のための読みに移動する市、オルハンPamukPoignant、モニュメント老朽化したオスマン帝国の別荘、裏通りと無秩序、珍しい街の水路をもたらすトルコの一流の作家から叙情的な小児の回顧録生命誕生の鮮やかに
- Why I love the Louvre's Grande Galerie
Take a stroll through the Louvre's awe-inspiring Grande Galerie and its magnificent history paintings will make you rethink artThere are many places on Earth where art lovers feel they have to go. Cairo to see the face of King Tut, maybe, or New York's MoMa to see Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. I have no regrets about my pilgrimages to such sites. But I have to confess that the place that makes me more aware than any other of the richness, glory and mystery of art is closer to home (just a Eurostar journey away), and far more complex in its pleasures.In the Grande Galerie of the Louvre you walk along an immense hall – divided in two by a central tribune – past a cavalcade of French history paintings. What is a history painting? Well, the best way to find out is to visit this part of France's national museum. Here are paintings, many of them on a staggering scale, of great and noble, shocking and terrifying events. Survivors of a shipwreck lose their last shreds of hope as gargantuan waves bear down on their loosely slung together vessel in 。éricault's The Raft of the Medusa. Napoleon gives succour to the dying in Baron Gros's Battlefield of Eylau. As the heroic Spartans prepare to lay down their lives, their leader sits brooding alone, staring right at us, in David's great Leonidas at Thermopylae.If you think this display of French 18th- and early 19th-century masterpieces is all about blood and guts, there's sex here, too, in Delacroix's Women of Algiers and Ingres's Odalisque. In fact, there are so many surprises and puzzles among these sometimes strange, always magnificent works that you could rethink the entire nature of art on a stroll through this awe-inspiring space.The grand paintings it holds were made mostly for the Salon, the French exhibition of new art that was _NULL_
- I'm too busy staring into space for leisure | Tim Dowling
So British men have 32 more minutes of leisure time a day than women do – I'd better ask the dog what to do with itA survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that British men have, on average, more leisure time in their day than women – 32 minutes more, to be precise. This is a lot compared with Germany, where men get just 22 minutes extra, but still not really enough to be of much use. If you have to drive to your leisure activity and back, for example, you may as well not bother; better to stay home and fret quietly.There are, of course, some grey areas in this leisure gap. Shopping can be a hobby or a chore, depending on what you're buying and how much you've got to spend. Grooming can be business or pleasure, depending on your point of view. Enjoying your job in any way would probably be considered cheating.I'm not the busiest person in the world, or even in my marriage, but officially, none of my time is free time. Every minute of every day is spoken for. All my leisure activities, therefore, take place in hours robbed from non-leisure categories. I watch telly when I should be sleeping. I teach myself the banjo off the internet when I should be working. I read when I should be playing with my children.Because I work from home, most of my hobbies – and don't get me wrong, I have many – must be reclassified for accounting purposes. The average 20 minutes per day spent talking to the dog as if it were my therapist, for example, counts as admin. Picking small objects off the ground in the park gets filed under research and development. Making bread – an intense, but episodic obsession – is written off as medical leave.It's not a work-life balance in the traditional sense. Technically, I never clock off, but then I have a jo だから、イギリス人の余暇の32分以上の女性よりも1日持っている - 私はより英国の男性は、上にして発見したもの機関経済協力開発機構（OECD）のサオの調査を行うには、犬の皆様にお願いしたい女性よりも1日の平均余暇時間 - 32分以上、正確には
- Michael Tomasky: Sometimes I think there just might be a God
Bob and Jane Cull bought a house in suburban Ft. Worth, Texas in 1996 for about $233,000. It promptly started falling apart on them. They sued the builder. An arbitration ruling went for the Culls in the amount of $800,000.The builder spent $1 million fighting the $800,000. And yesterday, a lower court in Texas awarded the Culls $51 million. The builder is Bob Perry, the chief financial backer of the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and of various other right-wing outfits.The story is actually even worse than the above. The case originally worked its way up to the state supreme court. The supremes -- every one whom received a campaign contribution from Perry, according to news story I linked to above -- vacated the arbitration award and kicked the matter back down to a lower court. And it was that lower court that produced the $51 million ruling.Perry will of course appeal again, and who knows, the bastard may never pay a penny. But one can at least take pleasure in the likelihood that he's suffering today. Not just because he financed a group of ideological hate-mongers, but because he also appears to be at least a partially lousy human being.Meanwhile, not to post-jack my own blog or anything, but the big topic in Washington today will be this story. I'll be back in a little while with some developed thoughts on it. Rather fascinating.United StatesMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
BobとJaneキュール郊外のフォートワースで家を買った
- El Bulli to close doors for good
Catalan chef, famous for dishes such as foie gras candies, to replace restaurant with academy for advanced culinary studyFerran Adrià, the Catalan chef celebrated for creating such dishes as turtle dove with blackberry caviar and duck foie gras candies, has decided to permanently close his famously experimental El Bulli restaurant in Spain.Adrià will replace the restaurant, which in its deconstruction of traditional dishes creates as much bewilderment among diners as pleasure, with an academy for advanced culinary study, according to the New York Times.He decided to permanently shut El Bulli, which has won three Michelin stars and was last year named the world's best restaurant for the fourth year by Restaurant magazine in Britain, because he and his partner, Juli Soler, had been losing €500,000 (£433,728) a year on the restaurant and his cooking workshop in Barcelona, the paper's food blog reported.He said he would use his earnings from consultancies and other businesses to establish his new culinary academy and to fund scholarships.The restaurant will reopen for six months in June and close for good in December 2011.Adrià told an international culinary conference last month that the restaurant would temporarily shut its doors in 2012 and 2013. He said then that the closure was due to the difficulties of working 15 hours a day.Tables for the six-month season at El Bulli sell out in a day and two million people – including the world's great and good – have competed for a mere 8,000 settings in the past few years.Ferran Adri。ChefsRestaurantsFood & drinkguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
フォアグラのキャンディーなどのカタロニア語のシェフ、料理で有名な、先進的な料理studyFerranアドリアのアカデミーのレストランを交換するには、カタロニア語シェフのカメのような料理を作成するための有名なブラックベリーのキャビアと鴨のフォアグラのキャンディーと、永久に彼の有名な閉鎖を決定しました鳩Spain.Adriàで実験的なエルBulliレストラン、先進的な料理の勉強のための学校では、ニューヨークTimes.Heを永久エルシャットダウンすることによると、従来の料理は、解体に喜びのダイナーの間に多くの戸惑いを作成し、レストラン、置換されます彼と彼のパートナー、ジュリソレルは、レストランで€500,000（￥433728）に1年間を失っていたBulliは、ミシュランの三つ星を獲得したし、昨年、英国内にレストランの雑誌で、4年生のための世界最高のレストランの名前とバルセロナは、紙の食品のブログreported.Heで彼の料理ワークショップで、彼と彼の新しい料理アカデミーを確立するため、6月に6ヶ月間に再開されると良いのに近いscholarships.Theレストランの資金を提供するコンサルタントや他の企業から自分の利益を使用すると述べた12月2011.Adrià先月には、レストランが一時的に2012年と2013年には、そのドアを閉めると国際的な料理と語った
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