Monthly Archives: July 2011
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Eight times a day, the vendors of a market in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, retract their awnings and counters as the commuter train – on whose track the market operates – passes through without stopping.
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A testy exchange between Press Secretary Jay Carney and Fox’s new White House correspondent Ed Henry:
“Look I know you’re creating a thing here for Fox.”
“That’s not what I’m doing, and you know better than that.”
Mmm. Testy.
Faces Of Jog
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Last summer, photographer Sacha Goldberger created an outdoor studio at Bois de Boulogne park near Paris and asked joggers to sprint for him before posing for his camera. The participants were then invited to Goldberger’s professional studio a week later to recreate the pose looking their best.
“I wanted to show the difference between our natural and brute side versus how we represent ourselves to society,” Goldberger tells us. “The difference was very surprising.”
The resulting before-and-afters are a bit like the Faces Of Meth Project in reverse.
FULL GALLERY: Before And After Shots Of Joggers (My Modern Met)
July 2010:
The head of the National Asset Management Agency said he was “extremely disappointed and disturbed” that information provided to the agency by bailed-out banks “has not stood up”. The stinging criticism of the banks from NAMA chairman Frank Daly (above) came as he revealed that the agency was likely to make profits of just €1bn over the next 10 years and could lose as much as €800m in the “worst-case scenario”. That is a far cry from the previous projection of profits nearing €4.8bn.
Fionnan Sheahan: Tough Talk Isn’t Enough: We Need To See Payback (Irish Independent, July 12, 2010)
July 2011:
The National Asset Management Agency (Nama) recorded impairment charges of almost €1.5 billion last year, its annual report has revealed.
The agency made a operating profit of €305 million for the year, but impairment losses were €1.485 billion for the 12-month period.
Nama posts €1.1 billion loss for 2010 in annual report (Irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
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“Daniel Craig’s my wookie bitch now.”
From the Jimmy Kimmel show.