Korean Air has indicated that it will be upgrading capacity on its ICN-Moscow (SVO) bound flight by replacing the Airbus A 330-300 with the Boeing 777-200ER due to increased seasonal demand. The flight is flown 3 times a week nonstop.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Lan Chile
Lan Chile has officially confirmed its large order with Boeing for 32 Boeing 787s out of which 6 B 789s are to be leased from ILFC where as the remainder will be bought directly from Boeing itself.
In addition, the Chilean airline has also confirmed its order for 4 Boeing 777-200LR freighters.
a few changes
You won't notice, but this is an old template that is now Big News. I have changed a few things around so all you will notice is that there are no archives - they are on the old template I`m working on.
Tax cuts
Helen Clark has announced that Labour will be offering tax cuts. Coincidentally, it so happens that it can now afford to- right on the weekend of the Labour Party conference and within a year of an election with Labour sliding in the polls. The announcement did not say when the tax cuts will be reversed, who will get a tax cut, when, and how much.
The announcement came after Michael Cullen recently told the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee that people who think there should be tax cuts on the back of the big surpluses should be taken out and quietly drowned.
The difference between Labour and National on tax is that you can rely on National to have a bettter tax policy and to deliver it.
Its a bitter way with Labour - way bitter.
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Chris Knox has written a song that will be used in Labour's campaign. It's pretty good, but like many of Labours policies it starts well and goes downhill. The song is a bit repetitive towards the end. You can hear it here. Its called " Its a better way with Labour, but sounds like "its a bitter way with Labour".
Monday, November 5, 2007
Add Google News to Your Site
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The NewsBar is designed with your needs in mind. It can be configured in a horizontal mode where it delivers a continuous stream of news headlines to your site. The vertical mode delivers both news headlines and snippets. The NewsBar is perfect for your topical sites or blogs. For instance, if you are following the Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton race, try this NewsBar.
If you are a professional developer and want to use some of the more advanced features of the NewsBar, there is a complete developer guide that will walk you through all of the options. If you run a blog on Blogger, the NewsBar is already built in. To add it to your blog, just edit your blog's layout, and add the "Newsreel" page element.
A few controls that might complement your use of the NewsBar are, The YouTube VideoBar, The LocalSearch Control for Google Maps, the Slideshow Control, and the Dynamic Feed Control.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Helens halloween special
The reshuffle. More of a trick through crooked teeth than a treat.
We have a minister of Women`s Affairs called Steve,and a Claytons minister. Cosgrove takes over Sport and the Rugby World Cup. Cunliffe is on Health - and only just in the front bench - after smacking his kids in a carpark, and Carter has Education because he has a masters degree and a teaching qualification. The ministers of Social Development, Education and Health have more Ministerial portfolos and are lower ranked than the Minister of Maori Affairs. The Associate Ministers of Education and Social Development are ranked higher than the actual minister.
Hodgson is still on the front bench and is the Tertiary Education and Economic Development Minster so he can stuff up his portfolios in silence. A large Government ministry is not even on the front bench - Dyson has Social Development.
So the portfolio responsibilities and the seniority are all out of whack - especially Horomia - he's one of FOUR associate ministers of Social Development and everyone seems to have forgotten about him today. What's he doing so high up the rankings? Is it because he is a Maori? Given that the woman with crooked teeth has done her Halloween reshuffle, how come nobody is asking why “Horrormia” is so high up the rankings. David Farrar suggested yesterday that he will retain his ranking because he is a Maori. True? How Horoble. Bad trick.
Goff didnt get Health - so he`ll get Finance when Cullen goes. Annette King gets Police, Justice and the Law Commission - to set up her campaign to get the Electoral Finance Bill passed.
Obviously there is not much depth in Labour. Trevor Mallard is the Minister of Labour as a reward for punching Tau Henare in the jaw at work. Wonder what his policy is on violence in the workplace. Heh.
I should have had a coffee after all...
The Lineup is here
Friday, November 2, 2007
Florida court ruling puts executions back on calendar
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied a death row inmate's request to stay his execution, saying the state's lethal injection procedures are not cruel and unusual punishment.
In a unanimous ruling, the justices denied Mark Schwab's request for relief on a variety of claims, including the lethal injection aspect.
Several states had halted executions beginning in 2005 amid concerns over the execution procedures.
Then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush issued a moratorium in his state after complaints over the length of time needed to execute prisoner Angel Nieves Diaz.
It took 34 minutes for Diaz to die -- twice as long as usual.
A two-year review is now complete, and Schwab's would be the first execution in the state since the moratorium ended.
"We reject the conclusion that lethal injection as applied in Florida is unconstitutional," the justices wrote.
The decision allows Schwab's execution, scheduled for November 15, to proceed pending further appeals.
He was convicted of first degree murder, sexual battery of a child and kidnapping for the 1991 kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez.
All 37 states with capital punishment use a three-drug mixture: an anesthetic, a muscle paralyzer and a heart-stopping substance. Death penalty opponents say if the inmate is not given enough anesthetic, he could suffer excruciating pain without being able to express that because of the paralyzer.
The Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled directly on the "cruel and unusual" aspect of lethal injection, but did conclude last year that prisoners can make last-ditch legal challenges to the method of execution, using claims they would suffer a painful death.
After the U.S. high court agreed to hear Kentucky cases over the constitutionality of lethal injection, capital defendants have filed a flood of appeals seeking execution stays or new hearings.
The justices have stayed a number of pending executions, presumably until the larger constitutional questions surrounding the method of execution are settled. Oral arguments in the Kentucky cases will be held early next year.
Source : CNN.com
In a unanimous ruling, the justices denied Mark Schwab's request for relief on a variety of claims, including the lethal injection aspect.
Several states had halted executions beginning in 2005 amid concerns over the execution procedures.
Then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush issued a moratorium in his state after complaints over the length of time needed to execute prisoner Angel Nieves Diaz.
It took 34 minutes for Diaz to die -- twice as long as usual.
A two-year review is now complete, and Schwab's would be the first execution in the state since the moratorium ended.
"We reject the conclusion that lethal injection as applied in Florida is unconstitutional," the justices wrote.
The decision allows Schwab's execution, scheduled for November 15, to proceed pending further appeals.
He was convicted of first degree murder, sexual battery of a child and kidnapping for the 1991 kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez.
All 37 states with capital punishment use a three-drug mixture: an anesthetic, a muscle paralyzer and a heart-stopping substance. Death penalty opponents say if the inmate is not given enough anesthetic, he could suffer excruciating pain without being able to express that because of the paralyzer.
The Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled directly on the "cruel and unusual" aspect of lethal injection, but did conclude last year that prisoners can make last-ditch legal challenges to the method of execution, using claims they would suffer a painful death.
After the U.S. high court agreed to hear Kentucky cases over the constitutionality of lethal injection, capital defendants have filed a flood of appeals seeking execution stays or new hearings.
The justices have stayed a number of pending executions, presumably until the larger constitutional questions surrounding the method of execution are settled. Oral arguments in the Kentucky cases will be held early next year.
Source : CNN.com
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