Saturday 24 October 2009
again after his choice is rejected
Boris Johnson will not be putting forward an alternative nominee to chair the Arts Council in the capital after his first choice was rejected.
The London mayor wanted to put Veronica Wadley, the former editor of the Evening Standard, in the £7,000-a-year post. Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, vetoed this because he felt that her selection had not been in line with principles designed to prevent political interference in public posts.
Earlier this month, The Times revealed that Mr pearl jewelry Johnson had recommended Ms Wadley for the post even though she was considered unsuitable by the selection panel.
She had been considered the weakest of the four candidates for the post and was left off the shortlist, but Mr Johnson interviewed her anyway and recommended her to Mr Bradshaw. He was accused of cronyism because Ms Wadley’s newspaper had backed his campaign for the London mayoralty.
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Mr Johnson claimed last night that the Culture Secretary’s wholesale pearl jewelry decision had been “purely political”. In a letter to Mr Bradshaw, he said that he had had no choice but to re-advertise the position. He insisted that he had adhered to the rules. “This was a bad decision and flies in the face of the Mayor’s Government-sanctioned responsibility to nominate the London Chair at the Arts Council,” he wrote.
“Veronica Wadley was the best person for the job — her support for the arts and pivotal role at the helm of a major newspaper mean she is highly qualified to help steer the arts in London through these difficult times.”
A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media pearl jewelry wholesale and Sport said: “Keeping this important post unfilled risks damaging the arts in London. The Mayor is subject to a legal requirement to fill it as soon as possible and should do so.”
The London mayor wanted to put Veronica Wadley, the former editor of the Evening Standard, in the £7,000-a-year post. Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, vetoed this because he felt that her selection had not been in line with principles designed to prevent political interference in public posts.
Earlier this month, The Times revealed that Mr pearl jewelry Johnson had recommended Ms Wadley for the post even though she was considered unsuitable by the selection panel.
She had been considered the weakest of the four candidates for the post and was left off the shortlist, but Mr Johnson interviewed her anyway and recommended her to Mr Bradshaw. He was accused of cronyism because Ms Wadley’s newspaper had backed his campaign for the London mayoralty.
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Mr Johnson claimed last night that the Culture Secretary’s wholesale pearl jewelry decision had been “purely political”. In a letter to Mr Bradshaw, he said that he had had no choice but to re-advertise the position. He insisted that he had adhered to the rules. “This was a bad decision and flies in the face of the Mayor’s Government-sanctioned responsibility to nominate the London Chair at the Arts Council,” he wrote.
“Veronica Wadley was the best person for the job — her support for the arts and pivotal role at the helm of a major newspaper mean she is highly qualified to help steer the arts in London through these difficult times.”
A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media pearl jewelry wholesale and Sport said: “Keeping this important post unfilled risks damaging the arts in London. The Mayor is subject to a legal requirement to fill it as soon as possible and should do so.”
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Saturday 24 October 2009
The Times has learnt it was reports
They said: “The announcement ... brings to an end a period of uncertainty for such groups who have nurtured hopes of new ways of embracing unity with the Catholic Church.”
Lord Carey said that he, too, had been caught unawares by the development, which some insiders believe has dealt a death blow to 40 years of official freshwater pearl ecumenical dialogue under the auspices of the Council for Christian Unity, if not to the Anglican Communion itself. The council was not involved in preparing the constitution.
He sought, however, to make the best of the development. “I give it a very cautious welcome,” he said. “It is worth considering because there are a number of deeply worried, anxious Anglo-Catholics who do not believe they have a constructive future in the Church of England with the ordination of women as bishops.
“I was pastorally concerned for them when I was Archbishop of Canterbury. I know Rowan is as well. So this could go a long way to helping.”
The Times has learnt it was reports of bishops emerging in tears from the General Synod meeting last July that rejected all provision for traditionalists that freshwater pearl jewelry finally provoked Rome into offering them a home.
Lord Carey said that there were two positive aspects to the new Apostolic Constitution. “This initiatve is almost a back door ecumenical gesture. What we have seen is the failure of the final report of Arcic. Straightforward ecumenism at the theological level is going nowhere. This fresh initiative could have surprising consequences.”
George Austin, former Archdeacon of pearl jewelry wholesale York, said: “Rome has done this cleverly because the Catholic bishops in England are liberal. The Pope has shown considerable leadership. That is what Popes do. What has surprised me is the sort of people, and number, who have said they will leave.”
Lord Carey said that he, too, had been caught unawares by the development, which some insiders believe has dealt a death blow to 40 years of official freshwater pearl ecumenical dialogue under the auspices of the Council for Christian Unity, if not to the Anglican Communion itself. The council was not involved in preparing the constitution.
He sought, however, to make the best of the development. “I give it a very cautious welcome,” he said. “It is worth considering because there are a number of deeply worried, anxious Anglo-Catholics who do not believe they have a constructive future in the Church of England with the ordination of women as bishops.
“I was pastorally concerned for them when I was Archbishop of Canterbury. I know Rowan is as well. So this could go a long way to helping.”
The Times has learnt it was reports of bishops emerging in tears from the General Synod meeting last July that rejected all provision for traditionalists that freshwater pearl jewelry finally provoked Rome into offering them a home.
Lord Carey said that there were two positive aspects to the new Apostolic Constitution. “This initiatve is almost a back door ecumenical gesture. What we have seen is the failure of the final report of Arcic. Straightforward ecumenism at the theological level is going nowhere. This fresh initiative could have surprising consequences.”
George Austin, former Archdeacon of pearl jewelry wholesale York, said: “Rome has done this cleverly because the Catholic bishops in England are liberal. The Pope has shown considerable leadership. That is what Popes do. What has surprised me is the sort of people, and number, who have said they will leave.”
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Saturday 24 October 2009
Lord Carey 'appalled' by Pope's treatment of Dr Rowan Williams
Lord Carey of Clifton has called on his successor as Archbishop of Canterbury to complain to the Pope in person about not being consulted over plans to admit disaffected Anglicans to the Roman Catholic Church.
Lord Carey warned that the Pope’s strategy could damage relations with the Vatican. Lord Carey, who stepped down in 2002, urged Dr Rowan Williams to pearl jewelry protest strongly when he visits the Pope in Rome next month.
Lord Carey was speaking after the joint press conference this week between Dr Williams and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, to announce the move. Under an apostolic constitution decree, the Pope will set up personal ordinariates, or extra-geographical Roman Catholic dioceses, such as those that already exist in the military, to take in former Anglicans who oppose women bishops and accept the Petrine ministry of Rome.
Dr Williams appeared distressed when he pearl jewelry wholesale said at the press conference, hosted by the Roman Catholic Church in Eccleston Square, that he had known nothing of the initiative until two weeks ago. He was notified formally only when Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, visited last weekend to fill in some of the detail.
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The Times understands that the former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, a former co-chairman of the AnglicanRoman Catholic wholesale pearl jewelry International Commission, known as Arcic, tried unsuccessfully to stop the apostolic constitution being published. His protests and others’ concerns delayed its publication, intended for last February.
The two archbishops presented the constitution as “a response by Pope Benedict XVI to a number of requests over the past few years to the Holy See from groups of Anglicans who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church”.
Lord Carey warned that the Pope’s strategy could damage relations with the Vatican. Lord Carey, who stepped down in 2002, urged Dr Rowan Williams to pearl jewelry protest strongly when he visits the Pope in Rome next month.
Lord Carey was speaking after the joint press conference this week between Dr Williams and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, to announce the move. Under an apostolic constitution decree, the Pope will set up personal ordinariates, or extra-geographical Roman Catholic dioceses, such as those that already exist in the military, to take in former Anglicans who oppose women bishops and accept the Petrine ministry of Rome.
Dr Williams appeared distressed when he pearl jewelry wholesale said at the press conference, hosted by the Roman Catholic Church in Eccleston Square, that he had known nothing of the initiative until two weeks ago. He was notified formally only when Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, visited last weekend to fill in some of the detail.
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The Times understands that the former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, a former co-chairman of the AnglicanRoman Catholic wholesale pearl jewelry International Commission, known as Arcic, tried unsuccessfully to stop the apostolic constitution being published. His protests and others’ concerns delayed its publication, intended for last February.
The two archbishops presented the constitution as “a response by Pope Benedict XVI to a number of requests over the past few years to the Holy See from groups of Anglicans who wish to enter into full visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church”.
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Saturday 24 October 2009
Shock as figures show Britain is still in recession
Shock figures showing that Britain is still struggling through recession sent the pound plunging and threw fresh doubt over Alistair Darling’s plans to cut the national debt.
The City and Downing Street were stunned as output data revealed that the economy shrank by 0.4 per cent between July and September — an pearl jewelry unprecedented sixth consecutive quarter of decline.
The figures dashed predictions that Britain was emerging from recession and dealt a blow to Gordon Brown’s hopes of an economic recovery taking root before the election. The pound, which had been trading at €1.111 and $1.6693, collapsed against the currencies to €1.087 and $1.6323.
Economists had predicted that output was growing by 0.2 per cent.
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Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, which conducts surveys on the state of the economy, said that yesterday’s figures were wrong and could lead to “disastrous policy mistakes”.
Output has dropped 5.9 per cent since the recession began in the second quarter of last year. In the 1980s output fell by 6 per cent.
The lingering slump comes despite record low interest rates, extra government spending and a £175 billion boost to the money supply through quantitative pearl jewelry wholesale easing. Last month, Mr Brown had said that Britain was coming out of recession. He told the BBC: “I think you will see figures pretty soon that show the action that Britain has taken yielding effect.”
Retailers used yesterday’s data to call on the Chancellor to keep VAT at 15 per cent to boost the January sales.
The Treasury insisted that the VAT rate would be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1 as planned. But pressure is likely to intensify over the pearl necklace weeks running up to the Pre-Budget Report.Richard Lambert, the Director-General of the CBI, said that changing the rate of VAT at midnight on December 31 would create practical problems for businesses and that the current rate should be extended.
The City and Downing Street were stunned as output data revealed that the economy shrank by 0.4 per cent between July and September — an pearl jewelry unprecedented sixth consecutive quarter of decline.
The figures dashed predictions that Britain was emerging from recession and dealt a blow to Gordon Brown’s hopes of an economic recovery taking root before the election. The pound, which had been trading at €1.111 and $1.6693, collapsed against the currencies to €1.087 and $1.6323.
Economists had predicted that output was growing by 0.2 per cent.
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Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, which conducts surveys on the state of the economy, said that yesterday’s figures were wrong and could lead to “disastrous policy mistakes”.
Output has dropped 5.9 per cent since the recession began in the second quarter of last year. In the 1980s output fell by 6 per cent.
The lingering slump comes despite record low interest rates, extra government spending and a £175 billion boost to the money supply through quantitative pearl jewelry wholesale easing. Last month, Mr Brown had said that Britain was coming out of recession. He told the BBC: “I think you will see figures pretty soon that show the action that Britain has taken yielding effect.”
Retailers used yesterday’s data to call on the Chancellor to keep VAT at 15 per cent to boost the January sales.
The Treasury insisted that the VAT rate would be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1 as planned. But pressure is likely to intensify over the pearl necklace weeks running up to the Pre-Budget Report.Richard Lambert, the Director-General of the CBI, said that changing the rate of VAT at midnight on December 31 would create practical problems for businesses and that the current rate should be extended.
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Saturday 24 October 2009
Meanwhile, swine flu is more widespread
Part of it is due to supply: There are already 85 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine available, a much larger amount than usual for this early in the fall. Most years, roughly 100 million doses are used during the season.
But a big factor probably is that swine flu — also known as the 2009 H1N1 virus — is drawing attention to public health warnings that seasonal flu is also a deadly illness than can be prevented through vaccinations, said Joe Quimby, a spokesman for the inflatable U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"There's been a heightened awareness in the American public due to H1N1 this year," said Quimby.
Meanwhile, swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been, and has resulted in more than 1,000 U.S. deaths so far. Flu illnesses are as widespread now as they are at the winter peak of normal flu seasons, said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
"Many millions" of Americans have had swine flu so far, according to an estimate he gave at a Friday press conference. The government doesn't test everyone to confirm swine flu so it doesn't have an exact count.
Frieden updated some other estimates, too, saying there have been more than 20,000 hospitalizations.
In children, 95 swine flu deaths have been reported since April, CDC officials also said.
Forty-six states now have widespread flu activity. The inflatable bouncer only states without widespread flu are Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey and South Carolina. There are at least two different types of flu causing illnesses; tests from about 5,000 patients suggest that nearly all the flu cases are swine flu.
This year's seasonal flu vaccine won't protect against swine flu; a separate swine flu vaccine is needed. Vaccine production takes several months, and the work on seasonal vaccine was already well underway when swine flu was first identified in April. It was too late for the swine flu virus to be included in the seasonal doses.
Because of swine flu production delays, the government has backed off initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million vaccine doses would be available by mid-October. As of Wednesday, only 11 million doses had been shipped to health inflatable castles departments, doctor's offices and other providers across the country, CDC officials said.
"It's frustrating to all of us. We wish there were more vaccine available," Frieden said.
The flu virus has to be grown in chicken eggs, and the yield hasn't been as high as was initially hoped, CDC officials explained. "Even if you yell at them, they don't grow faster," Frieden said.
He added that 5 million new doses became available in the past week, and vaccine should be more plentiful soon.
But a big factor probably is that swine flu — also known as the 2009 H1N1 virus — is drawing attention to public health warnings that seasonal flu is also a deadly illness than can be prevented through vaccinations, said Joe Quimby, a spokesman for the inflatable U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"There's been a heightened awareness in the American public due to H1N1 this year," said Quimby.
Meanwhile, swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been, and has resulted in more than 1,000 U.S. deaths so far. Flu illnesses are as widespread now as they are at the winter peak of normal flu seasons, said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
"Many millions" of Americans have had swine flu so far, according to an estimate he gave at a Friday press conference. The government doesn't test everyone to confirm swine flu so it doesn't have an exact count.
Frieden updated some other estimates, too, saying there have been more than 20,000 hospitalizations.
In children, 95 swine flu deaths have been reported since April, CDC officials also said.
Forty-six states now have widespread flu activity. The inflatable bouncer only states without widespread flu are Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey and South Carolina. There are at least two different types of flu causing illnesses; tests from about 5,000 patients suggest that nearly all the flu cases are swine flu.
This year's seasonal flu vaccine won't protect against swine flu; a separate swine flu vaccine is needed. Vaccine production takes several months, and the work on seasonal vaccine was already well underway when swine flu was first identified in April. It was too late for the swine flu virus to be included in the seasonal doses.
Because of swine flu production delays, the government has backed off initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million vaccine doses would be available by mid-October. As of Wednesday, only 11 million doses had been shipped to health inflatable castles departments, doctor's offices and other providers across the country, CDC officials said.
"It's frustrating to all of us. We wish there were more vaccine available," Frieden said.
The flu virus has to be grown in chicken eggs, and the yield hasn't been as high as was initially hoped, CDC officials explained. "Even if you yell at them, they don't grow faster," Frieden said.
He added that 5 million new doses became available in the past week, and vaccine should be more plentiful soon.