Poots dropped as culture minister - BBC News

Culture Curate Edwin Poots have been dropped from the Stormont Executive and replaced by Gregory Xiii Campbell.

Sammy Harriet Wilson have been appointed environment minister, while Arlene Stephen Foster moves to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.

The reshuffle of DUP curates follows the lift of Simon Peter Robert Robinson to first minister.

Mr Poots go forths the executive director after just one year, and amid contention over his support for the Maze stadium.

The undertaking is widely acknowledged as being unpopular with many DUP assembly members

DUP deputy sheriff leader Nigel Dodds, as expected, replaces Mister Robert Robinson as finance minister.

BBC nickel political letter writer Martina Purdy said the reshuffle could be viewed "as a publicity for both Mister Dodds and Mrs Foster".

"Mr Wilson's publicity could turn out controversial with environmentalists," she continued.

Mister Poots had been civilization curate for just over a year

"Last year, he was given a greenish wash awarding by the Young Greens Society at Queen's University, in protestation at his pro-nuclear vision."

Jeffrey Donaldson maintains his occupation as junior curate in the Office of First and Deputy First Minister.

Friends of the World expressed its "concern" over Sammy Wilson's assignment as environment minister.

Its Northern Eire Director Toilet Forest said: "I compliment Sammy Harriet Wilson on his appointment, but I believe it is a mistake.

"Mr Harriet Wilson is well known for his sceptical positions on clime change.

"It is hard to see how a curate who throws such as positions in the human face of overpowering grounds could be a believable defender of our environment."

North Antrim Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay said the DUP's determination to name Sammy Harriet Wilson as environment curate was "grossly irresponsible" and that the environment would endure as a result.

Commenting on the overall reshuffle, Traditional Trade Unionist leader Jim Allister MEP said: "While the DUP necessitates a reshuffle of policy more than a alteration of personnel, there are facets of this reshuffle which necessitate comment.

How can they possible warrant juggle these varying functions while trying to accomplish the best possible result for the people of Northern Ireland?

UUP statement

"The addition in ternary authorizations is bad news for the quality and stability of the mental representation of trade unioniam at Westminster. In a twelvemonth we have got moved from three double-jobbing mononuclear phagocyte system serving also as curates to five.

"We have got recently seen DUP mononuclear phagocyte system absent from cardinal ballots in the Park on the Lisboa Treaty and the Embryology Bill. No-one can adequately make two, never mind three occupations - MP, MLA and minister."

In a statement, the Ulster Trade Unionist Party similarly said: "This presents the question, how can they (the DUP's ministers) possibly effort to transport out these specific functions to the best of their ability?

"How can they possible warrant juggle these varying functions while trying to accomplish the best possible result for the people of Northern Ireland? People can't be in two topographic points at once."

Angola: Culture Minister Praises Future Agostinho Neto Cultural Centre - AllAfrica.com

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The new Agostinho Neto cultural Centre being built in Catete village, will be a space at the dimension of the great poet, considered on Friday the Angolan curate of Culture, Boaventura Cardoso.

Speaking to the fourth estate after visiting the in progress plant meant to larn about its execution rate, he expressed satisfaction with what he observed on the spot.

The Centre is an project conceived in two phases. The first 1 have been concluded, whereas the 2nd is expected to be concluded next July.

The first form consists leisure time spaces, playing fields, booths and an administrative country with assorted offices, unreal lakes, auto parks, landscapes, among others.

A three-floored building, covering an country of 2,000 foursquare metres, a museum, library, and an auditorium for 250 people, eating houses and exhibition hallways are also portion of the undertaking's 2nd phase.

The curate recommended to the contractor some flimsy changes in the countries of the library and of exhibition hallways for the creative activity of administrative.

He informed that the edifice is of a modern architecture and considered it as an added value for cells of the civilization sector, in particular, and of experts, in general.

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The functionary informed that the establishment shall be managed by the authorities of northern Bengo state and by the local administration.

In Bengo, Curate Boaventura Cardoso visited Calomboloca district, where he got acquainted with a undertaking for the building of a memorial at the land site where Portuguese colonialists hanged and buried Angolan nationalists.

Boaventura Cardoso was accompanied to this region, by the deputy sheriff curate of Populace Works, Armindo Kopingo, frailty governor of Bengo for arrangement and community services, Farel Van-Dunem, senior staff of the Culture Ministry and of the disposal of Catete.

New culture secretary keeps an open mind on licence fee

Andy Burnham, the new civilization secretary, hailed the BBC as the basis of the public broadcast media system yesterday but refused to govern out top slicing portion of the license fee for other telecasting and radiocommunication outlets.

Speaking on a visit to a comprehensive school, Daniel Hudson Daniel Hudson Burnham said he had an "open mind" on the reappraisal of the license fee launched by his predecessor, Jesse James Purnell.

Channel 4 desires license fee money to be diverted to it to assist it fulfil its public service remit.

"I am a very strong truster in the BBC, but in a changing landscape you should go on to have got an unfastened head about the manner to fund public service broadcast media in the future," Daniel Hudson Daniel Hudson Daniel Hudson Burnham said.

"I don't come up into this station shutting off questions, nor should you jump to any decisions about what that agency for the license fee ... they [the BBC] are a basis of the broadcast media system and long may that stay the case."

The school Burnham visited is in Stoke Newington, north London, and the likely pick for the children of his cabinet co-workers Erectile Dysfunction Balls and Yvette Cooper.

"I must be the luckiest adult male in United Kingdom today," he told students.

Burnham worked as a particular advisor to Labour's first civilization secretary, Chris Smith, in the late 1990s.

"Coming dorsum to the DCMS, it's a very different human race out there. It's a different cultural landscape, it's a different sporting landscape, and it's absolutely a different broadcast media landscape," he said, acknowledging that could necessitate new legislation. "If we are flat-footed and don't see the manner the human race is changing, then we potentially can damage industry, we can lose competitory advantages that are out there, but also we can not react to what the public want."

Burnham studied English Language at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

His most committed leisure time activities are supporting Everton and rugby football conference baseball club Vivien Leigh Centurions. He is a former decision maker for the Football Undertaking Force, launched by Labor to urge reforms to the game.

He said on Thursday that as Treasury head secretary with duty for dividing departmental disbursement he had given the DCMS a good settlement.

Its support to 2011 is expected to maintain gait with inflation.

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Gordon Brown's new-look cabinet

Brown, 56; Alistair Darling, 54; Saint David Miliband, 42; Jack Straw, 61; Jacqui Smith, 45; Diethylstilbestrol Browne, 55; Alan Johnson, 57; Hilary Benn, 54; Stephen A. Douglas Alexander, 40; Toilet Hutton, 52; Harriet Harman, 57; Alice Paul Murphy, 59; Jesse James Purnell, 37; Babe Ruth Kelly, 39; Hazel Blears, 51; Geoff Hoon, 54; Erectile Dysfunction Balls, 40; Erectile Dysfunction Miliband, 38; Andy Burnham, 38; Shaun Woodward, 49; Lady Ashton, 51; Yvette Cooper, 38; Toilet Denham, 54; Entire age: 1,121 Average age: 49

Tony Blair's last cabinet

Total age: 1,249; Average age: 54

'Proposed culture policy won't make govt a regulator'

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DELHI: The civilization ministry denied in the Rajya Sabha that the projected national
culture policy was aimed at making the authorities a regulator in this field. This was stated by curate of state for urban development Ajay Maken, speaking
on behalf of civilization curate Ambika Soni who is abroad. Rajya Sabha member
Kapila Vatsyayan and a member of the commission drafting the policy had earlier
expressed reserves about its relevance. Last year, Vatsyayan had
written to the then civilization secretary Badal Kelvin Hyrax request "whether a national
policy on a complex field like civilization can be drawn up by a nation-state, in
this lawsuit India, with a lurching diverseness of plural form societal constructions and
levels, and can a single uniform policy embrace this
diversity". Though the
committee drafting the policy have made very small advancement with just one
meeting having taken place, attended by lone eight out of 19 members, the
ministry is still pushing for it. It is believed that many commission members are
not in favor of a uniform culture
policy. Vatsyayan had said the
idea of a uniform civilization policy was mooted in the seventies. "Since then, the
international discourse have taken a very different turn. Democracies with plural
cultural societies are no longer talking of a uniform national cultural policy,"
she had written.

Harming America the Pop Culture Way...

Some Americans believe that dad civilization have no impact on the state of the nation. They believe that coverage on the mass media is frivolous —a complete waste material of time. They are dead wrong. Just look at how the hip-hop industry have damaged so many immature Americans, giving them insidious function theoretical accounts to glorify law-breaking and self- destructive behavior.

Some very big American corps are responsible for that corrosive entertainment, which impacts unattended children more than anyone else.

And then there is the movie industry, which is now actually putting American service people at risk. A vile film called "Redacted" demoes U.S. soldiers committing homicide and colza in Iraq. Directed by Brian Delaware Palma, the movie is being distributed by billionaire Mark Cuban, the Dallas Internet guy.

It is Cuban who is the primary scoundrel here. Most American movie theatres won't demo the film, knowing it will inflame passionatenesses against our military in a clip of war. But Cuban doesn't care. He financed the film and will demo it in theatres he owns. If even one American is killed because of this film, that is on Mark Cuban.

And then there's Robert Robert Redford and Uncle Tom Cruise. Their movie "Lions for Lambs" open ups on Friday. Some of the reappraisals are calling it "preachy and boring.'" We'll have got a study coming up. Related
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The general agreement is that "Lions for Lambs "simply raises questions. What Redford's long history of far left activism is troubling. His Sundance cablegram transmission channel routinely props up extremist left stuff.

Now, on a recent junket, Robert Redford told the foreign fourth estate that we Americans have got lost sacred freedoms. Robert Redford is entitled to his opinion, however, foolish it may be.

But he might believe about what film Mogul Samuel Sam Goldwyn wrote in 1961 during the cold war. "We should never lose sight of the fact that, no substance how entertaining a image may be or how much money it may make, it can make our state a great trade of injury if it plays into the custody of our enemies.we have got a great duty in this regard." Indeed.

Finally, I went to see a film called "American Gangster" over the weekend because of complaints it glorified a drug dealer, played by Denzel Washington. — Selling narcotics is the worst law-breaking after murder, kid abuse, and rape. It destructs people, it takes to billions of other crimes. Drug traders are the lowest.

But "American Gangster" did not glorify the dealer, although now for children, it is an first-class film, one that marks corruption, and shows the wicked of Mr. Washington's character.

Those sorts of movies, tough as they are, actually, aid the United States, unlike movies that actively spur anti-American hatred. All of us have got a duty to talk out against that.

And that's "The Memo."

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