| NY calorie rule applies to cocktails
Put down that margarita, and back away from the bar. A new city regulation that requires chain restaurants to display calorie information also covers cocktails, sodas and other beverages that appear on menus. "Drinks are almost the forgotten calories," said Cathy Nonas, director of physical activity and nutrition programs for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "It's almost a side thought to the meal." The city Board of Health voted unanimously last month to approve the regulation, a new version of a law that had been struck down by a judge last year. The law, scheduled to go into effect on March 31, applies to restaurants with more than 15 outlets across the country. That includes fast-food places such as McDonald's and sit-down chains such as Olive Garden and T.G.I.
Chubb's university challenge
Australia's catch-up cannot be predicated on a thinly spread distribution of any additional investment because of the scale and pace of our competitors. The hard reality is that the rest of the world is not waiting for Australia, and if we play catch-up politics internally waiting a few more decades in some vain hope that the Dawkins reforms will eventually give every university a place in the sun we may well be watching the world from the sidelines," he says. Professor Chubb nominates five prerequisites for an education revolution: substantive policy reform and tough decision-making; going beyond the "stretched" ranks of the public service to the university community for policy ideas; more public funding and greater cost-effectiveness; community support; and a clear vision. He commends Labor's pre-election commitment to mission-based funding compacts, in which universities are better able to respond flexibly to market demand and areas of strength as well as Labor's plans to link compact funding to tightened access to research funding and training on the basis of verified research quality.
Bus booster: City Council's Rhodes-Conway champions mass transit
Being able to ride a city bus easily and conveniently is so important to Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway that, when she bought her first house in December 2005 at the age of 34, she chose it in large part because it was one bus ride away from her job on campus. As the primary champion of the city bus system on the Madison City Council, her ideas about how to improve Metro matter, especially now when the quality of Madison's bus system is so much a part of the regional transit authority (RTA) referendum debates. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz proposed creating an RTA last summer. In August and September, respectively, the County Board and the City Council passed resolutions to approve setting up an RTA to handle money for a commuter rail plan that could cost up to $285 million.
SuperCatex UAE - Int'l Exporters Catalogue Exhibition - comes to Dubai
This will be the 12th visit to the UAE for this popular business to business exhibition. In past years, over 7,500 local companies have utilised SuperCatex to seek new opportunities for Agency / Distributor agreements or Joint Ventures. SuperCatex will feature over 270 International exporters looking for new business contacts in the UAE and GCC. Most of the exporters are looking to visit the region in the next three months and welcome enquiries for their products and services. In excess of 100,000 products and services from companies based in the UK, USA, India, Australia, Canada, Egypt, and Taiwan will be on display. Businesses based in the UAE, interested in new products to add to their portfolio, are strongly advised to attend the exhibition. Visitors are invited to view the catalogues on display and take away copies of the catalogues that interest them.
Site tours next step at GM for 2-tier pay
Leaders from General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union soon will begin touring the automaker's U.S. plants to help determine which factory jobs should be reclassified as lower-wage positions. For months, the two sides have been negotiating details of a new two-tier pay system they agreed to create during contract talks last year. GM's goal is to generate big savings by clearing out thousands of veteran workers with retirement incentives and replacing them with lower-paid new hires. Veterans make about $28 an hour, while the new tier of workers would make about $14 an hour. But those changes can't happen until GM and the UAW agree on exactly which jobs merit the lesser pay. The labor deal, ratified by the union in October, broadly defines second-tier jobs as those considered not core to building an automobile, while the higher pay goes to workers in so-called core jobs.
The Global Young Film Scene Hot Spot with ARTS.21
At the Talent Campus, the world's biggest workshop for young filmmakers, DW-TV has become a household name with our "Making of" project. Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: With the support of the Talent Campus organisers and its sponsors our own DW-TV video crew was again on location during the entire week of the Campus (11.-16.02.06) capturing the highlights and observing the young hopefuls learning from some of the most famous professionals in the trade. Our team, which includes over twenty reporters, young media trainees and their coaches, produced a daily video report documenting the work in progress. The screenings of these "Dailies" in the big auditorium are always eagerly awaited by the over 500 Campus participants from 100 countries.
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