Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries By Neil deGrasse Tyson W.W. Norton & Company, January 2007 $24.95, ISBN 0-393-06224-3
Wholesale Jimmy Choo Handbags The power of Death by Black Hole is in the telling where Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers a drama expressing beauty and terror in equal measure. He provides for the general reading public a basic understanding of how the universe works. This was no simple task. A population socialized to view science as distant, cold and unrelated to everyday life is hard to win over.
But Tyson is convincing. Even those already familiar with several of the 42 essays collected from the column "Universe" published in Natural History magazine, will treasure the availability of this material and the meticulous care the author takes organizing the information, indicating connections between sections.
Tyson reminds us in the Introduction that this work was as "excruciating as it is exhilarating." But we get to experience the exhilaration as Tyson induces ongoing laughter during some of the most horrific episodes and simultaneously wraps the reader in mesmerizing poetry.
This is a generous sharing of wisdom from the director of the Hayden Planetarium, winner of the 2005 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics, host of television's Nova, honored guest of national and international heads of state and the only scientist to eye witness and record the collapse of the twin towers on September 11, 2001.
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Early in this volume, we experience that "Deep understanding comes not from how well you describe an object, but how that object connects with the larger body of acquired knowledge.... " ("Vagabonds in Space," Natural History, July/August 2004). Here, use of the inclusive "we" engages us instantly: "We," the many scientists whom Tyson credits and cites. "We," the author and reader in confidential dialogue. Literary titles and references connect science and art: "Send in the Clouds," "The Importance of Being Constant," "Over the Rainbow."
But watch out. Approach with caution the section for which the collection is named, "Death by Black Hole": "Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole. Where else in the universe can you be ripped apart atom by atom?" Humor inherent in a conversational tone forces us to face our most repressed fears. "Let's explore in detail what black holes do to a human body that wanders a little too close." That's going to be the last "let us" as the author steps aside and abandons the reader to this massive destruction. "Your body would stay whole until the instant the tidal force exceeded your body's molecular bonds," Tyson says. So this is the supermassive power, one billion times the mass of our Sun, the black hole that "lurks in the centers of galaxies."
Recently, Tyson gave New Yorkers a most beautiful gift: a precise prediction of a setting sun in perfect alignment with east-west Manhattan streets. The scenic photos are breathtaking, a poignant testimony of scientific knowledge. (Newsday, Saturday 27 May 2006). The essay "Over the Rainbow" tells how astrophysicists know what they know. This section strategically placed at the center of the book does need careful intellectual investment, but it's well worth the effort. (We already know the great price paid for not knowing when it comes to the tsunami.)
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As many of you know, on June 1, 2008, I tendered my resignation as Executive Vice President of the CLLA. My last day will be September 28, 2008. I am moving on to a career as a financial planner. It has been my pleasure to serve as your EVP for the past five years! Before I go, I want to share some thoughts and hopes for the future of this wonderful, historic organization. Likewise, I want to thank the many people that have made this experience so great. Finally, I wanted to impart a few suggestions to your new EVP as he/she embarks on their leadership of the CLLA.
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1. Service...period. Many organizations compete for our members and their dues. How can we - the CLLA - set ourselves apart from the rest of the association world? Simple. Provide better member service than any other organization...period. Be more responsive to member needs and questions. Return all member calls within the same business day. Provide leadership opportunities for members within the organization. Recognize members when they are successful. Buoy members when they are disappointed. Do the right thing when it comes to member relations. Refund registration fees when, for an unforeseen reason, someone cannot attend a meeting. Give a member a break when they are late in submitting an article for Debt3. Type up minutes from a conference call when a chair is not able to do so. In the end...be better, be more responsive, be more understanding, be more open and more thoughtful and provide better opportunities for members to succeed in business and leadership than the "other guy." If you do that, membership growth and retention will take care of itself.
2. Relish our history...but look to the future. One of the things you will hear over and over again is that the CLLA has been around for 112 years - the longest in our industry. This is certainly no small achievement. But what does being a 112-year-old organization mean for our future? What today's leaders choose to do with that future is critical. You will find some who feel that the CLLA is fine just as it is today - no need to change. "The CLLA worked for my grandfather and my father.. .it works for me too...why should we change?" Instead of looking to the future, these "relishers of our history" are content with living with the past success. Thankfully, there are growing numbers of CLLA members, who recognize that looking backwards does not allow us to be responsive to the challenges faced today by current members of the CLLA. These "forward thinkers" see our history as providing us with a strategic advantage. When you have been around for 112 years, there are very few problems, issues and changes in the market place you have not already seen. With that perspective, those that wish to improve the League and embrace its future can learn from the CLLAs past mistakes and avoid making them again. The market changes quickly. The CLLA has to be responsive in order to provide outstanding value and purpose for our membership. Or...we can simply stand on the side of the road and let the market pass us by. As the new EW and working with the CLLA volunteer leadership of this great and historically rich organization, what will you choose to do? My wish for you and this organization is that you learn from our history and leverage it to be ready and responsive for tomorrow's members.
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BALSHAW 4/10
Didn't get his chance in attack and looked very uncomfortable under the high ball. How long can Ashton keep Lewsey on the sidelines?
PAUL
SACKEY 7/10
Took his try well and nearly got another at the end of the half. Lost nothing in comparison to Clerc. Plays much tighter these days.
JAMIE
NOON 6/10
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TOBY
FLOOD 7/10
Was again one of England's more creative individuals but never really broke the shackles. Took some of the workload off Jonny. Maturing nicely.
LESLEY
VAINIKOLO 6/10
Much more involved. Fine take under pressure in the first half when challenged in the air by Rougerie. His drive set up Wilkinson drop goal.
JONNY
WILKINSON 7/10
Was the main reason why England prevailed. Ashton simply cannot afford to give up the points he brings to this team. A smack in the face for his critics.
MARK
REGAN 4/10
Lost it at the start of the second half and struggled in the line- out. Looks increasingly on borrowed time but feisty nevertheless.
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Was the most damaging scrummager on the park and also back to his best with his driving play. Needs to repeat that level every Test he plays.
RICHARD
WIGGLESWORTH 7/10
A fine start and an even better finish. Geed-up his forwards and varied his game intelligently. Impressive.
PHIL
VICKERY 7/10
Looked very focused throughout. No leadership issues to worry about from this performance. Played his part in a dominant scrummage.
STEVE
BORTHWICKW 6/10
Needs to work out why line-out failed to function. Not hugely noticeable in open play. Not nearly as important as he was against Italy.
JAMES
HASKELL 6/10
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SIMON
SHAW 6/10
Another decent all-round game though not one of his finest. Couldn't provide the line-out platform England required.
MICHAEL
LIPMAN 7/10
Best game in an England shirt. Was competitive at the breakdown and made several important interventions late on.
NICK
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HENRY Paul has been putting in some goal-kicking practice ahead of
Gloucester's trip to Wasps today.
The former New Zealand rugby league international retains the stand-off berth in the continued absence of Ludovic Mercier, who could also miss next weekend's encounter with Newcastle after having fluid drained off his knee.
However, Paul's normally reliable boot let him down at times against Bristol last week and he has since put in some hard work on the training ground, believing every point will be vital against the Premiership's basement boys.
'I was not happy with my kicking at Bristol - I missed a couple,' he said.
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'I have been practising this week to put Longines Hydro Conquest things right.
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The Premiership's basement boys have never lost to Gloucester at home in league combat but were soundly beaten when the two sides met at Kingsholm last month. Under-fire coach Nigel Melville makes two changes, with Shane Roiser replacing Stuart Abbott and Fraser Waters switching back to the centre to accommodate the new man on the wing.
England lock Simon Shaw also returns for Joe Beardshaw who, like Abbott, starts on the bench.
Fellow strugglers Bath are hit by an injury crisis ahead of the trip north to Newcastle.
Flanker Joe El Abd is out for three months after suffering a broken leg in a freak training ground incident, adding to the woes of coach Jon Callard who is also without Gareth Cooper and could see Mark Regan and skipper Dan Lyle miss out.
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An insurance company doesn't have to pay for damages at a Virginia man's home ruined by Chinese-made, sulfur-emitting drywall, a decision by a federal judge Thursday that could affect how lawsuits by thousands of U.S. homeowners are settled.
Judge Robert Doumar in U.S. District Court in Norfolk said in the ruling that no coverage was owed under a homeowner's policy issued by Travco Insurance Co. to Porcelain Bangle Larry Ward of Virginia Beach because the policy excluded damage caused by latent defect, faulty materials, corrosion and pollution.
Randy Maniloff, a Philadelphia-based lawyer who has closely followed Chinese drywall insurance litigation, said attorneys for insurance companies and homeowners will carefully examine this case, as it is one of the first comprehensive decisions.
Thousands of homeowners, many in Florida, have reported problems with the drywall.\ PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
North Korean official sayswar possible at 'any moment'
A senior Pyongyang official has warned that the Korean peninsula could see "all-out war" as tensions mount from North Korea's believed sinking of a South Korean warship.
North Korea's deputy ambassador in Geneva, Ri Jang Gon, accuses Washington and Seoul of causing the crisis, and says military action or sanctions ed hardy wholesale would prompt defense from the isolated communist nation with "tough measures including all-out war."
He said Wednesday at the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament: "The present situation of the Korean peninsula is so grave that a war may break out any moment."
U.S. Ambassador Laura Kennedy rejected Ri's allegations.
NEWBERRY, S.C.
Black man shot to death,body dragged, police say
The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with, South Carolina's state police chief said.
Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with murder of Anthony Hill, 30, and made his first court appearance Thursday. No bail was set and he did not yet have an attorney, Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre said.
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Fire in apartment complexes kills more than 100 people
Atletico Madrid A devastating fire raced through several apartment complexes in the Bangladeshi capital, killing more than 100 people and injuring just as many.
Fire official Nazrul Islam said the blaze started when an electric transformer exploded late Thursday, igniting a three- story apartment building in the Najirabazar area of old Dhaka.
TOKYO
Cabinet resigns, clearing way for new government
Japan's Cabinet resigned en masse today to clear the way for a ruling party vote to select a successor to former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned two days earlier.
Members of the Democratic Party of Japan will meet later this morning to pick a new party chief, who will almost certainly be installed as prime minister.
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FITCHBURG - Two city elementary schools will be among the beneficiaries of a nearly $5 million federal grant that a Massachusetts nonprofit has received.
The federal Education Department chose the Bay State Reading Institute, an organization run through Middlesex Community College in Lowell, and 48 other organizations from among almost 1,700 applicants nationwide for a federal Investing in Innovation ("i3") grant. Money for the grant comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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The institute already works with 17 schools statewide, including Reingold and Crocker elementary schools in Fitchburg and West Brookfield and Warren elementary schools. The new federal grant will allow the institute to work with 12 more, including the McKay Campus School at Fitchburg State University and South Street Elementary in Fitchburg. The others are in Brockton, Gloucester, Malden, Pittsfield, Revere and Taunton.
The nonprofit must raise roughly $1 million of private money by Sept. 8 in order to collect the federal money, Mr. Moscovitch said. He hopes a large national foundation will donate the funds.
The group's work focuses on getting children to be proficient readers by the end of third grade. With the grant, the institute will work in the 12 schools and conduct a controlled study of their intervention.
"The grant is about the U.S. Department of Education trying to pick out some really good programs and then seeing if they can grow," Mr. Moscovitch said.
Paula Gianquinto, assistant superintendent in Fitchburg, praised Bay State's focus on "really accelerated improvement in reading" and said their combination of workshops, on-site support and ideas from other districts have brought Fitchburg resources it never would have amassed on its own.
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The Incredibles (TV2, Sat, 7.30pm) Top-quality Pixar CGI offering which tells the clever and funny tale of a seemingly normal American family, members of which all have their own superpowers, used of course to defeat evil. Fast-paced and fun, if the kids don't want to watch the rugby with dad, fix them up with the small TV and leave them to it.
Fast Food Nation (Maori, Sat, 8.30pm) An adaptation of Eric Schlosser's excellent book of the same name, this docu-drama isn't for the squeamish. Touted as an in-depth look at the American meat and fast-food industries, it never quite accomplishes its aim, despite a star- studded cast including Greg Kinear, Ethan Hawke and Bruce Willis. Romantic subplots mangle the story, and for a better look at the same issues, try the superb doco Food, Inc., instead.
Best Prada Shoes Online From Russia With Love (TV One, Sat, 8.30pm) Sean Connery, the preferred Bond for many 007 fans, took the role for the second time in this 1963 film. Terrorist organisation Spectre is the enemy in this one, in league with those naughty Russians, who have some special decoding device the Brits need. Action takes place across Turkey and eastern Europe, and critics of the time loved what was also a box-office hit.
Lesbian Vampire Killers (TV2, Sat, 9.45pm) British comedy-horror from 2009 which copped an awful hiding from reviewers and lesbian pride groups who felt it was derogatory toward gay women. Blood, guts and boobs aplenty, and probably only suitable for the easily amused or spotty teens whose hormones are raging.
Super High Me (Rialto, Sun, 12.05am) Pot- smokers may want to imbibe extra caffeine to stay up late to check out this 2007 documentary, which parallels Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me McDonald's food exploration. American comedian Doug Benson stays off the weed for a month, then gets back on it with reckless abandon for another to see what sort of effect the dope has on him. Psychic and mental tests gauge the impact of Doug's month of constant herb- smoking, and the results are actually quite surprising.
Star Trek - First Contact (TV2, Sun, 12.30pm) Going boldly where no film in the franchise had been 深圳盐田搬家公司 before, here's the first Star Trek flick which didn't feature any of the original cast members. Considered one of the better films in the series, this one has Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, at the helm of a new and improved Enterprise and battling the Borgs.
Cinema Paradiso (Maori, Sun, 8.30pm) Delightful, touching and award-winning Italian film which explores the war-time relationship between a young boy and the projectionist at his local cinema. It stretches out toward the three-hour mark, but it's well worth a look if you haven't seen it before.
48 Hours (C4, Sun, 8.30pm) Yet another recycling of the 20-year- old action/crime/cop/ drama yarn which helped shoot Eddie Murphy to fame, playing a wise-guy crim let out of jail for two days to help rough-as-guts cop Nick Nolte catch another scumbag. A classic of its kind, but it's been on so many times, you've probably seen it twice already.
Thelma and Louise (MGM, Mon, 10.50am) Susan Sarandon scored an Oscar nomination for her quite superb role as Louise in this wonderful 1991 film about two hen-pecked woman who race across the country to escape life's woes. The road-trip itself is infused with violence, crime and problems, with all manner of crises developing along the way, all while they're pursued by the cops. Great film, great cast, great acting, with Ridley Scott at the helm.
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RUMFORD - Mountain Valley High School honor roll is announced.
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High honors: Gary Barnett, Matraca Bellegarde, Vanessa Cayer, Emily Child, Kiley Clement, Brian Cogley, Tia Cote, Emily Davis, Katie Doucette, Ashley Duguay, Adam Dupuis, Joshua Garrett, Paul Garrido, Marissa Gauvin, Chelsea Greene, Krista Lee, Meagan Maifeld, Myles Mercier, Brittany Milligan, Jessie Profit.
Honors: Craig Allen, Megan Arsenault, Jennifer Borel, Tonia Bouchard, Christopher Breton, Abigail Bronish, Zhongling Cao, Krista Cote, Stephen Cote, Brittany Coulombe, Donald Curtis, Corey David, Logan Dolloff, Jeremy Dow, Kristina Eversen, Steven Fillds, Maryann Fournier, Thomas Fournier, Alex Gagnon, Kyle Gallant, Eric Gamez, Sarah ??????, Ashley Gaudet, Hannah Glover, John Gorham, Kaitlyn Grassette, Eric Hamel, Michael Hanson, Mykel Hartzell, Nikkita Hartzell, Dale Hutchinson, Mandisa Jackson, Hayley Jones, Lonnie Labonte, Samantha Martineau, Ernest Matthews, Carly McCann, Garrett McPherson, Shainna Mills, Ashley Morissette, Brandon Nadeau, Caitlin O'Connell, Kierstyn O'Donnell, Jeffrey Pierce, Benjamin Powers, Thomas Puiia, Craig Richard, Kyle Richard, Michael Ronan, Travis Ruff, Brianna Shaw, Steven Smith, Justin Staires, Ian Touchette, Ethan White, Kadie Yahn, Lucas Zale.
Grade 11
High honors: Kelsey Arsenault, Jamie Barnett, Brittany Bedard, Allison Berry, Heather Davis, Matthew Duka, Chelsea Fortin, McKenzie Kaubrys, Sarah Nicols, Jeffrey Roy, Jordan Theriault, Carl Zurhorst.
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High honors: Megean Bourgeois, Kymberly Couch, Lynsie Dupuis, Cameron Kaubris, Jesse Milledge, Kera Miller, Erin Milligan, Nathan Papsadora, McKenzie Paterson, Nicholas Sterling, Zachary Taylor.
Honors: David Adley, Derek Benedix, Heidi Billings, Ryan Bourret, Ryan Burgess, Courtney Carlson, Taryn Carlson, Justin Carter, Danielle Cunningham, Hannah Daigle, Brittany Desgrosseilliers, Lacey Gallant, Hanson Gorham, Alyssa Greene, Tyler Hartford, Benjamin Higley, Nicole Lavorgna, Brianna LeCours, Whitney Palmer, James Pastor, Jacob Pinkham, Shayne Plourde, Breana Roberts, Lauren White.
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RUMFORD - The Mountain Valley High School term six honor roll includes:
Grade nine
High honors: Kiley M. Clement, Brian L. Cogley, Thomas Puiia.
Honors: Travis R. Burley, Vanessa R. Cayer, Christian G. Chessie, Emily A. Child, Tia M. Cote, Terrence Michael Daigle, Emily J. Davis, Jeremy W. Dow, Ashley M. Duguay, Adam Dupuis, Thomas J. Fournier, Eric E. Gamez, Christopher M. Gaudet, Marissa A. Gauvin, Cassandra E. american eagle Glynn, Kaitlyn G. Grassette, Chelsea Greene, Sarah L. Gurney, Michael J. Hanson.
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Grade 10
High honors: Stephanie L. Beadle, Eliza Cormier, Katie S. Drouin, Heather R. Dubendris, Mollie Kaubrys, Joel S. Sweetser.
Honors: Nicholas P. Anastasio, Nicole M. Barnett, Denise Belanger, Joshua Bennett, Catherine E. Benson, Sarah L. Berry, Kristen A. Blais, Miranda Brackett, Keith J. Brennick, Paige G. Carter, Brandon Carver, Randi L. Cioffa, Samanatha Cochran, Ryan P. Cormier, Tayla B. Cunningham, Rebecca L. Cushman, Kayla L. Downs, Alex M. Duguay, Jessica M. Duguay, Christie M. Folsom, Savanna R. Ford, Alyssa M. Fournier.
Also, Lauren A. Gammon, Brian P. Germain, Kayla M. Giberson, Cody Grasruck, Christopher M. Harding, Emily K. Hornsby, Kristen M. Hutchins, Courtney Johnson, Timothy Labrecque, Tanya LaCroix, Natalie M. Lapointe, Jacob A. Ledesma, Jaymi Lewis, Seth C. Marshall, Samantha J. Marston, Cody R. McPherson, Karri A. McPherson.
Also, Christopher M. Mejias, Jessica M. Nadeau, Oliver Perry, Ashley Poirier, Christina Puiia, Cassandra Y. Pulk, Terissa Ridge, Ben M. Rosenberg, Marie R. Russell, Benjamin P. Sarle, Derek T. Sicotte, Jessie Sirois, Adam D. Stearns, Barbara Sylvester, Elizabeth M. Tanguay-Collins, Kristen K. Touchette, Christie M. Volkernick, Elaina R. Waite, Courtney A. Watts, Kathrine L. Weeks, Kimberly Weeks, William R.J. Weston, Bonnie J. White, Tyler J. White, Carrie Wills, Justin W. Wing, Whitney D. Woods.
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Honors: Kirsten Arsenault, Danielle Baltrus, Daniel Barnett, Thaddeus Bennett, Amber Billings, Samantha Blood, Zachary Bradley, Alex Bronish, Larissa Cayer, Tyler Child, Vanessa Child, Jared Davis, Ian Driscoll, Amber Duguay, Megan Fontaine, Amanda Gallant, David Gerrish, David Joseph Gerrish, Heather Gurney, Melinda M. Hill, Heather Hodsdon, Corey Hotham, John Houghton, Maegin Jolin, Darren Kain, Jessica Kimball.
Also, Brendan Kreckel, Heather Lane, Amanda Lemay, Christopher Lowell, Jessica Lyons, Matthew Lyons, David Martin II, Benjamin Matthews, Andrew Morton, Edmond Joseph Muncey, Matthew Orr, Kerri Patneaude, John Perry, Nicholas Pingree, Diana Poirier, Sarah Radmore, Kristi Richard, Annastasia Rocray, Janelle Smith, Christopher Taylor, Zachary Thibodeau, Michael Thurston, Jonathan True, Natarsha Tuttle.
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NEWS reaches City Spy that the retail credit crunch has claimed another high-profile victim in the form of the sister-in-law of one of the world's wealthiest men, the Emir of Qatar. Glamorous Princess Kasia Al Thani, who cites Princess Diana as her role model, has put her Valencia luxury goods firm, savoir-faire. com, into voluntary liquidation. The Polish-born mother of three faces the ignominy of witnessing her smart wares ending up on eBay unless a buyer can be found for the business. Savoir-faire has only been operating for little over a year. Items listed under a section of the website entitled Kasia's Picks include a Cartier Santos 100 watch - Pounds 3250; a Geoffrey Parker games dressing case - Pounds 4370; and a leopardprint calfskin clutch bag by Maia - Pounds 650. All will now be sold at a fraction of the price. According to the statement of affairs from Princess Kasia, she has lost more than watches-w Pounds 1.5 million in discount abercrombie the collapse. Rachel Zoe, a fashion stylist who has dressed Keira Knightley, Cameron Diaz and Lindsay Lohan, is another loser - she held 1000 shares in the business and is owed Pounds 39,000. Website designer BT Fresca is owed Pounds 53,000.
THE joke doing the rounds at The Treasury over Alistair Darling's limited understanding of economics: "The Chancellor thinks fiscal drag is a transvestite tax collector."
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BREAKFAST at Tiffany's has been voted the film to have the most influence on fashion by the world's top designers and style editors. Audrey Hepburn's Givenchy little black dress, sunglasses and pearls are still considered essentials. Top fashion names including Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs, rated American Gigolo monogram multicolore second due to Giorgio Armani's work with its star Richard Gere. The full list is: 1. Breakfast at Tiffany's 2. American Gigolo 3. Gone With The Wind 4. Bonnie & Clyde 5. Desperately Seeking Susan 6. My Fair Lady 7. Pulp Fiction 8. The Great Gatsby 9. Thomas Crown Affair 10. The Graduate.
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A BRING and buy sale raised cash for the Mount Pleasant Senior Citizens Association.
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Nissan struck gold when it launched the Qashqai. The market was already packed with compact 4x4 vehicles and Nissan's own X-Trail was one of the more successful ones but people were buying these offroad-capable family cars with no intention of driving them off- road.
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MUMBAI: Here's some good news for women and senior citizens travelling by BEST buses. The transport undertaking has increased reserved seats for women from the existing six seats to 12 seats per bus; senior citizens will now have not just two but four reserved seats. The new quotas will come into effect from August 1. The reservation for handicapped persons remains the same.
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During the committee meeting on Tuesday, when the proposal for additional reserved seats was being cleared, committee member Sunil Ganacharya pointed out that he had been pursuing the case and raising it at several meetings in the past. "It was actually a complaint from a well-known Marathi composer which prompted me to raise the issue,'' he said. "The composer travels regularly by BEST buses to his recording studio. He had to often travel standing in the bus and this was frustrating,'' he cheap ugg stated. Ganacharya thanked Gupta for introducing additional seats for not just senior citizens but also women.
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The "Isuzu Challenge", a yearly drive-competition to show the fuel efficiency of Isuzu vehicles, will be run on a unique customer-interactive highway - with vehicles running on actual highways and customers participating through the internet.The eco-run challenge will be staged in three separate runs featuring three Isuzu vehicles.
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You've got to give Israel's leaders credit for creativity, if for nothing else. They never run out of new excuses for their Replica watches violence, each more imaginative (and imaginary) than the last. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave his official explanation to the Israeli people for the deaths on the Mavi Marmara. And guess whose fault it was. (Are you ready for this?) Iran!
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, since Netanyahu and most of Israel have been obsessed with Iran as the source of all evil for years now. But how did he make such far-fetched connection? Simple: "Iran is continuing to smuggle weapons into Gaza. It is our obligation to prevent these weapons from being brought in by land and sea.... If the blockade had been broken, dozens and hundreds more ships carrying weapons could have come."
From chocolate for kids to missiles for terrorists, just like that. It's an easy leap for minds trapped in a sense of powerlessness and victimhood that "is nothing less than pathological." That's how Henry Siegman, former head of the American Jewish Congress, described the twisted logic of Netanyahu, whose message is always "that the whole world is against Israel and that Israelis are at risk of another Holocaust"--especially if Iran gets even one nuclear weapon, Israel's PM insists at every opportunity.
Yet this is a particularly infelicitous time for Netanyahu to be raising the imaginary specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon--which doesn't exist and may very well never exist--for two reasons.
First, the world is starting to pay much more attention to Israel's nuclear weapons, which certainly do exist, in great quantity. (The best estimates often run as high as 200.) Press coverage of the recent Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference, even in the US mass media, highlighted the issue. At the conference, all NPT members called for a 2012 meeting to begin turning the Middle East, including Israel, into a nuclear-free zone. That would mean inspecting Israel's nuclear arsenal and making sure it is dismantled. Even the US agreed to the call, hoping to gain wider support for stopping Iran's supposedly menacing nuclear program.
But who should really be afraid of nuclear attack? That brings us to the second reason Netanyahu might want to keep the spotlight off Iran and the nuclear issue. Three Israeli submarines are heading to the Persian Gulf, where they will be stationed permanently, just off the coast of Iran. They can stay at sea for about 50 days and stay submerged for at least a week. They're equipped with cruise missiles that can reach any target in Iran. And some of those cruise missiles are equipped with the most advanced nuclear warheads in the Israeli arsenal.
Though that story was reported by The Times of London and several Israeli newspapers, it got little if any notice in the US mass media. And now that all eyes are on the terrible attack at sea, it's not likely to get any notice. Perhaps that's why Netanyahu could risk giving Iran such a central role in his concocted version of the Mavi Marmara tragedy.
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Battle: 177-8 Heathfield Park: 204-6 Match drawn WITH several regular players missing on Saturday, home team Battle had no hesitation in asking Heathfield Park to bat in this East Sussex Division One game. This decision was made to look even better when it became apparent that the wicket Replica watches was sub-standard, offering exaggerated movement and lift from a length.
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Sister Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth, President, St. Dominic Health Services
Sister Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth has proven that top executives can be successful in the business arena without sacrificing personal morals and beliefs. She is noted for her warm smile and graciousness as well as her business acumen that has made her an iconic leader. The MBJ recently caught up with Sondgeroth and asked her about healthcare reform, the proposed Madison County hospital, her vision for St. Dominic's and more.
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A--St. Dominic Health Services (St. Dominic's) is a faith-based non-profit health system providing a Christian mission of healing in the greater Jackson community for 64 years. The Dominican Sisters came to Jackson in 1946 in response to a community need for choice and access to hospital care. Today, we continue our vision to respond to the needs of our community through our many subsidiaries and outreach programs.
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WHITTIER - A 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume stretches from Whittier to Norwalk as a result of residual contamination from a former chemical recycling plant.
The underground water is contaminated with solvents from the former Omega plant, 12504 and 12512 Whittier Blvd., a hazardous waste recycling business that was open from 1976-91, EPA officials say.
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The contamination is at depths between 30 to 100 feet below ground level, the report stated. Drinking water typically comes from separate aquifers at depths greater than 200 feet.
The contamination decreases as the plume moves to the south, according to the EPA study.
In 1995, federal officials removed an estimated 2,700 drums - some of which were leaking into the ground. These contained solvents that may cause cancer.
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A cleanup plan for the soils on the initial site also has been approved.
But how to remove the contaminated water from such a large swath of land still must be determined, Deschambault said. It most likely will include a system to pump the contaminated water up and then treat it, she said.
A group of 200 businesses, which are now paying for the operation of the water treatment plant at Omega, are likely to have to pay for this too, she said.
It's also possible that existing or former businesses in the area of the plume may have caused some of the contamination and will have to pay for the cleanup of the groundwater, Deschambault said.
A regional water official said it's important that this plume - although it doesn't affect existing drinking water - be cleaned up.
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The EPA just released information on the extent of the contamination.
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"It was determined as a result of records and monitoring wells in the area," Deschambault said.
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WHITTIER - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached agreement with a group of 75 parties to begin cleaning up the soils at a hazardous waste site along Whittier Boulevard.
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The goal is to protect against indoor contamination from volatile contaminants from soil and groundwater that are migrating into nearby commercial buildings, said Keith Takata, director of the Superfund program in the EPA's Pacific Southwest Region.
The contaminants include tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) that are solvents that have been widely used by industry as cleaning and degreasing agents. Both can cause cancer.
Indoor air purifiers already are operating at two businesses - Terra Pave, 12511 Putnam St., and Bishop, 12519 Putnam St.
"With the goal of reducing risks to the immediate community, this agreement between EPA and (the 75 parties) will mitigate threats posed by the presence of contaminant vapors in the Terra Pave and Bishop buildings," Takata said.
Ed Modiano of De Maximis, Inc., the company that represents the 75 responsible parties who are paying for the system, said they had no comment.
"On behalf of the (responsible parties) the contents of the agreement speak for itself and they don't have any further comment at this time," Modiano said.
The Omega Chemical Corp. was a solvent and refrigerant recycler that operated from 1976 to 1991.
Waste solvents and other chemicals were processed at the Omega plant to form commercial products. As a result of spills and leaks, the soil and groundwater beneath the property was Christian Dior Bags contaminated.
In 1995 about 2,700 drums were removed.
The agreement requires the 75 parties to install a soil vapor extraction system in the area, continue operating indoor air purifiers in two buildings and monitor air elsewhere.
Lynda Deschambault, remedial project manager, said she hopes a soil vapor extraction system can be in place by January.
Deschambault described the system as "literally a Clip on charms soil vacuum that pulls the volatile chemicals through the soil into a cleanup medium, carbon, and then clean air is blown out."
While there is no cost estimate for this interim agreement, a long-term plan is expected to cost $5.6 million.
This interim step is expected to be consistent with the long- term plan the EPA approved in September 2008.
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The vehicle owners from Pimpri-Chinchwad will know whether they will have to pay less on fuel in two days.
The Union government implemented Bharat Stage IV emission norms in 13 cities from April 1, including Pune where cleaner fuel is being supplied.
Pune district administration and representatives of state-owned petroleum companies on Monday held a meeting on the issue following demands from Shiv Sena MP from PCMC area Gajanan Babar.
The cost of petrol and diesel is higher in the 13 cities. While the price Inter Milan of petrol has been increased by 54 paise, the cost of diesel has been hiked by 28 paise.
The oil companies started supplying cleaner fuel to nearly 160 petrol pumps in Pune and PCMC areas. However, Babar shot off a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh saying why Pimpri-Chinchwad has been included in the cities along with Pune since both are separate cities.
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Terming the increase in fuel prices in the PCMC area as 'unjustified', he wrote to the prime minister that Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad are two different cities and cannot be clubbed together.
Babar said economy, topography and tax systems are different in both the cities. Moreover, they have separate civic bodies.
A meeting was held in the district collectorate under the chairmanship of additional district collector RK Gaikwad to discuss the issue raised by Babar.
Representatives of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) were present.
Gaikwad told DNA that the LED tube representatives of the petroleum companies said they would sort out the issue within two days by talking to their senior officers.
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PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will send a legal notice to the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan replica hermes Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) asking it to vacate land of a bus depot in Sant Tukaramnagar area of Pimpri following a change in the reservation of the said land.
Pimpri-Chinchwad mayor Yogesh Behl took this decision at civic general body meeting held on Friday, at the insistence of local Congress corporator Yashwant Bhosale. Bhosale also pointed out that the PMPML should shift the depot to the land given at Nehrunagar. Behl announced the decision while ending the discussion on a proposal to give Rs 1.27 crore to the PMPML for paying salaries of its employees for the month of April.
Earlier, Bhosale pointed out that the state government has issued a government resolution approving the change in reservation of the depot land, from being reserved for a bus terminus to a garden. He said that the land belonged to Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and was earlier reserved for a bus terminus. The PCMC developed a bus depot for the erstwhile Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Transport (PCMT) and transferred it to the coach wallets PMPML.
Earlier, during the discussion on giving money to transport body, corporators cutting across party lines pointed out that the PCMC has no budgetary provision for giving money to PMPML. They also pointed out that the PCMC has paid more than its share of funds to the PMPML despite having lesser number employees from PCMT as compared to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) which gave lesser share for employees of Pune Municipal Transport (PMT).
Ashok Sonavane, group leader of BJP corporators, demanded that a review of the agreement made for formation of the PMPML be conducted in order to solve the problems related to the womens Emporio Armani watches PCMC limits.
The proposal to change the Development Control (DC) rules for usage and allotment of transfer of development rights (TDR) was kept pending for a month as there was difference of opinion among corporators.
Earlier, independent corporator Maruti Bhapkar demanded a judicial inquiry in the fake floodline map incident, allotment of TDR and floor space index (FSI) violations and said action be taken against guilty officials. Shiv Sena corporator Seema Savale who brought to light the fake floodline maps alleged that the general body has not approved the new TDR allotment rules but the PCMC has already begun allotment of TDR under these proposed rules.
The general body also took a decision to send back all state government officials on deputation and to give promotions to civic officials for the posts occupied by these officials on deputation. For Reprint Rights: timescontent.com
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The parent company of The Citizens' Voice has asked a Luzerne County judge to dismiss a defamation suit that was sent back to county court for Colorado Avalanche a new trial after the state Supreme Court vacated a $3.5 million verdict in the case.
Mountain Top businessman Thomas A. Joseph sued the Wilkes-Barre newspaper over its coverage of federal raids at his home and business in 2002. Also raided at the time was the home of convicted mobster William D'Elia, who was a friend of Joseph's.
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Ciavarella presided over a non-jury trial in Cheap christian audigier the Joseph case and handed down the $3.5 million verdict in 2006.
On Friday, the newspaper's attorneys filed a motion asking county Judge Joseph Van Jura, who has been assigned to conduct a new non- jury trial, to dismiss the suit, arguing Joseph cannot prove the articles are false.
Even if the articles were false, the motion says, Joseph is a public figure because of his relationship with D'Elia and he would have to show actual malice on the part of the newspaper to pursue a defamation claim under court precedents.
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When Sen. Bob Corker met with this newspaper's editorial board a week after Easter, he predicted the Senate would pass a banking reform bill soon with credible bipartisan support. Sen. Corker should know: He worked tirelessly hand-in-glove for a month recently with Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, to fashion the committee's banking reform bill -- until Sen. Dodd shut down their partnership to complete the bill on his own.
Even so, Sen. Corker expects to see most of what he helped develop in the bill, because, he says, they had worked through all the tough issues -- consumer protections, reform of banking regulations, checks on "too big to fail" banks, and rules for transparency and oversight of derivatives trading, the critical source of the viral casino-style trading that spread from Wall Street around the globe and sank the economy in the deepest trough since the Great Depression.
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Indeed, Sen. Corker said that his and Sen. Dodd's teamwork got the reform football down "to the 5-yard-line." That's why he ED_Hardy_Boots was confident, he said, that after the initial political skirmishing, the Senate would pass a truly credible, bipartisan banking reform plan -- one that, at the least, would stand "until the next (financial) crisis," which he said inevitability would come as financial instruments evolve.
We hope he's right. Nevertheless, the looming battle over banking reform, which may begin in earnest this week, is shaping up to be as fiercely contested by Republicans in its intensity, if not its popular engagement, as health care reform.
The banking lobby's power
The banking industry's lobbyists, whose deep-pocket campaign contributions are coveted by both sides in the Senate, is fighting furiously to protect its lucrative derivatives-trading prerogatives. It also is trying to defuse a mandate to establish a $50-billion-to-$150 billion industry-financed bailout fund, and to generally water down stiffer standards for reserves, transparency and securities trading. Other actors in the consumer lending industry (think: pay-day lending) are also bent on diluting consumer protections.
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Republican reactionaries are boxing themselves in the contradictory act of trying to look like they are for strong reform -- to appeal to angry voters who lost their savings, if not their jobs, in the Cartier Tank American great financial meltdown -- while simultaneously savaging another Democratic reform bill that's far tougher than most Republicans actually want it to be if they are to appease the banking industry.
It's almost impossible for them to carry off that shell game. That's why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sounded so ridiculous when, in his opening salvo against the Democratic bill last week, he asserted that it would "allow endless taxpayer-funded bailouts." Sen. Dodd rightly called that a "lie." In fact, it's the nearly impossible banner for the GOP's political strategy on banking reform: To make the Democratic bill sound bad, while at the same time drilling it full of loopholes.
Some Democrats reasonably want the bill to be much tougher. More than one advocates re-establishing the Glass-Steagall Act, the Banking Act of 1933 that established the FDIC and fixed banking rules that, among other things, banned commercial banks from Wall Street-style securities trading. It was only after that critical firewall between commercial and investment banks was eliminate
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Byline: Kayt Turner
YOU know you don't really have time to read this. Tampa Bay Lightning You know you should, in fact, be sitting atop the Samsonite trying desperately to squeeze the entire contents of a fully furnished three-bedroom house into a Ryanair carry-on friendly bag. And if you haven't quite got to the case-squishing bit of your holiday yet, then you should certainly be out shopping for yet more things that you absolutely "have" to take away with you. Heaven only knows what the good citizens of Fuerteventura would think of you if you weren't able to promenade of an evening clad head to toe in split new togs.
I know holidays are generally held to be "a good thing", but really? You need all the negotiating skills of Kofi Annan and Henry Kissinger combined - and that's just to get the two weeks off work. Then the real bickering can start. The common response to pictures of glorious, unspoilt white sandy beaches is: "That looks well boring"; "I'm not going anywhere that doesn't have a McDonald's"; "I'm not going anywhere that does have a McDonald's." Eventually compromise is reached. It's that or a fortnight of huffing and sulking.
The worst thing about holidays is, as always, other people. They're bad enough for the other 50 weeks of the year - should I really have to suffer them on my two weeks off? People often tell me to "cheer up love, you're on holiday". Yes, but I'm on holiday with you.
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In the great tradition of Sunday newspapers, we made our excuses and left. Well, it takes more than a few fizzy juices to make me gallus enough to want to tangle with someone covered in tattoos and missing half their teeth.
But it can be worse. You can meet people that you get on with. People that you spend a marvellous two weeks with. People that you want to see again. It may be hard for you to believe, but we have often had folk want to extend the happy holiday experience and meet up with us again.
Nothing to do with the fact that we live in Festival City and accommodation can be hard to come by at that time of year - oh no. So, when it comes to the final night and you swap phone numbers, just remember this: always, always, give them the wrong number. Let's face it : that's what they're doing to you.
Last week Kayt... cooked Sunday lunch for everyone. Yes, that's right. Cooked. All by herself. And no-one died. Well, no-one's died yet...
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Model: Nissan Pathfinder 2.5 dCi Tekna Price: Pounds 32,070 Engine: 2488cc, 187bhp Performance: 0-62mph in 11 seconds, top speed 115mph Fuel economy: 33mpg (combined) CO2: 224 g/km Five years in from its launch, Nissan's popular Pathfinder has received its first facelift, plus a gutsy new class-leading 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine and revisions to the current 2.5-litre to boost performance and economy and reduce emissions, writes Lisa Curtiss.
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The inside feels fresher and more luxe, thanks to new seat fabric and use of chrome highlights.
Dials have been revised, there's a new easier to use all-wheel drive command control switch and the steering wheel controls for the phone and audio are now illuminated, together with more comfortable armrests and door pads, larger door pockets and a handy new storage box on the central console.
With the Tekna spec, you can opt for Nissan Connect Premium with its 3D mapping, iPod connectivity, Bluetooth, 9GB of music storage and reversing camera.
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A particular benefit of note for those who frequently tow caravans and trailers; the Pathfinder's towing capacity has now been increased to 3,000kg from 2,700kg.
The revised 2.5 dCi model driven feels lively and quieter, although outclassed by the great new 3.0-litre V6. There's a new direct injection system, cylinder head with parallel ports and electric control VNT.
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The overall results are a respectable 15 per cent drop in emissions from 264 g/km to 238 g/km, a rise in combined mpg from 28 to 33 and an 11 per cent increase in power from 170bhp to 187bhp.
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NAOMI WATTS gets pushed around a tad in her two latest movies, but she'staking no nonsense from anybody in her next one.
Do you play a baddie, I wondered? 'No, I'm an assistant district attorneyshe's a good person,' she adds quickly, referring to the part she playsopposite Clive Owen in the banking thriller The International, which directorTom Tykwer has been filming in Berlin.
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WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NOIA Board Member Dave Welch, who was among more than 15,000 concerned citizens converging in Lafayette, Louisiana today to participate in The Rally for Economic Survival protesting the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling:
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He should quit for the year.
Tiger Woods should take the time to heal -- physically and emotionally -- to whatever extent he can, and come back to the PGA Tour for the 2011 season.
He apparently is headed for a divorce, has what he's guessing is a bulging disk in his neck and has parted ways with his swing coach.
Enough, already.
Woods walked off the TPC Sawgrass course during Sunday's final round of The Players Championship because of neck pain so severe that his head ached and the fingers of his right hand tingled. Now, he should walk from whatever schedule he has tentatively planned. He's living his whole life tentatively, which is a miserable existence.
Woods won't quit if he's able to play, of course, because that's how he's wired.
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Often, though, the most imposing fight is the quiet one a man has with himself.
Woods quitting would have less to do with surrender than it would rehabilitation. But if surrender is part of the process, so be it. There is a greater good to consider.
The Woods sex scandal has resulted in a hellish, albeit self- inflicted, descent from iconic status to a figure of ill repute.
"He's carrying a great amount of shame, it seems to me," said John McCauley, a Boca Raton-based clinical and sports psychologist. "He doesn't appear to feel good about himself. The spectators, in some ways, are his jury."
How unhealthy an environment must that be in which to work?
"But it still may be in his best interests to do what he's done his whole life, and play golf," McCauley said. "He may feel he'd have nothing if he stopped playing when he could be."
It remains my belief that Woods, if sound physically, would win a major championship this year if he returned to competition with sufficient time to get ready for those events. Woods has had great success, for example, at Pebble Beach, which is the site of the U.S. Open in June, and St. Andrews, site of the British Open in July.
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He's almost certainly about to lose the No. 1 world ranking to Phil Mickelson -- a ranking Woods has all but made his own in recent years, for example. But he would be best prepared to answer Mickelson's challenge after an extended period away from the game.
The break would allow Woods the opportunity to deal with personal issues more privately -- "I'm trying to make life changes, and trying to do that under the microscope of everyone asking me and watching everything I do. That doesn't make it easy," he said -- and recuperate physically.
Woods believes that, after an extended layoff, his accelerated practice schedule preparing for last month's Masters contributed to his neck injury? Then why risk repeating the mistake trying to rush back again?
And if he's completely honest about rededicating himself to his Buddhist roots, Woods would realize the value in stepping back from golf on something resembling his own terms to seek the balance he says he craves.
As for the neck pain itself, Woods already said, "You don't want to mess
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"I guess there's nothing more a 62-year-old man would want than to think he's 17," Noone said with his boyish British accent during a phone interview. "And, I get to do it every night on stage."
The legendary star who fronted the British Invasion-bred rock band as Herman, of Herman's Hermits, will get to relive his youth and the music of the 1960s when he takes the stage at the Mississippi Moon Bar for a pair of shows on Friday, June 25.
A band that rivaled even The Beatles' early success on the charts, Herman's Hermits (including Noone, Keith Hopwood, Karl Green and Derek Leckenby and later, Alan Wrigley, Steve Titterington and Barry Whitwam) burst on to the music scene from Manchester, England, in 1963. It was part of a handful of bands at the helm of a musical revolution - the British Invasion - something Noone said is long- overdue for a repeat.
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"Today, it's boring. You have musicians coming out of talent competitions, where they are told what to do. In my history, the only artists that made it were the ones who didn't do what they were told."
Noone vows to bring a sense of the charmed '60s enthusiasm with him as part of his Dubuque appearance.
"It's an uplifting, uptempo show," he said.
Selling more that 60 million records, with 14 chart-topping singles and seven gold albums, Herman's Hermits was the top-selling pop act in the United States in 1965, appearing on "The Ed Sullivan Show," "The Dean Martin Show" and "The Jackie Gleason Show."
The group starred in several MGM films including "When the Boys Meet the Girls," "Hold On," "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" and "Pop Gear."
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The band reunited briefly in 1973 to headline a hugely successful British Invasion tour, culminating with a standing-room-only performance at Madison Square Garden and an appearance on "The Midnight Special."
Later, a version of the band featuring Leckenby and Whitwam opened for The Monkees on select reunion tours. But Noone declined to appear.
He later joined Davy Jones on a successful teen idols tour and has since continued performing live.
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ICMI to offer "Ask the Experts" and "Scorecards" During Vendor Expo
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Customer Management Institute (ICMI), the leading global provider of comprehensive resources for customer management professionals, today announced that workforce management industry experts, Brent Haferkamp and Wendy Fowler will speak at the 2010 NorthEast Contact Center Forum (NECCF) Annual Vendor Expo on Tuesday, June 8 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. Haferkamp and Fowler will present "Schedule Adherence: Learn How to Stop Guessing on Goals."
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In addition, during the Expo ICMI will offer "Ask the Experts" and "Scorecards" sessions with event attendees.
* Ask the Experts provides attendees with a complimentary, one-on-one 30 minute session with a veteran industry expert from the ICMI team to speak about any contact center topic. To reserve a session, visit > * ICMI will offer real-time self-assessment scorecards for attendees to self-rank themselves based on their quality and workforce management programs.
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You could make a game out of guessing the number of nights different acts play at the O2, Britain's biggest indoor rock venue with a capacity of 23,000. Peter Gabriel recently played two nights, Leona Lewis is currently doing four, the Spice Girls managed 17, Prince did 21, Gorillaz are booked for two, Led Zeppelin did only one (by choice). How many would you give Bon Jovi - three at a pinch? Yet here they are, playing 12 nights.
New Jersey's second-finest, after Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi are only a middling light-metal band, but they have some enduring strengths: decency, stamina, loyalty - Jon Bon Jovi and his guitarist, Richie Sambora, have been writing songs together since 1983.
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With material like this, you need to put on quite a show. Bon Jovi certainly make an effort. The video screen comes in 12 sections, all capable of independent movement, and five more screens at the back flip to become giant stepping stones, allowing Jon to say: 'How ya doin'?' to the fans behind him.
The problem is that the technology seldom works with the music. The screens are so busy demonstrating their own ingenuity that they seldom deliver a close-up to the faithful sitting 70 yards away.
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Leona Lewis has achieved much in almost four years of fame. She has won The X Factor, become the first British singer to top the American chart with a debut album, earned three Grammy nominations, released a second album and sold six million records.
What she hasn't done, until now, is go on tour. Welcome to the wacky world of the talent-show winner.
She brings a seven-piece band, yet the strings are piped. The money has gone on the design, by William Baker, Kylie's visual mastermind. He gives Leona a sharper image - metallic minidress, kinky boots - and lashings of theatricality.
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She wowed X Factor voters with a big voice, a small ego and a lovely face, not a commanding presence. The minidress isn't her; she's no mover, and an arena stage offers no hiding place.
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INTRODUCTION
Aminophosphonic acids 1 are phosphorus analogs of amino acids in which the planar carboxylic group is replaced by a tetrahedral phosphonic acid moiety. Because of the tetrahedral configuration at phosphorus, aminophosphonic acids mimic the unstable tetrahedral carbon intermediates formed in enzyme-mediated makeup brush peptide bond cleavage and act as enzyme inhibitors. They selectively inhibit peptidases and proteinases (e.g., HIV protease, serine protease). Many natural and synthetic aminophosphonic acids and their conjugates with peptides exhibit antibacterial, anticancer, and antiviral properties. Some of them show pesticidal, insecticidal, and herbicidal activity. As such, a few of them have found commercial applications in medicine and agriculture [1,2].
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The biological activity of aminophosphonic acids 1 depends on the absolute configuration of the stereogenic carbon atom bearing the amino group. For example, (S/R)-alafosfalin 2 shows higher antibacterial activity than the other three diastereomers. Similarly, the (S)-enantiomer of 2-amino-4-phosphonobutanoic acid (AP4) 3 is 40 times more active than the (R)-form in suppression of glutamate-mediated neurotransmission. In view of these distinct differences in bioactivity, the development of suitable methodologies for the preparation of enantiomerically pure forms of aminophosphonic acids 1 has been a challenging task.
As part of our program on the synthesis of enantiomeric aminophosphonic acids, we devised a new and general asymmetric approach to [alpha]- and [beta]-aminophosphonic acids using the enantiopure p-toluenesulfinimines 5 as chiral reagents [3]. A key reaction in this synthesis was a highly diastereo-selective addition of phosphite anions or [alpha]-phosphonate carbanions to sulfinimines 5 (Scheme 2).
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Our methodology has been applied by other research groups for the synthesis of diverse structures of enantiomeric [alpha]- and [beta]-aminophosphonic acids [4]. However, it is well known that there is a long list of [gamma]-aminophosphonic acids which exhibit very interesting biological properties. The most important among them are AP4 mentioned above and phosphinothricin 4. The latter is a potent inhibitor of glutamine synthetase and shows antibacterial and herbicidal activity. Although syntheses of individual structures of enantiomeric [gamma]-aminophosphonic acids are reported, they are not general in scope and of limited applicability. This prompted us to extend the scope of our sulfinimine methodology for asymmetric synthesis of [gamma]-aminophosphonic acids with a focus on AP4 as well as to elaborate new approach to bioactive AP3 and its 3-amino isomer. The results obtained are reported herein.
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A key chiral reagent in our synthesis is ( )-(5)-sulfinimine 6. It was readily prepared by condensation of 3-(diethoxyphosphoryl)propanal with ( )-(5)-p-toluenesulfinamide in the presence of Ti[(OEt).sub.4] (eq. 1). The three reaction components were used in a 1:1:0.5 molar ratio. The product isolated in 80 % yield was contaminated with ca. 5 % of double-bond isomers and unreacted aldehyde, which are difficult to remove by column chromatography. Therefore, as such, it was used for addition reactions.
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LONDON - A group of activists who broke into an arms factory near Brighton last year and caused damage costing around Pounds 180,000 ($275,000) were found not guilty last week of causing criminal damage.
In a lawsuit filed in October, seven British activists claimed they were legally justified to break in and sabotage the factory of EDO MBM Technology near Brighton, on the south coast of England, in January 2009, at the time of Operation Cast Lead.
Believing that the company was violating export license regulations and sending arms components to Israel, the activists, from a group called Smash EDO, said they wanted to "slow down" the manufacture of components that were allegedly being sold to the Jewish state.
The protesters threw computers and file cabinets out of the factory windows and smashed machinery using hammers, claiming they were seeking to prevent "Israeli war crimes in Gaza."
The seven admitted breaking in and causing the LED tube damage but were acquitted when the jury found them not guilty of conspiring to cause criminal damage, despite video-taped interviews of the activists that outlined their intention to cause criminal damage and "smash up" the factory.
The activists used the "lawful excuse" defense - committing an offense to prevent what they say was a more serious crime because EDO was "complicit in war crimes."
Judge George Bathurst-Norman told the jury: "You may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time."
EDO managing director Paul Hills denied in court that the company supplied components to Israel but said it did make parts for F-16 fighter planes.
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CHEORWON, South Korea - South Korean and Japanese activists floated hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon toward the border with North Korea on Wednesday to condemn the country's government amid tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship.
North Korean defectors living in the South and other activists regularly fly leaflets across the heavily armed frontier in a campaign to urge North Koreans to rise up against leader Kim Jong Il's authoritarian regime.
The leaflets sent Wednesday criticized North Korea's late founding father Kim Il Sung for starting the 1950-53 Korean War and blamed the current government led by his son, Kim Jong Il, for a botched currency reform and the downing of the warship, which killed 46 sailors.
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"We'd like to punish the Kim Jong Il government by spreading the truth written on these leaflets," said Seo Jung-gab, president of the National Action Campaign, one of the participating groups.
Also among groups participating was the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea, a group supporting the families of Japanese abducted by Pyongyang's agents in the 1970s and '80s.
The leaflets contained a message to the abductees and contact information for organizations in Japan and China working to assist them.
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South Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to punish North Korea over the sinking. As part of retaliatory measures, Seoul installed 11 loudspeakers this month along the border to blare propaganda, but has so far stopped short of starting broadcasts or flying leaflets.
A multinational investigation led by South Korea concluded last month that North Korea was responsible for the ship sinking. The North has denied responsibility and threatened to respond to South Korean retaliatory measures with war.
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Geneva Film Co., the world's leading producer of stereoscopic 3D commercials for theatre cheap coatch purses and television, announced today it will take luxury automaker Lexus into the third dimension later this week with the launch of the brand's new "Pitch" campaign for the Lexus LFA.
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The Lexus LFA project follows on the heels of Stewart's most recent 3D work for Sprint which launched in May with Shrek Forever After.
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James Stewart is president and founder of Geneva Film Co., based in Toronto, Canada. Stewart has produced and directed over 300 leading-edge film productions for clients such as Acura, Hyundai, Lexus, GM, Ford, Panasonic, Xerox, TD Canada Trust, CIBC, Aim Trimark, among others. Stewart has also worked with the Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake and The Olson Twins, to name a few. Stewart is the one of a small group of directors worldwide working in Digital 3D. Geneva and Stewart pioneered the use of HD in Canada in 1997 and Digital 3D in 2004. Recent projects include "There's No Place Like This" -- the immersive 3D project for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and "Reversal", a 3D PSA for Sprint. Stereoscopic Digital 3D works in production include: several US national cinema commercials, the stop-motion feature film Foxed! and educational films for medical research.
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THE unemployed actress was up against 5,000 other hopefuls for a part in a brand new soap.
But when the producer asked her to remove her coat so he could get a better look at her figure, Pat Phoenix slapped him down hard.
"Cheeky young devil. You'll just have to guess at it, won't you?" The audition room fell silent and Pat believed she had blown her big chance. But in that moment she had just proved to Coronation Street creator Tony Warren she had the real-life spark that would breathe fire into the role of sex bomb Elsie Tanner.
Fifty years since Corrie's first episode, when Ena Sharples introduced Elsie as a woman with loose morals, former EastEnder Jessie Wallace is playing Pat Phoenix in a dramatisation of the birth of the Manchester soap.
Winning the role of the feisty, flamehaired tart-with-a-heart and a heaving cleavage transformed Pat's life.
Tony Warren said the first time he heard her speak her lines was like sex.
Dubbed the working man's Raquel Welch, then Prime Minister Jim Calla-ghan hailed her "the sexiest thing on television".
Laurence Olivier was one of her many admirers.
Pat's real life, with an adulterous affair, three marriages and deathbed wedding, had all the twists, turmoil and turbulence of Elsie's.
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After starting work as a lowly filing clerk, Pat did amateur dramatics in the evening. She slogged away in rep for 20 years and bleached and back-combed her hair in the style of Diana Dors. But back then, the looks that would later transfix millions of men held her back. She said: "It was hard for me then. If you weren't an English rose, you got damn all."
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A TEENAGE driver and her two young passengers were lucky to crawl out alive from the wreckage of their overturned car after a late- night crash in Torquay.
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THOSE of us who wore coats as school uniform have never quite recoveredfrom the experience. In my case, where it was the sole piece of uniform, itbecame especially detested, covering our carefully put together shabby chicoutfits with a horrible tweed that stripped us of our individuality and style,and reduced us all to identical schoolgirls.
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THE United States has a long tradition of generals becoming politicians, beginning with its first president, George Washington, and continuing on down through Ulysses S Grant and Dwight Eisenhower.
replica hublot watches However, it also has a tradition of dealing firmly with soldiers who want to be politicians while still in uniform. Stanley McChrystal is not the first general to be sacked for overstepping the mark. President Harry S Truman fired the man leading the war in Korea, Douglas MacArthur, over the general's disagreement with the president's war strategy, a disagreement that had become public.
That is as it should be. Soldiers should not publicly disparage their commander-in-chief and president, or mock the officials in his administration. It is vital that the power lies with those who win at the ballot box, not with those who command the bayonets. New Zealanders need only look as far as Fiji to see what happens when that principle is abandoned.
It is to his credit that General McChrystal has not sought to excuse himself for the comments reported in a Rolling Stone article, but was instead quick to acknowledge he had fallen far short of the standards of personal honour and professional integrity he sought to live by. However, that he could have displayed such poor judgment in the first place certainly raises questions over whether he had the skills needed for a job that required much more than the ability to deliver lethal force efficiently.
For President Barack Obama, General McChrystal's departure asserts his authority over Replica Glashutte Watch the military. It does nothing to solve his other, deeper, problems in Afghanistan.
The war there has now lasted nearly nine years and there are no signs of it ending any time soon. The prime reason for going into Afghanistan - to destroy Al Qaeda - no longer exists, with the terrorist organisation now operating out of Pakistan. Instead many see American lives and American dollars being used to prop up a corrupt regime headed by Hamid Karzai.
The surge that saw 30,000 extra troops committed to Afghanistan seven months ago as part of a counter- insurgency strategy has not yet produced the results expected. General McChrystal himself is quoted in Rolling Stone as describing the US attempt to retake the town of Marjah - begun in February and still under way - as a "bleeding ulcer".
There are signs that morale among the troops is falling, partly because the counter-insurgency strategy rests heavily on jimmy choo Bags Replica avoiding civilian casualties, which means tight restraints on using lethal force, something the soldiers believe puts them at greater risk.
With the outcome of the war very much on the balance, Mr Obama has been astute in appointing the highly regarded David Petraeus, who drove the counter- insurgency strategy in Iraq, as General McChrystal's replacement. He is the best hope Mr Obama has in a country that has earned its reputation as a graveyard of empires and of reputations.
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WASHINGTON -- The recent Washington debate over Af-Pak strategy has had it backward: This war is Fake Louis Vuitton Handbags less about trying to defeat the Taliban militarily in Afghanistan than it is about reaching an understanding with Pakistan that closes Taliban safe havens there and allows a political reconciliation among the warring Afghan parties. It's a Pak-Af problem, not the other way around.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai seems to recognize this; that's why he's holding his peace jirga, meeting with Taliban contacts and sacking an intelligence chief Pakistan regards as an enemy. President Obama seems to appreciate the likely political endgame, but he spends too little time explaining this conflict to a skeptical U.S. public.
One reason our Afghanistan strategy is so puzzling is that people don't have a clear picture of what the United States is trying to achieve. We know from political science studies that when a strategy becomes fuzzy, political support vanishes. This was true in Vietnam and Iraq. It's now happening with Afghanistan.
The most useful analysis I've seen recently is "The Key to Success in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy." It was prepared by the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It also had major input from U.S. Central Command, which oversees the war. The Silk Road study tries to visualize the kind of Afghanistan that might exist after U.S. troops begin coming home. Instead of being a lawless frontier, this post-conflict Afghanistan would be a transit hub for Eurasia.
To make this transport-led strategy work, Afghanistan would need to build more roads, railways and pipelines. A hypothetical railway map shows routes that connect Iran with India, Russia with Pakistan, China with the Arabian Sea. It knits together the rising powers of this region.
I first heard discussion of this modern Silk Road idea from Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghan finance minister. He made a powerful analogy to America's own development: What secured our lawless Wild West frontier was the transcontinental railroad in 1869. With trade and economic growth came stability.
Asian nations understand the benefits they could gain from transit links across Afghanistan. Take the ring road that links Afghanistan's biggest cities; the United States has pumped $1.8 billion into this and other road projects since 2002, but neighboring Iran has also put up a hefty $220 million. China has built roads connecting its western Xinjiang province with Afghanistan, and is now building a $50 million roadway in Wardak province.
There was a buzz last week because of a U.S. estimate that Afghanistan could possess $1 trillion in mineral wealth. That's a pipe dream for now, but what's real is a Chinese project to invest $3 billion in the Aynak marlboro cigarette coupons copper mine, south of Kabul. To transport the copper, China has pledged to build a new rail route north, through Tajikistan, and the Chinese want to extend this rail link to the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.
Then there's the energy trade: The authors of the report note that the Asian Development Bank is considering funding a $7.6 billion gas pipeline that would link gas reserves in Turkmenistan with energy-poor Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Hold on! How can you think of building roads, railways and pipelines when there's a war going on? Doesn't security have to come first for Afghanistan, before economic development will be possible?
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Bath City boss Adie Britton believes the opening fixture of the 2010-11 Blue Square Bet Premier season will have a big influence on his team's survival prospects.
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And with Britton expecting both teams to be battling against relegation, the manager says it is important his team gets off to a good start.
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Forest Green Rovers travel to Mansfield on the opening day and then host Wrexham on the following Tuesday and Gateshead on the Saturday.
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