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Antonio Pettigrew, the former world 400 metres champion, has been found dead in his car, writes Gene Cherry. The 42-year-old American, who worked at the school as an assistant athletics coach, captured the world title in 1991 and won a 4x400m gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics but the relay team, including Michael Johnson, were stripped of their medals after Pettigrew admitted at the trial of banned coach Trevor Graham he had used performance-enhancing drugs from 1997 to 2003. Pettigrew also voluntarily surrendered his 1997 and 1999 world championship 4x400 relay golds. He was an assistant coach at the university for four seasons.
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Kieron Achara has insisted that Great Britain will not be intimidated when they face Bosnia in Sarajevo tonight, writes Mark Woods. Chris Finch's men are unbeaten in their first two European Championship qualifiers with the Stirling-born forward coming off the bench.
However, with Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng taking an influential role to average 31 points so far, Achara believes GB can keep up their 100% start and edge closer towards reaching next summer's finals. "That's our goal," he said. "We said we'd shoot for a 4-0 start and push on from there but Bosnia's going to be a very tough to play in. It's going to be a hostile environment so we need to be ready."
Great Britain captain Drew Sullivan is set to win a record 50th cap in the tie, overtaking the long-standing mark of former Scotland player Bill McInnes.
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Scotland's Freyja Prentice helped Great Britain to their second team gold medal of World Junior Championships in Hungary, writes Roddy Mackenzie. Prentice, who also won individual silver at the championships, teamed up with England's Katy Burke and Kate French to beat China and Poland at Szekesfehervar.
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Dave Weston has secured a deal to contest the final three rounds of this year's World Rally Championship in France and Spain in October and at Rally GB in November, writes Kenneth Stephen. The teenager from Aberdeen is also close to securing a contract for a two-year attempt at the Production World Rally Championship.
Weston, regarded as one of Scotland's brightest hopes in the sport, finished fourth in the British Rally Championship last year in his debut season.
"The World Rally Championship events are second to none and that is where I want to be," said the 19-year-old. "I will treat next year in the Production WRC as a learning year and then go for the title in 2012."
Weston is also likely to confirm an entry in the second Rally of Scotland in October.
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makeup brush Peter de Villiers, the South Africa coach, was cleared of misconduct relating to comments implying a referees' conspiracy to bolster the All Blacks for next year's World Cup in New Zealand, writes Henry McCall.
Jannie Lubbe, a Cape Town-based judicial officer for SANZAR, which sanctions international rugby tournaments involving Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, led the hearing last Friday and released his ruling yesterday.
De Villiers' comments in a July 21 Australian TV interview seemed to imply that Irish referees Alan Lewis and Alain Rolland favored New Zealand in its two Tri-Nations wins over South Africa this year, and somehow this would incre
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A 2.5-acre office site in west Little Rock drew a $230,000 sales price (about $2.10 per SF).
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Office Seating has consistently represented approximately 25 percent of the U.S. office furnishings market. The entire market, projected by the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association (BIFMA), while expected to turn around in the 2004 and potentially produce double-digit earnings by year's end, must still contend with this year's predicted 8.5 percent decline in shipments to $8.14 billion.
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Today adjustability has grown to be more user-friendly. New seating is being engineered to self-adjust without the many knobs and levers that have served to do little more than confuse the average worker. Incorporating passive ergonomics, many new chairs actually respond to the user's weight and automatically adopt a healthy seating posture.
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THERE comes a time when things need to be said, a time when it is necessary to deliver some home truths and a time to let people know where they stand.
Listening to Derby County manager Nigel Clough in the days after the dispiriting defeat by Scunthorpe United and before the FA Cup replay against Millwall, it was clear that time had arrived.
Clough, in his pre-match press conference before Millwall, spoke of the commitment, desire and honesty he wanted from his players.
Excuses and hard-luck stories would no longer be tolerated.
It had, in his words, become black and white. It was time for the players to do their jobs.
Clough's patience has worn thin and the gloves are off. Take it on board and deliver, or go - that seems to be his message to the players.
The response has been positive.
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They dug in to see off League One club Millwall in the Cup. They should have won in normal time, showed grit to fight back and equalise in extra time before displaying nerve to win a penalty shoot-out.
There was a fascinating moment in the early minutes of the game at Peterborough, a sharp reminder to the players about taking responsibility rather than looking to pass it on.
Peterborough very nearly punished Derby for some slack play and Clough was quickly out in his technical area. Pointing, he bellowed "you do it" in the direction of one player and then issued exactly the same message to another.
You get the feeling the players know where they stand, they know what is expected.
If the Scunthorpe defeat is to be a watershed, as Clough described it, then the pain might have been worth it.
Seasons can turn on such low points. Sometimes you have to hit what seems like rock bottom to climb again.
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Last season, they lost feebly at home to Queens Park Rangers in Clough's first game as manager and then slipped into the bottom three when they fell to Birmingham, rather unluckily.
They beat Coventry City 2-1 in the next fixture and did not return to the drop zone, finally finishing 18th.
Earlier in the season, when Paul Jewell was at the helm, a defeat at Barnsley saw Derby slip to the bottom.
An international break meant supporters had two weeks to suffer the sight of their team propping up the table.
It was not a happy time but a home victory over high-riding Sheffield United marked the Rams' first League win in a year and they set off on a sevenmatch unbeaten run to climb to ninth and one point outside the play-off places.
Derby won promotion in 2006-7 but it was far from plain sailing in the first month of the campaign.
Late goals from Arturo Lupoli and Paul Peschisolido put an undeserved and flattering coat of gloss on a 4-3 defeat at Colchester, where the Rams were fortunate not to concede eight.
Billy Davies, then manager, had seen enough.
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AFTER going through years of arduous training as a surgeon, Karen Woo could have had a comfortable, well-rewarded life at home in Britain.
Instead she dedicated herself to working for the desperate people of Afghanistan, particularly women and children.
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We regularly pay tribute to our forces in Afghanistan, who are doing their job with courage and dedication and too often making the ultimate sacrifice.
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People in the remote area she was working in would get no medical treatment if doctors and aid workers did not risk their lives to go there.
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HE'S shown nerves of steel to take a crucial penalty at Wembley but Niall Quinn admits standing on the first tee at Adare Manor this morning will be his scariest moment in sport.
And despite playing in front of thousands of fans each week with Arsenal, Man City and Sunderland and at two World Cups for Ireland, he believes nothing will have prepared him for that opening tee shot.
Quinn is one of the many present and former sports stars rubbing shoulders with a glittering array of top golfers at JP McManus' Invitational Pro-Am being held at the Co Limerick club.
Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington Los Angeles Kings and new US Open champion Graeme McDowell head the cast as 13 of the world's top 16 ranked players assemble for the charitable event set to draw crowds of 20,000 over two days.
Woods is scheduled to land at Shannon Airport first thing this morning before playing at lunchtime in the company of Ireland rugby legend Brendan Mullin and businessman John Magnier. Sunderland chairman Quinn is playing alongside Robert Allenby this morning, with a shotgun start at 8am and 1.30pm on both days of the event.
He said: "I took a play-off penalty at Wembley in front of around 88,000 people and I never felt anything," he said, recalling what he described as an "amazing game" in 1999, his first year at Sunderland.
The Black Cats lost on penalties after the sides were deadlocked on 4-4.
"Although I scored my penalty, we lost. But I never felt nerves at all. But put 20 people looking over a rail on the first tee and it's different. It's an amazing thing. If I start off well then it won't bother me.
"If I had a putt on the 18th in front of the galleries jewelry-t that will be here, a putt to make a difference to my team, I don't know how I'll feel.
"I've dreamt about moments like that, like doing it in the British Open, and then I'd wake up. It must be incredible but it's a lonely game for these players."
Quinn appreciates the stress the world's top golfers are under - and he believes not being able to handle the pressure was England's downfall at the World Cup.
He said: "I don't know what created it, whether it was their own fault by telling everyone they were going to win it or whether it was the media's fault."
Meanwhile, Sunderland will be in Limerick next week for their opening pre-season game - playing against a Munster XI at Thomond Park in aid of the Shane Geoghegan Trust.
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Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI), a provider of photonic and laser microengineering systems, announced that it will present at the Sidoti & Company Emerging Growth Investor Forum.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading supplier of innovative, laser-based manufacturing solutions for the microtechnology industry, will announce the results for its fiscal 2011 first quarter after the market closes on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Following the release, Nick Konidaris, chief executive officer of ESI, will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss the company鈥檚 pandora beads results along with business highlights and outlook. A webcast of the conference call will be aired simultaneously, with access available at .
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Byline: MARTIN RIGBY
ONE of the great joys of researching your family history is to discover what your ancestor did for a living.
The way to discover an ancestor's occupation is quite simple - it is listed against their name in the 19thcentury Census returns. Other sources are birth and marriage certificates.
Quite often, the knowledge of a particular occupation will lead you onto another path in your research - especially if your ancestor was involved in an unusual line of work.
My great-grandfather, Thomas Dray, who was born in 1860 and who lived in south London in the latter years of the 19th century, is described in the 1881 Census as "ginger beer maker". Just how did he sustain himself and his family simply by making ginger beer? It called for further research.
A night's internet browsing led to a fascinating insight into London life in the late Victorian era. I found an interesting book, published in 1877, Street Life in London, by J Thomson and A Smith, which revealed that at that time some 300,000 gallons of ginger beer were sold annually on the city's streets!
It was very much a cottage industry, but the authors of Street Life revealed that the process was often undertaken in less than hygienic conditions, lamenting the fact that sometimes the process of boiling the ginger took place in the same copper boiler that was used to wash the clothes of several families!
Thomas Dray was one of a vast army of street vendors who plied their trade from a handcart in the byways and parks of the metropolis, and who sold gallons of ginger beer on a good day.
In an interesting take on the social habits of 19th-century Londoners, the Street Life authors reported: "The enormous number of persons who have spent their Saturday evening and wages in getting lamentably drunk, come out in the morning with their throats parched and are glad of anything that will relieve the retributive thirst from which they suffer. Ginger beer, under these circumstances, is particularly effective in restoring tone and mitigating the consequences of intemperance; and these are facts which readily account for the large sales effected on Sunday mornings."
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There are plenty of unusual occupations you can discover by leafing through the 19th-century Census returns, and they make a fascinating study in their own right.
An interesting site which includes information on Liverpool occupations in the 19th century can be found at .
visionofbritain.org.uk/census/index.jsp In the data, you will find a breakdown by age groups of the jobs undertaken by our ancestors in mid-Victorian Liverpool. The site gives a good overview of life in the city. In 1841, we find professions as diverse as bakers, blacksmiths, boot and shoe makers, actors, gun and pistol makers, bellows makers, boiler makers and bone dealers. The site contains a thorough breakdown of all the Census returns with associated statistics on our ancestors'' occupations.
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The Gilmanton Community Church's food pantry and thrift shop needs your help.
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The building (which used to house the Gilmanton Ironworks's fire station) has been totally remodeled inside, and fresh paint has been added. All of the remodeling was done with donations of materials, labor and money from many generous businesses and individuals.
We also built and paved a new walkway from our church parking lot to the new building. This, too, was done through the donations of materials and labor by a number of wonderful people in the community.
We now are down to just a few remaining exterior items to finish up.
We need donations of gravel, topsoil, wildflower seed mix and lawn seed to complete the exterior landscaping. We have, through generous donations, been able to buy the materials to re-shingle the failing roof.
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AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS REPLACE CONVENTIONAL COPPER WIRE CABLES with new fiber optic cables - hair-thin strands of glass that convey pulses of light - a need has arisen for technicians in the industry. Fiber optic technicians may install outside plant telecommunications cables underground, they may install fiber from local areas directly to homes, and sometimes will also test and troubleshoot networks. The jobs may be simple such as installing telephones and CATV in residences, or complex, involving security systems that require large amounts of fiber. Some technicians may also work in manufacturing jobs.
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FOUNTAIN SPRINGS -- The Butler Township supervisors have conditionally approved the installation of an underground fiber optic communications line for commercial customers.
The decision, made at Tuesday's meeting, will allow Northeast ITS LLC, Ridgeland, Miss., to construct a conduit fiber optics system from Cleveland, Ohio, crossing Pennsylvania and ending in New Jersey. The fiber optics system will consist of three 1.5-inch high density polyethylene ducts, with the township as Rolex fake one of the municipalities through which the lines will travel.
Municipal Project Manager William Anders of Lehigh Engineering LLC, the township's consulting engineers, said the company has provided the necessary paperwork.
"The applicant submitted a land development plan and status reports on the project for the (Butler Township) Planning Commission to review and comment," said Anders.
"At the planning commission meeting held April 19, the planning commission voted to recommend the final plan, with conditional approval, to the board of supervisors based upon the applicant meeting all of the engineer's review comments," he said.
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Supervisors Chairman David Kessler asked if the $50,000 bond suggested by the company would be adequate, and Anders said he would need to review the project.
In order to get the project started, the supervisors approved the project pending Anders' review to determine the adequate level of the bond.
The installation project may begin as early as Monday. The fiber optics system will be installed along the following roads:
- Main Street (Route 54);
- Lavelle Road (Route 4027);
- Germanville Road (township Route 417);
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COMPUTER software giant Microsoft yesterday launched the pocket PC, heralding a new era in personal computing.
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Microsoft president and chief executive Steve Ballmer said: ''It's an amazing time in mobile computing, and we're just getting started.
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In girding for battle, Microsoft enlisted licensees Casio, Everex, LG Electronics, Palmax, Philips, Samsung and Uniden, many of which displayed prototypes at CES in Las Vegas Dallas Stars last week with plans to ship product by June in $300-$400 range. Casio, Philips and Samsung also license Windows CE operating systems (OS) for handheld PCs.
"It's going to be more than just a reference device where its only utility was to look up a database you wanted to take with you from your desktop PC," said Microsoft Senior Vp. Craig Mundie. Microsoft at Comdex in Nov. had hinted at smaller versions of Windows CE and other variations.
3Com was quick to respond to Microsoft's challenge, saying that its attorneys will be watching carefully to ensure that its trademarks and copyrights are protected. "It's absolutely clear that they're trying to leverage the huge success we've had," 3Com Palm Computing Dtv. Pres. Donna Dubinsky told Reuters. "The selection of that particular name for products that are targeted at our products - calling that a coincidence would be a bit naive." PalmPilot. has sold about one million refits since launch in April 1996, Dubinsky watches-o said.
Mundie said Microsoft was using Palm PC as generic name for platform, and Windows-based devices would feature better resolution screen and more flexible means for inputting data.
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Many licensees were showing product with 8 Mbytes of RAM and slot for CompactFlash card that ran use radio broadcasting system to download data. Standard Palm PC can run 12-20 hours on single battery charge, and 69 software applications are expected to be available by 2nd quarter, Mundie said.
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MINERSVILLE -- When Laykin Hughes gets a little nervous, she smooths dirt with her spikes and takes a walk to the back of the pitchers' circle.
If the Minersville junior needs a little more inspiration, she just looks into her glove. There, in black marker, she finds a message from catcher Casey Brophy, written April 3 just before the season opener against Pottsville.
It reads: "You can do it!!!''
Hughes said seeing that note usually makes her laugh a little and settles her nerves.
Pitching every inning this season, Hughes did it again Thursday, shutting down Williams Valley 3-0 on a one-hitter before a large crowd at Ken Schneck Field.
Minersville's second victory this season over Williams Valley clinched the Schuylkill League Division II championship and secured a spot in the league title game. The Miners (19-1, 16-0 D-II) will play the Division I champion, Pine Grove or Pottsville, at 7 p.m. May 20 at Blue Mountain High School's Patton Field.
The division title also marked Minersville's 28th in the past 34 seasons.
"As much as we love the title, I'm so proud of these kids for beating an elite team like Williams Valley,'' Minersville coach Dave Homa said.
Coming into the game, the hard-hitting Vikings (18-2, 14-2 D-II) had scored 215 runs and allowed 14.
Hughes, who defeated Williams Valley 2-1 in the first meeting April 23, gave up only a one-out triple to Alysha Bixler in the third inning. She struck out 14 and walked four.
"All we needed was a break early and we're in good fashion jackets coats shape,'' Williams Valley coach Lee Reiser said. "We didn't create any breaks. We didn't hit the ball hard enough.
"One hit. You can't win with one hit.''
Pitching for the fourth straight day, Hughes struggled with her command and fell behind a lot of batters. Whenever she needed to make a pitch, though, she found the inside corner to jam the Vikes' big hitters or worked down and away for strikeouts.
"We noticed (Wednesday against Mahanoy Area) and (Tuesday) up at Hazleton, she was really popping the ball,'' Homa said.
"She worked and worked and worked, and she wanted this so bad,'' he added. "We weren't going to take the ball out of her hand. We don't have to. She's a horse.''
Hughes threw another 125 pitches Thursday, but had plenty to finish the afternoon with three straight strikeouts.
"No, I liked it better,'' Hughes said when asked about pitching four days in a row or getting some time off.
"I get pretty tense sometimes and I have to pull it together.''
That's why Brophy wrote in her glove.
"When we were pitching in the winter and hitting in the winter she was always saying she can't do it,'' the senior catcher explained.
Brophy also delivered a big hit in the first inning, drilling an RBI double just inside the chalk down the left-field line. The hit was the 100th of Brophy's career, making her the 16th Minersville player to reach the milestone.
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MINERSVILLE -- When Laykin Hughes gets a little nervous, she smooths dirt with her spikes and takes a walk to the back of the pitchers' circle.
If the Minersville junior needs a little more inspiration, she just looks into her glove. There, in black marker, she finds a message from catcher Casey Brophy, written April 3 just before the season opener against Pottsville.
It reads: "You can do it!!!''
Hughes said seeing that note usually makes her laugh a little and settles her nerves.
Pitching every inning this season, Hughes did it again on May 13, shutting down Williams Valley 3-0 on a one-hitter before a large crowd at Ken Schneck Field.
Minersville's second victory this season over Williams Valley clinched the Schuylkill League Division II championship and secured a spot in the league title game. The Miners (19-1, 16-0 D-II) will play the Division I champion, Pine Grove, at 7 p.m. May 20 at Blue Mountain High School's Patton Field.
The division title also marked Minersville's 28th in the past 34 seasons.
"As much as we love the title, I'm so proud of these kids for beating an elite team like Williams Valley,'' Minersville coach Dave Homa said.
Coming into the game, the hard-hitting Vikings (18-2, 14-2 D-II) had scored 215 runs and allowed 14.
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"All we needed was a break early and we're in good shape,'' Williams Valley coach Lee Reiser said. "We didn't create any breaks. We didn't hit the ball hard enough.
"One hit. You can't win with one hit.''
Pitching for the fourth straight day, Hughes struggled with her command and fell behind a lot of batters. Whenever she needed to make a pitch, though, she found the inside corner to jam the Vikes' big hitters or worked down and away for strikeouts.
"We noticed (Wednesday against Mahanoy Area) and (Tuesday) up at Hazleton, she was really popping the ball,'' Homa said.
"She worked and worked and worked, and she wanted this so bad,'' belts he added. "We weren't going to take the ball out of her hand. We don't have to. She's a horse.''
Hughes threw another 125 pitches on May 13, but had plenty to finish the afternoon with three straight strikeouts.
"No, I liked it better,'' Hughes said when asked about pitching four days in a row or getting some time off.
"I get pretty tense sometimes and I have to pull it together.''
That's why Brophy wrote in her glove.
"When we were pitching in the winter and hitting in the winter she was always saying she can't do it,'' the senior catcher explained.
Brophy also delivered a big hit in the first inning, drilling an RBI double just inside the chalk down the left-field line. The hit was the 100th of Brophy's career, making her the 16th Minersville player to reach the milestone.
"Huge, because then you dictate how you're going to go through their lineup,'' Homa said of scoring first.
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Torrevieja's narrow waterfront has been transformed by a landscaped promenade in the form of a coastal garden which creates a series of spaces for recreation and contemplation.
Lying midway between Gucci Canvas Handbags Alicante and Cartagena, the town of Torrevieja has fallen prey to indiscriminate and uncontrolled development typical of the Spain's south-west coastal strip. It had expanded to the edge of the sea, leaving little room for a public promenade or bathing. Carme Pinos was asked to remodel a thin strip of waterside space to create places for recreation, swimming, strolling and sitting. As with an earlier civic landscaping scheme for a suburb of Alicante (AR October 1999), Pinos transforms an uninspiring context through skilful deployment of simple, robust materials and an instinctive awareness of the human and social dimension of public space. Swimming was difficult and dangerous due to the heavy waves and jagged rocks, so Pinos adapted existing breakwater structures to enclose two new bays for protected bathing. Timber decks, like boardwalks, lead down to the beach areas and the concrete block structure of the breakwaters merges into the hard landscaped surface of the promenade. On the land side, the promenade winds in a leisurely, irregular fashion along the waterfront, providing a pleasant route for daytime flaneurs and the evening passeggiata, the ritual Mediterranean stroll. Diagonally arranged concrete tiles with lozenge-shaped gaps for a Lateral shoulder bags grid of palm trees impart a graphic, dynamic quality to the promenade. Benches and pedestals for rest and contemplation are scattered at random through the regular grid; made of slatted timber these combine sturdiness and elegance in equal measure. When the palms are fully grown, they will form a lush green canopy, providing shade and softening the waterfront edge, screening the undistinguished scrum of buildings behind.
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While the feds continue squabbling over a global warming bill and state regulators backtrack on new diesel-emission rules, local communities are moving ahead this week to attack the cancerous soot hanging Ajax over harbor-area neighborhoods.
Tonight, the public can vent their enthusiasm - or lack thereof - of a sweeping 4-year-old program adopted by the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles to slash port-generated pollution in half by 2012.
The 7 p.m. workshop at Long Beach City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd., will guide port authorities in both cities as they refine long-term goals in the Clean Air Action Plan, or CAAP.
And don't fret about them not listening. By law, public direction has to be incorporated into the overall plan. If it's not, the public can sue, as has been done successfully in recent years.
But back to the plan.
Since its inception in 2006, the plan can boast a number of real successes, including a pre-2007 truck ban (now nearly complete), ship-to-shore power programs, low-emission cranes, a new generation of "clean" locomotives and perhaps most importantly, the imitation of such programs at seaports across the globe.
Even China, the world's biggest polluter, is studying the plan.
The plan can also be credited with spurring significant investment and research into clean, green technologies like hybrid tugboats and trains, electric trucks, and low-sulfur fuels.
And yet much remains to be done, hence this evening's public hearing.
The ports need, by law, community input as they begin modernizing dozens of marine terminals, roadways, bridges, railyards and other facilities serving the nation's largest port complex.
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The report will be used to guide air regulators as they continue decades of work to pull the Southland from its perennial top spot as having the nation's most polluted skies.
Lung cancer, heart disease and asthma are a few of the illnesses directly linked to exhaust fumes, and the port, along with truck and rail corridors serving it, were infamously labeled "diesel death zones" in a 2003 study.
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L'Oreal , one of the world's leading cosmetics companies, announced that the undergraduate team from New York University won the US National Finals Colorado Avalanche of 2010 L'Oreal Brandstorm , its international marketing case competition held on Friday, April 9th, at the W New York Hotel.
This year's competition focused on the Diesel brand with the challenge to students to launch a new beauty product range for Men, outside of the fragrance category.
New York University's Team Trinity consisting of Princeton, New Jersey native Vijay Chandar, New Brunswick, New Jersey's John Park and San Diego, California's Anthony Tumbiolo, all juniors, was chosen as the winner of the US Finals and will move on to compete against 40 other countries in the International Finals in Paris on June 16th and 17th, 2010. The team won for their creativity, excellent presentation, innovative product idea and entrepreneurial spirit. The other talented teams represented the "best of the best" at the other partner universities who participated in this game: Brigham Young University; Howard University; Northwestern University; Rutgers University; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania; and University of Texas-Austin.
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L'Oreal USA launched the 2010 L'Oreal Brandstorm competition on the eight campuses last fall and received 100 case submissions. The top five case submissions were selected from each school and these teams earned the chance to move on to the Campus L'Oreal Brandstorm Finals. The L'Oreal USA talent recruitment team then traveled to each school, along with L'Oreal marketing executives, to judge the Brandstorm finals. At each school one team was named the campus champion and chosen to represent their university in the L'Oreal Brandstorm US National Finals.
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The radical Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, 46, has more than doubled the number of its seats in parliament after a national vote June 9. It is now the third largest party in the 10-party parliament and no longer just a minor fringe movement.
The election saw the center-right Liberal Party (VVD) emerging as the largest party, one seat ahead of the center-left Labor Party. The Christian Democrat party of outgoing Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende suffered a big defeat. When the ballots were counted, the VVD had 31 of 150 seats, while Labor (PVDA) had 30. The Christian Democrats sank to fourth place with 21 seats.
Negotiations are now taking place to determine whether a coalition can be formed. A coalition of at least three parties will now need to join together to form a new government. VVD Leader Mark Rutte could now become the first prime minister from his political camp since World War I. He is trying to negotiate a coalition and wants to bring Wilders' party into his government. But the third party Rutte wants included, the Christian Democrats, don't want to serve with Wilders' party.
Many Dutch were shocked to find that Wilders' far-right Freedom Party (PVV) picked up 15 seats, rising from nine in the last parliament to 24 now. That is 16 percent of the seats in a parliament where the largest single party only holds 21 percent of the seats.
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When Labor leader Job Cohen, speaking at a party meeting in Amsterdam, congratulated Wilders and his party, his remark was greeted with jeers. However, the former Amsterdam mayor rebuked his supporters: "I don't want to hear any jeering. The PVV has won a major victory and we should respect that." All established parties have since congratulated Wilders, and much of the criticism voiced against him has died down with the realization that one in six Dutch voters chose his populist party.
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A dental hygienist and therapist who has returned from a three- week trip to Uganda to carry out charity work said it was the best thing she has done.
Eva Maria Traum, 36, of Salisbury Road, Blandford, Dorset, works for the Alaska House practice in Blandford and the Wimborne Dental Health Practice.
Clients at the two surgeries helped to finance her trip with the Christian Relief Uganda organisation, contributing a total of Pounds 1,600 to the materials she took with her - 70 kilos of gloves, masks, wipes, visors, local anaesthetic and needles.
They will be used in work with deprived communities in the African country where millions of people live in poverty.
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"People may say it is a drop in the ocean, and that dentistry is not the first thing they would think of when it comes to charity relief, but having dental problems means that people can't eat."
The makeshift surgeries in which Miss Traum carried out work were a far cry from the well-equipped practices in which she works back in England.
Here the absence of water and electricity would have forced surgeries to close.
But Miss Traum said: "It's amazing what you can do without all the trappings."
Posters were put up so people knew about the clinics. But there was reluctance among patients.
Miss Traum said: "In Uganda, nobody believes anything until they see it, and it takes them a bit of time after watching us for an hour or so to come forward for treatment.
"We had to leave our hotel at eight in the morning to travel for two hours to the village and set off back at about five o'clock to get home before it goes dark, which happens quickly."
Children chew sugar cane to sustain themselves on long walks to school and Miss Traum and her colleagues advised that this could lead to tooth decay.
This prompted the children to ask why sugar was put into their toothpaste, a question that at first non-plussed the team.
Miss Traum said: "We discovered that although real toothpaste is available, they cannot afford it, and instead use a cheaper counterfeit toothpaste which is filled with porridge and sugar.
"Eighty-five per cent of the people there were HIV positive, and we saw quite a few cases of full-blown Aids in communities where whole generations are missing. There are very few elderly people and the average life expectancy is 53."
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Simon Parker visits an artist who is shedding light on the lives of two extraordinary women who worked at a tiny studio on the sea's edge for half a century The approach to Bucks Mill could hardly be more idyllic. A narrow winding lane fringed with campions, bluebells and beech trees in new leaf dips steeply, the air faintly scented with wild garlic.
Over the stream, the valley gives way to rows of thatched fishermen's cottages and the first glimpse of the ocean.
All in all, not a bad place to work. Today, inevitably, Bucks Mill is neither a place of work nor even a place of much full-time residence. One of the very first picturesque settlements on the Devon coast to fall victim to the scourge of second home ownership, most of the artisan dwellings were snapped up for holiday homes as far back as the 1960s.
However, in common other villages occupied for only part of the year, what it lacks in workaday bustle it more than makes up for in tranquility.
Two people who recognised the beauty of this former fishing and lime-producing port on the North Devon coast were artists and lovers Judith Ackland and Mary Stella Edwards.
For a period of more that 50 years, the couple spent their summers in a tiny cabin perched on a cliff path overlooking the sea at Bucks Mill. There, Judith painted evocative scenes of the surrounding village and countryside, while Mary composed poetry celebrating the natural beauty of the area and the couple's deep love for each other.
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For the past two weeks, Kate has been working in and around the cabin, operating in a style which would in some ways have been totally alien to Judith and Mary and in other respects quite familiar. Unlike her predecessors, who worked mainly in watercolours, Kate employs photography and film -- and although her approach to recording the physical features of the area and the emotional responses they provoke is technically different, it displays the same empathy.
When I arrived at the cabin half-way through Kate's residency, she had just discovered a wicker basket under the small bed the two women shared for 50 summers. Inside were brushes, paints, pencils, palette knives and other tools associated with working artists. Put away, though not abandoned, the items were clearly intended to be retrieved.
There is a sadness about these and many of the other objects of what is essentially a time capsule. Hand-mended linen, tea cups and plates, a cardboard box advertising Libby's pineapple chunks, wooden coat hangers strung on a wire. All are there waiting for Judith and Mary to return in the summer that never arrived.
But thanks to the efforts of Kate Paxman and the generosity of the National Trust, Appledore Arts and North Devon AONB, the lives of these two women can be revisited.
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Undersize club has to rely on Maxwell if gloves drop
The 2009-10 edition of the Manitoba Moose was never going to be confused with a physically intimidating squad.
But with the addition to the lineup this weekend of a couple of 5-foot-8 wingers in Kevin Clark and Jordan Schroeder, the Moose have gone from being on the small side to being really on the small side at precisely the same time as the hockey is getting its most physical.
What's more, the Moose will carry this size-small lineup into the final 10 games of the regular season with just one bona fide enforcer available to lay down the gloves -- and the law -- amid the high emotions of a playoff race.
With the news over the weekend that defenceman Nathan cheap fake Chloe Bags McIver is lost for eight weeks with a broken hand, Moose tough guy Tommy Maxwell promises to be a very busy man during the next couple of weeks as teams look to push the diminutive Moose around between and after whistles.
That's what happened in a pair of penalty-filled games with the Grand Rapids Griffins over the weekend. Maxwell scrapped in both games against the Griffins and drew a total of 28 minutes in penalties, and that's not likely to let up with eight of the last 10 regular-season Moose games coming against division rivals.
So what's it like being the lone enforcer on a small team? "I definitely know it's going to be me and not somebody else," Maxwell said after the Moose practised Monday morning in preparation for tonight's game against the Hamilton Bulldogs at the MTS Centre.
"Which is fine. I have to do that, and that's part of my job... It's crunch time. I'll do whatever it takes."
Maxwell has fought 23 times already this season and now sits second in the entire AHL in major penalties, taking a back seat only to Lowell thug Louis Robitaille.
While the Moose do have other players who are willing to drop the gloves -- Guillaume Desbiens and Dusty Collins have both stepped up at various times -- head coach Scott Arniel says he's counting on his team's talent and togetherness to make up for their pugilistic shortcomings.
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"Is it enough? I don't know. But I'm not looking to get into a punch-up with Abbotsford or Toronto."
Collins says physicality runs deeper than dropping the gloves, especially this time of year. "You've got to watch the fighting anyway, because if you get the instigator, you're in the box and down a guy... It's more about playing tough between the whistles."
Winger Matt Pettinger agreed. "Everyone's in a dogfight for playoff spots. It's more about team toughness than fighting right now."
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Still fighting for their playoff lives, the Moose head into the final 10 games of the regular season facing a daunting AHL schedule that includes four games against the Western Conference-leading Bulldogs.
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CEBU CITY (PNA) - An official of the Department of Energy (DOE) 7 has warned that Cebu will continue to Cote d-Ivoire have more brownouts as the province demands more electricity.
Aguinaldo Briones, DoE Senior Science Research specialist, said Cebu's total power demand stands at 645 megawatts (MW) against a power supply of only 295 MW, or a shortage of 350 MW.
Briones said the six plants in Cebu and Leyte only generate said 295 MW power.
Toledo Power Corp.'s coal-fired plant generates 50 MW; Toledo Power Corp's diesel plant, 32 MW; Cebu Thermal Power Plant (CTPP) 1, 45 MW; CTPP 2, 51 MW; Cebu Diesel Power Plant, 25 MW; Cebu Private Corp., 52 MW and the remainder from power plants situated in Leyte.SPC Power Corp. operates CTPP 1 and 2 and Cebu diesel.
Cebu Energy Development Corp.'s 84-MW coal-fired power plant in Toledo City which started operating last March watches-s has been shut down for a scheduled preventive maintenance.
But Briones said even if the 84-MW plant operates again, a power supply deficit would still exist, especially during such peak hours as 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 7 p.m. when majority of consumers use air-conditioning units because of intense heat from the dry and hot weather caused by the El Nino phenomenon.
Briones said the blackout that hit Cebu earlier during the week happened after the power transmission line from Talisay City to Compostela town tripped off, thus preventing the entry of power supply from Leyte.
Leyte supplies power to the Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) grid and because the supply cannot pass through the Talisay-Compostela power line, a blackout occurred especially in areas serviced by Cebu Electric Cooperative (Cebeco) 1 and Cebeco 3, Briones said.
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Bayern Munchen ORRVILLE DISTDRICT -- The board met in special session Thursday morning to consider the selection of candidates to replace Donna Smith as a member of the school board. Smith tendered her resignation to the board last month, saying she was relocating away from the school district.
The board then called for the submission of letters of interest or resumes from anyone in the Orrville community wanting to assume Smith's seat for the remainder of her 18-month term.
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On Thursday when the board met, it immediately adjourned to executive session to discuss personnel matters, presumed to be the discussion of the letters and resumes it had received.
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Under the law, according to Ritchie, the board has 30 days from the date of Smith's resignation (June 17) to appoint a new board member. If the board is unable to do that, or becomes deadlocked, the decision passes to a court of common pleas judge.
Ritchie said earlier this week he was encouraged by the quality of the candidates seeking the board seat and felt the board would be able to identify a suitable replacement for Smith.
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NIAF Executive Vice President Joseph V. Del Raso, Esq. has been appointed a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. Members of the Commission are appointed by the President of the United States.
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One thriving genre in the Christian publishing industry applies the "What would Jesus do?" formula to success in nominally secular fields: "Lead Like Jesus," "Jesus, Life Coach," "The Leadership Genius of Jesus," "Taking Jesus to Work."
You'd think "Connecting Like Jesus" would fall into that category.
But the book, being released this month by Jossey-Bass at $21.95, is subtitled "Practices for Healing, Teaching and Preaching." And it's co-authored by Tony Campolo, known for his work in social justice.
Scratch that genre theory.
Campolo, the preacher and sociology professor emeritus at Eastern University, and Mary Albert Darling, a communications professor at Spring Arbor University, have produced a book that aims to wed spiritual disciplines to communication skills.
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Learning to "connect like Jesus," the book contends, will transform that image and make Christians magnetic, as Jesus was.
Campolo and Darling rely on classic spiritual practices, such as Ignatius of Loyola's prayer of examen and lectio divina ("sacred reading"), to guide readers toward a communication style more in tune with Christ's.
Darling writes the first section of the book, on learning to communicate in ways that heal - which begins, she points out, with self-healing. Campolo wraps up with the final chapters on teaching and preaching, which, he argues, should be intertwined so that audiences (in the church and outside it) Clip on charms are called to make informed decisions to follow Jesus and to live like Jesus.
Campolo, a powerful preacher, is a frequent visitor to Lancaster County. In this book, he repeats a story he has told here before about visiting a county church and preaching up a storm to a congregation that sat stony-faced during his sermon. Afterward, one man told him, "We wouldn't be opposed to having you back again."
I wouldn't be opposed to reading a whole Campolo book on preaching and teaching. The two halves of this book don't always feel well-connected.
But "Connecting Like Jesus" isn't another spiritualized success manual. Shelve it instead with the spiritual formation books.
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VARANASI: The Queen's Baton Relay of Commonwealth Games 2010 landed in controversy in Varanasi as mayor Kaushalendra Singh boycotted the welcome ceremony on Monday, describing it as a symbol of colonial slavery even six decades after Independence.
"On the behalf of the citizens of Varanasi, I boycott and denounce the Queen's New York Islanders Baton Relay in the city which had played a crucial role in the Quit India Movement against British rule," said mayor while talking to reporters on Monday. He held it unfortunate that "this symbol of slavery was overshadowing the danda (stick) of Mahatma Gandhi that that uprooted the British from the country."
This, when the entire machinery of municipal corporation, as well as district administration, was busy in welcoming the Queen's Baton. He, however, clarified that he was not against the organisation of the Commonwealth Games.
"We are not opposing the Commonwealth Games, but it is the Queen's Baton that reminds us of the dark days of slavery," he said and added instead of Queen's Baton, it should have been named as Commonwealth Games Baton.
It may be mentioned here that as per programme, the mayor, along with other public representatives and distinguished citizens, was to welcome the Queen's Baton. But, he handbags-h took this decision at the last moment when the baton was to enter the city. "I took this decision in view of public sentiments. Many distinguished citizens and local organisations contacted me and expressed their feelings," he claimed and added being the mayor of the city, he was honourbound and decided to boycott the Queen's Baton.
He clarified that his decision was above party lines and not politically motivated.
Meanwhile, activists of some local organisations, including Asangathin Mazdoor Union, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Jan Samiti and Paharua Jan Sangathan also burnt the effigy of baton to express their protest against the Queen's Baton Relay and the Commonwealth Games. They said at least Rs 30,000 crore were being spent of the games at a time when a number of farmers and weavers were committing suicide due to acute poverty. To organise the games in Delhi, lakhs of slum dwellers Gucci Bracelet rendered shelterless, they said.
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Leaders of different faiths will be allowed to pray at the beginning of bimonthly Jacksonville City Council meetings under a new, more inclusive policy outlined Thursday by council President Jack Webb.
Starting with the July 27 meeting, the first in Webb's tenure, the invocation will no longer be given by the council's chaplain. Instead, over the course of Webb's yearlong term, it is quite possible that Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Extra Strap Replica Jews will join Christians in giving the invocation.
"As much as it's random and as much as it's going to be open, that's a distinct possibility," Webb said.
He said he will work with the General Counsel's Office to come up with protocol but is hopeful the rotation of faith leaders reflects the varying religious backgrounds of Jacksonville residents. Webb said he will also allow the other 18 council members to suggest faith leaders to pray.
Overtly Christian prayers in the past year by Councilman Don Redman, the council's former chaplain, have come under fire from the ACLU and Anti-Defamation League. Both organizations have written letters to the City Council questioning the constitutionality of such prayers and requesting that the council create a universal policy.
David Barkey, the Southern Area Counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, said Webb's new policy will work only if it truly embraces a multitude of faiths.
"We commend him for making the effort and showing an intent to be more inclusive and more fair and showing the intent to be ecumenical within the Jacksonville community," Barkey said.
All 19 council members identify as Christian, but the sectarian nature of Redman's invocations were put on the spot during the controversial nomination of Muslim professor Parvez Ahmed to the city's Human Rights Commission.
Redman said Thursday he didn't have a problem with Webb's decision.
Richard Mille Watch Councilman Clay Yarborough, the current council chaplain, will close meetings with a second prayer, which is something Redman also did during his year as chaplain. Yarborough said he will invoke Jesus' name during his prayers but declined to comment on whether he agreed with Webb's decision.
At Yarborough's request, the first clergyman in this new rotation will likely be a minister from his home church, First Baptist Church of Jacksonville.
Webb said the intent of the policy is to give council meetings a broader appeal to residents of all faiths and to respond to the requests the council has received from concerned groups.
Louis Vuitton Bags "By opening it up, but still requesting that Clay serve as chaplain, I think that sends a message that we are attempting to be inclusive of everybody," he said.
Glenn Katon, director of the Religious Freedom Project for the ACLU of Florida, said the new policy is a step in the right direction. Ideally, the ACLU would rather see no prayer at government functions.
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DIVERS exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea have found bottles containing what is thought to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world, made in the late 18th Century.
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When Market Days kicks off Thursday, it will send tens of thousands of people downtown, injecting millions of dollars into the city's economy.
Using a formula from the state's travel and tourism division, nonprofit Main Street Concord says event-goers spent $3.2 million over the course of three days last July.
But even with those kinds of numbers, Market Days doesn't guarantee big profits for downtown retailers. What it does promise, retailers said, is exposure - a boon to business that's harder to quantify.
"In the downtown environment, most of the battle is getting people to come here," said Jeff Bart, whose family runs Granite State Candy on Warren Street. "Once we get them here, it's easy."
Although Bart doesn't set up shop on the street during the annual July event - his chocolates wouldn't withstand the heat - he said his business still sees a boost that's "significant" compared with an average summer weekend, though nothing like Christmas or Valentine's Day.
"For the summer months, it's great," Bart said. But the bigger benefit, he said, is that the event "brings just an enormous number of people downtown."
Valencia As a family event, Market Days draws plenty of potential customers for Main Street toy store Imagination Village. But "because everything we sell outside is on sale, we don't make a lot of profit," said store owner Laura Miller.
The store also pays staffing costs to stay open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the three-day event, another factor that cuts into the profit margin.
Still, Miller said Market Days is valuable for its potential to reach new customers. When her store started participating in the event, she said, "it was more a way to get rid of discontinued things." Now she views it as a way to showcase what the store offers.
John Constant of Constantly Pizza also takes a longer-term look at the event. Selling pizza on the sidewalk during Market Days, "we always try to keep the pricing really low," Constant said. "That's why we do a really good discount. You hope you get a new customer or family that's never tried you that likes you, and you get a regular."
For other stores on Main Street, Market Days means business as usual. "We don't have a lot of little tchotchkes we sell, unfortunately," said Art Learned, who with his wife, Janet, runs Things Are Cooking.
They don't set up a booth during Market Days, and to an extent, Learned said, the event is "counterproductive," since street vendors block visibility to his store.
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'Tireless self-promotion'
If you tuned in to NHPR's The Exchange last week for its show on electric cars, you may have heard a certain "Steve from Concord" talking up a new hotel in town with electric car charging stations - a feature also offered by the Grappone Conference Center, he noted.
Yes, that was Steve Duprey. "Tireless self-promotion," he said, asked about the not-quite-anonymous call.
But about those charging stations: Duprey's new Residence Inn on Hall Street, which opens tomorrow, will have three stations, each able to charge two cars.
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PHOENIX -- Losing one game in Phoenix was tolerable for the Los Angeles Lakers. Two losses and things start to get uncomfortable for the reigning NBA champions.
It's safe to say that coach Phil Jackson was giving his team a refresher course on how to beat a zone defense when the Lakers worked out at US Airways Center on Monday after Phoenix employed the strategy to great success in its 118-109 victory on Sunday night. The Suns can square the series at 2-2 with another home win in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
Jackson said he had never seen a team use the zone so much in a playoff game since the NBA legalized the defense in the 2001-02 season, not that Kobe Bryant seemed all that concerned.
When asked if a day of practice would be enough to work out how to attack the zone, he answered sarcastically.
"Nah," he said. "We're doomed."
The Suns used the zone much of the second quarter and the entire second half. Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry said that was more than he anticipated but he stuck with it because it worked when nothing else had against the Lakers, who averaged 126 points and shot 58 percent in the series' first two games.
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"We have to try every way we can to find a situation where we can win," Gentry said. "Whatever that takes, that's what it is. If we have to play our 'girlie zone' as somebody said, we'll play our 'girlie zone.'"
Steve Nash's nose and Andrew Bynum's knee were main subjects of discussion on Monday.
Nash has a small nasal fracture from a fourth-quarter collision with Derek Fisher but said he's had "a handful" of broken noses and expected to be fine for Game 4. After all, he played the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals with his right eye swollen shut after taking an elbow from Tim Duncan.
"To me I think he's as tough as they come," Gentry said. "You saw what happened in the game last night, he tried to rearrange his own nose. My wife was in a car accident and broke her nose. It almost made her physically sick to see him grab his nose and just try to rearrange it himself."
Corum watches Bynum got in early foul trouble and had just two points and two rebounds in 7 minutes on Sunday night. After the game, Jackson talked about perhaps having the big center, who has a small meniscus tear in his right knee, sit out the next game. But Jackson said on Monday that Bynum would play.
"I talked to him this morning. He feels like he's OK," the Lakers coach said. "I was worried that he was impinging on his ability to play by concern about his health and status, and he says he's OK."
Bryant said, not surprisingly, that no one on his team was panicking. And just when was the last time Bryant panicked on the basketball court? In high school, maybe?
"Sometimes the ball doesn't go in, man. It's just one of those things. It's just not going in," he said. "It's going to go in tomorrow, though, I'm going to tell you that. They're going to go in tomorrow."
Channing Frye was the last player off the practice court, shooting jumper after jumper. He was miffed about having to answer questions about "something little" like his shooting problems after such a big win.
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PHOENIX -- Reserves Channing Frye and Jared Dudley broke out of their series-long shooting slumps with 20 and 19 points, respectively, and the Phoenix Suns overcame an early 14-point deficit to rout the Portland Trail Blazers 107-88 on Monday night and take a 3-2 lead in their first-round playoff series.
Phoenix can advance to the second round by beating the Blazers in Portland on Thursday night.
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Amare Stoudemire scored 19, and Steve Nash had 14 points and 10 assists for Phoenix.
Andre Miller scored 21, while LaMarcus Aldridge and Jerryd Bayless had 17 apiece for the Trail Blazers.
Phoenix made 27-of-29 free throws to the Trail Blazers' 17 of 24.
Portland All-Star Brandon Roy, in his second game back after undergoing arthoscopic knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus just 10 days ago, drew three fouls in an ineffective 6 minutes in the first half. He finished with five points on 2-of-7 shooting in 19 minutes.
It's either been a Phoenix blowout or a Suns loss in this series. The Suns' three victories have been by 29, 19 and 19 points.
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Frye's 6-foot hook shot put Phoenix ahead 38-36 and the Blazers never caught up. An 8-2 spurt over the final 2:17 gave Phoenix a 54- 47 lead at the half. Frye and Dudley each had a 3-pointer in the run.
The closest the Trail Blazers got in the third quarter was 67-59 after Miller made a free throw with 4:14 to go.
Nash had a quiet scoring night before erupting with nine as Phoenix outscored Portland 17-7 the rest of the third quarter. His two free throws, followed by a 3-pointer, put the Suns up 80-65.
Dudley knocked the ball loose for a turnover that led to Jason Richardson's fast-break dunk that made it 82-65. After Roy's free throw, Dudley scored inside to put Phoenix ahead 84-66 after three - - and this one was over.
Portland outshot the Suns 54 percent to 48 percent in the first half yet still trailed by 10. That's because Phoenix dominated every other facet of the game, making 14-of-15 free throws to the Blazers' 4 of 6 and outrebounding Portland 22-14 -- 10-3 on the offensive boards. The Suns had five offensive rebounds in the second quarter to none for the Trail Blazers.
Phoenix led by as many as 27 in the final quarter. The Suns dominated points in the paint 40-28 and had a 17-6 advantage in fast- break points. Phoenix, the NBA's highest-scoring team in the regular season, had just four fast-break points in each of its two losses in Replica Panerai Swiss Marina Watches the series.
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IT'S not really a game that needs any extra rivalry.
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Franz Beckenbauer yesterday intensified his criticism of the England team, calling them 'stupid' and 'burnt out'.
'The Kaiser', who won the World Cup with Germany as a player and a manager and now works for football's governing body, Fifa, had already slated England for playing 'kick and rush' football in this summer's tournament.
But after hearing that the two sides were to meet in a last-16 knockout tie because England failed to top their group as expected, he continued his assault on Fabio Capello's men, telling German newspaper Bild: 'A game like this should be a semi-final, not a last-16 game. Stupidly, the English have slipped up a little by finishing second in their group.' He added: 'The English look a little tired.
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'Therefore, when it comes to a World Cup or a European Championships, they are burnt out. Our players, on the other hand, seem to be in a physically better condition.' Of how he felt about having to play England earlier than expected in South Africa, he said: 'Of course we respect them, but we certainly don't fear them. England's first two appearances at the World Cup were paltry, but they improved against Slovenia.' In a backhanded compliment apparently designed to pile pressure on to England, he added: 'And after all, England have been waiting since 1966 for a title. Fabio Capello appears to have brought discipline to the troops. After they failed to qualify for Euro 2008, England hit rock bottom.' Beckenbauer's 'mind games' appeared last night to have backfired within the England camp based in Rustenburg.
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Two hundred and thirty-four years ago today, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, rejecting the tyranny of Great Britain and its king. In the spirit of the holiday that celebrates that event, we ask that the United States commit to an expanded declaration of independence.
The nation should:
- Declare its independence from fossil fuels. The giant BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a LED spotlight dramatic example of the price that must be paid for our reliance on oil. Other effects of burning fossil fuels are less visible but insidious. Air pollution is shortening lives and sucking up billions in additional health care costs. Many parts of the nation have been despoiled by the quest for coal. Burning fossil fuels is changing the climate. The founders had to fight to make their declaration meaningful. The fight for energy independence will last far longer than the Revolutionary War, but it's a fight that must be won.
- Declare independence from ignorance. Far too many public schools are failing their students. American students ranked third from the bottom in mathematics when compared to students in the other 29 economically-developed nations, and they were below average in science literacy. This does not bode well for America's ability to compete in the global market place.
- Declare independence from irresponsible debt. Not all debt is bad. It can be wise to borrow to grow, to stimulate an economy that threatens to slide deeper into recession, and to cope with emergencies. But needlessly accruing debt that will have to be paid with interest by future generations is irresponsible.
- Declare independence from the oppression of hunger, poverty and homelessness. In a wealthy nation of great waste there is no excuse for hunger. Homelessness is a far larger problem, one that can only be Best Belt Online ended with federal involvement. And poverty need not always be with us. The solution to poverty is education, opportunity and jobs. Of those, only opportunity is in adequate supply.
- Declare our independence from the tyranny of prejudice that blinds us to possibilities and fosters discrimination and hate. The founders held as self-evident that all men are created equal. Prejudice is the enemy of equality.
- 深圳南山搬家公司 In this campaign season, declare independence from meaningless promises, empty rhetoric, talking points, bluster and jargon. All are an insult to voters and demean discourse and democracy.
- Declare our nation's independence from unrealistic expectations in foreign wars and adventures. May we be as clear about our ability to accomplish our goals as we are about the goals we seek.
- And finally, may New Hampshire's residents, Legislature and politicians, declare their independence from the damnable tax pledge and the obeisance to it that inflicts inequities upon communities and the populace.
Happy Fourth of July.
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More investment in agriculture needed: ADB
MANILA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Philippine-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) is encouraging developing economies in Asia and Pacific to boost their investment in the agriculture sector to address the widespread hunger and cushion billions of people from future spikes in food prices.
Highlighting the urgency of increase funding in the industry, the multilateral lender and its partners on Wednesday said that the developing countries need to double the food production by 2050 in order to feed the growing population.
catalog printing "A production increase of this magnitude will require the developing world alone to invest over 200 billion U.S. dollars per year in agriculture till 2050, of which almost 120 billion U.S. dollars would have to be invested in the Asia-Pacific region alone, " Director-General Dr. Jacques Diouf of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said at the two-day Investment Forum for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific.
Raising agricultural productivity can be done by improving crop management, expanding the use of modern varieties, strengthening rural infrastructure and improving post-harvest technologies, Best Burberry Shoes Online Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), meanwhile said.
Adequate funding for research and development must also be provided, he added.
"Achieving food security at regional, national and household levels has long been a struggle for the region, even during the best of economic times," ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said in his speech.
"A sustainable and balanced rebound in Asia, coupled with the hard lessons we learned during the 2008 food crisis, presents us with a golden opportunity to harness our collective resources in order to achieve food security."
Currently, the Asia and Pacific region is home to the largest number of poor, and is one of the most vulnerable regions against the impacts of climate change and 深圳南山搬家公司 economic shocks, ADB said.
"The region is also the largest supplier and consumer of food. It is home to a dynamic food and agriculture industry that is providing an increasing range of affordable food products. Thus, what the region does for its food security will resonate around the world."
The first regional forum on food security aims to identify barriers to achieving food security and explore a range of opportunities to overcome them and to showcase Asia and the Pacific as an attractive region for increased public and private sector investments on food security related initiatives.
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The Angolan oil minister highlighted the fact that the news arrived at a very special moment for Angola, just after the holding of the parliamentary election on September 5, the first since the 27- year civil war ended in the southwestern African country in 2002.
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IT is time for the American government and people to take stock of the situation in Afghanistan.
We need to consider, with an unflinchingly critical perspective, the present geo-political situation in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), especially in context of the inauspicious milestone reached in the conflict: the dismissal by President Obama of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the architect of the current war strategy in Afghanistan.
Essentially, America finds itself in a quagmire from which we cannot extricate ourselves in the near future with any real efficacy or speed, leaving meaningful gains in our wake.
Indeed, the Af-Pak situation seems to be rapidly deteriorating, rather than improving.
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Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of Pakistan, has, among other things, shown himself only marginally willing to confront the extremist threat that issues from his country, both into Afghanistan, and recently as far as Times Square, given the attempted bombing by Faisal Shahzad, who was trained in Pakistan.
Zardari has consistently proved unwilling to engage in any sustained, meaningful offensive against Tehreek-e-Talibani (the Pakistani Taliban) or the extensive Al-Qaeda network, which is thought by the western intelligence community to have taken sanctuary in Waziristan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border with Afghanistan.
Indeed, for all intents and purposes, the Af-Pak border is a fiction. Insurgents consistently launch cross-border attacks on NATO and allied forces in Afghanistan with near impunity and have, on several occasions, been observed being aided and abetted by the Pakistani military, which in one instance, fired on American troops from across the border.
What makes the securing of the Af-Pak border a potentially insurmountable problem is that the Af-Pak border region is host to some of the most mountainous and rugged terrain in the world, completely inaccessible to conventional military forces.
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The situation in Afghanistan is, if anything, much worse. Large swaths of the country lack even the most basic infrastructure.
The country's leader, Hamid Karzai, is at best a weak, ineffectual leader and at worst, completely unstable, having several months ago repeatedly threatened to ally himself with the Taliban if the U.S. did not ease its pressure on him concerning the virtually ubiquitous corruption that plagues his government. His own brother is a notoriously corrupt druglord.
Government control and services beyond Kabul are essentially non- existent. Karzai is derisively known among the populace, as "The Mayor of Kabul," and NATO forces are battling a resurgent Taliban that has shown itself to be technologically and tactically resilient and adaptive.
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ONE in every 14 jobs in the city could be lost as unemployment in Plymouth doubles, a leading economist has warned. Dr Steven Brand told The Herald the city's economy faces a "dangerous downward spiral" as it prepares for deep public sector spending cuts. Up to 8,000 redundancies will be made in the city over the next five years, he said, leaving more than seven per cent of people out of work.
That would see the city's economy take a hit LED light bulbs of around Pounds 280million. The council's development chief reacted to the grim assessment by insisting Plymouth was well placed to ride out the economic storm -- though trade union bosses have also expressed fears over looming joblessness. Dr Brand, associate professor of economics at The University of Plymouth, was speaking following last week's emergency Budget, in which Chancellor George Osborne announced the coalition Government would be slashing 25 per cent from the budgets of unprotected departments. Dr Brand now says his previous prediction of around 5,000 jobs vanishing -- which he had based on 15 per cent reductions -- was likely to be "optimistic". He said: "At the time, relatively little was known about the precise size of the hole in the public accounts and less still was known about how it was going to be tackled. "However, the announcement in the emergency Budget was both surprising and alarming. Around 8,000 full-time equivalent jobs in both the public and private sector could be affected over the next four to five years. "To put that into context, that is about one job in every 14 in the Plymouth economy or 7.3 per cent -- something that would see unemployment double in the city." Dr Brand said the private sector would be key in steering the country away from a dreaded 'double-dip' recession, calling for "maximum Government support" over the coming years. "Without it, unemployment in the city will rise steeply in the coming years and the absolute size of the economy may begin to shrink," he said. "That can set an economy off on a very dangerous downward spiral." Unison regional secretary Ian Ducat said the union's members Best Supra Shoes Online had major concerns about exactly where the Government's axe would fall. Mr Ducat said: "I think that people were pretty sanguine at first when they heard what the Government had in mind -- but now I think it's beginning to seep in just how serious it is. "People are really fearful. They are shellshocked, because they know public and private employers are planning wholesale cuts." Research released yesterday suggested graduate unemployment is on the verge of rising to record levels. The Higher Education Careers Service Unit fears the number of unemployed graduates will double if 25 per cent is shaved from the sector's spending. But Plymouth City Council's Cab- inet member for planning and economic development, Councillor Ted Fry, said there was still reason for optimism. It is understood planning officers have held talks with a second major developer considering a multi-million- pound investment in the city -- although no further details 深圳宝安搬家公司 are being made public at this time. Cllr Fry said: "This is a challenging climate but, that being said, the city is actually really buzzing. "It will be particularly difficult for the academic institutions, local Government and other public services -- but we have the personnel here and the political will. "There is ambition in Plymouth."
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Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson looks at the ETS.
New Zealand has just embarked on the second phase of the Emissions Trading Scheme. The ETS is supposedly a market mechanism. It may drive efficiencies by pricing the sources of greenhouse- changing gases in such a way that industry will have no choice but to improve.
It's a nice argument and sounds convincing, except the ETS is a controlled market. It's heavily regulated and totally depends on the forced participation of every New Zealander. Having travelled extensively around New Zealand, I've asked restaurant staff, hotel cleaners and those usual fonts of knowledge, taxi drivers, what they know about the ETS. The response has largely been a blank face.
Anyone who uses electricity or land transport fuels, which is everybody, will pay more in order to cover the cost of emissions units needed to meet the greenhouse gas emissions produced. Estimated retail electricity prices will soon rise by 5 per cent and it will add some 4 cents full lace wigs a litre to the cost of petrol and diesel.
If people are confused why farmers have been so grumpy, given biological emissions don't kick in until 2015, it's because we are users of electricity and fuels too. According to work done for the Minister of Agriculture, New Zealand's farmers face $92m in added costs from yesterday.
The 2010 Budget reserved $1.06b of taxpayer dollars for the allocation of emission units. The ETS doesn't come cheap. Yet trying to get a straight answer is, well, trying. On the morning of Budget 2010, in May, the office of the Minister of Climate Change dismissed out of hand Federated Farmers' estimate the ETS will cost society $527m. Instead, an unnamed official put up $350m as a cast-iron sum. When asked for a detailed breakdown by the Dominion Post, the Minister's office went to ground - where it remains today.
A few hours later, in the 2010 Budget itself, the ETS' cost went from this "cast iron" $350m to $378m. While they say a week is a long time in politics, the public deserves to see how these sums have been calculated.
We now see Government MPs running a sales and marketing drive, telling their constituents and the media, that the cost per household is a palatable sounding $3 a abercrombie fitch week. This is also where it becomes a bit like Yes Minister.
Using $3 a week over New Zealand's 1.7 million households, you end up with the ETS costing households $265 million. Is the Government truly saying the total combined fuel and electricity bill for New Zealand's 477,000 businesses is only between $85m and $113m per annum, dependent on whether you use figures put out by the office of the Minister of Climate Change or the Minister of Finance?
Farmers are understandably displeased to find they're shouldering 26 per cent of the ETS' year one burden, or virtually the entire business component. When you produce 64 per cent of New Zealand's export earnings, that's golden goose territory. More so as out of all the major income earning sectors in the economy, agriculture has done the best job at controlling its emissions. You don't hear that said much.
Rural MPs are using the smallest denominator to lessen the ETS' apparent impact. Six cents per kilogram may not sound like much, but when you are a sheep farmer making a profit of just over $9 a lamb, that adds up to $1.08 on a 18kg animal. The ETS wipes out 12 per cent of your profit - to achieve what exactly?
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ONLY a week after Taiwan signed the equivalent of a free trade agreement with China, the impact is already being felt across the region.
A Taiwan official said 22 members of the World Trade Organisation have asked Taiwan for briefings on the agreement, formally known as the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, or Ecfa.
Ironically, while Taiwan sought the accord in an attempt to avoid being isolated, other economic heavyweights, such as Japan and South Korea, are now wary that the island may have stolen a march on them in terms of exports to the mainland.
The Asahi Shimbun, for example, wrote on July 1, the day after the pact was signed, that it "could reshape the trade environment in Asia, forcing Japan to shift its strategy in trade talks while prompting companies to form new ties".
The South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted a report by the Korea International Trade Association calling for Seoul to sign a free trade pact with China quickly to offset the "significant damage" to South Korean exports to China.
According to Asahi, of the 20 biggest South Korean exports to China, 14, including liquid crystal displays, semiconductors and petrochemical products, compete against Taiwanese products. And these 14 account for 60 per cent of all South Korean exports to China.
A free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian replica tag heuer watches Nations came into effect in January, excluding Taiwan. Meanwhile, China, Japan and South Korea have been seeking greater economic integration
There was a fear that the island could become increasingly sidelined as all its major trading partners sign FTAs with one another.
By signing Ecfa, Taiwan at one stroke cemented its trade relationship with China and also put itself in a position to negotiate similar agreements with its other trading partners.
President Ma Ying-jeou, while acknowledging that the government could not "guarantee that many FTAs will be signed immediately", declared that Taiwan now "will stand a better chance".
And, judging from the media reaction, he is likely to be right. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, for example, urged Japan to follow China's example and negotiate a free trade agreement with Taiwan, even though it acknowledged A Lange & Sohne Watch that the Chinese hoped to use Ecfa as a stepping stone towards a political agreement with Taiwan.
While Beijing has made public its opposition to governmental agreements between Taiwan and other countries, Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office under the Chinese State Council, said the day the Ecfa agreement was signed that the Chinese government would "reasonably, practically and adequately" deal with Taiwan's efforts to forge FTAs with other countries.
This has been interpreted in Taiwan as a promise not to obstruct Taiwan's efforts to forge trade agreements with other countries, as long as they are presented as nongovernmental accords.
Thus, the way now seems clear for Taiwan to both strengthen its trade with the mainland, its most important economic partner, and also to formalise agreements with its other major trading partners.
The accord marks a major step forward for Taiwan as it successfully overcomes political barriers previously imposed by China, which sought to isolate Taiwan internationally.
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Plans to build a brand new academy in Sevenoaks are now in jeopardy.
The new Knole Academy, which opens in September on two temporary sites, was set to have a Pounds 25m purpose-built home at the Wildernesse School in 2013.
But on Monday the Government announced it was halting school building projects across Kent and placing eight planned buildings for academies "under discussion", including the Knole Academy.
The new academy, which will open after the Wildernesse and Bradbourne schools close at the end of this month, has been hailed as a new era of state-funded co-educational teaching in the town.
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Bradbourne parent Karen Fuller said: "I did wonder if this would happen.
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Bradbourne parent Rose Marsaud, of Bull Lane, Wrotham, said: "I think it is a shame after they put so much effort into it and worked so hard with parents who were worried about losing their single-sex school."
Kent County Council leader Paul Carter said: "I have been surprised and disappointed by the scale of the announcement.
"I am enormously disappointed for these schools, teachers, pupils and parents which will not see new schools built."
Decisions on the schools will be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Philip Booth, of Knole Academy's project managing firm Appleyards, said there is reason to be hopeful.
He said: "The Department of Education said to carry on planning the new building but at some point in the future there will be a review on whether the building will go ahead in its currently form, so it's business as usual.
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Education secretary Michael Gove said he would look "sympathetically" on academies where there is a merger of schools and the use of existing buildings would cause educational problems, and where there is any other pressing need for building work to go ahead.
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AT LEAST 15 people were injured yesterday when fans tried to push their way into a Johannesburg stadium to watch a pre-World Cup match between Nigeria and North Korea.
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MAPLE HEIGHTS -- Odds are that the majority of state wrestling qualifiers from the Div. III Maple Heights District will wind up on the podium in Columbus.
In fact, Saturday's district finals looked like a mini state tournament, with match after match featuring top-five ranked grapplers squaring off.
The loaded district that included Bedford Chanel (No. 3 ranking, first, 210 points), CVCA (No. 2, second, 152.5 points), Cuyahoga Heights (No. 5, seventh, 64), Waynedale (No. 8, fifth, 73), and countless other schools with good wrestling traditions ranging from Lake County down to Wayne County, proved to be the meatgrinder people expected.
"I think if you take the top three qualifiers at each weight from here they'd be almost as good as the top three from Div. I Mentor or Div. II Firestone," said veteran official John Kiel. "Or just as good in some weights."
Only the cream of the area crop survived. Forty-six local qualifiers were reduced to 15 who turned in top-four finishes to earn tickets to the 73rd annual State Wrestling Championships to be held this Thursday through Saturday.
District titles won by top-ranked locals Dennis Raber (160) of Orrville and Kurtis Schaefer (189) of Northwestern highlighted the finals. Also winning championship were Tuslaw's Zack Nelson (119) and Chippewa's Justin Schafrath (215).
There was not a Beam vs. Schaefer III at the district after Kirtland's third-ranked Royal Bettrager pinned the second-ranked Golden Bear and eventual third-place finisher in the semifinals.
However, Schaefer finally gave Wayne County Balenciaga Replica Handbags a win against Bettrager as he won an exciting 8-7 finals match, helped by a five- point move in the first period. Schaefer got defensive and had to hang on in the third, though, and the Kirtland coaching staff argued unsuccessfully for a stalling call to send it to overtime.
All that mattered in the end was that Schaefer (46-3) had a repeat district title and handed Bettrager (39-1) his first loss. Even bigger, some were speculating that Schaefer's title will put him in the opposite half-bracket at state from Bettrager, Beam and Clinton Massie's Corby Running (ranked No. 2 at 215, but now at 189).
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The top-ranked wrestlers have developed a good camaraderie and Bettrager was quick to come over and talk to Schaefer after the match.
"I love it, there's nothing better," said Bettrager, of a rivalry that will move on to state.
Raber (38-2) avenged a 7-5 overtime loss to Hall (47-2) in the Northwestern Sectional final last week , where the Chipp was helped by two controversial penalty points.
There was little doubt in the outcome this time. Raber took a 3- 0 lead after a second-period takedown and put the match away with a four-point move after countering a deep shot attempt late in the third, winning 7-0.
"It feels quite a bit better than last week," Raber said. "I just kept what happened in the back of my head all week. It drove me."
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Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday rejected Israel's call for direct peace talks but said he was prepared to resume indirect negotiations mediated by Turkey.
Assad was in Paris two days after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the city and said he was ready to meet the Syrian president anywhere, at any moment, but without preconditions.
But Assad said that face-to-face talks with Netanyahu would not be fruitful.
"What would we talk about, the menu or the return of land?" Assad asked reporters in Paris after he met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"Me, I say we would talk about returning land, and for this subject there is a framework," mechanisms and specialized negotiators to handle this, he said.
"It is neither me nor Mr. Netanyahu," Assad said. "If Mr. Netanyahu is serious, he can send his teams of experts, we will send our teams of experts to Turkey. They can then talk, if they are really interested in peace."
Israel had no official response to Assad's words.
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Turkey mediated four rounds of indirect talks with Israel under prime minister Ehud Olmert. Those efforts were halted when the IDF began Operation Cast Lead at the end of December and were never resumed.
But the Turkish-Israeli relationship has recently become strained, leading to speculation that France could mediate any new talks.
In an Coach Tote Bag Bags interview recorded on Friday afternoon and broadcast on France 2 television on Friday evening, Assad said France could play an important role in getting talks started.
France "should support the role of the Turkish mediator and persuade Israel to return to the negotiating table with the Turkish mediator," he said.
French-Turkish relations however, have also deteriorated, because Sarkozy is a firm and vocal opponent of EU membership for Turkey. It is not clear whether Paris could have much influence with Ankara.
Assad reiterated his complaint that Israel is not fully committed to talks mediated by Turkey. He said the mediator and Syria are ready, but "what is missing is an Israeli partner ready to move forward and ready to reach a result."
Alon Liel, a former Foreign Ministry director-general who has been involved in Syria talks, said he was encouraged by Assad's words.
"This is the first week since the collapse of the [indirect] talks that we see some positive meaningful noises in the direction of resuming talks with Syria," said Liel.
Assad's statement about a group of Israeli experts meeting a group of Syrian ones is significant, in that it is an attempt to pave the way for the start of indirect talks.
"It is an invitation for an Israeli group to come to Turkey," said Liel.
Tensions between Israel and Turkey would make it hard for the Turks to play the same role that they did under Olmert, he said, but, he added, Netanyahu had said Israel would meet the Syrians anywhere. Presumably that would include Turkey, Liel said.
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KANPUR: A 65-year-old man allegedly committed suicide at the house of a widow he was in a relationship, in Vinayakpur locality under the Kalyanpur police station limits here on late Sunday night.
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Rani, who is presently in police custody for questioning, told police that she was downstairs in the house when Shukla arrived. She said she saw him, who lived in Pargahi village in Mandhana area, going upstairs and sometime later, he ended his life by hanging himself with the ceiling of the room.
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HOLIDAY chalets and a hotel have been forced to shut because of a lack of water on Mull, it emerged yesterday.
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Charles Pease, owner of Kinloch Hotel, Pennyghael, has closed it to guests but kept the bar open. He said: "People are anxious."
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Bruce spent 10 years with Matrox Electronic Systems, a leading vendor of graphics and imaging hardware for OEM companies' worldwide. Starting in the Applications Engineering group, Bruce was steadily promoted to General Sales Manager, where he was responsible for annual revenue generation of $500M through a direct sales force, international sales offices, and a global network of agents and distribution channels.
He spent 13 years as founder and president of JCMB Technology Inc, a software development firm serving the needs of the Electric Utility industry, where he oversaw product development and sales for the company as it grew to become a leader in its field with over 200 employees.
"An experienced and talented sales team is a key factor in the growth of any company, and Bruce is a fantastic choice to build and lead that team. I'm very happy and excited to have him on the team," concluded Romanica.
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ISee3D Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ICT) owns certain patented technology which provides for the capture of stereoscopic (3D) images through a single lens. The Company's technology has broad applications in a variety of markets including the home entertainment industry, and consumer electronics, as well as industrial and imaging devices of all types including microscopes, endoscopes as well as more sophisticated medical imaging systems.
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