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Don't sit there waiting for another empty promis from Buzz and Dalton about re-opening some doomed factory for a few more years. Go get a new job in a new industry. You are responsible for you. Posted 29/01/08 at 1:25 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
One-shoulders rule as Cotillard looks stunning
Was this a Valentino tribute? I can't remember ever seeing this many red dresses at the Academy Awards. The influence of the great couturier, who retired this year after 45 years, was front and center Sunday night. Ironically, there didn't seem to be very many Valentino dresses in the crowd, but never mind. Everyone wore the color well, from 83-year-old Ruby Dee's understated square bodice sheath and matching jacket to Heidi Klum's souped-up Galliano gown with an unusual high ruffled collar and long train. Anne Hathaway's scarlet one-shoulder chiffon Marchesa gown with a swirling cascade of roses from the shoulder carried some high wattage. Presenter Katherine Heigl shone in a one-shoulder red gown with a keyhole cutout at the shoulder, and a fun, bouncy Marilyn Monroe 'do.
Data on PolyMedix Antimicrobial Polymers Presented at American Society ...
PYMX), an emerging biotech company developing acute care products for infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, announced that Dr. Byron Brehm-Stecher presented data yesterday at the "American Society of Microbiology 6th Annual Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting" in Baltimore relating to PolyMedix's proprietary antimicrobial compounds. Dr. Byron Brehm-Stecher of Iowa State University, whose work is supported in part by a grant from PolyMedix, presented a poster presentation relating to the activity of some of PolyMedix's antimicrobial polymer compounds against certain biowarfare pathogens, including S. typhimurium, L. onocytogenes, Y. enterocolitica and E. coli O157:H7, and the enhancement of the activity of the polymers by agents called sesquiterpenoids.
Poll puts Zapatero ahead (but don't tell the Spanish)
In private though, Socialist Party officials worry that the high rate of immigration in the past few years could cost it votes on Sunday. Spain’s once-dwindling population has jumped from 40 million to 45 million since 2000, boosting the economy but creating tensions in working-class, urban areas, where many immigrants have settled. The economy is another source of worry for strategists. Unemployment figures showed that 53,000 Spaniards lost their jobs in February, taking the unemployment rate to 8.6 per cent. The manufacturing sector is also at its weakest in more than six years. Mr Zapatero swept to power unexpectedly four years ago on a wave of public anger over the previous Government’s handling of the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800.
Unseen writings show anti-racist passions of young Arthur Miller
Professor Bigsby, whose latest novel, One Hundred Days: One Hundred Nights, was published last week, does not believe that the author would have objected to the short stories being published. However, he said: "The novel where he was working through his own life and his first marriage, and where the characters are extremely recognisable, he wouldn’t have put that out there." News of the discovery came as Miller’s first play on Broadway, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Life imitates art — Miller’s father, Isidore, a shopkeer and manufacturer of women’s wear, lost all his money in the stock market crash of 1929 — Miller relied on odd jobs to pay for his studies, including being a radio singer, truck driver and warehouse clerk — Miller had to tour army camps to get ideas for his screenplay for The Story of GI Joe (1945) — he had avoided being drafted because of a football injury Source: National Endowment for the Humanities; University of Michigan) .
Colombian president says cross-border raid was justified because ...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's defense of his actions came during a three-hour session with news media representatives Wednesday night but his office did not authorize release of his comments until Thursday.The conservative leader expressed frustration at what he called inaction by Ecuador's leftist government over Colombian guerrilla camps in its territory."What does one do when bandits are shooting from the other side and the government doesn't do anything?" Uribe asked. "It's my job to defend 43 million Colombians."Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has said his troops have raided dozens of rebel camps, but Colombian officials say the guerrillas are always tipped off so they can escape. Uribe said he didn't notify Correa of Saturday's attack because "I was sure that the operation would have failed."Uribe said the raid was the sixth since his 2002 election that was aimed at Raul Reyes, a top leader in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Helix girls deal Cards 61-41 defeat
With five Grizzlies scoring in double figures, Helix coasts to a 61-41 Big Sky victory in Ione Friday.
IONE — Helix had five players in double figures as the Grizzlies defeated Ione 61-41 in Big Sky Conference Eastern Division girls basketball action here Friday.
"It was not one of our best efforts," Helix coach Randy McKone said. "But we had five in double digits. We spread it around."The Grizzlies blew this one open with a 25-5 third-period run and coasted home to improve to 12-3 in conference and 16-7 overall.Kylee Rogers led the Grizzly quintet of double-digit scorers with 14. Cheyenne Hack added 13.Brittney Smith scored 11, grabbed eight rebounds, and handed out six assists for Helix.Addie Terjeson and Crystal McMurray tallied 10 each for the Grizzlies.The Grizzlies moved out to a narrow 19-15 lead after one quarter and led 27-21 at halftime before finally blowing the game open.
Coaches discuss fairness of tournament site
New year, same debate.With the Mountain West Conference Basketball Championships looming, Monday's teleconference involving the league's coaches was dominated by the near-annual debate about the fairness of UNLV hosting the conference tournament.The exact answers varied, but -- especially with five new coaches on the scene -- all pointed towards further discussion in the offseason about finding a better plan."Unfortunately, until things change, the automatic (NCAA Tournament) qualifier is the conference tournament winner," New Mexico coach Steve Alford said. "And that's why I think it's very, very important for our league to really look closely at what we're doing with our league tournament, because having it at a host school, there's not any kind of balance or anything fair to that for the other eight teams in the league."Alford, in his first year at the helm for the Lobos, has been the most vocal about the situation and has made his comments public and very clear from Day One.He coached in the Big Ten at Iowa for the last eight seasons, where the conference tournament alternates between Chicago and Indianapolis, Ind.
A trip through an AIDS-ravaged African village, in Lodi
The gymnasium at Lodi's First Baptist Church has been transformed into four African villages where families are stricken with AIDS.The exhibit, organized by the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision, brings people into an African village and tells the story of a child through his or her own words."It was very moving," Kiley Bliss, of Lodi, said after walking through the exhibit on Thursday's opening day. "It gets you out of your own little world."The exhibit, called "Step into Africa," continues through Monday. The community is invited.The gym consists of about 3,000 square feet of wooden walls and straw roofs depicting the environment of a remote African village, including a poverty-stricken family's house.The consistent message in the exhibit is that many African families not only live in poverty, but many of them get AIDS through unprotected sex, rape or by other means.In the small southern African country of Lesotho, for example, 56,000 children have lost both their parents to AIDS, according to World Vision."It was pretty intense," said John Alvarez, of Woodbridge, a volunteer from First Baptist.
Automated Parking Garage Solutions Hold Key To Urban Development
Today's leading urban planners and downtown developers are rethinking their allegiance to single-use zoning practices and focusing on building communities in order to create neighborhoods in which people can live, socialize, shop, and perhaps even work - all within a comfortable walking distance. While large suburban yards were recently the sought-after American ideal, today, high gas and petrol prices make living close to friends, neighbors, social activities, and public transportation more attractive than suburban scrawl. High-density living naturally reduces household gasoline usage without crimping personal freedom or creating feelings of undue sacrifice. The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is a multidisciplinary organization in which urban planners, real estate developers, architects, builders, suppliers and others work together to solve land use problems with a heavy emphasis toward mixed use developments.
Dial "P" for "Pander"
3:35 A.M.--The Trouble with Dials: Despite lots of dismissive punditry--It's a cliche! Badly executed! And look at Obama's swift response!--Hillary's "3 AM" ad appears to have worked. Intriguingly, the ad also worked despite performing poorly in the MediaCurves.com sample of 554 Democrats hooked up to reaction meters (on which they registered their agreement or disagreement). Which seems to demonstrate a problem I've always had with Frank Luntz-style "dial" groups: The meters measure the voter's visceral reaction to whatever the candidate is saying. If the voter hates abortion, and Candidate A attacks abortion, the meter goes up. If the voter is pro-choice, the meter goes down. What the meter doesn't capture is actual rumination--even fleeting doubts or flashes of confidence.
Brooks Global-Lok Sets a New Quality Standard in Security Seals
LIVINGSTON, N.J., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past two years, E.J. Brooks has been conducting market research as part of its new product development initiative to further improve the performance and feature levels of mechanical cable seals that are used in cross border and intermodal use around the world. Being the only security seal manufacturer that is a validated member of C-TPAT as well as a strong believer in independent testing by a third party ISO 17712 accredited lab, global compliancy is Brooks number one objective. However, the logistics community raised other issues that were considered in product design and we are now announcing a breakthrough in mechanical cross border security seal protection. E.J. Brooks is proud to announce the introduction of the Global-Lok, a high security cable seal that is not only ISO 17712 compliant, but exceeds the ISO 17712 required minimum tensile strength level by 82% with over 4,000 lbs of pressure necessary to pull it apart.
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