Cedar Falls, Iowa, hosts homegrown comedy show.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa, hosts homegrown comedy show.
Free with registration – Waterloo Courier – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 22, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Waterloo Courier Byline: Kelsey Holm May 22–CEDAR FALLS — Iowa comedians are like fingerprints and snowflakes — no two are exactly alike. Proof of this philosophy will take the stage Saturday during Jokers’ second annual Home Grown Comedy Show. The bill features three corn state comics — Zac Barclay, Mike Holmes and Jay Rhymer — with very different styles. “(Holmes) is a really smart comic. He’s very intelligent, and he can work clean. He’s just such a nice guy, and it comes across on stage,” said.
Atoms split, Tarapur twin reaches nuclear milestone
Calcutta Telegraph – May 22, 2006
Its identical twin ? Unit 4 ? began to burn nuclear fuel last year. The two 540-mw reactors are India’s largest so far, a technology milestone towards even bigger energy-generating behemoths. Top nuclear officials said the twin home-grown reactors are also among the world’s least expensive nuclear power plants. “This is a great moment. It was copybook criticality,” said Anil Kakodkar, the chairman of the atomic energy commission, who was in a control room watching the reactor’s steady move towards “criticality” ? the first sustained chain reaction in which neutrons from split uranium atoms split more atoms. “We’re on a path where the slope of growth in nuclear power is getting steeper and faster,” Kakodkar said. Except for Tarapur’s Unit 3 and 4, all existing indigenous nuclear reactors deliver about 220 mw.
Review backs efforts to limit foreign players
Ireland Online – May 22, 2006
The findings of the Independent European Football Review, which was instigated by sports minister Richard Caborn, will be presented to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and EC president Jose Manuel Barroso tomorrow. It is understood the review will strengthen the football authorities and recommend reducing the power of the clubs. The report will also urge a better distribution of money in the game, wage controls in leagues and a wider adoption of UEFA’s club licensing system which requires clubs to field a minimum number of home-grown players in European competitions. In terms of player wages, the report is expected to recommend leagues adopt a system where clubs can only pay a set percentage of their overall revenue in wages