Party heat soars way out west
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- Party heat soars way out west
- Europe tries Russian roulette
- ‘Surgery is not the answer’
- Biodiesel plant planned for Butler: Proposal includes filling station…
- OAP gets ASBO after fellow pensioner laid a trap to catch the…
Party heat soars way out west
Jamaica Observer – Dec 21, 2006
A unique feature, in the form of a talent competition, provided fantastic live home-grown entertainment for the attendees as the various departments showcased their finalists to the cheers and whistles of team members. Taking the first-place cash prize of $10,000, and a weekend for two at Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort was Oryan Watson of the landscaping department, who performed a clearly well-rehearsed and technically accurate dance item. Nicholas Esson, of the dining room, claimed second place with his clever deejay lyrics. Theresa Baston from the Spa was awarded third place for her musical presentation. Providing backing support for contestants and otherwise making a positive impression with their live set was the Legal Vibrations band, with lead singer Andrew Hanson.
Europe tries Russian roulette
The Age – Dec 21, 2006
Shumakov sees big potential in further cinematic co-productions ofthis size with his European neighbours. He envisages Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as a possibleco-production candidate. And he says there is promise inDostoevsky’s The Possessed but acknowledges its subject ofhome-grown terrorism, even in 19th-century Russia, may put off someTV network programmers around the continent. In a spirit of co-operation, Shumakov says the Russians arewilling to make creative concessions as they did with War andPeace, opting, for example, to set the film in one city, StPetersburg, not St Petersburg and Moscow, as Tolstoy conceived, andcondensing the original narrative’s 10-year plot into four. Shumakov, through his translator, speaks with the trademarkanything-is-possible confidence of a TV network head. His partners- financing the production – use more pragmatic language. TV isbusiness, they say, a business that does not necessarily rewardrisk-takers.
‘Surgery is not the answer’
Telegraph.co.uk – Dec 21, 2006
Touring the laboratories and lecture rooms at the new Thrombosis Research Institute, there is a sense of excitement about what lies ahead. The facilities are state of the art and the corridors are full of young Indian doctors, eager to make a mark in their own country, rather than move to Britain or America as is the tradition. Investment in high-profile research projects such as this is crucial in keeping and developing home-grown talent – not least because India is becoming an epicentre for heart disease. According to the World Health Organisation, heart disease and stroke kill more than 13 million people a year worldwide, 2. 7 million of them in India. It is feared those numbers could double in the next decade. In Britain, cardiovascular disease accounts for more than 200,000 deaths a year; around one in five men and one in six women will die from it.
Biodiesel plant planned for Butler: Proposal includes filling station…
Free with registration – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 21, 2006
21–Plans have been announced for the Milwaukee area’s first biodiesel refinery as interest heats up for renewable energy. The refinery, planned for the Village of Butler,.
OAP gets ASBO after fellow pensioner laid a trap to catch the…
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 21, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From Western Daily Press) It seemed like a plot lifted from Wallace and Gromit film The Curse of the WereRabbit, when prize vegetables grown in allotments started going missing from the ground. Just like in the award-winning film by Bristol’s Aardman Animations, someone – or something – had been turning up at an allotment in South Gloucestershire under cover of the night and stealing bagfulls of other people’s home-grown veg.