Should the weather turn out sunny, I’ll be embarrassing my daughter by being down the park with her wearing that hat of mine which, to me, is just a garment for stopping my pate turning red but to her has the potential for demolishing her cred with any friend of hers we see “I need the hat,” I’ll protest, though she won’t hear me. But, like, Dad? Like, hello? Like, that double-breasted jacket? Like, that… True, the younger princes weren’t exactly ?a mode, their open-shirt collars folded stiffly over the necks of hearty sweaters, as if policing the boundaries of the casual. Now, he’s someone we can all relate to – he’s come out as an Embarrassing Dad (ED).
It was a model ED performance. Displaying tastes in music that make your offspring think you’re sad is one of the classic ingredients Another is your choice of clothes. For years, Charles has been the overgrown boy prince everyone thought was weird. They acknowledge a radical split between a public rhetoric that speaks of the “loyal sporting spirit” and a reality in which people always exercise all the power they have in order to get what they want.
Indeed, Moggi’s defence could be traced back as far as the 15th-century statesman Lorenzo il Magnifico’s famous remark that in Florence “things go badly for a rich man if he doesn’t run the state”.What is at once so exhilarating and so distressing about Italy is the way, at the level of collective psychology, nothing ever changes. I will continue to watch Hellas Verona.Tim Parks’s latest novel, ‘Cleaver’, is set in South Tyrol. It was the Leonard Cohen bit that did it. There were William and Harry, all ready to “fess up” – as the young people say, I hear – to Ant and Dec about their favourite rap acts when – doh! – Dad blunders in to tell all about the famously morose Canadian singer-songwriter, a “chap” he thinks is “terrific”, and asks his sons if they have heard of him Strangely enough, they haven’t. It is a credible explanation in a country where people do not believe that power is ever exercised in a disinterested fashion.
Who would go and tell any authority what they know about a man such as Moggi unless they see that he has been absolutely discredited and destroyed? But so long as nobody believes that their individual testimony can prevail against people with power, it is the only effective way to conduct inquiries.Moggi claims he did what he did in order not to become the victim of others exercising a similar power. But it is clear that only by destroying the enchantment, as it were, of corrupt power through the press can the police hope to get honest testimony from people. Sergio Romano complained bitterly about this form of media justice in an article on the front page of Corriere della Sera. Since no one will speak to them honestly, they are obliged to spend interminable hours finding out who is using what phone and listening to conversations, many of which must be of no relevance at all.Many have complained about the way the scandal then broke, like all Italian scandals, with a sudden, massive and, for those involved, devastating release of information to the press.
Certainly the sports journalists understood, but they said nothing – no doubt they feared for their own positions.Perhaps a foreigner speaks out The coach Zdenek Zeman speaks out He is admired in public and sniggered at in private He has ruined his career The police collect evidence. A situation of almost evident corruption is allowed to continue for years. It was quite evident to anybody who followed football carefully that there was something very wrong with the refereeing Nothing was said. Routinely situations develop where everybody senses or perhaps even knows that the official version of events is the merest rhetoric, that the rules are regularly ignored. Nobody speaks out because nobody believes that doing so will alter the situation. Rather, they fear they themselves will be punished.This state of mind explains the distinctive pattern of Italian scandals. Doubtless Collina (pictured) was aware that celebrity status had given him a freedom not enjoyed by his colleagues.
The singer faces a tax bill for 10,472,630 francs ( pounds 1.29m), arising from two concerts in 1987 for which she allegedly failed to declare earnings.. If this means an exchange kept competitive by repeated devaluation as and when needed, this is a recipe for continuing economic mismanagement and instability, of which we have had more than our fair share. GOVERNMENT departments that stick to tried-and-tested solutions to their computing problems are suppressing innovation and increasing the risk of inefficiency, according to Charles Cox, the public sector director of Hoskyns, one of Britain’s largest computer services companies. There were no exaggerated effects and he never once stole the orchestra’s rightful thunder. I thought the restaurant staff might not be too keen on my daughter’s Doc Martens but they were as sweet as pie and said they ‘liked to see teenagers’ Liked to see teenagers? What an extraordinary notion. IF THE Chinese had a Year of the Vegetable (they have a Year of the Pig and a Year of the Chicken), this would surely be it.
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James) Rooney’s problem is that he did precious little. Wilkins’ flag- kick was cleared by Lee Sharpe only to David Bardsley, who paused for thought before delivering the requisite cross towards Les Ferdinand. DAVID HOWELL, the former Tory minister, and John Gale resigned as non-executive directors of Queens Moat Houses yesterday after a week of criticism of their role in the company’s downfall. As far as I was concerned, he looked like some sort of eccentric freak. In a distinguished career he won four Oscars, 20 Grammys and two Emmys, made over 50 albums and had over 500 works published. Ford also offers diesel-engined derivatives of all its models except the Granada, but it seems to be losing ground in this sector as its nnarket share has dropped from 27.5 per cent in 1988 to just 14.3 per cent in the first six months of 1992.Britain’s two newest motor manufacturers – Nissan and Toyota – have also introduced diesel variants at an early stage. EVERYBODY has been having a bad time recently in the British car market, but Alfa Romeo has suffered more than most.
Near its southern end, the canal pases through the Hawr al-Hammar marsh.According to Raad Nadhum Muhammad, the Chief Engineer, 2 million cubic metres (6 million cubic feet) of earth had to be removed to cut the last five- kilometre (three-mile) section and five road bridges and one railway bridge had to be built over it.The Organisation for Human Rights in Iraq, a London-based group of exiles, has named 19 officers and NCOs whom, they say, have been arrested or have disappeared according to ‘reliable sources inside Iraq’. It would not have done for Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister at war with the German Third Reich, to thunder: ‘We shall fight on the 2,356 beaches, we shall fight on the 472 landing grounds, we shall fight in the 36.4m hectares of fields and in the 2.3m kilometres of streets, we shall fight in the 18,654 hills, we shall never surrender.’ But it would still be a foolish editor who did not supercharge that immortal quote with the equally immortal figures, 1940, so numbers do have the last word As in the graveyard. One reason is that such an acknowledgement could place serious strains on the Western alliance. that state of mindwhich expresses comfort with the thermal environment. Brawling lesbian antiques dealers shatter the peace of cosy rural life.
She called for ‘a distinguished and respectful protest’ as she faced a crowd of 500 supporters, both black and white, angered by the death of her daughter.However, her pleas for calm at the mass meeting at the West Indian Cultural Centre in Hornsey, north London – called to support an independent inquiry into the death – were interrupted by shouts of ‘Let’s firebomb the police station’.Race relations fears, page 2Leading article, page 21. The club’s directors would ask them with frowns on their faces and the reporters would come by later.When Jason Dozzell headed an equaliser in the 86th minute, the burden of explanation was lifted from Ardiles and relief prompted a tongue-in-cheek reference to the magic of the FA Cup.Magic? The only conclusion to be reached after a passionless first half in which Tottenham’s feathers were never ruffled, was that the majority of Peterborough’s players were not in possession of the vital fact that they were engaged in a cup tie.Never mind technical and tactical considerations. The cabbage root fly is more devious because most of the damage it does goes on underground. As the assistant district attorney was to say during the trial: ‘It’s like a Greek tragedy. CONGRATULATIONS on your excellent editorial ‘Hard choices on health’ (17 April). Also, there remains among some of Mr Major’s opponents real doubt over whether either Kenneth Clarke or Michael Heseltine would be as successful in straddling a divide on Europe in the party which still threatens to split it in two.Nevertheless, there are no easy strategies for the weeks and months ahead.
It’s official Tweed is back It’s all new, all trendy, all singing and dancing and .. oh, please Tweed has been around since the year dot. Well, the mid-19th century to be more precise, when it became all the rage in Scotland, particularly with the locals of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. The islanders have been weaving and exporting Harris, the king of tweeds, since the 1840s. In its time, this dense woven cloth has been as integral to country life as sheep and manure, sported by country squires and poachers alike. This may make short-term commercial sense, but its long-term implications – not only for the musicians concerned – are dire. I predict a flight of talent to small labels such as Hyperion and Naxos, who still know how to record the classics – and balance the books..
Classical music began before recordings, and artists did very well. Recording was only the icing on the cake.” He then launches into a speech about music being essentially a live art-form. ” I don’t feel sorry for artists who can’t record, because that’s not what they should be about. They’re about playing in front of the public.”It has been muttered before, but now for the first time it is official: for the big labels, recording the core repertoire is largely a thing of the past. Unfortunately it’s getting harder to find core-repertoire projects worth recording.” Because of the excellent stuff in Sony’s library? “Exactly.
We should be happy it exists and is available for remastering with the newest.”So where does that put living artists who don’t hit the magic marketing button? “Out of the game.” What will this do to their lives? “I assume they have lives beyond the recording studio. I want to make records that break new ground, that have an impact.”With Charlotte Church and Titanic appearing on Sony’s “classical” label, is he bothered that the balance may become fatally skewed? “The balance will be determined by what are the most interesting projects. I’m not interested in making records that no one’s going to listen to I don’t consider our label to be archival. But that’s what it takes.”"It’s not that we’re suppressing recordings of the core repertoire, but we have to be motivated in a way that makes sense. Two years ago, after Shine, I would never have dreamed of recording a new Rachmaninov’s Third.
But when our pianist Arkady Volodos said he wanted to do it – and when we listened to him play it – we decided his version was distinctive enough to be worth recording, both artistically and commercially. “What traditionally happens with a new symphonic work is that it’s played once by an orchestra, and never heard again. We are helping both to create new music, and to deliver it to new audiences.”Does all this mean that he can afford to depend less on core classical recordings? “We can’t afford to depend on them at all If we did, we’d be out of business But if we see an opportunity, we pursue it. But lest we imagine that Sony is merely cashing in, he wants us to know that both Corigliano and Tan Dun have been writing to Sony commissions; he points out that the violin concerto which Hilary Hahn is now premiering is the result of yet another. And since the concert tour is allowing the record-buying public to make the connection, this is good news for everyone.” Especially for Sony.
Though he does not expect it to rival the soundtrack for Titanic – Sony’s biggest coup – he predicts that the Fantasia soundtrack will be a “standout success” in the forthcoming year. It will follow in the footsteps of John Corigliano’s soundtrack for The Red Violin (100,000 copies sold), and will smooth the path for Topsy-Turvy.
Others were stickier, more solemn.This presidency will be less fun. First Edition
Three men armed themselves with tins of corned beef and a ball of string to tackle a post office robber. It would rank alongside Lord Mandelson’s return to Gordon Brown’s side 18 months ago as the most remarkable political resurrection for years But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The plot, in fact, like so much else here, is a double one. How they respond to this depends on their confidence.’Some people are predisposed to lack confidence in the face of chaos,’ he says. It is also because the man who did more than anybody to win the vote for them – and who therefore staked a claim for a more heavyweight role in Labour policy-making – is not himself a full-hearted moderniser.Mr Smith described Prescott’s speech as ‘brilliant’ and his standing in the party and the country took as big a stride as the leader’s. Tom admits all steroids have some masculinising effect, increasing testosterone, and generally making men revert to their teenage selves – covered in acne, more than usually dominated by their sexual organs, and criminally inclined.MICHAEL HOWARD should not, however, contemplate banning steroids (which it is not illegal to possess, only to sell).
Most of the problems alluded to by the Communist Party chief, who is also China’s President, have been in evidence for well over a year, but a high-profile official campaign to improve peasants’ lifestyles has so far had limited success.China’s 900 million farmers, who were among the first to benefit from economic reform in the early 1980s, when they were allowed to take control of their land and sell produce on the open market, now find themselves rapidly slipping behind the fast-growing urban regions.This wealth gap has been exacerbated by extortionate and arbitrary taxes levied on farmers by local authorities desperate to raise funds to invest in the speculative real-estate and business ventures that have sprung up with the economic reforms.The most widespread source of rural misery has been the practice of using worthless IOUs to pay for the proportion of staple crops still sold to the state under the agricultural quota system. January will come sharp to Stephenson and his wife, Karen; what does a Secretary of Marylebone Cricket Club do in later life? It is rather like asking the Pope how he intends to spend his retirement.
In the 206 years of the club there has been no more popular secretary, with the staff, with the players, with the public, even with the members. But TSB Group, the favoured banking bid target, fell 4p to 253p following its decision not to sell its Hill Samuel merchant banking offshoot.HSBC, reflecting a more subdued Hong Kong market, gave up 14p to 865p.Hanson was ruffled by US stories that it planned to bid for Borden, a heavily borrowed transatlantic group. Among the 16 to 24 age-group, the proportions reached 60 per cent for men and 40 per cent for women.We found that condom use increased markedly with number of heterosexual partners.
But could they tell us about Mr McKenzie’s educational qualifications? ‘Er, no, I don’t know anything about that,’ a spokesman admitted ‘But he had to train hard for his boxing .’(Photograph omitted). ASK people to name what remains of Britain’s shrunken car industry and they will probably say Rolls-Royce, TVR or Morgan Few would nominate Caterham. Pity.Sincerely,ED TURNERExecutive Vice PresidentCNN CenterAtlanta, Georgia28 March. ‘I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have cleansed the universe of the Centauri and carved their bones into little fruits for Narn children,’ sneers the Narn ambassador, keeping as straight a face as a Narn can.
If it is written exactly around the current way of operating, incoming private firms will be denied the chance to make savings by reorganising the way the job is done.Another favoured technique is to have only part of the service tested. Has a kick-off ever been delayed to let in a smaller crowd? – Nick House, TauntonQ. I was careful to save my tyres, and it was a hairy lap, but in the end it all worked out well.’Predictably, Mansell has been the centre of attention all weekend, and came to France with reaction to his pre-event comments ringing in his ears. Kalon would expect to sell the Mander Centre when market conditions permit.’Manders has criticised Kalon on the grounds that it has no experience of managing property. In the land of the free the players are shackled by a set of rules that might have been patented by a feudal baron.The NFL justifies the system because the draft and subsequent lack of an open-transfer market are two of the main ways it maintains a competitive balance. All western tributaries of the river Thames were subject to amber alerts..
Little wonder he was withdrawn soon afterwards.Within the space of five minutes Matthew Oakley made determined efforts to show his strikers the way to goal. In the 71st minute Charlton’s defence was guilty for once of failing to get the ball clear quickly and as it rolled out of the penalty box Oakley strick a fierce drive, which smacked against the bar with Kiely flailing to reach it.Then, just after Petrescu had been welcomed on to a standing ovation, Oakley had another dip from outside the area when a corner was cleared in his direction. This time Kiely needed to make a fine save, and he did, hurling himself to his left to turn the shot away one-handed.. Amid all the publicity – not to say hype – about the presence of one spectator among more than 26,000 at Upton Park yesterday, there was an important Premiership match going on. What mattered to the rest of those present was that West Ham United, disappointingly ineffective, failed to prevent Sunderland making more ground in their unexpected challenge for a place in the Champions’ League, less than two years after playing in the First Division. Amid all the publicity – not to say hype – about the presence of one spectator among more than 26,000 at Upton Park yesterday, there was an important Premiership match going on. What mattered to the rest of those present was that West Ham United, disappointingly ineffective, failed to prevent Sunderland making more ground in their unexpected challenge for a place in the Champions’ League, less than two years after playing in the First Division.
Kevin Phillips was unable to add to a run of five goals in his three previous Premiership games and Sven Goran Eriksson will probably have been more impressed, on a typical harum-scarum Premiership afternoon, by the natural ability of West Ham’s Joe Cole.Taking a seat in the directors’ box, Eriksson was received warmly by a crowd that might have been expected to echo the view recently expressed in these pages by a local boy, Southend United’s manager David Webb: “I’d rather have the tea-lady doing the job, as long as she was English.” Perhaps a few ambivalent East Enders had been swayed by hearing Stuart Pearce on Radio 5 Live suggesting that the nationality of the coach was immaterial.Then again, the 38 year-old defender may have his own agenda in cosying up to the new man while England are still short of left-backs.
West Ham’s manager, Harry Redknapp, has been insisting for some time that the admirable Pearce has been playing as well as anyone, including the other veteran defender, Nigel Winterburn.Sunderland’s Michael Gray, Kevin Phillips and Gavin McCann were the visiting players hoping to take the eye, while the home side fielded obvious contenders in the uncapped trio Cole, Frank Lampard and Trevor Sinclair, but were without Michael Carrick, injured at an inopportune moment.Sunderland’s fortunes tend to mirror those of Phillips; when he scored 19 goals before Christmas last season, they held third place, only to fall away once that startling rate declined. Similarly, they were in the nether reaches with West Ham while the former Baldock Town man endured a drought earlier in the current campaign, before climbing to reach their present position as he began hitting the target again.Phillips would acknowledge how much he benefits from the aerial ability of Niall Quinn, who returned after injury yesterday, and drew the foul that led to Sunderland taking the lead in the 22nd minute. Pearce leaned into him, and Stanislav Varga rose above the feeblest of challenges at the far post to head past Shaka Hislop. So the first goal set before England’s new head coach in the Premiership came from a Slovakian, rather than one of the nine natives on the pitch. Don Hutchison, a Tynesider with Scottish caps, might have beaten his team-mate to it, having had a header from Alex Rae’s free-kick kicked off the line by Winterburn.West Ham had begun brightly enough to give the home crowd hope of something better. Pearce’s threatening set-pieces, two fierce drives by Sinclair and a slalom by Cole all offered encouragement. Paolo di Canio played a smart one-two with Frédéric Kanouté, only to be thwarted by Thomas Sorsensen’s block and the Frenchman jabbed wide as Varga failed to deal with an up-and-under from the new Finnish centre-half Hannu Tihinen.Between the goal and the half-time whistle, which brought a boo or two, there was little end-product, Cole spoiling an otherwise impressive display by pulling his shot wide under pressure from a defender, after being played in by Kanouté.
Cole, used sparingly this season, to the approval of the Football Association’s technical department, filled in behind Di Canio and Kanouté, proving as elusive as players in that position often do.There were continuing problems in defence, however, where an unexpected change had to be made at half-time, with Craig Forrest taking over in goal from Hislop. He was soon called into action, as Pearce left Quinn unattended for a shot that the substitute goalkeeper blocked and a follow-up that brought a corner.Cole’s flair and ingenuity just after the hour deserved to bring an equalising goal, even if the home side were not really worth one. He flicked a superb pass through with his back-foot to Di Canio, whose shot the post and was almost deflected in by a defender before Emerson Thome cleared. Such was the confusion caused by the resultant corner that Sorensen appeared to take a swipe at his team-mate Quinn in the aftermath.Within a couple of minutes all was sweetness for the Stadium of Light team as a second goal arrived in controversial circumstances. Hutchison, awarded a disputed free-kick 35 yards out, hit it while Forrest was still organising his defenders; their half-built wall was easily breached and the goalkeeper, off-balance and scrambling across his line, could only help the ball on its way.The seven Sven watchedWEST HAM UNITEDJoe Cole: An unused England substitute against Finland, his skills shone through again even in defeat.Frank Lampard: Quieter than normal, he did not demand the opportunity to add to his single international cap.Trevor Sinclair: Having a good season as a wing-back, but he got little change out of Michael Gray.Stuart Pearce: Eriksson wants experience, but not this much.
Pearce, aged 39 in April, did not enhance his case.SUNDERLANDKevin Phillips: Lively, with Niall Quinn back alongside him, but did not have a chance to add to his recent run of goals.Michael Gray: Along with Cole, the best of the English bunch. Solid in defence and quick to get himself forward.Gavin McCann: An England outsider who was an influence with set-pieces but will not have made any great impression.. There was no evidence of traditional Swedish neutrality here; its two best-known exports to the birthplace of football displayed sufficient partisanship on Sven Goran Eriksson’s first day at the office to persuade even the most xenophobic little Englander. There was no evidence of traditional Swedish neutrality here; its two best-known exports to the birthplace of football displayed sufficient partisanship on Sven Goran Eriksson’s first day at the office to persuade even the most xenophobic little Englander.
From being the men who embraced all matters Italian, Eriksson and his first lieutenant Tord Grip are suddenly committed Anglophiles No, make that An-philes. Short of actually claiming to have locked arms with Gerry and the Pacemakers on The Kop in a rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, the impression offered was that their basic footballing education took place at that great institute of football philosophy in Anfield Road.”We were both Liverpool fans,” said Eriksson, as he recalled the days in the late Seventies when he began coaching in Sweden, first with IF Degerfors, the club for whom he had played right-back, and then Gothenburg. “I met Bob Paisley and I was invited by Joe Fagan into the Boot Room.” He added, with glassy-eyed enthusiasm: “I went to see others, also.
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It’s hard to think back to the time when Gabriel Heinze was a greatly loved member of our squad. And the defense, well, it isn’t very good either.Carolina…What is there to say about the Panthers? Everything that anybody ever thought about this team never happens. They are a better team coming out of camp this year than they were last year. Fatso puts on a show every night the overrated, classless ass.Other than Mmmmaaaarrrrttttyyy, the less-famous John Madden is really a defensive genius, and Brian Gionta proves that members of the Lollipop Guild can make the NHL. Jason BayI know everybody now knows Jason because of the Manny trade but I picked Bay for reasons before the trade. So yes, I am beyond thankful.Miss RaRa, for those who do not know her, is an amazing woman. Paul Johnson’s option offense scared off a couple players, but they will be stronger because of it.
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It was doused in a sweet chilli sauce that played merrily with the fresh sweetness of the caramelised fruit. On the side was a neat scoop of fromage frais (again) ice-cream, and a small dryish cake to sop up the juices. Advancing towards us was the grand finale, a whole roast Rasta pineapple. Vanilla pod dreadlocks sprang out from top to toe and, weee, off came the top knot, the body was cleaved in two, and our plates were filled with neat, juicy slices.
It was lovely, with its jaunty little raisin perched on top, and about all that could be squeezed into my stomach But it soon became clear that it had been a minor stop gap. My BT chum was, meanwhile, gleefully tucking into Marco’s homage to that other great London chef, Pierre Koffman – a whole, laboriously boned pig’s trotter stuffed with morels, sweetbreads and more, wickedly sticky and melting, and bathed in a dream of an “essence of morels”.By this point, I was kind of hoping that the mini breast of a creme caramel trembling before us was the last offering. The slick of potato mousseline, with its neat quiff, was to die for, so smooth and rich and disastrously delicious that I ate far more of it than I should, given what had gone before and what was still to come. This heady cavalcade of dishes steeped in the classic luxuries is enough to turn the head of the most dedicated gourmet, let alone the rest of us more ordinary souls.
If I had one small reservation – and if the food weren’t so very good, I would hardly have picked up on it – it would be that the autumnal tomatoes of our millefeuille were a little bland.Next I discovered that a bressole of bresse pigeon, is a neat little parcel of rare pigeon breast, sandwiched with foie gras (yes, more of it), wrapped in Savoy cabbage. There is none of the fashionable drizzly sauce, spattered artily here and there across the plate Oh no, this is precise detailed presentation. Marco Pierre White and his team are perfectionists, no doubt about that, both visually and in terms of taste. We shared, we marvelled, we cleaned our plates.The next act, a light one, revealed an oval tranche of wild salmon with crayfish and caviare and fromage frais on one side of the stage, and on the other a millefeuille of crab and tomatoes – the tomatoes playing the role of pastry leaves – perched in the centre of a perfect circle of red tomato vinaigrette. My friend didn’t think he was particularly partial to oysters, but the cool, silky creatures of our amuse-gueule, embedded in champagne jelly on a hidden cushion of fromage frais, changed all that.
The new compensation scheme will cost £12bn over the next 50 years, £4bn more than originally planned. There was good news for around 5 million people this week when the Government scrapped its proposed compensation scheme for victims of a multi-billion pound pensions blunder in favour of a more generous package. The new compensation scheme will cost £12bn over the next 50 years, £4bn more than originally planned.
What was the blunder?The last Conservative Government failed to publicise changes to the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (Serps) made in 1986 which halved the amount of Serps that widows or widowers could inherit on the death of their spouse.What is Serps?Serps was set up in 1978 to provide a state second pension for those without occupational or personal pension schemes Around 20 million people pay into Serps. The Conservative Government set the changes to start in 2000, so people could make alternative provision for their spouses. However, the Government failed to publicise the change for a full 14 years, raising the prospect of millions of people claiming they had not been given time to make new arrangements.How would the old compensation scheme have worked?In March, Alistair Darling, the Social Security Secretary, announced a “protected rights” compensation scheme in two parts. People who could show they had been misled by the Government could claim a permanent exemption from the changes. For those still facing the cut in pension, the changes would not occur until October 2002.
Critics said this would be an invitation to fraud, and that it would be impossible for most people affected to prove they had been misled. The sheer size of the problem also made the scheme a logistical nightmare, according to these critics. This week Mr Darling came up with a new, three-part scheme.How will the new scheme work?First, under the new scheme everyone over state pension age (65 for men, 60 for women) on 5 October 2002 will be exempt from the proposal to halve the Serps entitlement available to bereaved spouses. They will be able to pass on 100 per cent of their Serps entitlement, as now. This will benefit about 3 million people.Second, the new rules will only apply to men and women who are now 10 years or more away from state pension age. For these people, the changes will be phased in.Contributors to Serps reaching pensionable age between 2002 and 2004 will be able to pass on 90 per cent of their pension. Anyone claiming their pension between 2004 and 2006 can pass on 80 per cent, between 2006 and 2008, 70 per cent, and between 2010 and 2012, 60 per cent.This second measure should help a further 2 million people.
The 50 per cent cut will only apply to people retiring on 6 October 2010 or later.Third, if you can produce documentary evidence that you were misled by the Government over Serps, you will still be able to claim 100 per cent of your inherited pension, however old you are. The DSS will write this week to all those who have contacted the Department already to explain the scheme.The Government’s viewMr Darling commented on the new scheme, saying: “Millions of people were given wrong, misleading or incomplete information about changes to Serps introduced by the last Government in 1986.”This problem should have been sorted out 14 years ago. What happened in the years after 1986 was a series of colossal blunders which were inexcusable and caused untold distress to millions of people. In March, I announced that we have already deferred the change in the inheritance rule by 2 years until October 2002. No one will be affected by the policy change before that date.”Age ConcernGordon Lishman, director-general of Age Concern England, said: “Alistair Darling’s announcement is a victory for Age Concern’s two-year campaign. It will come as a huge relief to pensioners who have been living under the cloud of the widows’ Serps changes.
These people can now enjoy retirement knowing their spouse will be properly provided for if they die before them.”Clearly the Secretary of State has listened to our issues about the existing redress scheme and has made considerable concessions. We hope the Government will learn from this experience and ensure that in future contributors to public pension schemes receive prompt and accurate information about changes. We look forward to talking to the Government about this so that people will never have to live with this kind of worry again.”Age Concern was the first organisation to identify this issue in autumn 1998 and we are delighted our campaign has been successful.”For more information:Department of Social Security public enquiries: 020 7712 2171, internet address: www.dss.gov.uk. Two 13-year-old boys and a 39-year-old woman were arrested in south London yesterday in connection with the murder of Damilola Taylor.
Last night they were still being interviewed by detectives in separate police stations in London. Two 13-year-old boys and a 39-year-old woman were arrested in south London yesterday in connection with the murder of Damilola Taylor. Last night they were still being interviewed by detectives in separate police stations in London.
In Peckham, where 10-year-old Damilola was found bleeding to death yards from his front door last Monday, police patrolled the streets and appealed for fresh witnesses to the killing to come forward.As they did so, Richard Taylor, the dead boy’s father, and other members of the family made an emotional visit to the stairwell where his son died. A weeping Mr Taylor, who flew into Britain on Friday, cried out “Oh my God, oh my God, my beautiful, beautiful boy” before leaving flowers at the scene.The 10-year-old died from a severed artery in his leg after he was attacked with a bottle or a knife on the North Peckham estate in south-east London. Earlier on Saturday, police renewed their appeal for witnesses to the crime and showed a silver puffa jacket identical to the one worn by Damilola on the evening he was stabbed. Detectives have now spoken to a boy and a girl who were filmed with Damilola on CCTV going into a library for an after-school computer class. The two children, who are not suspects, were asked what their friend was saying in the hour before his death.Police are exploring the possibility that Damilola was followed from the library by his attackers.
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This is what is absolutely sickening about what dear ol’ Henry Abbott is doing, ESPN should really be ashamed for allowing this vicious, hate-filled writing to be in any way associated with their name – shame on them!Henry Abbott could have easily added that ’so and so play was made his rookie year,’ etc… Sources told Reuters the Chinese government was discussingthe possibility of brokering a merger of Shanghai-based ChinaEastern and its smaller peer Shanghai Airlines 600591.SS. In exchange for funding, Elpida would issue preferred stockto the Development Bank of Japan Elpida, the world’s No. WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – A satellite launch by Iran is a cause for concern as some of the technology could also be used to develop ballistic missiles, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday. You can look all over the place to find blame and fault over the Cubs 5-0 loss to the White Sox Really Lou Piniella Milton Bradley Jake Fox Sean Marshall. Buffalo Bills Predicted Record: 8-84.Miami Dolphins Predicted Record: 6-10. USC’s recruiting class will likely provide the team with solid players down the road, but only Jackson will be a real impact player for this Gamecock club.Games that should define South Carolina: The Gamecocks have put together a very challenging non-conference schedule after years of cupcakes.
Revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the country’s atomic bomb, he confessed to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya in 2004. Leading services include transaction processing, outsourcing,electronic bill payment and presentment, investment management solutions,business process outsourcing (BPO), software and systems solutions.Headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., the company is the leading provider ofaccount processing solutions for U.S. The WeatherBug Network is the world’s largest network of weather sensors: Itcombines live weather sensors, the world’s first lightning sensor networkcapable of detecting intracloud (critical for advanced prediction of severeweather) and cloud-to-ground lightning, and cameras located primarily atopschools with publicly available weather data from around the world.Thedensity of the WeatherBug Network delivers weather information with a degreeof accuracy, precision and timeliness unmatched in the industry. To hear the playback of the call, dial719-457-0820 and enter reservation number 4882247 when prompted by the system. Atkins and Battle are back on the defensive front and hope to get to Crompton and cause some trouble with the UT running game. Unfortunately, I didn’t get his autograph. Match One: Yoshi Tatsu vs. LogitechBen Starkie, +41(0) Laura Scorza, +41(0) Copyright Business Wire 2009.
Parents download and install Norton SafetyMinder, a small application, onto each child’s computer. Whoever trades for him will do so with intentions of making a long-term commitment.This may all be moot. However, this recent win could well mean even more to Button and Brawn GP than the others\. As it stands, he is forced to annually punt, pass, and kick the Dallas Cowboys offense into the ground to close out the season. Adrian Gonzalez leads all of baseball with 19 home runs, along with a .627 slugging percentage.Another reason the Padres are this high? Jake Peavy. Service offerings include radiation therapy, gynecologic oncology, laboratoryservices, radiology, mobile PET/CT, pharmaceutical services, social andpsychological services, nutrition, financial and spiritual counseling, homecareand transportation services, hospice, a resource center and several supportgroups.
Analysts have upped forecasts for the current year from pounds 49m to pounds 50m, rising to pounds 60m in the year to May 1999, putting the shares on a prospective p/e ratio of 10, then just 8. The shares look a buy, but as with any house-builder, investors should watch closely for any signs of a cyclical downturn.. Gibbs Mew, the West Country-based pub operator, which would have celebrated its centenary this year, has been swallowed by Enterprise Inns, its acquisitive rival. Even now it has not finished restructuring the business and first-half completions fell 5 per cent to 1,752.There are also growing fears that builders are at risk from rising labour costs. And Bryant would be more exposed than most if the Government introduces taxes on greenfield sites.However, there are several reasons why Bryant looks a better bet than most in the sector.
Its costs rose 5 per cent last year but are now moderating, as are land prices. And after gearing up its land bank, the group is still on target to sell 4,000 houses by the end of the current year and 4,500 next.Bryant’s shares jumped 9p to 122p on the buoyant results. All Lord Wolfson needs to do is to take the Argos brand and feed it through his own systems – no need for the expensive duplication of warehousing, call centres and distribution that Argos is intent on building. Even Argos is hard pressed to disagree with the business logic of what’s proposed.The difficulty comes on price. GUS’s 570p a share is 16.5 times forecast earnings for this year.
There are eight British retailers trading on higher multiples than this, so even accepting that Argos is in something of a bind, that’s not much of a bid premium.All the same, the stock market may have overreacted by driving up the price to 630p. In the absence of a rival bid from, say, Kingfisher or one of the big Continental mail order companies, it seems unlikely GUS would be prepared to go so high or that Argos could justify such a valuation on its own. Lord Wolfson doesn’t need to buy Argos, and he’s stubborn enough to walk away from it.. One irony for regulators in dealing with the proposed merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham is that they’ve been here once before.
Beecham made a hostile takeover bid for Glaxo in the early 1970s when both companies were minnows compared to what they are today. That deal was referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, which eventually ruled it to be against the public interest on the grounds that having two research and development facilities was better for jobs and scientific advancement than just one. Supporters of the present wave of merger mania argue that the world has greatly changed since then. For a start, both companies are now global in their reach and organisation, as is the market for pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, the cost of new drug discovery and development is now so vast that only the biggest can hope to do it successfully across of range of different products. In other words, the case for the defence goes, this merger would be positively good for Britain, even though it will mean job losses among scientists and one R&D facility instead of two, because it would create a national champion in a pretty much unassailable position compared to competitors in terms of drug discovery.
Arguments like this are much better accepted by regulators, both in London and Brussels, than they were.
Even so, policy-makers should be careful not to become too beholden to the process of globalisation. Before the merger of Glaxo and Wellcome, Britain had no less than four pharmaceutical companies up there among the world leaders. After this latest merger, we will be down to just one behemoth, an also-ran in the shape of Zeneca (which Sir Richard Sykes would also acquire, given the chance), and a smattering of biotechs.The effect of this will be to concentrate a very large proportion of Britain’s private sector R&D expenditure in the hands of just one company. Regardless of the supposed need for scale in successful modern-day pharmaceuticals research, this cannot be an entirely healthy development. To believe otherwise requires the usual rules of innovation to be suspended, for the greatest chance of new product development normally lies in diversity and competition, not hegemony.Who knows, perhaps pharmaceuticals are different, but don’t count on it. Pressure for consolidation, not just in pharmaceuticals but in other industries too, comes primarily from investors keen to see margins protected and enhanced in an ever more competitive world. Any management that resists this pressure or falls behind in the race to consolidate, will rapidly find itself out the door.Plainly the process of consolidation is in the interests of shareholders, for it enables management to counter the persistent downward pressure on prices with growing scale and market clout Whether it is in the public interest is another matter.
Murphy will be overseeing all aspects of the finance,human resource and administrative functions for the company.Prior to joining Conductor, Murphy was the SVP/CFO for MarketingTechnology Solutions / Qualityhealth where he held concurrentresponsibility for finance, technology, operations and consumer marketingfunctions while delivering consistent double digit revenue growth.Prior to joining Marketing Technology Solutions in 2004, Murphy heldseveral senior executive positions with Thomson Financial, including CFOof its Investment Management Group and CFO of the Sales, Marketing andService organization. (Additional reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by PadraicCassidy) Stocks Global Markets Bonds. They touched a low of 604 pence earlier on the LondonStock Exchange “The results were slightly ahead of our expectations… Ingen Technologies is now the largest manufacturerof in-line gravity-independent oxygen flow meters.The Ingen Technologies, Inc. The underlying margin improvement was principally due toinfrastructure cost management efforts, foreign currency translation, and lowercharges related to disputes and settlements, partially offset by the impact of aprior acquisition and higher healthcare costs.
(“Orvana”) (TSX: ORV) todayannounced that a total of 42,673,308 Kinbauri common shares were validlytendered as of August 17, 2009 under Orvana’s offer to purchase at aprice of $0.75 per common share all of the outstanding shares of Kinbauri(the “Offer”). Macquarie employs approximately 12,500 people and has assets undermanagement of over $US190 billion ($A229 billion) (as of July 31, 2009). (Reporting by Dmitry Sergeyev; writing by Melissa Akin;editing by …) Russia. Suchcircumstances include, inter alia, (i) material breach by the Company of theterms of the Placing Agreement or any warranty therein being untrue, inaccurateor misleading in any material respect; and (ii) there occurs an event of forcemajeure.
While there, Diane helped to define a nascentindustry – human capital management – and a new delivery method – Software as aService. * Confirms Friday deadline for T&D offers France | Japan * To finalise capital increase end-2009, start-2010(Adds detail) PARIS, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Areva (CEPFi.PA) will have toraise the size of a planned capital increase if “insufficient”bids cause it to abandon the sale of its T&D power transmissionand distribution business, the French group’s head said. Its portfolio focuses on three types of service: employee andpublic benefits, rewards and loyalty, and business expense management. These forward-looking statements are based onestimates, projections, beliefs, and assumptions that Windstream believes arereasonable but are not guarantees of future events and results. Lewis is retiring by the end of theyear as he deals with multiple legal probes into the bank’spurchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. The PRWeek articlestated “ten languages reach 90% of the online world, not one or two.”Aurora IT advises that healthcare providers should redefine their methodsof communications with their patients by providing interactive andinformative websites that are translated into different languages,providing a wider reach of audience.Medical website marketing iseffective in emphasizing prevention and education.
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Their approach to Mr Duncan Smith will be to try to present the Tory party as extremist and, therefore, unelectable.Mr Duncan Smith has indicated he is determined to bring the Tories back into the centre ground of British politics. But can he do it with a front bench team that includes such characters?. The government should provide heroin on demand for Britain’s 300,000 addicts to reduce crime, ministers will be told next week. The government should provide heroin on demand for Britain’s 300,000 addicts to reduce crime, ministers will be told next week.
An influential report, written by a former chief constable and backed by Sir David Ramsbotham, until recently the chief inspector of prisons, will urge the Government to become, in effect, the biggest supplier of heroin in the UK.The move would smash organised crime gangs, which control Britain’s £4.7bn trade in heroin, mostly from Afghanistan; deprive terrorists of their main source of income; and take away the need for junkies, who spend an average £16,500 a year on drugs, to steal to feed their habits.The new study coincides with a review of heroin prescription ordered by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary. The Independent on Sunday has learnt that he is looking to increase five-fold – to 1,500 – the number of people given free heroin.The report by Francis Wilkinson, the former chief constable of Gwent, goes much further, demanding heroin supply for all that need it. “For heroin alone, the effective regulation of supply could be reasonably expected to result in a 20 per cent drop in crime,” concludes Mr Wilkinson in the study, Heroin: The Failure of Prohibition and What to Do Now.It will be published on Tuesday by the Centre for Reform, an independent think tank with strong links to the Liberal Democrats.The report calls for secure clinics that would allow the strictly controlled supply of heroin and methadone, as well as residential “detoxification facilities”.
Such a change in policy would, in effect, decriminalise heroin.. Joan Brown, 74, from Rotherham, looked around shiftily. “We’re going to do something we were told not to,” she confessed, as her stepson dodged about the scrubland on the outskirts of Madrid cradling a cardboard box
Joan Brown, 74, from Rotherham, looked around shiftily. “We’re going to do something we were told not to,” she confessed, as her stepson dodged about the scrubland on the outskirts of Madrid cradling a cardboard box.
On the iron bridge that crosses the Jarama river, scores of International Brigaders in their 80s and 90s, many in wheelchairs, sang “Ay Carmela” and waved their fists. They were celebrating their formation 65 years ago to help defend Republican Spain from Franco’s Nationalist troops.But Joan and her three stepsons – John, Stuart and Rob – were to conduct a more private ceremony at the north end of this symbolic bridge, held for months against a fascist offensive in the spring of 1937 in which hundreds died.
While attention was diverted, Stuart quietly took a plastic canister from his box, unscrewed the lid and prepared to tip the contents into the valley below.”My father, Christopher Smith, fought for weeks to defend this bridge,” John tells me. “The fascists never took it, so the Republicans’ supply road into Madrid kept open till the end of the Civil War. This battle of Jarama was the first check to fascism’s advance in Europe.”The thick dust cascaded in the autumn sunshine and the family dropped red carnations in its wake. “Pop never actually said he wanted his ashes scattered here, but he was proud of what he did, and when he died last Christmas we thought it would be what he wanted,” John murmured. “Now he can look east to where Franco’s artillery faced him, and defy them forever. “The brothers, their wives and Joan – Christopher’s partner for 15 years after his wife died – wept and embraced, then cheers and songs rang from the crowd, celebrating a victorious battle of the war they eventually lost.Last week Madrid’s local authorities finally made an effort to thank survivors of that band of idealistic young volunteers from across Europe and the US who came to Spain in November 1936 to fight Franco.
Veterans and families were offered long lunches, brass band concerts of battle songs and visits to the tombs of fallen comrades, and to view Picasso’s masterpiece, Guernica. The frail but spirited ex-combatants from Rotherham and Marseilles, from Berlin, Philadelphia, Oslo and Bologna, were touched to be greeted at the Reina Sofia Museum by a squad of young guides each ready to explain the work to them, in their own language.* * *Madrid’s chamber of commerce has issued taxi drivers with a manual instructing them on proper behaviour. To counter an avalanche of complaints about rudeness, swindling and filth, the manual advises taxi drivers not to monopolise conversation, keep their cab sweet-smelling and avoid controversial topics such as politics.I find most Madrid taxi drivers either taciturn or cheery, which is fine, but I’ve come across a couple who might benefit. One, when I clambered in clutching a fabulous bouquet of roses, snapped: “Don’t put that on the seat or my next client will complain it’s damp.”Another, chomping a cigar at the crack of dawn, responded to my mild request to extinguish it with a rant about smokers’ rights that left me dizzy. Finally, with a defiant flourish, he laid the smouldering stub in the ashtray between the seats, so the stinking fumes eddied backwards and upwards and fair blew my head off.. It should have been the perfect spy. But the CIA’s attempt to use a surgically altered cat as a covert bugging device fell at the first hurdle – when it was run over by a taxi
It should have been the perfect spy.
But the CIA’s attempt to use a surgically altered cat as a covert bugging device fell at the first hurdle – when it was run over by a taxi.
Nicknamed “Acoustic Kitty”, the audacious scheme was one of a number of bizarre projects dreamt up by military scientists in the latter days of the Cold War, according to documents newly released by the US National Security Archive. A domestic cat was wired up with control and transmission equipment designed to turn it into a mobile “eavesdropper” capable of listening in on conversations by using its tail as an antenna.In an account related in a new book by US intelligence historian Dr Jeffrey Richelson, a former CIA agent explains that the experiment was not an unqualified success.Victor Marchetti, an ex-officer with the agency, recalls: “They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up The tail was used as an antenna They made a monstrosity They tested and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that.”Finally, they’re ready They took it to a park and said, ‘listen to those two guys. Don’t listen to anyone else – not the birds, not cat or the dog – just those two guys!’”Then they put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over!”Marchetti’s testimony is one of several relating to the failed experiment quoted in Dr Richelson’s book, The Wizards of Langley: The CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology.”Acoustic Kitty” was by no means the biggest failure in the annals of CIA espionage. Others chronicle the use of mind control drugs that led to the suicide of an Army scientist, and futile attempts to use poison pens and exploding seashells to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.. The looming risk of mass starvation in Zimbabwe worsened yesterday as militants moved on to more white-owned farms, beating one worker for refusing to shout ruling party slogans and forcing hundreds of others to stop work.
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Katie has advanceddegrees in physiology and medicine from Trinity College Dublin and is currentlyundertaking research there on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. For more information visit http:// and MarketsLaura WoodSenior Fax from USA: 646-607-1907Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716 Copyright Business Wire 2009. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities urged people on Tuesday in the Swat Valley’s main town to leave their homes for safer places as security forces could soon launch an offensive against Taliban militants there. World | ChinaA February peace pact aimed at ending Taliban violence in the Swat valley northwest of the capital has all but collapsed as nuclear-armed Pakistan comes under U.S. pressure to get tough with the militants rather than appease them.President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is due to meet U.S.
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington on Wednesday for talks on the growing militant threat in the region.Here are some questions and answers about the issues in Swat and the surrounding region.WHAT IS AT STAKE?From Swat the militants had moved into neighboring Buner area, just 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Islamabad. Failure to stem the Taliban’s creeping advance from enclaves in ethnic Pashtun tribal areas on the Afghan border sparked worry among both Pakistanis and Western allies that militants were close to the gateways to Islamabad.A military spokesman said a few hundred militants in the mountains never posed a real threat to the capital. But some security analysts said the guerrillas could have used Buner as a jumping-off point to strike at Tarbela, a dam that provides water and electricity to much of the country. The militants had also moved closer to a road running north to China.Before the military offensive in Buner, Western allies, who need Pakistani help to defeat al Qaeda and stabilize Afghanistan, worried the government seemed too willing to appease militants.While Swat, about 130 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, is not on the Afghan border, Western countries with troops in Afghanistan fear the area could become a bastion for militants fighting in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.Obama said last week he was confident about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal but the New York Times reported growing U.S. concern militants might try to snatch a weapon in transit or insert sympathizers into laboratories or fuel-production facilities.ARE THE MILITARY ACTIONS A RESPONSE TO U.S. PRESSURE?The military moves in Buner and subsequent actions in Swat itself came on the heels of a visit to Islamabad by Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may have played a role in persuading the weak civilian-led government to act, and before the talks in Washington where Zardari is likely to press for more U.S. military and economic aid.Washington is considering rushing hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid, the U.S. Senate’s second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, told reporters.U.S. Days later, Taliban fighters entered Buner and nearby Shangla district, raising alarm at home and in the West.Aides say Zardari was reluctant to sign the deal and referred the issue to the parliament after the ANP threatened to leave the federal coalition government.(Editing by Robert Birsel and Jerry Norton) World China.
LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) – RCI Banque, the financing arm ofcarmaker Renault (RENA.PA), has set the size of a plannedthree-year bond at 750 million euros ($993 million), IFRreported on Tuesday. The bond will be priced to yield 8.25 percent, at the tightend of an initial 8.25 to 8.5 percent guidance range, said IFRMarkets, a Thomson Reuters online news and market analysisservice Books closed in excess of 6.5 billion euros, IFR said. BNP Paribas, Natixis and UniCredit are managing the deal,which will include a 125 basis points step-up clause if theissuer is downgraded to sub-investment grade, added IFR Markets,a Thomson Reuters online news and market analysis service. RCI Banque is rated BBB by Standard & Poor’s and A3 byMoody’s Investors Service (Reporting by Natalie Harrison) ($1 = 0.7554 euro). * Singapore index gained 2.25 pct, led by DBS, Golden Agri * Plans by banks to lower dividend payout hurt Jakartamarket By Harry Suhartono SINGAPORE, May 5 (Reuters) – Singapore stocks extendedtheir gains on Tuesday to new seven-month highs as hopes aboutthe improvement in the global economy lifted the country’sbanks, airlines and some plantation shares. Expectations that the United States economy has started tostabilise and hopes that the global economy was recoveringfaster than earlier expected attracted investors back to stocksand helped Asian markets extend last week’s gains. Singapore’s index .FTSTI finished 2.25 percent higher,with heavyweight bank DBS Group (DBSM.SI), Singapore Airlines(SIAL.SI), and Golden Agri (GAGR.SI) posting strong gains.
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