With the entries in the various classes at Cowes Week going into the hundreds what is the limit on the number

With the entries in the various classes at Cowes Week going into the hundreds, what is the limit on the number of yachts? And what is a manageable figure in each daily race? – Andy Phillips, SittingbourneQ. Are there other similar instances of appropriately named sportsmen or women?A. Daniel Lobb, a British tennis player, reached the semi-finals of the Reebok Tour competition at Ealing last September – Simon N Hughes, London W3A I think the American golfer Chip Beck takes the prize – Martyn P Jackson, Cramlington, NorthumberlandA. I have always enjoyed the cricketer Giles John Toogood (Oxford University 1982-83) and Albert Lightfoot, the medium-paced bowler who played for Northamptonshire after the Second World War. The tennis player Anna Smashnova was aptly named for her chosen career. The commercial television format did not readily lend itself to cricket coverage and the often dour atmosphere of county matches, exacerbated by poor attendances and sometimes mediocre playing standards, means that the television companies have never shown that much interest in this form of cricket over the years – Michael P Ward, StockportQ.

I remember watching Northamptonshire’s Indian spin bowler Bishen Bedi batting low in the order and smashing the ball to all parts of the ground for a couple of glorious overs.
In the North-west, Granada Television televised live sessions from the Roses match, Lancashire v Yorkshire, from Old Trafford for many years. One of the commentators was Mike Carey, one of the Independent’s present county cricket correspondents, while another was the inimitable Gerald Sinstadt, now reporting and commentating for the BBC on football. Q. Was the recent televising of the Kent v Leicestershire county championship fixture the first occasion on which a county was televised live

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I recall that in the 1970s, county matches made occasional appearances on BBC Grandstand. Substitutes: Wittenberg, Jowitt, Loughlin, Knox.Referee: B Grant (Australia).. Substitutes: Greenhill, Fisher, Ryan, Lang.Bradford: Spruce, Graham, Peacock, Bradley, Calland, Paul, Tomlinson, Reihana, Dwyer, McDermott, Donougher, Forshaw, McNamara. Late tries from Richardson and Rogers ensured that Bradford must rely on Warrington, Halifax and St Helens all to lose to qualify for the quarter-finals.Cronulla: Howland, Rogers, Ettingshausen, Richardson, Bell, Healey, Green, Lee, Dykes, Stevens, Davidson, McKenna, Nikau. Steve McNamara added the conversion.Ten minutes later, Bradley was at it again when he received a Paul pass to brush off two defenders on his way to the try line to give Bradford a sniff of victory at 24-12 with 20 minutes to go.But Cronulla hit back immediately when Adam Dykes scrambled over for a try. Rogers collected the two points to give the Sharks a 24-0 lead at the break.

The Bulls refused to give up and were rewarded when Bradley found a gap from close-range to score in the 49th minute. Bradford realised their fate early against Cronulla yesterday when after three minutes Chris McKenna finished off a silky backline move to score the first try for the Sharks. Matt Rogers landed a touch-line conversion to give his side a 6-0 lead and from then on it was the same old story for an English side in the World Club Championship – Bradford playing catch-up against an Australian side who were just too fast and too strong.
Within seven minutes the hosts had doubled their advantage when the centre Russell Richardson raced around Graham Bradley with ease before drawing the full-back Stuart Spruce and off-loading to Brett Howland to go over for the try.Bradford then had to withstand no fewer than 20 tackles by way of three drop-outs and the tired defence finally caved in when Tawera Nikau went through a feeble Spruce tackle to score in the 23rd minute.Four minutes later Paul Green beat Robbie Paul before throwing a well- timed inside pass to Andrew Ettingshausen who raced under the posts. The prospect of reaching the quarter-finals in the World Club Championship is another big carrot.”Either target would have seemed fanciful in the extreme a year ago – and that is the mark of the progress Leeds and Bell have made in those 12 months.. In fact, you could argue that we are the side that is weaker.”Apart from McDermott, Leeds have Francis Cummins still feeling his way back, Richie Blackmore not yet match fit and, perhaps most serious of all, Iestyn Harris facing a late fitness test today.”We’ve got a chance of going through and you can’t ask for any more than that,” says Bell. “After two losses down under, we thought we’d just about blown it, but we raised our game against Adelaide and we’ll have to do that again this time – because the Cowboys are a better side.”Super League is still our priority and, although Bradford have effectively won it, we are still keen to finish as runners-up. “The only player they will have missing compared with last time they played us is John Lomax – and they beat us by 40 points.

I grew up watching Rick Pitino bitch at press conferences and Antoine Walker doing his shimmy. But it wasn’t because they played in Boston and I lived in Massachusetts. But that didn’t translate to other sports and it’s pretty easy as to why I didn’t grow up watching the Knicks, Giants, or Jets because my parents weren’t big basketball or football fans.With basketball I’ve always been a fan of players rather than teams, but if I were to pick a team as my favorite (after Michael Jordan’s retirement) it would be the Celtics. The first NBA game I attended was a Celtics game. When they came back to the states, they landed in New Jersey with family, and as a result became Yankee fans.It just so happens that they moved to Massachusetts, had kids, and took them to Yankee Stadium instead of Fenway Park. So I grew up a Yankee fan and it’s pretty hard not to; they’re the greatest franchise in professional sports. They were both born in New York City before each moved to Puerto Rico within 6 months.

It’s pretty simple.I became a Yankees fan through my parents. So, in effect, it’s Red Sox Nation. Second, I’m a Boston Celtics fan.Now you’re probably thinking, “What the ****?”Yup, I know Most people probably don’t think it’s possible, nor allowed But I’m going to tell you how it happened. A pretty big one too.I grew up going to Yankee Stadium, watching Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera demonstrate greatness and Scott Brosius and Chad Curtis adding enough to win championships (I’m 19, so that’s growing up for me).So you’re probably thinking, “OK, and…?”.First, I’m from Massachusetts. Not from Boston, but Worcester, the second most-populated city in New England, located about 45 minutes from Beantown. I am a New York Yankees fan. Again, you didn’t need me to tell you that he makes a fraction of what Dontrelle Willis makes.Once again, the Marlins seem to time the right moment to sell-high on their big players and find cheap, young players to fill in.I commented on Rich Lederer’s recent column over at The Baseball Analysts and pointed out the ‘Top Three/Bottom Three’ phenomenon.Rich responded with “just as practice doesn’t make perfect…perfect practice makes perfect, spending does not equal success…only wise spending equals success.”I totally agree.Now, let’s just see if this can hold up throughout the rest of the season..

None of those three are making more than $500,000 this year.Cantu has replaced Cabrera at third, and he has hit more home runs and has a higher OPS than his predecessor so far this season.You didn’t need me to tell you that he’s making a fraction of what Cabrera makes.And what about Andrew Miller?The 23-year old has a 2.77 ERA in his last nine starts, and he has been one of the best starting pitchers in the National League during the months of May and June. Who needs $200 million anyway?As I write this, the three lowest-payroll teams in baseball (Marlins, Rays, and A’s) have a better record than the top three payrolls (Yankees, Mets, and Tigers).The Marlins continue to exceed expectations.They’re three games back in the NL East and six games over .500.In the offseason, they unloaded Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis, in an effort to cut a third of their payroll, to a league-low $21 million.For what its worth, the Yankees are paying Alex Rodriguez $28 million this year, and they find themselves with a worse record than the Marlins.The Marlins have received huge contributions from unlikely guys, like second baseman Dan Uggla (156 OPS+), third baseman Jorge Cantu (121 OPS+), and outfielder Cody Ross (.503 SLG). Hopefully, in time, Keith Hernandez will come down from the broadcasting booth to run this team the way that it should be run, with a firm hand, and with a strict mindset.. How much more time will it take until the rest of the team follows suit? More importantly, at the end of the year, who is going to want to take over this circus? Right now, taking the Mets job is a career suicide, and any smart individual would not even interview for the position, let alone take it!What can be done then? Right now, the skies are very cloudy over Flushing, Queens. The Mets lost to the Angels before, and, in addition, Manuel took out Jose Reyes after an injury when he did not want to leave the game. True, Manuel was only looking out for his star shortstop, but considering that Reyes threw his helmet off in disgust afterwards, it is safe to say that he did not agree with the call. One game in, and one player is already upset, and a huge player at that.

Combine this with the fact that many are headcases on the team to begin with, and this is a perfect recipe for disaster.The move has already backfired in a way. Soon enough, the players are going to be wondering whether or not they are safe as well. One need not look any further than the shining example set forth by Billy Wagner, who, just a few weeks ago, blamed only the players of the team for not playing as expected.During the middle of the season, a move like this is never a good thing People near the top of the organization lost their jobs. In addition, the team fired Randolph right after the beginning of a West Coast road trip.Finally, in what many are deeming a classless move, they announced the decision through a press release at 3:15 AM EST. Leave it to the Mets to make such a terrible call. The players liked Randolph, even if they were not playing up to par.

Councils will be penalised for above-average tax increases by not being fully reimbursed by the Department of Social Security for the extra cost in council tax benefit increases. The Conservatives also suggest that the Government’s prediction is optimistic.Gillian Shephard, the shadow Environment Secretary, claimed that the settlement showed a shift in financial support away from local authorities in London and the South-east, towards Labour’s “friends in the north”. The Liberal Democrats say that abolition is likely to lead to typical council tax increases of about 8 per cent. In recent years central government had effectively set local council taxes by giving every council a cap that fixed the maximum charge. The Local Government Association, which represents councils, says tax increases will depend on the decisions taken by local authorities, but it expects most to increase council taxes by a maximum of 5 per cent.
Individual councils, though, may choose to set much higher increases, as a result of the elimination of the cap.

The Government has increased its grant support to local authorities by 5.4 per cent and says it expects councils to limit their council tax rises to 4.5 per cent. Business rates, which are set by government and handed back to local authorities, will rise by 8.7 per cent – more than three times the rate of inflation. On the figures released last week the typical council tax for a band D home, valued at between pounds 68,001 and pounds 88,000 at 1991 prices, will rise by 4.5 per cent from pounds 748 to pounds 782. At the end of the day your home is placed at risk.”If you are worried, National Debtline can put you in touch with an independent financial adviser who will give you a free 30-minute advice session It also produces a free booklet “Dealing with Debt”.

Call National Debtline on 0645 500 511 or contact your nearest Citizens’ Advice Bureau.. COUNCIL TAX bills are likely to rise next year by at least twice the rate of inflation – and perhaps by much more – as a result of last week’s announcement by the Government of the grant it is giving to local authorities. And you will be paying interest on the protection insurance.Because unsecured personal loans are not underwritten, lenders rely on a hefty set of exclusions to avoid paying out. Mr Gibbons suggests that you check the small print to make sure the conditions match your circumstances. For example, some schemes do not cover the self-employed or people on short-term contracts.And what if your spending has spiralled and you are tempted to consolidate all your loans into one big one? Mr Gibbons says: “This is rarely a good idea, particularly if the consolidated loan is secured on your home. As our best buy table shows, on a pounds 5,000 loan paid back over three years, you will be paying around pounds 20 a month extra in payment protection. Some loans, for example, charge penalties if you want to pay the loan off early.Once you have chosen your loan, you can almost guarantee that your lender will ask you to take out payment protection insurance on top of the cost of the loan In most cases this is an expensive waste of money.

This is a more accurate guide to the total cost of borrowing than an effective annual rate (EAR), the charge quoted for most overdrafts (which are not required to quote an APR figure). The EARs take into account the charges for borrowing but not any fixed fees that may be added. Rates can therefore look artificially competitive.If you are considering taking out a loan, get a full written quotation that explains in detail all the charges, including fees. To help you compare costs, lenders are required by law to quote an annual percentage rate (APR) figure.

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But is it the end of what charm can be left in a chain of 100 restaurants? Will the dead hand of a brewing giant snuff out the creative spark as it throws money at the chain to take it to maybe 300 sites in the next five years?”The whole point of this acquisition is that, in the words of Whitbread, they ring-fence Pelican. It was always meant to be a classic.”And despite what a bunch of snooty Michelin star chefs said about the food last week, Pelican appears to have found a formula that works, and not just in London That is why Whitbread swooped when it did. Sure, it’s not the most innovative concept, not ground-breaking, but that is its strength. Theme Holdings, a restaurant and leisure group, traded briefly on the Third Market in the mid-1980s before being snapped up for a top-of-the-market pounds 17m in 1987.”Rouge was really a distillation of everything we had seen work at Theme We went to Paris and photographed everything But it was also a reflection of everything we liked. Whitbread certainly thought so – it has just paid pounds 133m for pounds 33m of assets.That was quite a vote of confidence in Jones and Roger Myers, the partner with whom she set up her first Cafe Rouge in Richmond, Surrey, with the proceeds of selling on their previous venture. Restaurants, however, have made Ms Jones a woman of means, even if her windfall is unlikely to cure her workaholism.”I’m a bloody good waitress actually But I love the business side too Love the organisation. There’s no buzz like walking into one of your own restaurants.”The sale of Pelican to Whitbread last week was the culmination of six frenetic years during which the Cafe Rouge to Dome chain grew from a hunch to one of Britain’s fastest growing restaurant concepts And what a success it has been.

Chances are that career in advertising would have come off the rails in the last recession that savaged that industry. Peter Jarvis has negotiated a few deals for Whitbread in recent years but he must feel relieved to have got away with paying a premium to Pelican’s assets of just pounds 100m. Human dynamos don’t come cheap.Karen Jones seems to have had a lifetime of getting what she wanted. She wanted Malcolm Bradbury for a tutor and got a first to prove the wisdom of her choice. She wanted a potentially high-flying job in advertising and got it with Boase Massimi Pollitt, but deep down what she wanted was to pick up the waitress’s notepad and drinks tray again so she packed it all in to manage a restaurant.If anyone thought she was mad at the time, subsequent events have proved them wrong.

While everyone else was reaching for the Tums and feeling sorry for themselves, Ms Jones was clattering round the kitchen, checking the contents of the fridge and calling in the health inspector.Yes, they would pay the bar bill, she told the hapless owner, but not their rooms or meals Thank you Goodbye. Tuesday was her birthday, Wednesday she sold her business to Whitbread for pounds 133m, netting pounds 3m herself. Thursday she was on the road again, visiting Pelican’s fast growing empire. Little wonder she could only fit me in for 45 minutes at 8 o’clock on Friday morning. Whatever was happening to those poor bairns, three of them and all under the age of five?
“This week I’ve hardly seen them and I really, really mind that But I make sure it doesn’t happen a lot I work round the kids. Work when they’re in bed.” With a “brilliant dad” and a “brilliant nanny” and pounds 3m it’s all just about manageable, but plainly this is one driven woman.

Thursday night she checked out four, yes four, Pelican restaurants.Her performance last week chimes with a story friends tell about a weekend in Devon when every member of her party of 12 got food poisoning at their guest house. Had she not been a mere slip of a girl 20 years ago, Karen Jones would have made a passable model for Shirley Conran’s Superwoman. She had the good grace to look a tad weary when we met on Friday, and was on the way to hospital to have her back checked, but these were the only hints Pelican Group’s managing director gave of being bothered by human frailty

It had been a week to fell lesser mortals. In this instance, the Bank’s advice proves right, but the Chancellor fails to follow it. Inflation rises, the markets lose confidence in the Chancellor, and he is forced to concede that the Bank should set interest rates in future.Only one of these four alternatives results unequivocally in independence for the Bank – and sadly it is one which requires a policy disaster to intervene first.. The system probably survives intact, though the Bank could win operational independence in this case.

And the great Michael Ganci who has had the same thing happen to him.And the great Wendy Adair that has not had much luck in the last few months But has still been writing great articles all the time. Spurs had to wait until Halloween for their first win last season.The Lilywhites have spent £15 million on David Bentley, who spent much of last season on the bench, and £14 million on Roman Pavlyuchenko whose mere five league goals has seen the Russian linked with the exit door at White Hart Lane. The most alarming number is that he’s hit just two extra-base hits in 106 at-bats. They get back into the ring right before nine. A meeting of the minds results in some nice selling as well The toll of the match comes across well Chris Sabin comes down to the ringside area. “This could be sending the signal that they won’t lowerinterest rates at their next meeting,” said Salvador Orozco, acurrency and debt strategist at Santander in Mexico City. Now people may not agree with this selection but think about it. The Electronic Manufacturing Services segment providesengineering and manufacturing services which utilize common production andsupport capabilities to a variety of industries globally.

(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Chris Gallagher). After all, this is a blog, and we as authors, are free to write about whatever it is we please.I figured to mix things up from my usual predictions, banter, and analysis and try something new. This team had incredible depth with their top seven players averaged at least 11.8 points a game.The 1993 NBA finals was an epic battle highlighted by the Suns’ three-overtime win in game three against the Bulls. He forgets that this promise ends before real games begin.He also forgets to promise to take better care of his body and avoid injury. BNP is currently in the process of trying to buy some of the main assets of struggling European rival Fortis.”Our CEO has indicated to analysts that we could look at new consolidation opportunities provided that we end up with control from any deal. He is an excellent downhill runner who does not shy away from contact.

Edgerrin James and Matt Leinart learned that the hard way.Leinart was benched in favor of Warner after a preseason QB competition. Granted, after getting rid of Tommy Bowden and putting Dabo Swinney in, they recovered well and pulled out the critical wins to become bowl eligible. Money was the manager last season for the Huntsville Stars, the Brewers Double-A affiliate.And yes, the best part of this whole post is that former Brewers great (I use the term loosely, of course) Chris Bosio will be the pitching coach for Money and the Nashville Stars. We now reach part five of my multi-part series “Around the Diamond” to take a peek over at third base.Every year, we look around the diamond and we see new faces. It’s an incredibly complicated process involving terms like super-twos and arbitration, but it’s safe to say that teams get the most value (production versus cost) from the good players they draft. The young Kansas squad should be very strong by this point in the year, and the Big 12 title could be on the line in Lawrence. 1 Texas vs Oklahoma, Jan 12 in Norman and Feb.

As many as half of Britain’s apple farmers will go bust if the flood of cheap French apples goes unchecked, according to representatives of English apple sellers. For computer games, the figures were 93 per cent and 83 per cent. “Children don’t find fiction frightening; or if they do, they often enjoy it: people like horror films,” said Mr Allerton.However, his work has found that news programmes from war zoners and wildlife documentaries in which animals kill each other can be more traumatic for children than videos.His survey found that children regulated their own viewing and distinguished carefully between images they find “pleasurably” frightening and truly frightening.. Rather than making these things into forbidden fruit, we should be teaching children to grow up to be critical viewers who can deal with something that they find scary.”In the Aston research, 63 per cent of the children said they had never been upset by violence in films or videos, and 72 per cent said there was a difference between violence in videos and in real life. Last year Ms Newson wrote to MPs saying that she felt a “steady diet” of violent videos and films would deaden children to its effects in real life.However, Mr Allerton said: “It’s plain to everybody that those measures are not going to work with children’s increased access to all sorts of media. “The more real an image is, the more frightening they find it.”Mr Allerton believes that efforts to increase regulation of videos, put forward by a number of child psychologists, notably Elizabeth Newson, are misplaced.

Almost nine in 10 children aged between 13 and 18 have seen videos with “18″ certificates, and only one-third said they found the violence upsetting.But 82 per cent of the children interviewed by Guy Cumberbatch, senior lecturer in applied psychology at Aston University, found violence in news more upsetting than in videos or computer games.The research, involving 305 children aged between 13 and 18, backs up work to be published later this year by Mark Allerton, a researcher at the Institute of Education, which found that children find TV violence in real-life programmes the most worrying because they know that it is real.”Children can tell the difference between fantasy and reality,” Mr Allerton said. CHARLES ARTHUR

Technology Correspondent
Children find violence in news programmes and nature documentaries more upsetting than in video games or films, according to new research. But at least then the abyss of Americanised bad taste had a bottom. With your poster we are in moral free fall.I hope Mr Chirac sues for every penny you have.. George Orwell once lamented how commercial technology in his day was so undermining any popular sense of what was right and wrong that children were growing up knowing more about the workings of the magneto than the contents of the Bible. For our day, read CD-Roms and history.When I was a child I used to cringe at the prospect of Bing Crosby’s “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” being trotted out yet again.

The campaign was over by the time the Advertising Standards Authority managed to ban it. What worries me is that the lesson you learnt was that crass, nerdish ignorance sells. That you can not only get away with this, but make money from it hand over fist.We are being deracinated by you and your kind. Your nerds probably will need to consult their CD-Rom dictionary for that one: basically it means that you are tearing us away from the roots of our culture, our history, and our sense of ourselves. Of course, Napoleon later turned towards autocracy and had himself crowned emperor, but that just illustrates my point: real life is more complicated and more interesting than the nerdish simplicities of advertising and computer games.I thought you would have learnt a lesson last year when you promoted the game Doom II with photographs of entrails and reportedly sent packages containing sheep’s entrails to journalists as a public relations stunt. He has made himself globally unpopular for doing so but – do I really have to point this out? – that’s just not in the same league as Hitler.Your cheeky chappies have included Napoleon on the poster, too. What is this, get the French week? Or are we simply witnessing an American entertainment company (Virgin Interactive Entertainment is owned by Viacom) displaying to Europe how ignorant it is of European history?For the record, the Napoleonic armies of revolutionary France swept away medieval despotism across Europe, destroyed the archaic Holy Roman Empire, and broke the repressive hold of the Catholic Church on secular states in what is now Germany.

Using mass murderers to promote a consumer product.”
It’s not witty It’s crass, ignorant and stupid It’s also, I would have thought, actionable. If I were the French Ambassador, I would already have drafted a note of protest to the British government and would be consulting my lawyers to see how much money Mr Chirac can take you for in libel damages.I don’t like Mr Chirac’s decision to pop off nukes in the South Pacific. What sort of nerds are you employing? I can imagine them saying to themselves: “Gosh, that’s really witty. Under the heading “Previous High Scores”, the poster carries 16 portraits of politicians and military leaders, including photographs of the mass murderers Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Among other villains of popular demonology on the poster are Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Saddam Hussein – and the French President, Jacques Chirac. Their latest wheeze is to display posters, on the London Underground, for a CD-Rom game called Command and Conquer. It’s only October but the Christmas commercials have started.

Your marketing people are celebrating the season of peace and goodwill to all mankind by hyping violent video games for children. For computer games, the figures were 93 per cent and 83 per cent.. “Rather than making these things forbidden fruit, we should be teaching children to grow up to be critical viewers who can deal with something that they find scary.”In the Aston research, 63 per cent of children said they had never been upset by violence in films or videos and 72 per cent said there was a difference between violence in videos and in life. “The more real an image is, the more frightening they find it.” Mr Allerton believes efforts to increase regulation of videos are misplaced. The research, involving 305 children aged between 13 and 18, backs up work to be published later this year by Mark Allerton, a researcher at the Institute of Education, which found that children find TV violence in real-life programmes the most worrying because they know that it is real.
“Children can tell the difference between fantasy and reality,” Mr Allerton said. But 82 per cent of children interviewed by Guy Cumberbatch, senior lecturer in applied psychology at Aston University, found violence in news more upsetting than in videos or computer games. Almost nine in 10 children aged between 13 and 18 have seen videos with “18″ certificates, and only one-third said they found the violence upsetting.

Being cool and withdrawn alienated him from the fans and from the media in Milan Arsenal don’t want that. There was a joyous mood in South Africa, but a large percentage of non-whites still support any Springbok opposition.V is for Van der Westhuizen, the superb Springbok scrum-half acclaimed as the tournament pin-up. Rumour has it that he was substituted in last weekend’s semi-final only because his eye-liner was running.W is for Chester Williams, the only black South African in the Springbok side and a national hero because of it.X is for Xhosas, the South African tribe who threw their support wholeheartedly behind the Western Samoan team.Y is for Yoshihito Yoshida, the Japan wing who led the charge against Ireland and nearly inspired the biggest upset of the tournament.Z is for Zinzan, the elder of the two Brooke brothers, the All Black No8 who struck the audacious 45-metre drop-goal against England Here was outrageous talent plus the confidence to use it.. “For Arsenal, it was history in more ways than one. Not only did the pounds 7.5m paid by Bruce Rioch for Dennis Bergkamp treble the club’s record outlay, but the Dutch international striker’s arrival from Internazionale yesterday must be the first instance of a Tottenham fan receiving a rapturous welcome in Highbury’s marble halls.” Independent

“No Merson about. Marc Ellis scored six for the All Blacks in the one run-out, against Japan and, alongside Jonah Lomu, led the try-scorers’ table with seven; Rory Underwood and Gavin Hastings topped the northern hemisphere try-count with five each.U is for unity, a sense of which, the South African press would have us believe, swept the country as the nation linked in support of the Springboks.

We have yet to hear about Lynagh, Campo, Carling and co.S is for Joel Stransky, the man who put the Springboks together with success in yesterday’s dramatic finale.T is for tries There were 187 of them. They tell of an ill-conceived ticket allocation system for games which could have been sold out many times over.P is for president. If this is a glimpse of the future, then let’s all sign for rugby league now.G is for game plan It helps to have two or more. England only had one and didn’t it show?H is for Hastings (Gavin) and hero; the two go together.

Other World Cup heroes: Dewi Morris, John Eales, Chester Williams and the team of Mrs Mops who swept the water off the pitch before the Durban semi-final.I is for ITV. Poor Alastair Hignell froze when fronting the first live broadcast and it was downhill from there.J is for Japan, the team who were on the wrong end of the biggest defeat ever in a World Cup finals match – 145-17 to New Zealand And Jonah wasn’t even playing.K is for King’s Park, Durban They said it never rained here and how they lied. It poured down on three of King’s Park’s five games, last week’s semi-final being hit by the sort of deluge that would have prompted Noah to load up the animals.Lis for Lomu, large, lightning-quick and soon to be loaded. The player of the tournament and a new phenomenon in the game. Also for (Doug) Laughton, the Leeds coach, one of the many rugby league men eyeing him up.M is for David McHugh, the referee who sent off three players after the South Africa v Canada free-for-all at Port Elizabeth.N is for nail-biters: England v Australia (see D), Scotland v France (N is also for N’Tamack, the French winger who won that game in injury time), and we should not forget the brilliant Samoan comeback victory over Argentina.O is for open spaces.

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The school abandoned its rigid traditions and became a buzzing hive of progressive ideas; the area hummed with the sound of reggae and ska. Hackney Downs became strongly Afro-Caribbean and, at one time, boasted a black literature department Even this new state of affairs was not destined to last. The building was replaced, but the character of the school soon shifted again, with the growth of the area’s Afro-Caribbean community. Steven Berkoff, now actor, playwright and director, was a pupil in the early 1950s. (He has recalled the experience without enthusiasm: “I was perpetually caned …

the teachers were monstrous, all they did was shout and bully.”) The actor Michael Caine is another old boy, as were the lawyer Lord Goodman and Lord Peston, now a leading Labour peer.In 1963, a fire started by some stage lighting destroyed the school’s central Victorian building. The playwright Harold Pinter, who was inspired by a passionate English teacher, was there in the 1940s. He wrote to the Times in 1992 to rail against the “comprehensivisation” of the school, describing it as a former flagship of opportunity for talented children, many of whom were very poor: “We East European immigrant Jews in particular benefited from this aspect of the opportunity society,” he wrote.The London County Council took over the running of the school in 1906, and in 1944 its name was changed from “The Grocers’” to Hackney Downs The list of eminent old boys grew. He went on to become the knighted co-founder of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies. Jewish refugees arrived in East London from Eastern Europe and the population of the school changed with them.Alfred Sherman, a pupil in the 1930s, was one such child.

By the turn of the century it was reputed to be one of London’s best secondary schools.This eminence remained unshaken throughout the first half of the twentieth century: the school continued to take in the bright sons of the wealthy and to turn out highly qualified young men But there were changes, even during those prosperous days. Forty-six architects competed and the result was a grand Gothic edifice enclosing a school with rigid discipline and a public school atmosphere. The railway had made the area easily commutable, and the guild members’ sons needed an education. Some experts say that sending in the big guns, as Gillian Shephard did yesterday, in the shape of a new education “hit squad” to run the school, could yet lead to rejuvenation and relative success.When the Worshipful Company of Grocers founded its school in Hackney in 1876, the area was a wealthy city dormitory populated by the merchant class.

But the story of this inner-city school, whose troubled recent history has finally led to direct action by ministers, is more than that. It is also the story of a rapidly changing area of London where teachers have strived to keep up with the pace and where the strain has begun to show.
Although there is a certain grim inevitability in the history of inner- city schools such as this, there could still be a happy ending. This is the story of Hackney Downs, where the young Harold Pinter once made the girls swoon as he played Romeo and where failure, disruption and uncertainty now top the bill. This is the story of a how a school rose to greatness and fell from it into perhaps irretrievable decline.

The woman, now aged 45, sustained severe brain damage when her heart stopped during a routine operation at the age of 22. Since then she has been close to a permanent vegetative state and fed through a tube, although she has been able to recognise people at times.. The Irish Supreme Court yesterday upheld the right of a family to let their daughter die after lying in a coma for more than 20 years. David Blunkett is taking his three sons to Minorca: “I enjoy the sunshine and relaxation of Spain.”The Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, and the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo, have made special arrangements to be reached easily on holiday should the Bosnian crisis escalate.Meanwhile, Virginia Bottomley, the Secretary of State for National Heritage and the minister responsible for tourism, is flying the flag for Britain by spending her holidays, as usual, on the Isle of Wight..

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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.

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12 Arizona’s clock struck the proverbial midnight, there were no Cinderella teams left. If they can do that and get him into early foul problems, Xavier could roll to victory.The Pick: Pittsburgh has such a loaded team down low, and they’re going to win the rebound and second chance points battle, and unless Xavier is firing from all cylinders outside, this game is Pittsburgh’s to lose. (2) Duke vs. For the premier level in the entire company not to is absurd. He also committed less turnovers per-game and produced a higher quarterback rating.Those are the facts.I will leave it up to the readers to judge who have the more impressive season. Then the top job at a more prestigious school, and so on. After being fired by the New Jersey Nets in 1999, John Calipari was given what amounted to a sympathy job by one of his mentors, Larry Brown, with the Philadelphia 76ers. “We are pleased to be recognized by Internet Telephony for advancing IPcommunications.

A senior Geely executive told Reuters early this month,however, that his company had not held talks about a possibleacquisition of Saab or other foreign brands and that it was notinterested in them. Applegate calls Lola, “the best homewrecker on [his] staff”, to seduce Joe and thereby ensure his soul to damnation.Applegate promises to make Joe young again, and even ensure a World Series victory. 3 running back, they do have Marcus Mason on the roster, which had a great preseason for Washington last year.I wouldn’t be shocked if they spent a mid or late-round pick on a RB.Don’t expect Jesse Chatman to be re-signed.Wide ReceiverThe Jets need to decide whether or not they want to try again with Laveranues Coles, Jerricho Cotchery, Chansi Stuckey and a more properly used David Clowney. Already I have cut my viewership of races substantially over the past two years and after the 500 I find myself questioning the next race I will actually watch.Because the sport I loved exists only in memories and YouTube clips And that is, on an immense level, entirely depressing.. The peripheral stuff was definitely better than the game made boring by the trap employed.After the game-winner, Shane O’Brien, the most penalized player in the NHL, threw his shoulder into Ryan Clowe on his way off the ice, and a scrum ensued.

Therefore before that time is upon us, I felt it necessary to hand out some mid-season awards. Player Most Likely to Turn on “Beast Mode”: Al JeffersonThis seems like an obvious pick but let’s face it; the dude is just downright sick He’s averaging 22 and 10 on a team without a clear No 2 option. Oklahoma must also punt on their first series of the second half.I am shocked by the lack of scoring by both teams, but especially the fact that the Oklahoma defense, which has given up plenty of points during the season, is holding Tebow and Florida in check.Did a month off hurt the timing of these offenses? Perhaps so!Roughing the kicker on Florida That really hurts, and Oklahoma keeps the ball. ELFA members are the driving force behind the growth in thecommercial equipment finance market and contribute to capital formation in theU.S and abroad. Meridian has over 2000clients including physicians, hospitals, clinics, healthcareprofessionals, and wellness centers in Korea, USA, Canada, China, Japanand Europe. Key Topics Covered:* Executive summary * Ovum view * Device sales and Market download statistics * Android Market business model * Developer products and services * SDK and tools * Developer programmes * Summary of Android application platformFor more information visit http:// Ovum Laura WoodSenior Fax from USA: 646-607-1907Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716 Copyright Business Wire 2009. They couldn’t win without Brady, so the common perception went.But, um, then along came Matt Cassel He passes. It’s a super-nice gesture for a team that’s used us mostly as a moist towelette the past few seasons.Today against the Saints in jolly ol’ England, the Chargers D looked almost as pitiful as the Broncos’ as Drew Brees sliced his way through what was supposed to be one of the top defenses in the game to the tune of 339 yards passing and three touchdowns.With the Broncos division lead now at a game and a half, the Chargers don’t seem too motivated to knock the Broncos from their precarious first place perch.* The Phillies-Rays World Series (insert FOX executive suicide joke here) has been a decent show thus far.

Hamilton was given a penalty for this and this put his chances of points in jeopardy.Kovalainen started from 10th, due to a penalty for blocking in qualifying. They got their wish.So after this exchange, Victorino grounds to first, Nomar Garciaparra steps on the bag and the inning is over, right? Just as Fox is about to cut their broadcast to commercial, the inevitable occurs when the benches clear. I think that’s a good thing, a good thing if he’s rendered inactive.”(Editing by Paul Casciato)(To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog “Fan Fare” online at blogs.reuters /fanfare) Entertainment Film. If only pro football played just two quarters in it, Orton would be king of castle right now instead, he’s about right on the same level as the QB the Bears put him out there to replace.I’ve already seen the headlines two weeks in a row: “Orton gets it half right”, “A Tale of two Ortons”…  Oakland brought in Art Shell and Lane Kiffin (who looks like he should be out downtown in the bars, not coaching in the NFL) and things have been downhill from there. Theprosecution is being handled by Senior Litigation Counsel Kevin M Downing andTrial Attorney Michael P.

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“The cost of this approach to the recession is clearly shown in Table 3. Although he still suffered his fair share of minor hamstring and groin problems, he started 38 matches and was voted Arsenal player of the season.It was a different story in 2006-07 and 2007-08, when he started 25 and 20 games respectively, plus six and three substitute appearances. Players like Monta Ellis and Andris Biedrins had their chances at Summer League stardom, and came away empty. He’s the poster boy of my youth, the kid, and I’d be personally offended if he was replaced this season.I don’t think I’m alone in that feeling, nor do I think I’m treading on ground that hasn’t been considered by Jack Zduriencik.So that means that the player that the Mariners acquire will likely have to be able to play the outfield. You can e-mail him at and follow him on Twitter /mmamadpaul..

Reconciliation of As Reported Results to Non-GAAP Financial Measures (continued)Three Months EndedTwelve Months EndedDecember 31,December 31,December 31,December 31, 2008200720082007Net Income Net (loss) income, as reported $(2,691)$1,384$3,197$961Pre-tax impact of reconciling items: Non-cash, stock-based compensation3,013 4,123 13,50116,532 Restructuring charges 1,110 4,368 6,705 18,873 Arbitration judgment (including interest) – 3,934 – 3,934Inventory step-up amortization18109 113 418U.S. I do not doubt for a minute the playmaking abilities that the coaching staff can make for the players, and JT will only make the coaches look like even bigger geniuses.This contract not only gives JT one last shot at getting a championship with his team, but it also adds to his great legacy as a Miami Dolphin. Tenders of Old Notes in the exchangeoffer may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to the early participation dateof that exchange offer, but will thereafter be irrevocable, except in certainlimited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law (asdetermined by Nexstar Broadcasting). TheDetroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay Rays and now the Pittsburgh Pirates?Surely the worst run team in sports is not in any position to hault a 16-season losing streak any time soon, right?They would have to have a 9-6 record, be a game out of first, and sweep the NL East leading Marlins who have the best record in the majors for anyone to believe the Buccos have a shot.But wait, they did just do all these things.Pittsburgh has seen fast beginning in early seasons before; they started 10-5 in 2002 only to loss 84 more games. Don’t you sometimes wish you could give an athlete (or coach) your two cents? It’s probably in everyone’s best interest that these guys are relatively guarded, but wouldn’t it be fun to vent occasionally?I know that doesn’t make sense on many levels, but being fan often doesn’t make sense (especially 35 year old men wearing jerseys with someone else’s name – another topic for another day).If I could get a few minutes with these guys, assuming I wouldn’t cave under pressure like 99.9 percent of us, I’d really like to hammer home a thing or two.

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[ID:nL8127669] “Risk aversion has not faded yet this week, and the Easterweekend will hinder activity. It closed down Bangkok’s two main airports for a week in late 2008, devastating the tourist industry. Conference Examines Strategies For Closing the Academic Achievement GapAffecting African-American ChildrenDETROIT, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Wayne State University andUniversity of South Carolina host venue for researchers to present cuttingedge research in early childhood programs and K-12 school districtsnationwide.WHAT:”The African-American Child in School Conference on Research Directions,”sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the African-American Child(ISAAC); Wayne State University, College of Education; and University of SouthCarolina, College of EducationThis conference is designed to bridge the gap between research and practice ineducation. He is considered a three-star recruit by both Rivals and Scout . Mark Buehrle would be my second choice, over both Ryan Dempster and Rich Harden.Perhaps I have a White Sox-bias in my decision, as both Dempster and Harden have been unquestionably better then Buehrle this season, but he’s always been a big-game pitcher, and I have the utmost confidence that he’d get it done in the clutch, where Dempster and Harden both have yet to prove that.JJ: I would agree, simply because Zambrano, Dempster, and Harden are all far more consistent than the quartet of Danks/Vazquez/Floyd/Buehrle. Ron Artest will be a difference maker and Yao is back after the injury.

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IDT Corporation’s Class B Common Stockand Common Stock trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbolsIDT and IDT.C, respectively. IDT CorporationMedia RelationsGil Nielsen, 610-704-6622orInvestor RelationsBill Ulrey, 973-438-3838 Copyright Business Wire 2009. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health officials said on Sunday the new flu virus appears to be fairly widespread in the United States and seems to be hitting mostly younger people, with very few cases reported in people over 50. Health  |  Swine Flu”We think very few of the cases we have confirmed are in people over 50,” the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Dr Anne Schuchat told reporters in a telephone briefing. “Whether this will pan out over the weeks ahead we don’t know.”The CDC has reported 226 cases of the new H1N1 swine flu virus and one death in 30 states. Mexican officials say they believe the outbreak there is starting to ease, although they are still trying to get a full picture of how widespread it is.Schuchat said U.S.

health officials were encouraged there were few deaths from this strain of virus, only one reported so far. Thirty people, mostly older children and young adults, have been hospitalized with the disease in the United States, she said.But Schuchat added that it was too soon for health authorities to determine the full extent of the disease.”I don’t think we are out of the woods yet,” Schuchat said. “From what I know of influenza, I do know there will be more cases, more severe cases and more death.”(Editing by Mohammad Zargham) Health Swine Flu. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) – The Caribbean has tried for years to shed its image as a refuge for tax dodgers and money launderers where travelers arriving with large amounts of cash were welcomed with open arms and even offered police escorts to their local bank.But suspicions about the region’s booming offshore banking and financial sector still run deep.”If it was not for bank secrecy, the offshore havens in the Caribbean would be fishing communities again,” said Charles Intriago, a former U.S.

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Tech transfer executives areoften viewed to better understand the merits of scientific over commercialsolutions. Roughly 220 prisoners remain in the facility, which was opened at the U.S naval base in Cuba after the Sept 11 attacks Not all of them will face criminal prosecution. It shows how banks can leverage the power of the new toestablish unexpected revenue lines, or make old ones grow. Its homepage is Bracco, +39 02 777 58 ORCam Granstra, +ORBen Payne, +44 20 7844 Copyright Business Wire 2009. Products Leverage Microsoft SharePoint Server Products and Technologies toDeliver Enterprise-Wide Process- and Case-Management SolutionsLAS VEGAS–(Business Wire)–MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT CONFERENCEGlobal 360 today announced its Process and Case Management solutions are thefirst enterprise-wide solutions to enable both strategic process and documentmanagement applications on Microsoft SharePoint Server products andtechnologies. Although Secure America believes that theexpectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, noassurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been correct.These statements involve known and unknown risks and are based upon a number ofassumptions and estimates, which are inherently subject to significantuncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of SecureAmerica. mortgage applicationsfell for a second straight week, led by a plunge in demand forhome refinancing loans as interest rates climbed, data from anindustry group showed on Wednesday.

For more information, please visit or call 561.95.LEARN (955.3276). This compares to$31.9 million of cash generated during Q2 2009.- Earnings per Share: EPS for Q3 2009 was approximately $0.25per share resulting in a consolidated EPS of approximately $(3.25) forthe first three quarters of 2009, compared to a positive EPS of $1.11in the same period of 2008.- Net Assets and NAV per Share: Consolidated net assets were$720.8 million, or $5.71per share, as of September 30, 2009, up from$693.1 million as of June 30, 2009, or $5.50 per share.- Cash Balance: Cash holdings increased during Q3 to $149.7million at September 30, 2009, or approximately $1.19 per outstandingshare, compared to $123.8 million at the end of Q2 2009. PicksThatMove `s affiliates,offices, directors and employees may buy and sell shares in any companymentioned herein and may profit in the event those shares rise in value. InvestorsThe United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) permitsmining companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only thosemineral deposits that a company can economically and legally extract orproduce. Seven (7) out of the 12 present drill holes were designed to better define goldmineralization at the Trench TKB006 and Trench TKB010 zones identified duringthe initial scout drilling program at the northwest extremity of Zone 2 of theKibi Gold Trend (see press releases dated December 10, 2008 and January 8,2009); 1 hole targeted a new gold zone exposed in recent trenching (TrenchesTKB014E & 14F); 2 holes probed previously untested gold-in-soil anomalies; and 2holes tested an Induced Polarization (`IP`) / Resistivity anomaly spatiallyassociated with a gold-in-soil anomaly. Website: Carbon Design Systems is a trademark of Carbon Design Systems Inc.Carbonacknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations fortheir respective products and services.Carbon Design SystemsBill Neifert, 978-264-7302Vice President of Business Copyright Business Wire 2009.