The 35-year-old Woods is bullish about his chances to end a two-year victory drought when play starts Thursday at the Chevron World Challenge at moncler jackets Sherwood Country Club. Woods, the host of the event, is paired with Steve Stricker. At No. 6, Stricker is the highest-ranked player in the 18-man field, which includes eight players in the world top 20.
Graeme McDowell, who came from four strokes behind on the final day to beat Woods in a playoff last year, will not defend his crown. He is playing instead in a big-money event in South Africa.
Woods said the difference in his game now as opposed to a year ago was he no longer has to rely on his putter to save him from his wildness off the tee. He made a joke to drive home his point, knitting together questions in his pretournament news conference Wednesday about the state of his swing and a hockey goalie mask that bore his autograph that was for sale on eBay for nearly $5,000.
“I’m swinging the club well enough that you don’t need to walk out there with hockey helmets on,” Woods said.
There may be other hazards, though. The weather forecast for Thursday calls for gusts reaching 30 to 40 miles per hour. If Woods is not striking the ball solidly, his every flaw will be exposed in the wind.
After playing well in the wind in Sydney, finishing third in the Australian Open, Woods is confident he can weather any conditions.
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Woods had not gone a full season without a victory until 2010, and now he is staring at the possibility of going consecutive seasons without an individual title. It has been so long since Woods could taste victory, his good friend and fellow golfer Notah Begay asked him this week how it felt to be in that position late in the final round in Sydney.
“I told him I felt nothing,” Woods said, “and he said: ‘Good, because you’re not supposed to. You’re supposed to be normal. You’re supposed to be there.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I know.’ ” He added: “On Sunday, I felt the same way I did the first three days, and that’s a good sign. I feel very comfortable being up there.”
Woods said the progress he had made since missing the cut at the P.G.A. Championship in August was palpable. “Absolutely, I can sense it,” Woods said. “I’ve made tremendous strides.”
When his ball-striking is solid, Woods said, everything is easier. “If you’re hitting the ball well, moncler jackets for women there’s very little stress because you’re missing all those golf shots in the right spot,” he said. “You’re not going to hit all perfect golf shots for 18 holes, but as long as you miss in the right spots, it’s easy to get up and down.”
2011年11月30日星期三
2011年11月29日星期二
Scott Brown and presidential candidate Mitt Romney
Instead, some of the state's best-known political figures are now Republicans, among them Sen. Scott Brown and presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"For a long time, Massachusetts Democrats have felt they played a moncler jackets special role in the national Democratic Party," said Tufts University political science professor Jeffrey Berry. "I think that has gone at this point. There is no one in Congress from Massachusetts who has that stature now."
In Pictures: Barney Frank, now and then
Frank has long been a liberal lightning rod and is the highest-profile member of the state's all-Democratic House delegation. His announcement follows the decision of another Massachusetts representative, John Olver, a member of the House Appropriations panel, not to seek re-election.
Add to those impending departures the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy in 2009 and the state's loss of a House seat in the most recent redistricting process, and some Democrats in Massachusetts are wondering whether the glory days are behind them.
While the state's senior senator,Kids - moncler jackets John Kerry, has a powerful perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and often serves as a troubleshooter across the globe for the Obama administration, there's been plenty of speculation that if Obama wins re-election, Kerry could be tapped to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That would rob Massachusetts of a strong Senate presence.
Part of the decline is due to inexorable demographic changes that are working against the relatively small Northeastern state.
While Southern and Southwestern states have experienced population booms, Massachusetts has seen anemic growth, leading to the loss of one of its 10 seats in Congress.
The prospect of running in a newly redrawn district with 325,000 new constituents, combined with the Democrats' loss of control of the House, prompted Frank's decision not to run again after more than three decades in Congress, the 71-year-old said.
"One of the advantages to me of not running for office is that I don't even have to pretend to be nice to people I don't like," the famously acerbic Frank said.
There was a time not so long ago when Massachusetts Democrats held outsized political sway in Washington.
That power may have reached a high water mark during the country's post-World War II years. Massachusetts politicians held the powerful post of House speaker for nearly 20 years, first under John McCormack from 1962 to 1971 and then again under Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who wielded the gavel from 1977 to 1987.
During that same span, another Massachusetts Democrat — John F. Kennedy —cheap moncler jackets for kids was elected president, and his brother Edward began what would be a nearly half-century of service in the Senate.
"For a long time, Massachusetts Democrats have felt they played a moncler jackets special role in the national Democratic Party," said Tufts University political science professor Jeffrey Berry. "I think that has gone at this point. There is no one in Congress from Massachusetts who has that stature now."
In Pictures: Barney Frank, now and then
Frank has long been a liberal lightning rod and is the highest-profile member of the state's all-Democratic House delegation. His announcement follows the decision of another Massachusetts representative, John Olver, a member of the House Appropriations panel, not to seek re-election.
Add to those impending departures the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy in 2009 and the state's loss of a House seat in the most recent redistricting process, and some Democrats in Massachusetts are wondering whether the glory days are behind them.
While the state's senior senator,Kids - moncler jackets John Kerry, has a powerful perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and often serves as a troubleshooter across the globe for the Obama administration, there's been plenty of speculation that if Obama wins re-election, Kerry could be tapped to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That would rob Massachusetts of a strong Senate presence.
Part of the decline is due to inexorable demographic changes that are working against the relatively small Northeastern state.
While Southern and Southwestern states have experienced population booms, Massachusetts has seen anemic growth, leading to the loss of one of its 10 seats in Congress.
The prospect of running in a newly redrawn district with 325,000 new constituents, combined with the Democrats' loss of control of the House, prompted Frank's decision not to run again after more than three decades in Congress, the 71-year-old said.
"One of the advantages to me of not running for office is that I don't even have to pretend to be nice to people I don't like," the famously acerbic Frank said.
There was a time not so long ago when Massachusetts Democrats held outsized political sway in Washington.
That power may have reached a high water mark during the country's post-World War II years. Massachusetts politicians held the powerful post of House speaker for nearly 20 years, first under John McCormack from 1962 to 1971 and then again under Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who wielded the gavel from 1977 to 1987.
During that same span, another Massachusetts Democrat — John F. Kennedy —cheap moncler jackets for kids was elected president, and his brother Edward began what would be a nearly half-century of service in the Senate.
2011年11月28日星期一
one is to continue to serve the people I currently serve
Earlier in the day, Mr. Frank announced at a news conference that he had decided to retire at the end of next year after his Massachusetts district was recently redrawn and it became clear that he would have to fight harder than he wanted for re-election.
Mr. Frank said he had intended to serve one more term but that after seeing his redrawn district, moncler jackets for women which would give him more than 300,000 new constituents and would not include blue-collar New Bedford, one of his strongholds, he changed his mind.
In the interview at his office, the wry and often cantankerous Mr. Frank — who has been among the nation’s most prominent gay elected officials, as well as a frequent target for conservatives in Congress — was relaxed and full of one-liners as he discussed the mood on Capitol Hill and his reasons for leaving. When he arrived in the House in 1981, he said, “you had Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan talking about how they were friends after 5 o’clock — although if you knew Reagan’s work habits it was really, like, after about 2:30.”
Now, Mr. Frank said, the notion that wrangling between Democrats and Republicans is “a competition between people of good will with different views on public policy” has vanished. For that, he blames Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and current Republican presidential candidate with whom he has a tense history.
“Newt’s the single biggest factor in bringing about this change,” Mr. Frank said. “He got to Congress in ’78 and said, ‘We the Republicans are not going to be able to take over unless we demonize the Democrats.’ ”
Mr. Frank also blamed the Men - moncler jackets conservative news media for the bitter divide that had made him reluctant to continue in Washington, as well as moderate voters who he said do not make their voices heard enough.
“I accept the fact there are a lot of people in the country who would like us to work together,” he said. “Unfortunately, none of them appear to have either telephones or e-mail because nobody ever hears from them about specifics. When an issue comes up, anybody who’s trying to compromise only hears from the people who say, ‘Don’t give in, don’t back off.’ ”
But Mr. Frank said he was also ready to quit politics for a more pragmatic reason: he hates raising money and campaigning, and would have had to do a lot of it over the next year. That would have been an unacceptable distraction from his policy priorities, he said, like pushing for federal deficit reduction to include cuts in military spending and continuing to advocate for financial industry reform.
“The need to campaign in a district that is almost half new conflicts with that,” he said at his news conference at Newton City Hall. “If I were to run again, I would be engaged full-fledged in a campaign, which is entirely appropriate. Nobody ought to expect to get elected without a contest. But the fact that it is so new makes it harder in terms of learning about new areas, introducing myself to new people. And I have other obligations; one is to continue to serve the people I currently serve.”
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In the interview at his office, the wry and often cantankerous Mr. Frank — who has been among the nation’s most prominent gay elected officials, as well as a frequent target for conservatives in Congress — was relaxed and full of one-liners as he discussed the mood on Capitol Hill and his reasons for leaving. When he arrived in the House in 1981, he said, “you had Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan talking about how they were friends after 5 o’clock — although if you knew Reagan’s work habits it was really, like, after about 2:30.”
Now, Mr. Frank said, the notion that wrangling between Democrats and Republicans is “a competition between people of good will with different views on public policy” has vanished. For that, he blames Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and current Republican presidential candidate with whom he has a tense history.
“Newt’s the single biggest factor in bringing about this change,” Mr. Frank said. “He got to Congress in ’78 and said, ‘We the Republicans are not going to be able to take over unless we demonize the Democrats.’ ”
Mr. Frank also blamed the Men - moncler jackets conservative news media for the bitter divide that had made him reluctant to continue in Washington, as well as moderate voters who he said do not make their voices heard enough.
“I accept the fact there are a lot of people in the country who would like us to work together,” he said. “Unfortunately, none of them appear to have either telephones or e-mail because nobody ever hears from them about specifics. When an issue comes up, anybody who’s trying to compromise only hears from the people who say, ‘Don’t give in, don’t back off.’ ”
But Mr. Frank said he was also ready to quit politics for a more pragmatic reason: he hates raising money and campaigning, and would have had to do a lot of it over the next year. That would have been an unacceptable distraction from his policy priorities, he said, like pushing for federal deficit reduction to include cuts in military spending and continuing to advocate for financial industry reform.
“The need to campaign in a district that is almost half new conflicts with that,” he said at his news conference at Newton City Hall. “If I were to run again, I would be engaged full-fledged in a campaign, which is entirely appropriate. Nobody ought to expect to get elected without a contest. But the fact that it is so new makes it harder in terms of learning about new areas, introducing myself to new people. And I have other obligations; one is to continue to serve the people I currently serve.”
Mr. Frank said he had intended to moncler jackets retire at the end of 2014 but had decided it would have been unfair to serve new constituents for only one term.
2011年11月26日星期六
Certainly the future is brighter for Key
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Leading a group of 60 National Party members of parliament, the largest single-party bloc ever in New Zealand's parliament, Key will feel he has been given an endorsement to carry through policies that failed draw as much support as he did himself in the pre-election polls.
At a time of heightened economic uncertainty both at home and abroad, Key seems to have sold the country on his outward optimism, a character trait that has carried him on a rags-to-riches rise throughout his life.
Born in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland on Aug. 9, 1961, Key was a boy when his father died. His mother, Ruth, moved Key and his two sisters to the South Island city of Christchurch, where she worked multiple jobs and raised her children in a state house.
Key went on to Canterbury University where completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1981, before going straight into investment banking.
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His optimistic exterior, he has admitted, did not suit him on the parliamentary Opposition benches.
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At a time of heightened economic uncertainty both at home and abroad, Key seems to have sold the country on his outward optimism, a character trait that has carried him on a rags-to-riches rise throughout his life.
Born in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland on Aug. 9, 1961, Key was a boy when his father died. His mother, Ruth, moved Key and his two sisters to the South Island city of Christchurch, where she worked multiple jobs and raised her children in a state house.
Key went on to Canterbury University where completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1981, before going straight into investment banking.
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In the 2005 election he again won Helensville, this time with a majority of 12,778. He continued to be the party's finance spokesman before being elected leader in November 2006.
His optimistic exterior, he has admitted, did not suit him on the parliamentary Opposition benches.
In the July edition of North and South magazine, Key said in an interview: "Around Christmas, a reporter asked me something about being leader of the Opposition and I said I never wanted to go back there. I didn't mean it in the way of a threat 'Don't vote for me and I'll pack up my tools and go home.' What I meant was you're focused on the negative in Opposition; you're always picking holes in things. That's your role."Moncler vest for men, buy cheap moncler mens vests online.
2011年11月24日星期四
This is Occupy Thanksgiving
In New York's Zuccotti Park for moncler outlet, organizers said they distributed some 3,000 individually wrapped plates for what they described as an "open feast."
"This is Occupy Thanksgiving," Haywood Carey, a protester, told CNN.
"What you're seeing here is what we do every day. Every day we feed people. This is a special day for a lot of folks so we wanted to make a special event, but this is actually what the occupation does every single day," he said.
Volunteers passed out meals, bottles of water and slices of pumpkin pie as protesters and anyone else who wanted to stop by sat in the park, enjoying the holiday spread.
Another organizer, Megan Hayes, said the day was all about "supporting the 99%."
"So many people have given up so much to come and be a part of the movement because there is really that much dire need for community. We decided to take this holiday opportunity to provide just that -- community," she said.
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"This is Occupy Thanksgiving," Haywood Carey, a protester, told CNN.
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Volunteers passed out meals, bottles of water and slices of pumpkin pie as protesters and anyone else who wanted to stop by sat in the park, enjoying the holiday spread.
Another organizer, Megan Hayes, said the day was all about "supporting the 99%."
"So many people have given up so much to come and be a part of the movement because there is really that much dire need for community. We decided to take this holiday opportunity to provide just that -- community," she said.
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Protesters in Washington, D.C., similarly sat down to a Thanksgiving meal, provided by area residents. The locals, who were not affiliated with a specific group, said they simply wanted to do something nice for the protesters, who have been camped out in a downtown square for weeks.
Demonstrators set up a food donation table, and several other area residents stopped by to drop off trimmings and desserts.
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2011年11月23日星期三
China abstained from the vote
The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday adopted a resolution condemning Syria for cheap moncler jackets as human rights violations, drawing sharp criticism from Damascus, which called it a U.S.-inspired political move.
The non-binding resolution, sponsored by Britain, France and Germany, was approved by a vote of 122-13 with 41 abstentions. It calls on Syrian authorities to implement an Arab League peace plan calling for the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets.
It also calls for the release of political prisoners, an end to attacks on civilians, and allowing observers into the country.
Syria's UN envoy Bashar Ja'afari said the resolution wouldn't benefit Syria and claimed it was a U.S.-inspired political move.
"Although the draft resolution is submitted primarily from three European countries, it is not a secret that the United States of America is the mastermind and main instigator of the political campaign against my country," Ja'afari said.
China abstained from the vote. The country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Wang Min has called on the international community to help ease tensions in Syria, saying that exerting pressure through country-specific resolutions won't resolve differences.
"The international community should play a constructive role in order to create conditions for the easing of tension in Syria," Wang said, adding that China welcomes the mediation plan of the Arab League.
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Quoting a source in the committee, the paper reported that the mini-committee would complete its mission next week and a press conference would be held to clarify the new basic principles for the constitution.
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Syria's UN envoy Bashar Ja'afari said the resolution wouldn't benefit Syria and claimed it was a U.S.-inspired political move.
"Although the draft resolution is submitted primarily from three European countries, it is not a secret that the United States of America is the mastermind and main instigator of the political campaign against my country," Ja'afari said.
China abstained from the vote. The country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Wang Min has called on the international community to help ease tensions in Syria, saying that exerting pressure through country-specific resolutions won't resolve differences.
"The international community should play a constructive role in order to create conditions for the easing of tension in Syria," Wang said, adding that China welcomes the mediation plan of the Arab League.
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2011年11月20日星期日
Scorsese shot this film in 3-D
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Hugo (Asa Butterfield) must weather the death of his beloved clockmaker father (Jude Law) and the disappearance of his cranky Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone). His uncle was in charge of the Paris train station's elaborate clock tower, and Hugo soon learns the complex machinations required for keeping the clocks running. Moncler jackets for kids, buy cheap moncler 2011 kids down jackets. Shots of intricate cranks and gears and the perilous staircase that leads to the tower are sumptuous and indelible.
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He also must escape the clutches of the overzealous station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), who is particularly keen on tossing unaccompanied children found roaming the railway station directly into orphanages.
In the process of eluding the grasp of the inspector, Hugo runs afoul of a terse shopkeeper (Ben Kingsley) who nurses a big secret. He also meets the shopkeeper's eccentric ward Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz). Despite some frightening interactions with the taciturn merchant, who accuses him of stealing, Hugo becomes friends with Isabelle and introduces her to the joy of going to the movies. That leads to a major revelation as the film unfolds.
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One 3-D scene in particular stands out, in which a turn-of-the-century film by Auguste and Louis Lumière (Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat) is projected so convincingly that audiences leap back in horror at the sight of the train barreling toward them on the screen.
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Hugo (Asa Butterfield) must weather the death of his beloved clockmaker father (Jude Law) and the disappearance of his cranky Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone). His uncle was in charge of the Paris train station's elaborate clock tower, and Hugo soon learns the complex machinations required for keeping the clocks running. Moncler jackets for kids, buy cheap moncler 2011 kids down jackets. Shots of intricate cranks and gears and the perilous staircase that leads to the tower are sumptuous and indelible.
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In the process of eluding the grasp of the inspector, Hugo runs afoul of a terse shopkeeper (Ben Kingsley) who nurses a big secret. He also meets the shopkeeper's eccentric ward Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz). Despite some frightening interactions with the taciturn merchant, who accuses him of stealing, Hugo becomes friends with Isabelle and introduces her to the joy of going to the movies. That leads to a major revelation as the film unfolds.
Scorsese shot this film in 3-D and has taken a technology that is too often employed but rarely used well and put it to its best use. Then again, if a master filmmaker like Scorsese can't use the technique brilliantly, who can? What he creates is a wondrous blend of fantasy and mystery that will appeal to adults as well as children.
One 3-D scene in particular stands out, in which a turn-of-the-century film by Auguste and Louis Lumière (Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat) is projected so convincingly that audiences leap back in horror at the sight of the train barreling toward them on the screen.
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2011年11月19日星期六
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1981 press conference: The coroner's autopsy indicated Ms. Wood had died by accident. ...She attempted to board this rubber dinghy. It was here that she fell and drowned.
Dennis Davern: "That story is 100-percent false. Natalie would never, in a million years, take that dinghy out by herself... She was...deathly afraid of the water."
Sam Kashner: "Dennis Davern was a member of their family...He was both a bodyguard and a confidant of Natalie's."
Davern's been accused of exploiting that relationship. He tried to sell his story - and collaborated with Marti Rulli on a tell-all book - but, he says, it's a matter of conscience.
Dennis Davern: "What I really wanted was to give Natalie a voice."
Sam Kashner: Natalie was one of the biggest film stars imaginable. She was America's sweetheart. America had grown up with her. She was the little doubting girl in 'Miracle on 34th Street' and then she was running with the sort of troubled pack in 'Rebel Without a Cause.' ...She was in 'West Side Story,' 'Splendor in the Grass' and 'Gypsy.'
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Mart Crowley: They were extremely devoted to each other.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 27, 1981: CATALINA ISLAND
Dennis Davern: "We departed Marina Del Rey. It was Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken and myself onboard."
Sam Kashner: "As soon as Chris Walken walked up the gang plank to the Splendour in his pea coat with the collar turned up, Robert Wagner took an instant dislike to him...Chris was fresh off winning the Academy Award for the 'Deer Hunter.'"
Dennis Davern: "You could see a little bit of jealousy from Robert Wagner...And it just kept getting more tense."
Sam Kashner: "There was just volcanic amount of alcohol consumed...the weekend goes from bad to worse."
SATURDAY, NOV. 28
Dennis Davern: "Christopher and Natalie went ashore to the restaurant and had a few drinks. RJ and myself we went in later. When RJ...saw Natalie and Christopher sitting at the bar laughing and having a wonderful time, he started to...really really heat up.
"We go back to the boat...Natalie and Christopher continue to giggle just having fun. ...And then Robert Wagner, out of the clear blue, picked up the bottle of wine and smashed it right on the coffee table. ...RJ said to Christopher, 'What are you, what are you trying to do? F my wife?'
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1981 press conference: The coroner's autopsy indicated Ms. Wood had died by accident. ...She attempted to board this rubber dinghy. It was here that she fell and drowned.
Dennis Davern: "That story is 100-percent false. Natalie would never, in a million years, take that dinghy out by herself... She was...deathly afraid of the water."
Sam Kashner: "Dennis Davern was a member of their family...He was both a bodyguard and a confidant of Natalie's."
Davern's been accused of exploiting that relationship. He tried to sell his story - and collaborated with Marti Rulli on a tell-all book - but, he says, it's a matter of conscience.
Dennis Davern: "What I really wanted was to give Natalie a voice."
Sam Kashner: Natalie was one of the biggest film stars imaginable. She was America's sweetheart. America had grown up with her. She was the little doubting girl in 'Miracle on 34th Street' and then she was running with the sort of troubled pack in 'Rebel Without a Cause.' ...She was in 'West Side Story,' 'Splendor in the Grass' and 'Gypsy.'
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Mart Crowley: They were extremely devoted to each other.
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Dennis Davern: "We departed Marina Del Rey. It was Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken and myself onboard."
Sam Kashner: "As soon as Chris Walken walked up the gang plank to the Splendour in his pea coat with the collar turned up, Robert Wagner took an instant dislike to him...Chris was fresh off winning the Academy Award for the 'Deer Hunter.'"
Dennis Davern: "You could see a little bit of jealousy from Robert Wagner...And it just kept getting more tense."
Sam Kashner: "There was just volcanic amount of alcohol consumed...the weekend goes from bad to worse."
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Far from the flat and featureless rock expected under the Antarctic ice, a craggy range the size of the European Alps was found in the deep.
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"Surveying these mountains was an incredible challenge, but we succeeded and it's produced a fascinating story," Dr Fausto Ferraccioli from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) told BBC News.
Ferraccioli was a principal investigator on the AGAP (Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province) project, completed in 2009.
To map the mountains scientists flew an aircraft back and forth across Antarctica, scanning the Earth with radar. Other instruments recorded the local gravitational and magnetic fields and seismometers were used to probe the ground.
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While the mountains eroded over the course of hundreds of millions of years, only the root remained. And when, 250-100 million years ago, the crust began to pull apart again the root was rejuvenated.
Far from the flat and featureless rock expected under the Antarctic ice, a craggy range the size of the European Alps was found in the deep.
Survey data now suggests the mountains first formed more than a billion years ago, a study published in the journal Nature says.
The Gamburtsevs are thought to be the location where the ice sheet we know today began its march across the frozen continent.
Unravelling the mountains' history will therefore inform climate studies, helping scientists understand both past changes on Earth and possible future scenarios of moncler jackets for women.
"Surveying these mountains was an incredible challenge, but we succeeded and it's produced a fascinating story," Dr Fausto Ferraccioli from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) told BBC News.
Ferraccioli was a principal investigator on the AGAP (Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province) project, completed in 2009.
To map the mountains scientists flew an aircraft back and forth across Antarctica, scanning the Earth with radar. Other instruments recorded the local gravitational and magnetic fields and seismometers were used to probe the ground.
The scientists believe the collision of continents to form the landmass known as "Rodina" first gave life to the range more than a billion years ago.
The impact pushed up the mountains, also creating a dense, cold "root" that sat deep in the Earth's crust where cheap moncler women vest is popular.
While the mountains eroded over the course of hundreds of millions of years, only the root remained. And when, 250-100 million years ago, the crust began to pull apart again the root was rejuvenated.
2011年11月16日星期三
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In the afternoon, they're urging people to gather at transit hubs in each of the five boroughs. They've also called for student walkouts.
Then, protesters plan to take trains to Foley Square, in Lower Manhattan. While on the subway, groups will talk about economic inequality, one organizer said.
At Foley Square, plans call for a large rally that is being backed by some of the city's largest unions, one of which has obtained a permit for the rally. Protesters then plan to march across the Brooklyn Bridge's pedestrian path. The events are tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement's two-month anniversary.
It's not clear how disruptive demonstrators plan to be, or what kind of police response they'll face. City officials on Wednesday said they're expecting problems and police are prepared to handle them.
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Paul Browne, an NYPD spokesman, declined to comment on any police department plans for policing the various protests on Thursday. "We don't talk about police tactics in advance," he said.
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Afghan elders fear tragedy if U.S. leaves too soon
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Today, more than 2,000 Afghan leaders from around the country will begin a four-day meeting on the future of the nation's relationship with the United States and talks with the Taliban and other insurgent groups.
Though not an official body like the elected parliament, the jirga is a traditional gathering used to gauge the feelings of tribal leaders whose authority is widespread outside the capital.
President Hamid Karzai has said he wants to know what the leaders think about allowing U.S. troops to remain in the country perhaps beyond the tentative withdrawal date at the end of 2014. He intends to ask the leaders about reconciliation talks with the Taliban, the Muslim clerical movement that imposed harsh Islamic law on Afghanistan until it was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001 moncler women jackets.
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Though not an official body like the elected parliament, the jirga is a traditional gathering used to gauge the feelings of tribal leaders whose authority is widespread outside the capital.
President Hamid Karzai has said he wants to know what the leaders think about allowing U.S. troops to remain in the country perhaps beyond the tentative withdrawal date at the end of 2014. He intends to ask the leaders about reconciliation talks with the Taliban, the Muslim clerical movement that imposed harsh Islamic law on Afghanistan until it was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001 moncler women jackets.
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McCourt spoke with reporters after the Dodgers dedicated a youth baseball field at Mona Park in Compton. McCourt and Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp each spoke to the youngsters, but there was no announcement of the eight-year, $160-million contract to which Kemp and the team have agreed.
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McCourt also said -- and Major League Baseball officials confirmed -- that there is no formal or informal restriction against the Dodgers pursuing premium free agents such as Prince Fielder.
McCourt spoke with reporters after the Dodgers dedicated a youth baseball field at Mona Park in Compton. McCourt and Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp each spoke to the youngsters, but there was no announcement of the eight-year, $160-million contract to which Kemp and the team have agreed.
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2011年11月13日星期日
The news was a coup for President Barack Obama
Pacific trade pact gets boost from US neighbors
The news was a coup for President Barack Obama, who made progress on the pact one of his top priorities for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit being held in his home state of Hawaii. It comes after Japan, the world's third-biggest economy, said it would join the nine nations already involved in talks on what has been dubbed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The balmy weather for the annual APEC gathering at a resort on the west side of the Hawaiian island of Oahu contrasted with deepening pessimism over the economic outlook as the leaders sat down for a day of talks on how to spur growth and create jobs. With Europe again on the brink of recession, Asia's vital role as a driver of global growth has gained even greater urgency.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his country must look to the East to ensure markets, especially for its energy exports. "That will be an important priority of this government going forward," Harper said before meeting with Obama on the sidelines of the 21-member APEC summit.
The U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk who wants to buy moncler jackets, welcomed the overtures from Canada and Mexico about joining the so called TPP, issuing a statement calling them America's "neighbors and largest export markets."
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2011年11月12日星期六
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Plans for universities in England to compete for some student places should be delayed, MPs on a Commons committee have said.
The plan is a key part of the government's controversial scheme to overhaul university funding and introduce a market in places.
The Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee said the lifting of the cap on places "should not be done overnight".
Ministers say the changes are needed cheap moncler women vest.
In a report on the government's changes to higher education, the committee said the market mechanisms should only be brought in at least 12 months after tuition fees rise.
Fees in England are due to rise up to a maximum of £9,000 a year from next autumn.
Fees at Welsh universities are also rising to this maximum level, but only for students from other parts of the UK shop with moncler for men himalaya sub.
In Scotland, Scottish students will continue to pay no tuition fees but those coming from other parts of the UK will pay up to £9,000 a year.
The MPs' report was just about England's plans.
Under these, universities will be able to take as many students as they like if they have scored top grades of two As and a B in their A-levels.
And universities which keep their fees below £7,500 a year will be able to bid for 20,000 places.
In the past, universities were funded for a set number of places.
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