Pakistan's new prime minister says fighting terrorism will be his government's top priority. It is also ready to talk to militants prepared to lay down their arms.
Yousaf Raza Gilani made the remarks on Saturday in his first policy speech since lawmakers elected him days ago. Earlier Saturday, parliamentarians passed unopposed a motion …
(FORT KNOX, Ky.) - A selection board consisting of seven sergeants major chose the 1999 U.S. Army Reserve Recruiter of the year here recently.
Sgt. First Class Elizabeth Green was picked from a field of more than 1,300 Reserve recruiters. Green, who is assigned to the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion, competed for the title of USAR Recruiter of the Year first at the battalion level and then at 6th Recruiting Brigade, Las Vegas, before advancing to the overall level at Headquarters, U.S. Army Recruiting Command.
"I quickly realized my success was based on my motivation," said Green about her initial assignment in recruiting. "I visited the high schools in my area and …
Russian forces withdrew from several positions in western Georgia on Saturday, and a Georgian official said Russia had met a deadline for a partial pullout a month after the war between the two former Soviet republics.
Russian soldiers and armored vehicles rolled out of six checkpoints and temporary bases in the Black Sea port of Poti and other areas nearby, Georgian Security Council chief Alexander Lomaia said.
"They have fulfilled the commitment" to withdraw from the area by Sept. 15 under an agreement European Union leaders reached with Russia last week, Lomaia told The Associated Press. But he stressed that Georgia _ like the West _ demands a …
The federal government is soliciting construction bids for an intelligence-gathering center in Utah.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released details of the super-secret electronic data center on a government Web site and set a Feb. 18 deadline for bids from a general contractor.
The so-called Utah Data Center will be self-contained with its own water supply, sewer system and backup power …
If Arlington International Racecourse reopens on Mother's Day, asscheduled, its betting windows could be closed.
The union representing 600 clerks who work the betting windows atArlington and other tracks is threatening to strike May 14, thescheduled reopening date. The track has been closed for two years.
Contract talks stalled Thursday after the two sides couldn't agreeon the amount of a salary increase. No talks have been scheduled.
"We've hit a brick wall," said Mary Ellen Foley, business agentfor Local 134 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,which represents the pari-mutuel clerks. Foley said her members,without a contract since December, …
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — J.R. Towles had three hits, including an RBI single and his second spring home run Sunday, leading the Houston Astros to a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers in a matchup of split-squads.
Magglio Ordonez's first home run accounted for …
An unarmed black man was squirming on an Oakland train platform while being placed under arrest moments before he was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer last year, a fellow officer testified Friday.
Tony Pirone, who was fired from the transit agency in April, recounted how he and defendant Johannes Mehserle took Oscar Grant to the ground and tried to restrain him.
"He was trying to wiggle free," Pirone testified. "I remember vividly telling him to put his hands behind his back."
Mehserle has pleaded not guilty to murder in the shooting death of Grant, 22, on New Year's Day 2009. The trial was moved from …
Mental Retardation Guidebook on Helping Persons with Mental Retardation Mourn Jeffrey Kauffman, John D Morgan, editor. Amityville (NY): Baywood Publishing Company Inc; 2005. 127 p. US$34.95.
Reviewer rating: Good
Part of the Death, Value and Meaning series, this guidebook sets out to characterize grief in persons with mental retardation and to provide professionals and agencies serving this population with guidance on how to help their clients mourn.
The author, a Philadelphia clinical social worker, says he became aware of the need for work on this topic in 1988. His contribution is based on clinical practice since then. He illustrates his concepts and suggestions …
Ilya Bryzgalov made 30 saves and the Phoenix Coyotes extended their winning streak to five games with a 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.
Daniel Winnik, Joel Perrault and Keith Yandle each scored in the second period as the Coyotes won in Wayne Gretzky's 200th game as an NHL coach. Gretzky improved to 89-100-11, all with Phoenix.
Alex Tanguay scored the lone goal late in the third period for Calgary, which lost in regulation for just the second time in eight games and had its five-game unbeaten run end.
Scoreless after the first period, Phoenix seized control in the second period, scoring three straight goals and outshooting the Flames …
"The View" (10 a.m., Channel 7): Musician Bette Midler; comedian Gilbert Gottfried; cast of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."
"The Talk" (1 p.m., Channel 2): Actress Jennifer Garner.
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (3 p.m., Channel 5): Musician Christina Aguilera; actress Mary McCormack; singer David Cook.
"Conan" (10 p.m., TBS): Singer Justin Bieber; music group the Black Keys. (R)
"Late Show With David Letterman" …
Barbra Streisand has become the highest paid actress in thecountry - to the tune of $60 million.
Sony announced Thursday it had signed Streisand to produce,direct or star in six films over 10 years and do eight albums,sources said.
The 50-year-old now is in the same league with such younger popicons as Madonna and Michael Jackson, all of whom have $60 millioncontracts with their organizations.
Meanwhile, Streisand's pals are urging a compromise on her callto boycott Colorado. Proceeds from a Streisand concert, like thoseheld there this week by Manhattan Transfer, would go toward a legalchallenge to the state's anti-gay rights law. The plan would allowStreisand to save face and let her friends continue to vacationthere.
Country star Merle Haggard had good news and bad news thisweek. The same day his wife, Theresa, gave birth to the singer'ssixth child - Haggard filed for bankruptcy.
The Museum of Fine Arts is taking a big interest in its small but significant collection of African Art. Moreover, the MFA's announcement last week of a curator with a focus on a continent of artists previously much neglected is but their first gambit.
E. Barry Gaither, director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists, which has had an affiliation with the MFA since the late Sixties, concurs that the stir of interest is exciting.
"And long overdue," he adds.
"The heritage of Africa belongs to the heritage of the world and the MFA is a world class museum," he said.
Over the next year, the MFA is scheduled to redo its African arts gallery, provide a catalogue for the work in it, and participate in a major meeting in Boston in April of "The Triannual Meeting on African Art." The association of 700 or so councils and African studies that comprise its membership has previously met in New Orleans and most recently in St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2001. Very importantly, the association concerns itself not only with traditional African art but with contemporary African artists, as well, who have long been over-looked.
The timing couldn't be more auspicious for the MFA, as this category of artist has recently gotten a big boost in recognition by the art world because of the prestigious Venice Biennial. The current exhibit ongoing in Italy, "Dreams And Conflicts," has a noticeable addition of work by contemporary African and South American artists, an attempt to rectify the past. The Biennial's report of its 49th exhibit had read, "we found it incomprehensible that huge regions like Africa and South America, in which it is known that there are interesting artists, were so poorly represented."
Named to the newly created African and Oceanic Arts post is former Smithsonian curator Christraud M. Geary, now Curator for African and Oceanic Art. Geary's position is funded by MFA benefactor and overseer William E. Teel, who had already donated some 68 important objects of traditional African Art to the museum.
"These pieces are fine examples of a particular art tradition and of high quality from an artistic point of view," said Geary in a recent interview at the MFA. Previously at Wellesley College, Tufts University, and Boston University's African Studies Center, the German-born Geary was with the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian for 13 years.
She noted that while Teel has never visited Africa himself, he bought the work over the years from reputable dealers in New York, Paris, Brussels, and elsewhere. He sees the MFA as a safe place for his treasures and as a way for the public to enjoy them, she said. The MFA now owns a total of 109 African objects, exclusive of the work in the ancient arts department, such as the Nubian art which has a permanent gallery all its own.
"The triennial meeting of scholars, museum curators, art historians, collectors, and the like will bring thousands of people interested in African art to Boston," said Geary, who is delighted that the MFA is a major sponsor of the event. Geary is chair of the committee organizing the panels for the event. A reception at the MFA's newly refurbished gallery for African art, will take place during the April meeting.
"Some of the hot topics at the meeting will include buying works by contemporary African artists and facilitating the process by which these artists become better known," she said.
Interviewed later, Gaither noted that when it comes to African art, "there is a tendency to think only of traditional art and that denies the African modernists. Africa also belongs to the modern world and is fully engaged in it." He noted that modern day South African artists got an exhibit at Brandeis's Rose Gallery this past year, "but South Africa is a tiny piece of the whole picture."
When the Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists struck an association with the MFA in 1969, part of the notion was to highlight traditional African art and African artists of today. "Now that intended arena of African art is coming into its own," said Gaither.
"That egg has taken a long time to incubate but a good chick is emerging," he said.
The Museum of the NCAAA has staged many shows over the decades pertaining to traditional African art and contemporary African artists, including two exhibits of Christian art from Ethiopia; two different one-man shows of work by Khalid Kodi and a show of work by Rashid Diab, both from the Sudan; the fabric designs of C.S. Okeke, who was in residency at the museum during his leave from the University of Nigeria; and a survey of contemporary artists of Africa organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Photograph (Christraud M. Geary)
NEW YORK (AP) — It's off to Hong Kong to meet with buyers, Italy to search for the finest craftsmen, then to St. Bart's for a little R&R.
Fashion designers often live the jet-set life they love to mimic on their runways. They travel for business, they travel for pleasure. They are always looking for inspiration, and they take a lot of photographs. The Council of Fashion Designers of America partnered with publisher Assouline to collect personal tidbits for the new book "American Fashion Travel," which includes Lubov and Max Azria's family vacations in Punta Canta, Dominican Republic, and Gilles Mendel schussing through the snow as a teenager in Val d'Isere, France.
Alexander Wang is always on the hunt for the perfect spa, but he'll take the accommodations at the George V in Paris or Conrad in Tokyo easily in its stead. Phillip Lim loves a good road trip, Tory Burch scours India for ideas and, while Cynthia Rowley loves the Sahara and the Guggenheim in Balboa, Spain, her favorite destination is close to home — in Montauk, N.Y. — where weekends become mini-vacations.
Diane von Furstenberg, president of the CFDA, a not-for-profit trade association, likes to go to food markets and travels to Asia — hiking boots in her suitcase — whenever she can. She favors boats, cars and trains over planes.
"For me, traveling and living are the same," von Furstenberg writes in the book's foreword. "How you travel is a symbol of your life."
So, just how do designers travel? What can't they live without? Are they like the rest of us and fall victim to over-packing or have they mastered the art of on-the-move dressing? The Associated Press asked a few designers about the nitty-gritty of globe-trotting travel:
Yigal Azrouel says he can live out of one bag. If he's traveling for fun, he'll probably end up on his sailboat where he needs shorts, T-shirts, flip-flops, iPod and laptop. For the cool evenings, he'll have stowed a sweatshirt or leather jacket in his compact Tumi bag or the vintage duffel bag he bought in a flea market 10 years ago. For business, he can do Europe for a week — or more — with a single suit. "I am not a fashion victim. I will wear the same thing over and over again," Azrouel says during an interview. "I will wash it, of course."
Mendel also packs light, but is more specific, down to the Thom Browne blazer, Ann Demeulemeester trousers, an Ernest Sewn casual button-down and Jil Sander cologne. And when he checks into the Ritz in Paris, he orders soft scrambled eggs to help settle in.
Trina Turk piles on the layers. The cardigan, a safari jacket and the chunky scarf go on and off as she moves between climates or as a plane's cabin temperature fluctuates.
Oh yes, that chunky scarf is key, agrees Azrouel. "I'm always wearing scarves, it doesn't matter if it's summer or winter," he says. "Sometimes I'll cover myself with it on the plane. I don't like those blankets they give out."
For Narciso Rodriguez, it's his cashmere sweater that he doesn't leave home without — and sketchbooks are always in his bag, typically a canvas tote. He does try to go without eating on the plane and he'll drink tons of water. "You feel 100 percent better when you land," he says.
Water, coconut water and fresh-squeezed carrot, apple and pineapple juice are part of Catherine Malandrino's flight plan to fight any jet lag. She moisturizes her skin and lips, and pulls out sunglasses and a big hat upon arrival.
Nanette Lepore brings her pad, pencils and camera — and her sister Michelle whenever she can. "I usually love to travel with my sister. We do business and pleasure travel together. She's always there when I need her, she'll help me lug big bags, but we get separate rooms because I need that space," Lepore tells the AP. "She's so much fun."
At least once a year, there's a big family trip that also includes Lepore's husband, daughter, cousins, nieces and nephews. Italy is their favorite destination, spending as much time in a boat as possible. "That's my preferred mode of travel," she says.
Lepore defines herself as an "over-packer," although she's trying to pare down, especially with luggage restrictions and extra fees. "I don't bring high heels anymore. I think I'll wear them for a night out, but I never do. I wear flat sandals so I still bring all the fun, sexy dresses but I make sure they all look good with flats."
It's one bag — smallish and efficiently packed with "effortless essentials" — for Catherine Malandrino. She leaves extra space because she likes to bring home novelty hats, which she collects. One of her favorite souvenirs, however, is from Phuket, Thailand, where she bought a 300-pound elephant sculpture. Try fitting that in the carry-on compartment.
Turk likes to bring home from faraway lands costume jewelry, which there's always room for. Lepore sheepishly says she carries an extra bag for her take-home treasures. Turk packs chunky necklaces and big rings from home, too, because it helps her maintain her other packing rules about keeping clothes simple.
Accessories are what will keep her outfits fresh each day when she's re-wearing the same pair of jeans and that favorite safari jacket, she explains. "That jacket has been all over Asia, Europe, Mexico and Morocco," she says. "I'm talking about a June trip, either to Bali or Istanbul. Neither are places I've ever been before."
The city's craziest jukebox can be found at Zum Deutschen Eck,2924 N. Southport (525-8389). Only in the squeaky clean Bavarianlodge setting around the bar at the Zum can you listen to "HotPretzels" by Bernie Wyte and His Polka Band followed by "To All theGirls I've Loved Before" by Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias. If youwant to stop Moammar Khadafy dead on the world dance floor, just zoomhim some of the selections from the Zum.
With clever programming, you can change the mood of the roomfaster than you can say Koenigsberger Klops. When I have nothingbetter to do, I'll go to the Zum and pair off selections like this:First I play the boisterous "Abteilung Marsch (Parts 1 and 2)" byHelmut Berger and watch real men hoist their weiss beer to themarching music like true comrades. My second choice will besomething like "You Light up My Life" by Debby Boone, and the cheeryatmosphere drops like a falling star.
Owner Al Wirth Jr. was slightly amazed I would be interested inthe jukebox at Zum Deutschen Eck, which does not mean strange songs.(It means the German Corner.)
"We're trying to keep it low-key. We don't want realcontemporary loud rock music," Wirth says in tones that are toohumble. "We've really reduced a lot of the German selections on thejukebox (down to 14) because we're trying to attract more of a yuppiecrowd," he says, glancing at such tunes as Barry Manilow's "I Writethe Songs," Bobby Vinton's "My Melody of Love" and Morris Albert's"Feelings."
Wirth explains how he arrived at the jukebox selections. "Evenin Germany, it's hard to find the old beer drinking songs," he said."It's all rock 'n' roll and disco. These German songs are kind oflike the last hurrah."
The Zum offers live German sing-alongs with a two-piece oom-pahband at 7 p.m. Fridays, and 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
"The American songs are just some of the old favorites," Wirthsays. "We don't mind the German songs loud and rowdy, but we want theAmerican songs subdued. They certainly aren't disco tunes," he says,looking at Barry Manilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again," KennyRogers' "Share Your Love with Me" and the Carpenters' "We've OnlyJust Begun."
Wirth pauses for a long, reflective moment.
"I guess it could use some updating, but the jukebox just isn'tused as much as it used to be," he says, eyeing Vinton's "My Melodyof Love" and Perry Como's "It's Impossible." "I'm sure you don't seethat many jukeboxes any more."
At least not many like the one at Zum Deutschen Eck.
TOUNGE TWISTERS: Falling somewhere between the ethereal strainsof Joy Division and the bitter bass lines of Jesus and Mary Chain,the English quartet Red Lorry Yellow Lorry will appear at 8 p.m.Sunday at Cabaret Metro, 3730 N. Clark (549-0203). Also appearingwill be Volcano Suns, featuring former members of Mission of Burma.
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry obtained their name from a tongue twisterfound in an English children's comic book called "Beano." The groupmixes a clear sense of rhythm with incessant heavy-metal guitars."Paint Your Wagon," their second album on the independent Englishlabel Red Rhino, features sizzling upbeat dance tunes such as"Walking on Your Hands" and feisty instrumentals such as "MescalDance." This music is not for wimps.
MAYS IN APRIL: Composer-keyboardist Lyle Mays of the Pat MethenyGroup will appear at 8 tonight in Building M at Harper College,Algonquin and Roselle in Palatine (397-3000, ext. 2300). Even morenoteworthy is Mays' supporting band, which includes bassist MarcJohnson, formerly with pianist Bill Evans' last trio, Weather Updatedrummer Peter Erskine, saxophonist Billy Drews and guitarist BillFrisell. Drews and Frisell have worked with the adventurous andextending styles of jazz drummer Paul Motian.
Also on tonight's bill is former Dregs guitarist Steve Morse.
GOLDEN OLDIES: Playing traditional music with more than 100 windand percussion pre-Columbian instruments (many of which have not beenplayed regularly for 500 years), the musical duo Xochimoki(pronounced so-chee-mo-kee) will appear at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at theRuiz Belvis Cultural Center, 1632 N. Milwaukee, third floor(235-3988).
Xochimoki, Out of Taos, N.M., employs instrumentation such asturtle shell, bamboo, conch and gourd trumpets, and ceramic andAndean flutes. Programs also incorporate poetry, elaborate masks andnative dances all based around the symbols, prophecies and indigenouscultures of North and South America.
BACK TO THE ROOTS: In an interesting acoustic experiment, MikeJordan will perform solo, followed by separate performances from theRockamatics at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at Orphans, 2462 N. Lincoln(929-2677). After Jordan performs five or six acoustic selections,there will be individual performances from band members Randy Lee onguitar, Tom "Pickles" Piekarski on bass and Buddah Slim on keyboards.
"This gives us a chance to do some songs and music that don'tfit with the Rockamatic rock 'n' roll format," Jordan says. "But theyare songs that we like and different kinds of music we appreciate.Randy is an accomplished and studied ragtime and blues guitar player.He has a few things he wants to showcase. Pickles' musical tastes gofrom George Jones to Tom Waits to Randy Newman. Buddah is going tosurprise us all - he's the holdout on all of us. And I'm going to dosome tunes I've been writing since the band formed and songs from myfolk repertoire 10 years ago."
After that, an old-fashioned jamboree-hootenanny will takeplace, featuring Jordan, his band and Chicago folkies such as MichaelSmith, Harry Waller, Thom Dundee, Betsy Redhead and others. A $3cover will finance a upcoming Mike Jordan and the Rockamaticsrecording project.
NAMES AND GAMES: Steppin Out's favorite garage band,Quickchange, has been signed to Whiplash, a small record label out ofBelgium. The madcaps from Markham were featured in the January issueof the English fanzine, "Metal Forces." . . . Sam Cooke's "WonderfulWorld" has been certified for a Silver Disc Award in the UnitedKingdom after just three weeks on the charts. The record hit No. 2after being licensed to the United Kingdom for Levi's jeans use in atelevision commercial. It was the first Silver Disc for Cooke, whodied 22 years ago. . . . A birthday party will be thrown for WilliamShakespeare at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Red Lion Pub, 2446 N. Lincoln(348-2695). Members of the Chicago Shakespeare Company will performscenes, songs and skits in the cabaret and outside (weatherpermitting).
ROAD TO NOWHERE: A little bit of everything at the RosemontHorizon, 6920 N. Mannheim Rd. (559-1212) this week: Amy Grant willsing her accessible Christian-rock at 8 tonight, followed by thecatchy country-pop of Sawyer Brown, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers inthe round at 8 p.m. Monday. . . . The Circle Jerks will square offwith thrash music at 8 tonight at Cabaret Metro, 3730 N. Clark(549-0203). . . . David Bromberg and his 10-piece band (with horns)will play at 9:30 tonight and tomorrow at Biddy Mulligan's, 7644 N.Sheridan (761-6532).
Police say two pallets loaded with bottles of vodka sauce have fallen onto a worker at a New York packing plant, killing her.
Suffolk County homicide detectives are investigating the death of Yolanda Gonzalez at L&S Packing in East Farmingdale, about 25 miles east of New York City.
Police say the Lake Ronkonkoma (ron-KONK'-uh-muh) woman was labeling canned tomatoes Tuesday evening when the nearby pallets toppled over.
Co-workers tried to help the 39-year-old shipping manager by removing the debris, but she died at the scene.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been notified.
A Wednesday night telephone call to the packing facility hasn't been returned.
A North-east musician hopes to help popularise the work of aDanish classical composer.
Pianist Joseph Long, 32, of Nethermains Road, Muchalls, hasrecorded a CD of work by Carl Nielsen, a conductor, violinist, andcomposer, who died in 1931.
It is the fifth CD released by the former Portlethen Academystudent, who read music at Cambridge University.
Mr Long, who teaches at the North East of Scotland Music School,in Aberdeen, was inspired to record the CD after playing Nielsen'swork Theme with Variations, Opus 40.
He said: "I think he is a fine composer and not often played, soI am very pleased to have recorded this CD. Sales have been good."
Westinghouse wanted to make a statement Saturday at the GentileCenter that it should be ranked among the nation's top teams.
The message came through loud and clear.
The Warriors rolled to a 51-31 victory over Bloomington South,rated No. 13 in the nation and No. 1 in Indiana. And they did itwith their best player, David Bailey, out with a broken wrist."This was this team's best performance of the season,"Westinghouse coach Chris Head said. "(Bloomington South) sawsomething that they just weren't used to. Most teams pressure yousometimes, but we keep pressure on you all the time."Leading 23-19 at halftime, the Warriors (5-0) took control inthe third quarter behind their defense, limiting the Panthers to2-for-14 shooting from the field. They did not allow a field goaluntil 2:04 remained in the quarter and built a 36-24 lead at theclose of the quarter.The only person who may not have been impressed withWestinghouse was losing coach J.R. Holmes, who is looking forward toplaying the Warriors again next year."The referees let the game get turned into an alley game, andthat benefitted (Westinghouse)," Holmes said."If the game is played like a high schoool game instead of acollege game, then the results would've been much different. If theyplayed in Indiana, they would not have gotten away with traveling,hand-checking and carrying the ball. And we would've been at thefree-throw line all day."Holmes' son, Jon, was the only Panther in double figures with 10points. Dennis Trammell led Westinghouse with 12 points; Bobby Sharpand Cedric Banks each had 10.Dave Krider, who rates teams for USA Today, was impressed withWestinghouse."They played great defense," Krider said. "They definitely willbe considered for a ranking when a spot opens.""If they are the No. 13 team in the country, where should webe?" Head said.Milwaukee Vincent 54, Gary Westside 41: Marshall Williamsscored 16 points and James Wright added 15 points and eight reboundsto lead Vincent (2-1). Kenneth Lowe scored 15 for Westside (3-1),which shot 28 percent from the field.
NEW YORK - Shelley Duncan homered twice, including a three-run drive that capped a 10-run fourth inning Sunday in the surging New York Yankees' 21-4 rout of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Alex Rodriguez, batting with sunglasses on a sunny afternoon, hit his major league-leading 34th homer and No. 498 of his career. Hideki Matsui, Bobby Abreu and Robinson Cano also homered as the Yankees hit six home runs in a game for the first time in two years.
New York had 25 hits, reaching 20 for the second straight game and improving to a season-best five over .500. Matsui tied his regular-season high with five hits, and every Yankees starter had a hit, a run and an RBI. Rodriguez pushed his big league-leading RBIs total to 99 in 97 games plus the suspended contest against Baltimore.
The Yankees, who won the second game of Saturday's day-night doubleheader 17-5, took three of four from the Devil Rays, hitting .404 in the series with 49 runs, 63 hits and 11 homers.
New York is 9-3 since the All-Star break, playing only Tampa Bay and Toronto, and is scheduled for 16 more games against teams with losing records before a trip to Cleveland on Aug. 10.
With the score 3-all, New York broke open the game in the fourth. Cano tripled leading off, and the Yankees made it 10-3 on six RBI singles and a throwing error by catcher Dioner Navarro.
Duncan's first homer came off reliever Casey Fossum and made it 13-3, and his second was a leadoff drive off Shawn Camp in the sixth. Music from "The Natural" played as Duncan rounded the bases.
Duncan earned a pair of curtain calls from the crowd of 54,751. When he came to bat with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, he was greeted with chants of "Shel-ley! Shel-ley!"
The brother of St. Louis outfielder Chris Duncan and the son of Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan, Shelley also was cheered out of the dugout when he hit his first major league homer in Saturday's opener. He made his major league debut Friday night and had an RBI single in New York's 14-4 loss.
Andy Pettitte (6-6) won his 12th straight decision against the Devil Rays, improving to 13-1 against the Devil Rays. Despite a season-best eight strikeouts, it was a mostly unimpressive outing for the left-hander. He gave up eight hits, including an upper-deck homer to Carlos Pena leading off the second, but became the first Yankees starter to win since Chien Ming Wang on July 14.
James Shields (8-6), lost for the sixth time in nine starts, allowing 10 runs, 10 hits and four walks in 3 1-3 innings. Eleven of his final 14 batters reached base.
Notes:@ Shields is on pace for well over 200 innings this year, which would make him the third in the Devil Rays' 10-season history to do so. ... The 10-runs fourth was the Yankees' highest-scoring inning since they got 10 last Sept. 4 at Kansas City. ... Jonny Gomes struck out three times, all against Pettitte. ... Matsui had five hits in Game 3 of the 2004 AL championship series. ... Cano was a double short of the cycle. ... The Yankees' previous game with six homers was July 20, 2005, at Texas. ... The Devil Rays used five pitchers and threw 216 pitches in a game that lasted 3 hours, 50 minutes. ... Sean Henn, recalled from Triple-A before the game, took over for Pettitte to start the seventh and batted because Duncan went to first base, pushing Andy Phillips to third in place of Rodriguez. Henn struck out without a swing his first big league at-bat.
Dorothy Kirk Bennett, 87, of Winnetka, died Wednesday in herDelray Beach, Fla., home.
A native of Des Moines, Mrs. Bennett was a graduate of DrakeUniversity. She was a former member of the Chicago Maternity Center,North Shore Advisory Board of the Illinois Children's Home and AidSociety and the Senior Board of the Evanston Infant Welfare.
She was the widow of Gail Bennett, who headed Bennett Bros.Inc. of Chicago and Mahway, N.J., a catalog merchandising concern.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia J. Bennett; a son, GailK. Bennett, and a sister.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday after visitation at10 a.m. at W. H. Scott Guardian Chapels, Wilmette. Burial will be inMemorial Park, Skokie.
Oprah Winfrey might be involved in many things, but she isn'tgetting mixed up in either politics or newspaper publishing.
Those were among the tidbits the media giant offered Tuesday nightin a rare television interview granted to CNN's Larry King.
Winfrey, who appeared on the set of "Larry King Live" in New YorkCity, quickly shot down a caller's question asking if she everthought about running for U.S. Senate or president.
"No, ma'am, I would not," Winfrey said. Television "is the bestforum in the world. I think all the senators wish they had that forthemselves."
Winfrey said her desire is to raise awareness for issues includingAIDS, and she's in a good spot to do that now, thank you.
"I can do a much more profound job sitting here on the Larry Kingshow or using my own show than I can trying to be in politics," shesaid. "I just feel this is the best forum in the world for reachingpeople. . . . Politics isn't for me."
Neither is newspapering.
King asked Winfrey about what he termed a rumor that she isinterested in buying the Chicago Sun-Times, which HollingerInternational Inc. officials have said could be sold.
"That's a rumor I hadn't heard," she replied.
When asked if she wanted to own a newspaper, Winfrey, who alreadypublishes her own magazine, didn't hedge.
"No," she told King.
Tuesday's interview didn't reveal much that hard-core Oprahfanatics didn't already know. She told King she has no plans to adopta child. And she has no interest in doing any more acting. Kingdidn't even bother with questions on her longtime love interest,Stedman Graham.
But the interview did give her a chance to talk about her recentmonth-long trip to South Africa. And it gave King a chance to plugtwo specials about her trip: a Dec. 17 ABC special and a Dec. 22"Oprah" show.
She warned that not enough people truly understand what ishappening in Africa with the AIDS epidemic and the growing number oforphans left to fend for themselves because of it.
"If we as a nation do not do whatever we can to support thesechildren, we're going to have social chaos in 10 years," shepredicted.
During her trip, Winfrey said she handed out gifts to 50,000children, which she said was: "the single happiest day of my life."
"I wanted to be able to bring a day of joy to children who wouldnot have had a day of joy," she said. "Because I remember in my lifethere were times when people had done that for me."
Winfrey spoke briefly about the girls school she is building inSouth Africa, and urged others to get involved by writing a check orwriting to their congressman.
"I'm always looking for ways to that I can use myself and use mylife, use my money, use my time, use my energy," she said. "What I'minterested in doing now is creating a lasting impact. My efforts aregoing into schools because education is freedom."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Germany's finance minister said Friday that a second massive bailout package for Greece may have to be re-evaluated after the country's debt inspectors discovered problems in implementing previous promises.
"I would be surprised if the preconditions for the payment of the next (aid) installment in September had changed, but not the preconditions for an additional program for Greece," Wolfgang Schaeuble said in a news conference in Washington after a meeting with his counterparts from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations.
Greece's international debt inspectors early this month interrupted a review mission in Athens amid disagreement over whether the debt-ridden country was cutting its budget deficits as promised in return for a first rescue package. They are set to return next week, after Greece announced a raft of new austerity measures.
Eurozone leaders in July agreed in principle to give Greece a further €109 billion in rescue loans, on top of €110 billion granted last year, to keep the country from defaulting on its massive debts; default would rock European banks and could push large parts of the world into a second recession.
Already at the time, officials said that the €109 billion figure was an estimate that possibly would have to be adapted after Greece's debt inspectors — officials from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — had taken a more detailed look at the country's financing needs. Another variable in the package is the contribution of banks and other private investors, which are being asked to give Greece easier terms on its bonds.
But Schaeuble's comments are the most vocal acknowledgment to date that the second aid package may face a deeper review as Greece risks slipping ever further behind the targets set out in its bailout program. They also are another example of how the eurozone has struggled to get ahead of its debt crisis, repeatedly having to re-evaluate recently announced measures as the situation worsened.
The Greek government has warned that the country's economy is expected to shrink some 5.3 percent this year, far worse than was estimated even this summer. But apart from a worsened recession, Athens has come under fire for not implementing promised economic reforms in time and not selling off state property as quickly as agreed.
To get eurozone leaders to commit even more money to Greece, a country whose debts are approaching 160 percent of economic output, Athens had to adopt in June a €28 billion austerity package as well as €50 billion in privatizations, facing down an increasingly reluctant parliament and violent protests across the country.
Already, three months after those new measures were passed, Greece has had to take corrective steps, announcing a new property tax earlier this month and speeding up pension and public sector cuts.
Getting private investors to commit to easier lending terms also has taken more time than initially expected, with some analysts questioning whether Greece can get the required 90 percent of them to swap their existing bonds for new ones that have a lower face value, pay lower interest or have longer repayment deadlines.
A European official said that changes to the Greek package may also entail different terms for the participation of private investors. The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"The implicit contract between Greece and the rest of the euro area — official support in exchange for a good-faith effort — is breaking down," David Mackie, an analyst at J.P. Morgan in London, wrote in a note. "Greece is failing to deliver on structural reforms amid continuing slippage in fiscal outturns, while attitudes among official creditors are hardening."
Mackie warned that that a re-evaluation of the second bailout program could entail steeper losses for banks and other private creditors. "A second much harder debt restructuring now seems inevitable," he wrote. "This will produce worse macroeconomic outcomes for both Greece and the rest of the region."
Schaeuble signaled that further changes to the eurozone's bailout fund may also be in the works. French Finance Minister Francois Baroin late Thursday said that his counterparts were considering allowing the so-called European Financial Stability Facility to tap central bank loans to boost its firepower.
When asked about the idea of leveraging the EFSF — the technical term for schemes that would allow the fund to benefit from central bank liquidity — Schaeuble said first all eurozone countries had to implement a previously agreed overhaul.
He did not rule out the concept of leveraging, however, an apparent turnaround from Germany's insistence until now that the €440 billion EFSF was big enough.
"If you are already thinking about the step after the next step, the danger that you will stumble on the next step increases accordingly," Schaeuble told journalists.
Enka tecnica GmbH, a manufacturer of spinning jets, components and electronic equipment for the textile and man-made fiber industry, has sold its product line for warp monitoring to Protechna Herbst GmbH & Co. KG. This line is principally comprised of the products Fibertec, an instrument for monitoring the thread purity in warps, Warpscan, a camera-aided instrument for detecting thread breakage, and Tensoscan, an instrument for monitoring the tensile forces acting on the threads in warps. Protechna has specialized in the "warp monitoring" sector. For Protechna, this step means an extension to its product range. The instrument Tensoscan will be adopted into the product range and redesigned. In the case of the Warpscan and Fibertec instruments, Protechna has its own products. It appears conceivable that Protechna will be incorporating technical details designed by Enka tecnica into its own developments.
For Enka tecnica, this sale is a logical step on the way to focusing its own activities on the fiber-manufacture sector.
"Our direct customers" stated the Managing Director of Enka tecnica, Kees Reijnen, "have undergone a change in their structure, With this step, we will be following their development and, in addition, ensuring that our instruments will continue to have a service partner worldwide."
Thanks to all who helped THANK you to the Good Samaritans whohelped so much when my husband collapsed at the 498 bus stop onTuesday, November 16: the lady who made the 999 call; the young ladyfrom Bodyshop who put her first aid skills to such good use; thegentleman on the way back from a blood test at Queen's Hospital, wholives in Ongar Road, who on a cold morning, took off his jacket (anda training shoe to make a cushion) and the ambulance crew.
The immediate and kind care given by staff at Queen's Hospital,on an extra busy morning because of a road accident, was so muchappreciated.
We just wanted everyone to be aware how grateful we are to themand that all is well now.
Jill and Reg Edwards
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — South Carolina is suing the U.S. Justice Department, saying it was wrong to block the state from requiring people to show government-issued photo identification to vote.
Attorney General Alan Wilson asks a judge to overturn the decision in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The Justice Department rejected the law in December. It said the law didn't meet the burden under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discriminatory practices that prevented blacks from voting.
South Carolina's was the first voter ID law to be refused by the Justice Department in nearly 20 years.
Wilson says South Carolina's law doesn't discriminate against any voters.
Oil prices hovered above $72 a barrel Monday as investors worried about a weak U.S. economic recovery amid light holiday trading volume.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for August delivery was up 10 cents to $72.24 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract lost 81 cents to settle at $72.14 on Friday.
U.S. markets are closed Monday for the Fourth of July holiday.
Oil prices fell the previous six trading sessions and dropped almost 10 percent last quarter amid ongoing fears about Europe's financial crisis and slowing economic growth.
"Obviously, speculative investors are taking their profits because of worries regarding an economic slowdown in the USA and China," said a report from Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
On Friday, the Labor Department said the U.S. private sector added a net 83,000 workers, which was more than May but fewer than March and April, stoking concerns that global economic growth and crude demand could be slowing.
"The balance of crude oil price risks appears skewed towards the downside" because of "negative demand shocks from a sluggish economic recovery," ANZ bank said in a report.
ANZ said it expects crude to trade between $65 a barrel and $75 this month.
In other Nymex trading in August contracts, heating oil rose 1.17 cents to $1.9272 a gallon, gasoline added 0.78 cent to $1.9855 a gallon and natural gas gained 4.2 cents to $4.729 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In London, Brent crude was up 32 cents to $71.97 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
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Associated Press writer Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.
General Motors Co.'s February sales rose 11.5 percent thanks to new models and pent-up demand from fleet buyers, but it was unclear how much the Detroit automaker benefited from Toyota's safety woes.
GM on Tuesday said sales of its Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC brands climbed 32 percent. GM plans to keep those four brands and is phasing out Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer. It has sold Saab.
The company said much of the sales increase was due to sales of new crossover wagons such as the Chevrolet Equinox, which jumped 133 percent, and the Cadillac SRX, which saw sales more than quadruple. Sales to rental car companies and other fleet buyers also were strong, as companies began buying again after cutbacks last year. Fleet sales generally mean lower profits to automakers than retail sales to individuals.
Retail sales for GM's four core brands edged up 7 percent.
How much GM gained from Toyota Motor Corp.'s recalls remained a question. February was the first full month since Toyota's Jan. 26 decision to halt sales of eight popular models in the U.S. because of safety concerns. Those cars went on sale again as dealers repaired them, but Toyota's image suffered from the recall of millions of vehicles and last week's congressional hearings on its safety record. Analysts were expecting Toyota to see a double-digit drop in sales for the month.
Other automakers are reporting U.S. sales on Tuesday.
Honda Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motor Co. and Ford grabbed the most sales from Toyota in February, according to Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends and analysis at TrueCar.com, an auto pricing site. Most automakers offered deals to Toyota customers who traded in their vehicles or raised incentives in February to compete for those buyers.
PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Milt Thompson knowswhat it's like to labor in the game of baseball without qualifyingfor postseason play.
Heading into Monday's game against the Colorado Rockies,Thompson had played in 1,080 major league regular-season gameswithout winning a division title.
Only five active players - Hubie Brooks, Don Mattingly, JulioFranco, Harold Reynolds and Rob Deer - have played in more gameswithout reaching the playoffs.
Two other Phillies - John Kruk and Pete Incaviglia - are amongthe top 14 in that dubious department. Kruk ranks eighth with 1,048games and Incaviglia is 14th with 996.
The nice thing for that …
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies say the government has announced plans to sell up to 15 percent in top oil producer Rosneft next year for around $6.7 billion.
RIA-Novosti and Interfax cited Economy Minister official Alexei Uvarov as saying the privatization of a swathe of state-owned assets could raise up to $40 billion by 2014.
Other government …
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 12 -- The city of Fort Worth issued the following press release:
Brrrr-it's cold outside! It's that time of year when we need to remember to protect our four-legged friends from cold weather. Here are a few guidelines that will help you protect your pets when the temperature dips - plus a list of seasonal poisons.
Keep pets indoors. Pets can get frostbite, too. Never leave your pet outside in low temperatures. On freezing days, keep your walks short, too.
Increase food supply. Dogs have to work harder to stay warm when exercising outside. Increasing his food supply, particularly protein, will keep him in tip-top shape.
Save a life by …
PREPARE YOUR PET FOR COLD WEATHERFORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 12 -- The city of Fort Worth issued the following press release:
Brrrr-it's cold outside! It's that time of year when we need to remember to protect our four-legged friends from cold weather. Here are a few guidelines that will help you protect your pets when the temperature dips - plus a list of seasonal poisons.
Keep pets indoors. Pets can get frostbite, too. Never leave your pet outside in low temperatures. On freezing days, keep your walks short, too.
Increase food supply. Dogs have to work harder to stay warm when exercising outside. Increasing his food supply, particularly protein, will keep him in tip-top shape.
Save a life by …
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PAUL O'NEILL, FMR. SECRETARY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, IS INTERVIEWED AT BLOOMBERG TV
APRIL 27, 2011
SPEAKERS:
MARGARET BRENNAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS ANCHOR
PAUL O'NEILL, FMR. SECRETARY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
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MARGARET BRENNAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS ANCHOR: We've got a special guest, co-host this morning, Paul O'Neill. He served as U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2003, also served as the CEO of Alcoa in 1987 until 2000. And he joins me once again as a guest co-host on "InBusiness."
Welcome back.
PAUL O'NEILL, …
The Institute for Defense and Business (IDB) has just announced its 2011-2012 class of IDB Executive Fellows. This unique program gives recently retired senior leaders from the Department of Defense, The Department of Homeland Security, and the military services an opportunity to continue to contribute and serve. IDB selects Fellows based on outstanding service records and demonstrated ability as thought leaders to share their expertise and wisdom with future leaders. For the seventh consecutive year, SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, sponsors the program (see also Institute for Defense and Business).
"At a time when every part of government must …
Byline: Associated Press
Testing this weekend on the Williamsburg Bridge, using laser beams and 3-D photography, will determine whether the 81-year-old span that crosses the East River must be replaced by a new bridge, the Department of Transportation said Saturday.
The first half of the testing was completed early Saturday, with the second part slated for early Sunday. Due to the testing, there will be no J or M subway service across the bridge from 3 a.m. to 1 p.m. and no vehicular traffic allowed from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday.
"This is one of many tests we're planning on the Williamsburg to determine if we can …
Dec. 18--Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF), the listed flagship of the agribusiness giant CP Group, has begun to feel the pinch from a sharp appreciation of the baht.
The company acknowledged yesterday that it would be highly unlikely to reach its original sales target of 130 billion baht at the end of this year.
According to Adirek Sripratak, the company's CEO, the company expects to finish this year with sales revenue of about 125-127 billion baht, a rise of 10 percent from a year earlier.
Apart from the strong baht, Mr Adirek said lower exports of chicken products also played a part in the revised forecast.
Exports account for about 20 …
Frank Lampard has welcomed the likely appointment of Fabio Capello as England coach after his former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho turned the job down.
"Fabio Capello has shown what he can do by winning titles at all levels of football and would be a very good choice," Lampard said of the Italian coach, who has won nine titles with AC Milan and Real Madrid. "He has proved himself a winner with success everywhere he's been. I honestly don't know who is going to be the new England manager but Capello is certainly the kind of personality that would be good for England."
Capello emerged as the hot favorite to take one of most difficult jobs …
The American Indoor Soccer Association meeting tonight betweenthe Power and the Memphis Rogues (8:05, 92.7-FM) at the Horizon isthe perfect match for defender Ed Puskarich.
It brings together the first-place team in the AISA NationalDivision (the 6-4 Power) against the team with the worst record inthe league (the 1-8 Rogues).
Puskarich, who got the assist on Michael Richardson'sgame-winning overtime goal Sunday against Milwaukee, played forMemphis last season. No member of the Power has experienced abroader spectrum of sports than he has.
He was a backup placekicker and wide receiver on Southern Methodist's 1982 football team, which used therunning of …
(ADPnews) - Jun 16, 2011 - Rating agency CRISIL yesterday assigned a BB-/"stable" rating to an INR 100 million (USD 2.2.m/EUR 1.6m) cash credit of Indian real estate developer Nadia Constructions Pvt Ltd.
The rating reflects positively the company's proven project completion capabilities and its highly-experienced promoters, the agency said.
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LG Dacom, the third-biggest landline service provider of Korea, has unveiled its free IPTV services, "myLGtv," thus boosting competition in the triple-play service (telephone, high-speed Internet, and broadcasting) market. LG Dacom said that the company will unveil myLGtv to offer the triple-play service, which is able to deliver three services like myLG07 and high-speed Internet "Xpeed" in a single line. …
Byline: SHERYL McCARTHY
White farmers are murdered by black squatters in Zimbabwe. United Nations peacekeepers are captured by rebel troops in Sierra Leone. A billion dollars stolen by Nigeria's former president turns up in European bank accounts. Six countries are drawn into a civil war in the Congo.
Meanwhile, thousands of Ethiopians are starving (again) because of famine and war and more than 22 million sub-Saharan Africans are afflicted with the AIDS virus. These are some headlines from Africa's continuing saga of chaos and misery. Africa is a mess, and the question is why.
Sure, African countries are still dealing with the legacy of …
Plenty of credit unions are looking for good volunteers for board and committee positions or at least say they are. But one volunteer says "good" just doesn't cut it. And that's not all. While many credit unions have pared the number of volunteers they use, whether out of necessity or design, this same volunteer says his credit union is consistently creating new positions in which people can volunteer their time. Indeed, his own credit union has 32 people volunteering in some capacity.
David Gilbert, a well-known volunteer with Aberdeen Proving Ground FCU in Bel Air, Md., told a group assembled at a recent CU meeting and largely made up of volunteers themselves, that "We're not looking for good volunteers, we're looking for outstanding volunteers. Volunteers are so much the difference between us and other financial institutions."
It's a difference that was …
His return to competition was long overdue.
After an absence of just over eight months, as speculation intensified whether his best golf was behind him, he now looks as good as ever and has helped bring some buzz back to the PGA Tour. He might even be considered the favorite at Augusta National.
Welcome back, Lefty.
About the only thing better than the return of Tiger Woods is the revival of Phil Mickelson, renewing this generation's best rivalry with the Masters right around the corner.
Mickelson wasn't really gone, of course, but it sure seemed that way.
He was the one player who had the most to gain when Woods had …
R&B and soul singer Stephanie Mills, former Broadway star who began her career appearing in her first play at age 9 as the orphaned child of a runaway slave in the musical Maggie Flynn, will entertain at the Chicago United Negro College Fund's 11th annual Black & White Ball on June 1 1 at The Fairmont Hotel. In 1975, the Grammy and American Music Award winner's career rose when she portrayed Dorothy in the African American Broadway version of 77te Wonderful Wizard of Oz (entitled The Wiz), which made her a star because of her block-busting rendition of Home, her signature tune for years. However, her biggest hit to date is Never Knew Love Like This Before. Her / Have Learned to …
The Sandals Resorts Group has renamed two of its hotels in Ocho Rios on Jamaica's north coast. Formerly known as Sandals Ocho Rios and Sandals Dunn's River, the properties will now be called Sandals Ocho Rios Resort and Golf Club and Sandals Dunns's River Resort Golf Club, respectively. Paul …
Bank of America Corp. has replaced more than 2,500 of its ATMs in 12 U.S. markets, including Chicago and Washington, D.C., with machines that allow customers to make cash and check deposits without envelopes or deposit slips. BofA, which is North America's largest bank owner of ATMs with 17,183 machines according to its second quarter earnings report, plans to eventually convert all of its more than 12,000 deposit-accepting ATMs to envelope-free machines. However, the bank has yet to set a timeline for when that will occur, Betty Riess, a BofA spokesperson, tells CardLine. With the envelope-free ATMs, customers receive immediate credit for …
