VALENTINE'S Gifts
Thursday, 19 April 2012
CONNECTICUT POST - S. Korea says new cruise missiles a warning to North, Apr 19, 2012
SIMCOE REFORMER - Breivik used video games to plan attack, Apr 19, 2012
On the fourth day of his trial for the attacks in July, Breivik said he had considered bombing the annual May 1 parade in Oslo, a Labour Party convention and a conference of journalists but opted for a new plan after the bomb-making took too long.
He killed eight people with a car bomb at government headquarters in Oslo, then gunned down 69 people, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party summer youth camp on Utoeya island."
SWX RIGHT NOW - Mariners Strike Early, Beat Indians 4-1, Apr 19, 2012
The zero on the scoreboard wouldn't stay there long for the M's as Chone Figgins belted a homer to leadoff the bottom half of the first. Ichiro Suzuki then came up and added a solo shot of his own to put Seattle up 2-0 early.
The Mariners loaded up the bases with two outs in the second and Jesus Montero was walked, giving him an RBI and bringing home Brendan Ryan.
The Indian's Aaron Cunningham leadoff the third inning with a double and was advanced on two straight sacrifices: to third on a bunt, and then scoring on a sac-fly by Jason Kipnis."
YAHOO Sports - Photo Gallery - Yahoo! Sports, Apr 19, 2012
CANADA. COM - Video: India tests nuclear-capable missile that can reach China, Apr 19, 2012
Footage showed the rocket with a range of more than 5,000 kilometres blasting through clouds from an island off India's east coast. The defence minister said the test was "immaculate".
"Today's launch represents another milestone in our quest for our security, preparedness and to explore the frontiers of science," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a congratulatory message to the scientists who developed the rocket."
SOOMPI - Mnet M! Countdown, Apr 19, 2012
FABSUGAR - Pictures of Celebrities and Models on Twitter, Apr 19, 2012
CARE2 - Let's Make the Seal Hunt History!, Apr 19, 2012
The markets for seal products are disappearing. There are now seal product restrictions around the world, and the value of seal pelts has dropped dramatically -- from over $100 per pelt in 2006 to just $18 now.
However, the Canadian Government continues to subsidize the sealing industry with taxpayer money. They are planning to fight the EU's seal product ban in the WTO and, most baffling, they have set the annual seal hunt quote at 400,000 seals. "
Consumers International: As Rio+20 approaches, governments weigh the benefits of two paths to sustainability, Apr 19, 2012
In terms of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) – the issues that most concern consumer rights groups – the Rio+20 negotiations are currently considering two approaches, but neither of them is sufficiently compelling at present."
AJC - Gallery | Michael Douglas receives Monte Cristo Award, Apr 19, 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Consumers International: Consumers can make a difference to conditions in the banana trade, Apr 18, 2012
NATIONAL POST - Anders Behring Breivik: Norway's mass killer complains he's being ridiculed, Apr 18, 2012
“I hope you will focus on the issue, not the person,” the 33-year-old Breivik told the court, visibly irritated and swiveling a pen in his hand.
Breivik, who killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo on July 22 and then shot 69 at a Labour Party summer camp, went on trial on Monday.
Asked how he had changed from a teenage vandal on Oslo’s prosperous west side to a methodical killer, he said he helped found a militant group called the “Knights Templar” in 2001 and chafed at prosecution suggestions that it was largely imaginary.
“Your intention is to sow doubt whether this network existed,” he said at one point, after repeatedly objecting to the way prosecutors phrased their queries."
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
DOLLYMIX - Beyonce's letter to Michelle Obama, Apr 17, 2012
NZ HERLAD - Norway gunman's trial by world media, Apr 17, 2012
When the Oslo courtroom doors opened Monday, his wish was at least partly fulfilled.
Some 800 journalists followed his trial for the slayings of 77 people, with broadcasters across Europe showing large chunks of the proceedings live. The extensive coverage triggered a debate over whether the media should provide a platform for a man who admits to killing 77 people to promote his intense anti-Islam ideology."
WASHINGTON POST - Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, Denmark’s richest man, dies at 98, Apr 17, 2012
A company spokesman confirmed the death but did not disclose the cause.
(LISELOTTE SABROE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) - Danish tycoon Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, chairman of A.P. Moeller-Maersk, which includes shipping, shipyards, oil, aviation and supermarket chains.
The shy Mr. Mc-Kinney Moeller, who was listed on Forbes magazine’s annual billionaire’s list, turned two small shipping companies that his father had created into a global giant with 108,000 workers in 130 countries. The Moeller-Maersk group owns the world’s biggest publicly held container shipping group, Maersk Sealand."
METRO - Italian footballer Piermario Morosini dies after collapsing during match, Apr 17, 2012
'He suffered a cardiac arrest,' said Dr Edoardo De Blasio, a cardiologist at Pescara's Santo Spirito hospital.
'Unfortunately he was already dead when the ambulance arrived. He never regained consciousness.'"
Dora Saint Died, Apr 17, 2012
"Miss Read specialised in storms in village teacups, and in her fictional hamlets of Thrush Green and Fairacre she conjured up a cosy, idyllic world of thatched cottages, gardens bursting with hollyhocks and roses, and well-tended village greens.
Her cast of characters included mildly eccentric vicars, bossy postmistresses, gentle spinster teachers, farmers’ wives and well-scrubbed children in pinafores and frocks. It was a world where everyone knows everyone else’s business, and which yields only reluctantly to change."
CALGARY HERALD - Roger Caron, bank robber and award-winning author, dead at 73, Apr 17, 2012
The one-time bank robber turned award-winning novelist had been a resident of the Sandfield Place Nursing Home in Cornwall, in eastern Ontario, for a few years. He died there Wednesday, the day before his 74th birthday.
Caron wrote Go-Boy!, a prison memoir that became a national bestseller and won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1977. The book was a powerful and disturbing account of the more than two decades he had spent in jail."
CBS NEWS - Ben Bella, Algerian founding father, dies at 95, Apr 17, 2012
Family members and the state news agency did not give the cause of death, but twice in the last month Ben Bella had been treated at the military hospital of Ain Naadja for discomfort.
The charismatic Ben Bella, a symbol of pan-Arabist ideology as well as the global anti-colonial movement, was president of Algeria from 1963 until he was overthrown in a military coup in 1965 by the army chief of staff, Col. Houari Boumedienne.
Ben Bella was under house arrest until 1980, and he went into self exile in Switzerland until returning to the country in 1990 as part of the opposition to the ruling political party he helped found."
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