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LVMH denied that it is seeking to disrupt the rival French luxury- goods company Hermes, in which it owns a 20 percent stake. "We have continually sought a constructive dialogue with Hermes," said LVMH Deputy Chair man Pierre Gode at the Hermes annual meeting in Paris yesterday.
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The May payrolls re port, due Friday from the Labor Department, likely will be influenced by hiring from McDon ald's. On April 19 -- about a week after the government conducted its survey for the April jobs report -- the ham burger chain ran a promotion designed to hire 50,000 workers and ended up hiring 62,000.
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In 2000, Americans were buying close to 1 billion rolls of film annu ally. This year, the total could be a mere 20 mil lion rolls, according to the Photo Marketing As sociation.
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Lady Gaga Born This Way album 'outsells all of UK top 10 charts'
Lady Gaga's new album has recorded a meteroic rise to the top of the charts this week, with Born This Way selling more copies than the rest of the top 10 combined, figures show.
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The singer paid tribute to her British fans. Photo: REX FEATURES
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Lady Gaga's latest album Born This Way
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7:00AM BST 30 May 2011
The album has achieved the biggest first week sales for an album so far this year, selling more than 215,000 copies, according to the Official Charts Company.
After being informed of the disclosrures the pop star, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, paid tribute to her British fans, thanking them for "believing in me".
The 25 year-old said it was a great honour, disclosing she wrote one of its singles in Manchester.
''I feel so honoured to have the highest first week sales in the UK this year," said the singer, who is famed for her outlandish outfits.
"I wrote the album's first single Born This Way in Manchester because I was so inspired by the confidence and bravery characteristic of my fans: Little Monsters.
''To the United Kingdom, thank you for believing in me.''
Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame joined her latest offering in the top 10 this week, climbing to number seven from last week's position of 11.
The Fame, which previously reached number one and has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the UK, has spent a total of 72 weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 since its release in January 2009.
Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: ''Congratulations to Lady Gaga - she just keeps delivering the hits.''
Lady Gaga's new entry Born This Way knocks former queen of the charts Adele off the top spot.
The star, who has spent 16 of the last 21 weeks at the top of the Official Albums Chart, occupies the next two slots with albums 21 at number two and 19 at number three.
Lady Gaga also fared well in the Official Singles Chart, with three tracks in the Top 20, including Judas at number nine, Born This Way at 17 and The Edge of Glory at 18.
Rapper Pitbull held on to the top spot with his debut single Give Me Everything featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer.
The track reached number one last week, two weeks after entering the charts at number 12.
Pitbull also features on another track in the top 20, Jennifer Lopez's single On The Floor which slipped from number 10 to number 12.
The singles chart sees three new entries this week, with Romanian singer Alexandra Stan at number five with Mr Saxobeat, girl group The Saturdays at number eight with Notorious and Swedish House Mafia at number 10 with Save The World.
In the albums chart, Prodigy claim their seventh top 10 album, with new entry World's On Fire at number five.
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The Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora melanaster), also called a northern sea nettle or brown jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes referred to as a Pacific sea nettle, but this name is also used for Chrysaora fuscescens.
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The zoo and its aquarium had almost 3 million visitors in 2010. It is considered to be the most visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide. Regular animal feedings are among its most famous attractions. Globally known animals like Knut, the polar bear, and Bao Bao, the Giant Panda contribute to the zoo's public image.
The zoo collaborates with many universities, research institutes, and other zoos around the world. It maintains and promotes European breeding programmes, helps safeguard several endangered species, and participates in several species reintroduction programs.
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Hay Festival 2011: A voice to launch a thousand books
Mariella Frostrup is the queen of the literary talk show. She talks to Cassandra Jardine
Mariella Frostrup: 'I'm not a particularly fast reader, so it takes up a lot of time'
By Cassandra Jardine 6:30AM BST 27 May 2011
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Mariella Frostrup is thrilled to have David Bailey lined up as one of her interviewees at the Telegraph Hay Festival. “Joy to the world,” she declares, in those throaty tones that make some men take an unexpected interest in books.
Her excitement has nothing much to do with Bailey’s personal charm or even the subject matter of his book Heroes – life in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The cause of her rejoicing is that he is a photographer, so this is one book that doesn’t require reading.
With the end of her annual readathon in sight, Frostrup is demob happy when we meet. Off-screen, she has her hair scraped back, wears combat trousers and behaves with a winning lack of starry poise. She looks what she is: a busy mother with two young children who is trying to cram a career, a marriage and The Grand Initiative, a women’s rights charity, into her life.
From September through to the end of the Hay Festival, her life is dominated by reading. “I worry that my children [Molly, six, and Danny, five] will grow up hating books because I’m constantly saying to them, 'Not now, mummy’s reading’. I become addicted to narrative so skimming doesn’t work, and I’m not a particularly fast reader, so it takes up a lot of time.”
A pile of books awaits her each week because she presents both Sky’s The Book Show (four editions of which will be filmed at Hay), and Radio 4’s Open Book. Between them, those two commitments keep her on a page-turning treadmill for 10 months of the year, which she finds “onerous but not impossible”.
As a child, living in remote parts of Ireland, she read voraciously but she didn’t study for A-levels, let alone a degree, so perhaps she has the autodidact’s desire to catch up with what she might have learnt had she not started work aged 15. That lack of formal education means there are still “great chasms” in her knowledge. “Old knowledge must be very comforting, but I don’t have it. I’m not mad about Jane Austen: the mistake was probably to read her too young. I did start Middlemarch... and I’ve read War and Peace but almost no other Russian literature.”
Her line-up of guests at Hay includes Adam Nicolson, Cerys Matthews, Paul Theroux, and David Baddiel, as well as the actor Rob Lowe, whom she will be interviewing for a longer session on the main stage at Hay. They should get on well because she found his account of growing up in 1970s Malibu “captivating”.
A well-written autobiography, such as Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends, is a pleasure but, “in a world where I chose my own reading, I would veer towards 20th and 21st century novels about the here and now,” she says, moving excitedly on to Anne Enright’s “brilliant” new book, The Forgotten Waltz. Isn’t she tempted to write a novel herself? “No, because a) I’m not sure I can do it and b), it’s hard when you are reading great books all the time.”
Slacking has not been part of her schedule in the 33 years since she left home after the Irish equivalent of GCSEs. Initially, she worked in the music business. “I was an engineer’s assistant in the Dublin studio where U2’s demo tapes were made. Their first gig was one of the worst shows I have been to.”
She moved into music PR, where she believes the secret of her success was treating pop stars as “silly little boys, like my younger brothers”. After Live Aid in 1985, she broke into television as a film critic. There, producers soon spotted that she was that rarest of gems: a sexy voice attached to a photogenic face, quick wit and a way of talking about culture that didn’t make it sound like the preserve of an in-crowd.
Though 48, there’s something girlish still about Frostrup and her enthusiasm for work – all work – which stems from having had to make a success of her career because she had nothing to fall back on. After her parents split up when she was eight, her mother married a man she hated. She then lived with her father, the Norwegian foreign editor of the Irish Times, until shortly before he died, aged 44, of a heart attack brought on by heavy drinking. She was only 15, the eldest of her mother’s six children. “Home was insecure, money was tight and my stepfather was violent, though not to me – he was scared of me. I had to go out into the world and do things. Others in my situation might have taken drugs and drifted into oblivion, but my parents had given me a strong feeling of being loved, and of my own potential. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, to travel the world, read a million books and present a lot of programmes for the BBC. I also wanted to be an air hostess.”
She missed the plane for air-hostessing, but the books ambition has certainly been fulfilled. If not a million, she reads several hundred of them each year. “I was talking to the BBC recently about a classical music programme because it would be heaven to use a different part of my brain. But I realise that I am very lucky to have a job that I love – most of the time. I am tired now, and can’t wait to spend a month or two reading nothing but junk mags. But, by the end of August, I am always delighted to be back on the reading treadmill.”
• The Book Show will broadcast from the Telegraph Hay Festival, May 28-31 at 7pm on Sky Arts 1 HD, followed by Hay Sessions throughout the festival at 8pm.
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Les artistes dans le jardin de Maison Blanche [n°150, bd Paul Claudel, 13009 Marseille] [photo artistofsouth]
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Worst April on record for UK public finances: reaction
Analysts give their verdicts on official figures showing April was the worst on record for the public sector's borrowing.
The Chancellor is trying to shrink the state's borrowing, but the new fiscal year saw efforts get off to a shaky start. Photo: REX
11:27AM BST 24 May 2011
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Hetal Mehta, UK economist at Daiwa Capital Markets:
"The public finances have got off to a pretty bad start this year, with borrowing higher than a year ago even though 'special factors' added £3.5bn to tax receipts this year. Once again, it seems that the government is struggling to rein in its expenditure.
"And given that economic growth is likely to be weaker than the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects, there is still a significant downside risk for tax revenues, making it more likely that the government will overshoot this year's borrowing projections."
Nida Ali, economic advisor to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club:
“These results have eroded some of head start in reducing borrowing that the government had gained at the end of the last fiscal year. Given that the worst of the pain is yet to come, the Chancellor’s target of reducing borrowing by £30bn in 2011/12 looks more stretching than ever, especially with economic growth looking likely to disappoint.”
Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight:
"At face value, the April public finances were markedly worse than expected, representing a disappointing and worrying start to fiscal year 2011/12 for the Chancellor. However, the data do need to be treated with caution as the Treasury point out that there were distorting factors.
"Furthermore, it needs to be borne in mind that public finance data are notoriously erratic and subject to revision. Indeed, some better news for the Chancellor saw last year's Public Sector Net Borrowing Requirement (PSNBR) excluding financial interventions trimmed to £139.4bn from the previously reported £141.1bn."
Samuel Tombs, UK economist at Capital Economics:
"April's UK public finance figures got the new fiscal year off to a bad start. Given that borrowing for the 2011/12 fiscal year as a whole is projected to be £122bn this year, about 15pc below last year's actual figure, this is clearly bad news.
"Nonetheless, these are just one set of figures and the trend in borrowing should improve as more of the spending cuts kick in later this year."
David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce:
“The public finance figures for April mark a disappointing start to the new financial year, showing a higher than expected deficit. There are a number of special factors that might account for the large deficit, and we should not give too much weight to one figure. However, it is clear that the government’s plans to reduce the deficit by more than £20bn over the year will be a challenge."
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The world's richest man, Carlos Slim, has bought the former Felissimo townhouse at 10 W. 56th St. for $15.5 million in cash, Realty Check has learned. The five-story building was once home to Elizabeth Taylor and third husband Michael Todd.
Since we expect Slim's people to deny it, we'll note that the sellers' brokers, Prudential Douglas Elliman's Faith Hope Consolo and Joseph Aquino, declined to name the buyer, identified as "10 West 56th Street LLC." The purchaser's broker, Murray Hill Properties' Roxana Girand, similarly said, "I can only say that I represented the buyer."
MANSION MAN: Billionaire Carlos Slim buys former Felissimo townhouse at 10 W. 56th St. Reuters
But reliable sources said the LLC is a front for Grupo Carso, the conglomerate controlled by the Mexican mogul whose fortune was estimated by Forbes this year at $74 billion. The building will serve as Slim's New York base of operations. Grupo Carso is a Girand client.
The whirlwind deal closed last week within five days of the cash offer. We're told the asking price for the circa 1903 limestone mansion was $18 million. But even mega-billionaires like a bargain, and the sellers agreed to it when Slim's people pledged to expedite the purchase.
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A super-prime development site, gift-wrapped with city approval for a daring design by Christian de Portzamparc and Handel Architects, is going on the market via Studley.
Developers A & R Kalimian assembled the 20,000-square-foot corner at 400 Park Ave. So. at 28th Street, which can support a 420,000-square-foot project as of right. They planned a dramatic residential building that required Planning Commission blessing for design features outside zoning rules and was said to be a favorite of planning chief Amanda Burden.
They cleared most of the site, closely watched by real-estate bloggers for years. But the Kalimians have now decided to sell via the Studley team of Woody Heller, Will Silverman and Eric Negrin. Heller noted that "the appeal of a shovel-ready site is very strong" in a market "reflecting increasing ebullience," but wouldn't say how much the offering might fetch.
One industry source estimated it would draw "well into the $400s per square foot," pointing out that the project could incorpo rate retail and offer vir tually any combination of residential, hotel and office use.
At the same time, we've learned, Heller's team is also marketing the $56 million note on Extell's major development site at 135 W. 45th St. It can support a building of 270,000 square feet, thanks to air rights Gary Barnett bought up over the years in preparation for a 55-story hotel.
Extell is current on the loan. Barnett told us, "we have plans to build a hotel but we have to sort out the note sale first. Hopefully we'll get it sorted out and we can go ahead."
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In one of the year's largest deals to date, Baker Hostetler -- the law firm representing Bernie Madoff victims -- has re-upped at Tishman Speyer's 630 Fifth Ave., aka 45 Rockefeller Plaza, growing from 100,000 square feet to 118,600 feet via a new long-term lease.
A CB Richard Ellis team led by John Maher and Paul Myers repped the tenant. Tishman Speyer was repped in-house. Terms were not available.
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Oscar de la Renta is taking the long view. The designer is moving and expanding his headquarters from 550 Seventh Ave. to Tishman Speyer's 11 W. 42nd St., where it will overlook Bryant Park from the entire 25th floor and part of the 24th.
The couture house is taking 37,036 square feet, compared with 23,386 at its old address. The new digs will for the first time include runway space as well as offices and showrooms, enabling de la Renta to present his collection on the premises three times a year.
CB Richard Ellis's Jim Robbins and Harly Stevens represented the tenant and the landlord was repped in-house. The asking rent for the 15-year deal was $50 a square foot.
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Five years ago yesterday, Larry Silverstein's 7 World Trade Center officially opened its doors to widespread snickering.
At the time the 1.7 million square-foot tower had leased a mere 80,000 feet -- half of them to Silverstein's own company. New York Magazine dubbed it "Larry's 52-Story Problem." Mayor Bloomberg blamed sluggish leasing on Silverstein's unwillingness to settle for $35 a square foot, the price for 50-year-old downtown buildings.
Soon enough, the tower began signing tenants at record downtown prices up to $70 a square foot -- most recently, law firm WilmerHale. It's now more than 90 percent full.
The lesson: new, state-of-the-art office towers in Manhattan don't stay empty for long. scuozzo@nypost.com
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David Cameron says everyone should volunteer for charity
David Cameron has urged everyone to volunteer their time for charity and spoken about his own work coaching disadvantaged youngsters.
Companies including Domino's Pizza have been working with Pennies since November Photo: REUTERS
By James Kirkup 5:00PM BST 23 May 2011
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Volunteering is part of the Big Society, the Prime Minister said, making a new attempt to explain his personal vision of how Britain should be.
The idea is hard to explain and is still misunderstood by many people, Mr Cameron admitted, insisting that will not stop him trying to promote the Big Society.
The Big Society is about both charitable activities and taking a more active role in reformed public services, he said.
“It's not simply one thing. It's not simply encouraging more volunteering, or simply encouraging more philanthropic giving, it’s also about trying to give people the ability to do more if they want to,” he told ITV’s Daybreak.
“Some people say ‘Well I don’t quite understand it’ – because, as I say, it’s not just one thing it’s several things that come together and actually recognise that we can all do more to build a bigger, stronger society.”
The Government yesterday published a White Paper on charitable giving, setting out ways to make charitable donations and volunteering a “social norm”.
Its measures include financial support for websites encouraging people to give up some of their time for good causes.
The Prime Minister said that he had recently spent time volunteering.
Mr Cameron last month hosted a Downing Street event for Street League, a charity that helps poor and troubled youngsters into work or education.
He said: “They do a lot of football training, which I’m not very good at, but they also do interview training and so I helped a bit with that and interviewed, gave some interview practice to a couple of young people who are going for a job. It was fascinating."
Labour accused Mr Cameron of “the latest in a long line of desperate attempts to rescue his big idea.”
Tessa Jowell, the shadow Cabinet Office minister said public spending cuts will undermine volunteering.
She said: “It will take more than a fourth re-launch to persuade people that a Big Society is being nurtured - when the people responsible for delivering it are losing their jobs and cutting back on the services that they offer.”
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Mestrado de Enfermagem Sade Comunitria IPBeja 2228
Com a presena do Prof. Doutor Castro Caldas a Escola Superior de Sade do IPBeja apresentou comunidade, no dia 19 de Maio de 2011, o Mestrado de Enfermagem em Sade Comunitria.
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Tucked in the historic center of Bruges, NH Brugge uniquely boasts all the modern conveniences of a contemporary facility within the antiquated charm of a 17th century monastery. Meeting Room.
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The Hague Public Transport Museum – Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum
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Yosemite Falls - film scan from 2003
View in FULL size. I recently discovered 6 roll of film/prints I didn't realize I had from a trip to Yosemite back in 2003. This is very exciting for me and I hope I can discover some gems. On this trip I had my new digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 5000, but being new to it I also took along my film camera, a Minolta Maxxum and various lenses.
On this day we hiked from Glacier Point down to the valley floor via Vernal and Nevada Falls. An excruciating 11 mile journey, not all downhill BTW! LOL This shot of Yosemite Falls really shows it's massive height as well as the surrounding terrain you can't see from the valley floor.
I scanned this using my new Kodak scanner. I'm actually pretty impressed with the overall photo after scanning it then editing it in Photoshop. More to come!
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Anwar al-Awlaki is 'next target after Osama bin Laden'
Anwar al-Awlaki and his followers should be the next terrorists to be “targeted” after the death of Osama bin Laden, David Cameron has said.
'Some of the arguments used to present Bin Laden's killing as lawful could also be applied if coalition forces kill Colonel Gaddafi,' the researchers said. Photo: AP
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By James Kirkup 7:23PM BST 17 May 2011
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The Prime Minister said al-Awkali and his offshoot of the al-Qaeda group based in Yemen should be “wound up”.
British intelligence agencies believe Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the most dangerous part of bin Laden’s network.
Mr Cameron told MPs: "With respect to Anwar al-Awlaki, I am in no doubt that he is an extremely dangerous individual, who is behind some of the more recent plots we have seen.
"Clearly it would be in our interests if Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was properly attacked and wound up.
However, he added: “We should be acting in line with international law. We are a Government under the law and that is the way we should approach things.”
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Ryan Malone and his U.S. teammates ripped Finland 6-1 in an Olympic hockey semifinal. They seek gold Sunday.
The U.S. men's hockey team advanced to the Olympic finals Friday, blowing out Finland 6-1 in a shocking display of offensive firepower for a team known more for solid goaltending and tight defense.
The rout had lots of hockey fans scratching their heads, except maybe U.S. general manager Brian Burke, who was charged with assembling a team of Americans capable of taking on the best hockey players in the world.
What Mr. Burke evidently knew, and some teams in this tournament didn't discover until it was too late, is that a six-game Olympic tournament can be won with a simple formula: great goaltending mixed with young, hungry players who hustle to every puck on the ice, play physically and leave their egos in the locker room.
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The U.S. took control of Friday's game with six goals in the first 13 minutes of action. From top to bottom, Ryan Malone makes it 1-0 and Zach Parise scores on a power play to make it 2-0. Erik Johnson, Patrick Kane and Paul Stastny add goals for the Americans.
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Team USA has been swarming their opponents for over a week now, without it leading to flurries of goals. That could be because two of its games have been played against the hottest goaltender in the tournament—Switzerland's Jonas Hiller. The Americans scored four goals against Canada's Martin Brodeur, enough to cause Canada to bench the record-breaking veteran in favor of the younger Roberto Luongo. On Friday, the U.S. faced a possibly worn-out Miikka Kiprusoff.
Within minutes Friday, it was apparent that the older Finland team, which won the silver medal four years ago with many of the same NHL stars on the team now, wasn't equipped to handle the relentless pressure applied by the energetic Team USA. Finland winger Jere Lehtinen said he hadn't faced such a frenetic bunch since he was on the junior national team years ago. "They have a good four lines that can play all situations," he said after the game.
"They came into the game fully prepared to go on the attack and take care of any mistakes Finland would make," U.S. coach Ron Wilson said. Later, referring to Sunday's gold-medal match, he said, "I hope we haven't peaked two days too early."
Two minutes into the game, 22-year-old Phil Kessel darted down the ice after a puck that was going straight to Finland's goalie, Mr. Kiprusoff, who was skating out of the net. Some players in the NHL might have considered Mr. Kessel's hustle a waste of energy. But Mr. Kessel apparently rushed Mr. Kiprusoff, who got rid of the puck early. American Ryan Malone, also blazing down the ice, intercepted the pass and snapped it past the out-of-position Mr. Kiprusoff, putting the U.S. up 1-0. "We were socked after that," Finland coach Jukka Jalonen said.
The Americans never slowed down, continuing to skate with abandon, wearing down Finland and scoring five more goals in the process. Halfway through the first period, Finland replaced Mr. Kiprusoff with Niklas Backstrom of the NHL's Minnesota Wild.
It didn't matter. Mr. Backstrom barely got between the goalposts before he'd allowed two goals. Patrick Kane flicked in a wrist shot and Paul Stastny smacked one in, making the game 6-0 a mere 13 minutes into the game.
By the end of the first period, Finland had collapsed under the relentless U.S. effort. By the end of the second period, the U.S. had outshot Finland 22-11.
This American rout wasn't the result of fancy moves or sniper-like shots. The Americans simply refused to let a single loose puck go uncontested. They didn't conserve energy and at no point in the game did the U.S. give the Finns an inch.
To some extent, the Finns may have been too old to keep up with the Americans. Finland, like most smaller nations, has only a handful of elite players, and often those elite players develop in waves. Finland stars like Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu peaked in 2006, when the team won the silver medal. Now, they have begun to age together. Throughout the game Friday, Finland looked like it was struggling to skate as consistently hard as the U.S.
The Americans, though, are on the opposite track. Their older generation of players—guys like Mike Modano—were where Finland is now in the 2006 Turin Games. Four years later, a new wave of young players is coming up and just reaching maturity.
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The Americans also benefited from playing one less game than the Finns, a reward for beating Canada and gaining top seed in the tournament. Finland's goalie, Mr. Kiprusoff, is known in the NHL for being vulnerable when not given rest. He's already played 55 games this season for the Calgary Flames and had the extra game that the U.S.'s Ryan Miller didn't have. It didn't help Mr. Kiprusoff that he started the game off with a goal that looked to be caused by his poor decision-making. Mr. Kiprusoff, like many of the players on Finland, may have simply run out of gas.
The U.S. will play for the gold medal Sunday against the winner of the Canada-Slovakia semifinal game that hadn't ended by press time Friday. Team USA beat Canada earlier, 5-3, but a repeat would be difficult in an arena that on most days has been filled with loud hordes of Canadians. On Thursday, when Canada won the gold medal in women's hockey, the arena shook.
To win in the final, the American men will have to stick to their game plan of hard work, and Mr. Miller, their goalie, will have to play at least as well as he has all tournament. Luck would also help.
Write to Reed Albergotti at reed.albergotti@wsj.com and Ian Johnson at ian.johnson@wsj.com
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West Ham face fresh questions over Olympic Stadium move
West Ham United and Newham Council are facing fresh questions about the viability of the planned move to the Olympic Stadium after Sunday’s relegation from the Premier League.
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By Jeremy Wilson 10:03PM BST 16 May 2011
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Tottenham Hotspur have already requested a judicial review into the decision to award the stadium to West Ham amid particular concern at Newham Council’s pledge to provide a loan of up to £40 million to the new stadium company.
Although West Ham are confident that their business plan is realistic regardless of whether they are in the Premier League or the Championship, Tottenham are challenging whether it is appropriate for Newham Council to be lending money in support of the project.
They are well aware of reports that Newham taxpayers could theoretically become liable for the loan if West Ham default on repayments. Questions have also been raised over whether Newham councillors were given ample time to understand fully all the financial consequences before making their decision.
Newham have declined to comment on Tottenham’s judicial review, but have stressed that “there would be no impact on our day-to-day spending” and that they are “confident there is no risk to the local council taxpayer”.
Tony Gale, the former West Ham defender, has predicted that the Olympic Stadium could be like “a ghost town” but the club’s co-owner, David Gold, yesterday moved to allay any fears. Gold said: “There is absolutely no financial issue at all,” and added that West Ham had budgeted for relegation.
Karren Brady, the vice-chairman, said: “We are totally committed to the move to the Olympic Stadium; the business case stacks up. We have always said that the move is not solely dependent on the club’s league status.
“Whatever division we are in, David Sullivan and David Gold have guaranteed that the club will meet all its financial commitments. West Ham United is a well-run business that has planned for every contingency.”
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Taliban responsible for deadly attack on Pakistan paramilitary training centre
Two explosions have ripped through a paramilitary training centre in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 70 people in the deadliest attack since Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos.
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By Rob Crilly in Islamabad 6:00AM BST 13 May 2011
The Pakistan Taliban immediately claimed responsibility and said bigger attacks were to follow.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike struck at the gates just as young recruits boarded buses to go on leave after their course.
Police in Shabqadar, close to the border with Afghanistan, said a second explosion came seconds later.
The death toll – the highest this year – is a bloody reminder of the price paid by Pakistan's security forces in their war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked extremists.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location: "This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
A vegetable vendor near the Frontier Constabulary training centre said some recruits were seated in white minivans and others were loading luggage atop the vehicles.
"There was a big blast," he said. "I saw smoke, blood and body pieces all around."
Twelve vehicles were also destroyed in the blasts One of bin Laden's wives has told interrogators he lived in Pakistan for the past seven years, deeply embarrassing the Pakistan government.
Pakistan's civilian government said on Thursday it would review counter-terrorism co-operation with the United States as it comes under growing domestic pressure to punish Washington for the apparently unauthorised bin Laden raid.
It has been accused of sheltering the world's man but officials point out that no country has paid a higher price for tackling the Islamist threat, with more than 30,000 people killed since Sept 11 2001.
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Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs provides a timely reminder of true value with 12th league title
Among the record-breakers, the first man Sir Alex Ferguson had to congratulate was his history-maker.
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By Rory Smith 7:02PM BST 14 May 2011
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As the paeans of praise and the elegies of delight washed down the Darwen End of Ewood Park, as his players bounced and hugged and sang, the Manchester United manager sought out Ryan Giggs and embraced him. As he has for two decades, he wished to share this moment with him.
In the golden epoch the Scotsman has built at Old Trafford, the Welshman has been his constant. Giggs would not have become the most decorated player in English football history had it not been for Ferguson; manager, though, knows well enough that each of his own dozen Premier League winners’ medals is owed, in part, to player.
Ferguson might not have won his second - and his first double - in 1994 if he had not been able to call on the shimmying hips, the explosive burst, the unerring instincts of his wonderboy-winger; his goals against QPR and Leeds stand out.
Two years later, Giggs remained instrumental, more so than ever, a subtle genius added to his play, an ability to summon not just the unpredictable but also the unexpected. Witness his goal against Manchester City at Maine Road, sealing a crucial 3-2 win, the ball arrowed into Eike Immel’s top corner, almost defying physics.
In 1999, his slaloming run against Arsenal kept United’s treble dream alive and gave all of Villa Park twisted blood; a week earlier, it was his late equaliser in the Champions League semi-final first leg against Juventus which gave roy keane his chance to etch his name in legend in Turin.
Those vignettes now seem as though they are snapshots of the artist as a young man. That was Giggs, it seemed, at his peak. How he endures. But how he has changed, too.
There are a few more wrinkles, a sprinkling of grey in the jet-black hair. And the jet heels have been cooled, but replaced by a sense of calm. Giggs, more than anyone else at Manchester United, does what he wants.
This season might not have produced as many moments for the scrapbook, but the 12th title winners’ medal is the one he owes most to Giggs. The Welshman remarked last week that he did not know who United’s player of the year should be. Easy. It is him.
He has enough faith in his team-mates to wholeheartedly dismiss suggestions that this is the worst United team he has been part of; his view, first-hand, warrants respect.
“Obviously we’re rubbish - we’ve won the Premier League and we’re in the Champions League final,” he said. “Twenty years ago we were nowhere near Liverpool, but we’ve gone past our biggest rivals. This is why I keep going, for days like this. It’s amazing. This team is a pleasure to play in.”
He finished this fixture as a left-winger, as he used to be, but he spent most of it in the central midfield role he has filled with such distinction this year. It was his pass that found Javier Hernández, a player with the sort of acceleration Giggs remembers, racing through the middle, which led to Wayne Rooney’s penalty, which led to that record 19th title.
And it was Giggs who filled in at left-back when Ferguson required him to do so; it was Giggs who dictated tempo, who played the role of spiritual leader as United’s nerves frayed. That is why it was Giggs who the Scot sought out as made his way on to the Ewood Park pitch. He has gone from hotshot to the general’s trusted lieutenant.
And yet, in his importance, a word of warning: Giggs might be better than ever, but he is not capable of defying time. The Welshman will have observed the fate the clock had for Paul Scholes, one final bright, shining burst, going supernova before the inevitable fade.
Giggs might have another year, he may even have another two.Eventually, he will need to be replaced. The more irreplaceable he becomes, the more intractable a problem that becomes.
As Ferguson strolled to the Darwen End, a beatified smile on his face, he wanted to embrace his go-to guy. He will not want to face the day when he is no longer there, the day when he finds him gone.
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Newcastle United captain Kevin Nolan out for rest of season after ankle surgery
Newcastle captain Kevin Nolan will miss the final two games of the season after undergoing ankle surgery.
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By Telegraph staff and agencies 1:10PM BST 12 May 2011
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The 28 year-old will have the operation later today, but is expected to be fit for the start of the new campaign.
Newcastle confirmed the news in a brief statement, which read: "Kevin Nolan will undergo a minor operation on his right ankle later today which will see him miss United's last two games of the season.
"The skipper has been troubled by an ankle problem throughout the season, but the operation is going ahead now in order to allow him time to regain full fitness prior to the start of United's pre-season programme in July."
Nolan has proved an inspirational figure for the club since their relegation from the Premier League.
His leadership qualities and 18 Championship goals were pivotal in their swift return to the top flight, and 12 this time around - the first time he has ever reached double figures in the Premier League - have been a major factor in Newcastle's successful bid to remain among the English game's elite.
Nolan joined the club from Bolton in a £4 million switch in Jan 2009 as then manager Joe Kinnear attempted, ultimately unsuccessfully, to stave off relegation.
His impact has been such that current manager Alan Pardew is determined to tie him to a new deal, along with the likes of Joey Barton and Jose Enrique, as he attempts to secure his key men.
Indeed, Barton hinted earlier in the season that the chances of him remaining on Tyneside would depend on whether or not Nolan stayed.
Newcastle made sure of their continued presence in the Premier League with last Saturday's 2-1 home victory over Birmingham, and while they will be keen to take as many points as they can from Sunday's tough trip to Chelsea and their final-day clash with West Brom, it makes sense to give their captain as long as possible to recover from his operation.
However, Pardew, who has already admitted he may have to leave Cheick Tiote out with the Ivory Coast international having reached 14 bookings for the campaign to leave himself within one more of a three-match ban, faces a problem over how to re-arrange his midfield for the trip to Stamford Bridge.
Meanwhile, the club also confirmed that goalkeeper Steve Harper will have a planned knee operation tomorrow with the 36 year-old also expected to be fit for the start of pre-season.
Harper has missed the past four games while Tim Krul has deputised, and although he has been of the bench for the last two, Newcastle have taken the decision to have the surgery done now.
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Tears In Heaven
The weather has been sombre since the weekend and it reflects how my family is feeling at this moment. One of my aunts lost her battle with cancer on Friday. She was diagnosed after Christmas 2010 and the doctors told her she might not see summer. What the doctors didn't know was that my aunt was a strong person who wasn't going down without a fight. She gave herself little milestones, be it a holiday or birthday, and she reached them. One year after being diagnosed, she surprised us all when she wanted to have a Christmas family gathering. That's the last time I saw her. Her cancer became more aggressive and her health deteriorated after that. I was working in the garden Friday when my wife gave me the news. I went for a walk in the woods behind our house for some alone time and I noticed a little bird on a branch. I was about ten feet from it and it wasn't even afraid of me. It just stayed there for a little while staring at me then it flew away. Sometimes we look for signs during difficult times. That was my sign that she was finally free to spread her wings.
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TOKYO—The operator of a controversial nuclear plant refused over the weekend to follow the government's demand for an immediate shutdown, saying the company's board needed more time to consider the matter.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan held a dramatic Friday evening news conference demanding that Chubu Electric Power Co. close its Hamoaka nuclear plant—located in a coastal area seen as vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis—until it could bolster its safety procedures.
The company said its board met Saturday to consider the matter, but adjourned without making a decision, and, as of Sunday, had yet to schedule another meeting.
"The board discussed a broad range of issues, ranging from the ability to meet energy demand this summer with alternative methods [and] the impact on the company's financials, to tsunami preparations at the nuclear plant," the company said in a statement. "However, due to the potential widespread impact on our customers and shareholders, we have decided to continue our discussions at a later time."
The company's chairman headed to Qatar over the weekend to see whether it might secure additional liquefied natural gas to make up the shortfall if it were to accept Mr. Kan's demand.
If Chubu Electric were to suspend operations at Hamaoka—its only nuclear plant—the company has said it would face additional fuel costs of 700 million yen a day, or nearly $9 million. According to local media reports, that could force the company to lose money this year.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Kan, responding to Chubu's statement, repeated the request for a swift shutdown, stressing the demand has come from the very top and remains unchanged.
"I have requested a suspension of operations at all reactors at Hamaoka for the safety and sense of security of the Japanese people," Mr. Kan said late Friday, citing the plant's location near a fault line where experts predict a major quake at some point in the next 30 years.
But because the plant has cleared official government safety standards, Mr. Kan apparently doesn't have the authority to order a shutdown, but can only request the company consider doing so.
The nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi—the world's worst such crisis in the quarter century since Chernobyl—has prompted the Japanese government to adopt more precautionary policies toward nuclear plants.
The accident at Fukushima Daiichi was triggered by the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which knocked out power at the plant, and led to a failure of its cooling system and a widespread release of radiation.
Nuclear-agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama said at a news briefing Saturday that the Hamaoka plant has met official safety standards, and that officials had submitted a report with that conclusion to Mr. Kan before he issued his shutdown demand. "The prime minister is likely to have made the decision based on the unprecedented scale of the northeast earthquake and tsunami, and the potential threat to Hamaoka," he said.
Mr. Kan and aides said Sunday that Hamaoka was the only nuclear power complex where they were seeking a quick shutdown because, they said, the estimated risks of a major quake were far lower near other facilities around the country.
While government and industry officials jousted over Hamaoka, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant reported incremental progress over the weekend in the long battle to bring the crippled reactors there under control. A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, said newly installed ventilators at Fukushima Daiichi's No. 1 reactor building have brought radiation levels down to a point where Tepco is "comfortable" with sending workers to open the double-entry doors to survey the internal condition.
Radiation leakage has been one concern until now about opening the double-entry doors, which block external and internal access to the reactor building. "We expect only a small amount of radiation leakage in the immediate surrounding area and it shouldn't pose a threat," said a Tepco spokesman.
The company said Sunday night that it had received clearance from regulators to open the doors, and that workers would be able to enter the reactor building and survey the internal condition by Monday morning.
The aim is have workers enter eventually to install permanent cooling equipment crucial to bringing the overheating in the reactors to a safe, so-called cold shutdown to end the nuclear crisis.
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Cannes 2011: facts about Cannes
The Cannes film festival, opens on May 11 this year but when did it originally start? Here are some facts about the world-respected film festival.
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The Cannes film festival is expected to be a splashier affair this year than last, when financing woes for smaller productions and the lack of major stars cast a shadow over the event. Among the most hotly anticipated films in competition for 2011 is period drama The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, directed by Terrence Malick.
Facts about the Cannes film festival:
- Originally conceived in 1939 as an alternative to the Fascist-influenced Venice film festival, Cannes has been held annually since 1946 apart from 1948 and 1950, when lack of funds led to its cancellation.
- In 1949 the stars started coming: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Norma Shearer, Errol Flynn and Edward G. Robinson all appeared that year. Brigitte Bardot made her first appearance in 1953.
- A year later, starlet Simone Silva dropped her bikini top beside Robert Mitchum in front of the photographers, resulting in the kind of racy coverage that secured the festival's reputation.
- In 1960, the first Cannes Market opened its doors to some 10 participants and one screen - a canvas hung from the roof of the old Palais Croisette. It quickly became a major meeting point for buyers and sellers from all over the world.
- In 1968, film director Louis Malle, who was on that year's jury with Roman Polanski among others, was one of a group of film-makers who forced the festival to close in the midst of the student and worker uprisings across France. After an all-night debate marked by raging tempers and occasional fistfights, the organisers called it off.
- jane campion became the first female director to win the Palme d'Or in 1993 for her film The Piano.
- In 1997, a "Palme des Palmes" - a super-version of the Palme d'Or best film prize - was awarded to Ingmar Bergman for the 50th festival. The Swedish director did not appear.
- In 2004, an actors' masterclass (Lecon d'acteur) was created and inaugurated by Max von Sydow.
Last year's Cannes:
- Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, one of 19 entries in competition, took the Palme d'Or for best picture, delighting some critics but angering others.
"'Uncle Boonmee', Palm of Boredom" was one headline in French daily Le Figaro, which called the slow-paced examination of reincarnation by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul "dull, incomprehensible and hallucinatory."
- Of Gods and Men, by French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, won the runner-up prize and would have been a popular winner. The meditative re-telling of the murder of seven Trappist monks caught up in civil unrest in Algeria during the 1990s had won almost universal praise for its restrained examination of belief, courage and religious tolerance.
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Australian Rules player sent off because of 'dangerous haircut'
An Australian Rules player was sent off because his gelled mohawk haircut was deemed dangerous.
11:48AM BST 10 May 2011
Nathan Van Someren, who plays for Victorian side Simpson Tigers, was told to leave the field in the third quarter of their match against Otway Districts at the weekend.
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Tigers co-coach Leigh Walsh told Fairfax Radio the reason given was "because his hair was too dangerous" and might have poked another player in the eye.
Van Someren said he had played with the hairdo for three years without a problem.
"I was just standing there and (the umpire) came across to me and goes, 'I thought I told you you couldn't come on the ground'," Van Someren told Fairfax.
"I sort of just looked at him like 'what?' and he's like, 'no, I told you you couldn't come on the ground with that hairstyle, you have to go off'."
The Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) said the umpire was wrong, with the rule used to have Van Someren sent off referring to items such as jewellery and protective equipment that could injure another player.
"In this case it's probably been interpreted a little bit too broadly," VCFL umpiring general manager Gerard Ryan told reporters, adding that all parties were working to resolve the issue.
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