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En passant par Poissy

2012-02-08T18:06:00+01:00

Distance : 16 km

Départ à la gare SNCF de Vilennes sur Seine, arrivée à la gare RER de St Germain en Laye.

Nous passerons par les bords de la Seine, Poissy (voir la Collégiale et le musée du jiouet), la forêt de St Germain, la mare aux canes, l'Etoile du Bon Secours, Carriéres sous Bois, les Prés du Marais, le Clos des Cotes.

La forêt de St Germain s’étend sur plus de 3500 ha. Elle est constituée à 52 % de chêne rouvre et à 18% de hêtres. On y trouve aussi des charmes, des châtaigniers, et des résineux (pins sylvestres et laricio). Lapins, renards, écureuils y sont nombreux. Les chevreuils sont aussi présents (60 têtes environ).

La collégiale Notre-Dame de Poissy date du xiie siècle. Elle fut desservie par un collège de chanoines jusqu'à la Révolution, ce qui justifia son nom de « collégiale ».Saint Louis y fut baptisé le 25 avril 1214.

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De St Germain en Laye à Verneuil

2012-02-08T18:01:00+01:00

Distance : 25 km

Altitudes : Maxi 156 m Mini 0 m
Dénivelées : ~ +315 m -210 m

Départ à la gare RER de St Germain en Laye, arrivée à la gare SNCF des Clairiéres de Verneuil.
Nous passerons par le parc du Château de St Germain, la Terrasse, la forêt de St Germain, la mare aux canes, Poissy (voir la Collegiale), les bords de Seine, Vilennes sur Seine, la Clémenterie, Bures, Brezolles, Chapet, le Bois de Verneuil.

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De la graisse de canard reconvertie en carburant

2011-08-05T11:45:00+02:00

Deux agriculteurs prigourdins ont recycl de la graisse de canard et de porc en la transformant en biodiesel. L'an dernier, ils en ont produit 20 000 litres.

Tout commence il y a deux ans. Jules Charmoy et Benot Delage, deux agriculteurs de Dordogne, ont recycl de la graisse de canard et de porc en latransformanten biodiesel. L'an dernier, en coopration avec une cooprative d'utilisation de matriel agricole, ils ont russi produire 20 000 litres de biocarburant. Jules Charmoy, leveur de vaches Saint-Aquilin, explique que "l'ide, c'est de bouffer moins de ptrole en crant de l'nergie avec ce qu'il y a dans nos fermes" et que "la dmarche n'est pas conomique, mais thique". En effet, le cot de production d'un tel carburant est de 1,11 euro par litre, tandis que le cot du gasoil est de 92 centimes par litre d'aprs Metro.

Aujourd'hui, trois vhicules sont aliments exclusivement en biodiesel base de graisse de canard, un camion, une voiture, et un tracteur. La source du carburant revient 1000 et 15000 tonnes par an, ce qui pourrait servir produire environ 1 million de litres de biocarburant par an ! Seul dfaut, ce nouvel "or noir" compos de 30% de biodiesel et 70% de gasoil fonctionne uniquement avec des moteurs gs d'une dizaine d'annes. "Aavec les nouveaux, bourrs d'lectronique, c'est plus dur", explique Jules Charmoy.

Dolby files patent infringement lawsuit against RIM

2011-06-17T05:11:51+02:00

Dolby Laboratories said Wednesday it has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion in the United States and Germany and is seeking to halt sales of devices made by the Blackberry maker.

"Litigation was regrettably our last resort after RIM declined to pay for the use of Dolby's technology," Dolby general counsel Andy Sherman said in a statement. "We have a duty to protect our intellectual property."

Dolby said the lawsuits concern Dolby patents covering digital audio compression technologies.

RIM is using Dolby's patented technologies in its Blackberry smartphone and Playbook tablet computer without having obtained licenses, Dolby said.

Dolby said all of the other major smartphone makers have agreed to license the Dolby technologies.

Dolby said it is seeking financial damages and injunctions to halt sales of "the many RIM products" that infringe Dolby's patents.

Dolby said the technologies in question allow smartphones, portable music players, and tablet computers to play back music and other digitized audio that has been compressed to less than 10 percent of its original digital file size.

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SC Governor Nikki Haley ups criticism of Obama over NLRB suit

2011-06-17T04:12:17+02:00

Asa governor what you try and do…is to create jobs, whether you’reRepublican or Democrat,” said Haley. “And it is absolutely amazing when agovernor tries to bring jobs to her state and she has a president she’shaving to fight every step of the way.”

Haley went on to highlight the economic impact Boeing’s new plant in North Charleston will have on the Palmetto State.

“Boeingmade a huge splash in a way we haven’t seen in decades,” she said,adding that the company has created thousands of new jobs for SouthCarolinians.

“Thepresident is the one who’s made this political,” Haley continued. “Whenthey stop suing companies that are creating jobs, we’ll be quiet.”

Former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin was also present on the call.

“Ifyou look at the facts on the ground…it doesn’t make any sense,”Holtz-Eakin said of the lawsuit. “It looks like political support forunions is trumping economic policy.”

Haleywas also asked about the role the lawsuit will play in the 2012election cycle, in which South Carolina will play a key role.

“If he continues to fight creation of jobs the way he is now,” said Haley, “no, his chances are done.”

“He[Obama] is trying trying very hard to show his power, but in theprocess of doing that he’s killing jobs and killing the economy, and thepeople are smart and they see that.”

OnFriday, the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform willhold a hearing in the Charleston County Council Chambers to discuss theNLRB’s complaint against Boeing. Haley will be a key witness in thehearing.

The Numbers Are In: Anthony Weiner Is Ready for Prime Time

2011-06-15T05:30:48+02:00

s Project for Excellence in Journalism quantified the biggest political scandals of the last four and a half years, finding that Weinergate ranks right behind the scandals of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (the biggest scandal, accounting for 28 percent of the newshole at the time), former New York governor Eliot Spitzer (23 percent of the newshole) and former Idaho senator Larry Craig (18 percent).

Blagoevich, of course, parlayed his into an appearance on Season 9 of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2010. It was . Prostitute-soliciting Spitzer continues sitting pretty as host of CNN's In the Arena, evenhis former Pulitzer Prize winning co-host Kathleen Parker (despite both incarnations of the show generating ). Can Weiner pull off a similar comeback?

Related: We know he has the chops. Prior to his scandal, Wiener'son The Daily Show, routine appearances on MSNBC and Fox News, and wonderfully sarcastic speeches on theand at , solidified him as one of the left's most skilled orators. But if Weiner moved to television, it might be more out of necessity than anything else. As he jokingly on The Daily Show in February, "I don't have a lot of marketable skills"--a fact theearnestly pointed out last week.

Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn't have a business or even a law degree to fall back on...

He owes between $10,000 and $15,000 on his American Express card, according to his most recent financial-disclosure forms.

If he steps down, he could grovel to cable TV execs for talking-head "analyst" gigs that hopefully pay more than the $825 he gets for appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."

So who wants to wager which cable network will scoop him up if he resigns? It sounds like early bidders could get him cheap. Our colleague Jeffrey Goldberglast week.

Related: Want to add to this story? .

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Orioles hit 3 homers, beat skidding Athletics 4-0

2011-06-09T00:01:18+02:00

If Chris Jakubauskas can figure out a way to avoid getting hit by line drives, he just might have a future as a starter in the major leagues.

Jakubauskas pitched five scoreless innings, J.J. Hardy, Luke Scott and Adam Jones hit solo homers, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Oakland 4-0 Tuesday night to stretch the Athletics' losing streak to a season-high eight games.

Jakubauskas (1-0) came into the game with a 6.39 ERA over five appearances, all in relief. He was pressed into duty because the Orioles are carrying only four starters and were playing for a fifth straight day.

The last time Jakubauskas started a game was on April 24, 2010, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In that game, the right-hander was struck in the head by a liner off the bat of Lance Berkman in the first inning and carted off the field.

Against Oakland, Jakubauskas had a two-hit shutout in the fifth inning when Cliff Pennington smacked a line drive that hit the pitcher above his left ankle.

"There were some choice words that went through my mind after it happened, but I tried to keep those as quiet as I could," Jakubauskas said. "It was more of just, 'I can't believe this. Really? Again I get hit?'"

After consulting with trainer Richie Bancells and manager Buck Showalter, Jakubauskas took a few warmup tosses and finished his outing by retiring Jemile Weeks for the third out.

It was enough to get him his first win in the majors since 2009 with Seattle.

"I knew what it was: spot start, go out, try and get five or six innings, save the 'pen so we don't have to use (Alfredo) Simon or anyone else for too long. Luckily, it went that way," Jakubauskas said.

He gave up three hits, walked one and struck out four.

"It definitely felt good to get back out, start a game and let it be mine from minute one," he said.

Jones had three hits for the Orioles, who will try to complete a three-game sweep Wednesday night. Baltimore had lost eight straight series to Oakland since July 2007.

Hardy and Scott connected against Guillermo Moscoso (2-2), and Jones made it 3-0 in the sixth with a drive off Michael Wuertz. Mark Reynolds added an RBI double in the seventh against Craig Breslow.

The eight-game slide is Oakland's longest since an identical skid from Sept. 27, 2009, to April 5, 2010. The A's are 5-15 since May 17.

Oakland didn't get more than one hit in an inning, and seemingly every time the A's made good contact, the ball went right at an Oriole.

"It seems like it's been happening like that all year — especially the last couple of weeks," center fielder Ryan Sweeney said. "We're having good at-bats but can't put anything together and hit it right at somebody."

Making his major league debut, Weeks went 0 for 4 in the leadoff spot. Weeks, the 12th overall pick in the 2008 draft, had his contract purchased from Triple-A Sacramento before the game. The second baseman is the younger brother of Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks.

After Jakubauskas left, Clay Rapada retired two batters in the sixth, Jeremy Accardo worked 2 1-3 innings and Koji Uehara got the final three outs to complete the five-hitter.

Before the game, the Orioles learned that it will be at least two more weeks before leadoff hitter Brian Roberts can resume baseball-related activities. Roberts received the news in a consultation with concussion specialist Dr. Michael Collins in Pittsburgh.

Robert Andino and Felix Pie had been used atop the order in Roberts' absence, but Showalter decided to use Hardy "out of necessity."

The move paid immediate dividends. After a first-pitch strike, Hardy hit his first career leadoff homer, a drive to left that provided Baltimore with a lead it would not relinquish.

Scott hit his seventh homer of the season — the first since May 3 — leading off the fifth. The drive traveled an estimated 418 feet and landed on Eutaw Street beyond the 25-foot wall in right field.

Moscoso allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. Coming into the game, he had not given up a home run this season over 14 innings.

"He threw great tonight," Sweeney said. "We just didn't score any runs for him."

NOTES: The A's placed LHP Brett Anderson (sore elbow) and 2B Mark Ellis (strained right hamstring) on the 15-day disabled list. ... Actor Ed Harris threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... Eight of Baltimore's last 10 home runs have been solo shots.

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Scottsdale Painting Contractor Announces Special Offer for Summer 2011

2011-05-30T09:32:53+02:00

and with Statewide Paintings 10% discount, homeowners can save money as well.

While there are a multitude of painting contractors in the Phoenix area, not everyone can be trusted to be honest, show up on time, and strive to meet their client’s every needs. But that’s exactly what you get with President, David Cozad, who has 30 years of experience under his belt.

“We’re a Christian company,” David says. “We’re very honest, very reliable. We not only show up on time, but are usually about 15 minutes early. We show people that you can rely on a company, that you can expect a company to do exactly what they said they were going to do and go above and beyond that.”

The company not only offers interior and exterior painting for residential, commercial, and newconstruction, but due to client’s requests have recently added remodeling to their list of services.David’s a perfectionist when it comes to quality work, a great listener who strives to meet a client needs and wants, and in these hard economic times knows the importance of meeting his client’s budgets. “We treat their home as it were ours,” David says. “I mean that with all my heart.”

Statewide Professional Painting is licensed, insured, and bonded with a high rating with the Better Business Bureau and BuildZoom. They’ve never had a complaint and all reviews have been positive. In fact, clients have expressed their appreciation by telling David how the company went above and beyond their expectations, were available at all times and stayed in communication, and kept their word by charging exactly as quoted and finishing on schedule.

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Harry Reid, Rand Paul’s Patriot Act showdown goes public

2011-05-28T22:09:13+02:00

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A fight over the extension of the Patriot Act played out on the Senate floor yesterday--and things got personal for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Paul chose to rise on the Senate floor in front of a national audience to give Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) a real piece of his mind.

"I rise in response to a scurrilous accusation," Paul said. "I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America. To be attacked of such a belief when I'm here to discuss and debate the constitutionality of the Patriot Act is offensive. I find it personally insulting. And I think it demeans the body. It demeans the Senate body and the people that we can't have an intelligent debate over the constitutionality of this."

You can watch Paul's comments below:

Paul and Reid have been publicly sparring all week over the proposed extension of the anti-terrorism law, first passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Paul, elected with support from the tea party last November, opposes reauthorizing the law in its current form, saying it violates Americans' right to privacy. Paul wanted to add amendments to the reauthorization bill, including one that would bar law enforcement from accessing certain gun records. But Reid has opposed Paul's proposed amendments, as well as other suggested modifications to the law, and insisted that the Senate should not create any lapse in the act's reauthorization.

Reid on Wednesday personally attacked Paul on the floor, with rhetoric that suggested the Kentucky senator's proposals would abet terrorist enemies of the United States.

"When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we will be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot against our country undetected," Reid said, referring to the law's expiration this week. "The senator from Kentucky is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them."

"We all remember the tragic Fort Hood shootings less than two years ago. Radicalized American terrorists bought guns and used them to kill 13 civilians," Reid said. "It is hard to imagine why the senator would want to hold up the Patriot Act for a misguided amendment that would make American less safe."

Paul was not fighting alone. He had support from a couple of Democrats who also have argued for more oversight of the act, which permits law enforcement the use of roving wiretaps, access to library records and other controversial expansion of policing powers in the struggle against terrorism.

In the end, the majority leader won the first battle by employing procedural maneuvers to end debate. The Senate voted 79-18 Thursday morning to end cloture, which allows the Senate to move forward with an up or down vote on the measure. But Paul said he may still win .

UPDATED 11:50am EST: Story updated to include Thursday morning's Senate cloture vote.

UPDATED 12:20pm EST: Story updated with news of potential deal on amendments.

(Photo of Paul: James Crisp/AP)

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DNC chair: Without the auto bailout, we'd all drive foreign cars (VIDEO)

2011-05-28T04:01:37+02:00

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, continued her partys assault on Republicans who opposed the 2009 auto industry bailouts that President Obama supported.

One obvious political goal of her effort: wooing voters in swing states Michigan and Ohio, where carmakers have a big presence.

The Democratic Party leader's comments, made Thursday at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters, come in the wake of an announcement from Chrysler that the auto giant is repaying its loans: $5.9 billion to the US government and $1.7 billion to Canada and Ontario.

If it were up to the candidates running for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars, said Representative Wasserman Schultz, a Congresswoman from Florida. They would have let the automobile industry in America go down the tubes. Mitt Romney, they are all trying to run away from what their stance was previously.

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The DNC released a video earlier this week, highlighting the anti-bailout attitudes of former Massachusetts Governor Romney and other GOP presidential contenders. It opens with a November 2008 New York Times op-ed from Romney with the headline, Let Detroit Go Bankrupt. It then shows Romney in a TV interview saying, If you write a check, they are going out of business. The DNC video also features former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty criticizing President Obamas auto industry bailout.

Pawlenty spokesman Alex Conant told the Associated Press that the federal government is out of control. He added, President Obama is kidding himself if he thinks his policies have strengthened Americas economy.

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Space shuttle launch target pushed back to May 10

2011-05-03T09:16:30+02:00

NASA is pushing back from May 8 to May 10 its target for the already delayed launch of space shuttle Endeavour on its last flight to the International Space Station, officials said on Monday.

NASA had planned to launch Endeavour on its 25th and final mission on Friday but a failed heater in one of the spaceship's hydraulic power generators prompted managers to call off the flight about four hours before liftoff.

On Sunday, NASA managers decided to replace a suspect electronics box that routes power to the heaters on the auxiliary generator. The replacement required an extensive and time-consuming retest of the 70 to 80 impacted shuttle systems, initially pushing back the launch to no earlier than May 8.

But after assessing overnight progress, managers decided on Monday that May 10 was a more realistic target launch date, NASA spokesman Kyle Herring said.

A final decision about whether to attempt launch on that date will be made on Friday, Herring said.

The shuttle is carrying a $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector and a pallet of spare parts to the space station.

The six-man crew, led by commander Mark Kelly, the husband of convalescent U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is scheduled to spend up to 16 days in orbit preparing the station for operations after the U.S. shuttle fleet's retirement, which is scheduled for this year.

After Endeavour's mission, NASA plans one more cargo run of supplies to the station aboard sister ship Atlantis before ending the 30-year-old program.

Kelly and his crew returned to the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sunday to resume training.

Kelly's wife, Giffords, the Arizona Democrat badly injured in a shooting in January, expects to return again to the Florida spaceport to watch her husband's launch, the congresswoman's office said on Monday.

Giffords, who traveled to Florida for last week's launch attempt, returned to Houston's TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital, where she is undergoing extensive rehabilitation after being shot through the head.

President Barack Obama met Giffords, and the shuttle crew, at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday.

The January 8 shooting outside a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store killed six and injured 12 others besides Giffords. She has not been seen publicly since the attack.

(Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Bill Trott)

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Senegal hosts Japan's Africa development meeting

2011-05-03T02:35:26+02:00

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said his disaster-hit country would boost solidarity with Africa, at a development meeting with African ministers in Dakar on Saturday.

"I would like to express Japan's firm intention to strengthen solidarity with Africa even more intensely," Matsumoto told the opening ceremony as his country battles the devastating after effects of the March 11 quake and tsunami and ensuing crisis at a nuclear power plant.

The meeting is a follow-up to the five-yearly Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), last held in 2008 when Japan agreed to double development aid to Africa to $1.8 billion (1.2 billion euros) by 2012.

The Yokohama Action Plan outlined a focus on infrastructure development as well as boosting trade, foreign investment and assistance in private sector development.

Japan's government has submitted an extra budget of $49 billion to parliament to fund reconstruction after the disasters.

Senegal's Prime Minister Souleymane Ndiaye said the decision to continue the two-day TICAD meeting despite pressing issues at home showed Japan's "strong determination to abide by its commitments to Africa."

African ministers are expected to review progress made with the Yokohama Action Plan and discuss challenges to the continent's growth, peace and security issues and climate change.

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Sharp annual profit more than quadruples

2011-05-03T02:15:49+02:00

Sharp said its annual profit more than quadrupled due to brisk demand for liquid crystal display screens but warned the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last month will have a "broad" impact on its business.

Osaka-based Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that its net profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 surged 341 percent to 19.4 billion yen ($237.4 million) from 4.4 billion yen the previous fiscal year.

The result was below its October forecast for a 30 billion yen net profit due to supply chain damage from the March 11 disasters and costs from LCD plant improvements.

Sales increased 10 percent to 3.021 trillion yen ($37 billion), with revenue from LCD displays used for game consoles, tablet computers, TVs and smartphones increasing 21 percent to 614.3 billion yen.

LCD TV sales were especially robust in China, where Sharp sold 2.18 million of the devices, up from 1.18 million a year earlier, Sharp spokesman Toshiyuki Matsumura said.

Sharp said it could not provide a specific earnings forecast for the current fiscal year through March 2012 because of uncertainties remaining after the quake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster.

"It is extremely difficult at this time to reasonably estimate the impact of the earthquake on our financial results, which will be broad across our entire business activities from production to sales," Sharp said.

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Jon Huntsman mulls White House run

2011-05-03T01:35:20+02:00

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, after not quite two years as US President Barack Obama's ambassador to China, has returned home to weigh whether to seek the White House for himself in 2012.

But analysts warn that the 51-year-old former diplomat will likely struggle to win over fellow Republicans, notably the right-wing "Tea Party" movement built on anger at Obama and therefore suspicious of Huntsman's conservative credentials.

"It's an uphill battle," said Matt Dickinson, a political science professor at elite Middlebury College in Vermont.

Dickinson said Huntsman's service as the top US diplomat in Beijing -- a critical diplomatic post held by at least one future president, George Bush -- would be a "big handicap" in primaries dominated by core Republican voters.

Huntsman may say "I held my nose, I did it for the good of the country, particularly because so much our economic well-being is tied up in our relationship with China," the professor said.

"Some people will buy it, I suspect a lot of people will not," he said.

Obama has repeatedly spotlighted their relationship, vowing recently "to make sure that every primary voter knows it" and joking at Huntsman's expense during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington in January.

"I'm sure he will be very successful in whatever endeavors he chooses in the future, and I'm sure that him having worked so well with me will be a great asset in any Republican primary," Obama quipped.

Huntsman, whose resignation is effective Saturday, is expected to decide in the next two months whether to run, but already a group of political operatives in Washington, many of them veterans of Republican John McCain's White House bids, has done some of the organizational spadework to facilitate one.

They have started a political action committee -- HORIZON PAC, with the motto "Maybe Someday" -- that will cultivate local politicians and is expected ultimately to provide a campaign framework should Huntsman decide to run.

Huntsman plans to give a university graduation speech on May 21 in New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the first presidential primary, and will likely also hold low-key but campaign-style events, a supporter said.

"They will be a chance for him to meet some New Hampshire people, and for New Hampshire people to meet him," said Peter Spaulding, who chaired McCain's campaign in the state in the 2000 and 2008 White House contests.

"I think that he's a fresh, new, conservative Republican face in the race," Spaulding told AFP by telephone, before dismissing the notion that Huntsman's ambassadorship could hurt him.

"I don't think that's a major problem," said Spaulding. "In these types of non-partisan posts, you're serving the country, regardless of your political leanings."

Huntsman is well regarded in China, due to his fluent Mandarin and the fact that one of his seven children is a girl adopted from China. He is also known for preferring his bicycle to chauffeur-driven armored vehicles.

He has helped Washington navigate a particularly thorny time in relations between the world's top two economies, during which they have battled over everything from the yuan and trade to Taiwan and Internet freedom.

Among Republican voters, however, he is not well known.

A mid-April poll by the respected Gallup organization found that just 21 percent of them knew his name -- against 82 percent for possible rival and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

University of Utah political science professor Matthew Burbank told AFP that "the problem that Huntsman has this time around" is that Romney, who like Huntsman is a Mormon, is a "more established" candidate with a similar profile.

When it comes to Mormon fundraisers and organizers, "Romney's pretty well got them lined up," depriving Huntsman of potentially important backers, Burbank told AFP.

In Utah, Huntsman cruised to election and then reelection as governor and won strong reviews for his careful husbanding of the state's finances.

"He proved himself to be a very capable governor," said Burbank.

But he also praised Obama's economic stimulus package backed civil unions for gay couples, and supported a "cap-and-trade" plan to curb greenhouse gases blamed for global warming -- all targets of Republican scorn.

And some commentators say his Mormon faith could irk evangelical Christian voters who comprise a key part of the Republican party base vote.

Huntsman, the motorcycle-riding son of a chemical billionaire, could inject his own cash into an effort to explore his prospects in the crowded field of presumed Republican contenders for the presidential nomination.

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Drogba, Torres to spur Chelsea's Premiership charge

2011-05-01T07:48:52+02:00

Carlo Ancelotti is ready to revive his plans to pair Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres in a bid to maintain Chelsea's bid to push the title race into the final day.

The Blues manager had abandoned his efforts to link 50 million record signing Torres with Drogba after Chelsea were eliminated from the Champions league by Manchester United.

But after Torres finally broke his 732-minute goal-drought for his new club after appearing as a substitute against West Ham United last weekend, he is contemplating restoring the Spaniard to his starting line-up for Saturday's battle with Tottenham.

"My philosophy and opinion is when you have very good players you have to try to put them together," said the manager. "If players have skill and ability they are able to play together.

"Maybe they have to sacrifice something of their ability and skills but they can play together and if they can do that better for the team to reach better result.

"We tried this week to play them together ... will not be a surprise if they start together on Saturday."

Chelsea must beat Spurs if they are to increase the pressure on leaders Manchester United who sit six points clear with four games remaining.

Ancelotti?s side travel to Old Trafford on May 8th and the manager knows that if Chelsea win the next three games, they will go into the final day at most three points off the pace.

"We want to keep the Premier League open until the last minute and have the possibility to do this," he said. "Obviously we have to beat Manchester United and Tottenham but this is our aim. Maybe Manchester United will win the title but we want to fight to the last minute."

Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham manager, knows Manchester City's four-point advantage will be hard to erase between now and the end of the season in the battle for fourth place and the Champions League slot that goes with it.

Tottenham still have to go to Eastlands, where they were victorious this time last season when the two sides were locked in a similar tussle.

But Redknapp knows that his side's 2-2 draw at home to West Bromwich Albion last weekend, coupled with City's 1-0 win at Blackburn Rovers on Monday has swung the pendulum in favour of Roberto Mancini's side.

"It's going to be difficult but we're still in there and it's still all to play for," Redknapp said. "We just have to keep going and finish as high as we can. If we finish in the top four again it would be fantastic. If not, we try again next season.

"Saturday was a blow, but everyone has them. There are no easy games. I knew West Brom would be difficult and so it proved. They are a good team in good form and we couldn't quite get over the finishing line.

"But we pick ourselves up, we've a big game at Chelsea next and we'll get ready for that. It has been a great season, we've had an unbelievable run in the Champions League, and the football we've played has been right out of the top drawer. And it's not over yet."

Sandro, Tottenham's Brazilian midfielder, was hoping to get the better of compatriots David Luiz and Ramires.

"Chelsea are a good team with lots of quality players," he said. "I have friends there but when the match is on, we'll forget about that and give everything to win. I hope it's a great match and we win."

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White Sox head home after rough road trip

2011-04-30T23:43:24+02:00

Paul Konerko didn't hold back when describing how awful this road trip was.

"It was more of a collapse," he said after the Chicago White Sox were roughed up by the New York Yankees 12-3 Thursday night to complete a 3-8 trip.

Edwin Jackson pitched four hitless innings, then gave up a leadoff homer to Brett Gardner in the fifth. The Yankees then sent eight more batters to the plate and scored six runs without making an out before Gardner came up again and struck out.

"It's been a bad couple of weeks," Konerko said. "It's been bad up to this point as a whole this season, but that doesn't mean tomorrow has to be (the same way). It's way too early to get discouraged or to say, 'OK, this is the team for the season.'"

The White Sox took the first two games of the series thanks to solid starting pitching. But Chicago slumped mightily on a trip in which it scored more than three runs in only one game.

The White Sox didn't score until the seventh Thursday, and all three runs were earned.

"Terrible. We finished the way we started — very bad," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Hopefully, things turn around when we go home."

Chicago returns home for a six-game homestand before heading out for nine more games on the road. The White Sox have lost 12 of 15 overall.

CC Sabathia pitched seven sharp innings to beat a familiar foe and help New York gain a split of the four-game series. Nick Swisher hit his first homer in 76 at-bats this season and he, Eduardo Nunez and Gardner scored three runs apiece. Every Yankees starter except Nunez had at least one RBI.

Curtis Granderson tripled, Alex Rodriguez and Nunez each hit a double, and Swisher broke an 0-for-19 skid with a single in the fifth.

With Derek Jeter getting a planned day off and Mark Teixeira out with a sore shoulder, the Yankees struggled against Jackson (2-3) through the first four innings. But they did score twice in the third when Jackson walked four and threw a wild pitch as a light drizzle fell at Yankee Stadium. Robinson Cano, moved to third from fifth in the lineup, hit a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead.

"He just was a little wild tonight and we took advantage of it," Swisher said. "We tried to make him bring it to the plate."

When he did, the Yankees pounced for six runs in the fifth, driving Jackson from the game without getting an out.

Jackson gave up four hits and six runs in four-plus innings. He walked a season-high five.

Sabathia (2-1) improved to 17-4 against the White Sox in 30 career starts, a team he faced often with Cleveland in the AL Central. He is one of two pitchers in big league history who has at least 25 starts and four or fewer losses against Chicago, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Filling in at shortstop, Nunez made two errors, a fielding error to start the game and a throwing miscue that led to three unearned runs in the seventh.

Sabathia gave up seven hits and no earned runs. He struck out six and walked one.

On Monday, Phil Humber held New York hitless into the seventh, and the Yankees had scored just five runs in the first three games of the series. That all changed in the fifth.

Tony Pena relieved Jackson and left with discomfort in his right elbow. He will have it checked when the team returns to Chicago and is day to day.

Alex Rios left the game for a pinch-hitter in the eighth because he aggravated his sore left big toe. He'll also be examined in Chicago.

Alexei Ramirez and Carlos Quentin had RBI hits with two outs in the White Sox seventh. The third run scored when Quentin tried stretching his drive off the wall in right but was caught in a rundown between first and second.

NOTES: White Sox RHP Jake Peavy is scheduled to make a rehabilitation start for Triple-A Charlotte on Friday. His outing in Double-A on April 18 was cut short because of discomfort in his surgically repaired right shoulder. ... The White Sox will unveil a plaque to commemorate the "Hawk Harrelson Broadcast Level" at U.S. Cellular Field. Harrelson is in his 26th season as a White Sox broadcaster. ... George Pipgras was 19-4 against the White Sox in 28 career starts, according to Elias.

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Photojournalist is mourned at NYC church service

2011-04-29T08:17:29+02:00

A New York photographer killed in Libya used his lens as his "heart" — to speak for war-ravaged people desperate to be heard by the world, said the priest who celebrated a Mass for him Wednesday.

Chris Hondros, who was fatally wounded by mortar fire last week, "spoke for the broken-hearted and the suffering," the Rev. Anthony Sansone told more than 1,000 mourners who packed a Brooklyn church. "Chris' final act was to tell the story of those who were not listened to by anyone else."

Minutes before he was struck during house-to-house fighting between rebels and Libyan troops in Misrata, Hondros shot a series of photos for Getty Images. Some are close-ups of a flame-engulfed room where rebels had rolled a burning tire to oust strongman Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers — with machine-guns ablaze down stairwells and around corners.

Photography, Sansone said in his homily, was at "the heart of his conscience."

Hondros succumbed to head injuries at a local hospital. He was 41.

Photographer-filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed in Misrata the same day, and two other photojournalists were severely injured.Just weeks ago in Brooklyn, where Hondros lived, the priest was preparing the photographer and his fiancee for their August wedding — which was to be held at the same spring flower-graced altar facing Hondros' casket on Wednesday, draped in a simple white cloth for the nearly two-hour Roman Catholic rite.

The service at Sacred Heart & St. Stephens Church included long stretches of music — by Bach, Schubert, Mahler — featuring artists he had chosen to play for presentations of his images that he called "Sound + Vision: At War."

Mourners came from as far away as Singapore, including Pulitzer-prize-winning photographers and photo editors from major media outlets — many weeping openly in the pews and on the sidewalk in front of the church in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood.

Greg Campbell, Hondros' best friend from high school in Fayetteville, N.C., said he worked alongside the photographer — writing for USA Today — on the front lines in Benghazi, Libya, one week before Hondros' death.

Once back in the United States, "I got emails from Chris hours before he died," a bereaved Campbell said after the service.

He delivered one of four tributes from the altar, calling his friend "an extraordinary person who touched so many" — including those who sent several hundred messages from two dozen countries.

Campbell said he had traveled with Hondros on news stories from Kosovo to Nigeria and Sierra Leone. And when the writer got anxious working in tense situations, he said the photographer would advise him to "take a deep breath, keep it simple, take it step by step."

Hondros was looking forward to starting a family, Campbell said. "He spoke nonstop about Christine" Piaia, his fiancee, "and he told me how excited he was to find his soulmate and lifelong companion."

Piaia told those gathered that he "wanted to invite the world" to their wedding.

"Here we are now," she said wistfully, "every seat taken."

Organist Jim Lake added later, "I wish I could have played their wedding music."

Before leaving the church, Hondros' brother, Dean, and their mother, Inge, walked past a display of his photos set up on easels at the back of the church. Some depicted human faces amid the violence of war, twisted into extreme pain.

The photographer's mission, the priest said, "was to tell the truth, to tell the story of those who suffer, who are dismantled and in need" so the world "would do something about it."

A funeral for Hondros will be held Saturday in Fayetteville, where he was raised.

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Turkey to build new waterway to bypass Bosporus

2011-04-29T05:48:33+02:00

Turkey's prime minister announced Wednesday that he plans to build a major new waterway to reduce traffic on the heavily congested Bosporus.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "Canal Istanbul" would be between 28 and 31 miles (40 and 45 kilometers) long and would link the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, which leads to the Aegean Sea. Erdogan announced the new waterway during campaigning ahead of elections on June 12.

He did not disclose the exact location of the new waterway or the cost of the gargantuan project.

Erdogan says the project will be completed by 2023, when Turkey will be celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Turkish republic after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

"We have today embarked on the greatest project of the century," Erdogan said. He said it would be a bigger undertaking than the Panama or Suez canals.

Erdogan said hazardous materials pose a threat to the city Istanbul while they are being transported through the narrow, 30-kilometer (19-mile) Bosporus strait.

Erdogan said ships carry 139 million tons of oil, 4 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas and 3 million tons of chemicals through the Bosporus annually, threatening nearly 2 million people living and working on the banks of the waterway.

Dallas Criminal Attorney Alan C. Kazdoy Receives Martindale-Hubbell(R) BV(R) Distinguished(TM) Peer Review Rating(SM)

2011-02-17T01:38:22+01:00

Dallas criminal defense lawyer Alan C. Kazdoy receives the prestigious BV(R) Distinguished(TM) Peer Review Rating(SM) from Martindale-Hubbell(R).

Dallas, TX (Vocus/PRWEB) February 16, 2011

Dallas, Texas attorney Alan C. Kazdoy has received the prestigious BV(R) Distinguished(TM) Peer Review Rating(SM) from Martindale-Hubbell(R).

has 29 years of experience and was admitted to practice in Texas in 1972.Alan Kazdoy devotes his practice exclusively to helping the people of Texas resolve criminal legal matters. He is highly experienced in all areas of criminal defense, including: DWI, drug crimes,sexual crimes/assault, felonies, traffic offenses/tickets, homicides, misdemeanors, juvenile law, parole and probation, and criminal appeals.

A BV(R) Distinguished(TM) rating recognizes excellence in lawyers with some experience.A widely respected mark of achievement, it differentiates a lawyer from his or her competition.

Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of the peer review rating process.The ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. fall into two categories: Legal Ability and General Ethical Standards.

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About the FirmThe Law Office of Alan C. Kazdoy offers clients results-oriented representation. If you are facinganywhere in Texas, your first line of defense is an attorney with a deep understanding of Texas law, the experience necessary to be effective in the courtroom and the commitment to excellence that guarantees your case will be treated with the care and personal attention it deserves. Alan Kazdoy has built a successful legal career by providing clients with precisely these services. Your case and your future are in capable hands at The Law Office of Alan C. Kazdoy.

Alan C. Kazdoy has devoted his practice to representing clients facing criminal matters in Texas. He is passionate about helping the people of Dallas and the surrounding areas resolve their legal troubles and move on with their lives. Attorney Kazdoy has the experience, professionalism and knowledge to represent your case aggressively and effectively. He will fight to protect your rights.

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