Posts Tagged ‘ lard ’

Off The Rack Entertainment

May 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

Cover: While Nicole Richie is stuck at home supervising the care and feeding of baby Harlow, Harlow’s daddy is out partying up a storm with the likes of Lindsay Lohan. Nicole is in tears. And, as you well know, someone of Nicole’s size is in constant danger of dehydration from just the slightest bit of [...]



Tories Defend Berniers Travel Bill

May 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

OTTAWA–Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier has to travel first class to “stand tall” on the world stage, Conservative government House leader Peter Van Loan says.
Van Loan was defending Bernier, who has been dogged by criticism since taking on the portfolio last August, including over his relationship with a Quebec woman who had close ties to [...]



Grayson Perrys Curatorial Austerity Trip Is Heavy Going

May 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

The cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry has come up with a brilliant strategy for making his work look good. It’s such an obvious wheeze, I wonder why others haven’t employed it before. Asked by the Arts Council to select a show from the huge collection of modern British art it has built up, Perry has plumped [...]



Kleine Hails Local Junior Achievement

May 17th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

At a recent local event, however, the former Arkansas Razorbacks and professional basketball player focused on something else that is dear to his heart: Junior Achievement.
Kleine, now an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was the keynote speaker for a celebration of Junior Achievement’s success in Saline County.
The program, [...]



Central Florida girls track and field honor roll

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Opinion

800: Brittany Koziara, Boone, 2:13.13; Brooke Nebel, Spruce Creek, 2:20.92.; Caroline Buck, Bishop Moore, 2:21.04; Karen Robillard, Lake Brantley, 2:21.37; Rachel Boggs, Dr. Phillips, 2:21.98; Majorie Ducos, Winter Park, 2:22.03
1,600: Brittany Koziara, Boone, 4:57.42; Amanda Perkins, Spruce Creek, 4:59.96; Julie Mayfield, Father Lopez, 5:15.30; Allie Prendergast, Lake Highland Prep, 5:17.66; Rachel Boggs, Dr. Phillips, 5:18.31; [...]



Barricades coming down on Church Street

Mar 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Opinion

Mark Dollard, co-owner, manager and chef for the Brick %26amp; Fire Pizza and Wine Co. and who last month compared the scene to a “demilitarized zone,” also was anxiously awaiting the barricades coming down. Opening the street to car traffic — and making it more appealing to pedestrians with the [...]



Wanaka retailers flout Easter trading law with impunity

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

An estimated one third of shops opened in Wanaka yesterday, but the Department of Labour wont be prosecuting.
Department of Labour spokesman Iain MacLean said neither Invercargill or Wanaka were visited by inspectors this year because there were not enough resources to get around the entire southern region, which covers Otago and Southland.
There would be no [...]



Media Cos. Battle Web Portals on Ads

Mar 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

But these media networks — some linking fewer than a dozen hand-picked Web sites — may have a tough time competing with the larger networks of thousands assembled by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL.Those companies have been expanding, too, spending at least $11 billion collectively to buy smaller ad [...]



Cellardwelling Highlanders try application of Force

Mar 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

The home team %26mdash; the Highlanders, for the uninitiated %26mdash; is winless after four games and five rounds, although it has picked up a losing bonus point from each outing this season.
Anchored at the bottom of the table heading into the Easter weekend of Super 14 games, the Highlanders are already in a scrap to [...]



Patagonia in peril

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

Patagonia is the southernmost triangle of South America, straddling Argentina and Chile, one of the last wildernesses to be conquered by modern man. Westerners have long regarded the region an empty place, a land of myths, a refuge from the world. Back in the 1970s, Bruce Chatwin wrote that it was one of the few [...]