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CHURCH SUES HOLLYWOOD STUDIO ISRAELI NUCLEAR WHISTLEBLOWER
FOR USE OF RIO STATUE IN MOVIE MORDECHAI VANUNU SNUBS NOBEL
Laid-off workers
Undeterred,
TV meet highlights Obama’s woes
Fonseka to
Washington: Partisan sniping
contest in
and ideological divides tore at a
● Obama argued on Thursday that a
dying of stress
veneer of civility at Barack Oba-
sweeping overhaul of America's broken
ma’s health summit on Thurs-
health care system is needed, setting off
general polls
day, despite his plea for no “po-
an immediate clash in an extraordinary
litical theatre” on an issue drag-
live-on-TV summit with Republicans who
ging down his presidency.
want far more modest change
Job Loss Creates Severe Health Issues: Studies
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s ex- Obama gathered Republican
army chief foes and Democratic allies in an
● Republicans claimed at the meet that
who was de- extraordinary televised meet-
they had a better idea
Michael Luo tained on ing billed as a bid to bridge di-
● They suggested Congress and the ad-
accusations vides in a poisonous political
ministration should start over with small
T
he first to have a heart attack was of sedition climate over his top domestic
steps, including medical malpractice
George Kull Jr, 56, a millwright who after losing priority, which is perilously
reform, and allowing Americans to
worked for three decades at the steel presidential stalled in Congress.
purchase insurance across state lines
mills in Lackawanna, New York. Three elections is “I hope this isn’t political the-
weeks after learning that his plant was clos- set to lead a atre where we are just playing
ing, he suddenly collapsed at home. Less new opposi- to the cameras and criticizing Americans. He said health re- ers tell pollsters they crave. But opening the summit in
than two hours later, he was dead. tion coalition in an April par- each other,” Obama said, at the form was crucial to alleviating Obama and the top Republi- a tone that belied the fractious
A few weeks after that, a co-worker, Bob liamentary vote, a party offi- six-hour summit at the Blair deficits and to the future health can pointman at the meeting, debate over the issue, Obama
Smith, 42, a forklift operator, started having cial said on Thursday. House presidential guesthouse of the US economy, and was a senator Lamar Alexander, called on both sides to focus on
chest pains. He learned at the doctor’s of- Retired Gen Sarath Fonse- opposite the White House. moral imperative with millions clashed over the cost of health areas of agreement. “We all
fice that he was having a heart attack. Sur- ka has signed nomination pa- The president however, prof- of Americans hit by health care care reforms. “Let me just fin- know this is urgent and unfor-
geons inserted three stents, saving his life. pers to contest a seat in the ited from the theatrical nature bills they cannot afford to pay. ish, Lamar,” Obama snapped, af- tunately over the course of the
Less than a month later, Don Turner, a capital Colombo, representing of this rare Washington drama But Republicans demanded ter the Republican took the rare year…this became a very ideo-
55-year-old crane operator, was found by his the Democratic National Al- himself, striding into the talks he shelve his ambitious plan step of directly challenging a US logical battle...and politics I
wife, Darlene, slumped on a love seat, strick- liance at the nationwide polls beaming, as leading foes and al- and start again from scratch, president in public on his facts. think ended up trumping prac-
en by a fatal heart attack.
Losing Hope
on April 8, party official Vi- lies stood as a show of respect and said they had better ideas. Many Republicans doubt tical common sense.”
It is impossible to say exactly why these jitha Herath said. His papers ahead of his opening remarks. And in early exchanges, the Obama’s sincerity in holding But the president also ad-
men, all in relatively good health, had heart
The closure of a New York steel mill
will be submitted on Friday. Obama is challenging op- political bile suffocating Oba- the summit, fearing he may mitted “it may be at the end of
attacks within weeks of one another.
caused workers to suffer cardiac arrests
Fonseka contested the Jan- position Republicans to drop ma’s ambitious reform bid could benefit if they agree to com- the day we come out of here and
But interviews with friends and rel- uary 26 presidential election obstruction tactics and back not be concealed, even as each promise and believe if they everybody says…we can’t bridge
atives of Kull and Turner, and with
The first to die was George Kull Jr,
with the backing of 14 opposi- his new 950 billion dollar plan side tried to show they were pro- block him he will hammer the gap between Democrats and
Smith, suggest that the trauma
56, a millwright who worked for three
tion parties, but lost to the in- to cover 31 million uninsured viding the bipartisanship vot- them as obstructionist. Republicans on this.” AFP
of losing their jobs played a role.
decades at the steel mills. His son,
cumbent President Mahinda
A growing body of research
George Kull III (above), suggests it
Rajapaksa. The military ar-
suggests that layoffs can have pro-
was the stress that killed him
rested Fonseka two weeks af-
found health consequences. One
A few weeks after that, it was a co-
ter the election loss.
Afghan govt, US
2006 study by a group of epidemi-
worker Bob Smith (left). He survived
Charges against him have Blair too was target of
ologists at Yale found that layoffs more
after surgeons inserted three stents
not yet been specified, and
than doubled the risk of heart attack and without a conviction against
troops claim
stroke among older workers. Another paper, him, he should be able to con-
published last year, found that a person who to understand the exact connection between test the vote. Fonseka signed Brown’s profane rant
Taliban bastion
lost a job had an 83% greater chance of de- job loss and poor health, according to sci- his nomination papers at the
veloping a stress-related health problem, like entists. The focus is mostly on the direct naval camp in Colombo where London: Gordon Brown subjected Tony Marjah: The Afghan government took
diabetes, arthritis or psychiatric issues. In and indirect effects of stress. he is held and sent the docu- Blair to ill-tempered and expletives-laden official control of the southern Tal-
perhaps the most sobering finding, a study Last year, in Lackawanna, Turner’s wife, ments through his wife tirades—claiming Blair had ruined his iban stronghold of Marjah on Thurs-
published last year found that layoffs can Darlene, noticed that he was smoking more Anoma Fonseka who is al- life—in a fierce bid for British premiership day, installing an administrator and
affect life expectancy. The paper examined after he learned about the plant closing. She lowed to visit him, Herath said. in the months leading up to Blair’s resig- raising the national flag while US-led
death records and earnings data in Penn- also saw that he seemed to be labouring more Marxist JVP chief So- nation, says a controversial new book. troops worked to root out final pock-
sylvania during the recession of the early when he exerted himself. “My husband was mawansa Amarasinghe said Brown, who became premier in June ets of militants.
1980s and concluded that death rates among the type of person that just kept everything that Anoma would be cam- 2007, repeatedly shouted at Blair “you ru- The ceremony was held in a central
high-seniority male workers jumped by 50% inside,” Darlene said. She came home on paigning for the opposition al- ined my life” during a final confrontation market as US marines and Afghan troops
to 100% in the year after a job loss, depend- February 13 and found her husband sitting liance before the general elec- in September 2006, according to the book slogged through bomb-laden fields in the
ing on the worker’s age. on the love seat. At first, she said, she tions. “She will be in the cam- “The End of the Party” by British jour- north of the town. The marines and their
Additional investigation is still needed thought he had fallen asleep. NYT NEWS SERVICE paign team,” he said. AGENCIES nalist Andrew Rawnsley. Afghan partners are trying to secure a
An account of the book was carried in 45-square kilometre area believed to be
The Guardian on Thursday.
No, Prime Minister
the last significant pocket of Taliban in-
Oz warns Israel over Hamas hit
Rawnsley’s book says that Brown, then surgents in Marjah.
Chancellor of the exchequer (finance min-
Gordon Brown told Tony Blair ‘you ruined
Militants and allied troops are still
ister), laid into Blair during a two-
my life’ in a fierce showdown shortly before
getting caught up in gunfights in some
hour meeting in 2006, insisting
the former PM agreed to stand down
areas, Nato said. But the number of
Dubai: Pressure mounted on Israel on link Israel to the killing of Mabhouh. that the prime minister step residents returning has increased in
Thursday as Australia became the lat- Canberra summoned the But the country’s envoys have already down in his favour.
During their confrontation, Brown
recent days, shops have opened to sell
est country seeking answers over the
Israeli ambassador on
been called in over the affair by He berated cabinet col-
berated cabinet colleagues who were
use of Western passports in the Dubai Britain, France, Germany and Ireland
being named as potential prime
telephones and computers alongside
Thursday to discuss the use of
leagues who were being named
killing by suspected Mossad agents of because of the use of such passports
ministerial contenders
fresh fruit and vegetables, and officials
a top Hamas militant.
fake Australian passports in
as potential contenders: John hailed the installation of Abdul Zahir
seemingly issued by these countries. Reid was “far too rightwing”, ’Who do you think is better than Aryan as the town’s administrator as
Australia summoned the Israeli am-
the killing of a Hamas leader
Australian foreign minister Stephen Alan Johnson was “a lightweight” me? Do you think there is anyone who a key sign of progress.
bassador to discuss the latest develop- Smith, who summoned the Israeli am- and David Miliband much too young. is better than me,’ Brown asked Blair Some 700 residents gathered to see
ment in the investigation into the killing, “If Australian passports are being bassador, said initial investigations According to the book, Blair later told Aryan formally appointed as the top
which Dubai’s police chief has said was used or forged by any state, let alone showed the Australian passports were close allies that the confrontation was dards. ‘You put f***ing Milburn up to it’, government official in Marjah, along
most likely carried out by agents of the for the purpose of assassination, this probably “duplicated or altered”. “I made “ghastly” and “terrible”. “He (Brown) kept Brown raged down the phone. ‘This is fac- with government officials and Brig
Israeli intelligence service. is of the deepest concern and we are it crystal clear to the ambassador that if shouting at me that I’d ruined his life.” tionalism! It’s f***ing Trotskyism!’” Gen Larry Nicholson, commander of
Australia “will not be silent on the getting to the bottom of this now,” Rudd the results of that investigation cause Brown subjected Blair to another ver- Rawnsley’s book comes at an incon- US Marines in Marjah.
matter,” said Prime Minister Kevin told public broadcaster ABC. “We will us to come to the conclusion that the bal onslaught after Blair ally Alan Milburn venient time for Brown, who faces gen- “Today’s event was the civilian
Rudd after three Australian passport- not leave a single stone unturned.” abuse of Australian passports was in wrote an article supporting his (Blair’s) eral elections due by June 3 for the first Afghan government re-establishing it-
holders were named among 15 new sus- A statement on Monday from Is- any way sponsored or condoned by Is- right to stay on as prime minister. time since becoming Labour leader after self officially in front of the local res-
pects linked to last month’s killing of raeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieber- raeli officials, then Australia would not The book says: “The chancellor’s fury Blair stepped down over the unpopular idents,” Marlin Hardinger, the US rep-
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. man said there was no evidence to regard that as the act of a friend.” AFP was titanically demented even by his stan- Iraq war. IANS resentative for Helmand, said. AP
F. No. 1O-3/2007-NPRE (FMD)
As visitors watch,
Calif lawmakers move to
AROUND THE WORLD
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
killer whale drowns
Rio church sues Columbia
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Pictures over Christ statue
DAIRYING & FISHERIES , (NPRE SECTION)
Room No. 263-264, F-Wing, Shastr i Bhawan , New Delhi-hO 001
water park trainer
clean up foul mouths Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Hollywood
for using unauthorized images of Rio’s
Dated the 25th Febmary, 2010
Orlando (Florida): A veteran SeaWorld Sacramento (California): high school in 2007. His efforts to stop tearing people down famous giant Christ statue in its disaster
FAX: 91-11-23384190.
Tele: 23382021 (Extn .)
trainer was leisurely rubbing a killer whale California lawmakers have a to stamp out profanity have gen- and uplift them instead.” movie blockbuster 2012. Rio de Janeiro’s
5063 & 4235
when the 12,000-pound creature grabbed history of trying to keep the erated international attention, Portantino said his reso- archdiocese is demanding unspecified
TENDER NOTICE her with its mouth and dragged her un- state’s air and waters clean. with 35,000 members joining lution is a guideline to “act damages from Columbia Pictures for showing
Closing Data & rime for Receipt of Bids : 18-03-2010 upto 02.30 P.M.
derwater where she drowned. Now they’re tackling language. the No Cussing Club’s website. like you’re at your grandma’s the iconic landmark being destroyed in the
(1430 hours)
Horrified visitors watched the animal The state assembly was Portantino said the Cali- house.” There would be no en- film last year. “The archdiocese had refused
Bids Opeiiing Date and Time 18-03-2010 at 03.00 P.M.
charge through the pool with trainer Dawn scheduled to vote on a resolu- fornia Legislature—known for forcement mechanism. He the use of the religious symbol during pre-
(1500 hours) Brancheau in its jaws. Workers rushed to tion late on Thursday calling imposing strict clean air and said that he expected the meas- production of the movie,” the archdiocese’s
Sealed Bids are invited from Indian manufacturers for the supply of the help her as an alarm sounded, but it was for a statewide “Cuss Free ure to receive bipartisan sup- attorney, Claudine Dutra, said.
following items:-
too late. It marked the third time the ani- Week,” to occur annually in
TONGUE TWISTER
port in both houses.
Item Brief Description of Goods ()uanhity Amount of Bid mal had been involved in a human death. the first week of March. If ap- Profanity is rare on the Israeli refuses Nobel nomination: Israel’s
No. Security Because of his size and the previous proved, it would go to the sen- clean water laws—is the first floor of the assembly or sen- nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has
1. FM[) oil adjuvant vaccine incorporated 581.8 lakh 2% of the
deaths, trainers were not supposed to get ate for a final vote on Monday. state legislative body in the ate, where lawmakers try to requested his name be removed from the list
with the following vaccine strains:- doses total cost. into the water with Tilikum, and only The rest of next week will nation to consider a statewide maintain decorum. If the as- of candidates to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
a. Trivalent
(‘A’, ‘0’ and ‘Asia-i ’)
about a dozen of the park’s 29 trainers be officially swear-word free if profanity-free week. sembly approves the resolu- The reason cited was “he is not interested in
b. (i) Type
‘O’
-IND R2/75 worked with him. Brancheau had more both houses approve the reso- Hatch, now 16, said he sees tion, Portantino plans to de- receiving a prize that Shimon Peres has
(ii) Type
‘A’
-IND 40/2000 experience with the 30-year-old whale than lution. The resolution by as- a link between cussing and liver a “cuss jar” to the office received, since he considers Shimon Peres the
(iii) Type ‘Asia
1’
- IND 83/72
most other trainers. semblyman Anthony Portanti- drug use, bullying and other of every state lawmaker and father of the Israeli atomic bomb.”
c. Oil-adjuvant (sate and of proven efficacy)
Brancheau’s sister, Diane Gross, said no, democrat, was inspired by harmful behaviour. “I want to
d. Shelf life: Minimum one year at the time of supply
the governor. Those who let a
e. Period of immunity: More Than 9 months
the trainer wouldn’t want anything done a South Pasadena teenager, bring as much awareness as I foul word slip would be en- Lopez dropped by Epic Records: Jennifer
to the whale because she loved the animals McKay Hatch, who founded a can to people about their lan- couraged to deposit money Lopez has been dropped by Epic Records
2. Qualification requirements are indicated in Section VI of the bidding
like her children. AP No Cussing Club at his junior guage,” Hatch said. “We need into the jar as penance. AP following the flop of her two recent singles,
document.
3. Bidding Documents are available for sale at this office from 1030 hours to
Louboutins and Fresh Out of the Oven, on the
1230 hours on all working days, from the date of advertisement of Tender in the
Billboard charts. Lopez’s manager, Benny
newspaper etc. till a day prior to the closing date of receipt of Bid indicated above,
Toyota scandal may free jailed man
Medina, claimed that the 40-
against payment of a non-refundable fee of Rs. 1000/-
fl
upees One Thousand
year-old had not wanted to
Only) in the form of a Crossed Demand Draft in favour of the ‘Pay & Accounts
renew her contract and that it
Officer, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fishenes, New Delhi’
had been a mutual decision
payable at New Delhi. Bidders desirous of having Bidding Documents by post
Lino Lakes (Minnesota): Ever those subject to Toyota’s recent not to re-sign. “Jennifer hasn’t
shall add Rs. 200/- (Rs. Two Hundred Only) towards postage. Department of since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot Justice Takes A Wrong Turn safety recalls, but Toyota did re- been on top of her game for a
Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of up an interstate ramp, plough- call some 1996 Camrys for defec- while,” a source revealed.
India, New Delhi, will not be responsible for the postal delay, if any, in the delivery
ing into the back of an Koua Fong Lee was sent to prison in 1996 for criminal vehicular tive cruise controls that could
of the documents or non-receipt of tile same. The Bidding Documents can also
Oldsmobile in a horrific homicide after his Toyota Camry rammed into a stationary car,
be downloaded from our website www dahd.nic.in The Bidders downloading
cause sudden acceleration. Hopkins slams
the Bidding Documents need to attach a Demand Draft towards cost of Bid
crash that killed three killing three people Bob Hilliard, a Texas attorney, Hilton: Anthony
Document alongwith Technical Bid as detailed above. The Bids without cost of Bid
people, Koua Fong Lee
Koua insisted then he had done everything he could to stop
is preparing a lawsuit by the vic- Hopkins has taken
Documents shall be summarily rejected.
insisted he had done
his Camry, but the jury and the judge did not believe him
tims in the Lee crash. Hilliard aim at Paris Hilton
4. All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security as specified ri Clause 15
everything he could to said other federal complaints sug- and other
read with Instructions to Bidders (l.T.B.) and Section IV of Schedule of
stop the car.
But now, new revelations of braking and acceleration
gest a defect more widespread celebrity
Requirements of the Bidding Document and must be delivered to the address
A jury didn’t believe
problems with Toyotas have Lee pressing to get his case
than recalled cruise controls— socialites,
mentioned in this letter on or before 1430 Hours (Indian Standard Time) on him, and a judge sentenced
reopened and his freedom restored
something with engine control comparing them
the date mentioned in Paragraph 1 above. Electronic bidding will not be him to eight years in prison. But modules that could extend to oth- to soulless
permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of
now, new revelations of safety gas and that I was stepping on the originally believed. Numerous er Toyota makes and model years. “machines”.
the bidders
’
representatives who choose to attend in person at Committee
problems with Toyotas have Lee brakes as hard as possible,” Lee lawsuits involving Toyota acci- Hilliard said he’s aware of “You look at
Room No. 243, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi, at 1500 hours (IS1) on the date
mentioned in Paragraph 1 above.
pressing to get his case reopened said on Wednesday at the state dents have been filed over the re- about 16 potential class-action cas- fashion
5. In the event of the specified date for the submission and opening of bids
and his freedom restored. Rela- prison in Lino Lakes. “When the cent revelations, and attorneys es filed around the country on the magazines and
being declared a holiday for purchaser
’s office, the due date for submission
tives of the victims—who con- brakes were looked at and we were expect the numbers will climb. basis of the automaker’s recent you think, ‘What
and opening of bids will be the following working day at the appointed time.
demned Lee at his sentencing told that nothing was wrong with In testimony before the Con- revelations. Hilliard said the vic- are we living in?’
6. It is the responsibility of the Bidders to ensure that their Bids, whether
three years ago—now believe he the brakes, I was shocked.” gress, company executives ac- tims’ family feel differently about You look at the red
sent by post or by Courier or by person, are dropped in the Tender Box in this
is innocent and are planning to Lee’s accident is among a knowledged that they still may not Lee now. “They seem to have carpet, Paris Hilton,
office i.e Room No. 283-264, F-Wing, Department of Animal Husbandry, sue Toyota. The prosecutor who growing number of cases, some have identified all the causes for made peace with the fact that he’s and you think, ‘Is
Dairying and Fisheries, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-110001, by the sent Lee to prison said he thinks long resolved, that are getting new the sudden acceleration. telling the truth,” Hilliard said.
closing date and time stipulated above for receipt of
Paris
there anything going
Bid, failing which the bid
the case merits another look. attention since Toyota admitted The uncertainty could wind Lee said he’s grateful. “I feel like
would be considered late and rejected.
Hilton
on up there?’” he told
7. The Bidding Documents are not transferable.
“I know 100 per cent in my its problems with sudden accel- up helping Lee and others. them believing in me is a gift that Contactmusic.
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
heart that I took my foot off the eration were more extensive than Lee’s Camry wasn’t among I’ve received from god,” he said. AP
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