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Monday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. |
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, high in the low 40s. |
It’s a sunny and cool St. Patrick’s Day across New England, with highs in the 30s to near 40. It’s still breezy, with gusts up to 25 mph, but it’s not nearly as windy as Saturday. A few flurries will still fall across Northern and Western New England from time to time. |
The work week will start on a cool note too, with highs again in the 30s and low to middle 40s on Tuesday. |
A weak weather system passing to our south will bring a few extra clouds, and perhaps a spot flurry or rain shower, on Monday. We’ll be back to mostly sunny skies by Tuesday. |
High pressure keeps sun locked in place on Wednesday, and also helps to warm us up back into the 40s and even near 50. |
Spring official starts on Wednesday, just before 6 p.m. |
More of us will be around 50 on Thursday, but we’ll also have some rain showers arriving as a cold front drops in from Northern New England. Some of this precipitation will fall as snow showers in the mountains of Northern New England. |
Behind that front we’ll clear out and cool off a bit Friday into the start of next weekend, but temperatures rebound back closer to 50 soon thereafter. |
GIUSEPPE ROSSI'S agent has played down speculation linking the former Manchester United striker with a move to bitter rivals Liverpool. |
Reports in England which spread to Italy linked the Italian striker with a move to Anfield from current club Fiorentina. |
The 27-year-old striker's stock has risen since signing for La Viola in January 2013 after scoring 16 goals in just 21 Serie A appearances last season. |
Rossi was left out of the Italy World Cup squad due to doubts over his fitness following a bad knee injury. |
His agent Andrea Pastorello has confirmed that talk of him joining Brendan Rodger's side is false. |
“There is absolutely nothing to comment on. Honestly, I don’t know anything about this. |
Rossi was tipped for greatness at Manchester United but he made just five Premier League appearances for the Red Devils between 2004 and 2006. |
He had a disappointing loan spell at Newcastle before finding his feet at Parma where struck nine times in 19 games. |
That loan spell earned him a move to Villarreal where he was very prolific before signing for the Florence outfit. |
IT SEEMS certain that Team USA will win gold in the basketball, but even they were stunned by what unfolded today. |
AMERICA won the game, but Manu Ginobili and Co won the applause. |
Team USA downed Argentina 105-78 on Thursday morning to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic basketball tournament, in the process sealing the end of an era for Argentinian basketball. |
Stalwarts of Argentinian hoops Ginobili, who has ended his international career, and Luis Scola and Andres Nocioni, who are expected to have played at their final Olympics, will no longer be part of their country’s future campaigns. |
The veterans have formed the nucleus of Argentina’s “Golden Era” for well over a decade, so their departure from the international scene well and truly leaves a void. |
Ginobili made his name in the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs, quickly becoming a cult hero in the US. Scola has played for a host of NBA franchises, as has Nocioni. |
In a sport and competition dominated by American heroes, Ginobili managed to achieve in the NBA what so few foreigners have — win the respect of the American basketball community. |
As it became evident Argentina would go down, that’s when the crowd picked up. |
Following on from the controversy surrounding Brazilian spectators booing French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie both in competition and during the medal ceremony when he picked up silver, the Argentinians in the stands showed those responsible for the jeering how to behave at the Olympics, breaking into song to show re... |
Down 28, the Argentina crowd here is singing louder than they've sang all night. I'm guessing we'll have a serenade for Manu soon. |
Impressive as that USA performance was, the singing farewell salute for Scola, Ginobili and Argentina's "Golden Generation" was phenomenal. |
Listen to the Argentina crowd. This is something special. They're down 20+ and still cheering for Ginobili and Scola. |
This Argentina crowd is insane. Down 30 and they have the US team rattled. |
ESPN basketball reporter Marc Stein said the outpouring of emotion from the enthusiastic fans left Team USA “in awe”. |
However, for all the goodwill, NBA.com stats writer John Schuhmann tweeted there was one ugly aspect to the incredible tribute. |
Whenever the Argentines start singing, the Brazilians in the crowd try to drown them out with whistling. |
But even if that was the case, nothing could overshadow the farewell party — even if it did come after a loss. Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski embraced Ginobili after the match as the pair had a brief conversation, and the 39-year-old was given the game ball to keep as a memento from his final appearance in an Argentini... |
Speaking after the match, Ginobili struggled to contain his emotions and at one point had to walk away from an interview with NBC. |
“I’ve been so lucky to have the opportunity to play four times in this type of event. Very successfully sometimes. Sometimes, not quite. But anyway competing at the highest level,” he said. |
“Enjoying what my team did and taking a lot from it. I learned a lot. It was an unbelievable experience. |
“It’s been 20 years with this jersey, so it’s quite an emotional day. |
“Some amazing times, unbelievable ones — some other tough ones. But most of them with the same core group of guys, good friends. |
Ginobili was part of Argentina’s team that dethroned the Americans by winning gold at the 2004 Games in Athens, and enjoyed success in Beijing four years later when they won bronze. |
He won’t get another chance to add to that medal tally, but he doesn’t need to. He’ll always be a legend. |
The nation's chief enforcer of antitrust laws said Friday that judges should put price fixers and bid riggers behind bars and avoid alternative sentences that allow criminals to "slip off with token punishment." |
Douglas Ginsburg, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said judges too often settle on "creative alternative sentences" that do little to deter antitrust violators. |
Ginsburg made his remarks during the 19th New England Antitrust Conference at Harvard Law School. |
Stepped-up investigations of price fixing, bid rigging and other antitrust violations have increased the number of arrests and convictions, Ginsburg said, but federal courts have not followed through with tough sentences. |
Ginsburg cited instances of "creative alternative sentences" involving "community service" instead of jail. One defendant was required to organize a fund-raising golf tournament; another coordinated a rodeo. |
In fiscal 1984, Ginsburg said, his division recommended that 64 of 69 people convicted of antitrust violations be sentenced to jail, but only 31 got prison terms. |
Judges handed down even fewer prison terms in fiscal 1985, Ginsburg said. Only 10 of 55 people convicted of violations served time, though the antitrust division recommended prison terms in 41 cases. |
Such sentencing "ignores the absolutely critical role that deterrence plays in criminal antitrust enforcement," he said. |
The Supreme Court on Thursday closed a matter related to alleged complicity of top politicians and bureaucrats in executing a power purchase agreement between the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and the Dabhol Power Company on November 8, 1993, causing losses to the public exchequer, in view of long delay. |
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said no useful purpose would be served by reopening the issue by continuing with a judicial commission of inquiry or reconstituting it. |
"Though normally in such a case a judicial inquiry should have been conducted but as far, more than a quarter of century has elapsed since the first PPA was executed. The foreign corporation (Enron) and the original project proponents are no longer available. Most of the senior officials would have retired and virtuall... |
It also noted the judicial commissions like Justice Kurdukar Commission, even if continued or reconstituted, will take its own time. |
The matter before the court was pending since 1997 on a plea by the Centre for Indian Trade Union (CITU) against the Bombay High Court's December 2, 1996 ruling that dismissed the writ petition challenging validity of power purchase agreement. |
The Maharashtra government had asked the court to close the Enron-Dabhol power project case where politicians and bureaucrats were allegedly bribed to clinch the deal. |
The court had earlier sought to know the steps taken on recommendations by Energy Review Committee which had recommended a judicial probe into the entire Enron power project deal. This was an indication of its keenness to take issues of political corruption to logical end. |
Notably, the Committee headed by Dr Madhav Godbole upheld the allegations of bribery, causing losses to MSEB and the public at large. It was critical of then Congress leader and former chief minister Sharad Pawar, the 13-day BJP-led Union government which reworked the deal in 1996, then Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thac... |
As the US power company Enron pulled out of the Dabhol project and went bankrupt, the plant was shut in 2001. |
Great location, inviting front covered porch and very private back yard, home backs up to a wooded area Large covered back porch. Large work shop. Master bedroom has an extra room which could be used as an office, work out room, or extra storage. Granit counter tops in the kitchen and master bath. New appliances. |
QUEENSLANDERS have been urged to stay away from drugs following the death of a Brisbane man at a music festival. |
Brisbane footballer Joshua Tam, 22, died after consuming a suspected cocktail of ecstasy and alcohol at the Lost Paradise festival north of Sydney on Saturday. |
With New Year's Eve celebrations warming up, Queensland police have told would-be drug users to stop playing "Russian roulette" with their lives. |
"If you're buying an unknown drug ... well, you're really playing Russian roulette there, so my message is just don't do it, it's not worth it," Chief Superintendent Cameron Harsley said. |
"In today's society there's that many people that will make drugs or think they making a drug but be putting unknown substances within that drug. |
"So my advice is you just don't take it." |
Chief Supt Harsley said an extra 400 officers would "surge" throughout Brisbane over the next 24 hours to handle what is the busiest event of the year for Queensland police. |
"Police will be out in force tonight and our tolerance to anti-social behaviour will be zero," he said. |
"Police will be on the ground, be in the water and we'll be up in the air." |
Her urged motorists to drive safely and avoid drink-driving or speeding with extra cameras being rolled out for tonight's festivities. |
Police have been planning tonight's operation for months, and despite no evidence of a direct terror threat, have called on revellers to be vigilant. |
The biggest issue for police will be handling the large crowds of people moving in and around the city centre. |
"There's nothing more frightening for a child to go missing on a night like tonight." |
It's like the difference between wine and beer, smiles Italian trade commissioner in India, Guglielmo Galli. |
He is comparing olive oil with other oils. He may have a reason to say so because Italy is a major source of olive oil. But then he is not alone, particularly when it comes to the health angle. The oil has been researched upon extensively and has proven health benefits. |
It all began with Hippocrates. The father of modern medicine recommended the juices of fresh olives as a cure for mental illness and poultices of macerated olives for ulcers. In the Middle Ages, it was used to treat gynecological complaints and in the Mediterranean country side was used for treatment for ear aches, sto... |
Today, research has shown the scientific basis for many of these beliefs, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC). Some of the main objectives of the IOOC are conducting scientific research on olive oil and informing and educating consumers. |
For example, according to the IOOC, regular consumption of olive oil controls blood pressure. This is validated by the research studies at American Heart Association, which has found that olive oil is one of the healthiest oils for heart and blood vessels. In fact, research shows that there is low incidence of heart fa... |
Doctors agree on this benefit of the oil. Explains Dr Shahshi Mohan, a cardiologist, who runs his own clinic in South Delhi, Olive Oil is definitely a healthier option when it comes to the heart. In fact, its a better option that any other oilbe it groundnut oil, soya oil or sunflower oil for that matter. |
Sevitel, a Greek association of industries and processors of olive oil, too quotes some studies. The incidence of coronary disease in Greece is very low. The hypothesis is that this could be due to the extensive consumption of olive oil. To ensure experimental conditions, Crete seemed the ideal choice. Cretans consume ... |
IOOC also says that regular consumption of the oil not only prevents diabetes, but also helps in delaying onset of the disease. A study done by A A Rivellese and G Riccardi of M Mancini Institute of Internal Medicine and Metabolism Disease University of Federico II Naples, says, Olive oil prevents insulin resistance an... |
Studies suggest that olive oil has a protective effect against malignant tumours like those of the breast, prostate and digestive tract. Dr Dimitrios Trichopoulos, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health, has been quoted on this. American women might actually experience as... |
Due to its high level of vitamin E content, the oil is also said to be good for pregnant women. What gives it another major USP is its high antioxidant content, which is normally found only in fruits and vegetables. Jean Carper, a leading authority on health and nutrition, an award winning correspondent for CNN, and au... |
Of course, its not the health notes alone that have been prompting people to use olive oil. The oil gives extra taste to some exotic dishes. Take, for example, Neelu Kohli, a Delhi-based school teacher, who uses olive oil frequently. She was asked by her family doctor to use it. Says Ms Kohli, We use it occasionally in... |
While a 200 ml tin of Figaro comes at Rs 105, Bertolli prices its 200 ml bottle at Rs 125. Olive Products Division of the Dalmia group is offering a one litre bottle for Rs 290 and a 500 ml bottle for Rs 170 because it is importing its own brand of olive oil into India. Christened Leonardo Olive Oil, it comes in a vari... |
Opera Company Of Philadelphia will play La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi sung in Italian with English translations. |
Champagne toasts, sweetly-fragranced camellias and lush soirees fill the glittering salon of famed courtesan Violetta Valery, the belle of Parsian nightlife. |
Enter Alfredo, a handsome young nobleman who looks at her one evening with the unmistakable and unapologetic bloom of love. Nothing will ever be the same as their romance deepens before the eyes of his disapproving father, testing their hearts, their character and the bonds of true love. |
Verdi's ultra-romantic masterpiece is a visual and musical tour de force featuring rapturous arias and swelling choral works, set against the richly costumed elegance of the Opera Company's original, period production. |
Friday, May 7, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. |
Sunday, May 9, 2010, at 2:30 p.m. |
Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. |
Friday, May 14, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. |
a-doubled for Reddick in 8th. b-ran for White in 8th. |
c-struck out for Merrifield in 2nd. d-struck out for Moustakas in 5th. |
Umpires: HP: John Tumpane. 1B: Mike DiMuro. 2B: Jeremie Rehak. 3B: Mark Wegner. |
Kerry forward James O'Donoghue says being underdogs inspired the Kingdom to victory over Donegal in Sunday's All-Ireland final. |
The Munster men were not fancied to win the Sam Maguire Cup at the start of the year but they came through to secure a 37th title. |
O'Donoghue praised the contribution of Kieran Donaghy, who scored the second goal in their 2-9 to 0-12 win at Croke Park. |
State law prohibits placing erosion-control devices seward of established setback lines adopted in November 2009, except to protect a public highway. |
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