Burgundy-Report (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... I have a feeling will remain so for a number of years - like 1992 only much better.2004 Bouchard Père, Volnay 1er Caillerets Cuvée CarnotMedium ruby-red. Depth and dimension on the nose - really grandstanding at the moment, and the oak is barely perceptible. Mouth-filling and concentrated, there’s good depth and plenty of tannin. There is a little oak flavour, but nothing compared to what...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Young Vic has been flooded with water for this new play by black American dramatist Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose Olivier-nominated The Brothers Size returns for a season in the smaller Maria studio next week. The setting is San Pere in Louisian...
Our Tomorrow (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
This is the second food forest which is just 60 feet from my front door. Trees and bushes planted thus far: 1 peach, 2 plums, 2 red currants, 2 black currants, and 2 gooseberries. Also planted a few native bee balm. Next spring I'll be expanding it with an apple and a couple paw paws as well as perennial and annuals such as Good King Henry, chives, and nasturtiums. I've just about finished putting...
Sadly, No! (Free subscription) | yesterday
... often require a certain tackiness, as was conspicuously the case with poppa Bush. But Bush pere was not a tacky president. Yes, even though Bush 41 ran the Willie Horton ad, he refused to call that Negro Clarence Thomas “boy,” and once he even let Thomas eat some picnic leftovers in the White House kitchen with the staff. Meanwhile, Christopher invokes Oliver Wendell Holmes’ famous line...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... believes the 28-year-old player will provide good competition for the current central defenders Pere Ariweriyai and skipper Belux Bukassa, in addition to boosting the overall height among the club's backliners."Chintu has done well in training and we really need him when you consider that Pere and Belux will likely suffer suspensions and injuries during the course of the season because...
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... of well-known artists like Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison, who was buried in the nearby Pere Lachaise cemetary as was Wilde and Marcel Proust.The rooms are equally young and edgy, from what we can tell. Think downtown NYC. The good parts, not the tourists bits. Perhaps the best thing about the rooms? All are equipped with iMacs. Much like those at , the iMacs function as the televisions...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
A disbarred lawyer from Chappaqua, N.Y., has been convicted of killing his wife in a scheme to collect insurance money.Carols Perez-Olivio, 60, was convicted Saturday of second-degree murder in the Nov. 18, 2006, death of Peggy Perez-Olivio, The (White Plains, N.Y.) Journal News reported Sunday.Perez-Olivio maintained he and his wife were ambushed in their car near Milford by gunmen...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
I was really lucky to have my dad come visit this week. His visit also coincides with la Merce Barcelona's most famous festival. According to legend and if I'm translating Catalan correctly the virgin appeared to Jaume I Sant Pere Nolasc i Sant Ramon de Penyafort asking them to create an order of monks to save imprisoned Christians by Sarrans. Then later in 1687 Barcelona had a terrible lo
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A photo from June 1998 shows a herd of young Pere David's deer, named after a French missionary who discovered them in 1865, roaming in a conservation park in suburban Beijing. At least one-quarter of the world's mammals in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to an international survey released Monday that blames the loss of wildlife habitat as well as hunting and poaching for...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... The Iberian lynx, (left) has seen its numbers drop to between just 84 and 143 adults. China's Pere David's deer (right) is now listed as extinctThe IUCN's director general Julia Marton-Lefevre said: 'Within our lifetime hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live.''We must now set clear targets...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... and the Bornean orangutan is endangered largely because of logging and oil exploitation.China's Pere David deer is listed as extinct in the wild in the first comprehensive analysis of mammals since 1996, although there are some hopes the species could be reintroduced into the wild from captive populations.But it may be too late to help 29 species which are flagged as "critically endangered,...
National Geographic (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
RELATED STORIESOctober 6, 2008--Named for a French missionary, the Pere David's deer, native to , is among the species listed as "extinct in the wild" on the 2008 International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Species, released today. (.) Of the almost 45,000 species evaluated for the new list, 38 percent are close to extinction, the report authors say. The...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Pictures: World's species facing extinctionBy Mirror.co.uk Iberian Lynx Pere David's Deer Fishing cat - Prionailurus viverrinus Tasmanian Devil A rare veiled Chameleon Rameshwaram parachute spider La Palma giant lizard Incilius Holdridgei Mustela Nigripes Afrithelphusa Monodosa Fritillary butterfly Natterjack toad Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterflyA quarter of the world's mammals are...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... climate change and disease.However, the report adds that some species are recovering. China's Pere David deer, for example, is extinct in the wild, but captive populations have risen and could lead to re-introduction in the wild.The African elephant, for example, has been moved to "near threatened", a lesser level of risk than its previous category as "vulnerable" because of rising numbers....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live," she warned China's Pere David deer is listed as extinct in the wild in the first comprehensive analysis of mammals since 1996, although there are some hopes the species could reintroduced into the wild from captive populations. But it may be too late to help a further 29 species which are flagged as critically endangered,...
