Fifty-year-old Merlene Ottey could become the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after Slovenia named the sprinter to its 4x100 relay team.
Ottey, a naturalized Slovenian of Jamaican origin, would make her Barcelona debut in the July 31 heats. She was one of five athletes named by the Slovenian Athletics Federation alongside Tina Murn, Sabina Veit, Kristina Zumer and Maja Mihalinec.
Ottey has won 29 medals at major …
Environmental advocacy group PennFuture recently awarded the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center its Green Power: Leading the Way award for environmental and energyefficient improvements at the facility.
The 24-acre complex has incorporated recycling programs, energy-efficient retrofit projects and a wind turbine to generate electricity. Efforts have reduced annual operating costs by more than $300,000, according the Department of Agriculture, which owns and operates the facility.
A $3.6 million …
(ADPnews) - May 31, 2010 - Sweden's economic tendency indicator (ETI), which measures the sentiment of businesses and households, rose to a higher-than-expected 110 points in May 2010 from a revised 104.6 points in the preceding month.
Analysts polled by SME Direkt had on average expected a growth to 105.8 points for this month.
The current level of the indicator still signals stronger-than-normal business and consumer sentiment, the National Institute of Economic Research, KI, said today.
The confidence indicator for the business sector grew to 24 points in May 2010 from a revised 14 points in April.
The indicator for the manufacturing …
Byline: CAROLYN HAX Washington Post Writers Group
DEAR CAROLYN: Please sort this out and suggest a position to take. I married the most wonderful woman in the world; we have two wonder- ful children. All is right with the world until we come to Mother's Day and Father's Day.
My wife's sister is unmarried and has been living with this guy for 10 years. They have no children nor do they plan to have any. On Mother's Day my mother-in-law has consistently given this daughter a present. On Father's Day the daughter's live-in gets a gift. When asked by my wife why, mom-in-law says she doesn't want anyone left out.
Am I crazy to ask what's wrong with this …
Back home, Zheng Jie is being hailed as "China's golden flower."
The 26-year-old player advanced to the Australian Open semifinals Tuesday, marking a second day of good news for China.
Compatriot Li Na reached the last eight a day earlier, which gave China two players in the quarterfinals at the same Grand Slam for the first time.
"It's a big surprise for China," Zheng said, after beating Russian Maria Kirilenko in a convincing 6-1, 6-3.
Her next opponent will be seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin, who has reached the semis in her Grand Slam comeback after taking 20 months off from tennis.
Zheng …
Edmonton - Early in April, the Supreme Court of Canada "real in" sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination under Alberta's Human Rights Code. The provincial legislature has consistently refused to insert such a clause in its code; so the Court forced Alberta to put it in on the request of Delwin Vriend, a chemistry teacher, who had been dismissed from King's University College in 1991 because his homosexuality conflicted with the college's Christian principles. The Supreme Court held that the Alberta code should conform to the Charter of Rights, which the Court said protected sexual orientation. After a bitter debate in his badly divided caucus, Premier …
Byline: Kristen Cook
Jun. 1--With its deep-green awnings, French-accented staff and shelves upon shelves of imported olive oil, paprika and other European goodies, Ferranti's Fine Foods adds a definitively cosmopolitan air to East Grant Road.
Step inside and it's hard to believe that a giant dinosaur looms just two buildings down at the McDonald's.
If you can't escape to Europe, the least you can do is lose yourself inside Ferranti's.
Strolling the aisles of a foreign grocery store is one of the great pleasures of traveling abroad. You glimpse how people eat and discover things like fleur de sel in little sacks. Ferranti's gives you that same culinary voyeuristic thrill with delicacies …
