RUSSIA News, Mar 15, 2012

Russia: Putin orders holiday for his inauguration day in May GlobalPost Russia's outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and newly elected president Vladimir Putin (L) meet with former Italy's Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Rosa Khutor apline ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, some 30 miles from Sochi, on March 8, ... See all stories on this topic »

Canadian Skiers Deaths A Reminder of Risk Ski Channel Burke's sport of ski halfpipe is set to debut at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. In January, the IOC rejected a joint offer from Bell and CBC to broadcast the next Winter Games and the 2016 Summer Games. Aubut believes the offer was rejected because ... See all stories on this topic » Ski Channel

Russian punk rockers in jail for anti-Putin prayer KTUL (blog) Five members of the band Pussy Riot - wearing brightly colored homemade skimasks and miniskirts - briefly seized the pulpit of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in late February to chant "Mother Mary, drive Putin away." In less then a minute, ... See all stories on this topic »

Top news photos for March 14 News in photos Twenty-two school children and six adults returning home to Belgium following a ski vacation in Switzerland lose their lives in a bus accident. Others are injured. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich bids farewell to family and others before heading ... See all stories on this topic »

Invermere's Ben Thomsen exceeds his best expectations on World Cup tour Canada.com By Gary Kingston, Vancouver Sun March 15, 2012 'It makes me hungry and want to reach even higher,' said Ben Thomsen after finishing second at this weekend men's World Cup downhill event in Sochi, Russia. Young Ben Thomsen began the World Cup alpine ski ... See all stories on this topic »

The KGB Chief & the Media Mogul: The Strange Putin/Berlusconi Relationship The New American Whatever his legal troubles may be, it was all smiles as Berlusconi was photographed hugging his longtime pal Putin and current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Krasnaya Polyvana ski resort. London's Daily Mail featured a photo slide show of ... See all stories on this topic »

Female Russian Rockers Could Face 7 Years in Jail After 'Blasphemous' Anti ... TheBlaze.com Five members of the band Pussy Riot — wearing brightly colored homemade ski masks and miniskirts — briefly seized the pulpit of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in late February to chant “Mother Mary, drive Putin away. See all stories on this topic » TheBlaze.com

Punk rockers in jail for anti-Putin prayer Waikato Times Supporters of punk-rock girl group Pussy Riot are arrested as they picket outside a Moscow city court, where two group members face charges for staging a punk protest in Russia's biggest cathedral. A Russian court has ordered two female punk rockers to ... See all stories on this topic »

Putin prayer punks jailed Scotsman TWO female punk rockers who prayed for the Virgin Mary to deliver Russiafrom Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral have been ordered to remain in jail. Five members of the protest band Pussy Riot, wearing ski masks and minis, took over the pulpit at ... See all stories on this topic »

Toronto's Len Valjas, right, added a bronze medal to his collection on Wednesday. Sportsnet.ca STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Canadian Len Valjas captured a bronze medal in the men's sprint at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals Wednesday. It was the second straight trip to the podium for the 23-year-old Toronto native, who won a sprint silver last ... See all stories on this topic » Sportsnet.ca

Len Valjas wins cross-country bronze Ottawa Citizen Eirik Brandsdal from Norway (C, second placed), Len Valjas from Canada (L) and third placed Paal Goldberg from Norway pose on the podium during the Nordic Skiing sprint World Cup in Drammen on March 7, 2012. Len Valjas of Toronto won the bronze medal ... See all stories on this topic »

The truth about the world's most expensive apartment building Financial Post They will spend winters at their ski chalet, summers on their yachts in Cannes or Sardinia, and the rest of the time in their homes in the Middle East, Russia or the United States.” Despite the fact that many units sit empty while their owner gallivant ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Post

Weird but true New York Post Female punk rockers were busted in Moscow after they interrupted services at the city's main Orthodox cathedral by appealing to the Virgin Mary for RussianPresident Vladimir Putin's ouster. The group, “P---y Riot,” wearing pink skimasks and ... See all stories on this topic »

Kikkan Randall Wraps Up Historic Sprint World Cup Season Ski Channel Randall's dominating performance brings her one step closer to competing at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. There, she hopes to be the first US woman to win an Olympic Medal in cross-countryskiing. Other highlights from Stockholm include a strong ... See all stories on this topic » Ski Channel

World Hunger Solutions Inspired by Athletes, First Ladies, UN, Siberia, Canada ... Sports Features Communications (press release) The Russians, our next 2014 Winter Olympic Hosts in Sochi, have a gold medal model of food security that millions are enjoying worldwide. And what if much of the needed resources were sitting next to us and cost virtually nothing? See all stories on this topic » Sports Features Communications (press release)

Belgium mourns children killed in Swiss bus crash The Voice of Russia Belgian schoolchildren were returning home from a ski holiday when their bus hit the wall in a tunnel in southern Switzerland. An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the crash.Russia`s President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

Phuket News - Treading the thin blue line The Phuket News Led by retired British police officer Paul Edden, volunteers regularly help settle disputes – such as jet ski hire and traffic accidents – provide tourist information, immigration assistance and general advice. In cases of death, they also help liaise ... See all stories on this topic » The Phuket News

Group of russian ski hikers brutally slaughtered by aliens? - Non ... The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nineski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/...id/683765/

Olympic test successfully passed: Voice of Russia All Sochi sport facilities, such as the Laura skiing complex, the Russian Hillsski- jumps and the Sanki bobsleigh centre, were highly appreciated by the ... english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_14/68448468/

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LOS ANGELES TIMES News, Mar 15, 2012

The Morning Fix: HBO runs out of 'Luck.' Guber goes after Dodgers. Los Angeles Times Coverage and analysis from the Los Angeles Times, the Hollywood Reporter and the Wrap. So much for transparency. Broadcasters are up in arms over a proposal from the Federal Communications Commission to require local television stations to publish ... See all stories on this topic »

The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, March 15, 2012 ABC News (blog) LINK The Los Angeles Times' Paul West: “Illinois primary could be Rick Santorum's big chance” After a pair of pivotal Southern tests, the Republican presidential race has become a battle between Mitt Romney's grind-it-out delegate arithmetic and Rick ... See all stories on this topic »

Lancaster accuses LA of favoring blacks in housing Sacramento Bee The city of Lancaster has filed a complaint alleging Los Angeles County and its housing authority unlawfully favor blacks when granting vouchers for Section 8 housing. The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/xur2hc reports that the complaint filed ... See all stories on this topic »

Jockularity for Thursday, March 15 San Jose Mercury News By Greg Frazier FUNNY "In tennis," reported Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, "Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Akgul Amanmuradova in the inaugural Spell Check Classic." OOPS A soccer ref in Belgium ejected a player for faking a dive. See all stories on this topic »

LAPD to improve investigations of officer crashes Sacramento Bee AP LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police officials say they'll launch an investigation conducted by a team of experts every time an officer is involved in a car crash that results in severe injury or death. The Los Angeles Times reports ... See all stories on this topic »

Bear found digging in Glendale garage refrigerator Sacramento Bee The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/yKABCk) reports that the Glendale resident was awakened by strange noises coming from his garage at about 3 am Wednesday. The bear was seated next to an open refrigerator in the resident's garage. See all stories on this topic »

Tumult at Crystal Cathedral megachurch rooted in perils of succession MinnPost.com It's the "end of an era," proclaimed a Los Angeles Times headline. It definitely is the end of an era for Crystal Cathedral Ministries, which Schuller built over four decades from a lowly beginning, using the snack-shop rooftop at a drive-in movie ... See all stories on this topic »

Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Move Higher Sacramento Bee ... USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "ReportAbuse" link below it. See all stories on this topic »

Jew Pond is now set for a name change, but it wasn't easy Bellingham Herald By AMY HUBBARD - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - Jew Pond likely will not be Jew Pond much longer. Mont Vernon, NH, voted Tuesday night to petition to have the moniker changed. Feelings were mixed on the subject in the small New England town. See all stories on this topic »

Andrew Bynum: “I definitely feel like I'm going to be a Laker for a long ... Sports Radio Interviews This is usually the time of year where Andrew Bynum's name is making headlines around the NBA because of a potential trade being discussed between Los Angeles and another team. However things are a little bit different for Bynum this year and he is ... See all stories on this topic » Sports Radio Interviews

Tax Initiative Deal Struck, Gathering Signatures Will Be Pricey Capital Notes (blog) Neither leaders of the millionaires tax campaign nor Brown's political team have confirmed any of the details, after the story was first reported this morning online by the Los Angeles Times. But conversations with several Democratic and Capitol ... See all stories on this topic » Capital Notes (blog)

The fraud who promised to lead the Dodgers to a World Series title NBCSports.com A convicted drug dealer with no means who appears to have suckered a pretty big swath of the LA media that he was the real deal. His story is told in LA Weekly. And it's pretty illuminating. Not just for what it says about Macciello, but for what it ... See all stories on this topic » NBCSports.com

Counselor stabbed at LA job training school Sacramento Bee Los Angeles police officer Karen Rayner says 48-year-old Dwayne Alexander died following the Wednesday afternoon attack at the Job Corps facility on Lodi (LOH'-deye) Place. He had been stabbed multiple times and died at a hospital. See all stories on this topic »

Syrians to honor slain journalist at NY home WRGB Newsday (http://bit.ly/Ar94J2 ) reports that the Marie Colvin Convoy for Freedom of Syria, which started in Los Angeles last week, is expected to arrive at the East Norwich home of Colvin's family on Friday where they plan to present a Medal of Honor ... See all stories on this topic »

MiO ENERGY Forms Super Pac With 7-Eleven and Presidential Hopeful Judah ... Sacramento Bee By MiO ENERGY LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Actor, comedian and beverage expert Judah Friedlander will commandeer three Los Angeles 7-Eleven stores today on behalf of MiO ENERGY, the new platform for the popular liquid water enhancer. See all stories on this topic »

People in the News: Celebrities Columbus Dispatch Celebrity Headlines from AP The Dispatch app features breaking news, sports, weather, videos, movie times, gas prices, a flight tracker and much more. Jermaine Jones, dubbed the “gentle giant” on American Idol, has been disqualified from the singing ... See all stories on this topic »

Veritatem Cognoscere Press Launches Hollow Strength, the New Espionage ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Advance Praise for Hollow Strength: Douglas Frantz, author of the bestselling "Nuclear Jihadist," two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and former managing editor of the LA Times, describes Hollow Strength with just two words: "Eerily accurate. See all stories on this topic »

Federation Sponsors a Festive Florida Gathering Jewish Exponent The guests, members of Federation's Legacy Society and leadership donors to the Federation annual campaign, enjoyed food and fellowship and an opportunity to hear about "the storiesbehind headline making news" from foreign policy expert Ralph ... See all stories on this topic » Jewish Exponent

Nickelodeon Unveils Plans at Annual Upfront for More than 650 New Episodes ... Sacramento Bee The presentation was punctuated with appearances by Nick Cannon, Keke Palmer, One Direction and musical performances by Nick's own Big TimeRush and How to Rock's Cymphonique Miller and Gravity 5, making their live-performance debut. See all stories on this topic »

Belgium 'weeps for children' after crash Brisbane Times "Belgium Weeps for its Children", read the headline in the French-language newspaper la Derniere Heure on Thursday as people called into morning radio shows to express their sorrow over the accident in a Swiss tunnel late on Tuesday. See all stories on this topic »

Commercializing Pancreatic Cancer Drugs in Cancer: The Faster Route to ... Sacramento Bee The highest number of described drug target strategies of pancreatic cancer drugs belongs to Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, Novartis and AstraZeneca. Thereport is written for you to understand and assess the impact of competitor entry and corresponding ... See all stories on this topic »

America's Biggest Little Diva Takes Center Stage on Logo as Pageant Superstar ... Sacramento Bee Go Go Luckey Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based production company led by partners Gary and Julie Auerbach. The company has built a reputation as one of the leading creative houses for fresh, cutting-edge programming with a signature cinematic look ... See all stories on this topic »

Teens: Where have all the good role model gone? San Jose Mercury News Both are headline-makers of their time. I wonder if in 50 years, the next generation will be laughing at us for having role models like Lady Gaga and the Kardashians. I won't know how to respond when I'm 80 years old and a young child asks me why my ... See all stories on this topic »

Frederick County's school curriculum challenged Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online by Sherry Greenfield, Staff Writer Parents in Frederick County made headlinesin 2008 for their work to replace a math curriculum they said did not focus enough on the basics. In 2011, some parents also questioned whether a third-grade textbook ... See all stories on this topic »

MOCA presents James Franco's 'Rebel'; taps Beastie Boy for fest Los Angeles Times Nevertheless, some of the stunt-like artworks connected with the show grabbed headlines, including a film shot in real time of Franco getting the late actor Brad Renfro's name tattooed on his arm. Renfro died in 2008 at age 25 of a heroin overdose, ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Professor K.C. Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury ... Sacramento Bee The event in New York follows two similar events held earlier this week in LA(Monday 12th March) and Chicago (Wednesday 14th March). The USA conferences are part of this ongoing global campaign which includes similar events previously held in London, ... See all stories on this topic »

it's time we took diets seriously Evening Standard It seems human nature to pick the quick-fix over behavioural change, while kidding ourselves we are healthier than we really are and dismissing any “panic on a plate” headlines as scare-mongering. I am a perfect example. When Harvard published their ... See all stories on this topic »

Mike D'Antoni's departure from New York Knicks a surprising end so soon after ... Toronto Star And when that happened, followed by reports of the friction it created between the coach and star, D'Antoni decided it was timeto walk away. “He had a certain ideal of a system we were supposed to implement,” said Stoudemire, who also played for ... See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star

Doug Casey on the Nanny State Proactive Investors USA & Canada According to the LA Times article I read, the "study" was just a survey of people's reported eating habits. So, at best – assuming people responded accurately and honestly – the survey might show us a correlation. But even a high-school student should ... See all stories on this topic »

Take this job and shove it: Former Goldman Sachs exec Greg Smith joins all ... Entertainment Weekly (blog) While most people only daydream about making a dramatic exit at their job executive Greg Smith made it a headline-grabbing reality when he told his bosses, The New York Times, and the world “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs. See all stories on this topic »

Top local universities out of world's elite list Malaya BY ASHZEL HACHERO THE Times Higher Education (THE) yesterday released its World University Rankings for 2011-2012 with not a single Philippine university or college institution in the list. THE, in its survey, took into account "13 separate performance ... See all stories on this topic »

GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico Santa Maria Times Rick Santorum, left, talks with reporters as he leaves La Fortaleza, or Fortess, where he met with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo) An upbeat ... See all stories on this topic »

HBO Cancels Luck In the Wake of Horse Fatalities TV.com (blog) Or is everyone in la la land where the pinkish red stuff found in pet food cans just 'happens' like Topsy? I was positively enjoying the show by the time I watched the 2nd to last episode screened so far. For me the biggest problem was that all of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Three major mariachi outfits help keep more than a century of tradition and ... Monterey County Weekly Shows often sell out, and incorporate marathon 15-minute medleys with tunes both traditional (“Ciudad Victoria”) and familiar (“La Bamba”) – which are met with a kinetic sea of dancing and non-stop hooting, hollering and singing along. See all stories on this topic »

ObamaCare: Can You Say 'Trillions?' | CalWatchDog By CalWatchdog This news wasn't in my Thursday editions of the Sacramento Bee, or the Los Angeles Times. But the news was out before Thursday ... I caught a news story about the CBO report last evening on FOX News. But when I went searching for details ... CalWatchDog

Maven's Morning Coffee By The Maven Headlines. The U.S. Senate approved a $109 billion transportation bill that includes funds for the Westside subway, a rail extension to LAX, and a downtown connector to rail lines, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Downtown News reports major changes to the Wilshire Grand project. Instead of building two buildings with 560 hotel rooms and office space, the developer will instead build one tower with 900 hotel rooms. Korean Air has also parted ways with Thomas Properties ... The City Maven

Los Angeles Transportation Headlines : Historic LA Railroads ... By Metro Digital Resources Librarian California Planning & Development Report Trade In Your Car For ... We invite you to visit Metro's The Source, your window to what's happening with agencynews, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles. Posted by Metro Digital Resources Librarian at 8:23 AM · Older Post Home. Feel free to add yourself to the Library's email list, delivered via SimpleSend. It arrives at the same time Metro staff receive it, usually before 9:30am. Alternatively, with ... Metro Library and Archive Transportat...

Hollywood Headlines: A crazy week in review ... - Los Angeles Times Cee Lo Green heads to Las Vegas, Nicollette Sheridan starts "Desperate Housewives" trial, Brad ... Readers may report inappropriate comments by clicking the Report Abuse link next to a comment. ... Most Viewed; Most Emailed; Latest News ... www.latimes.com/.../la-et-hollywood-headlines-march2-pictur...

LA schools ban blindfolds in lessons after scandal | Latest National ... The Los Angeles Unified School District has barred lessons involving blindfolds and ... Latest National Headlines ... they ate cookies smeared with his semen, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday ( http://lat.ms/AgoEYx). ... Carrillo told reporters at a news conference that he filed 20 claims, which are precursors to lawsuits, ... www.star-telegram.com/.../lewd-conduct-by-1-teacher-prompt...

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. TIMES GETS IT ... This page is a compendium of items of interest - news stories, scurrilous rumors, ... L.A. TIMES GETS IT WRONG: L.A. Board of Education OKs proposal for new ... The headline on an earlier version of this online article said the Los Angeles ... 4lakidsnews.blogspot.com/.../la-times-gets-it-wrong-la-board-

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