| Get ready for the sound of music
At the tender age of 14, Megan Crampsey and Emma Wyper, both pupils at St Luke's High School in Barrhead, would both consider themselves fairly experienced performers. Megan, who took up viola when she was in primary four, plays with a variety of quartets and orchestras, while drummer Emma loves performing samba, rock and blues numbers with her percussion group at school concerts and events. Nonetheless, they admit the thought of their forthcoming performance with their school choir at the Glasgow Music Festival, in just over a week, has them feeling a bit jittery. It will be the second time the group, formed by music teacher Mari Bett four years ago, will take part in the city's annual event for amateur musicians. But, says Megan, taking to the stage at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall - where they will perform a version of Happy Ending by Brit-winner Mika - is still more than enough to get the heart thumping.
Alone on the left wing
A six-term congressman from Cleveland, where he once presided as mayor in a term so contentious and wild the mafia put out a contract on him, Kucinich had already run for the White House in 2004. Since critics consider his mayoralty one of the most disastrous ever - Cleveland went bankrupt on his watch - and since he is twice divorced and pro-abortion, supports same-sex marriages, and favours a ban on handgun sales to civilians, his candidacy was never going to play well in red-state America. Be that as it may, his campaign was a source of frustration to at least one of the three high-profile attorneys seeking the nomination, because Kucinich kept pulling the conversation leftwards, a direction Hillary Clinton did not want to go. Though his 2004 candidacy was dismissed by one famous newsman as a "vanity campaign", Kucinich had a couple of halfway-decent showings in the primaries that year.
Diet won't stop me having fun
Breakfast was wholemeal toast and some of that fab superfood sugar-free jam. For lunch, I had tuna and pasta bake and at night a big treat - steak and roasted vegetables. I was beyond excitement yesterday at the thought of Ashes to Ashes starting - I loved Life On Mars. My biggest claim to fame is that John Simm gave me a name check on the series. He was watching one of those Open University lecturers with a kipper tie and fawn trousers on his seventies TV set and he said "Don't look so happy, mate, one day you will be replaced by Lorraine Kelly". It was my finest hour. I did some of my Pilates exercises in the afternoon, but I don't ever think I put in as much effort when I am on my own. I need Jane to make me do that extra five or ten repetitions in order to get the most benefit.
Desperate in NH: Fibbing About Obama and Iraq?
But in casting Obama as a phony on the Iraq war, Clinton has veered close to outright lying. Yesterday, in an interview with CNN, Clinton said: If someone is going to claim that by their very words they are making change, then if those words say… I'm against the war in Iraq and I'll never vote for funding and then, when they go to the Senate, they vote for 300 billion dollars' worth of funding [for the war], I think it's time for people to say, "Wait a minute, let's get real here." There's a big difference between talking and acting, between rhetoric and reality. Did Obama actually vow, as Clinton said, to never vote for funds for the Iraq war? If he had, he would indeed be a major promise-breaker-and a fraud on a critical issue for Democratic voters.
Platinum futures surge to record on supply concerns, South African ...
Meanwhile, agriculture futures rose broadly on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery jumped 30 cents to settle at $9.73 a bushel, while March soybeans soared 38.75 cents to settle at $13.26 a bushel. March corn climbed 10 cents to $5.105 a bushel. .
Western Culture at Barcibo Enoteca
All right, so maybe the Upper West Side can seem like the Grand Prix for the stroller set. Yet in the chill of a February night, many young uptowners feel less apt to swaddle themselves in wool and perform a dramatic reinterpretation of a trans-Antarctic expedition just to cavort with their cooler counterparts downtown. What, then, can save these doomed frigid souls from either rocking the Abominable Snowman look or indulging a newfound desire to hole up in their apartments with a stash of Netflix's bounty? The solution is Barcibo Enoteca (2020 Broadway), a little haven on the Upper West Side opened by Lawrence Bondulich, owner of the popular Bin 71. This wine bar is a skip away from Lincoln Center and the Beacon Theater, and a door down from the probably equally recognized Tani shoe store.
Detroit Auto Show special
As the company prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary this year, the three-door LRX signals a bold evolution of Land Rover design and a shift into new areas of the car market. Conceived as a 2.0-litre turbodiesel hybrid, with potential CO2 emissions of 120 g/km, the compact motor addresses modern motoring challenges, boasting new technologies, lightweight design and environmentally-responsible materials. The LRX is unmistakably Land Rover, but with a stylish and radical twist. If this is the shape of things to come then it’s all eyes on Gaydon. CORVETTE ZR1 .
A young master pursues destiny
I'd love to say that it is, just because it sounds cool when you say it's a little overwhelming," Masterson says. "I mean, I can't really go with that. Just because this is where I feel like I'm supposed to be. "It's like when you're doing something and everything's just clicking right. I'm not saying everything's going right or I'm doing everything perfect. But it's just - I feel comfortable." A few drawbacksThere is no perfection, not when the slider still needs work, not when you're between Double A and Triple A status and it's not certain where you'll start the season. Not when the whispers among the crowds gathered to seek autographs reflect a desire to know exactly who the tall, bald kid is who has just signed their baseballs. Because he hears the whispers, he knows that the only reason they all know his name is that he was almost gone.
Evil burnt, govt-Cong bitterness remains
To register their protest, Congress workers burnt the effigy of Ravana on the main Amritsar-Attari road after they were not allowed by the BJP workers to carry the effigies of the three demons inside the venue. Portions of one of the effigies were also damaged when the Congress workers tried to smuggle it into the venue from the second entrance but were pushed back. A Congress leader alleged that the district administration had assured them that both parties would jointly organise the show. However, the said change of stance of the district administration at the eleventh hour infuriated the Congress, which boycotted the function, alleging that it had been hijacked by the ruling SAD-BJP alliance. Timely intervention by Congress MLA O.P. Soni pacified the crowd of Congress supporters, some of whom appeared ready to barge into the Dussehra ground with sticks and rods.
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