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 Roger Hargreaves' the Mr. Men

 

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Biography of Roger Hargreaves

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We know that babies are the best accessory in Hollywood. No starlet has truly made it until she has become a mom (Welcome to the club, January Jones). That means there are some mad stylish mamas out there in tinsel-town. We were reading one of the most talked about tomes of this spring, Piper Weiss' 'My Mom The Style Icon' and we got to wondering who in Hollywood has the best mom style. We asked Weiss at her bash with Coach celebrating the release of her book to identify the Hollywood moms with the best fashion sense. The big winner: Michelle Williams, mom to the adorable Matilda.
Why is Michelle Williams your pick for most stylish mama in Hollywood?
I like old things. I probably would have said Mia Farrow if she was still in Hollywood making the rounds, but Michelle is pretty much a modern day Mia in style. The mini frocks, the daytime jean Seberg striped shirts. She's right out of another time, when people still used film and it took a long time before it developed. There's something very romantic about it. It also adds to her mystique. She doesn't look like she's trying, which is especially important for 'mom' style. When it comes to public perception of celebrities, you don't want to look like you spent more time primping yourself than hanging with your kid.

Who is the next runner up?
I'm currently obsessed with old Keith Moon photos. He was a dad, not a mom. But he did live in Hollywood in the 70s, rabble rousing with John Lennon, Ringo and a Monkee or two. I'm taking notes on his mod style, a T-shirt with a bulls-eye, a pair of pegged pants, and a bowl cut. I'm thinking he's good inspiration for a mod look that could be adapted for women. I even just got a ladies bowl cut haircut in his honor - well his and Liza Minnelli's.

Which mom has the worst style?
I can't say any mom has bad style. They have enough to deal with. The fact that anyone has kids and showers and gets dressed is more than I can I say for myself on some days and I've only got cats.

Who is your mom's favorite celeb mom?
She loves Jackie O, particularly during the Ari Onasis years when Jackie was doing the scarf around her head and the oversized Oleg Cassini glasses. My mother used to have a collection of Oleg Cassini glasses I would borrow every Halloween. She also loves Diana Ross and Natalie Wood.

We know that babies are the best accessory in Hollywood. No starlet has truly made it until she has become a mom (Welcome to the club, January Jones). That means there are some mad stylish mamas out there in tinsel-town. We were reading one of the most talked about tomes of this spring, Piper Weiss' 'My Mom The Style Icon' and we got to wondering who in Hollywood has the best mom style. We asked Weiss at her bash with Coach celebrating the release of her book to identify the Hollywood moms with the best fashion sense. The big winner: Michelle Williams, mom to the adorable Matilda.
Why is Michelle Williams your pick for most stylish mama in Hollywood?
I like old things. I probably would have said Mia Farrow if she was still in Hollywood making the rounds, but Michelle is pretty much a modern day Mia in style. The mini frocks, the daytime jean Seberg striped shirts. She's right out of another time, when people still used film and it took a long time before it developed. There's something very romantic about it. It also adds to her mystique. She doesn't look like she's trying, which is especially important for 'mom' style. When it comes to public perception of celebrities, you don't want to look like you spent more time primping yourself than hanging with your kid.

Who is the next runner up?
I'm currently obsessed with old Keith Moon photos. He was a dad, not a mom. But he did live in Hollywood in the 70s, rabble rousing with John Lennon, Ringo and a Monkee or two. I'm taking notes on his mod style, a T-shirt with a bulls-eye, a pair of pegged pants, and a bowl cut. I'm thinking he's good inspiration for a mod look that could be adapted for women. I even just got a ladies bowl cut haircut in his honor - well his and Liza Minnelli's.

Which mom has the worst style?
I can't say any mom has bad style. They have enough to deal with. The fact that anyone has kids and showers and gets dressed is more than I can I say for myself on some days and I've only got cats.

Who is your mom's favorite celeb mom?
She loves Jackie O, particularly during the Ari Onasis years when Jackie was doing the scarf around her head and the oversized Oleg Cassini glasses. My mother used to have a collection of Oleg Cassini glasses I would borrow every Halloween. She also loves Diana Ross and Natalie Wood.

LAS VEGAS -- Manny Pacquiao was barricaded alone in his bedroom atop The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. Just outside his doors, however, was an ever-evolving cell comprised of Pacquiao's entourage, advisors, security, band, documentary film crews, paid photographers, family, friends and colleagues from Philippine congress -- encased by a membrane of as many aides, spouses and extended families as available oxygen would allow in a hotel suite.
After training Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Thursday, cornerman Freddie Roach waited two hours for Pacquiao to materialize for his final workout at Top Rank Gym before Saturday's welterweight showdown with Shane Mosley. He then phoned his fighter, tongue firmly in cheek, to ask a question:
"Manny, do you want me to kill all those people?"
To depart for training, Pacquiao (52-3-2) needed only to escape the myriad requests he has received for tickets. According to sources within his camp, Pacquiao has been inundated with approximately 1,400 requests from "all those people," while having bought only 1,000 to give away (a cost conservatively estimated in the mid-six figures). To get that number down, all Pacquiao had to do was agree to Roach's offer. Ever the diplomat, Pacquiao graciously declined.
Instead, at just past sunset, the congressman headed not to the gym but to the UNLV track, surrounded by a security detail and small entourage that included Olympic gold medal speed skater Apolo Ohno and poker champion Johnny Chan. There, Pacquaio would do roadwork. The next gloved punch he throws will be against Mosley (46-6-1) to defend his WBO welterweight title.
News surfaced earlier Thursday that Pacquiao's previous opponent, Antonio Margarito, is still recovering from an uppercut that severely injured his eye, killing the possibility of a Margarito-Miguel Cotto rematch. This makes Margarito the fourth of Pacquiao's past five opponents who have either retired (Oscar De La Hoya) or have not fought since (Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey and Margarito). At 39, Mosley seeks to upset the 8-to-1 odds against him, as well as the 80 percent chance suggested by recent numbers that a fight against Pacquiao will be a man's last.
To combat Mosley, Pacquiao and Roach have devised a new weapon: "Bruce Lee" (in honor of Pacquiao's idol, of whom a portrait hangs in his Los Angeles home bearing both his likeness and Pacquiao's own in a single canvas and for whom, more recently, Pacquiao modeled his hairstyle). Bruce Lee is a five-punch combination: jab, straight left, hook, left to the body while going under the opponent's hook, angled body shot. Asked what purpose the first left to the body serves, Roach said, "Just to mess with Shane."
Before one of his final workouts in Los Angeles, Pacquiao, 32, said, "We have to be ready for Mosley to go to the body." In preparation for this, Pacquiao ensured that at least four of those 1,000 tickets he would dole out were earned. One day, when sparring partner David Rodela entered the locker room of Wild Card asking for four tickets, Pacquiao began a negotiation:
"OK, if we go body to body," Pacquiao said.
"Manny, no, please ..." pleaded Rodela.
"Do you want tickets?"
In the end, Pacquiao and Rodela would stand toe-to-toe exchanging nothing but body shots for up to three rounds at a time. Rodela said of the experience: "I couldn't drive afterwards. He'd hit my arms. I couldn't lift them. My doctor told me I had something called bone bruise. I think Manny likes body-to-body not just to prepare for Mosley but also maybe because [Floyd] Mayweather, he exposes that shoulder." (Although Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, has made a formal offer for Pacquiao next to face Juan Manuel Marquez for a third time, boxing's biggest fight remains a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather match.)
Back at the UNLV track, Pacquiao began to torture his strength coach, Alex Ariza, asking, "How many laps? Twelve?"
Ariza's veins bulged slightly out of his head. "Bro, you're already on weight! Why do you want to run more weight off?"
Pacquiao shrugged. "But we eat after," he said, then smiled with a maniacal glint in his eye as Ariza threw up his hands and walked off. (For the record, Pacquiao would tip the scales at 145 pounds at Friday's weigh-in, compared to Mosley's 147.)
It was a typical scene around Pacquiao's camp. The fighter is known for playfully tormenting so many of his assistant trainers: spitting water in their faces, slapping them gingerly across the face, spanking them not so gently on the rump, poking them sharply in the belly and creeping up behind them to kick one of their knees out from under them. They never reciprocate. No truth to power is ever told. As his political career, music recordings and movies suggest, the eight-division world champion is a man of many pursuits. Among his minions, Pacquiao serves not only as king of his court, but also as its jester.
Roach exists outside this realm, due to his stature in the ring. (Likely not since Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has a king treated his educator with such privilege). Roach asked Pacquiao to run six laps and then walk a final two with him. Pacquiao assented. "I have to slow him down," Roach said. "It's the hardest job in the world, but also probably the best one for a trainer to have."
At Wild Card, during a day-planning strategy with Roach, Pacquiao asked a favor: "If I slow down, tell me, and I retire."
"You tell me, too, Manny," Roach said. "Then we can both go get jobs."
As Pacquiao shadowboxed at the UNLV track, it did not appear that either man would need to polish his résumé anytime soon.

LAS VEGAS -- Manny Pacquiao was barricaded alone in his bedroom atop The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. Just outside his doors, however, was an ever-evolving cell comprised of Pacquiao's entourage, advisors, security, band, documentary film crews, paid photographers, family, friends and colleagues from Philippine congress -- encased by a membrane of as many aides, spouses and extended families as available oxygen would allow in a hotel suite.
After training Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Thursday, cornerman Freddie Roach waited two hours for Pacquiao to materialize for his final workout at Top Rank Gym before Saturday's welterweight showdown with Shane Mosley. He then phoned his fighter, tongue firmly in cheek, to ask a question:
"Manny, do you want me to kill all those people?"
To depart for training, Pacquiao (52-3-2) needed only to escape the myriad requests he has received for tickets. According to sources within his camp, Pacquiao has been inundated with approximately 1,400 requests from "all those people," while having bought only 1,000 to give away (a cost conservatively estimated in the mid-six figures). To get that number down, all Pacquiao had to do was agree to Roach's offer. Ever the diplomat, Pacquiao graciously declined.
Instead, at just past sunset, the congressman headed not to the gym but to the UNLV track, surrounded by a security detail and small entourage that included Olympic gold medal speed skater Apolo Ohno and poker champion Johnny Chan. There, Pacquaio would do roadwork. The next gloved punch he throws will be against Mosley (46-6-1) to defend his WBO welterweight title.
News surfaced earlier Thursday that Pacquiao's previous opponent, Antonio Margarito, is still recovering from an uppercut that severely injured his eye, killing the possibility of a Margarito-Miguel Cotto rematch. This makes Margarito the fourth of Pacquiao's past five opponents who have either retired (Oscar De La Hoya) or have not fought since (Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey and Margarito). At 39, Mosley seeks to upset the 8-to-1 odds against him, as well as the 80 percent chance suggested by recent numbers that a fight against Pacquiao will be a man's last.
To combat Mosley, Pacquiao and Roach have devised a new weapon: "Bruce Lee" (in honor of Pacquiao's idol, of whom a portrait hangs in his Los Angeles home bearing both his likeness and Pacquiao's own in a single canvas and for whom, more recently, Pacquiao modeled his hairstyle). Bruce Lee is a five-punch combination: jab, straight left, hook, left to the body while going under the opponent's hook, angled body shot. Asked what purpose the first left to the body serves, Roach said, "Just to mess with Shane."
Before one of his final workouts in Los Angeles, Pacquiao, 32, said, "We have to be ready for Mosley to go to the body." In preparation for this, Pacquiao ensured that at least four of those 1,000 tickets he would dole out were earned. One day, when sparring partner David Rodela entered the locker room of Wild Card asking for four tickets, Pacquiao began a negotiation:
"OK, if we go body to body," Pacquiao said.
"Manny, no, please ..." pleaded Rodela.
"Do you want tickets?"
In the end, Pacquiao and Rodela would stand toe-to-toe exchanging nothing but body shots for up to three rounds at a time. Rodela said of the experience: "I couldn't drive afterwards. He'd hit my arms. I couldn't lift them. My doctor told me I had something called bone bruise. I think Manny likes body-to-body not just to prepare for Mosley but also maybe because [Floyd] Mayweather, he exposes that shoulder." (Although Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, has made a formal offer for Pacquiao next to face Juan Manuel Marquez for a third time, boxing's biggest fight remains a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather match.)
Back at the UNLV track, Pacquiao began to torture his strength coach, Alex Ariza, asking, "How many laps? Twelve?"
Ariza's veins bulged slightly out of his head. "Bro, you're already on weight! Why do you want to run more weight off?"
Pacquiao shrugged. "But we eat after," he said, then smiled with a maniacal glint in his eye as Ariza threw up his hands and walked off. (For the record, Pacquiao would tip the scales at 145 pounds at Friday's weigh-in, compared to Mosley's 147.)
It was a typical scene around Pacquiao's camp. The fighter is known for playfully tormenting so many of his assistant trainers: spitting water in their faces, slapping them gingerly across the face, spanking them not so gently on the rump, poking them sharply in the belly and creeping up behind them to kick one of their knees out from under them. They never reciprocate. No truth to power is ever told. As his political career, music recordings and movies suggest, the eight-division world champion is a man of many pursuits. Among his minions, Pacquiao serves not only as king of his court, but also as its jester.
Roach exists outside this realm, due to his stature in the ring. (Likely not since Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has a king treated his educator with such privilege). Roach asked Pacquiao to run six laps and then walk a final two with him. Pacquiao assented. "I have to slow him down," Roach said. "It's the hardest job in the world, but also probably the best one for a trainer to have."
At Wild Card, during a day-planning strategy with Roach, Pacquiao asked a favor: "If I slow down, tell me, and I retire."
"You tell me, too, Manny," Roach said. "Then we can both go get jobs."
As Pacquiao shadowboxed at the UNLV track, it did not appear that either man would need to polish his résumé anytime soon.

(Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao weighed in just two pounds lighter than American Shane Mosley after the Filipino was welcomed by deafening cheers from his supporters on the eve of Saturday's WBO welterweight title fight.

Pacquiao, 52-3-2 (38 knockouts), tipped the scales at 145 pounds in front of a boisterous crowd of about 6,500 at the MGM Grand Hotel's Garden Arena.
Mosley, 46-6-1 (39 KOs), was weighed first and was right on the 147-pound limit for the scheduled 12-round bout.
The two fighters were all smiles as they posed for the photographers for their pre-fight pictures and they embraced one another once that task was done.
"I am just so excited to be in this fight," Mosley, a 39-year-old veteran who is a three-division world champion, said on the stage. "The whole world is watching. It should be great."
Pacquiao, a 10-times world champion in a record eight weight divisions, is a 6-1 favorite to win but he has taken great pains not to underestimate his American challenger.
"I believe that Shane Mosley is a strong fighter, a good fighter," the 32-year-old Filipino said. "He has trained hard for this fight so I have to train hard and focus on this fight."
Pacquiao and Mosley are renowned for being ideal boxing ambassadors and have refused to indulge in any of the pre-bout trash-talking so common in the sport.
NO TRASH TALKING
"This is a good example for the boxing fans and for all the fighters," Pacquiao told reporters earlier this week.
"The fight will be happy and a good example for the children who are idolizing the fighters, especially Mosley and me."
The atmosphere was electric as the two fighters made their way on to a raised stage for Friday's televised weigh-in where former boxing great Roberto Duran and Britain's WBA world light welterweight champion Amir Khan were among those attending.
Shouts of "Manny, Manny" rang out before the tracksuit-clad boxers finally emerged, Pacquiao and Mosley each smiling and waving to the fans before stepping on to the scales.
There were also friendly boos for Mosley who, despite being born in nearby Pomona, California, had a much smaller number of supporters in the arena.
Pacquiao is fighting for the first time since he recorded a ruthless points victory over Mexican Antonio Margarito in November for his eighth world title in an unprecedented eight weight class.
Mosley has not competed in the ring since his draw with Sergio Mora in September.
Pacquiao, already acknowledged as one of the best offensive fighters of all time, is guaranteed $20 million from Saturday's bout while Mosley will earn a minimum $5 million.

(Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao weighed in just two pounds lighter than American Shane Mosley after the Filipino was welcomed by deafening cheers from his supporters on the eve of Saturday's WBO welterweight title fight.

Pacquiao, 52-3-2 (38 knockouts), tipped the scales at 145 pounds in front of a boisterous crowd of about 6,500 at the MGM Grand Hotel's Garden Arena.
Mosley, 46-6-1 (39 KOs), was weighed first and was right on the 147-pound limit for the scheduled 12-round bout.
The two fighters were all smiles as they posed for the photographers for their pre-fight pictures and they embraced one another once that task was done.
"I am just so excited to be in this fight," Mosley, a 39-year-old veteran who is a three-division world champion, said on the stage. "The whole world is watching. It should be great."
Pacquiao, a 10-times world champion in a record eight weight divisions, is a 6-1 favorite to win but he has taken great pains not to underestimate his American challenger.
"I believe that Shane Mosley is a strong fighter, a good fighter," the 32-year-old Filipino said. "He has trained hard for this fight so I have to train hard and focus on this fight."
Pacquiao and Mosley are renowned for being ideal boxing ambassadors and have refused to indulge in any of the pre-bout trash-talking so common in the sport.
NO TRASH TALKING
"This is a good example for the boxing fans and for all the fighters," Pacquiao told reporters earlier this week.
"The fight will be happy and a good example for the children who are idolizing the fighters, especially Mosley and me."
The atmosphere was electric as the two fighters made their way on to a raised stage for Friday's televised weigh-in where former boxing great Roberto Duran and Britain's WBA world light welterweight champion Amir Khan were among those attending.
Shouts of "Manny, Manny" rang out before the tracksuit-clad boxers finally emerged, Pacquiao and Mosley each smiling and waving to the fans before stepping on to the scales.
There were also friendly boos for Mosley who, despite being born in nearby Pomona, California, had a much smaller number of supporters in the arena.
Pacquiao is fighting for the first time since he recorded a ruthless points victory over Mexican Antonio Margarito in November for his eighth world title in an unprecedented eight weight class.
Mosley has not competed in the ring since his draw with Sergio Mora in September.
Pacquiao, already acknowledged as one of the best offensive fighters of all time, is guaranteed $20 million from Saturday's bout while Mosley will earn a minimum $5 million.

Based on author Emily Giffin's best-selling novel of the same name, the film is about two best friends (Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin) whose friendship is tested when one falls for the others' fiance.
In real-life, Hudson is expecting a child with musician Matthew Bellamy. (She already has a son, Ryder, 7, with ex-husband Chris Robinson.) The actress, 32, talked with Reuters about the film and her pregnancy.
Q: You've done quite a few romantic comedies including
"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Fool's Gold." How did this one come about?

A: "(Producers) Hilary Swank and Molly Smith acquired the book series (which also includes sequels "Something Blue" and "Baby Proof") and they came over and said, 'Please read them.' I was in mommy mode and the idea of working was not in my immediate future at that time (laughs). But then I started reading the books and the character of Darcy lent itself to such good comedy."
Q: What did you like about her?
A: "She's a little wild. She likes to have a good time. She's the person who gets drunk and stupid and doesn't realize -- or care -- how obnoxious she is. In the second book, Darcy has such a great turnaround and A-ha moment. I hope we get a chance to do the second one."
Q: Are you a fan of chick lit books?
A: "I'm the girl who reads 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.' I like heavy reading. But when I started reading these books, by page 20 I was just lost. They are so much fun to read and Emily Giffin writes relatable characters, especially in that thirtysomething age group."
Q: On a personal note, you're in the third trimester of your pregnancy. How is it the second time around?
A: "I love being pregnant. I just love it. Especially when you start to really feel and connect with the baby when it starts moving. I don't know what I'm having. It feels like a girl, but I don't know. I had a really good sense of who Ryder was in my belly the first time around. I'd call him my Peaceful Poet and that's who he is in real life. He's got it all figured out and he's pretty mellow."
Q: And this one?
A: "This one is so wild and so active and so ready to be on this planet. I'm like, 'Watch out! Whatever's about to come out is going to be front and center!' (laughs)"
Q: How do you balance raising a son with your ex while beginning a new family with your fiancee?
A: "You have to figure out how to make it work even if you're not going to be together. Chris and I have done a really good job at that and we have a really happy son...Chris and I have the same values of what we want in our lives. That's why we fell in love. And we've continued to hold those values true throughout our divorce and in raising Ryder together."
Q: Now that you're about to give birth, how ambitious are you about working?
A: "(Laughs) I've never really been an ambitious actress, which is funny because I've been very lucky to have success in it. But it's never been my driving force. I've always been a family girl."
Q: So it's safe to assume you'll be taking some time off?
A: "With this baby, and Ryder being in such a great stage with all of his sports, it's going to take a lot to get me out of the house. Granted, I love to work and I'll always be a working woman, but it will take a lot more now."
Q: Like what?
A: "For instance, I've never thought too hard about my film choices. I've always been like, 'This will be fun, I love these people, hopefully it'll be great.' Now I think it will be about the actual filmmaker. And eventually I'll probably direct. Romantic comedy 'Something Borrowed' should have borrowed some ...

Based on author Emily Giffin's best-selling novel of the same name, the film is about two best friends (Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin) whose friendship is tested when one falls for the others' fiance.
In real-life, Hudson is expecting a child with musician Matthew Bellamy. (She already has a son, Ryder, 7, with ex-husband Chris Robinson.) The actress, 32, talked with Reuters about the film and her pregnancy.
Q: You've done quite a few romantic comedies including
"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Fool's Gold." How did this one come about?

A: "(Producers) Hilary Swank and Molly Smith acquired the book series (which also includes sequels "Something Blue" and "Baby Proof") and they came over and said, 'Please read them.' I was in mommy mode and the idea of working was not in my immediate future at that time (laughs). But then I started reading the books and the character of Darcy lent itself to such good comedy."
Q: What did you like about her?
A: "She's a little wild. She likes to have a good time. She's the person who gets drunk and stupid and doesn't realize -- or care -- how obnoxious she is. In the second book, Darcy has such a great turnaround and A-ha moment. I hope we get a chance to do the second one."
Q: Are you a fan of chick lit books?
A: "I'm the girl who reads 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.' I like heavy reading. But when I started reading these books, by page 20 I was just lost. They are so much fun to read and Emily Giffin writes relatable characters, especially in that thirtysomething age group."
Q: On a personal note, you're in the third trimester of your pregnancy. How is it the second time around?
A: "I love being pregnant. I just love it. Especially when you start to really feel and connect with the baby when it starts moving. I don't know what I'm having. It feels like a girl, but I don't know. I had a really good sense of who Ryder was in my belly the first time around. I'd call him my Peaceful Poet and that's who he is in real life. He's got it all figured out and he's pretty mellow."
Q: And this one?
A: "This one is so wild and so active and so ready to be on this planet. I'm like, 'Watch out! Whatever's about to come out is going to be front and center!' (laughs)"
Q: How do you balance raising a son with your ex while beginning a new family with your fiancee?
A: "You have to figure out how to make it work even if you're not going to be together. Chris and I have done a really good job at that and we have a really happy son...Chris and I have the same values of what we want in our lives. That's why we fell in love. And we've continued to hold those values true throughout our divorce and in raising Ryder together."
Q: Now that you're about to give birth, how ambitious are you about working?
A: "(Laughs) I've never really been an ambitious actress, which is funny because I've been very lucky to have success in it. But it's never been my driving force. I've always been a family girl."
Q: So it's safe to assume you'll be taking some time off?
A: "With this baby, and Ryder being in such a great stage with all of his sports, it's going to take a lot to get me out of the house. Granted, I love to work and I'll always be a working woman, but it will take a lot more now."
Q: Like what?
A: "For instance, I've never thought too hard about my film choices. I've always been like, 'This will be fun, I love these people, hopefully it'll be great.' Now I think it will be about the actual filmmaker. And eventually I'll probably direct. Romantic comedy 'Something Borrowed' should have borrowed some ...

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Colt continues to take its time and battle proven M1911 pistol and adapt to meet the changing needs of its customers with O1980RG model – Colt Gun Rail with blackened Finish. When quality and craftsmanship required Colt again meets and exceeds customer expectations, he said. This pistol is equipped with new and exciting features for law enforcement officers, firefighters and enthusiast user for personal protection.
M1913 Picatinny rail offers the versatility to accommodate tactical lights and laser sights for rail receiver Colt, which makes him fight easily adaptable to any military or law enforcement need. Opportunity to attach a light rail allows the Colt Gun ideal candidate for home and non-profit in need of protection. Rail Gun Colt has a standard MIL rail, vertical Bevertail Colt Grip Safety with Palm Swell Tactical Ambidextrous Thumb Safety Colt, Reak Novak sight, as well as other standard features XSE series. Colt quality continues to be derived from its forged steel, forged stainless steel, forged steel slide, forged and stops the slide show. In today’s world of polymer moldings, shortcuts, saving time and costs, Colt said, “Show Me Your Rail wrought.” Quality makes the Colt ®

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* 100 years of service Rollmark
* Front and rear strip slides
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* Carry white dot sights, Novak rear view
* Improved Hammer of elongated slot
* Improved tolerances
* 8 + 1 rounds / .45 ACP
* Single action

The U.S. launched a drone strike in Yemen on Thursday aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but he evaded the missile, Yemeni and U.S. officials said.

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Anwar al-Awlaki in a video released late last year.

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The attack came days after a U.S. Navy SEALs team killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. Had Thursday's strike succeeded, the U.S. would have killed two of the most-wanted terrorists in a week.
Mr. Awlaki has emerged as a leading charismatic front-man of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group the U.S. considers the world's most active terror organization. With bin Laden's death, some officials believe Mr. Awlaki and the Yemen-based group now represent the gravest threat to the U.S.
He has been linked to at least three major incidents: the Ft. Hood shootings, the Christmas 2009 plot to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane and a plan to blow up cargo planes.
The attack appears to be unrelated to intelligence information taken in the raid that killed bin Laden, whose death was confirmed by al Qaeda Friday in a statement that vowed to continue attacks on Americans.

European Pressphoto Agency

Yemeni soldiers outside a court that tried the cleric.

The Central Intelligence Agency has been ramping up its intelligence collection in Yemen in recent months and works closely with Saudi intelligence.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been more forthcoming with information on Mr. Awlaki since the president has faced major protests in his country, a U.S. official said. Mr. Saleh has sought to use that information in an effort to gain more U.S. support, the official added. The White House has backed an Arab proposal that would ease Mr. Saleh from office.
The Yemen strike sends a clear message that despite turmoil in the Middle East and the success of the bin Laden operation, the U.S. is resolved to ratchet up a campaign against Mr. Awlaki and other members of his group.
The attempt to kill Mr. Awlaki was the first known U.S. military strike inside Yemen since May 2010, when U.S. missiles mistakenly killed one of Mr. Saleh's envoys and an unknown number of other people. That soured relations and prompted the administration to pull back.
U.S. strikes between December 2009 and May 2010 were carried out by U.S. military aircraft and cruise missiles, not the kind of armed drones used in Thursday's attack. The last known strike by an unmanned aircraft in Yemen was conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002.
According to a Yemeni account of Thursday's strike, the U.S. launched two separate attacks within 45 minutes aimed at Mr. Awlaki in the southern province of Shebwa, which is considered an AQAP stronghold.
The strike was conducted by the U.S. military, but the operation—like the bin Laden raid—appears to have benefitted from close cooperation between the Department of Defense, the CIA and Yemeni officials.
In the first strike, the U.S. fired three rockets at a pickup truck in which Mr. Awlaki and a Saudi national and suspected al Qaeda member were traveling outside the village of Jahwa, located some 20 miles away from the Shebwa provincial capital, said local residents and the Yemeni security official. Those missiles didn't hit their target.
Two Yemeni brothers, who were known by local residents for giving shelter to al Qaeda militants, rushed to the scene of the attack. Mr. Awlaki switched vehicles with them, leaving the two Yemenis in the pickup. A single drone then hit the pickup truck, killing the Yemenis inside.
Mr. Awlaki escaped in the other vehicle along with the Saudi. A Yemeni defense ministry official identified the two dead men as Musaid Mubarak Al-Daghari and his brother Abdullah.Unlike the bin Laden raid, which was carried out without Pakistani knowledge, the Yemeni government was a participant.
"The Yemeni government gave the U.S. authorities vital details of Awlaki's whereabouts in Shabwa days ago," said a senior Yemeni security official. The official said the Yemeni government had full knowledge of the attack ahead of the U.S. strike.
U.S. counterterrorism officials have been worried in recent weeks that the unrest in Yemen, and Mr. Saleh's increasingly weak position, had given a free hand to AQAP to plot fresh attacks against the West.
In the past several weeks, more than half of the U.S.-trained and funded Yemeni counter-terrorism forces assigned to Shebwa have left their posts. Many have been ordered to redploy in the capital, where Mr. Saleh has been besieged by thousands of protesters and army units which have defected from his command.
The timing of the Awlaki attack appears to be a calculated move by the Yemeni president to prove his counter-terrorism credentials to international allies like America and Saudi Arabia, which have been involved in intense diplomatic negotiations to get him to step down from office.
Mr. Awlaki has been on the run from Yemeni authorities since the failed Christmas 2009 underwear bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane. He was living under the protection of his extended tribe and regional intelligence officials have criticized what they have seen as a lack of resolve by Yemeni security officials to pursue Mr. Awlaki.
The Yemeni security official said Friday that his government believed that Awlaki had been hiding in Abdan village for approximately two weeks. The official said that the Yemeni government shared this intelligence with their U.S. counterparts on Wednesday.
U.S. officials say finding Mr. Awlaki and other senior AQAP leaders has proven difficult. The U.S. lacks a robust intelligence network on the ground and the U.S.-born cleric has ditched electronic communications in favor of hard-to-track couriers to relay messages, officials said.
The U.S. campaign in Yemen has been led by the U.S. military's Central Command, but the CIA has been providing intelligence and other support.
Mr. Awlaki came to prominence in 2009 due to his role as Internet-based spiritual guide aiding the radicalization of a new generation of Islamist extremists.
He isn't the head of AQAP, but U.S. officials say Mr. Awlaki has assumed an operational leadership role in the terror group. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people in a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood Texas, corresponded with Mr. Awlaki before his attack.
The U.S. added Mr. Awlaki to the CIA's target list after AQAP's failed attempt a month later to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger airliner.
Part of Mr. Awlaki's appeal, say U.S. officials and terrorism experts, is his ability to act as a bridge between the mainly Arab leaders of al Qaeda and willing potential jihadists in the West.
Born in New Mexico, he preached at a mosque in Northern Virginia until 2002, when he left the U.S. to spend time building a following in the U.K., before returning to Yemen in 2004.
Yemen authorities, at the behest of the U.S. arrested him, but then released him in December 2007 saying they did not have enough evidence to hold him.

The U.S. launched a drone strike in Yemen on Thursday aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but he evaded the missile, Yemeni and U.S. officials said.

Reuters

Anwar al-Awlaki in a video released late last year.

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The attack came days after a U.S. Navy SEALs team killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. Had Thursday's strike succeeded, the U.S. would have killed two of the most-wanted terrorists in a week.
Mr. Awlaki has emerged as a leading charismatic front-man of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group the U.S. considers the world's most active terror organization. With bin Laden's death, some officials believe Mr. Awlaki and the Yemen-based group now represent the gravest threat to the U.S.
He has been linked to at least three major incidents: the Ft. Hood shootings, the Christmas 2009 plot to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane and a plan to blow up cargo planes.
The attack appears to be unrelated to intelligence information taken in the raid that killed bin Laden, whose death was confirmed by al Qaeda Friday in a statement that vowed to continue attacks on Americans.

European Pressphoto Agency

Yemeni soldiers outside a court that tried the cleric.

The Central Intelligence Agency has been ramping up its intelligence collection in Yemen in recent months and works closely with Saudi intelligence.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been more forthcoming with information on Mr. Awlaki since the president has faced major protests in his country, a U.S. official said. Mr. Saleh has sought to use that information in an effort to gain more U.S. support, the official added. The White House has backed an Arab proposal that would ease Mr. Saleh from office.
The Yemen strike sends a clear message that despite turmoil in the Middle East and the success of the bin Laden operation, the U.S. is resolved to ratchet up a campaign against Mr. Awlaki and other members of his group.
The attempt to kill Mr. Awlaki was the first known U.S. military strike inside Yemen since May 2010, when U.S. missiles mistakenly killed one of Mr. Saleh's envoys and an unknown number of other people. That soured relations and prompted the administration to pull back.
U.S. strikes between December 2009 and May 2010 were carried out by U.S. military aircraft and cruise missiles, not the kind of armed drones used in Thursday's attack. The last known strike by an unmanned aircraft in Yemen was conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002.
According to a Yemeni account of Thursday's strike, the U.S. launched two separate attacks within 45 minutes aimed at Mr. Awlaki in the southern province of Shebwa, which is considered an AQAP stronghold.
The strike was conducted by the U.S. military, but the operation—like the bin Laden raid—appears to have benefitted from close cooperation between the Department of Defense, the CIA and Yemeni officials.
In the first strike, the U.S. fired three rockets at a pickup truck in which Mr. Awlaki and a Saudi national and suspected al Qaeda member were traveling outside the village of Jahwa, located some 20 miles away from the Shebwa provincial capital, said local residents and the Yemeni security official. Those missiles didn't hit their target.
Two Yemeni brothers, who were known by local residents for giving shelter to al Qaeda militants, rushed to the scene of the attack. Mr. Awlaki switched vehicles with them, leaving the two Yemenis in the pickup. A single drone then hit the pickup truck, killing the Yemenis inside.
Mr. Awlaki escaped in the other vehicle along with the Saudi. A Yemeni defense ministry official identified the two dead men as Musaid Mubarak Al-Daghari and his brother Abdullah.Unlike the bin Laden raid, which was carried out without Pakistani knowledge, the Yemeni government was a participant.
"The Yemeni government gave the U.S. authorities vital details of Awlaki's whereabouts in Shabwa days ago," said a senior Yemeni security official. The official said the Yemeni government had full knowledge of the attack ahead of the U.S. strike.
U.S. counterterrorism officials have been worried in recent weeks that the unrest in Yemen, and Mr. Saleh's increasingly weak position, had given a free hand to AQAP to plot fresh attacks against the West.
In the past several weeks, more than half of the U.S.-trained and funded Yemeni counter-terrorism forces assigned to Shebwa have left their posts. Many have been ordered to redploy in the capital, where Mr. Saleh has been besieged by thousands of protesters and army units which have defected from his command.
The timing of the Awlaki attack appears to be a calculated move by the Yemeni president to prove his counter-terrorism credentials to international allies like America and Saudi Arabia, which have been involved in intense diplomatic negotiations to get him to step down from office.
Mr. Awlaki has been on the run from Yemeni authorities since the failed Christmas 2009 underwear bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane. He was living under the protection of his extended tribe and regional intelligence officials have criticized what they have seen as a lack of resolve by Yemeni security officials to pursue Mr. Awlaki.
The Yemeni security official said Friday that his government believed that Awlaki had been hiding in Abdan village for approximately two weeks. The official said that the Yemeni government shared this intelligence with their U.S. counterparts on Wednesday.
U.S. officials say finding Mr. Awlaki and other senior AQAP leaders has proven difficult. The U.S. lacks a robust intelligence network on the ground and the U.S.-born cleric has ditched electronic communications in favor of hard-to-track couriers to relay messages, officials said.
The U.S. campaign in Yemen has been led by the U.S. military's Central Command, but the CIA has been providing intelligence and other support.
Mr. Awlaki came to prominence in 2009 due to his role as Internet-based spiritual guide aiding the radicalization of a new generation of Islamist extremists.
He isn't the head of AQAP, but U.S. officials say Mr. Awlaki has assumed an operational leadership role in the terror group. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people in a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood Texas, corresponded with Mr. Awlaki before his attack.
The U.S. added Mr. Awlaki to the CIA's target list after AQAP's failed attempt a month later to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger airliner.
Part of Mr. Awlaki's appeal, say U.S. officials and terrorism experts, is his ability to act as a bridge between the mainly Arab leaders of al Qaeda and willing potential jihadists in the West.
Born in New Mexico, he preached at a mosque in Northern Virginia until 2002, when he left the U.S. to spend time building a following in the U.K., before returning to Yemen in 2004.
Yemen authorities, at the behest of the U.S. arrested him, but then released him in December 2007 saying they did not have enough evidence to hold him.

Actress Jennifer Aniston, who recently purchased a pair of apartments in Manhattan’s West Village, has recently put her 1.2-acre estate in Beverly Hills on the market for $42 million.
The expansive property – known as “Ohana,” which is Hawaiian for extended family – features a Harold Levitt-constructed home which has five bedrooms, 8.5 baths and 10,000 square feet, as well as a heated swimming pool and spa with a cabana, an outdoor kitchen and living room with fireplaces, and a patio with heated floors.
Upon purchasing the property, Aniston worked with designer Stephen Shadley to renovate and expand the house to add square footage.
The gated estate has a three-car garage and a motor court, and the main home features a master bedroom with an indoor spa. There are two kitchens, with the first including a built-in barbeque, fire-burning pizza oven and wine cooler, while the second designed as a professional catering kitchen. Additionally, the house has a game room, library, and a wine cellar with a biometric security system that can only be opened with a unique fingerprint ID.
The property is located within Trousdale Estates, only a few minutes away from Sunset Boulevard.
Listing agent: Jade Mills, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

Actress Jennifer Aniston, who recently purchased a pair of apartments in Manhattan’s West Village, has recently put her 1.2-acre estate in Beverly Hills on the market for $42 million.
The expansive property – known as “Ohana,” which is Hawaiian for extended family – features a Harold Levitt-constructed home which has five bedrooms, 8.5 baths and 10,000 square feet, as well as a heated swimming pool and spa with a cabana, an outdoor kitchen and living room with fireplaces, and a patio with heated floors.
Upon purchasing the property, Aniston worked with designer Stephen Shadley to renovate and expand the house to add square footage.
The gated estate has a three-car garage and a motor court, and the main home features a master bedroom with an indoor spa. There are two kitchens, with the first including a built-in barbeque, fire-burning pizza oven and wine cooler, while the second designed as a professional catering kitchen. Additionally, the house has a game room, library, and a wine cellar with a biometric security system that can only be opened with a unique fingerprint ID.
The property is located within Trousdale Estates, only a few minutes away from Sunset Boulevard.
Listing agent: Jade Mills, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

The 2011 Kentucky Derby gets underway on May 7 and we'll be following the race with wall-to-wall coverage. With the race just about a week away, and the post draw a few days away, there are some early odds floating around, giving us an idea of which horses may be favored in the 2011 Kentucky Derby. It's a wide-open field this year and no contender seperated itself during the run-up to the derby, but plenty did falter.
Uncle Mo is the early favorite despite being upset by Toby's Corner in the Wood Memorial. Uncle Mo came into the tune-up race at Aqueduct heavily favored, yet faded down the stretch as Toby's Corner surged. With the loss, the Kentucky Derby field was throw into chaos, at least for the moment.
Uncle Mo is followed by Dialed In, Nehro, Toby's Corner and Soldat, all of which hold 10/1 or better odds. Midnight Interlude, winner of the Santa Anita Derby, is at 15/1, as is Pants On Fire.

 Below are the latest odds for the Kentucky Derby.
Uncle Mo 3/1
Dialed In 4/1
Nehro 8/1
Tobys Corner 8/1
Soldat 10/1
Archarcharch 11/1
Mucho Macho Man 12/1
Midnight Interlude 15/1
Pants On Fire 15/1
Twinspired 17/1
Stay Thirsty 20/1
Master of Hounds 20/1
Brilliant Speed 25/1
Animal Kingdom 28/1
Shackleford 28/1
Twice The Appeal 30/1
Santiva 30/1
Decisive Moment 30/1
Watch Me Go 35/1
Comma to the Top 35/1
Sway Away 35/1
Mr Commons 50/1
Derby Kitten 50/1

The 2011 Kentucky Derby gets underway on May 7 and we'll be following the race with wall-to-wall coverage. With the race just about a week away, and the post draw a few days away, there are some early odds floating around, giving us an idea of which horses may be favored in the 2011 Kentucky Derby. It's a wide-open field this year and no contender seperated itself during the run-up to the derby, but plenty did falter.
Uncle Mo is the early favorite despite being upset by Toby's Corner in the Wood Memorial. Uncle Mo came into the tune-up race at Aqueduct heavily favored, yet faded down the stretch as Toby's Corner surged. With the loss, the Kentucky Derby field was throw into chaos, at least for the moment.
Uncle Mo is followed by Dialed In, Nehro, Toby's Corner and Soldat, all of which hold 10/1 or better odds. Midnight Interlude, winner of the Santa Anita Derby, is at 15/1, as is Pants On Fire.

 Below are the latest odds for the Kentucky Derby.
Uncle Mo 3/1
Dialed In 4/1
Nehro 8/1
Tobys Corner 8/1
Soldat 10/1
Archarcharch 11/1
Mucho Macho Man 12/1
Midnight Interlude 15/1
Pants On Fire 15/1
Twinspired 17/1
Stay Thirsty 20/1
Master of Hounds 20/1
Brilliant Speed 25/1
Animal Kingdom 28/1
Shackleford 28/1
Twice The Appeal 30/1
Santiva 30/1
Decisive Moment 30/1
Watch Me Go 35/1
Comma to the Top 35/1
Sway Away 35/1
Mr Commons 50/1
Derby Kitten 50/1

 An Italian tramp has told a court that he saw Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito close to her house on the night British student Meredith Kercher.

From Nick Pisa in Perugia 2:02PM GMT 28 Mar 2009

Antonio Curatolo, 52, said that a couple he had seen "chatting animatedly" on a basketball court were her alleged murderers, American student Knox and Italian Sollecito.

He told the court that he saw them "around five times" between 9.30pm and midnight on the night Miss Kercher died.

Knox and Sollecito have always claimed they were at home when Miss Kercher was killed in November 2007 and did not leave until the following morning.

When asked if he recognised the two people he had seen in court Mr Curatolo said he could. He pointed out Knox and Sollecito who were sitting just a few yards away from him.

According to a post-mortem report police and prosecutors believe that Miss Kercher was murdered between 9pm and 11pm on 1st November 2007. She was found semi-naked and with her throat cut in the bedroom of the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, Italy.

The trial has already been told by prosecutor Giuliano Mignini that she was murdered after refusing to take part ina drug-fuelled sex game.
Knox, dressed in a lilac jumper and blue jeans, exchanged glances with Sollecito in court and during breaks smiled and joked with warders guarding her.
On Friday the court heard from a woman who said she had heard a "prolonged" scream coming from the house the night Miss Kercher was killed and imitated it for the court.
Nara Capezzali said the scream made her "skin crawl" and the memory of it still troubled her now.
Knox's mother Edda Mellas has arrived to give her support but will not be allowed to attend court because she is listed as a witness.
The court also heard from unemployed Fabrizio Gioffredi who said he had seen Knox, Sollecito and Guede together with Miss Kercher two days before she was killed.
Prosecutor Mignini has told the trial that Miss Kercher was a victim of a sex game organised by the three and that Knox, Sollecito and Guede all knew each other.
This is denied by the couple. After giving his evidence Sollecito stood up and made a spontaneous declaration as he is allowed to under Italian law challenging Mr Gioffredi.
He said:''This witness could not have seen me with Rudy Guede because as I have already said, I do not know Rudy Guede and I have never met him before in my life.
"Also the day he claims to have seen us altogether is impossible as I was somewhere else and that will be proved as the trial continues.''
Outside court Knox's mother Edda Mellas said: "'I am not allowed inside because at some stage I will have to testify but I saw Amanda briefly.
"She is doing well and looking forward to coming home and being with her family and friends.
"I have brought her some flip flops, CDs and books to read - I gave her a book in German by Herman Hesse and another on a shipwreck.
"We were allowed to hug and we both cried. She is innocent of all this and the trial will show that.''
Francesco Maresca, the Kerchers' lawyer, said that he expected the case to be finished by the autumn. He said that Miss Kercher's parents and siblings would give evidence, probably in May.
Last October a third defendant, 21-year-old Ivory Coast national Rudy Guede, was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting and murdering Miss Kercher.
Miss Kercher, a Leeds University student who was from Coulsdon, Surrey, was in Italy as part of a year-long exchange programme with her European Studies degree. She had only been in Perugia for two months when she was killed.

 An Italian tramp has told a court that he saw Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito close to her house on the night British student Meredith Kercher.

From Nick Pisa in Perugia 2:02PM GMT 28 Mar 2009

Antonio Curatolo, 52, said that a couple he had seen "chatting animatedly" on a basketball court were her alleged murderers, American student Knox and Italian Sollecito.

He told the court that he saw them "around five times" between 9.30pm and midnight on the night Miss Kercher died.

Knox and Sollecito have always claimed they were at home when Miss Kercher was killed in November 2007 and did not leave until the following morning.

When asked if he recognised the two people he had seen in court Mr Curatolo said he could. He pointed out Knox and Sollecito who were sitting just a few yards away from him.

According to a post-mortem report police and prosecutors believe that Miss Kercher was murdered between 9pm and 11pm on 1st November 2007. She was found semi-naked and with her throat cut in the bedroom of the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, Italy.

The trial has already been told by prosecutor Giuliano Mignini that she was murdered after refusing to take part ina drug-fuelled sex game.
Knox, dressed in a lilac jumper and blue jeans, exchanged glances with Sollecito in court and during breaks smiled and joked with warders guarding her.
On Friday the court heard from a woman who said she had heard a "prolonged" scream coming from the house the night Miss Kercher was killed and imitated it for the court.
Nara Capezzali said the scream made her "skin crawl" and the memory of it still troubled her now.
Knox's mother Edda Mellas has arrived to give her support but will not be allowed to attend court because she is listed as a witness.
The court also heard from unemployed Fabrizio Gioffredi who said he had seen Knox, Sollecito and Guede together with Miss Kercher two days before she was killed.
Prosecutor Mignini has told the trial that Miss Kercher was a victim of a sex game organised by the three and that Knox, Sollecito and Guede all knew each other.
This is denied by the couple. After giving his evidence Sollecito stood up and made a spontaneous declaration as he is allowed to under Italian law challenging Mr Gioffredi.
He said:''This witness could not have seen me with Rudy Guede because as I have already said, I do not know Rudy Guede and I have never met him before in my life.
"Also the day he claims to have seen us altogether is impossible as I was somewhere else and that will be proved as the trial continues.''
Outside court Knox's mother Edda Mellas said: "'I am not allowed inside because at some stage I will have to testify but I saw Amanda briefly.
"She is doing well and looking forward to coming home and being with her family and friends.
"I have brought her some flip flops, CDs and books to read - I gave her a book in German by Herman Hesse and another on a shipwreck.
"We were allowed to hug and we both cried. She is innocent of all this and the trial will show that.''
Francesco Maresca, the Kerchers' lawyer, said that he expected the case to be finished by the autumn. He said that Miss Kercher's parents and siblings would give evidence, probably in May.
Last October a third defendant, 21-year-old Ivory Coast national Rudy Guede, was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting and murdering Miss Kercher.
Miss Kercher, a Leeds University student who was from Coulsdon, Surrey, was in Italy as part of a year-long exchange programme with her European Studies degree. She had only been in Perugia for two months when she was killed.

 Thor movie
There is a low-level yet also kind of crazy rumble of movie activity happening below the mega-release of Thor this weekend. Thor is the designated Marvel summer kickoff movie, although some of its proverbial thunder was stolen by Fast Five's summer-sized opening last weekend, which the Alien-God of Whatever is unlikely to match. Iron Man wasn't all that well-known either, of course, but being played by Robert Downey allowed the filmmakers to cut some funny, exciting trailers, whereas Thor is played by more of a generic himbo (albeit, like most superheroes these days, a British one) and looks more like the second-tier operation a Thor movie would probably have to be. Still, even the second-tier Marvel movies these days attract Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Anthony Hopkins, and disgraced former auteur Kenneth Branagh behind the camera. It all looks pretty silly, but if Branagh can make a more enjoyable second-tier Marvel movie than Fantastic Four or Ghost Rider, it could be good summer fun, and if he can't, we will cast him out for his arrogance.
The first round of Thor counterprogramming makes sense: girl movies, y'all! For Hollywood, "girl movies" means "movies about weddings," and two are paired for this weekend: Something Borrowed (for the white girls!) and Jumping the Broom (for the black ladies!). As a white dude who does not categorically object to movies about weddings but would rather watch Bridesmaids, I went into both Borrowed and Broom hoping for the best. Both premises have been well-worn by other movies targeting these audiences: Something Borrowed addresses important issues like being single at thirty, toxic self-centeredness, and Taking Chances, while Jumping the Broom offers the observation that sometimes two people from different economic backgrounds may have families that clash over various aspects of a wedding.

Actually, Jumping the Broom only pretends to offer that observation, which is disappointing because it has a game ensemble cast led by the charming Paula Patton. Jumping the Broom is actually about how God has a plan for us all; it was produced by pastor T.D. Jakes, and the religious material isn't inherently offensive or pandering so much as it is clumsily integrated with, and vaguely counter to, the material that might actually make the movie interesting. The scenes where familial conflict emerges from the way that the groom's mother (Loretta Devine) bristles at the upper-class pretensions of the bride's parents (Angela Bassett and Brian Stokes Mitchell) have some snap, especially with seasoned scene-stealer Mike Epps cracking relaxed jokes from the sidelines. But the movie doesn't consider this tension enough, and gussies it up with plenty of soap bubbles. All the while, Patton's weird insistence that she can't sleep with her husband until the wedding night meets with only cursory objection (and seems at odds with her apparently enlightened-intellectual upbringing). You expect that a movie like Jumping the Broom will probably end with everyone getting along, but it's a shame that it takes God's Plans to get there. While Jumping the Broom fumbles some of its attempts at class-consciousness, it at least raises the issue and includes a token white lady, played with some charm by Modern Family's Julie Bowen. Something Borrowed, on the other hand, imagines a New York City so privileged and monoracial that even the sitcommy wisecracking cab drivers are white. Despite this scary idea of what fairy-tale New York might look like (although: like my dream version of New York, everyone does go to Shake Shack constantly), Something Borrowed is a marginally better movie, if only because director Luke Greenfield doesn't make many visual flubs, and Ginnifer Goodwin is even more charming than Paula Patton. Goodwin plays a long-time good girl who winds up in an affair with the fiancé of her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson)—a surprisingly serious-minded and sticky development for a movie that takes place in the run-up to a wedding, that time most fraught with absolutely inconsequential bullshit (at least in movies). Hudson has fun playing the toxic party girl; maybe too much fun, as if she doesn't believe the audience will understand that she's playing kind of a bad person unless she pushes it really hard. Strangely, the movie makes no such assumptions about Goodwin; she's innately likable (and funnier than this movie lets her be), yet the screenplay keeps contriving additional reasons why her affair may not be a horrible decision. Pretty much just having Goodwin engage in bad behavior is enough to make it somewhat palatable, but the movie keeps chasing likability it doesn't need. Goodwin and the movie's lack of sitcom lighting keep Something Borrowed more watchable than any number of its frothier sisters in a degraded genre, but that only makes its wan mushiness more disappointing.
Once again, romcom viewers are required to please avoid asking: what exactly do these girls see in these guys? What Broom and Borrowed have in common, apart from a failure to fully engage their most interesting material, is that they both feature male leads (Laz Alonso in Broom and Colin Egglesfield in Borrowed) who appear to be on the verge of physical illness for much of the running time. I probably looked happier during the running time of both movies than either of these dudes, and I wasn't even enjoying the movies that much.
Those are the movies most of the country will have to choose from this weekend (I guess that makes Thor a force of unity... between white dudes and black dudes who do not want to see any damn wedding movies). But here in New York, indie movies are getting unloaded like it's garbage day. I'm not sure if this is a race to be the first art-house hit of the summer or just an easy way to sacrifice your contractually obligated theatrical release as efficiently as possible, but most of these releases seem like the latter, even when they also look interesting. The maybe-prestige item among the five Amerindies coming to various NYC screens this weekend is The Beaver, the long-delayed Jodie Foster film starring Mel Gibson as a deeply depressed guy who uses a beaver puppet, rather than hateful invective, to deal with his problems. Benjamin Mercer has the L Mag review, which makes it sound as hit-and-missy as the trailer looks.
But Gibson and Foster aren't the only stars going out in limited release this weekend; they're just the only ones who might expand out to a wider release down the line. Elsewhere, a crop of movies getting cursory releases either prior to a quick DVD release or concurrent with an On Demand run.
The most obscure of these might be An Invisible Sign, which has been available via On Demand for the past month but gets a couple of showtimes at the IFC Center this weekend. Full disclosure: I've been wondering when this movie would turn up because it's based on one of my favorite recent-ish novels, Aimee Bender's An Invisible Sign of My Own. Ben Sutton's review is one of the only I've read, and it makes it sound as if Bender's off-kilter ideas don't necessarily translate to film, or at least have been translated by bringing out whimsy and squishiness that seem sadder, stranger, and more interesting on the page. Nonetheless, I'll be arranging to see it at IFC this weekend, because someone made an Aimee Bender book into a movie and I must see that properly.
The rest of this weekend's movies are practically begging not to be seen theatrically. The most immediately accessible (apart from Invisible Sign) is Last Night, which played the Tribeca Film Festival, among others, and can be rented on Amazon at the moment, and should be on DVD shortly. An infidelity drama with Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Eva Mendes, it is hitting the Clearview Chelsea and the Angelika (!) this weekend; reviews haven't been bad (although if they had been all that good, it would've come out a lot earlier), and hey, it sounds physically attractive, right?

Daydream Nation will hit DVD on May 17th. Its official site claims that it will hit the Village East in Manhattan this weekend, although it's not yet listed in Google Movies. I would've been all about seeing this movie, which I've heard described as sort of a darker, weirder, more poetically inclined version of Easy A, but it's looking tricky to find, and I agreed to review the DVD for PopMatters later in the month. Intrepid Kat Dennings fans looking for a double feature may or may not be out of luck. Intrepid Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, and Megan Fox fans may be out of luck regardless of whether they're able to see Passion Play, which comes to DVD on May 31st but first makes a pit stop at the Quad. Rourke plays a jazz musician who tries to save some kind of a fallen angel (Fox, naturally) from, I assume, Bill Murray's character from Mad Dog and Glory. Just kidding: no way will this movie be as good as Mad Dog and Glory! It does sound like a worthwhile curiosity [No it doesn't—not even Mickey Rourke likes this movie, apparently. -Ed.]. I still have a student ID; can I get a discount at the Quad? Can I just get a discount for agreeing to see this movie at all?
Finally, if you'd really rather watch Ruger Hauer than any manner of current movie star, Hobo with a Shotgun is playing the Village East; maybe it blasted out Daydream Nation at the last minute. It's also available On Demand, but it sounds like the kind of exploitation tribute that should be seen in a real theater; I can testify that the Village East is in suitably ill repair to complete the experience.
Worry not: the indie dumptruck doesn't stop there: Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be around for next week's crop of long-delayed festival-skulkers that got picked up at the last minute.

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There is a low-level yet also kind of crazy rumble of movie activity happening below the mega-release of Thor this weekend. Thor is the designated Marvel summer kickoff movie, although some of its proverbial thunder was stolen by Fast Five's summer-sized opening last weekend, which the Alien-God of Whatever is unlikely to match. Iron Man wasn't all that well-known either, of course, but being played by Robert Downey allowed the filmmakers to cut some funny, exciting trailers, whereas Thor is played by more of a generic himbo (albeit, like most superheroes these days, a British one) and looks more like the second-tier operation a Thor movie would probably have to be. Still, even the second-tier Marvel movies these days attract Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Anthony Hopkins, and disgraced former auteur Kenneth Branagh behind the camera. It all looks pretty silly, but if Branagh can make a more enjoyable second-tier Marvel movie than Fantastic Four or Ghost Rider, it could be good summer fun, and if he can't, we will cast him out for his arrogance.
The first round of Thor counterprogramming makes sense: girl movies, y'all! For Hollywood, "girl movies" means "movies about weddings," and two are paired for this weekend: Something Borrowed (for the white girls!) and Jumping the Broom (for the black ladies!). As a white dude who does not categorically object to movies about weddings but would rather watch Bridesmaids, I went into both Borrowed and Broom hoping for the best. Both premises have been well-worn by other movies targeting these audiences: Something Borrowed addresses important issues like being single at thirty, toxic self-centeredness, and Taking Chances, while Jumping the Broom offers the observation that sometimes two people from different economic backgrounds may have families that clash over various aspects of a wedding.

Actually, Jumping the Broom only pretends to offer that observation, which is disappointing because it has a game ensemble cast led by the charming Paula Patton. Jumping the Broom is actually about how God has a plan for us all; it was produced by pastor T.D. Jakes, and the religious material isn't inherently offensive or pandering so much as it is clumsily integrated with, and vaguely counter to, the material that might actually make the movie interesting. The scenes where familial conflict emerges from the way that the groom's mother (Loretta Devine) bristles at the upper-class pretensions of the bride's parents (Angela Bassett and Brian Stokes Mitchell) have some snap, especially with seasoned scene-stealer Mike Epps cracking relaxed jokes from the sidelines. But the movie doesn't consider this tension enough, and gussies it up with plenty of soap bubbles. All the while, Patton's weird insistence that she can't sleep with her husband until the wedding night meets with only cursory objection (and seems at odds with her apparently enlightened-intellectual upbringing). You expect that a movie like Jumping the Broom will probably end with everyone getting along, but it's a shame that it takes God's Plans to get there. While Jumping the Broom fumbles some of its attempts at class-consciousness, it at least raises the issue and includes a token white lady, played with some charm by Modern Family's Julie Bowen. Something Borrowed, on the other hand, imagines a New York City so privileged and monoracial that even the sitcommy wisecracking cab drivers are white. Despite this scary idea of what fairy-tale New York might look like (although: like my dream version of New York, everyone does go to Shake Shack constantly), Something Borrowed is a marginally better movie, if only because director Luke Greenfield doesn't make many visual flubs, and Ginnifer Goodwin is even more charming than Paula Patton. Goodwin plays a long-time good girl who winds up in an affair with the fiancé of her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson)—a surprisingly serious-minded and sticky development for a movie that takes place in the run-up to a wedding, that time most fraught with absolutely inconsequential bullshit (at least in movies). Hudson has fun playing the toxic party girl; maybe too much fun, as if she doesn't believe the audience will understand that she's playing kind of a bad person unless she pushes it really hard. Strangely, the movie makes no such assumptions about Goodwin; she's innately likable (and funnier than this movie lets her be), yet the screenplay keeps contriving additional reasons why her affair may not be a horrible decision. Pretty much just having Goodwin engage in bad behavior is enough to make it somewhat palatable, but the movie keeps chasing likability it doesn't need. Goodwin and the movie's lack of sitcom lighting keep Something Borrowed more watchable than any number of its frothier sisters in a degraded genre, but that only makes its wan mushiness more disappointing.
Once again, romcom viewers are required to please avoid asking: what exactly do these girls see in these guys? What Broom and Borrowed have in common, apart from a failure to fully engage their most interesting material, is that they both feature male leads (Laz Alonso in Broom and Colin Egglesfield in Borrowed) who appear to be on the verge of physical illness for much of the running time. I probably looked happier during the running time of both movies than either of these dudes, and I wasn't even enjoying the movies that much.
Those are the movies most of the country will have to choose from this weekend (I guess that makes Thor a force of unity... between white dudes and black dudes who do not want to see any damn wedding movies). But here in New York, indie movies are getting unloaded like it's garbage day. I'm not sure if this is a race to be the first art-house hit of the summer or just an easy way to sacrifice your contractually obligated theatrical release as efficiently as possible, but most of these releases seem like the latter, even when they also look interesting. The maybe-prestige item among the five Amerindies coming to various NYC screens this weekend is The Beaver, the long-delayed Jodie Foster film starring Mel Gibson as a deeply depressed guy who uses a beaver puppet, rather than hateful invective, to deal with his problems. Benjamin Mercer has the L Mag review, which makes it sound as hit-and-missy as the trailer looks.
But Gibson and Foster aren't the only stars going out in limited release this weekend; they're just the only ones who might expand out to a wider release down the line. Elsewhere, a crop of movies getting cursory releases either prior to a quick DVD release or concurrent with an On Demand run.
The most obscure of these might be An Invisible Sign, which has been available via On Demand for the past month but gets a couple of showtimes at the IFC Center this weekend. Full disclosure: I've been wondering when this movie would turn up because it's based on one of my favorite recent-ish novels, Aimee Bender's An Invisible Sign of My Own. Ben Sutton's review is one of the only I've read, and it makes it sound as if Bender's off-kilter ideas don't necessarily translate to film, or at least have been translated by bringing out whimsy and squishiness that seem sadder, stranger, and more interesting on the page. Nonetheless, I'll be arranging to see it at IFC this weekend, because someone made an Aimee Bender book into a movie and I must see that properly.
The rest of this weekend's movies are practically begging not to be seen theatrically. The most immediately accessible (apart from Invisible Sign) is Last Night, which played the Tribeca Film Festival, among others, and can be rented on Amazon at the moment, and should be on DVD shortly. An infidelity drama with Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Eva Mendes, it is hitting the Clearview Chelsea and the Angelika (!) this weekend; reviews haven't been bad (although if they had been all that good, it would've come out a lot earlier), and hey, it sounds physically attractive, right?

Daydream Nation will hit DVD on May 17th. Its official site claims that it will hit the Village East in Manhattan this weekend, although it's not yet listed in Google Movies. I would've been all about seeing this movie, which I've heard described as sort of a darker, weirder, more poetically inclined version of Easy A, but it's looking tricky to find, and I agreed to review the DVD for PopMatters later in the month. Intrepid Kat Dennings fans looking for a double feature may or may not be out of luck. Intrepid Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, and Megan Fox fans may be out of luck regardless of whether they're able to see Passion Play, which comes to DVD on May 31st but first makes a pit stop at the Quad. Rourke plays a jazz musician who tries to save some kind of a fallen angel (Fox, naturally) from, I assume, Bill Murray's character from Mad Dog and Glory. Just kidding: no way will this movie be as good as Mad Dog and Glory! It does sound like a worthwhile curiosity [No it doesn't—not even Mickey Rourke likes this movie, apparently. -Ed.]. I still have a student ID; can I get a discount at the Quad? Can I just get a discount for agreeing to see this movie at all?
Finally, if you'd really rather watch Ruger Hauer than any manner of current movie star, Hobo with a Shotgun is playing the Village East; maybe it blasted out Daydream Nation at the last minute. It's also available On Demand, but it sounds like the kind of exploitation tribute that should be seen in a real theater; I can testify that the Village East is in suitably ill repair to complete the experience.
Worry not: the indie dumptruck doesn't stop there: Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be around for next week's crop of long-delayed festival-skulkers that got picked up at the last minute.

WASHINGTON: Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound showed his Al-Qaeda network pondered strikes on US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, US officials said.

As of February 2010, Al-Qaeda "was allegedly contemplating conducting an operation against trains at an unspecified location in the United States on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001," the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advised law enforcement agencies.

A source said the warning arose from intelligence seized in a daring raid on bin Laden's fortified compound in which elite US commandos shot dead the terrorist mastermind and gathered computer hardware and other material.

The official message noted that it was based on "initial reporting" and warned that such information "is often misleading or inaccurate due to a rapidly developing situation and is subject to change." "While it is clear there was some level of planning, we have no recent information to indicate an active ongoing plot to target transportation and no information on possible locations or specific targets," the bulletin said.

Al-Qaeda "was looking into trying to tip a train by tampering with the rails so that the train would fall off the track at either a valley or a bridge," according to the department. The terror network "noted that an attack from tilting the train would only succeed one time because the tilting would be spotted." (AFP)

WASHINGTON: Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound showed his Al-Qaeda network pondered strikes on US trains on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, US officials said.

As of February 2010, Al-Qaeda "was allegedly contemplating conducting an operation against trains at an unspecified location in the United States on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001," the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advised law enforcement agencies.

A source said the warning arose from intelligence seized in a daring raid on bin Laden's fortified compound in which elite US commandos shot dead the terrorist mastermind and gathered computer hardware and other material.

The official message noted that it was based on "initial reporting" and warned that such information "is often misleading or inaccurate due to a rapidly developing situation and is subject to change." "While it is clear there was some level of planning, we have no recent information to indicate an active ongoing plot to target transportation and no information on possible locations or specific targets," the bulletin said.

Al-Qaeda "was looking into trying to tip a train by tampering with the rails so that the train would fall off the track at either a valley or a bridge," according to the department. The terror network "noted that an attack from tilting the train would only succeed one time because the tilting would be spotted." (AFP)

 WASHINGTON: US foreign office Friday said Pakistan was committed to war against terrorism and that Pakistan itself was concerned over its unawareness of the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Geo News reported.

Talking to reports in Washington, US foreign office spokesman Mark Toner said pressure had been mounted on al-Qaeda as result of cooperation with Pakistan on war on terror.

He said the objective of the war in Afghanistan was to cleanse the restive country of al-Qaeda.

Toner said the US awaits the response of Pakistan as to why it remained unaware of the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

   

 WASHINGTON: US foreign office Friday said Pakistan was committed to war against terrorism and that Pakistan itself was concerned over its unawareness of the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Geo News reported.

Talking to reports in Washington, US foreign office spokesman Mark Toner said pressure had been mounted on al-Qaeda as result of cooperation with Pakistan on war on terror.

He said the objective of the war in Afghanistan was to cleanse the restive country of al-Qaeda.

Toner said the US awaits the response of Pakistan as to why it remained unaware of the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

   

KARACHI: Three people were killed and 27 others injured when unknown assailants attacked a gambling den with a hand grenade at Jhatpat Market, Chakiwara in Lyari area on Friday, Geo News reported.

Police and emergency services reached the blast site where a large crowd of people has gathered following the attack.

The bodies and injured were shifted to Civil Hospitals where enraged family members and friends of the victims scuffled with doctors and damaged the furniture and things.

The medico legal department at Civil Hospital put the number of deaths at 3 while 27 injured were brought to the facility.

KARACHI: Three people were killed and 27 others injured when unknown assailants attacked a gambling den with a hand grenade at Jhatpat Market, Chakiwara in Lyari area on Friday, Geo News reported.

Police and emergency services reached the blast site where a large crowd of people has gathered following the attack.

The bodies and injured were shifted to Civil Hospitals where enraged family members and friends of the victims scuffled with doctors and damaged the furniture and things.

The medico legal department at Civil Hospital put the number of deaths at 3 while 27 injured were brought to the facility.