At Random: Prem Sadarangani

Planning for a wedding is stressful, time-consuming and very expensive, especially for the bride. Although I had the responsibility of picking out my bridal party's attire for my recent wedding, my husband also suggested that I be in charge of picking out his party's attire as well since in his words, "the woman knows best." I had my mind set on selecting the men's tuxedos from one men's apparel store I visited about two months ago. However, I still wanted to shop around. One day before going to work, I wandered into a store on Ashley Street. To my surprise, the first thing I noticed as I entered was the fragrance of a nice cologne for men and gospel music, very different from the usual jazz or urban music that I hear when I enter other stores for men. I was greeted by three very nice and quite humorous gentlemen whose delightful nature and cheerful banter made it hard for me to actually do "serious" shopping. More>>

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Hodges (Senior Consultant, TFI), appears in the latest volume of the prestigious international telecommunications journal "Telektronikk." It addresses a number of past and current TFI quantitative forecasts to give an idea about the fundamentals of forecasting, outlines some successes of telecom forecasting, and offers a look at what's ahead. The article can be found at http://www.tfi.com/pubs/w/pdf/telektronikk_peer.pdf. 2005-07-16

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'Diabetes: Living My Best Life'� is selected for presentation at the 3rd Translating Research into Practice ConferenceType 2 Diabetes is a growing health problem for African American women. More>>

Brides.com and the Rink at Rockefeller Center Launch 'Engagement on ...

Brides.com, "Your #1 Source for Weddings," is the premier destination website within Conde Nast Bridal Media. www.brides.com's dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of beautiful imagery and videos to inspire the bride throughout her wedding planning process. Content is also aggregated from the three national magazines -- Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride -- and 16 local bridal magazines.

About The Rink at Rockefeller Center: Located off of Fifth Avenue, between 49th and 50th streets, The Rink first opened on Christmas Day in 1936 as the premier artificial outdoor skating pond built in New York City, complete with modern amenities: night skating, a heated house for changing skates, piped-in music and rink-side dining. More>>

Shed arsonist strikes again in Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach residents are worried about a serial arsonist on the loose.

An arsonist that has been lighting up sheds struck again on Saturday night. Police and residents are concerned that houses could be next.

"We shouldn't have to live like this. It's a ridiculous, senseless crime. There's no reason for it whatsoever," said Richard Kistulentz, a resident of the inflicted neighborhood.

Kistulentz spent Sunday evening installing motion lights in his back yard as a precaution.

"The only thing that woke me up was people banging on my door and banging on my window because they saw the smoke driving by," said Nancy Lee, whose shed was burned down two weeks ago.

"There was old pictures. We stored all our Christmas decorations, photo albums. My parents' wedding pictures were in there," described Lee. More>>

Jake Shears gets engaged

Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears is to marry his boyfriend in a flamboyant New York ceremony.

The outlandish star - who recently bought an apartment in New York with Chris, who he has been dating for eight years - plans to tie the knot with his lover in a "glorious" ceremony next spring.

A source said: "Jake and Chris are both blissfully happy with their apartment and the wedding is the next thing. They're ready to show everyone they're together.

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School lauded for academic gains

Schwarzenegger has called for spending reductions of 10 percent, including a cut of $4 billion from the state education budget, to close a deficit that's projected at $14.5 billion over the next 18 months.

The governor acknowledged that he had intended to introduce a series of education reforms this year but had to pull back because of the budget crisis.

Schwarzenegger, too, said other schools would do well to follow Otay's example.

"They didn't get any extra money," Schwarzenegger said. "It was just because of the will and the passion of the principal and the teachers."

In 2004, 16 percent of Otay's second-through sixth-graders passed the state English test. Last year, 43 percent did. Over the same period, the school's math pass rate rose from 32 percent to 58 percent. More>>

Giuliani laps Daytona track _ in his bus

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Rudy Giuliani sped across the finish line in Florida on Monday.

He didn't get the checkered flag he really wanted - victory in the Jan. 29 Republican primary - but had a great time all the same.

Giuliani's campaign bus took a detour from its two-day, eight-stop tour of Florida for a visit to the Daytona International Speedway. Aides assembled the press traveling with him in the grassy infield, setting up the camera shot they wanted - pictures of his giant "Florida is Rudy Country" bus tearing around the track and across the black-and-white finish line.

The big coach roared past the media pack, not at race speeds but fast enough to keep from tipping over on the banked track. Giuliani grinned in the front passenger seat.

No one was in the stands, though Giuliani - clad in his typical suit and tie - did mingle with a couple of dozen drivers and crew members. More>>

July 2006

Practice can always improve it, editing upon editing yields better and better copy. That is a bit like the way some look at going to church and prayer.

We are not talking about sport when we discuss golf on the Cape. We are talking about church.

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Fergie and Josh 'Very Excited' About Wedding

Fergie and Josh Duhamel may be in the beginning stages of planning their wedding, but don't ask them about the details.

"We don't know how big, how small, where it's going to be," Josh admitted at the 100th episode celebration for his hit show, "Las Vegas."

He added, "We don't know anything! We're going to decide over the next couple weeks."

But there is one thing they know for sure: How thrilled they are to walk down the aisle.

"I'm very excited," Josh said. "We're both very excited."

Fergie, real name Stacy Ferguson, 32, and Josh, 35, got engaged last month.

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Season's groovings

Hoboken noise-rock trio Yo La Tengo celebrates Hanukkah with eight straight nights of hometown shows, performing sets that honor such noted Jewish composers as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Acts from the Blind Boys of Alabama to Clay Aiken will put their own spin on the music of the season in coming weeks, but it's doubtful any of them will match the rowdiness of Marah's annual TLA Christmas show, which takes place tomorrow. Tidings of joy might not seem to jibe with the bar-band grit of the typical Marah song, but guitarist Serge Bielanko says he and his brother, Dave, "have been Christmas freaks since we were little kids." "We're definitely from the old school of gaudy Christmas lights all over the house," Bielanko says. "There's something about Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas' that just eclipses everybody else's version. More>>

Silver Queen owner remembers when celebrities haunted VC's boardwalks

Charles "Tiny" Carlson remembers the good old days of the Comstock.

Not the Big Bonanza of the 1860s and 1870s, of course, but the 1960s and 1970s, when he said there were 32 saloons in town and celebrities everywhere.

"When I came here there was a lot of personality," he said. "We had all the celebrities in the world come up here from Reno and the lake. Now, nobody comes."

Pianist and showman Liberace, singer John Davidson, trumpeter Al Hirt, country star Tennessee Ernie Ford are only a few of the folks Carlson said a visitor to Virginia City could bump into.

Many of the musicians would jam in the local jazz club, the Silver Stope, he said. Now, the Silver Stope is a gift shop.

Carlson, 82, is the owner of the Silver Queen Hotel and the Cole Mansion in Virginia City, a place where the Captain and Tennille got married, and 10 years later renewed their vows. More>>

'Feast of Love' crams in an implausible amount of melodramatic ...

That "Feast of Love" is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.

That it comes from Robert Benton, a veteran whose output has slowly, steadily declined in quality since writing "Bonnie and Clyde" and writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer," is just plain sad.

But what's truly troubling is the way the film, written by Allison Burnett based on the novel by Charles Baxter, regards women as idiots and objects.

Every actress gets fully, gratuitously naked at some point (except Jane Alexander, who manages to maintain some dignity alongside Morgan Freeman as her husband).

One (played by Selma Blair) abruptly leaves her husband (Greg Kinnear) for another woman � a stereotypical, softball-playing, predatory lesbian. More>>

Jim Salisbury | AL series deserves early start

Hey, it makes for good watercooler talk the next day.

"So, what happened in the fourth inning?"

Tonight's "special" start time is the result of Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, which starts at 10, 8 Denver time.

Whatever the reason, we'll take it. The ALCS is shaping up to be a dandy, and it would be nice if Game 3 ended before 1:37 a.m., so more folks in the East can see the finish.

That's what time Game 2 ended yesterday morning. OK, it was a 5-hour, 14-minute marathon that went 11 innings. But a start time past 8:20 didn't help.

All right, enough venting about baseball's keeping such late hours. It's never going to change.

So far, the ALCS has offered two intriguing games between two evenly matched clubs. The Red Sox won Game 1, 10-3, behind the strong pitching of Josh Beckett. More>>

Season's groovings

Hoboken noise-rock trio Yo La Tengo celebrates Hanukkah with eight straight nights of hometown shows, performing sets that honor such noted Jewish composers as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Acts from the Blind Boys of Alabama to Clay Aiken will put their own spin on the music of the season in coming weeks, but it's doubtful any of them will match the rowdiness of Marah's annual TLA Christmas show, which takes place tomorrow. Tidings of joy might not seem to jibe with the bar-band grit of the typical Marah song, but guitarist Serge Bielanko says he and his brother, Dave, "have been Christmas freaks since we were little kids." "We're definitely from the old school of gaudy Christmas lights all over the house," Bielanko says. "There's something about Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas' that just eclipses everybody else's version. More>>

Who will be the Nation Builder of 2007?

He showed us how the RCMP really operates in much of this country, including how they attempt to cover-up when witnesses provide information contrary to the Force's own spin.

As one Canadian wrote recently, if only Mr. Pritchard had been there with his camera the night Ian Bush died in Houston, BC police custody. Posted 24/11/07 at 10:40 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment . More>>

Season's groovings

Hoboken noise-rock trio Yo La Tengo celebrates Hanukkah with eight straight nights of hometown shows, performing sets that honor such noted Jewish composers as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Acts from the Blind Boys of Alabama to Clay Aiken will put their own spin on the music of the season in coming weeks, but it's doubtful any of them will match the rowdiness of Marah's annual TLA Christmas show, which takes place tomorrow. Tidings of joy might not seem to jibe with the bar-band grit of the typical Marah song, but guitarist Serge Bielanko says he and his brother, Dave, "have been Christmas freaks since we were little kids." "We're definitely from the old school of gaudy Christmas lights all over the house," Bielanko says. "There's something about Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas' that just eclipses everybody else's version. More>>

Natasha Steel prepares to face ex-husband, John Hogan, who killed ...

The former wife of a man who killed their young son during a holiday in Greece has said she fears that she will "erupt with anger" at his trial today.

Natasha Steel has not spoken to John Hogan face to face since he grabbed his two children and jumped 50ft from a hotel balcony in Crete in August 2006. Liam, 6, died almost instantly when he hit the concrete but Mia, then 2, suffered only a broken arm after her father and brother�s bodies cushioned her fall.

Ms Steel, a 35-year-old casualty nurse, will sit just feet away from her former husband at the 19th century courthouse in the harbour town of Chania. Hogan, 33, who suffered a broken arm and leg in the fall, was moved for the trial from a high security jail on the Greek mainland to Crete last week. He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of Liam and 12 years for attempted murder of Mia. More>>

Brides.com and the Rink at Rockefeller Center Launch 'Engagement on ...

Brides.com, "Your #1 Source for Weddings," is the premier destination website within Conde Nast Bridal Media. www.brides.com's dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of beautiful imagery and videos to inspire the bride throughout her wedding planning process. Content is also aggregated from the three national magazines -- Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride -- and 16 local bridal magazines.

About The Rink at Rockefeller Center: Located off of Fifth Avenue, between 49th and 50th streets, The Rink first opened on Christmas Day in 1936 as the premier artificial outdoor skating pond built in New York City, complete with modern amenities: night skating, a heated house for changing skates, piped-in music and rink-side dining. More>>

Filed under: NFL

That we lost our starting QB to injury seemed barely to slow us down, although we did lose a game. Still the dream was there. Our second QB was as good as the first, but another player was the heart and soul of that team. Pat Landry was a tight-end and linebacker who also played on the kick off team. He was a ferocious tackler whose bone rattling hits on opponents fired up the defense and the crowd. He was a monster with an irrepressible spirit and an infectious will to win. At mid-season we sat atop the district standings at 4-1, tied with the surprising Eau Gallie Commodores, whom we were to visit next. As that game began, we lost our second string QB in the first quarter. Our third string QB had recently been converted from receiver. He wasn�t as talented as the other QBs but he was an unselfish leader around whom the team rallied. More>>

Big day's coming for Johansson and Reynolds

Scarlett Johansson is about to announce her engagement to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, says the New York Daily News, citing the usual impeccable but secret source.

The two have been dating for maybe a year. Before that, he and Alanis Morissette were engaged.

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It�s the pits: Registering Your Bridle

Recently, my wife and I were invited to a wedding; and in the process, I was introduced to the bridal registry. At first, I thought it was just another "voluntary" ID program to register your horse tack with the USDA. How was I supposed to know that it's a wish list for wedding gifts from expensive stores? My wife and I were married so long ago department stores, blenders and Calphalon cookware didn't even exist.

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Giuliani laps Daytona track _ in his bus

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Rudy Giuliani sped across the finish line in Florida on Monday.

He didn't get the checkered flag he really wanted - victory in the Jan. 29 Republican primary - but had a great time all the same.

Giuliani's campaign bus took a detour from its two-day, eight-stop tour of Florida for a visit to the Daytona International Speedway. Aides assembled the press traveling with him in the grassy infield, setting up the camera shot they wanted - pictures of his giant "Florida is Rudy Country" bus tearing around the track and across the black-and-white finish line.

The big coach roared past the media pack, not at race speeds but fast enough to keep from tipping over on the banked track. Giuliani grinned in the front passenger seat.

No one was in the stands, though Giuliani - clad in his typical suit and tie - did mingle with a couple of dozen drivers and crew members. More>>

OK, put some �strategery� into that business strategy

It�s a strange phenomenon, I think, that the need to carefully plan a wedding is so obvious but we don�t think we need any help to plan for our business success.

We�d hire a travel agent to organize our summer vacation but we won�t plan for our business success. We�d prepare a daily to do list but wouldn�t, well, you get the point. Why is this?

Countless business studies have shown that businesses with a disciplined and consistent process for formulating and implementing their strategy have out-performed their industry peers by a significant margin.

Are there exceptions? Always. But why bet the business on it? Why not travel in the shoes of proven performers and try it?

We all know the truth is that we do what we want. We have excuses for all the rest � anybody think they have more than I do for not getting to the gym? But we basically do what we want and excuse the rest. More>>

Pastor Kasi finally surrenders to the truth

PASTOR Admire Kasi, the enterprising gospel music producer, businessman and man of the cloth, has finally surrendered to the truth.

After years of denying having an affair with gospel diva Ivy Kombo whom he intends to wed in February, Kasi has finally seen it fit to announce he is marrying Kombo.

It is his own right to marry the woman of his choice but Kasi, by admitting at last that he is marrying his "long time" sweetheart, has tarnished his name forever.

Here is a man who lived with Ivy Kombo and twin sister Anne in his house and gave many interviews boasting about how God had given him the heart to look after the Kombos.

He claimed he was supporting Ivy's mother in Glen View and also employed her brother McDonald.

Kasi told the currently banished Daily News in one of the interviews that Ivy and Anne had blossomed into good musicians because of his role in nurturing them. More>>

Moyes celebrate 65th anniversary

Carl and Margaret (Miller) Moyes will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary Thursday. Moyes celebrate 65th anniversary Carl and Margaret (Miller) Moyes will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary Thursday.

They are the parents of Nelson (Patty) Moyes of Brooksville, Fla., Jennifer (Tom) Underwood and Troy (Karen) Moyes of Washington.

The Moyes have six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

An open house will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the home of Tom and Jennie Underwood, 869N 300W.

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Brides.com and the Rink at Rockefeller Center Launch 'Engagement on ...

Brides.com, "Your #1 Source for Weddings," is the premier destination website within Conde Nast Bridal Media. www.brides.com's dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of beautiful imagery and videos to inspire the bride throughout her wedding planning process. Content is also aggregated from the three national magazines -- Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride -- and 16 local bridal magazines.

About The Rink at Rockefeller Center: Located off of Fifth Avenue, between 49th and 50th streets, The Rink first opened on Christmas Day in 1936 as the premier artificial outdoor skating pond built in New York City, complete with modern amenities: night skating, a heated house for changing skates, piped-in music and rink-side dining. More>>

Pastor Kasi finally surrenders to the truth

PASTOR Admire Kasi, the enterprising gospel music producer, businessman and man of the cloth, has finally surrendered to the truth.

After years of denying having an affair with gospel diva Ivy Kombo whom he intends to wed in February, Kasi has finally seen it fit to announce he is marrying Kombo.

It is his own right to marry the woman of his choice but Kasi, by admitting at last that he is marrying his "long time" sweetheart, has tarnished his name forever.

Here is a man who lived with Ivy Kombo and twin sister Anne in his house and gave many interviews boasting about how God had given him the heart to look after the Kombos.

He claimed he was supporting Ivy's mother in Glen View and also employed her brother McDonald.

Kasi told the currently banished Daily News in one of the interviews that Ivy and Anne had blossomed into good musicians because of his role in nurturing them. More>>

One day only: Antonella Barba in Edison!

Bonds, Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, Willie Nile, Nicole Atkins & the Sea, Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan, Boccigalupe & the Badboys, Jobonanno & the Godsons of Soul, Jennifer Glass and many others.

Bruce Springsteen has appeared at many past Light of Day shows. This year, he is performing in St. Paul, Minn., on Nov. 2, and in Cleveland on Nov. 4, so while he could show up on Nov. 3, it wouldn't be surprising if he took the night off. Tickets are $35-$75 for Nov. 2 and $50-$125 for Nov. 3. Call (732) 238-5500 or visit starlandballroom.com or lightofday.org.

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