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Brown will invite the President to agree to his grand plan for eradicating world poverty; Bush will respond by asking the Prime Minister to sign up to the nuking of Iran. Even if their talks are perfectly amicable, there will be long shadows on the walls of the log cabins in the Catoctin mountains of Maryland. There will be the shades of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq. And there will be the ghost of Tony Blair. Both the GBs had an intensity of relationship with TB that neither will ever have with each other. At his first Camp David meeting with George Bush, more than six long years ago, Tony Blair was told that his host wanted to be informal. Eager to please, he wore a pair of bollock-crushingly tight jeans and seemed to try to ape Bush by adopting a sort of cowboy gait. 'Gordon does not do jeans,' as one of his friends puts it.
Metro-North to process credit, debit card ticket sales
Metro-North Railroad says it will start using hand-held electronic ticket machines for on-board sales. The wireless ticket machines will replace the hole-punched tickets currently sold aboard commuter trains. The wireless devices will also have real-time credit authorization, allowing conductors to accept credit and debit cards for the first time, as well as cash. On April 1, about 500 conductors will begin using the electronic ticket-sales device. The Metro-North committee of the M-T-A's board of directors approved a one-year, $420,000 contract with Verizon Wireless on Monday. The devices can also receive text messages about train operations, including service updates and disruptions. .
Coming Attractions: Broadway revue set
An artist reception for the 'Travel Notations' exhibit will be held Friday evening in the Mims Gallery, Rocky Mount. Karaoke runs Friday night at the Underground Pub, Tarboro. The Via Cappuccino Chess Club meets Saturday morning. Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments will be held Saturday morning and afternoon at Books-A-Million, Rocky Mount. Eddie Miles performs Saturday night at the Dunn Center, Rocky Mount. "100 Years of Broadway" will be staged Saturday night at the Dunn Center, Rocky Mount. Joceifus Rifle plays Saturday night at the Underground Pub. .
Blackhawk Network Named Gift Card Partner of National Football League
PLEASANTON, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackhawk Network, a market leader in card-based financial solutions and the largest provider of third-party gift cards in the United States and Canada, has teamed up with the National Football League (NFL) as the NFL's gift card partner. Beginning this fall, NFL fans will have an opportunity to purchase gift cards for participating NFL teams, including the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks at Blackhawk Network's Gift Card Malls, located in Blackhawk's expansive nationwide network retail locations, including the nation's premier grocery, drugstore and convenience store chains including Safeway, Vons, Dominick's, Kroger, Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Albertsons, SUPERVALU, Giant Eagle, GetGo and Wawa.
A boater's paradise in the land of 7,000 islands
As you might expect from a country of islands, maritime festivals and regattas are key events in the social calendar. One of the most exciting and colourful is the Iloilo Paraw Regatta, where traditional boats race between Guimaras Island and Iloilo City in the central Philippines. .
Burglar strikes again
POLICE IF YOU ARE DRIVING AROUND IN YOUR COP CARS AT 1 AM AND YOU SEE SOMEONE WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OR EVEN DOWNTOWN FOR THAT MATTER CALL EM OUT!! Ask em what they are doing out this late at night. Beef up your patrols, be able to get in touch with your supervisors when you need them!! .
West Virginia's resorts offering new parks, trails, slopes and more ...
Here's a look at what's new at West Virginia's ski resorts and some early season specials for the 2007-2008 ski season. Canaan Valley Resort State Park, Davis, W.Va. OPENING DAY: Tentative date for the ski slopes is Dec. 22. Earlier weather permitting. The resort's multi-lane Tube Park opened on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22. WHERE: in Davis, about 180 miles north and east of Charleston, and just north of Elkins. About 4 to 41/2 hours from Huntington. WHAT'S NEW: Canaan Valley opened an Airboard Terrain Park last year. Developed in Europe, this super sledding sport of airboarding (or snow bodyboarding) first came to North America in 2003. This high-tech sledding lets you make sharp turns and do freestyle aerials. Check out more online at www.airboard.com.
Today's overlooked sites may be tomorrow's boom areas Out-of-town ...
It wasn't long ago when people thought young Sam Cherry was making a mistake developing luxury high-rise condos in downtown Las Vegas. The area had a reputation so sketchy it would make Mike Tyson look like a choir boy. Backed by his father-in-law, Chicago businessman Harris Rittoff, Cherry paid $1.2 million, or $40 a square foot, for less than an acre at Las Vegas Boulevard and Hoover Avenue in 2004. The day he put a tractor on the site and started grading for SoHo Lofts, downtown land values doubled. Last year, New York investors David Mitchell and Barnet Lieberman quietly assembled five square blocks downtown, paying about $100 million for 14 acres to develop a live-work-play project. The land is entitled for a 25-story, 280-unit condominium tower, three stories of multifamily residential and more than 300,000 square feet of office space.
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