Health Inspections Oct 19, 2008
Inoko Japanese Steakhouse and Seafood (161 Alps Road) 92. Peaches Fine Foods and Lafonda Dawgs 92. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Our mountain range hidden in ice Oct 16, 2008
IT'S A mountain range as large as the Alps. But its giant peaks have never been seen, because they are buried under up to four kilometres of snow and ice in the harsh interior of Antarctica. (Sydney Morning Herald)
A lake like a movie set, California cool Oct 12, 2008
- A Hollywood producer's dream, Lake Arrowhead begs comparison to the Swiss Alps, Shangri-La, or Brigadoon. Art imitates life in the 1952 melodrama "The Bad and the Beautiful," when the lake serves as the backdrop for Kirk Douglas's producer character to snag a little R & R in a rented rowboat, while Dick Powell's scriptwriter character is glued to his typewriter in a cozy cabin for three days. (Boston Globe)
Outdoors hot line Oct 12, 2008
WHERE: Bicentennial Park, Abbott Loop Community Park entrance on Monday; Glen Alps trail head on Thursday. DETAILS: Alaska Outdoors weekly hikes. (Anchorage Daily News)
Fortune of the king Oct 12, 2008
Actors can go through multiple costume changes and the location can go anywhere from Agra to the Alps in a single song sequence. No-nos on screen. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Prepare for impact: the cult of Chuck Oct 10, 2008
We catch up at the film festival in Locarno, at the foot of the Swiss Alps, an incongruously pristine setting for Palahniuk's travelling sideshow of low life. "There is an old quote from, I think, Henry James, who said, 'A novelist sells to the public for six dollars the secrets he would not tell his closest friends.' The Choke movie hits a little close to home.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
more polysemous Oct 10, 2008
In 1976, she made a TV documentary about life in a village in the Austrian Alps. Ramsau am Dachstein had been commissioned as a soft account of Austrian rural life, a feel-good travel programme that would do nothing to disturb the image of the countryside put out by the Austrian tourist board. (Harper's Magazine)
Asthma shower Oct 7, 2008
"In some older Italian studies children with asthma were taken to the Alps, where there are no dust mites and their asthma got better. "No one has been able to achieve this to date. Even if you vacuum and clean your carpets a lot your child is still exposed. (BBC News -- Health)
Japan's 'Cyberdyne' robot suit ready for hospital Oct 7, 2008
Sankai's invention first came into prominence in 2006 when he helped Seiji Uchida -- who has been bound to a wheelchair since a car accident in 1983 -- try to climb a peak in the Swiss Alps. "I see big possibilities for HAL, which not only helps handicapped people move on their own but also assists caretakers in caring for someone like me," Uchida, now 46, said at the news conference. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
General Growth Properties Staggers Under Debt Load Oct 5, 2008
Bucksbaum, the co-founder's son and a hard-charging amateur cyclist known for tooling up and down the Alps and palling around with champion rider Lance Armstrong, shelled out billions of dollars to thrust General Growth into the real-estate big leagues since he took over as CEO in 1999. He bought Rouse, the planned-community and retail giant, in 2004 in a highly leveraged $14 billion deal, for instance. (BusinessWeek)
Should people aspire to virginity until they are married? Oct 3, 2008
Should people aspire to virginity until they are married. Should people aspire to virginity until they are married. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Hardworking Hudson resident remembered Oct 3, 2008
"Stationed near the Austrian/Italian Alps, he got frostbite because of the extreme cold. He always had trouble with his feet after that. (Soldiers) weren't well equipped to deal with the cold.". About a dozen years ago Alberghini, her husband, David, and her daughter, Alicia, went to Italy. (Hudson Sun, MA)
Hospital unveils new helicopter with 'all the bells and whistles' Sep 24, 2008
The same type of helicopter used in the French Alps for search-and-rescue missions and by the U.S. Army for some of its operations just became the newest aircraft in Wyoming Medical Center's Life Flight program. Active since Aug. 14, the new helicopter has made approximately 49 flights across Wyoming, including a flight to Miracle Mile, the portion of the North Platte River between Seminoe and Pathfinder reservoirs. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Setting his own 'Rules,' and laughing all the way to bank Sep 22, 2008
The story featured Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, who loses his wife in a climbing accident in the Swiss Alps and then learns that she was a secret agent. Trying to figure out her real identity lands Ransom in the middle of a spy game involving pilotless drones, plastic explosives, poison-dipped bullets, $1,600 cashmere sweaters, cruise missiles, a flash-drive hidden in a bracelet. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Yakuza 2 FAQ Sep 20, 2008
" Run up to the enemy and hit Triangle to initiate the attack. To get this mission to "Complete," you have to defeat Komaki in the colisseum after defeating all opponents there--including Yamaoka Akira. KOMAKI TRAINING: THE THREE GREAT TECHNIQUES (KOMAKI NO SHUUGYOU DAISAN'OUGIHEN) There is a requirement to this, but I'm not sure what it is. It may be getting one or more of your stats to level 10. Talk to Komaki and take the final (fourth) challenge. This time, you have to spar with Komaki, but... (IGN PS2)
Japan's Shionogi to buy Sciele Pharma for 1.42 bln dlrs Sep 19, 2008
Small, friendly escorted tours of the Japan Alps. www. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
High-tech travel gear Sep 17, 2008
Case in point: Last month, while traveling from northern Japan to the French Alps, Neville employed a custom collection of gadgets and tech toys to stay occupied and at peace through a whirlwind of trains, taxis, concourses, transfers and jet flights. "I call it my sleep kit," he says of the products, which includes a noise-canceling headset. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Love letters from war Sep 14, 2008
After refueling, the plane crossed the Swiss Alps, the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt before crossing the Red Sea and landing in Saudi Arabia. From there, he and other soldiers began a two-hour bus ride. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Too many mouths to feed in Benton Sep 14, 2008
92 Albanian Alps Institute 8,157 8,168. 93 Corvallis Montessori Society, Inc. 7,928 764,812. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Armstrong seeks one more win Sep 11, 2008
Armstrong's goal every year was to win the Tour de France, the sport's biggest race, and he dominated the Pyrenees and Alps as no other rider ever had. The victories also forced him to defend himself against skeptics who questioned whether he was cheating by using performance-enhancing drugs. (News & Observer -- Sports)
What's Happening Sep 11, 2008
Athens Area Newcomers Club - 9:45 a.m., Central Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road; social and refreshments followed by Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) presentation; (706) 353-2660 or AANC284367 ... Storytime - 10 a.m., Borders Books and Music, 196 Alps Road; group will read "The Boy Who Wouldn't Share" by Mike Reiss; (706) 583-9547 ... Homegrown Songwriters Series - 4 p.m., Borders Books and Music, 196 Alps Road; hosted by songwriter April Cummings; featuring Fester Haygood and includes... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Armstrong coming out of retirement Sep 11, 2008
Armstrong's goal every year was to win the Tour, and he dominated the Pyrenees and Alps like no other rider ever had. This time, he wants to win for his millions of supporters and more important, the 8 million who will die of cancer just this year. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Menino, in Italy, talks of home Sep 9, 2008
Menino, who was invited by former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge, was the only US mayor at the three-day conference held at the Villa d'Este, a five-star luxury resort nestled in the Italian Alps on Lake Como. The conference drew about 300 political and business leaders from around the world. (Boston Globe)
In Italy, Menino unveils vision of a global Boston Sep 7, 2008
"That's what it's all about.Networking is what Menino came to this five-star luxury resort nestled in the Italian Alps to do and to talk about, the only mayor of a US city in this gathering of money and power whose 300 attendees included Vice President Dick Cheney and Jose Maria Aznar, the former prime minister of Spain.In his formal remarks yesterday, delivered to a packed conference room with vaulted ceilings and crystal chandeliers, Menino unveiled a plan to launch a Boston alumni network... (Boston Globe)
French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice K... Sep 5, 2008
She transformed herself into a sophisticated European who smoked cigarettes and skied in the Swiss Alps. She spent time with jet-setting, ;lite teens and became the rigorous master of her body and mind through strict diets and endless vocabulary lists. (Suite101.com)
Stabbing case can go to trial (with COPY OF INDICTMENT) Sep 5, 2008
Eberhart, 44, had a long history of mental illness when he allegedly attacked off-duty police Sgt. Courtney Gale in the Kroger store on Alps Road. Gale was visiting her family in Maryland this week when she learned that Eberhart had been deemed competent. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Menino set for a whirl in global spotlight Sep 3, 2008
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will jet away tomorrow to a luxury resort at the foot of the Italian Alps where he will hobnob with the presidents of Israel and Italy, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other world leaders, a rare opportunity for the "urban mechanic" typically focused on repairing roads and reducing crime to burnish his credentials as international statesman. At the forum billed as a "mini-Davos," after the premier international conference annually held in Switzerland, Menino will... (Boston Globe)
Survey lists Europe's top 10 best places to live Sep 3, 2008
Zurich's tiny population is spoiled with over 2,000 bars and restaurants and a breathtaking view of the Alps and Lake Zurich ... Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich's tiny population 376,815 at the end of 2007 is spoiled with over 2,000 bars and restaurants and a breathtaking view of the Alps and Lake Zurich. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Prince: Put Art Back On B'way Sep 3, 2008
" The production will likely star Mandy Patinkin, John Cullum, Judy Kaye and Shuler Hensley. Before he goes into rehearsal next year, Prince plans to spend the winter doing what he's done every year for the past 20 years: skiing in the French Alps. "My wife doesn't think I am," he says, "but I am. " SHARE BOX Show your support.Buzz this article up. SHARE BOX Show your support.Buzz this article up. RELATED LINKS MOST EMAILED Cars ||||||||||| ||||||||| -->NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
You don't need booze to schmooze with the stars Sep 2, 2008
"Just getting fit for the ski season. As soon as the film festival is over, that's my objective. And general physical well-being is really important to me. I have a vague, general love of mountains - when I was younger we'd go hiking in Germany and the Alps. My mother was a serious mountain climber. I'd love to get back into the mountains, but it's a big commitment of time and training.". My workout. (Globe and Mail)
* FEATURE: Austrian program brings Sherpas to learn management skills in the Alps Aug 27, 2008
FEATURE: Austrian program brings Sherpas to learn management skills in the Alps ... A pretty, young Asian woman with a big smile and long, black hair bows with her hands in prayer, the Nepalese way, as she greets her guests and welcomes them to the Austrian Alps. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
"Will the mile-high altitudes of Denver make Obama supporters even crazier than usual?"Does Altitude Sickness Feed Obama Fever?By Chris Wilson Aug 27, 2008
In Thomas Manns 1924 novel , protagonist Hans Castorp experiences some of this emotional bewilderment while holed up in a sanitorium high in the Alps. As quoted in on emotional contagion, Castorp thinks: "But when the heart palpitates by itself, without any reason, senselessly, of its own accord, so to speak, I feel thats uncanny. You keep trying to find an explanation for them, an emotion to account for them, a feeling of joy or pain, which would, so to speak, justify them.". (Slate)
Mid-flight scare as Ryanair jet makes emergency landing Aug 26, 2008
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Hopes fade for avalanche victims Aug 25, 2008
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says it has been a lethal summer in the Alps with about 100 climbers killed since 1 June in France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland - about 20 of them have died on Mont Blanc. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
8 Climbers Feared Dead After Avalanche on Mont Blanc Aug 25, 2008
The avalanche, triggered when a chunk of ice as wide as two football fields broke off a mountain face, appeared to be the deadliest this year in the French, Swiss or Italian Alps, and the worst in the French Alps in more than a decade, officials said. "There's no chance of finding anyone alive," French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said while visiting the region. (Fox News)
Eight feared dead in Mont Blanc avalanche Aug 25, 2008
Climbers believed swept away by huge wall of snow Worst accident in deadly season in the Alps ... Hope was fading fast last night for eight mountaineers missing near Mont Blanc after a powerful avalanche caused one of the deadliest accidents to hit the French Alps in decades ... " Yesterday's disaster was the latest in a deadly season in the Alps. According to figures released last week, almost 100 people died this summer in the French, Italian and Swiss peaks, most of them in the Mont Blanc... (guardian.co.uk)
Hopes fade for missing climbers after avalanche 25/08 08:14 CET Aug 25, 2008
A French government minister has said there is no hope of finding any more survivors after a major avalanche hit the French Alps. Seven people were injured and at least eight are still missing after a wave of snow crashed into a party of climbers tackling one of the peaks in the Mont Blanc range early on Sunday. (euronews)
Seven Hurt, Eight Others Missing in Alps Avalanche Aug 25, 2008
Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps, spanning the border between Italy and France. (Reporting by Sara Rossi, Gerard Bon and Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Robert Hart). (Planet Ark, United States)
No hope for lost climbers Aug 25, 2008
Mountain rescue workers on Sunday suspended their search for eight climbers, five Austrians and three Swiss, missing in an avalanche in the French Alps, because of worsening conditions ... Around 30 people have died in this year's summer season in accidents in the French Alps, most of them in the Mont Blanc range, and a further 60 have perished in the Italian and Swiss Alps. (iAfrica.com)
Everest mobile call effort begins Aug 24, 2008
Climbers struck by Alps avalanche. Solar plane makes record flight. (Yahoo News -- Wireless Technology)
New guidance given on autism care Aug 24, 2008
Page last updated at 12:44 GMT, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 13:44 UK. The public health minister has announced new guidelines on autism. (Yahoo News -- Autism)
Bernanke warning on US inflation Aug 24, 2008
Climbers struck by Alps avalanche. Indian car factory faces 'siege. (Yahoo News -- U.S. Economy)
Soprano family values Aug 24, 2008
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Medal win a family triumph Aug 23, 2008
"He got away and ran through Italy, got over the Alps and then into Switzerland.". The second time an Olympics eluded Warr was 19 years after the war ended. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
NZ rescues 6 climbers caught in severe storms Aug 18, 2008
The climbers were caught in driving snow storms and high winds that produced severe avalanche conditions throughout the central area of South Island's Southern Alps. The Australians, aged between 30 and 45, had recorded their intention in a climbing expedition log to climb in the area without an expert guide. (International Herald Tribune)
I-5 brushfire leaves motorists steaming Aug 17, 2008
Billy Hill wrote on Aug 16, 2008 12:12 PM:" I was in this terrible mess yesterday. My friends it was unbelievable. Now I know what it must have been like when Hannibal crossed the Alps with a heard of elephants in the middle of winter, unbearable it was. I can identify with what it must be like being pinned down by sniper fire for days at a time sitting in 100 degree heat I was in my AC car. I could not back up or go forward for what seemed like forever, every bit as bad as water boarding in... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Experimental Apartment in Beijing Achieves 99% Purity of Indoor Air Aug 16, 2008
"When you consider that most air purifiers that people purchase at department stores improve you air quality by less than 5% in your home," says Hammes, "we were very happy when we approached the 90% purity mark. But then as the systems continued to clean already filtered air, we rapidly saw the numbers go up a percentage point or two each day. When we consistently reached 95% we were honestly able to say that we have better air here in our apartment in Beijing than you have in the Swiss Alps."... (PR Newswire)
Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen... Aug 15, 2008
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday. "We hope our installations will bring about a net cooling of the area. And if the melt is not stopped, that it is at least slowed," the project's leader, geography professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, said in a statement. (The Drudge Report)
The genetic map of Europe Aug 15, 2008
This may reflect the role of the Alps in impeding free flow of people between Italy and the rest of Europe. Data for the map were generated by gene chips programmed to test and analyze 500,000 sites of common variation on the human genome, although only the 300,000 most reliable sites were used for the map. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Thousands expected for firefighter tribute Aug 15, 2008
The men on board had been helping fight the Iron Alps complex and were being moved to a new base camp. Of the nine dead, eight were Oregonians. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Search For Remains Of Nor Cal Chopper Crash Victims Continues Aug 11, 2008
Teams of federal investigators will be searching through rugged terrain in Northern California's Trinity Alps Wilderness Thursday as they to determine what caused a firefighting helicopter to crash. Search For Remains Of Nor Cal Chopper Crash Victims Continues. (NBC 11, CA)
How visitors to China can be animal friendly Aug 11, 2008
Pyrenean mountain dogs (Great Pyrenees) brought into the French Alps to protect sheep from wolves have created problems for summer hikers, attacking and injuring several in recent weeks ... Wolves recolonized the French Alps from Italy in 1992 and have killed thousands of sheep since then. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Teenage climber Ian Jackson dies in Alps Aug 10, 2008
Teenage climber in Alps horror. Teenage mountain climber Ian Jackson shows the daring that marked his passion for the sport - and led to his death in the Alps ... Dad David, 51, added: "He loved climbing from the age of 14 and would climb on the climbing wall at school. He chose his university so he could climb. "He had climbed Ben Nevis, crags in North Wales and on holiday in New Zealand and the Alps. (Mirror.co.uk)
The little town and life Rockefeller left for 'fame' Aug 9, 2008
BERGEN, Germany - Clark Rockefeller started life in this humble resort town in the foothills of the Alps, not as the privileged son of European royalty, but as Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a mischievous Bavarian schoolboy and beloved son of a homemaker and a graphic designer. His younger brother, Alexander, standing on the porch of the family's stucco two-story home with blue shutters and geraniums blooming in the flower boxes, confirmed that Rockefeller is his brother. (Boston Globe)
Kidnapper, imposter Clark Rockefeller exposed as Christian ... Aug 9, 2008
Clark Rockefeller is the son of an artist who hails from the quaint town in the Bavarian Alps, a published report said. The big mystery is finally solved. (New York Daily News)
Family pays tribute to climber, 19, who died after 150ft fall in Alps Aug 9, 2008
A teenage mountaineer has died after falling more than 150ft (46 metres) in front of his friends during a climbing holiday in the French Alps ... Fears were growing last night for a British teacher who has been missing for 12 days in the French Alps. (guardian.co.uk)
Critics ask whether wildfire needed to be fought Aug 9, 2008
The Buckhorn is part of the Iron and Alps Complex fires, which have burned nearly 90,000 acres. "It had the potential to continue to grow and cause smoke issues, as well as resource damage," Odle said. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Teenage Briton in fatal Alps fall Aug 8, 2008
An 18-year-old British man has plunged to his death in the French Alps near Chamonix, local police have said. The accident, which happened on the Les Gaillands crag, reportedly occurred on Thursday as the teenager climbed down an 80 metre rock face. (BBC News -- UK)
Nine feared dead after copter carrying firefighters crashes in ... Aug 7, 2008
The crew was among 1,200 firefighters, assisted by nine helicopters, who were battling the Iron and Alps complex fires in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest that have burned 86,000 acres. Another firefighter assigned to the fires died late last month when he was hit by a falling tree. (Los Angeles Times)
9 believed dead, 4 hurt in firefighter copter crash Aug 7, 2008
The crash happened about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 35 miles northwest of Redding in the Trinity Alps Wilderness area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Two crew members and 11 firefighters were aboard, Gregor said. (CNN -- US)
From Bay State to Beijing Aug 6, 2008
He reacts to the Olympics like a weary Beijinger, saying it's been "like the Big Dig in terms of disruptions." Mostly, though, he loves life in China, adding "My wife's a Beijinger and we have two little guys 'made in China.' " After a long hitchhiking tour in 1993 that started in the Swiss Alps and ended in Beijing, he found himself beguiled. "Upon arrival in the Middle Kingdom, I immediately had a China epiphany, which took me by surprise. I loved the 'renao' [energy] of the place.". (Boston Globe)
Fanning defends axed Sunday program Aug 4, 2008
VIDEO: The cover just keeps getting better across the alps. PHOTOS: Record payout for first images of Brangelina twins. (Ninemsn)
First performance-enhancing drugs for exercise endurance? Aug 3, 2008
While steroids can help build the bulky muscles that lend athletes and body builders power and speed, there hadn't been a drug capable of building the endurance needed to run a marathon or to ride a bike through the Alps. Now, there just might be, suggests a new study in mice reported in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. (Hindu)
Chasing cheats all the way to the top Jul 30, 2008
He regularly climbs the Alps and also once rode a mountain bike 10,458 kilometres from his homeland to the Ivory Coast. Last year the two scientist-climbers did experiments with fruit flies on the top of Alaska's Mount McKinley, also known as Denali. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cycling | Tour de France: Despite rousing finish, Tour de France drug bust leaves bad feeling Jul 29, 2008
Despite rousing finish, Tour de France drug bust leaves bad feeling - International Herald Tribune. Bas Czerwinski/The Associated Press The pack passing the Eiffel Tower during the last stage of the Tour de France on Sunday. (International Herald Tribune)
