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Hollywood's leading ladies played it safe in the fashion stakes at this year's Oscars.

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There was no re-run of past faux pas, like Icelandic singer Bjork's dead swan creation or CAline Dion in her backwards suit.

Most red carpet walkers made studied, meticulous fashion decisions for Hollywood's biggest night.

Keira Knightley ( nominated for Best Actress for her role of Elizabeth Bennet (corr) in Pride and Prejudice ( set the night's trend in an aubergine Vera Wang one-shoulder gown and a 1960s Bulgari jewelled necklace. Fellow Brit Rachel Weisz radiated star (or was that baby?) power in a black empire line Narciso Rodriquez dress.

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Super slim superstar Nicole Kidman stole the show in a breathtaking white lace Balenciaga creation.

Michelle Williams, of Brokeback Mountain fame, wore a figure-hugging 1930s-style mustard number, while Amy Adams, of Replica Omega De VilleWatches Junebug, looked a vision in a chocolate-coloured ball gown by Carolina Herrera.

Paris Hilton, who has been criticised for her garish and skimpy outfits in the past, wore an elegant peacock style gown.

But Charlize Theron looked like she had a left-over Christmas bow on the shoulder of her steel green leather silk satin Dior Haute Couture by John Galliano.

And Helena Bonham Carter mixed blue satin with white fettish-style shoes.

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Play Ball! program fires up baseball enthusiasm in China

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BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Three months after first pulling on a glove, Liu Guoliang has turned his back on China's national sport and fallen love with baseball.

"Baseball is much more fun than table tennis," said the 11-year- old Liu, who used to idolize his Olympic table tennis champion namesake and now dreams of playing in a Major League club in the United States.

"My kid is crazy about baseball since I took him to an MLB Baseball Park in October last year," said Liu Wenzhong, an avid sports fan who named his son after the 1996 Olympic champion, hoping the junior Liu would make it to the Olympic podium someday.

The American game also lured Liu's classmates Xiao Qi and Wang Xiaoqiang away from their previously favorite sport - badminton.

"Baseball is more exciting than any other game," said Xiao, who confessed to keep a baseball glove beside his pillow.

Baseball is not ready to replace table tennis in the world's most populous country despite the change of allegiance by schoolboys like Liu and Xiao. But one fact is undeniable: baseball has exploded in popularity in China, thanks to the Major League Baseball's Play Ball! China program supervised by Xie Long (Leon Xie), Managing Director of MLB China.

Four million Chinese play baseball and more than 60 Chinese universities and colleges and 1,000 high and primary schools have their own teams, according to the Chinese Baseball Association (CBA).

A TNS Sports Asia survey shows 16.2 percent of the Chinese population are interested in baseball and about 1 percent are loyal baseball fans. Also, up to 26 percent of Chinese are interested in MLB and its merchandise and the majority of them are young, highly educated and have well-paid jobs.

"Baseball has a bright future in China," said Xie Long. "What MLB China is doing is to get more people playing baseball in China."

MLB launched its grassroots youth baseball program, Play Ball!, in five cities across China in 2007. The program has been incorporated into the physical education curriculum porsche watches for students aged eight-to-12 in 120 elementary schools in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Wuxi.

Play Ball! China has reached more than 400,000 people since its launch. The participating students have been introduced to the rules of the game and instructed on developing their baseball skills as part of their in-school physical education programs.

"It was a very good start and we plan to attract more Chinese youth to take part in the Play Ball! program," said Xie, who announced the Baseball Park would tour 10 more cities in China in 2010, bringing the total to 15.

MLB is also thinking about cultivating a baseball equivalent of NBA star Yao Ming. That's why MLB has decided to work with the nation's education and sports departments to promote the sport in public schools and communities, hoping to reach millions of Chinese youngsters and find and nurture future talent.

The MLB Baseball Development ed hardy Center (MLBDC), a baseball academy established in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, in September, is the cream of the crop of such cooperation.

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THE CENTER FRONT Players go retro for their latest production, "The Good Old Days of Radio and Television."

On Saturday, Feb. 6, Sunday, Feb. 7, Saturday, Feb. 13, and Sunday, Feb. 14, the Thomas A. Baum Senior Center-based troupe will perform an episode of the radio comedy "The Bickersons."

The original program starred Don Ameche and Frances Langford as husband-and-wife John and Blanche Bickerson, who had what marriage counselors might call "issues."

Bitingly funny, but with a genuine sense of affection, the show was must-hear radio from 1946 to 1951 on NBC and CBS.

For the local production, the Baum Center will be turned into a old-time radio studio, with a sound effects guy, an off-stage announcer, on-air lights and actors seated at Prada Leather Handbags a table reading scripts into microphones.

"We wanted to recreate what it was like to sit in the dark and imagine," said Tom Filkins, 70, the show's director. "Most of the old radio shows were done live."

Filkins also plays John Bickerson, with Sharon Thompson and Jane Smallwood rotating in the role of Blanche Bickerson.

And that's only Act I.

For the second part of the show, a quartet - Jerry Manolas, Dick Gillespie, Sheila Diehm and Loretta Fertal - will recreate "Your Hit Parade."

The popular radio and TV program, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, featured the top songs of the day, which means you'll hear such '40s and '50s classics as "Mack the Knife," "Volare" and "The Wayward Wind."

The Dare2Danzers also will get into the act.

"If I look into the audience and see anyone under 60," said Filkins, who lives in Manns Harbor, during a telephone interview, "I may have to do a little talk about the old days."

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* It may be the off-season, but you wouldn't know it by what's going on this month at the Outer Banks Brewing Station.

The Kill Devil Hills eatery/nightclub has three wildly divergent events scheduled.

On Saturday, Feb. 6, the Dallas-based touring sideshow known as Hellzapoppin makes a stop.

You're invited to step right up to a production that's part circus, part freak-show and part concert.

Think "Moulin Rouge" with music by Iron Maiden.

Performers include a sword-swallower, "a real live Penguin boy," acrobats, aerialists, contortionists, burlesque dancers and a fire- eater.

Shows are at 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tickets are $10.

"The Vagina Monologues" will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, Tuesday, Feb. 9, and Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Eve Ensler's award-winning play addresses a wide range of subjects and is at turns funny, sad and thought-provoking.

More than a dozen local women (mostly non-actors) will read the monologues.

Tickets are $10 and $20. It's a benefit for Outer Banks Hotline and other local civic organizations.

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On Saturday, Feb. 20, the local quintet known as 9:58 will headline a benefit concert for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

A number of local businesses are contributing merchandise and servic
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GOOD news is in short supply these days for those working in the financial world, but Paul Hernon was celebrating last Replica watches night after winning the Tote/Raci n g Post Te n t o Fo l l o w competition at Royal Ascot, writes Graham Green.

Hernon, 24, a banker from Clapham, London, won the pounds 10,000 prize having Replica watches taken a break from the office to attend all five days of the meeting where his selections included Goldikova, Canford Cliffs and Starstangledbanner.

Hernon, whose family own Castletown Stud, near Formoy, County Cork, said: "I have enjoyed a good week and this really puts the icing on it.

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Walter Suchanoff served our country as part of the U.S. Army during WWII. He returned home as a paralyzed veteran from injuries he sustained in combat. He was one of the earliest students at the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking, established to help disabled veterans learn trades and skills to reenter the work force. He went on to become a successful businessman as a partner in RENWALT Jewelers--so successful he established a trust that helped fund the college educations of all his nieces and nephews and their children.

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Suchanoff bowled and played basketball. He helped his widowed mother raise his younger brothers. He was president of the Bronx (N.Y.) SCI Paraplegic Veterans Association in 1946.

A driving force in creating access for people with disabilities and removing the barriers, Suchanoff-worked endlessly to change things for the better. His goals were simple: job training, housing, building access, and anything else that allowed paralyzed vets to resume productive, self-sufficient roles in society. In 1946, in a country where disabled access was almost nonexistent, those were some very lofty goals.

I am Walter Suchanoff's niece, and I am a Soldiers' Angel. A 501(c) nonprofit organization, Soldiers' Angels was founded in 2003. Its very heart is the "adopt a soldier" program that sends thousands of letters and packages to deployed American servicemen and-women in Iraq and Afghanistan every month. I joined in 2005, right after my son headed to boot camp.

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PHILADELPHIA, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shock soon turned to anger as animal advocates attending last week's Dog Law Advisory Board meeting were told by Governor Rendell's Special Secretary Jessie Smith and Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement's Sue West that important elements of Pennsylvania's hard fought new dog law would not be enforced. Almost two years ago, Governor Rendell, at the urging of the General Assembly and citizens throughout the Commonwealth, signed a law that would require among other things that breeding dogs in commercial kennels have unfettered access to the outside (indoor/outdoor kennel runs), and that all dogs over the age of twelve weeks not be housed on wire flooring (solid or slatted floors only). Historically, dogs in Pennsylvania's puppy mills have been forced to spend their lives standing on painful wire strand flooring in too-small cages often without any access to the outside. Governor Rendell's new law was meant to improve conditions for millions of dogs in PA's commercial kennels in the years to come. Instead Smith and West have decided to ignore the Governor's wishes and the new law, by creating a policy that would allow pregnant and nursing mothers to be forced to stand on the now-outlawed wire strand flooring up to six months of the year and deny these poor animals unfettered access to an outside exercise area.

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Mixing sour with the sweet

BY reducing subsidies for fuel and sugar, the government is moving in the right direction.

However, the government should ensure that traders and manufacturers do not raise prices unjustifiably as the impact of the reduction of these subsidies on food products would be minimal, in many cases less than one sen.

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As fuel (petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas) forms the biggest share of the subsidy bill, a higher price more reflective of the market price will encourage the public and industries to use less fuel.

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Sugar is nothing less than a toxic substance. Thus, it makes no sense to subsidise a substance that causes so many health problems when the government can better spend the money elsewhere.

It is important that the elimination of subsidies be part of a comprehensive plan for sustainable national financial management. The government must be seen to cut waste and corruption.

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