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Prince Harry’s get well soon message for injured girl

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, April 7 (ANI): Prince Harry risked the Queen’s ire when he broke royal rules by autographing the plaster cast of a female Air Training Corps cadet who had broken her arm.

Harry, the third in line to the throne, is not supposed to sign anything that could lead to his signature being copied and forged.

However, his grandma is likely to forgive the young prince, 25, for writing “Get well soon.Harry” on Charlotte Wilkinson-Burnett’s cast.

Burnett’s, 17, from Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, met Harry when he visited cadets training for an expedition to Lesotho this July.

“The cast is coming off on May 18 but I’m keeping it now – it’s going in a glass box,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying. (ANI)

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Burrow on fire as Slater limps through

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater will hope the inconsistent conditions continue at Bells Beach as he tries to recover from a foot injury.

Slater needed a pain-killing injection and strapping before he won a dramatic third-round heat of the Rip Curl Pro on Wednesday at neighbouring Winkpop.

He later admitted to wanting a lay day on Thursday to give him time for more treatment on the foot ahead of his round-four match up against Tahitian Michel Bourez.

Slater might have his wish granted, with tricky conditions forecast for Thursday.

He suffered the injury while free surfing at Bells on Wednesday and had to go to hospital for scans.

Fellow American Dusty Payne put Slater under pressure with a 9.17 wave score at the start of their round-three heat, but the three-times Bells winner held his nerve and won the heat 15.10 to 13.84.

“It’s really badly inflamed in the joint, maybe I tore some stuff,” Slater said.

“I felt pretty good once I got up on my feet and moved around – the first wave, I was a little tentative, a little bit worried, but once I got moving I felt I could go.

“I got a couple of scores, I kept it efficient, I think I only caught three waves.”

Wednesday’s one-metre surf at Winkipop was easily the best conditions the men have enjoyed since their competition started.

While Slater provided the drama on Thursday, in-form Australian Taj Burrow was the star.

After dispatching compatriot Matt Wilkinson in round three, Burrow further boosted his soaring confidence with a big win over three-time world champion Andy Irons in round four.

Burrow, who won round one of the world tour last month on the Gold Coast, had the day’s highest heat score of 17.77 to beat Irons’ 11.93.

He will now face Brazilian Adriano De Souza in a quarter-final.

“A lot of the time, I struggle with maintaining confidence for a whole year, but at the moment I feel probably the most confident I’ve felt in my career,” Burrow said.

In other round-four action, Australia’s reigning world champion Mick Fanning had to work hard to overcome Tiago Pires of Portugal, 12.60 to 10.90.

Fanning will have a tough quarter-final against South African Jordy Smith, who lost to Burrow in the Gold Coast final.

Smith had the day’s best wave score of 9.80 in his round-four win over Hawaiian Roy Powers.

Earlier in the day, Fanning beat impressive wildcard entrant Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Smith dispatched young Australian star Owen Wright in round three.

Other big names yet to compete in round four are defending Bells champion Joel Parkinson of Australia, compatriot Bede Durbidge and American Bobby Martinez.

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Planck spacecraft obtains first peek of big bang’s ‘afterglow’

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 18 (ANI): European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail.

The ESA spacecraft was launched into space on May 14 this year. It is observing the glow of hot gas from just 380,000 years after the big bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

According to a report in New Scientist, the detailed properties of this background may contain hints of hidden extra dimensions or multiple universes, as well as providing clues to what caused a brief, early period of incredibly rapid cosmic expansion.

Planck began surveying the microwave background on August 13, a few weeks after reaching its planned perch 1.5 million kilometres from Earth at a point called L2 and cooling its detectors to within 0.1 degrees Celsius above absolute zero.

Now, the Planck team has released the probe’s first image, an observational strip covering about 5 per cent of the sky.

Slight variations in temperature from place to place in the early universe give the image its mottled appearance.

“With a few per cent of the data in, you can see it’s working well and delivering good stuff,” said team member George Efstathiou of the University of Cambridge.

Planck is expected to provide the most detailed all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background yet, improving on the best current map, obtained by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which launched in 2001.

Planck’s detectors have more than 10 times the sensitivity of WMAP’s, and about 2.5 times the angular resolution.

“Every strip that Planck scans, we’re getting data that is many, many times more sensitive than WMAP,” Efstathiou told New Scientist.

Although Planck was only designed to observe the sky for 15 months, the team believes it could last for more than 30 months, based on new estimates of how long its coolant will last.

The extra time will allow Planck to measure the radiation with even greater precision, since it will scan the entire sky four times – two more than originally planned. (ANI)

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Wilkinson wants honeymoon where she can “walk around nude”

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 26 (ANI): Stunner Kendra Wilkinson and fiance Hank Baskett will honeymoon in an isolated island where she can walk around naked.

The former Playboy Playmate is set to walk down the aisle with American football star Baskett this weekend and is looking forward to relaxing in the secluded place, as no one will be able to see her.

“We’re keeping the honeymoon destination a secret. It’s a private island, I want to be able to walk around naked if I want and not have paparazzos!” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

Kendra recently announced she is expecting her first child with Hank, and admits being pregnant has had a strange effect on her body.

“I’ve been craving hot cheese sauce. I’m not afraid to eat. It’s so weird. I used to eat all vegetables before I was pregnant, but now I can’t even think of vegetables,” she said.

“I can’t wait to start building the nursery and putting things together,” she added. (ANI)

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Judge blasts council for wasting £5k of taxpayers’ cash over dropped wrapper case!

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Jun 20 (ANI): A judge has blasted a council officer for wasting 5000 pounds of taxpayers’ money by dragging a teenager to crown court over a dropped mint wrapper.

The sweet wrapper had blown out of Larissa Wilkinson’s car window when her 18-month-old niece unwrapped it, and when the officer spotted it, the 19-year-old girl was charged with depositing controlled waste.

Judge Roger Scott was stunned when she appeared before him at crown court, where murderers and rapists face trial.

“Can you explain to me why this charge was ever brought? She has dropped a single sweet wrapper,” the Sun quoted the judge as asking the council’s barrister Austin Newman.

“Is it controlled waste? I’ve looked it up and I don’t see how you could possibly argue it is.

“It’s the most inappropriate set of proceedings I’ve personally ever, ever seen and it’s a fantastic waste of community charge payers’ money.

“This was a grotesque misuse of the powers of the authorities,” he stated.

The judge refused to let Wilkinson sit in the dock, and invited her into the witness stand instead.

The interior design student explained that she was driving her Fiat Punto with niece Lyla Henderson when the tot unwrapped a Bassett’s Murray Mint, and dropped the wrapper in the car but it blew away.

Wilkinson, who had passed her test a month earlier, only realised what had happened when a 75 pounds fixed penalty was sent to her home in Mirfield, West Yorks.

“I decided I wasn’t going to pay. As a student I only get 30 pounds a week to live on. But also it just wasn’t fair. It wasn’t my fault and if I’d tried to stop the wrapper then I might have crashed,” she said.

She appeared before magistrates three times, but chose to be tried by jury at Bradford Crown Court.

“The judge was great. I am so pleased he was on my side. It was quite scary,” she added.

The cost of the case, estimated at 5,000 pounds, would have spiralled to 10,000 pounds if it had been heard before a jury.

“Rubbish thrown from vehicles contributes greatly to the defacement of our streets,” a Kirklees Council spokesman said.

“The person in control of a vehicle is liable for waste thrown from that vehicle whether they threw the waste out or not,” he added.

Wilkinson accepted a caution, but did not have to pay the 75 pounds.

“I hope you enjoyed your day in court,” the judge told her. (ANI)

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The Universe is flat, but not entirely

May 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 19 (ANI): In a move that is reminiscent of scientists rejecting the view held by many people in the medieval times that the Earth is flat, a team of researchers has dismissed the notion that the Universe is completely flat.

According to a report in New Scientist, when it comes to the universe, “flatness” refers to the fate of light beams traveling large distances parallel to each other.

If the universe is “flat”, the beams will always remain parallel. Matter, energy and dark energy all produce curvature in space-time, however.

If the universe’s space-time is positively curved, like the surface of a sphere, parallel beams would come together. In a negatively curved, saddle-shaped universe, parallel beams would diverge.

Thanks in part to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, which revealed the density of matter and dark energy in the early universe, most astronomers are confident that the universe is flat.

But, that view is now being questioned by Joseph Silk at the University of Oxford and colleagues, who say it’s possible that the WMAP observations have been misinterpreted.

In a research paper accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they took data from WMAP and other cosmology experiments and analyzed it using Bayes’s theorem, which can be used to show how the certainty attached to a particular conclusion is affected by different starting assumptions.

Using modern astronomers’ assumptions, which presuppose a flat universe, they calculated the probability that the universe was in one of three states: flat, positively curved or negatively curved.

This produced a 98 per cent probability that the universe is indeed flat.

When they reran the calculation starting from a more open-minded position, however, the probability changed to 67 per cent, making a flat universe far less of a certainty than astronomers generally conclude.

“It’s a reasonable assumption that the universe isn’t entirely flat,” Silk said, adding that the calculation reveals how strongly astronomers’ prejudices can affect their conclusions.

“They’ve developed a statistically rigorous way of examining the question,” said David Spergel of Princeton University, the spokesman for WMAP.

According to Silk, astronomers need to achieve a 99.9999 per cent level of confidence on the flat universe, high enough that the case starts to look compelling no matter what the starting assumptions are.

It’s possible, however, that no measurements will ever be able to get to that level of accuracy. (ANI)

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M/V LIBERTY SUN Crew Safe Following Attack by Pirates Off Somalia Coast

April 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.April 14 /PRNewswire/ — Earlier today the United States
flag merchant vessel M/V LIBERTY SUN and its crew, operated by American
shipping company Liberty Maritime Corporation of Lake Success, New York, was
attacked by Somali pirates. The pirates fired rocket propelled grenades and
automatic weapons at the vessel which sustained damage. Liberty Maritime
immediately requested the assistance of the United States Navy which
dispatched forces to assist and protect the crew and the vessel. The Company
issued the following statement:

We are grateful and pleased that no one was injured and the crew and the ship
are safe. We have communicated with the families of the crew to inform them
of these developments. We commend the entire crew for its professionalism and
poise under fire.

The LIBERTY SUN was on a voyage enroute to Mombasa, Kenya from Houston, Texas
carrying American food aid cargo for African nations suffering from famine.
Earlier last week, the vessel had discharged thousands of tons of American
food aid cargo in Port Sudan and it was continuing its voyage with additional
food aid when it came under attack from the Somali pirates.

Liberty Maritime’s first priority has been, and will continue to be, ensuring
that the crews aboard our ships are safe. We want to especially thank the
United States Navy for its prompt response to our request for assistance. We
also wish to thank the U.S. Government for its cooperation in responding to
this attack.

SOURCE Liberty Maritime

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Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum named among Top 10 Bikini-Clad Reality Stars

April 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): American socialite Kim Kardashian and German model Heidi Klum are among the girls who have made it as the Top 10 Bikini-Clad Reality Stars.

Glamour model Kendra Wilkinson, known for having dated Hugh Hefner from April 2004 to December 2008, was also among them, reports Radar Online.

‘The Hills’ cast members Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port were also among the enlisted stars.

World champion professional dancer Karina Smirnoff also made it to the list.

American model Holly Madison, who was known as Hugh Hefner’s number one girlfriend, TV host Vanessa Minnillo, Gretchen Rossi, and actress Tyra Banks completed the list. (ANI)

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Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Wilkinson to wed at Playboy Mansion

February 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Feb 7 (ANI): Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson will be tying the knot at the Playboy Mansion.

The blonde beauty, who is engaged to American football star Hank Baskett, is planning for a wedding ceremony set in her former home.

And Wilkinson has asked her ‘Girls Next Door’ co-stars, Bridget Marquardt and Holly Madison, to be her bridesmaids.
But, although she’d like Hef to give her away on the big day, she thinks it could be awkward for her husband-to-be.

“It’s more than likely we will get married at the mansion, but I think it’s awkward for Hank to have Hef give me away. It just doesn’t make sense, because it shouldn’t be someone who’s an ex-boyfriend,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

Thus, the 23-year-old Playboy star has asked her brother, Colin, to walk her down the aisle.

However, she has maintained that there are no hard feelings between her and Hefner and she has been able to reassure her fiance that all is good between the former lovers.

She said: “Hank’s so comfortable with things now. We showed Hef our engagement video and Hef was so happy, he cried.” (ANI)

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Hugh Hefner OK with his exes dating other men ‘but to a point’

January 5, 2009 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

New York, Jan 05 (ANI): Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says that he doesn’t mind the fact that his ex-girlfriends have moved on, but to a point.

However, contrary to the above-mentioned statement Hugh’s exe Kendra Wilkinson is all set to marry beau Hank Baskett at the Playboy mansion itself.

“I”m still planning on walking Kendra (Wilkinson) down the aisle when she gets married this summer [to NFLer Hank Baskett] at the Mansion,” the New York Post quoted Hugh as saying.

Another of Hugh’s exes Holly Madisson is dating beau Criss Angel.

Meanwhile, Holly Madison is set to appear on the sixth season of Hugh’s reality show, ‘Girls Next Door’.

However, according to reports, not much of footage would feature Angel.

“I”ve still got to figure that out,” Hugh said. (ANI)

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Bridget Marquardt hints at leaving Playboy Mansion

November 5, 2008 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

New York, American glamour model Bridget Marquardt, known as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends, has hinted that she will be leaving the Playboy Mansion.

Marquardt, 35, who is the last of the Playboy founder”s girlfriends to survive last month”s Mansion shake-up, did not give a specific time as to when she will be leaving.

“I don”t know how much longer I”ll be there,” the New York Daily News quoted her as telling Us Weekly magazine.

She further revealed that her co-stars from the “Girls Next Door” show, and recent Hefner exes Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson, were “moving out right now.”

Madison and Wilkinson had announced their split from Hefner last month, and Karissa and Kristina Shannon, 19-year-old twins, quickly replaced them, while Marquardt had been out of the country during the fall out.

“I’ve been doing a Travel Channel show,” she said.

“To be honest, I”m not even [at the Mansion] that much at the moment anyway,” she added. (ANI)

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