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CALL TO ACTION: Maori leader Peter Love is demanding the Government strip all fishing quota rights awarded to Japanese companies in New Zealand waters.

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Maori leader Peter Love is demanding the Government strip all fishing quota rights awarded to Japanese companies in New Zealand waters, in protest at the whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.
The Wellington Tenths Trust managing trustee went on the offensive yesterday, declaring the Japanese Government was now at war with New Zealand's environmental opinions.
He went further, suggesting the whale hunt had ignited bitter memories of the Japanese Army's cruelty in the South Pacific during World War II and that its whaling policy was culturally offensive to Maori.
Mr Love, who also plans to ask the respective governments in the Pacific Islands to review its fishing quotas for Japan, intends to use the might of the iwi to push his case.
"We have constant access to the Government through our iwi. We can, and will, make demands because our iwi gives us solidarity to make a stand, rather than doing it on an individual basis.
"The Government will listen to us. We want to hit the Japanese in the pocket because that will get them to sit up and take notice."
New Zealand controls the fourth largest fishing zone in the world and its total commercial catch and aquaculture production is about 650,000 tonnes per year, most of which is exported around the world.
Only New Zealanders or New Zealand-owned companies can own fishing quotas in this country. Quota holders can lease them, however, to foreign ships to catch their allowance on their behalf.
In a bow to mounting international pressure, Japan took the humpback off its hunting list late last week, but still plans to kill about 935 minke whales and 50 endangered fin whales.
Mr Love was …

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Soothe your scalp
Hot water and shampoo strip your scalp of natural oils, leaving it parched and itchy. Once a week, trade a full wash for a condition-only session; massage conditioner into roots to relieve dryness. Still scratching? Itch-inducing histamines in your blood could be to blame, says Francesca J. Fusco, M.D., a dermatologist in New York City. For relief, rinse hair with cool water to constrict blood vessels.

Get kissable lips
“We lick our lips to relieve dryness, but as saliva evaporates, it takes some of the lips’ natural moisture, too,” says Kenneth Beer, M.D., a derm in Palm Beach, Florida. Instead, apply a balm with glycerin or lanolin, the richest ingredients, plus sunscreen (UV rays can be drying).

Skip flavored versions, which tempt you to lick. And pass on cinnamon toothpastes; the spice’s oil may create irritation.

Feel silky all over
OD’ing on lotion improves little when you apply it to a wall of scaly skin. Be sure to slough every other day with a sugar scrub. It’s gentler than those with nuts and seeds. Top damp skin with a lotion rich in glycerin (one that is: Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush Body Swirl Cream, $12). And use a fresh razor on legs and underarms every three shaves; dull ones require pressure, which removes moisture.

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Soften your hands
Extra sudsing is smart for warding off germs. But a too-quick rinse can allow soap (easily trapped under rings) to remain, and that’s a recipe for dryness. Take off jewelry, wash with a hydrating soap, rinse 30 seconds, then apply lotion. Limit the use of antibacterial soaps; the active ingredient triclosan can be irritating, says Jeanine Downie, M.D., a derm in Montclair, New Jersey.

Deflake your feet
The skin on your heels is three times thicker that on the rest of your body-and the drier the skin, the more sandpapery it feels. …

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel’s prime minister on Sunday pledged war against Gaza militants, rejecting feelers from the Islamic Hamas for a truce, while an Israeli Cabinet minister angered moderate Palestinians with another plan for new Jewish housing in a disputed part of Jerusalem, complicating renewed peace talks.
«There is no other way to describe what

is happening in the Gaza Strip except as a true war between the Israeli army and terrorist elements,» Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet, ruling out truce talks.
Reports of truce feelers from the embattled Islamic Hamas regime in Gaza have been surfacing almost daily, and Israeli defense officials have said they are examining the proposals.
The unconfirmed reports have Hamas convincing fellow militants in Gaza to stop their daily rocket fire at southern Israel, while Israel halts its air and ground operations in Gaza.
Speaking to his Cabinet at Sunday’s weekly meeting, Olmert rejected negotiations with Hamas because it has rejected international demands to recognize Israel, renounce violence and endorse past peace accords.
«We have declared (this war) and we will continue,» Olmert said at the beginning of the meeting, which reporters are allowed to attend. «This is true regarding Hamas, Islamic Jihad and all other elements.
Despite their overt rejections of a formal cease-fire, Israeli officials have been saying a formal truce is unnecessary. They say if Gaza militants stop the rocket fire, Israel would have no reason to attack.
Israeli airstrikes over a two-day period last week killed 12, including two top Islamic Jihad commanders. The truce feelers started surfacing a day later, first in a call from Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh to an Israeli TV reporter and later, according to officials, by way of Egypt, which has mediated several other past truces.
officials said Defense Minister Ehud Barak will travel this week to Egypt for talks with President …

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The developers who bought Vancouver's beloved Evergreen Field will waste little time in clearing the way for an ambitious retail development.

Portland developers Thomas Kemper, Bruce Wood and Ronald Skov formed ELD Development LLC, which bought the 50-acre property on Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard from the daughters of the air strip's late founder, Wally Olsen, for $14.5 million. The sale closed last week and included reassignment of development rights to the project first secured in 2000 by Opus Northwest.

Soon, the old airstrip will give way to big-box retailers, luxury shopping, a hotel and office space, and even residences. In January, what's left of its old hangars and other structures will be cleared away to make way for The Village at Evergreen, a $115 million retail complex with 348,000 square feet for both big-box retailers and luxury boutiques.

With financial backing BlackRock Retail Opportunity Fund LLC, ELD Development plans to launch construction next summer, with completion scheduled for fall 2009.

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INDIAN HILL - Jim and Nancy Jaeger raced through their sprawling home tipping over couches and slamming doors in a frantic effort to corral their pets and get them out of their multimillion-dollar country home as fire raged above their heads July 25.

An alarm alerted the couple, but it was too late.

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With their pets and a family photo album in hand, they raced into the yard as firefighters raced inside.

The roof collapsed, bringing air in to feed the flames.

What happened next is called a backdraft.

As the Jaegers stood in the yard, a door flew off the hinges. The debris from the windows - more than a dozen that exploded - rained down on the yard.

Inside, the heat was so high firefighters’ sweat turned to steam.

“This event produced an expansion of fire, hot gases and smoke with explosive force, overrunning the firefighters in the third floor stairwell,” said Steve Ashbrock, the chief of the Madeira and Indian Hill Joint Fire District. “Despite their burns, all were able to exit the still-burning structure on their own power.”

Six firefighters - half of the local unit that raced into the home - ended up in the hospital that night.

A call for more help roared over the police and firefighter scanners. Close to 100 firefighters from around the Greater Cincinnati region fought the blaze, which all told injured 11 of them, one so severely he spent 4½ months hospitalized and in rehabilitation.

A family kitten died in the fire, which also destroyed an incredible list of collectibles like a microphone collection, considered to be one of the largest collections in the world; the original architectural drawing of his neighbors’ homes from the 1920s - about 30 of them; 500 antique piano rolls and multitude of antiques from Colonial Boston.

The list goes on and on.

“Gone,” Jim Jaeger said.

Jaeger is still …

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US supports Israeli right to self defence

Dec 19, 2007, 20:35 GMT

Washington - The United States Wednesday backed Israel’s
right to defend itself, but said incursions into Gaza could carry
obvious consequences.

Tom Casey, deputy spokesman at the US State Department, was
responding to a question about Israeli’s recent military actions into
Gaza.

Israel killed 11 militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
mostly from the Islamic Jihad, on Monday night and Tuesday, in
reaction to rockets fired into its territory.

Ismail Haniya, leader of the Hamas movement that now controls
Gaza, has called for a ceasefire.

‘We’re all aware of the problems that exist in Gaza, particularly
the continued rocket attacks on Israel,’ Casey said. ‘Certainly,
Israel has a right to defend itself, but we also want to make sure
that, as always, any actions Israel takes it’s cognizant to the
potential consequences of those actions.’

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday night Israel would
continue targeting those responsible for launching the makeshift
rockets and mortars at towns and villages adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

‘I think that in the past two days, more people understand that a
war is underway there. This war will not cease,’ he told legislators
from his Kadima party.

Olmert and other Israeli leaders are under continuing and growing
pressure to put an end to the rockets and mortars, over 2000 of which
have been launched this year.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Palestinian census, called off in Gaza last month, is back on track after assurances from international agencies, Hamas officials said Tuesday.
At first Hamas agreed to cooperate with the census, the first in a decade, ion parallel with a count by President Mahmoud Abbas’ rival government in the

West Bank. But after accusing the surveyors of violating an agreement to share data with Hamas, Hamas officials shut down the Gaza census office.
«The census is back on,» said Taher Nunu, Hamas government spokesman, on Tuesday. «We were reassured on some issues, including the nature of the data collected.
Nunu said mediators, including U.N. officials, have provided «guarantees,» refusing to elaborate.
UN officials said they support the census completion and have facilitated some of the arrangements.
Head of the surveyors in Gaza, Khaldan Radwan, said his team returned to work Monday for a refresher course and will resume their data collection of how many people live in Gaza next week.
«We are a professional team, and we don’t enter into political disputes. There was an attempt to drag us into it,» he said. «We need to remain in touch with all sectors and factions of society.
Radwan said Hamas will not interfere with his team’s work, and «national interest will prevail.
Two earlier phases, collecting data on institutions and residences, were completed without interruption on Nov. 15. The final stage, counting people, began on Nov. 28 in the West Bank, but not in Gaza.
Radwan said collection of data will end on Jan. 10.
Demographics play a central role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jews are a solid majority inside Israel, roughly 80 percent of the population of 7 million. There are an estimated 3.9 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and about 1.7 million Arab citizens of

To ensure that Israel can maintain its character as a democracy with a solid Jewish majority, …

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike hit a car filled with explosives in Gaza City after nightfall Monday, killing a senior Islamic Jihad commander and another militant and critically wounding a third in a huge blast, witnesses and hospital officials said.

The Israeli military said the target of the attack heard around the city was Majed Harazin, a senior Islamic Jihad militant in charge of rocket squads that have been firing at Israel.

Islamic Jihad spokesman Khaled el-Batch confirmed that Harazin was killed in the attack. Harazin, a top Islamic Jihad commander for both the West Bank and Gaza, rarely traveled in vehicles for fear of an Israeli airstrike, Palestinians said. He was on Israel’s wanted list for nine years, they said.

Islamic Jihad supporters gathered around the morgue and pledged revenge.

“The blood of our comrades will be the fuel for the rockets that will bring death and destruction to the Zionists,” another Islamic Jihad spokesman, Abu Hamza, told The Associated Press.

The Israeli military often targets militants in airstrikes, aiming for squads involved in daily rocket fire.

Hamas radio said the car was filled with explosives and warned people to stay away, but people crowded around the burning vehicle. said the initial blast was followed by smaller explosions after the car was hit while slowing down near a mosque.

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Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin announced on Sunday that he would not run for re-election in the March 18 party primary, deciding instead to endorse the front-runner for the post, MK Haim Oron.

Beilin quits Meretz leadership race

In a press conference at Tel Aviv’s Beit Sokolow, Beilin said he had never intended to run for the Meretz leadership when he joined the party and that he was glad to be able to focus on advancing the peace process as a regular MK. But Meretz officials said that once Oron joined the race two weeks ago, Beilin had no chance of winning, so he preferred to leave gracefully.
“If Oron would have run last time, I would have supported him and not run against him,” Beilin revealed. “I wouldn’t run against a full partner to my path, who is also a close friend, and I never violated that rule. Haim’s candidacy frees me to focus intensively on diplomatic issues in 2008, the most critical year in the negotiations with the Palestinians.
Beilin, who was elected Meretz leader in 2004, denied reports that he had considered retiring from politics, quitting the Knesset or returning to the Labor Party. He said he expected to run for the next Knesset in Meretz and that he opposed efforts to merge the party with Labor.
In last year’s general election, Beilin failed to upgrade Meretz from its six seats in the previous Knesset, winning only five. Beilin blamed his poor showing on Labor’s fielding of Amir Peretz as its candidate, a man whose views were similar to those of Meretz.
“If someone else would have led us, we would lost a lot more than one mandate,” Beilin said. “Meretz’s main problem is the question of …

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“I don’t mind nudity. I just don’t do it that often. It depends on the film and if I trust the director and if the context is emotional or just sexual.” Mischa Barton reveals she’s likely to strip on camera again.

“In my first TV role, I played ‘the girl in the betting shop.’ The character didn’t even have a name. There was a Persian cat and I know it got paid more than I did.” Ugly Betty star Ashley Jensen recalls her first acting job.

“I’d get home and say to my wife, ‘I can’t believe what I did today - I made out with a chimpanzee. And it had really big lips.’ Actually, within a 24-hour period I made out with a chimp, Cheryl Tiegs, Cheryl Ladd and two Playboy playmates.” John C. Reilly enjoyed filming new rock spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

“Acting to me is making a living. It’s not my life.” Oscar winner Denzel Washington refuses to take his job too seriously.

“Maybe I am just a Backwoods Barbie - too much make-up, too much hair, in a push-up bra and heels - but don’t be fooled by thinking that the goods are not up there. It might look artificial but where it counts, I’m real.” queen Dolly Parton warns people not to judge her by her looks.

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