Posts Tagged ‘Daniel’

‘World’s oldest blogger’ dies in Spain at 97

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

: A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the “world´s oldest blogger” and who gained a global following on the Internet, died Thursday at the age of 97, local officials and reports said.

Maria Amelia Lopez, who was introduced to the world of blogging by one of her grandchildren, used a mix of humor and nostalgia to recall life during the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco and give her take on modern life.

“Today it?s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog,” she wrote on her first post on amis95.blogspot.com on December 23, 2006.

Her blog quickly soared in popularity after the media reported on it, having seen more than 1.5 million hits, and it earned Lopez a meeting with Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who she openly supported.

In summer, Lopez would write from her seaside home in Muxia in northwestern Spain, where she was born in 1911; and from the Galician farmhouse where she lived with her grandson Daniel during the rest of the year. MADRID, Spain, May 22

Her posts touched on personal health problems, from trips to the doctor to bouts of dizziness, to her opinion on current events; from the violence of the Basque separatists to Iran´s nuclear pretensions.

She blogged sporadically — sometimes once a week, sometimes daily — with the aid of her grandson because cataracts impaired her vision.

In recent months Lopez was increasingly posting video messages on her blog instead of written texts.

In one of her last posts made in February, she enthused about how the “Internet amazes me more and more” after her grandson Daniel introduced her to the social networking site Facebook.

She promptly set up a group on Facebook to defend old people´s rights.

“One day soon I am going to die. All I am really scared of is losing my mind. In the meantime, I´ll carry on,” she said in an interview with Britain´s The Guardian newspaper in September 2007.

Aniston Considered For Next Bond Girl Role

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Actress Jennifer Aniston may become the new Bond girl in the next spy adventure. The former Friends actress is reportedly under consideration for the next installment in the spy series after admitting it was a dream of hers.

The 40-year-old stunner, recently, admitted that she would love to be a part of the action-packed series.

\”I\’d love to do an action movie. James Bond. Glamour. Daniel Craig. Loads of fun,” The Daily Express quoted her, as saying. Now, sources have suggested that Bond bosses are seriously considering her.

A source at the franchise\’s production company EON said, \”We\’re always looking for the next Bond girl. She has to be beautiful but she also needs to have brains.

\”It helps if she\’s athletic and able to keep up with the intense stunt work a Bond movie demands. Jennifer has all these qualities. It\’s great to hear she\’d love to do a movie because we have used established actresses before such as Teri Hatcher and Denise Richards. It\’s great she\’s a fan.

\”After her comments it\’s likely she\’ll be called in to meet [producers] Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson when we start on the next one.

Jennifer already had her own informal \’screen-test\’ to see how she would work with Daniel when the pair hit it off at the Night Before Party during the Oscars\’ weekend.

Indian hockey team lose both matches to Australian development squad

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The Indian hockey team suffered their second straight defeat at the hands of the Australian Development squad when they were beaten 2-5 at the State Hockey Centre here Wednesday.

The Aussies scored through Hotchkis Daniel (14th), Geoffrey Cock (18th), Liam de Young (21st), Jason Wilson (53rd) and Mark Patterson (61st min).

Shivendra Singh (10th) and Sandeep Singh (46th min) found the mark for India.

The Australian Development squad is coached by Ric Charlesworth, who had a bitter relationship with the Indian hockey team as its consultant.

India won their first two matches against Australian state teams. They lost 3-5 to the Australian Development squad Tuesday, before going down 2-5 Wednesday.

India’s coach in-charge Harendra Singh was disappointed with the team’s overall performance and said the defence needed to be bolstered.

India trailed 1-3 at half time.

India shot into the lead when Shivendra deflected home from Sandeep Singh’s shot past goalkeeper George Bazeley.

Australia equalised four minutes later in identical fashion as Daniel put it past Baljit Singh after being set up by medio Jonathan Charlesworth.

Cock got the lead for the hosts after a goalmouth skirmish. The Aussies further consolidated their position when captain Liam de Young struck to put them 3-1 up.

After the break, Sandeep Singh reduced the margin from a penalty corner conversion.

However Australia came back strongly as they scored twice with Wilson and Patterson shooting past substitute custodian Adrian D’Souza.

India will fly to New Zealand Thursday where they will play a four Test series against the Kiwis at Wellington and Auckland starting Saturday.

Israeli opposition leader says he will crush Hamas

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli opposition leader, has said he will crush Hamas if he is elected prime minister in next week’s elections.

Mr. Netanyahu, a former Israeli prime minister will contest the election in an effort to replace Ehud Olmert.

Netanyahu has criticized the war strategy of his Olmert and has said Israel should have destroyed the Palestinian militant group Hamas when it had the chance

A three-week fight between Hamas militants and Israeli soldiers over the past weeks left parts of Gaza in ruins and led to the deaths of 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

The outcome of the war has become a central issue in the Israeli election campaign.

Israeli opposition leader says he will crush HamasMore fighting.. just great.. lets keep fighting anf then understand why there is more figthing.. O Yeah lets not forget to call the other side stupid and evil. demonize everyone so that nobody gets out alive.. This is advanced thinking it seems.. so smart back to caveman times.

oh pleaseMore fighting.. just great…

Israeli just wants to live in peace..Hamas dont..Tell hamas to stop,stop,stop,,simple really..

HAMAS RIPS OFF GAZANSStatement by UNRWA Condemning the Confiscation of Gaza Aid and Demanding Its Immediate Return

At 1:30pm on February 3, over 3,500 blankets and 406 food parcels were confiscated from a distribution store at Beach Camp in Gaza by police personnel. This took place after UNRWA staff had earlier refused to hand over the aid supplies to the Hamas-run Ministry of Social Affairs. The police subsequently broke into the warehouse and seized the aid by force. The aid was due to be distributed to five hundred families in the area.

UNRWA condemns in the strongest terms the confiscation of its aid supplies and has demanded that it is returned immediately. UNRWA has a strict system of monitoring aid delivery and ensuring that its assistance reaches only the intended beneficiaries. Our officials were on the ground overseeing the delivery of our aid and taking all possible steps to avoid its diversion.

Statement by Minister Herzog: Robbing of UN Warehouses by Hamas – Further Proof That Hamas Will Use Any Means to Intensify Gazans’ Suffering

Minister Isaac Herzog, who is responsible for the humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip, says that the robbing of UN warehouses by Hamas is further proof that Hamas is continuing to make life miserable for the population of Gaza and will use any means to intensify its suffering. It will be recalled that during Operation Cast Lead, Hamas leaders worried about their own welfare and security while totally neglecting the population. Israel will continue to insist on its demand that humanitarian assistance transferred to the Gaza Strip is directed for the welfare of the civilian population only, without allowing Hamas to benefit from it. Minister Herzog emphasizes that even at the present time, when firing at Israel continues, Israel is continuing in its humanitarian efforts on behalf of the population in the Gaza Strip.

Benjamin Sack

Officer for Public Affairs

SALAAM, BIBI!!Hamas is just doing this to themselves. Most Israelis would elect a moderate government, but the continued shelling of southern Israel by Hamas will only bring Bibi back…and he WILL crush Hamas, you can be sure of it. Why don’t the Gazans just shoot themselves in the head and be done with it? How many times can they continue to shoot themselves in the foot????

owned by rahm

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Looks like your socks have holes at both end and now you can’t figure out how to put them on!

Its called where you were born! There is no such thing as 86 to 1 makes you eligible!

You are a musim shill.

What’s wrong that very small area in the middle east not Muslim controlled sure has your panties in a bind!

No worries greater Israel is returning the irgun will see to it.

The Bible contains three geographical definitions of the Land of Israel. The first, found in Genesis 15:18-21, is vague. It describes a large territory, “from the Nile to the Euphrates”, comprising all of modern-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Lebanon, as well as large parts of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. The proportion of current Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey included in this territory is debatable.

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Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel�.

Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Nineveh under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.

Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslims, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the U.S. invasion in 2003, that is considered historical Jewish “property�.

The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish “properties� outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq’s Shia-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of “Greater Israel� as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call “Judea and Samaria�.

Kurdish and Iraqi sources report that Israel’s Mossad is working hand-in-hand with Israeli companies and “tourists� to stake a claim to the Jewish “properties� of Israel in Iraq. The Mossad has already been heavily involved in training the Kurdish Pesha Merga military forces.

Reportedly assisting the Israelis are foreign mercenaries paid for by U.S. Christian evangelical circles that support the concept of “Christian Zionism�.

Iraqi nationalists charge that the Israeli expansion into Iraq is supported by both major Kurdish factions, including the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Iraq’s nominal President Jalal Talabani. Talabani’s son, Qubad Talabani, serves as the KRG’s representative in Washington, where he lives with his wife Sherri Gabrielle Kraham, who is Jewish.

Also supporting the Israeli land acquisition activities is the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed by Massoud Barzani, the president of the KRG. One of Barzani’s five sons, Binjirfan Barzani, is reportedly heavily involved with the Israelis.

The Israelis and their Christian Zionist supporters enter Iraq not through Baghdad but through Turkey. In order to depopulate residents of lands the Israelis claim, Mossad operatives and Christian Zionist mercenaries are staging terrorist attacks against Chaldean Christians, particularly in Nineveh, Irbil, al-Hamdaniya, Bartalah, Talasqaf, Batnayah, Bashiqah, Elkosheven, Uqrah, and Mosul.

These attacks by the Israelis and their allies are usually reported as being the responsibility of “Al Qaeda� and other Islamic “jihadists�.

The ultimate aim of the Israelis is to depopulate the Christian population in and around Mosul and claim the land as biblical Jewish land that is part of “Greater Israel.� The Israeli/Christian Zionist operation is a replay of the depopulation of the Palestinians in the British mandate of Palestine after World War II.

In June 2003, a delegation of Israelis visited Mosul and said that it was Israel’s intentions, with the assistance of Barzani, to establish Israeli control of the shrine of Jonah in Mosul and the shrine of Nahum in the Mosul plains. The Israelis said Israeli and Iranian Jewish pilgrims would travel via Turkey to the area of Mosul and take over lands where Iraqi Christians lived.

Rahm Emanuel now controls the Whitehouse and has been cracking his knuckles at Obama!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/24/rahm-emanuel-the-second-m_n_160605.

Earlier this month, Barack Obama was meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers when Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, began nervously cracking a knuckle.

Mr. Obama then turned to complain to Mr. Emanuel about his noisy habit.

At which point, Mr. Emanuel held the offending knuckle up to Mr. Obama’s left ear and — like an annoying little brother — snapped off a few special cracks.

Read the whole story

http://swampland.blogs.time.

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Rahm Emanuel is his own man, with an identity distinct from his father’s. He is not responsible for the actions or opinions of Benjamin Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician who worked in the 1940s with Irgun, the militant Zionist group that committed acts against Palestinian and British targets that have been widely categorized as terrorism. (In 1938, according to the scholar Avi Shlaim, members of the group attempted to ambush an Arab bus, an attack that failed when a grenade did not detonate. In 1946, members of the group bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.

But that does not mean that Rahm Emanuel, or Barack Obama for that matter, can easily ignore the fact that Benjamin Emanuel recently said a nasty thing about Arabs in the Israeli press.

In an interview with Ma’ariv, Emanuel’s father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son’s appointment would be good for Israel. “Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel,” he was quoted as saying. “Why wouldn’t he be? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.

Oooopps more problems for the ragtag rabble called Palestinians they will be lucky if they don’t wind up in gulogs and murder camps soon or just starved out of existence.

Poor little muslim loving girliejihad the weakest most disorganized undereducated people on earth are all behind the 8ball.

oh please?

“Israeli just wants to live in peace..Hamas dont..Tell hamas to stop,stop,stop,,simple really..

R U FA’KIN STUPID OR WHAT! GET UR HEAD OU’TA UR A-R-S-E AND SEE WHAT’S GOING ON!

be nice to the peopleI think the People should be nice to everyone.

I love USA

I love Israeli

I love Russia

NO More Future WAR Be Friends

love in the heart ???????I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven. and they that have been before me in jerusalem yea my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Church of Maradona celebrates idol’s birthday

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Few doubt that retired soccer superstar Diego Maradona enjoys god-like status in Argentina, but anyone who is still in doubt needs only to look at the Maradonian Church, which drew hundreds of fans to celebrate his 48th birthday and recent appointment as coach of the national team.

Founded in October 1998 in the northeastern Argentine city of Rosario, the Maradonian Church claims to have more than 40,000 ‘faithful’ worldwide.

Late Wednesday, his devoted followers gathered at a trendy Buenos Aires pizzeria for a celebration in which his ‘apostles’ recited the Maradonian version of the Lord’s Prayer – ‘Our Diego who art on the Earth, hallowed be thy left foot. Thy magic come, thy goals be remembered’ – and marked the year 48 DD (After Diego).

Some ate pizza and drank beer in front of a symbolic altar that featured photographs of the hero of the 1986 World Cup, jerseys, pendants with his signature and even a miniature Maradonian church.

Others patiently waited their turn to be ‘baptized’, a ritual in which they imitate the 1986 World Cup goal that Maradona scored against England as a result of an illegal – but unpenalized – handball, or as Maradona put it in the post-match press conference, ‘the hand of God’.

One-month-old Bianca Asticeta became the youngest member of the mock church early Thursday after being baptized in the arms of her father, Daniel, who acknowledged that he is ‘obsessed with Diego’.

Ivan Rodriguez, 19, one of the many who assumed the ‘hand of God’ pose while heading a soccer ball, said he decided to become baptized in the Church of Maradona ‘to be part of the life of Maradona’ and celebrate his being named coach of the national squad, an appointment to be confirmed next week.

Amid headers, handballs, singing and a quiz on the life of No. 10, the spirited devotees late Wednesday prepared to celebrate their idol’s 48th birthday at the stroke of midnight.

‘Christmas is almost here. Maradona is the greatest, the greatest without peer,’ the revellers chanted before 10 peals of a bell rang in the new Maradonian year.

The highlight of the evening came at midnight on the dot, when Maradona’s voice was heard live by speaker phone thanking his fans for their support.

‘Thank you for giving me so much affection and gathering on a day like my birthday,’ Maradona said. The crowd then shouted ‘Come to us Diego’ and ‘We’ll be champs again like in ‘86,’ referring to Argentina’s last World Cup title.

‘What you’re singing is the dream I have inside of me,’ the new Argentine skipper said, adding that ‘God is going to be with us’.

‘You are God,’ one of the more animated fans shouted in reply.

Speaking at the altar, one ‘apostle’ said Maradona’s fans were always at the side of their idol, even in the worst of times, when drug problems put his life in danger.

According to its web site, ‘the church’s function is to keep alive the passion and magic with which our ‘god’ played soccer, to safeguard in our memories the miracles he performed on the field before the eyes of us all and the feeling he awakened in us, his fans.

Like any church worth its salt, the one devoted to Maradona has its own bible and commandments: Love soccer above all things, Declare your unconditional love for Diego, Defend the Argentine jersey, Spread Diego’s miracles throughout the universe and Take Diego as your second name and bestow it on your child, are just some of them.

Among the church’s most famous members are Diego’s daughters, Dalma and Giannina, current soccer stars like Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Ronaldinho and even celebrity fans like Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquin Sabina.

‘Maradona is the best. (Being named coach) of the national team is what he needed. He wanted that and he’s happy,’ said Alan, a 19-year-old who travelled from Rosario to take part in the celebration.

‘And even if he fails as head of the national squad, you think we won’t forgive him? God is forgiven for everything, isn’t He? And it’s Maradona,’ Alan said.

Handymen husbands for rent in Argentina

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Irish Sun

Monday 13th October, 2008  

(IANS)

Any woman can get a husband at an hourly rate in Buenos Aires, thanks to a company offering to do the repairs and installations that every home needs, and all ‘without problems in the bedroom’.

Husband for Rent is a successful Argentine company that for 50 pesos ($15.50) an hour will undertake domestic chores for women who don’t have a ‘handyman’ around the house, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.

‘Tired of your husband leaving you with all the household upkeep? And you, are you tired of your wife nagging at you to do 1,001 repairs? Stop arguing right now,’ the company says on its Web site.

The firm provides its long list of clients, mostly single or divorced women or widows, with a whole catalogue of electrical and electronic repairs, carpentry and plumbing jobs – although the company’s name has caused more than one misunderstanding among potential clients.

‘Some don’t get it and have made me insinuations, but I just do my job. Once a woman called at 3 o’clock in the morning to say she needed a man,’ the company’s owner, Daniel Alonso, told Efe.

According to the businessman, one of the craziest moments he has had with his company was when a male prostitute sent him an e-mail saying that if he couldn’t cope with all his female clients, ‘he could help him with the jobs’.

‘And once a woman left a message on the answering service saying that ‘my name is Cristina, I am 56 and need a complete servicing’, Alonso said.

The entrepreneur said that these and similar stories have given Husband for Rent a blacklist of people who are not answered when they call.

The odd anecdotes have been accumulating since 12 years ago, when Daniel, an electronics technician, started the company with his wife, a key figure in its foundation.

‘It all began when an elderly neighbour asked my wife if she could borrow her husband. It occurred several times until my wife answered: ‘I’ll rent him to you.’ And so the name of the company was born,’ said Alonso, who claims to have 2,000 clients.

The company’s impact was so great that more than one firm wanted to use the same system. ‘I’ve presented several letters and documents because they have tried to copy my service. I even registered the name so clients wouldn’t mistake our service for someone else’s,’ the 56-year-old Alonso said.

‘The name is important, but the service is also very good because I do repairs in all sectors. Working in several companies gave me the experience and know-how to do all kinds of repairs,’ he said.

Alonso recommends that his clients call him when they have a number of jobs to do, ‘because the first hour is charged complete but starting with the second hour we start charging by fractions of an hour.

In his opinion, the possibility of doing several different repairs for a client is one of the secrets of his success, since it turns out to be a good deal for both sides.

‘It gives me more hours of work and for the client it’s cheaper than calling an electrician, a plumber and a carpenter individually,’ he said.

So the technician can begin repairing a lamp, then go on to plane some doors, install a telephone system and even fix up a piece of furniture that was about to be thrown out.

‘Satisfied?’ Alonso asks after finishing each job. And he says that most answers are in the affirmative.

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World ends on Wednesday?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

London, Sept 09: If critics are to be believed, the end of the universe will begin coming Wednesday when a Welsh miner’s son launches the world’s biggest scientific experiment to know how the universe was born.

The well-known Welshman physicist, Lyn Evans, dubbed Evans the Atom, will this week switch on a giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.

On Wednesday, Evans will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long doughnut-shaped tunnel that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.

Built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the collider lies beneath the French-Swiss border, near the institution’s headquarters in Geneva, at depths ranging from 170 feet to 600 feet.

The aim of the 4.4 billion-pound (over USD 7.7 billion) experiment is to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang – the birth of the universe – and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.

It will track the spray of particles thrown out by collisions in a search for the elusive Higgs Boson, a theoretical entity that supposedly lends weight, or mass, to the elementary particles. So important is this mysterious substance that it has been called the “God Particle”.

Scientists also hope to shed some light on the invisible material that exists between particles – dubbed “dark matter” as no one knows what it really is – which make up most of the universe.

But a handful of scientists believe that the experiment could create a shower of unstable black holes that could “eat” the planet from within, and they are launching last-ditch efforts to halt it in the courts.

One of them, Otto Rossler, a retired German chemist, said he feared the experiment may create a devastating quasar – a mass of energy fuelled by black holes – inside the earth. Jets emanating from it would grow and catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis would occur at the points they emerged from the earth.

“The weather will change completely, wiping out life, and very soon the whole planet will be eaten in a magnificent scenario – if you could watch it from the moon. A Biblical Armageddon. Even cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible.

He said that attempts were still being made in the European Court of Human Rights to halt the experiment on the grounds that it violated the right to life. The court has, however, already rejected calls for a temporary delay in the project.

Walter Wagner, an American scientist who has been warning about the dangers of particle accelerators for 20 years, is awaiting a ruling on a lawsuit he filed a fortnight ago in his home state of Hawaii.

Evans, however, is dismissive of the “doom-mongers”.

“There are thousands of scientists around the world who have been preparing this machine and they know what they are talking about, unlike these guys,” he is quoted as saying in the Daily Mail.

Hellow, every one,

Have faith in GOD.

he is the Creator & destroyer,

He created the Universe he can only Destroy it if he wills,

No one except, the CREATOR OF THIS UNIVERSE will decide our future.

have faith in God

Enjoy your life, for God will take care of every thing.

Daniel. – Francis Daniel.

i dont think that this world would end on wednesday…….. it is not possilbe that in fraction of section this beautiful world will become heel!!!

I live in Spain and how come none of the international new channels have not uttered a word about this experiment. It is only in the Indian News channels I have seen this news. Had it been anything serious there would have been panic everywhere. This is merely an experiment without consequences. Nothing to worry about. Whatever the scientist of today do they do take into consideration the negative aspects before experimenting them. The news agencies should not give much propaganda to such events.

 

LTTE’s smuggling mastermind arrested

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

RAMANATHAPURAM: The mastermind behind smuggling operations for the LTTE and a senior political activist of the organisation, Krishnaneethan, was arrested yesterday at Uchapatti refugee camp in Madurai district, police said.

He is the brother of Vijayaneethan, arrested at Uppur near Keezhakarai with three others on July 30 for allegedly trying to smuggle sensitive equipment like Swiss made walkie talkies, 10 global positioning systems, batteries, lifejackets and multitester meters.

Krishnaneethan is also the nephew of Sivanesan, a commander of ‘Sea Tigers,’ LTTE’s naval wing, they said.

He was arrested by the ‘Q’ branch intelligence wing of Tamil Nadu Police.

Police said Krishnaneethan, his brother and two others Rakshanandhan and Sivaraman were hardcore Tigers and had escaped from Sri Lanka in the guise of refugees. At that time, the Sri Lankan police and the Army were specially searching for the two brothers, they said.

All the five were well trained in handling arms and were experts in high-speed navigation, police said, adding that they were also familiar with the Palk Straits and the sea coast in India and Sri Lanka.

Police said they were also looking for a Ramanathapuram district based businessman, a vital link, who helped them carry out smuggling activities without fear of being caught.

Vijayaneethan, who was living in Thiruvathavur refugee camp in Madurai district, had good contacts all over Tamil Nadu with LTTE sympathisers and refugees and smuggled goods from various points in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, police said.

Efforts by the LTTE to re-establish its supply chain in Tamil Nadu have suffered a setback as seven of their activists were arrested recently, police said on Monday.

While the head of LTTE’s procurement module Thambianna alias Daniel was arrested in Chennai on July 30, another mastermind behind smuggling operations from the state coast Krishnaneethan was taken into custody from a refugee camp at Uchapattin in Madurai district on Sunday.

In just six days, seven LTTE activists have been arrested from various places in the state, police said.

In an another catch on Sunday, police arrested a suspected LTTE cadre Muralitharan in Mandapam near Rameswaram after the man travelled by a plastic boat from Sri Lanka. The Navy and the Coast Guard had also stepped up vigil in the Palk Straits.

Daniel Craig suffers minor injury on Bond set

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Agent 007 still has all of his digits. Daniel Craig was sent to the hospital after suffering a minor hand injury while filming the latest James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" at Pinewood Studios near London."There was a minor incident on set," Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group spokesman Steve Elzer told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Daniel injured his hand. He sought medical attention. He was back on the set within a matter of hours and production went on.An e-mail and phone call to the 40-year-old British actor’s publicist was not immediately returned Wednesday.It’s not the first accident that’s occurred during filming for "Quantum of Solace." Stuntmen were injured while filming an action sequence on famously winding lakeside roads in Northern Italy in April. Neither Craig, director Marc Forster or any other cast members were at the location when those accidents occurred."Quantum of Solace" is the 22nd Bond film and is scheduled for release later this year.

Daniel Craig insures his body for £5mn

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

London: English actor Daniel Craig, who has insisted on doing his own stunts, has had his body insured for up to 5 million pounds.

And, with the second Bond movie promising to have more action, the actor’s move may be a wise one.

Craig has already suffered a string of injuries while filming his first outing, and guessing from the insurance premium, it looks like the super spy will be in for more action.

“It’s fair to say that with this movie, Daniel’s insurance premiums have gone through the roof.

“I can’t say for sure how much but there has been talk of him being insured for at least a few million, even five,” the Sun quoted a source at EON Productions, the company behind the film, as saying.

“In Casino Royale Daniel did as many stunts as he could and he’s been doing the same with Quantum.

“But the stakes are a lot higher on this movie especially as there are a lot more action sequences,” the source added.

But for Craig, it all seems to be a walk in the park, and he admits that he loves every minute of it.

“I love having that adrenaline rush. It makes you realise that you are mortal and that life must be enjoyed,” Craig said.