| S.C., Georgia to share in Jasper port
Governors Mark Sanford and Sonny Perdue met recently on a waterfront patio across the Savannah River from the historic district of its namesake city to make a little history themselves: the formal announcement of a rare, bi-state partnership to jointly build and operate a massive cargo container terminal on land Georgia owns in South Carolina. A little more than six months ago, the South Carolina and Georgia governors said they wanted to set aside years of legal acrimony attached to the Jasper County land. On Nov. 9, the governors announced they now had a deal in handpending approval by their respective Legislaturesto create a port on 1,400 acres of undeveloped land that now serves as a dump site for dredged spoil material. The announcement, made outside the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, sets in motion a series of events in which construction could begin within five years on property known as the Jasper Ocean Terminal, with actual cargo passing through it in 10 years.
Egypt unlocked
What explains our fascination with hieroglyphs? In part, surely, it is their sheer expressive beauty. We in newspapers are always looking for more elegant typefaces to catch your eye and enhance our limping prose. But however pretty the chosen font, our words — and the alphabetical symbols that they contain — remain intractably abstract. You may look at the word "bird" or "custard" and conjure in your mind’s eye a beautiful plumed creature or a tub of the gooey yellow stuff. But you don’t see them on the page. Whereas with hieroglyphs, you do. Or at least, you think you do — though that impression can be mightily deceptive, as we shall see. So, as with Mandarin, there is pleasure to be derived from looking at the exquisite pictographs of the Ancient Egyptians, irrespective of whether one has the foggiest notion of what they mean.
Paris Hilton Delays Rwanda Trip But Jets To Toyko For Beauty Contest
TOKYO, Japan (November 6, 2007) - Paris Hilton may not be ready for her planned charity work in Rwanda, but she was up for judging a beauty contest in Tokyo on Tuesday. Hilton and her younger sister, Nicky, each chose one finalist for the Miss Universe Japan contest. A dozen or so more will be selected next month. "I love Tokyo," Hilton said. "The shopping is great." Hilton has promised to try to improve her bad-girl image since she finished a jail term this June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. She had announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda this month for the Playing for Good Foundation, but later decided to postpone the trip. Her appearance at a Tokyo fashion boutique to judge the contest packed the room with photographers and TV cameras.
Uganda: Mukulu's Dramatic History Recap At CHOGM Opening
Changing colour hues were just about the only aesthetic thing at Friday's 30-minute presentation titled Uganda's Journey to Self Realisation. Not that we expected renowned playwright Alex Mukulu to recreate rain and Hellenic dancers like the ones at the Malta Chogm in 2005. The famed theatre guru steered clear of jaw-dropping opening ceremony clichés and brought to the eminent visitors and a continental television audience a taste of his enduring theatrical craft that fused traditional and foreign music and dance. .
Gift-hunting season begins
Ready or not, the holiday shopping season has arrived. Here are some ideas for the outdoors enthusiast on your gift list: • For the computer-savvy hunter or angler who wants to remember details of trips afield, a subscription to GameTraxx.com. The online journal (subscription is $29.95 a year) offers the opportunity to put your trip details on servers that are backed up, so you'll never lose your information. Subscribers can click on icons to specify a fish or game animal, use drag-down menus to fill in the date, time, activity and location, and enter their personal accounts and JPEG images. When the journal entry is submitted to GameTraxx, it is supplemented with temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, moon phase, and other useful information.
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