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Sean Connery to write book on his life and Scotland
BEIJING, July 11 -- Sean Connery, who has said he would not live in his native Scotland again until it became independent, is writing a book about his birthplace mixed with autobiographical anecdotes, his publishers said.Canongate Books of Edinburgh said it had acquired world English-language rights to the film star's memoirs, "Connery's Scotland," in conjunction with Polygon.
"Our goal is to produce a very readable, visually stimulating and hopefully intriguing history of Scotland, with personal discoveries," Connery said in a statement.
Best known for his screen portrayal of fictional British spy James Bond, 007, Connery will work in collaboration with writer and filmmaker Murray Grigor.
Connery, the Edinburgh-born son of a truck driver, worked with Grigor on the award-winning documentary "Sean Connery's Edinburgh." The star now lives in the Bahamas.
'International Flava' comes to Nassau
Hybrid Events is an international company with ties to the US, Jamaica and The Bahamas. Recently, they put on a show at Club Nirvana featuring international DJ's, Black Chiney and "Omen." The event started out slowly but gradually gained momentum and impressed everyone who attended.Kandice Hanna- the sole Bahamian in the mix of Jamaican, American pottage and a businesswoman in her own right with several companies to her name (including the phenomenal KhanAali Designs, which focuses on public relations, graphic design and lots more) - sat with us for a few minutes and gave us insight into Hybrid's interest in the Bahamian Party Scene.
Weekender: Why did Hybrid choose The Bahamas for this event?
Kandice: This is how it all began... In my junior year of university, I had to take this course, 'Public Relations Campaigns' for my major.
Malta to receive warning letter over spring hunting
The European Commission has sent a first warning letter to Malta over the spring hunting of two species of quails and turtle doves. Meanwhile, in a press release, the Maltese government said that it has not yet received the notification for which the authorities will have to give its position in not more than two months. The hunting of these migratory birds begins in March, during their return from Africa to their breeding grounds in Europe. On the basis of information provided by the Maltese authorities, the Commission believes that alternative solutions to spring hunting exist, i.e. hunting in the autumn. However the government said that it does not agree with the European Commissions position and will do its utmost to defend its case. In the light of the reply or absence of a reply from Malta, the Commission may decide to address a "Reasoned Opinion" (final written warning).Mosquito Trail
Yesterday the Guardian published an important interview with two of the leading experts providing advice and technical support to the Ministry of Health, during the outbreak of malaria on Great Exuma Island. Today, we release the remainder of the interview with Lynda Campbell and Dr. Keith Carter who are from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO).We continue.
Lynda Campbell: The Ministry is dealing with the situation and we are providing technical support.
NG: As far as you are concerned, one possibility is that somebody went into Exuma who already had Malaria and was then bitten and the transmission from that bite went on?
LC: That is right
NG But so far, you are not able to assess...
KC: It would be difficult, to be honest with you.
Viacom’s Freston on Greenfield’s Hot Seat
Pali Research media analyst Richard Greenfield, never accused of being a shrinking violet, pulled no punches in a recent research report on Viacom, writing that either the media giant must begin living up to the hype surrounding its split with CBS in January or start looking for a new CEO.Greenfield -- who has a "buy" rating and a $51-per-share 12-month price target on Viacom stock -- started off his seven-page tome, issued Monday, by eating a little crow.
"Since initiating on Viacom stock in February 2006 with a buy rating, we have been 'dead' wrong, with the stock now down 15% year-to-date (versus a 1.4% gain for the S&P 500)," Greenfield wrote. In contrast, CBS stock is up 4.5% this year.
Greenfield maintained his "buy" rating on the stock, adding that he believes Viacom's underlying assets are worth far more than its current stock price.
Blacking Up
George dislikes his partner blacking up to play the clown, but he admits that when Bert turned himself into a "coon," they started to make money. Williams and Walker are popular with blacks at first just because they are stars, ambassadors of the race, and have even performed on the lawn at Buckingham Palace for the little Prince of Wales. Williams and Walker are credited with being the first to throw off some of the conventions of minstrelsy, starting with the familiar plantation settings. They were criticized by the white press for not having a real coon song in their show In Dahomey, and for omitting the cakewalk finale that had become part of the formula of the minstrel show. (In the end, they gave in and restored this popular feature.) They introduced into their plots what Walker called "the native African element." The title of and idea for In Dahomey—black crooks try to persuade an elderly rich black man in Florida to finance a back-to-Africa scheme—came from their experience of meeting Africans in the San Francisco Exposition of 1893, and this encounter has become a highly symbolic moment in African-American cultural history.