MARC Lievremont is looking to restore some of the old flair of French teams gone by which was largely discarded during the reign of previous coach Bernard Laporte.
Lievremont has vowed to make his team more enterprising and attacking, yet in the first match of the campaign against Scotland last Sunday, it was France’s defence that showed real strength.
France managed their three tries through wingers Vincent Clerc (two) and Julien Malzieu, but scrum-half, Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, felt that it was in the darker arts the team deserved more praise.
“We had a decent defence, while we were good at the breakdown and lost just one line-out,” he said “At Toulouse, we try so hard to keep possession and pass the ball around. However, we hammer home week after week that it is defence that is important.”
Today we will see a confident but wary French team take to the field.
Despite changes Lievremont has made the team for Saturday’s game still looks familiar.
The entire back-line appeared in the World Cup and today also sees the return of Julien Bonnaire and prop Nicolas Mas. This brings more experience among the forwards. watches-o
A gun-ho attitude against an Ireland side who, despite their recent strugglesm are still held in high regard by the French.
This weekend’s game will be France’s first return to the Stade de France since their heartbreaking defeat against England in the World cup semi-finals.
France famously lost their nerve that night in a match they should have won, but Vincent Clerc is confident the crowd will be fully behind the team four months on.
He said: “They were there for us during the World Cup. The taste for rugby which they had during that competition must continue.”
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Marcelle Defosses, age 82, of Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, died Thursday, June South Africa 17, 2010, at Concord Hospital.
She was born in Laconia, daughter of the late George and Aurore (Marcoux) Cardinal.
She worked as a telephone operator and a bank teller for many years. She was a parishioner at St. Peter’s Church in Concord.
Marcelle was predeceased by her husband, Leon watches-c Defosses Jr., who passed away in 1977; her daughter, Sue McDonald; and her brother, Amie Cardinal.
She is survived by her son Donald Defosses and his wife, Mary, of Northfield; six grandchildren, Samantha Defosses, Nicole McDonald, Travis Greene, Sarah Greene, Crystal and Amber McDonald; her son-in- law Robert McDonald; two sisters, Grace Dubreville of Laconia and Rachel Giguere of Belmont; and a brother the Rev. Father Maurice Cardinal of Hawaii; and many nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours will be held tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Waters Funeral Home, 50 S. Main St., Concord.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 11 a.m. at St. Peter’s Church, 135 N. State St., Concord.
Burial will be follow at the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Laconia.
Waters Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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Frog tape stops paint bleeding
FrogTape promises to solve the problem of paint bleeding under the edges of your painter’s tape.
The tape is treated with PaintBlock Technology, a superabsorbent polymer. When the paint comes into contact with the polymer, a gel forms instantly. The gel creates a barrier that prevents paint from oozing underneath the tape, keeping paint lines crisp, the company says.
The tape is available in a variety of widths and comes in a reusable plastic canister designed to protect the tape edges from damage.
FrogTape has a suggested retail price of $6 to $12, depending on the size. It’s sold at Lowe’s and Sherwin-Williams stores, as well as other paint and hardware stores.
Book nurtures
trees from seed
Henry Kock’s passion was propagating and saving native woody plants. The late horticulturist’s knowledge lives on in “Growing Trees From Seed: A Practical Guide to Growing Native Trees, Vines and Shrubs.”
The book, written with Paul Aird, John Ambrose and Gerald Waldron, explores both the reasons for propagating these plants from seed and the methods for doing so. It addresses where to find seeds; which ones to collect; how to store, prepare and sow them; and how to care for the young plants that sprout.
The book presents techniques that have been used successfully in the Great Lakes area.
“Growing Trees From Seed” is published by Firefly Books and sells for $45 in hardcover.
Daylilies need clip for 2011
Question: Do I need to clip the seed pods off my daylilies so I’ll get more blooms?
Answer: Removing seed pods won’t promote bloom for the current season. But for some, removing the pods before they mature might help them reserve energy for next season.
Cut the scapes about 2-inches from the base once the flowers have finished blooming.
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If the scape is still green and well-attached to the crown, don’t pull it. Scapes can be pulled once they’ve turned brown and are loose at the crown.
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NEW DELHI: After six years of presence, the Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt Ltd (HMSI) plans to scale up operations in India.
The company is scouting for a location for its second plant in the country that will help the two-wheeler maker to expand across all segments.
HMSI intends to roll-out the entry-level Replica watches 100cc bikes and higher segment bikes including the 500 cc imported compressive build-up units (CBUs) in three years, as against its existing 125cc Shine and 150cc Unicorn.
Not just this, the company that entered Indian two-wheeler mart in 2001 with Activa, also plans to come up with a new scooter by the third quarter of 2007-08 fiscal.
This is in addition to the company’s new sporty Unicorn and the Unicorn Grand Prix unveiled on Monday and the new variant of Shine that is expected to hit Indian roads in the next few months.
Declining to divulge details, HMSI president and CEO Yukihiro Aoshima said: “The new plant will have a capacity of either six lakh or 12 lakh units and if we start mass production from the very beginning then there will be an investment to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore.”
HMSI’s 100c bikes and new scooters are expected to be manufactured at the company’s second plant.
The company, which is currently manufacturing over nine lakh units at its Manesar plant, plans to pump in Rs 300 crore to ramp up capacity to 12 lakh units over the next three years.
This is over and above Rs 800 crore which its has invested so far over the last six years. HMSI sold 7.2 lakh units in 2006-07 and hopes sell about nine lakh units in 2007-08.
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SOAP WATCH
AS love rat scumbags go, Lewis Archer is up there with that chap who tried to push Rita under a tram in Blackpool. He’s an escort, a man who takes out Yves Saint Laurent Fake Handbags women for money, just a gigolo – as those who’ve been following activities in Coronation Street (ITV1) will know.
Now he wants to boost his bank balance with the help of hairdresser Audrey, who’s spent too long under the dryer if she truly thinks Lewis wants her, and not her money.
She’s had the wool pulled over her eyes by the charmer, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nigel Havers. She’s blind to the fact that he wants to get his hands on her cash, not her body.
The pair plan on buying a place in Greece and poor love-struck Audrey goes all weak at the knees (always handy for getting someone flat on their back so you can have your wicked way) every time Lewis appears.
She’s negotiated a [pounds]100,000 loan, which is surprising in these financially-difficult times. But that’s not enough for greedy Lewis. He wants more and has his eye on dreary Deirdre.
What is it about her that she has men fluttering around her like flies round a cowpat? Perhaps it’s her perfume – Eau D’Fag, a result of her smoking habit. It only takes the promise of 20 Benson and Hedges to let Lewis nibble her ear, smooch her hand and plant his puckering lips on her quivering oral orifice.
He needs to distract her and, having determined that dropping his trousers would be ungentlemanly and probably counter-productive, he snogs her so hecan plant fake betting slips in the till while she’s busy exploring his mouth with her nicotine flavoured tongue.
What Lewis has reckoned without is that intrusive modern invention CCTV. Cameras in the betting shop capture everything in gory detail but not, unfortunately, 3D.
OVER in Walford, Fill the Fug is frettening to fump any flipping fella who Fake Rolex dares criticise him. The Mitchell brother is on a downward spiral in EastEnders (BBC1) following the loss of his daughter and the banging up of his son.
Before you can say “cheers”, Fill is drinking to excess. The sometime alcoholic bottles it and the return of Rainie is the final straw. Please don’t Rainie on his parade. Fill’s in a bad enough way without being introduced to drugs, “Hello, my name’s pandora beads wholesale crack cocaine.
Why don’t you have me?”
He and Rainie share the crack and the hits keep coming. At least Fill is happy, unlike his on-offlady friend Surly Shirley. She arrives back at the flat to find Fill and Raine naked and surrounded by empty bottles of booze. That sight is enough to sober anyone up.
Janine appears to be under the influence of something when she asks Ryan to marry her. He’d be husband number three. Her record in the matrimonial department isn’t good. She pushed first husband Barry off a small mountain while the second one dropped dead shortly after signing the register.
ROMANCE too in Emmerdale (ITV1) where the animals take second place when vets Paddy and Rhona are about. For reasons too ludicrous to debate here, Rhona pretends to be Paddy’s girlfriend.
She even gives him a kiss and, surprise, surprise, rather likes it.
This is bad news for Marlon, who doesn’t have the best of luck with women (
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NOW Eric Pickles has joined the fight to set us free from Whitehall – and that’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d write. Minister Pickles says we shall be allowed to demand a referendum in which we can veto council tax rises if we don’t like them. Brilliant! Except … we can’t do it until 2012. And we can only do it if the council tissot automatic goes above a threshold imposed by Whitehall.
And if we do it, more will join the 2,000 former Cornwall Council workers on the dole because you can bet your bottom dollar this Government or any other will do nothing to help.
So on we must go, paying vast sums of money every month in council tax while workers and services are trashed and suited executives (chief executive Kevin Lavery is paid almost Pounds 239,000 a year; seven officials earn more than Pounds 100,000 a year; 150 council employees earn more than Pounds 50,000 a year) watch over it all. We live, after all, in a world, for example, in which we cannot afford to replace or improve or even just extend our crumbling Victorian schools but we can afford to employ hugely – hugely – expensive Ofsted inspectors and their attendant machinery to look at the rotting woodwork. We live in a world, for example, in which we can afford to repaint the Cornwall logo on vans and dustcarts, but we can’t afford to pay the people to drive them.
NOW for something cheering? Fraid not. Here’s a pitiful statistic for our times: 220 jobs are available at a new Tesco that will shortly finish off what’s left of the town of Callington.
Two thousand people applied for the posts. Yes, 2,000.
Is there a better way of underlining the bankruptcy of our Cornish economy? We do and make so little that 2,000 people have to try to get a job stacking shelves or staffing the Coach Accessories checkouts at Tesco, to be allowed to stand in that soul-destroying empty white light and watch queues and listen to the infernal beep of the bar codes machine for not very much money because that’s the best job in town.
And possibly it is – at least it’s yearround and at least it’s not in tourism.
So entwined is the monstrous corporation in our lives that Tesco managers have been given a base at the nearest job centre (Liskeard) while the store is built.
Such is the power and reach of the great god Tesco. Good grief.
AT LAST: let’s end on a happy note. Only joking! No, let’s end on a sad note. I used to pour scorn on SAD people – you know, the people who complained of ‘seasonally affected disorder’ (or something like that). They suffered in the winter when skies were grey and the sun a distant memory.
Now I pour scorn no more – because I’ve got it. I think June did it – a glorious sunny month that reminded me of what life used to be like long, long ago Embroidered patches – warm, bright, with long days outside wearing shorts and a Tshirt and eating in the garden and walking in the sun and oh, all those things. Now, after a leaden July of grey skies and the sun a distant memory, it appears we are going to be cheated of yet another summer. There seems no end in sight. I am definitely SAD – my mood has plummeted, the children are fed up with everything outside being wet all the time, even the dog’s got her nose tucked under her paws and stares from the doormat at the drizzle with a forlorn look in her soft brown eyes. It’s times like these when you wish God was a wholly owned subsidiary of Marks and Spencer – then at least you could take things back and get a replacem
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For those of us who knit, sew, crochet or engage in other kinds of handiwork, there’s never a dull moment. Our calendars fill up quickly with notices of classes, meetings of stitch groups, museum exhibits we want to see and shopping excursions we plan to make. So reach for your calendars, here are a few more to add to the mix:
. The Fiber Friends group meets noon-2 p.m. each Friday at the Page Farm and Home Museum on the University of Maine Campus. The group is open to all, and there is no cost to participate. Bring your latest project and stitch in the happy company of others. For more information, call the always helpful and informative Mary Bird at 866-2578.
. The Pine Tree Quilters Guild is planning a chartered bus trip to the 34th annual Vermont Quilt Festival, billed as the largest and oldest quilt show in New England. The trip is set for Friday through Sunday, June 25-27.
One does not need to be a member of the guild to go on the trip. There will be pickup locations in Bangor, Augusta and Portland.
For more information, including cost and other details, visit or call Tina Mann at 441-2971.
. The eighth annual Fake Bedat & CO Watches Spa, Knit and Spin, sponsored by New England Textile Arts, is set for Friday-Sunday, Feb. 26-28, with most events taking place at the Harraseeket Inn and the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. Visit for more information.
. The 2010 Make It With Fiber In Maine contest will be held at the Fiber Frolic June 5-6 at the Windsor Fairgrounds in Windsor. Visit to learn more.
. The Fiber Maine-ia Festival 2010 will take place Oct. 16-17 to coincide with the University of Maine Homecoming. Visit http:// for more information.
And other things:
The Pine Kneedlers Knitting Guild based in the Bangor area now has a Web site at .
. Cloth Paper Scissors magazine has launched its new Web site at . Regular features of the Web site include a blog written by magazine founder and editorial director Pokey Bolton; a blog from magazine editor Jenn Mason; excerpts from past and current editions of the magazine, free mixed media projects and free mixed media videos.
Members of the online community may participate in reader challenges, socialize online with other mixed media artists, share images of projects on the photo gallery and engage in conversations in the forums.
. Balenciaga Handags Replica Kelly Pratt and Nancy Knowlton have opened a new quilt gallery in Bangor after operating Dockside Quilt Gallery in Deer Isle village for 20 years.
The new gallery is in the Made in Maine minimall, 304 Stillwater Ave., the former Northern Mattress store. The minimall features Maine craftspeople and artisans in seven stores, including another Deer Isle business, Deer Isle Granite, owned by Peter and Susan Perez. Several more stores are available for interested Maine-made businesses.
Dockside Quilt Gallery products are made in Deer Isle by the Knowlton family – Nancy, her daughters Kelly and Heather and granddaughter Emily. Knowlton and Pratt said they are seeking a broader market in Bangor.
Made in Maine minimall is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday- Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.
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AMONG the talks open to the public are:
* Revealing Insights of Natural Treatment for Osteoarthritis, by professor Yves Henrontin, of the University of Liege, Belgium, a leading rheumatologist.
If you have those aches and pains, do not miss this.
* Evolution in Omega-3 Use in Hearth Disease, by Datuk Dr Azhari Rosmah, consultant cardiologist of the National Heart Institute.
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* If you need some healing, please make a date with the hakeems from India. Some of the best hakeems (healing practioners of the Unani system of healing) will be there to treat you for free.
Bring your ills and pains there for some natural remedies. Places are limited so call 03-79652888 to reserve a place.
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The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, will be in the Quebec region on Wednesday, March 18 to announce important initiatives in three national historic sites.
The Quebec City event will be held in the presence of Sylvie Boucher, Member of Parliament for Beauport-Limoilou, and Germany Regis Labeaume, Mayor of Quebec City.
In Levis, Minister Prentice will be joined by Steven Blaney, Member of Parliament for Levis-Bellechasse, and Danielle Roy Marinelli, Mayor of Levis.
Please note that this advisory is subject to change without notice.
The details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, March 18Time: 11:30 a.m.Location: Cartier-Brebeuf National Historic Site of Canada 175 De L'Espinay Street Quebec, QuebecTime: 2:30 p.m.Location: http://www.wubags.com/handbags-y/ Fort No. 1 41 Du Gouvernement Road Levis, Quebec
Contacts: Parks Canada Priscille Bourque Communications Advisor 418-648-4984
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National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA) is pleased to invite representatives of the media to its Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at exactly 9 a.m. at Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal.
Journalists who wish to attend are asked to proceed first to the media registration desk before going to the Symposia Theatre, Level 1, where the meeting will take place. Please note that use of photographic, recording or television equipment will not be allowed, except for a five-minute period before the start of the meeting.
Members of the Bank’s management team will take questions from the media after the meeting in Salon Cartier I, Level 3.
A live audio feed will allow USA for both the Annual Meeting and the media session to be recorded.
Non-attending Media
Non-attending media representatives may access and ask questions via conference call. Simultaneous interpretation will be available. A media advisory will be released on Marketwire, 15 minutes before the media session begins.
Telephone Access: English: 416-641-6140 / 1-866-299-6657 French: 514-861-4190 / 1-877-667-7766
A live Webcast of the meeting will be accessible via the Bank’s website at under “Annual Meeting.” An archived version of the Webcast will be available as of March 31, 2010 on the same Website.
DATE BOOK
WHAT: Annual Meeting of Shareholders of National Bank of CanadaWHEN: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, at 9 a.m.WHERE: Centre Mont-Royal 2200 Mansfield, MontrealROOMS: Meeting: Symposia Theatre, Level 1 Media session: Salon Cartier I, Level 3
About National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada is an integrated group which provides comprehensive financial services to consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations in its core market, while offering specialized services to its clients elsewhere in the world. National Bank offers a full array of banking services, including retail, corporate and investment banking. It is an active player on international capital markets and, through its subsidiaries, is involved in securities brokerage, insurance and wealth management as well as mutual fund and retirement plan management. National Bank has over $134 billion in assets and, together with its subsidiaries, employs 17,946 people. The Bank’s securities are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: NA). For more information, visit the Bank’s website at .
The telephone number provided below is for the exclusive use of journalists and other media representatives.
Contacts: National Bank Financial Group Denis Dube Senior Manager – Public Relations 514-394-8644
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