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NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Barnes Group Inc. Monday said its chief financial officer and senior vice president William Denninger will retire effective June 2 to spend time with his family.
Denninger will also leave the company’s board. After he leaves, the board will have 10 members.
Francis Boyle, Jr., the company’s vice president and controller, will serve as acting finance chief while a search for a replacement is conducted.
Shares of Barnes fell 26 cents to $31.68 Monday.
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Sebastian Faulks’ rollicking new Bond story brings back that old Ian Fleming feeling. It’s a good day to be a Bond fan.

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And she’s not out of the woods yet. When she made a quite pertinent comment about how there is still a culture of the “token female” on shows like Have I Got News For You, none other than Germaine Greer took her to task, saying that she was hardly known for being witty. Ouch! She is furious.
Mariella says: “What - she doesn’t think she’s the token crabby old intellectual? Oh, come on! Of course women are trundled out because the producers think: ‘S**t - three weeks since we had a female.’
“I am disappointed. Germaine Greer was such an iconic figure for women like me, but she hasn’t done an awful lot for women recently. She really should know better.”
Moving on, Mariella is keen to point out that she is not a natural blonde. She is a natural “mouse,” she tells me, but went bottle-blonde not out of the desire to have more fun, but to escape the visual reminder of personal torment. Her father died suddenly when she was 15, and a huge swathe of her hair went grey - seemingly overnight.
“It was probably shock, but I had this grey - no, white - streak here and there. The hairdresser said that the best way to deal with it was to go lighter.”
She giggles. Actually, it is more of a whoop. Mariella doesn’t really giggle; she might now be too far removed from her fun, blonde image.
“I wrote a piece on asylum seekers the other day and got a letter from someone who said: ‘As an intellectual academic, what does Mariella Frostrup know about asylum seekers?’ Can you believe it? An intellectual academic! My God! All my professional life I’d waited for someone to call me that.”

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When Larry Massa says he likes to travel light, he means it. No need for a jacket and tie at dinner, a pristine set of tennis whites when he hits the court or even a bathrobe to wear when heading from his hotel room to the pool or the spa.
For when Massa, 74, a retired Navy commander and computer science engineer from Virginia Beach, Va., and his wife, Darlene, go on vacation, they do it in the nude.
“If you haven’t tried it, there’s no way I can tell you what a fun thing it is, what an added dimension to a vacation it can be,” said Larry Massa, who has been taking “clothing-optional” vacations since 2001 and whose most recent trip was to an all-nude resort in Mexico.
“I’ll never forget the day,” said Massa, recalling the couple’s first nudist vacation at a Caribbean resort. “The place was full. We went to the far end of the pool and Dar said, ‘I’m going to take my top off.’ I thought I’m not going to wear these stupid swim trunks in the pool. So I jumped in naked. She looked down at me and dropped her bottoms, and we never looked back.”
To many, the mention of a nudist resort conjures up images of isolated beach colonies with volleyball courts, hippie-style gatherings in a secluded campground or RV parks tucked away in the woods for vacationers who still talk reverently about the Summer of Love.
And while those kinds of offerings still exist for Massa and his fellow naturalists, as they prefer to be called, the real boom in nude
vacations is coming at the high end of the business, as upscale hotels and resorts, and even some luxury cruise lines, have begun to see the economic potential in the no-clothes crowd - particularly those who want to shed their clothes but not their pampered lifestyles.

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Baby Mama The call of motherhood is heard by a successful businesswoman (Tina Fey), but she needs help from a surrogate (Amy Poehler).
Chapter 27 Jared Leto stars as Mark David Chapman in this historical drama about the man who killed John Lennon. Also starring Lindsay Lohan as a Lennon groupie.
Deal An aging poker legend (Burt Reynolds) takes a hot-shot college kid (Bret Harrison) under his wing until they wind up going head-to-head in a big tournament.
Deception An accountant steps into trouble when he lets a friend introduce him to an underground sex club. Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams star.
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay The stoner duo go through more adventures after being mistaken for terrorists on their flight to Amsterdam.
Irina Palm A 50-year-old London widow (Marianne Faithfull) desperate to raise money for her ill grandchild is hired as a "hostess" at an adult club.
Life Before Her Eyes A woman (Uma Thurman) keeps flashing back to her high school days, when her best friend was killed in a Columbine-like incident. Also starring Evan Rachel Wood, as the same character in the flashbacks.
Priceless Audrey Tautou (Amélie) is a gold-digging con woman who sets up a bartender, mistakenly believing him to be a man of wealth. French with subtitles.
The Visitor The life of a bored, middle-aged college professor (Richard Jenkins) is changed by the presence of two immigrants who turn out to be living in the New York apartment where he’s supposed to stay for a conference.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation In this historical drama, a young Brazilian boy is inadvertently left on his own in São Paulo’s Jewish-Italian section, where he makes new friends amid political turmoil and World Cup excitement. Various languages with subtitles.
Zombie Strippers The dancers at a small-town strip club are exposed to a dangerous chemical that turns them into zombies.

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PHOENIX – When the ball left Justin Huber's bat yesterday afternoon, it was already Monday in Melbourne. Breakfast time. The sports news of the day was dominated by the neck injury sustained by one David Neitz in another depressing Australian Rules Football defeat for the hometown Demons.
So if Huber's first big league home run was a shot heard 'round the world, it was because someone back home was listening mighty closely.
“It's pretty special,” said the Padres' newfound Thunder from Down Under. “But I don't see myself telling stories about it in 10 years' time or 20 years' time, because nobody in Australia knows who Randy Johnson is.”
Imagine that. You cross the ocean to carve out a baseball career and when you finally make your mark, against a towering and iconic opponent, the meaning is lost on your friends and family.
Huber's three-run homer helped propel the Padres to a 9-4 victory at Chase Field, ending a four-game losing streak and contributing to the club's largest run total of the season. Yet taking the Big Unit deep doesn't resonate in the Southern Hemisphere as it does in Southern California. It's a feat Huber may have to savor by himself.
“It was,” he said, “a pretty cool experience.”
It was one of those chance opportunities a ballplayer gets as much by default as merit. With the left-handed Johnson scheduled to start a day game following Saturday's twilight game, Padres manager Bud Black saw it as an opportunity to rest his left-handed outfielders and provide some game action for the reserves accumulating cobwebs at the end of his bench.
There was no matchup history to consider. Huber had never faced Johnson. There was no tactical hunch at work, Black admitted, and not even much of a percentage play.
Huber's pregame stat sheet showed him as a .161 hitter against big league left-handers, with one career extra-base hit in 62 at-bats. Even that hit was both dated and dubious – a 2005 bloop double against Cleveland's Cliff Lee.

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HARVESTERS Under 15s Girls went for glory against Hormead Hares in the County Cup Final. The full time score was 2-2 with Harvesters twice being pegged back after taking the lead. A Jess Nash corner set up Allannah Connolly to head home the opener and Rowan Allwright scored the second following some bright team play. In extra time it was all Harvesters and a scorching individual goal by Emma Rollings made the score 3-2. In the second half of extra time, the hard-working Joanne Corbett struck a well-deserved goal. The 4-2 win ensured Harvesters retained the County Cup.
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What’s awkwarder than awkward?
“The Office” has been answering that question for some time now, but last night’s episode took uncomfortable office relations into “The Dinner Party.”
Michael and his confounding love match, Jan, decide to host a couples night in their home, giving Jim and Pam, Angela and Andy a view into their distressing relationship.
Jan sets the tone for the evening when she accepts Pam’s gift of wine:
“Wow, this will be great to cook with,” she says, before taking the guests on a tour of their home.
The dinner hasn’t been prepared, so charades and other entertainments ensue; Jim’s attempt to escape, by claiming his apartment has flooded, fails.
When Dwight and his date (his aged, one-time baby-sitter) show up uninvited, Michael and Jan begin to bicker, revealing more about their history (think Michael’s three vasectomy procedures) than their colleagues would ever want to know.
Angela, meanwhile, refuses Dwight’s salad:
“The thought of popping one of your beets into my mouth makes me want to vomit.”
In the end, Jan throws a trophy of Michael’s into his plasma TV; the cops show up to check up on the dispute and Michael goes home with Dwight before anybody got to eat dinner.
Jim and Pam, ever-cute, go get burgers.
AMERICAN IDOL: AND THEN THERE WERE 7
We are so upset that all we can say is Michael Johns was voted off.
(Carly and Syesha joined him in the Bottom 3).
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Miss your favorite show last night? No problem. Check out our super-condensed recaps.
Scrubs — Elliot gets mad at J.D. for not taking her advice, but she helps him get a burn victim to graduation because something’s going on between them. Turk learns Spanish for Carla, but instead of telling her, uses it to eavesdrop.

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The superb musicians of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, led by Geoff Nuttall, first violin, who is described by St. Lawrence cellist Christopher Costanza as having “rock-star status in the classical music world,” will perform Tuesday in the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre.
The event is co-presented by the Peace Center and the International Chamber Music Series.
Reached on tour, Costanza says the first thing he noticed after he joined the group in 2003 was the very high energy of the players. “I said to myself, ‘I can’t wait to be part of it.’”
Case in point is the high physicality with which Nuttall, with long, flowing locks and perpetually dancing feet, leads the foursome that he co-founded with violist and fellow Canadian Lesley Robertson.
The other co-founders, violinist Barry Shiffman and cellist Marina Hoover, have left the group and were replaced by second violin Scott St. John and Costanza on cello. A Utica, N.Y., native, Costanza is the only non-Canadian in the group.
“This particular group of musicians is unique,” he says. “I jumped on a moving train, so to speak. They are full of intensity and focus, and the level of activity — we perform well over 100 concerts per year — is something I had not experienced before.”
On the other hand, when the opportunity reared its head, Costanza says he couldn’t have been happier to embrace it. The program
Two Haydn string quartets will bookend the St. Lawrence program at the Gunter.
They are the C major Op. 54, No.2, and the G major Op. 77, No.1. The latter was recorded by the quartet last week.
The “77,” says Costanza, is one of the last string quartets that Joseph Haydn wrote in 1799. As expected of the founder of the string quartet form, it begins with the allegro (fast) movement, followed by the adagio (slow) movement.

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SOFIA, April 2 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgaria’s newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
GENERAL AND POLITICS
- Two senior finance ministry officials responsible for pre-accession EU funding programme PHARE have resigned after the EU suspended 50.7 million levs in aid due to suspicions of irregularities (Standart, 24 Chasa, Dnevnik, Monitor, Sega, Duma, Klasa, Trud).
24 CHASA - The government discusses a memorandum of the Black Sea countries’ economic forum to build 7,000 kilometres of highways connecting seven countries in the region.
- The government will provide over 100 million levs ($79.94 million) to complete the construction of the major Trakia highway, if the concessionaire fails to finance the project, Construction Minister Asen Gagauzov says (Dnevnik, Standart).
- Some 7,100 Bulgarians have registered to look for jobs in EU countries, mainly in construction and tourism, the social ministry says (Monitor, Sega, Duma, Novinar, Trud). Continued…

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Army Capt. Christopher Almaguer, left, and other military and civilian guests stand for the fallen at the Hawaii Medal of Honor ceremony.
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Army Spc. Tyler R. Seideman was less than three weeks from celebrating his 21st birthday when the Black Hawk helicopter carrying him and nine other Schofield Barracks soldiers crashed in northern Iraq on Aug. 22, 2007, killing everyone aboard.
The Lincoln, Ark., native was among 31 fallen service members with Hawai’i ties whose memories were honored yesterday at the annual Hawaii Medal of Honor presentation at the state Capitol.
Seideman served in the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment. His mother, Lee Ann, wore a purple orchid lei yesterday as she rose to accept her son’s medal before Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawai’i Adjutant General Robert G.F. Lee, state legislators, representatives from Hawai’i’s congressional delegation, servicemen and hundreds of others in the House of Representatives chamber.
“You couldn’t ask for a more tenderhearted, generous … and loving person,” Lee Ann Seideman said after the ceremony, her eyes wet.
The state Medal of Honor presentation, now in its third year, honors members of the U.S. armed forces, U.S. military reserves and Hawai’i National Guard who were Hawai’i residents, attended a Hawai’i school or who were stationed in the Islands.
Lee Ann Seideman arrived in Honolulu from Arkansas on Monday. She said she is still trying to adjust to Hawai’i time and lay awake at 2:30 a.m. yesterday remembering Tyler.
She tried to put her son’s death in perspective, thinking of her grandmother, who lost two sons in World War II.
“I know I haven’t sacrificed much,” she said. “But it feels like the world to me because he was my best friend.”
Hawai’i’s Medal of Honor was the first state award of its kind in the nation and served as a model for similar ceremonies in other states. The medal is engraved with taro leaves, which represent ‘ohana.

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