четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

Heneghan, Hon. Elizabeth, Q.C., LL.B.

HENEGHAN, HON. ELIZABETH, Q.C., LL.B.

Ed. at Dalhousie Univ. (LL.B., 1980). Private Career: Called to the Bar, 1980. Practised law with Lewis & Sinnott, St. John's, later known as Lewis, Sinnott & Heneghan. Became a sole practitioner, 1995. Bencher, Law Soc. of Nfld. Former Mem., Statutory Rules Ctee of the Federal Court of Canada. Appt'd Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Div., Nov. 5, 1999. Address: Federal Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0H9.


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Marla Hlady

TORONTO

Marla Hlady

YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET

Maria Hlady takes apart and rebuilds machines that make sounds. In recent years she has been preoccupied with rigging domestic objects, including toy drummers and teapots, to produce unexpected tones. Playing Piano, 2007, an installation shown recently at YYZ Artists' Outlet, represents a shift toward a larger scale and a more accessible context. Striking in its complex barrage of visual and musical stimuli, the work consists of a late-1920s player piano with keyboard and bellows compressor removed (here to the front of the exhibition space). The parts still function to produce an audible rhythm, the regularity of which …

Carter arrives in Damascus for talks with Assad, Hamas leader

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has arrived in Syria where he is due to meet the political leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas group.

Carter's Friday visit comes a day after he met several Hamas leaders in Egypt and said he had …

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SBC raises dividend

SBC Communications raised its quarterly dividend 11 percent,giving it the highest annual yield among phone rivals. The companyalso said it may buy back as many as 350 million shares to increasestockholder value. The dividend will rise to 31.25 cents a share from28.25 cents, the second increase this year, SBC said. The boardboosted the buyback program 75 percent to 10 percent of common stock.The fourth-quarter dividend is payable Feb. 2 to shareholders as ofJan. 10.

GM gets pension boost

General Motors said the elimination of most of its $19.3 billionU.S. pension deficit, the largest among U.S. companies at the end oflast year, will add 70 …

среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

The effect of cholesterol on the lateral diffusion of phospholipids in oriented bilayers

ABSTRACT Pulsed field gradient NMR was utilized to directly determine the lipid lateral diffusion coefficient for the following macroscopically aligned bilayers: dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), sphingomyelin (SM), palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC), and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) with addition of cholesterol (CHOL) up to ~40 mol %. The observed effect of cholesterol on the lipid lateral diffusion is interpreted in terms of the different diffusion coefficients obtained in the liquid ordered (/^sub o^) and the liquid disordered (/^sub d^) phases occurring in the phase diagrams. Generally, the lipid lateral diffusion coefficient decreases linearly with increasing CHOL …

Roddick lifts US past Chile to Davis Cup quarters

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Andy Roddick showed why he's the go-to guy when the United States needs to close out a Davis Cup tie.

Roddick defeated Paul Capdeville 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-3 Sunday, giving the United States an insurmountable 3-1 lead in its 4-1 victory over Chile in the first-round Davis Cup World Group series.

Roddick improved 12-0 in matches that can clinch a Davis Cup matchup for the U.S. and is 33-11 overall in 24 ties since 2001.

"It's always sweet, and every time you clinch one you think it's the sweetest," Roddick said. "I think it's also pretty satisfactory when everything is stacked against you — you got the (clay) court, the crowd. It's a mental grind …

Emigration from Iceland at record high in 2009

Nearly twice as many people left Iceland last year as moved in, producing the largest net emigration on record, according to officials statistics.

Statistics Iceland, the official agency, said some 10,612 people left the country in 2009 while 5,777 moved in.

Agency chief Omar Hardarson said Thursday that the net loss of 4,835 and the total emigration figure were the largest since record-keeping began in 1887, as so was the total figure for those leaving.

The agency did not speculate on …