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A CHEESY rom-com I can deal with, even a clunky slasher flick, but I draw the line at movie remakes. If it ain't broke, why fix it? And when it comes to tinkering with 80s classics? Well, that's just sacrilege.

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Hence my dismay to discover that this week not only sees the A- Team make the leap to the big screen - 23 years after the original tv series wrapped - but a remake of 1984's Karate Kid will also open in cinemas, news that made my heart plummet like a stone. The A- Team trailer alone makes my blood curdle, the voiceover stating: "One year ago, an elite commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they did not commit, these men promptly escaped from a maximum security facility. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers FOR HIRE."

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What? That's blatantly wrong. As any A-Team diehard will tell you, it's "soldiers OF FORTUNE". Why not just whitewash over the ceiling of Sistine Chapel while you're at it.

But while Liam Neeson cannibalising Hannibal's natty catchphrase: "I love it when a plan comes together" grates, it is admittedly marginally better than what's going down in the remake of the Karate Kid. The updated version sees 12-year-old Dre Parker and his mother move to Beijing where he is unmercifully bullied until caretaker Mr Han, played by Jackie Chan, steps in to teach him how to fight back. Troublingly, though, it's kung fu - not karate that the so-called Karate Kid is taught. The famous "wax on, wax tory burch flats off" scene has been ditched too, replaced by Parker repeatedly taking his jacket on and off. Somehow I can't see kids mimicking: "jacket on, jacket off" more than two decades later.

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Stripe-suited men and women speaking different languages, but all sharing an expertise in Israel, the Wholesale Handbags United States or both, were sitting in foreign ministries around the world over the last three days scratching their heads and trying to evaluate Tuesday's White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Diplomats from Ankara to Amman, Cairo to Copenhagen, Ramallah to Rome, Teheran to Tokyo, were all busy writing internal memos focusing on what the meeting meant and how it impacted on their governments' policies. And, almost certainly, as far as getting information about what was actually said at the private meeting, the diplomats were all dipping from the very same well - and that well was dry.

In the days that followed the fifth meeting between Netanyahu and Obama in their current roles, precious little was leaked about what was actually discussed behind closed doors - what Obama said about construction in Jerusalem, or what Netanyahu said about extending the settlement construction moratorium. As a result, evaluations and assessments are being drawn up based on what happened in the open, in the full glare of the television cameras, and with the microphones working.

And out there in the open, as all the world witnessed, Obama and Netanyahu oozed affection.

The cynics, both here and abroad, will say it was not real, that it was all for show, and that the warm meeting in public was the result of cold political calculations by both men. Obama needed to show Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party for whom Israel is very important that the relationship remained rock-solid, and Netanyahu needed to show his electorate that his polices wholesale lingerie did not cause a tectonic rift with the US.

But the cynics are missing a very important point. In diplomacy, like in much else, perception is what matters, often - oddly - even trumping reality. And the choreographed love affair put on in the Oval Office - real or make believe - is what the US administration wanted the world to see.

That perception is right now all that those diplomats in all those foreign ministries have to go on in writing the memos that will impact on their countries' polices. Their assessments and evaluations will come under the headline of "the Netanyahu-Obama meeting, a warming of US- Israeli ties." Policy decisions in capitals around the world, including in Cairo, Damascus, Amman and Ramallah, will be made based on that assumption.

For instance, based on the show put on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority will have to decide whether it would be wise to continue avoiding direct negotiations, banking on the hope that if it holds out longer, Obama might pressure Netanyahu into declaring a total settlement freeze.

Based on Tuesday's meeting, the Turks will have to decide whether to cut off diplomatic relations with Israel, trying to judge what type of reaction that would elicit from the US. With Obama bashing Netanyahu, they might conclude that the reaction would be minor; with the US president caressing Netanyahu, the conclusion is likely to be considerably different.

So, too, when EU foreign ministers get together and draw up their monthly foreign policy statements. These statements are likely to be much tougher with an Obama perceived as impatient with Israel, than at a time when he is seen as Netanyahu's pal.

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Simone Edwards has been a WNBA champion (2004 Seattle Storm) and enjoyed a successful international career. For the most part, her playing days ended several years ago when she became a college coach.

Currently an assistant coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Edwards will be back on the court this summer when the Jamaican women's senior national basketball team plays in two major tournaments with the goal of qualifying for the Olympic Games.

"We want people to know there is a Jamaican women's national basketball team and we're ranked 49th in the world," said Edwards, who was a developmental player with the New York Liberty in 1997. "When I was in high school [in Jamaica), we didn't even have high school basketball for girls. We're growing and trying to get people to put in the time and Fake Balenciaga Handbags resources to help us develop these young girls."

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For the tournaments this month, Centro Basket, a qualifier for the 2011 FTBA Americas Championship, and the Central American and Caribbean Games, Edwards will be joined by several players from the New York-New Jersey area. The team trained this past week in New Jersey.

"I'm very proud to be included. It's an honor," said Taj ay Asmeade, a graduate of the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem. Asmeade recently completed two years at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas, and will be attending Seton Hall University in the fall.

A 6-foot-3 center, Asmeade is eager to play alongside Edwards. "I feel I can have a pro career with the right help, right team, staying focused and continuing to work hard," she said.

Danielle Moseley has lived in the U.S. for 17 years but maintains strong ties to her home country. After graduating Alexander McQueen from college with a finance degree, she worked as an analyst for three years before being laid off. These days, she juggles several jobs, including being an assistant women's basketball coach at New Jersey City University.

"To compete, I had to tell all my bosses I'm going to be gone for a month," said Moseley, a 6-foot-2 forward. "It's a very overwhelming and humbling opportunity that I've been granted."

Edwards hopes good results at the upcoming tournaments will lead to desperately needed sponsorship and financial support. They are working with Team Jamaica Bickle, an organization founded to provide assistance for athletes from Jamaica and the Caribbean.

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from BERNAMA, The Malaysian National News Agency SIBU, July 21 (Bernama) -- An upcoming private commercial development project totalling RM60 million is expected to spur greater development in the surrounding areas of the airport here.

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The project, to be undertaken by Sunhill Development Sdn Bhd, will see the development of a RM35 million nine-storey hotel, a RM5 million two-storey food court and 20 units of shop houses worth RM20 million.

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He also said the properties, to occupy high grounds at the 23rd Kilometer of the Tun Abdul Rahman Road, will be free from any flood problem.

Ting was speaking at a press conference to announce SHEDA Home and Property Roadshow Sibu 2010 here today.

The three-day roadshow from July 27-29 will be held at Wisma Sanyan here in conjunction with the upcoming Merdeka Day celebration.

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"Todate, 60 per cent of the total of 23 booths have been booked, with a 10 per cent discount given to members of SHEDA," Ting said.

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The vulnerability of artist Joy Wolfenden Brown's subjects stares out from her paintings.

Some are women, some are girls. They are all, though, childlike in the way they lay their emotions bare, through expressive eyes.

In Evening, a woman with skin like porcelain and smudgy eyes stares out like a terrified child, even though she wears a adult carapace of black evening gown and elbow-length gloves. The Meeting Place is Joy's first exhibition at the Millennium in St Ives, although the curator Joseph Clarke has exhibited her work before at his former gallery in Penzance, Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art.

"There remains something so extraordinarily fragile within her paintings," says Joseph.

"Even the rawness of the application suggests a vulnerability; these are works that leave nothing for the artist or the viewer to hide behind."

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"In many ways if I speak about my work I could just say that I paint pictures and that I would be very sad if I had to stop," she says.

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She sees her paintings as capturing moments gone in the blink of an eye, when something significant is revealed.

"All speaking can be difficult and contains risk," she says. "When we speak aloud we may select what we show of ourselves according to who we are and who we are with.

"In the quiet of my studio I find a meeting place where silent conversations unfold. They flit to and fro like little birds carrying messages or flow like a river that gently awakens a dormant heart. A passing scent may stir a longing for something precious that is hard to identify and thought lost. Sometimes when I paint my heart races or flutters as if I am uncovering a secret love."

The enigmatic nature of her vision - in what is perhaps her best exhibition yet - leaves room for the viewer to interpret what they see.

In New Baby, a wash of white partially obscures the hooded figures turned away, the sepia-colouring of the blurred figures suggesting a scene the past. A Quiet Town is another blurred street scene.

In a few brush strokes Joy suggests this is somewhere hot and dusty, in the bare bronzed arms of the women, their terracotta- coloured skirts and sun hats.

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Trepidation of entering rooms which are not your own is expressed in three paintings, Her Mother's Room, The Meeting Place and The Guest Room.

The role of motherhood, and the way it can obscure the individual, comes over beautifully in The Cake Stall and Her Mother, the eyes of the women staring out plaintively. Joy herself is the mother of two boys.

"In showing my paintings I hope that they offer the viewer a meeting place for their 'unspoken', and I always hope that the viewer will feel free to take from them whatever they will," she says.

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The brothers were together in life and death. Kartik and Pratik shared the same grave on Thursday.

The priest read out from the Holy Bible around 2 pm at the Indian Catholic Cemetery. The faithful said the Lord's Prayer in silence.

Rita leaned against her husband Alangiam P Kalaichelvan. His efforts to hold back tears were visible from a distance, even through a sheet of drizzle. The couple stood, as if alone, in the crowd, unable to console each other.

A little away stood a group of men, friends of Kalaichelvan, a captain with Kingfisher Airlines. They were whispering to each other, discussing the possibilities that might have led to the Beechcraft crash that killed their friend's children.

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The mourners reluctantly moved forward. A man held out loose earth on a tray for them. The bereaved ignored him. Instead of mud, they dropped handfuls of petals into the grave, and returned to where they had been standing.

The man silently stepped aside, confused and bewildered. He watched others walking past him with petals - mostly of red rose. A bed of red soon rose from the grave and reached the ground level.

Captain Kalaichelvan took a couple of steps forward. He looked around and spluttered something loudly. Realising that no one had understood his words, he paused a bit before a second attempt. "There is a prayer..." he fixed his gaze on the ground as he could not complete the sentence.

The seasoned pilot in the bereaved father soon took over. Kalaichelvan took a deep breath and held his head high. "There is a prayer meeting at three. All are welcome. Please come." His words were loud and clear.

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Witnesses saw a man, wearing a balaclava, hit the door with a baseball bat.

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BRITAIN'S athletes made history here last night when three medals gave them their biggest ever haul at best men watches a European Championships.

Chris Tomlinson leapt to a bronze medal in the long jump and there was silver and bronze for the men's and women's 4x400m relay teams respectively to take the tally to 19.

Never in the 76-year history of these championships has Britain bagged so many medals.

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The previous best was in 1990 from a team boasting British legends such as Linford Christie, Colin Jackson, Roger Black, Steve Backley and Kriss Akabusi.

Tomlinson won his first outdoor championship medal at the age of 30 with a season's best leap of 8.23metres as Germany's Christian Reif won gold with 8.47m.

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Next up were the women's relay quartet of Nicola Sanders, Lee McConnell, Marilyn Okoro and Perri Shakes-Drayton, who finished third behind Russia in 3:24.32. In the final race of the night, the men's 4x400m, Conrad Williams, Michael Bingham, Rob Tobin and Martyn Rooney brought home the recordbreaking 19th medal as runners-up behind Russia.

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This is undoubtedly the quietest transfer window in Scottish football in recent memory. Even with a World Cup sideshow, there has always been player activity in our game in the summer months, but not now.

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WHEN she scooped the biggest ever Euromillions jackpot, Irish granny Dolores McNamara must have thought she was the luckiest woman alive.

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As locals celebrated Dolores' good fortune, one enterprising "friend" took photographs of the night and sold them off to the highest bidder.

This was just a taste of what was to come. Since then, just like Enya - who she briefly displaced in the rich list - Dolores has rarely been seen in public and has not become a high society fixture as a result of her staggering wealth.

Her only major extravagance was a mansion in Kilaloe, Co Clare, less than 30 minutes from her house in Limerick.

Her husband Adrian has bought a number of horses which are currently in training.

Soon after the details of her good fortune were made public, it became obvious that Dolores and her family would be forced to move.

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