Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Heavy rain brings more flood risks - The Guardian
The misery is set to continue with the number of flood alerts soaring for southern England and Wales, with forecasters revealing there will be no respite from the rain over coming days.
The EA said there is a "continued" risk of surface water flooding from overwhelmed drains across parts of London, East and West Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
Some 51 flood alerts have been issued across England and Wales, with seven flood warnings for parts of the River Ouzel in Leighton Buzzard, the River Mole in West Sussex and Surrey, the River Colne in Hertfordshire, and the Barnham, Aldingbourne and Lidsey Rifes in West Sussex.
Further flood alerts are expected for the South West later amid forecasts of torrential downpours in Torbay and south Devon.
Wiggonholt in West Sussex received the biggest lashing on Monday with 63 millimetres of rainfall during the last 24 hours.
"It is June's rainfall in one day," said Victoria Kettley, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association. The average June rainfall for south east, central and southern England is 50 millimetres.
The flooding has already wreaked havoc across parts of the country, causing the closures of roads and a hospital. Emergency cases at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex were diverted to neighbouring Brighton and Chichester for several hours overnight because of flooding.
Meanwhile, a special disaster fund is to be set up after more than 1,500 people were evacuated and 150 rescued in Mid Wales over the weekend. Water up to five feet gushed through homes and businesses in Ceredigion, Powys and Gwynedd, with the clean-up and insurance costs expected to run into millions of pounds.
Further rain is forecast to fall across the UK on Tuesday but with less ferocity. On Wednesday there will be further showers, the heaviest of which will be across Wales and south-west England.
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Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Aldi Süd and affiliates enter into MPEG-2 licences with MPEG LA - ITWeb
MPEG LA announced today that Aldi Süd and affiliates (Aldi Süd) have entered into MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio Licences with MPEG LA.
Under the licenses, Aldi Süd is responsible for paying royalties on its own branded MPEG-2 products.
As a result of this agreement, several companies that licence their essential MPEG-2 patents through MPEG LA have settled their patent enforcement actions against Aldi Süd before the District Court Düsseldorf, Germany.
Source: www.itweb.co.za
Watson handed Wimbledon wildcard - Yahoo! Eurosport
Fellow Britons Naomi Broady and Johanna Konta have also been handed first-round places for the Grand Slam which begins on June 25, according to the LTA.
In the men’s draw, Britons Jamie Baker, Oli Golding, Josh Goodall and James Ward have been handed wildcards.
The 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and Belgium's David Goffin, the lucky loser who took a set off Roger Federer at the French Open, have also been given wildcards.
Hewitt, 31, has dropped to 176 in the world after career-saving toe surgery in February.
Veteran German Tommy Haas will also feature at the grasscourt tournament after he was included on the list. The last male wildcard and two outstanding women's spots will be announced on Friday.
Virginie Razzano, the Frenchwoman who beat Serena Williams in the first round in Paris, received one of the women's eight wildcards as did Kazakhstan qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova who reached the French quarter-finals after ousting champion Li Na.
The low-ranked British ladies will join top-100 players Anne Keothavong and Elena Baltacha in the main draw at the All England Club.
British number three Watson impressed in reaching the second round of the French Open at Roland Garros – having come through qualifying – where she lost to Julia Goerges.
By contrast top-ranked Briton Baltacha and number two Keothavong lost in the opening round.
World number four Andy Murray is the only British male to start in the main draw by right.
Ward, Baker and Goodall are ranked British numbers two to four, while 18-year-old former child actor Golding is not in the top 10 yet.
Men's wildcards:
1. Jamie Baker (GBR)
2. David Goffin (BEL)
3. Oliver Golding (GBR)
4. Josh Goodall (GBR)
5. Tommy Haas (GER)
6. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
7. James Ward (GBR)
8. To be announced
Women's wildcards:
1. Naomi Broady (GBR)
2. Johanna Konta (GBR)
3. Virginie Razzano (FRA)
4. Laura Robson (GBR)
5. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
6. Heather Watson (GBR)
7. To be announced
8. To be announced
Source: uk.eurosport.yahoo.com
Wimbledon 2012: eight British players awarded wildcards - Daily Telegraph
Gentlemen's singles
1. BAKER, Jamie (GBR)
2. GOFFIN, David (BEL)
3. GOLDING, Oliver (GBR)
4. GOODALL, Josh (GBR)
5. HAAS, Tommy (GER)
6. HEWITT, Lleyton (AUS)
7. WARD, James (GBR)
8. To be announced
Ladies' singles
1. BROADY, Naomi (GBR)
2. KONTA, Johanna (GBR)
3. RAZZANO, Virginie (FRA)
4. ROBSON, Laura (GBR)
5. SHVEDOVA, Yaroslava (KAZ)
6. WATSON, Heather (GBR)
7. To be announced
8. To be announced
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
ALDI Offers Award-Winning, Healthy Options at Unbeatable Prices - Sacramento Bee
BATAVIA, Ill., June 12, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ALDI is excited to announce that their exclusive brand, Nature's Nectar 100% Berry Burst Juice, won this year's SELF magazine Healthy Food Award under the drink category. Made from a blend of four fruit juices, the 100% Berry Burst Juice is one of 35 varieties including All Natural Lemonade and 100% Apple Juice in the Nature's Nectar brand. Families looking for a refreshing and healthy beverage on that hot summer day can switch to high-quality ALDI exclusive brands and save up to 50 percent* compared to traditional grocers.
"We are very excited to have one of our juices recognized nationally by SELF magazine," said Chuck Youngstrom, president, ALDI. "We work hard to ensure that our exclusive label products meet or exceed the national name brands on taste and quality, and this further proves that healthy, delicious, award-winning grocery products do not have to come with a high price tag."
The Healthy Food Award selection process begins with SELF magazine's registered dietitians who evaluate each product against strict nutrition criteria. Readers then participate in a blind taste-test and vote for their favorite products. The two products in each category with the highest number of votes take home the Healthy Food Award title.
"The Nature's Nectar 100% Berry Burst Juice is a refreshing fruit juice that has an explosion of flavor," said Tara Kuczykowski, founder of DealSeekingMom.com and an ALDI Super Fan. "As a busy mom, it gives me peace of mind knowing that I can give my kids a glass of juice that they enjoy, without having to worry about the added sugar and artificial flavors found in other beverages. It's delicious and nutritious!"
Using Nature's Nectar 100% Berry Burst Juice, blueberries and flavored sparkling water or orange soda, shoppers can create Very Berry Pops – a summer treat that the whole family will love. The recipe below is quick, easy and delicious!
Very Berry Pops Recipe courtesy of Chef Michelle, ALDI Test Kitchen
Serve these fun treats as ice pops, or use them as ice cubes for a sweet addition to a summer drink.
Ingredients:
- 5 oz. Fresh Blueberries, sliced in half
- 16 oz. Nature's Nectar 100% Berry Burst Juice
- 12 oz. Frut Dazzle Black Cherry or Strawberry Sparkling Water Beverage OR 1 can Summit Orange Soda
- 2 sheets Kwik and Fresh Foil
- 24 Toothpicks (optional)
Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes plus minimum 1 1/2 hours to freeze Servings: 2 ice cube trays
Directions:
- Evenly distribute the blueberries among the ice cube trays.
- In a large pitcher, mix together the juice and sparkling water or orange soda.
- Evenly distribute the juice mix among the ice cube trays.
- Wrap the top of each tray with a sheet of foil and puncture the center of each ice cube mold with a toothpick (if planning to serve as ice pops).
- Freeze for a minimum of 1 1/2 hours. Enjoy off the stick or pop into your favorite summer drink!
ALDI stands behind the quality of its exclusive products with a Double Guarantee. If for any reason a customer is not 100 percent satisfied with a food product, ALDI will gladly replace it AND refund the customer's money.
About ALDI Inc. A leader in the grocery retailing industry, ALDI operates more than 1,200 U.S. stores in 32 states, primarily from Kansas to the East Coast. More than 20 million customers each month save up to 50 percent* on their grocery bills, benefiting from the ALDI simple and streamlined approach to retailing. ALDI sells more than 1,400 of the most frequently purchased grocery and household items, primarily under its exclusive brands, which must meet or exceed the national name brands on taste and quality. ALDI is so confident in the quality of its products, the company offers a Double Guarantee: If for any reason a customer is not 100 percent satisfied with any ALDI food product, ALDI will gladly replace the product and refund the purchase price. For more information about ALDI, visit www.aldi.us.
*Based upon a price comparison of comparable products sold at leading national retail grocery stores.
SOURCE ALDI
Source: www.sacbee.com
Wimbledon 2012: Andy Murray says playing Queen's will help title bid - The Guardian
Andy Murray hopes a successful defence of his Aegon Championships crown at Queen's Club will help him end Britain's long wait for a Wimbledon champion next month.
Murray will have to wait until Wednesday before he begins his defence of the Wimbledon warmup tournament after heavy rain hit Queen's on Monday, but he is ready to start the grass-court season with a bang.
"I've always liked to go in to a grand slam having played a couple of matches on the surface," said Murray, who is due to face either Nicolas Mahut or Guillermo Garcia-López after receiving a first-round bye. "That's why it's good for me to play here at Queen's.
"I've won Queen's and I have always enjoyed playing here. I like the surface, the courts here are pretty much perfect grass courts and I have great memories from here.
"I won my very first ATP match here when I was 18 and since then I've just really enjoyed coming back and I've got great results here."
Murray has warned Nadal and Djokovic not to expect to walk Wimbledon because of their exploits in Paris.
"You'll very rarely see someone make the French finals and then win on grass the next week," said Murray, who has won at Queen's twice in the last three years. "It's a hard thing to do and it takes a bit of time. The surface change is hard. You try and take each match as it comes but changing surfaces is not that easy."
Murray's French Open campaign looked in doubt when he suffered a back spasm during his second-round game against Jarkko Nieminen but he recovered and went on to make the quarter-finals where he lost to the world No6, David Ferrer, in four sets.
"I didn't want to lose early at the French Open but I managed to get a couple of days off, which I hadn't had in three and a half to four weeks. I really needed that for my back and it's felt much better. I've had a couple of good practices on the grass and it's felt fine.
"I think the French Open went really well considering how it started out. I wasn't feeling particularly well obviously after my second round match. Quarter-finals for me on probably my least favourite surface is not terrible. I would have liked to have done better but it was OK."
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hiestand: ESPN serves up Wimbledon coverage plans - USA Today
ESPN becomes the sole U.S. TV outlet for the tennis grand slam on grass this month when it kicks off June 25. But while NBC used the line largely as a marketing hook, ESPN also will use it as the title of a new hourlong pregame show that will air, at either 7 or 8 a.m. ET depending on action, during the tournament's middle Saturday and last four days.
"Throughout the (TV) negotiations with the All-England Club, they asked us to look at bringing back the moniker," says ESPN programmer Jason Bernstein.
Also on Wednesday, ESPN will name Mike Tirico as a host. The network already announced earlier that John McEnroe had joined the fold as lead analyst. But the biggest change in coverage will be in scheduling. On second-week coverage in past years, NBC and ESPN juggled time slots, with NBC sometimes picking matches and airing them on tape-delay rather than pre-empting its Today show.
This year, says ESPN vice president Jamie Reynolds, everything will be live and "multi-plexed rather than patchwork" as ESPN focuses on Centre Court action and ESPN2 on everything else. ESPN will stream 820 hours — up from 650 last year — on its ESPN3 broadband service and will add a 3 p.m. ET highlights show on the final Sunday — which could air opposite ESPN's live men's final if that match runs long. ESPN, says Reynolds, also will add an overhead "spider cam" rolling on cables for crowd shots. Says Bernstein when asked whether that camera might ever roll above Centre Court: "That's something we're all looking at, and whether it would affect the mystique."
Ochocinco-Knocks redux:HBO got lucky when exuberant attention-seeker Chad Ochocinco joined the Miami Dolphins, the subject of this summer's five-episode HardKnocks, which debuts Aug. 7. Ochocinco showed up a lot onscreen when Knocks followed the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009. He sees himself as anything but camera-shy, noting in 2010 before his short-lived show with Terrell Owens on Versus: "Do you know how dangerous it is for us to have a stage like this?" Other Dolphins in training camp might take their hardest hits if they try to get between Ochocinco and a Knocks camera.
But despite speculation that the NFL Films-produced Knocks already was working with Ochocinco on Monday, HBO spokesman Ray Stallone says that isn't true: "A member of the production team said hello to Chad in the Dolphins cafeteria. … There was no scheduled meeting or shoot."
Duval in new role: ESPN on Tuesday announced David Duval will join its U.S. Open coverage as an ESPN3 analyst in what amounts to a TV tryout. While Duval says he'd "definitely" like to do TV eventually, he adds: "I don't want it to be seen as a transition because I don't believe my playing career is over."
Running numbers: In national ratings, Fox averaged 4.8% of U.S. households for its 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup races, down 4%. … After TV ratings drops for the previous Stanley Cup Final games, NBC's Game 6 on Monday between the Kings and New Jersey Devils eked out a ratings uptick — thanks largely to Los Angeles. In the USA's No. 2 market, Game 6 drew 13.6% of local households — the most ever for NHL action there. Nationally, the game got a 4.0 overnight — 4% of households in the 56 urban markets measured for overnights — up 3% from last year's Boston Bruins-Vancouver Canucks Game 6. (In New York, the game drew 5% of local households.) NBC's previous three Cup Final games averaged 1.8% of U.S. households — down 28% — and NBC Sports Network cable games averaged 1.1% — down 30%.
Spice rack: NBC golf analystJohnny Miller on whether the stars of the made-for-TV U.S. Open Thursday and Friday group pairing of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson might be affected by the spotlight: "Let's put it this way, I would much rather play with two guys that are shooting 67 than two guys that are shooting 79 and going to every toilet, you know." … You be the judge: HBO will follow its Saturday replay (10 p.m. ET) of Timothy Bradley's controversial win over Manny Pacquiao with an online viewer poll on whether the judges got it right.
Follow Hiestand on Twitter @hiestandusat
Source: www.usatoday.com
Haas dig at ‘faker’ Murray - The Sun
The German, playing at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, ripped into the Brit No 1 following Murray’s back problems at the French Open.
It led to Wimbledon legend Virginia Wade labelling Muzza a “drama queen”.
The world No 4 was seething with Wade and now Haas, the former world No 2, has let rip too.
Haas’ opponent yesterday, Aussie Bernard Tomic, quit with a back problem and Haas said: “It’s tough when you play against someone who is on the court like he is not well or is injured.
“I find no one does this better than Andy, from time to time. Sometimes he looks like he can barely move, then the trainer comes and suddenly he moves like a cat.
“Everyone knows this now. People talk about it in the locker room."
Murray will be furious at Haas and is sure to hit back after kicking off the biggest summer of his career at Queen’s today.
He roars into action at the AEGON Championships against Nicholas Mahut, after the Frenchman eased past Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4 6-2.
It will be Murray’s first match since losing to David Ferrer in the French Open quarter-finals last week.
The Scot, 25, said: “With Wimbledon followed by the Olympics and then the US Open, it’s not only the biggest summer of my career but also of the other leading players’ careers too.”
Meanwhile, Johanna Konta has been given a Wimbledon wildcard.
The 21-year-old played as an Australian before switching nationality in May and becoming the British No 6.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Aerial footage of West Sussex floods - BBC News
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