Aaron Gustavson takes the EPT London title - PokerListings.com (LONDON LEGAL)

Aaron Gustavson takes the EPT London title - PokerListings.com

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Aaron Gustavson takes the EPT London title PokerListings.com American Aaron Gustavson turned an $800 PokerStars satellite win into £850000 Wednesday, taking down the PokerStars EPT London main ... EPT: Aaron Gustavson Beats Peter Eastgate Heads Up for London TitleBluff Magazine EPT London: Gustavson defeats Eastgate for £850000 and EPT titlePokerStars.com (blog) EPT LONDON MAIN EVENT ENTRIES A RECORDRecentPoker.com Bluff Europe Magazine -Bodog Beat -PokerNews.com all 59 news articles »

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Foursquare adds London; Kevin Rose reveals investment - CNET News

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Foursquare adds London; Kevin Rose reveals investment CNET News And on Tuesday, Foursquare announced that London will be added to the growing list of cities where its service is available. ... London Gets Foursquare, Paris Waitlisted: Take That, France!ReadWriteWeb (blog) all 6 news articles »

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Aviva Plans NYSE Listing, Eyes Oct 20 Trade Date - Wall Street Journal

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Aviva Plans NYSE Listing, Eyes Oct 20 Trade Date Wall Street Journal LONDON (Dow Jones)--UK insurer Aviva PLC (AV.LN) said Wednesday it plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange ... Britain's Aviva to seek secondary US listingReuters Aviva insurer announces plans to list on NYSEAFP Aviva to list on NYSE on October 20MarketWatch InvestmentNews -DesMoinesRegister.com all 37 news articles »

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Leinster and London Irish need to jump-start season with good Heineken Cup showing - Telegraph.co.uk

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Leinster and London Irish need to jump-start season with good Heineken Cup showing Telegraph.co.uk A so-far lacklustre season could be jolted inot life when Leinster meet London Irish in the Heineken Cup on Friday. By Mick Cleary, Rugby Union ... Heineken CupSkySports Leinster v London Irish (Fri)BBC Sport Casey happy to be an Exile in his own landIrish Times Irish Central -SkySports all 97 news articles »

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Utah Jazz win fans, lose to Bulls in London - Salt Lake Tribune

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Utah Jazz win fans, lose to Bulls in London Salt Lake Tribune London » Time will tell if they won converts one Deron Williams jersey at a time during their stay in England, but the Jazz couldn't come away ... The NBA comes courting in LondonLos Angeles Times Panorama of London's NBA gameCNN International Stern Says London Will Host Meaningful NBA Game By 2011SportsBusiness Daily (subscription) SLAM Online -NBA.com -The Associated Press all 551 news articles »

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SEC investigates HCA's London books - Bizjournals.com

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SEC investigates HCA's London books Bizjournals.com Nashville-based HCA says “we are aware that a former employee in our London payroll department is seeking money in a civil employment lawsuit and she has ... Report: Hospital operator HCA subject of pay probeThe Associated Press SEC Probing Biggest Hospital CompanyWashington Post US investigators launch fraud probe of hospital companyAFP Reuters -RTT News -United Press International all 127 news articles »

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Guy Ritchie Still Loves Madonna - People Magazine

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Guy Ritchie Still Loves Madonna People Magazine And so, for a time, did their shared hometown of London. "Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London," Ritchie says. "No one bothered her. ... Tabloid Pays Madonna Substantial Damages Over Stolen Wedding PhotosAHN Madonna wins damages in UK over wedding picsReuters Madonna accepts damages over wedding picsOneindia Esquire -FOXNews -New York Daily News all 549 news articles »

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IOC concerned about London Olympic venues - The Associated Press

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IOC concerned about London Olympic venues The Associated Press COPENHAGEN — The International Olympic Committee is concerned that organizers of the 2012 London Games have yet to finalize plans for all the sports venues. ... London told to choose 2012 venuesBBC Sport 2012 watchdog 'concerned' over London venuesAFP IOC urge London's Olympic organisers to end uncertainty over venues for ...Daily Mail Monsters and Critics.com -Reuters India -insidethegames.biz (blog) all 484 news articles »

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'An Education' earns high, if not perfect, scores - msnbc.com

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Heath Ledger's Final Film Premieres In London - Access Hollywood

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Heath Ledger's Final Film Premieres In London Access Hollywood Heath Ledger's final film, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” premiered in London to a star studded audience on Tuesday night. ... Tragical, magical adventure: Ledger's final film premieres in LondonWA today Heath Ledger's final film premieres in LondonNow Magazine Online 'Parnassus' actor Troyer was Ledger's confidantIreland Online The Sun all 128 news articles »

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Lucas Withdraws from London's Prick Up Your Ears Due to Tragedy - Playbill.com (LONDON LAW)

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Lucas Withdraws from London's Prick Up Your Ears Due to Tragedy Playbill.com Matt Lucas, who opened officially Sept. 30 in the new play Prick Up Your Ears at the West End's Comedy Theatre, has withdrawn from the ... Grieving Lucas pulls out of playBBC News Former partner of Little Britain star hangs himselfAFP Actor Lucas pulls out of show after ex's suicideReuters India Popeater -Mirror.co.uk -The Press Association all 328 news articles »

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Northern Ireland policing and justice talks move to London - guardian.co.uk

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Wedding photo damages for Madonna - BBC News

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Former deputy mayor admits fraud - BBC News

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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War

The slaughter of a generation of young men in the first world war left a generation of young women without their normal chance of marriage and motherhood. Their fate was already apparent before the war ended. In 1917, the senior mistress of Bournemouth High School for Girls stood up before the assembled sixth form and broke the news: “I have come to tell you a terrible fact. Only one out of 10 of you girls can ever hope to marry.” Her estimate, a former pupil later recorded, proved exactly right. What this generation of women made of their diminished lives, and how the rest of the population regarded them, are the questions that Virginia Nicholson’s pioneering book confronts.

The answer to the second question is – with astonishing spite, resentment and lack of sympathy. When the 1921 census revealed that women outnumbered men by almost 2m, it unleashed a frenzy of vituperation. “The superfluous women,” proclaimed the Daily Mail, “are a disaster to the human race.” They were labelled “limpets” and “bread-snatchers” for taking jobs from demobbed soldiers. They were reviled for forming “unwholesome female friendships” and mocked for lavishing their stifled affection on cats and lapdogs. Sexual psychologists pronounced them unnatural, and Oswald Mosley found them “distressing”. A popular solution was that they should be exported to the colonies. Canada, it was pointed out, had an excess of male trappers and lumberjacks, and even Australia offered many “simple pleasures”.

When, desperate to fill the gap in their lives, they wrote for advice to women’s magazines, they met with heartless optimism (“Cheer up, dears”) or insulting tips on man-catching (“If you use a henna shampoo, don’t overdo it”). Self-help books, with titles such as Sex Philosophy for the Bachelor Girl and Live Alone and Like It, prattled on about taking up folk dancing, astrology or amateur dramatics. But for women whose men had died, the need was to find some way of appeasing their desire for love and their guilt at surviving. An advertisement in the Matrimonial Times read “Lady, fiancé killed, will gladly marry officer totally blinded or otherwise incapacitated by the war.”

Nicholson’s book centres, however, on women who refused to be overwhelmed by grief and struck out in new directions. One of her heroines is Gertrude Caton-Thompson, the distinguished archeologist. The love of her life, a hussar officer, had been killed, and, like many of the bereaved, she felt at first that it was a treachery to him even to breathe and eat. But after the war she enrolled for classes at University College London, learnt Arabic and studied African prehistory. She braved leopards, fleas, fevers, swamps and crocodiles to excavate Neolithic sites in Malta, South Africa, Arabia and Egypt – where she camped out in a tomb with a family of cobras. Other “superfluous women” whose stories Nicholson tells achieved eminence as explorers, entomologists, marine engineers, doctors, mountaineers and fashion models. Some devoted themselves to slum improvement or famine relief, or broke into what had been male preserves – as the first woman solicitor, the first woman director of a firm of stockbrokers, the first woman privy councillor and cabinet member, the first women vets, civil servants and architects. Meanwhile, women novelists shattered the old spinster stereotypes. Muriel Spark’s Miss Jean Brodie transformed the schoolmarm into a sexy elitist; Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes blossomed into a happy practising witch.

Most of these enterprising single women, Nicholson acknowledges, were from affluent middle-class families. But there were exceptions. Florence White, a Bradford mill-hand, became a leading political activist and the founder of the National Spinsters Pension Association. Gladys Aylward, a London parlour maid, saved up her wages and travelled on the Trans-Siberian railway to China, where, for 20 years, she worked as a missionary, tending lepers and caring for sick children. Less outstanding, but as heroic in their way, were the women who remained satisfied with little. By 1921, there were half a million female clerks (typists, lowly civil servants, secretaries) who lived in bedsits and spent their days clattering away at Remingtons. They earned 30 shillings a week, and lunched off a penny bun or a Marmite sandwich. Social historians have tended to pity them, but Nicholson, interviewing survivors, found them upbeat. They were all girls together and stayed friends for life. They enjoyed dancing at the Locarno or the Palais, walking in Kensington Gardens, and consuming wonderful bacon-and-eggs teas at Lyons Corner House. It was a brave new world – much better than slaving for a husband.
Other single women, with no particular talents beyond the ability to make children happy, found fulfilment as nannies, wheeling perambulators in London’s parks.

Often the bonds they formed were closer than those the children formed with their parents, and lasted a lifetime. In 1921, a maiden aunt called Gertie Maclean, much in demand for taking nephews and nieces back and forth to school, decided to make aunthood professional and set up Universal Aunts in the back room of a bootmaker’s in Sloane Street. Soon her “Ladies of Irreproachable Background” were escorting children around London, organising trips abroad and doing other people’s shopping for everything “from a hairpin to a Moth aeroplane”.
Gertie, like the trailblazers in male professions, freed single women from dependence and contempt. Another liberator was Radclyffe Hall, the author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. Many single women had found happiness with members of their own sex, but the subject was deemed unmentionable until Hall came along.

Even Marie Stopes, renowned as a birth-control campaigner, proved hostile. The letters of women who wrote to her about their sexual feelings provide an extraordinary archive of ignorance, fear and unhappiness. Asked about lesbianism, Stopes replied firmly that it was a “disease”. Hall, by contrast, made it fashionable. When The Well was prosecuted as an obscene libel she appeared in court in a Spanish riding hat and long leather coat, and though her novel was condemned to be burnt, it became a clandestine bestseller. The centre of a galaxy of artistic and theatrical types, including Tallulah Bank-head and the cellist Gwen Farrar, Hall made it her mission that lesbians should never again be “driven back to their holes and corners”.

The women Nicholson celebrates changed our culture. They turned the Victorian spinster into the modern career woman. But, she believes, they were also different from modern women. Like anyone who has lived through a war, they had lower expectations of happiness and a stoicism and dignity that were all their own. Her book applauds the celebrities but does not forget the obscure. Beside Caton-Thompson she sets May Jones, who wrote her autobiography, in Biro, on scraps of coloured paper, when she was 85. She was a Welsh carpenter’s daughter and fell in love with Philip, a young Quaker intellectual, who went to France with an ambulance unit and was killed. “I knew then,” May wrote, “that I should die an old maid.” Then she added, in pencil, “I was only 20 years old.” The rest of the page is blank. It is moments such as this that make Singled Out so powerful and so inspiring.