TORONTO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Royal Group Technologies Limited (RYG: TSX; NYSE) today announced its intention to divest of additional non-core businesses and assets. The non-core businesses include Royal Dynamics, which is an injection molder of building products, as well as certain other business units. The assets being divested of include excess real estate that is being vacated as a result of the Company's manufacturing operation consolidation program.

Royal Group expects to generate cash proceeds in the range of $30 to $40 million from these divestitures. In a previous news release on August 15, 2006, Royal Group indicated that it expects to generate total proceeds from divestitures of $200 to $260 million in 2006. In the event of successful execution of the foregoing divestiture decisions, Royal Group can achieve proceeds in the high end of its range of expectations.

Spacewalkers go to work after station truss installed

Astronauts Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, floating in the space station's Quest airlock module, switched their spacesuits to internal battery power around 5:17 a.m. to officially begin a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. A few minutes later, Tanner could be seen floating outside the airlock hatch arranging safety tethers as the excursion got underway.

This is the 70th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance since construction began in December 1998. Going into today's excursion, 43 NASA astronauts, 13 Russians and four astronauts representing Japan, Canada, France and Germany had logged 418 hours and 17 minutes of spacewalk time building and maintaining the international outpost.

Tanner, veteran of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, logged 33 hours and 21 minutes of EVA time in five previous spacewalks.

The Tragically Bored Youth of Coastal Maine

LINCOLNVILLE (Sep 7): I have a hard time believing there's anything truly engaging here for our Youth Culture. To those that may have excelled (or have been given more chances to do so), the possibilities may be limitless. But for the less fortunate of them they're stuck without resources; the town's blind eye cast by parents, teachers and police alike. Waiting, and negating their lives away one cigarette at a time. Waiting for something to happen, or something to do.
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