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The London Olympics Day 16 – The Final DayTuesday, August 14th, 2012
Highlights and Results of Day 16 The London Olympics 2012
All good things come to an end they say and the London Olympics 2012 was nothing but a good thing. Sadly the final day came yesterday, but the 30th Games went out with a bang and lots of medals being decided.
The day started with the traditional final Olympic Athletics event, the Men's Marathon. But in a break with tradition it did not start and end in the stadium, but took in the famous sites of the City of London and finished in the Queen's driveway, The Mall and the whole route was lined with thousands of supporters cheering on the athletes.
As expected the marathon was dominated by the Africans. The Kenyans led through Wilson Kiprotich from about the halfway mark. Countryman Abel Kirui and Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda caught him and made it a three way fight for the medals. Despite appearing to have a leg injury Stephen Kiprotich surged to the front and claimed Uganda's first medal of the games 26 seconds ahead of Kirui.
The Men's Basketball finished with the most expected result of the games, the USA winning the Gold with their team of NBA superstars, including Kobe Bryant, Lebron James and Kevin Durant. But Silver medallists Spain did not let them have it all their own way. Spain went behind by ten points in the first quarter but caught up and were only a point behind at half time. The third quarter remained very close, but a few minutes into the final period the USA started to pull away and put some daylight between them, finishing with a 107-100 score line. Earlier in the day Russia had won the Bronze medal play off 81-77
In Boxing five medals were decided, with four of them going to the old communist bloc countries, well if you count Cuba as one of those. Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan all won Gold. Great Britain's Fred Evans claimed Silver in the Welterweight 69Kg division and countryman Anthony Joshua won Gold in the Super Heavyweight +91Kg division beating Italian Roberto Cammrelle.
Samantha Murray won Great Britain's 65th medal of the games finishing second behind Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania in the Women's Modern Pentathlon. The men's event had been won by David Svoboda of the Czech Republic the day before.
Russia beat Brazil to win the Men's Volleyball Gold. Italy had claimed the Bronze beating Bulgaria earlier in the day.
Italy went one better in the Men's Water Polo claiming Silver after losing the final 8-6 to Gold medalists Croatia, their first medal as an independent state. The Bronze was won by Serbia beating Montenegro 12-11 just short of a clean medal sweep for the old Yugoslavian states.
We have written 15 articles and have not even covered all of the events in this fantastic games. The Olympics is always special, but I believe the London Olympics is even more special, the best since Sydney of 2000. Of course I have my own bias having grown up in London and lived in Australia for many years. But I believe that many athletes and commentators who have been to more than one games will tell you that this one was exceptional.
The opening and closing ceremonies were the best, including the Great British history and huge depth of music and the arts.
We will cover the closing ceremony on our sister site Oz Music Reviews and you can access it by clicking here The London Olympics Closing Ceremony .
In the mean time we will start counting down the days until Rio de Janeiro 2016. Don't you just love the Olympics?
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The London Olympics Day 15 – Another Super SaturdaySunday, August 12th, 2012
Highlights and Results from Day 15 of the The London Olympics 2012
Who would believe that the second Saturday in the Athletics stadium could come close to the first? But close it came. It didn't yield three Gold medals for the host country, like the first Saturday, but there was a remarkable second Gold for long distance man Mo Farah, a new world record for the 4 x 100M Relay and more entertaining antics from Usain Bolt and Mo Farah.
Things really kicked off with the first track event of the night, the Men's 500 Metres. Mo Farah was a warm favourite and the hope for most of the 80,000 in the stands. But could he back up after the 10,000 metres and a heat for the 5,000? The man was on 20,000 metres of competitive running. The race started at a really slow pace and after a couple of laps Farah decided he needed to take the pace on himself. So he led from the front for a while. There were lots of lead changes with the Kenyans, Ethiopians and Bernard Lagat of the USA all trying to find the best position for the finish. With about 750 metres remaining Farah kicked very early for home. There was a lot of competition for the front spot over the last two laps, but coming into the home straight Farah opened his stride and no one was going to catch him. Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia was right behind Farah and Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa of Kenya beat Bernard Lagat to the Bronze.
The Women's 800 Metres was next on the track. There was much talk of Caster Semenya, the South African who has mainly been in exile since her World Championship win 3 years ago and the allegations and questions of her gender that followed. Semenya spent most of the race at the back of the pack and the Russians led. She kicked with about 130 metres to go but had let the lead runners get too far away it seemed. But she did manage to catch and pass all but Mariya Savinova of Russia, who won Gold. Semenya could certainly have won the Olympic title had she ran a smarter race.
The US team for the Women's 4 x 400 metres Relay were firm favourites and led the race from beginning to end. They finished more than 3 seconds ahead of the Russians, who claimed silver. Jamaica beat off a strong challenge from Ukraine to win the Bronze. This was the fifth successive Gold for the American women in this Olympic event, the third Gold medal at these games for Allyson Felix and the second for Sanya Richards-Ross. Is that domination or what?
The Men's 4 x 100 metres Relay set up another showdown between the big guns of Olympic sprinting, Jamaica and the USA. Nesta Carter and Michael Frater gave Jamaica a good start, but they were marginally behind the USA when Yohan Blake took the baton. The Jamaican changeover was better than the Americans and Blake ran a great bend to catch them and takeover. When Bolt took the baton Ryan Bailey was pretty much level with him, but only at the start. Bolt exploded down the home straight, he showed no signs of slowing at the finish and even dipped for the line. It was all worthwhile; the Jamaicans had set a new world record by two-tenths of a second. Bolt and Blake led the celebrations, throwing their regular poses and shaking hands and hugging everyone around the track. There was a minor dispute with an official as Bolt wanted to keep the baton, but the official insisted it was returned. But this is not a games of bureaucracy and it was presented back to him before the night was over. Bolt mimicked Mo Farah's hands on head celebration, as Farah had imitated Bolt's celebrations with some sit ups after the 5,000 metres. They later posed together as the two stars of the night at this London Olympics.
That finished the events in the stadium. Many people are sad to see the London games come to an end and I am one of them. It has been nothing short of magnificent.
Events were finishing all around London. The Football (Soccer) had a surprising end at Wembley with the favourites Brazil being beaten 2-1 by Mexico. The defending of the Brazilians was atrocious, giving away the ball carelessly in dangerous areas. The first time was only 30 seconds after the kick off and Mexico capitalised through Oribe Peralta, who put away his chance for the fastest ever goal in an Olympic final. Other Brazilian mistakes saw Mexico hit the bar and no one was really marking Peralta when he scored his second, heading in from a corner. The Brazilians scored on 90 minutes through Hulk and they had a few minutes of injury time left to equalise and take the game into extra time. But they hardly deserved to and justifiably Mexico took the Gold.
The USA convincingly beat France 86-50 in North Greenwich to take the Women's Basketball Gold. US forward Candace Parker top scored with 21 points. Earlier Australia had beaten Russia 83-74 to take the Bronze.
Germany retained the Olympic Men's Hockey title with a 2-1 win over the Netherlands. It was a close finish but with two minutes remaining, Rabente scored the winner from close range. Australia again claimed Bronze beating Great Britain 3-1 in the play off.
In Boxing 5 titles were decided at the Excel arena. Great Britain's Luke Campbell beat Irishman Joe Nevin in front of a rapturous home crowd to claim the Bantamweight (56Kg) Gold. But the most impressive celebrations of the night came from Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk after beating Clemente Russo of Italy for the Heavyweight (91Kg) Gold medal. Usyk wound up events with some Cossack dancing, which could have been mixed with some break dancing, it was hard to tell. But it was the only celebration in this Olympics I have seen that has come close to Usain Bolt's.
There are several events that wind up on this final day of the London Olympics The Men's Marathon should finish around 1:40PM. Men's Basketball has the play off for Bronze between Argentina and Russia, Spain face the might of the USA Dream Team for the Gold. There are five medal deciding Boxing bouts. Mountain Bike Racing, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Handball, Modern Pentathlon, Volleyball, Water Polo and Wrestling all come to a conclusion today. So the London games will go out with a bang not whimper.
This will of course all be followed by the closing ceremony, surprises have been promised. If they dragged out Paul McCartney for the opening, I am expecting a full Beatles reunion for the closing.
We will be back tomorrow to wrap up this magnificent London Olympics.
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The London Olympics Day 14 – Another Day Another World RecordSaturday, August 11th, 2012
Highlights and Results from Day 14 of The London Olympics 2012
Day 14 at the London Olympics saw another world record broken on the track. The US Women's 4 x 100M Relay team knocked almost half a second off of the record for the event that had stood since 1985.
The US team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter got off to a fast start and Allyson Felix ran a great second leg, by the time Carmelita Jeter got the baton in her hand she had a healthy lead on their biggest rivals, Jamaica. Jeter finished beautifully and was even seen checking out the clock on her way to the finish line. It was the first time the USA had won this event since 1996. The Jamaican team, which included the Women's 100M Gold and Bronze medallists, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown, broke their national record, as did third placed European champions Ukraine.
The heats for the Men's 4 x 100M Relay also provided lots of drama, with home team Great Britain finishing second behind the USA only to be disqualified for the final handover between Daniel Talbot and Adam Gemili. To be blunt the handover was a complete mess. It was not completed until they were outside the designated area, then Gemili ran into the next lane. That apart, Gemili ran a good leg. The USA had the fastest qualifying time for the final, but only one hundredth of a second ahead of Jamaica, who are yet to add the dual 100 and 200 metre champion Usain Bolt to their team.
The Men's Pole Vault was won by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie in a new Olympic record of 5.97 Metres. Australian hope and Beijing Gold medallist for the event, Steve Hooker, failed to register a jump and went out very early.
There was also a new Olympic record set in the Women's Hammer Throw by Tatyana Lysenko of Russia, the Silver went to Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland and the Bronze to Betty Heidler of Germany. The event is still dominated by eastern Europeans, but Wenxiu Zhang of China came in fourth.
The Women's 5000 Metres was a close run finish, with Meseret Defar of Ethiopia claming the Gold, ahead of Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot of Kenya, fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba scored Bronze. British girls Joanne Pavey and Julia Bleasdale came in 7th and 8th, the first non-Africans.
The Women's 1500 Metres saw an amazing one two from Turkey with Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut sprinting through the field in the home stretch to claim Gold and Silver. Maryam Yusuf Jamal scored Bahrain's first medal of these games in third place.
The final event of the evening was the Men's 4 x 400M relay where the favourites, USA were surprisingly beaten by the Bahamas, who set a new national record. Trinidad and Tobago came in third only just ahead of Great Britain.
Boxing was semi finals night for the men and saw British boys Anthony Joshua, Fred Evans and Luke Campbell all qualify for finals to fight for Gold. On Saturday, bantamweight Luke Campbell fights Ireland's John Joe Nevin. On Sunday, welterweight Fred Evans faces Serik Sapiyev of Kazakhstan, before super-heavyweight Anthony Joshua meets reigning champion Roberto Cammarelle of Italy. However, middleweight Anthony Ogogo lost his semi-final to Brazil's Esquiva Falcao and had to settle for Bronze.
In Diving British hopeful and teen idol Tom Daley qualified for the final, but only in 15th place, 78 points behind Chinese leader Bo Qiu. Australia will be represented by Mathew Mitchum who finished 9th in the qualifier.
In Men's Football (Soccer) the Bronze medal play off was won by South Korea who beat Japan 2-0 with goals from Arsenal striker Chuyoung Park and Jacheol Koo.
Great Britain claimed the Bronze medal in Women's Hockey with a 3-1 win over New Zealand.
Sailors Mal Page and Mat Belcher scored another Sailing Gold for Australia in the 470 class. British crew Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell won the Silver.
Saturday night sees nothing but finals in the Olympic stadium, six of them, leaving only the Marathon to close out this fantastic Olympics on Sunday. Stay tuned, I'm even going to watch the closing ceremony this time.
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The London Olympic Games Day 13 – The Stadium of DreamsFriday, August 10th, 2012
Results and Highlights from Day 13 at The London Olympic Games 2012
Another sensational night in the London Olympic stadium. This games just keeps on delivering. What more could we ask for? A World Record in the Men's 800 Metres and Usain Bolt completing the double double by winning the 200 Metres.
David Rudisha of Kenya was the out and out favourite for the 800 Metres Gold medal. There was good reason for that. He led the final from start to finish and while the battle was going on for the minor placings Rudisha crossed the line well ahead of the chasing field in a new World Record. But the following field were not slouching either, every one of them ran a new personal best or created a new national record. The 800 metres at the London Olympics will be long remembered.
The semi-finals of the Women's 4 x 100 relay followed. The Americans blitzed the first heat, even though they rested their star sprinters. The Jamaicans came in second in the second semi, marginally behind Ukraine. They had a dodgy changeover on the third leg and also have some speedsters to bring in for the final. The Gold will probably be fought out between the USA and Jamaica, but do not discount Ukraine or Trinidad and Tobago.
There was more success for Jamaica in the 200 Metres final. Usain Bolt got away fast and ran a great bend to go into the straight in front of the field. He of course increased his lead, only to do his traditional slow down at the line. Yohan Blake was once again right behind him and Warren Weir came in third for a Jamaican clean sweep of the medals. The strength of Jamaica in sprinting is astounding for a tiny island nation with a population of less than 3 million people.
Usain Bolt and his compatriots celebrated hard again. This time Bolt even turned the tables on the press photographers, borrowing a camera from one of them and taking their photograph, as well as more of the crowd and fellow medal winners. Apart from being the world's greatest sprinter, he is also one its biggest showman, which is why the crowds flock to the stadium whenever he runs.
Three other athletics medals were decided on day 13. Christian Taylor of the USA won the Men's Triple Jump and Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic won the Women's Javelin. Ashton Eaton of the USA won the Decathlon, ahead of countryman Trey Hardee, but it is those track events that are worth bottling.
The Women's Football (Soccer) competition was finalized with USA winning the Gold by beating Japan 2-1 Canada claimed the Bronze with a 1-0 win over France. By now we were getting a little tired of hearing the US anthem.
Great Britain claimed three more Gold medals on day 13. Jade Jones won the Women's 57Kg category in Taekwondo and Charlotte Dujardin won the Individual Dressage. Nicola Adams made history by winning the first ever Olympic Boxing medal for women, in the Flyweight division.
In Kayaking Australia's Men's K4 1000m crew of Tate Smith, David Smith, Murray Stewart and Jake Clear won Gold, Australia's 6th of these games which brought them into the top ten on the medal table.
But Aussie fortunes were not so good elsewhere with the Opals losing the Women's Basketball semi-final to the USA 86-73. They will now play Russia for the Bronze medal. The Men's Hockey team the Kookaburras, bowed out their semi-final losing 4-2 to Germany. In Women's Water Polo Australia won the Bronze medal beating Hungary in the play off. The USA won the Gold medal beating Spain 8-5 in the final.
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The London Olympics Day 12 – Second Gold for Aussie SailorsThursday, August 9th, 2012
Highlights and Results from Day 12 of the The London Olympics 2012
Australian Sailors Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen won the Men's 49er Gold on day 12 at the London Olympics. As we reported on Monday they only needed to finish their final race to pick up the Gold medal. New Zealand pair Peter Burling and Blair Tuke had the Silver sewn up in the same way. So at the end of the day Australia collected it's 5th Gold of the London games and New Zealand its 100th ever Olympic medal.
The Australian Boomers Basketball team bowed out of the Olympics on day 12 after coming up against the USA Dream Team. The final score was 119-86 but the Boomers were within 3 points after half time. A scoring frenzy led by NBA superstar Kobe Bryant ensured that Team USA finished with a healthy margin. There was a nasty scuffle in the France v Spain match, but Spain finished 66-59 in front on the scoreboard, to progress to the semi-final.
In the Athletics stadium the biggest superstar of these games was ensuring a place in the 200 metres final and Usain Bolt remains on target for the Olympic double that he achieved in Beijing. Bolt won the second heat of the 200 metres with only the fourth fastest time of the semis. But like the semi final of the 100 metres, he was cruising at the end, leaving plenty to spare for the final. His great friend and Jamaican compatriot Yohan Blake once again had the fastest qualifying time, so another Jamaican one two looks to be on the cards.
Four medals were decided in the Athletics stadium on day 12. The Women's Long Jump was won by Brittney Reece of the USA with a leap of 7.12 metres. Fellow American Janay Deloach picked up the Bronze. They were separated by Elena Sokolova of Russia.
The Women's 400 metres Hurdles saw another Russian medal. Veteran Natalya Antyukh, at 31, clocked a personal best time to beat out Lashinda Demus of the USA and Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic.
The Women's 200 metres was a battle of the sprinters, not only the traditional 100/200 metre competitors, but Sanya Richards-Ross the 400 metre Gold medallist was also well in the mix. But she could not match the starts of the 100 metre girls and finished fifth behind USA compatriot Allyson Felix, 100 metre champion Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Carmelita Jeter who collected the medals. Veronica Campbel-Brown of Jamaica came in 4th
The final medal race of the 12th evening was the Men's 110 metres Hurdles where the USA achieved a Gold and Silver finish through Aries Merrit and Jason Richardson. Hansle Parchment of Jamaica won Bronze. British hope Lawrence Clarke achieved a creditable fourth and maybe can improve on that in Rio 2016.
The first five events of the Decathlon were completed with American Ashton Eaton leading the field on 5693 points. The 10 event battle of attrition took its toll, with British hopeful Daniel Awde and former Olympic champion Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic both pulling out with injuries.
In Boxing British Light-Welter Weight Tom Stalker was beaten in his quarter final by Mongolian Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg. It was a contentious decision and Stalker's camp lodged a failed appeal.
Belfast light-flyweight Paddy Barnes and Flyweight Michael Conlan both secured Boxing medals for Ireland.
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The London Olympics Day 11 – Sally Pearson Wins Gold for AustraliaWednesday, August 8th, 2012
Highlights and Results from Day 11 at The London Olympics 2012
The track medal that Australia has been waiting for became a reality on the 11th day of the London Olympics. Sally Pearson fulfilled her dream of Olympic Gold in the 100M Hurdles on Tuesday evening in London. Sally went out fast from the start in the final and led in the early stages. But Dawn Harper of the USA came after her hard and the final result was a photo finish with Sally finishing only two hundredths of a second in front of Harper. Americans filled the finishing positions from two to four, with Kellie Wells claiming the Bronze.
Celebrations were lively, as expected and the feeling for Australian fans seems to be as excited as Pearson's own. Combined with the Gold that Anna Meares collected in the Velodrome this meant the Australia was elevated to 11th on the medal table and above New Zealand, which seemed to be the most important thing in the Australian press.
In the field at the Athletics stadium two medals were decided. The Men's High Jump was won by Ivan Ukhov of Russia and the Men's Discus by Germany's Robert Harting.
Following Sally Pearson's win the Men's 1500M was decided in a lively race with lots of bumping and pushing. Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria ran an amazing last 400 metres. So fast it was hard to believe that he had already run 1100 metres before it. He ran down all of his competition and narrowly beat Leonel Manzano of the USA who also cleared the field at the finish. The Kenyans and Ethiopians were relegated to 6th 7th and the last two positions.
There will of course be controversy over this event, as Makhloufi was disqualified from the games earlier in the week, for not trying in the 800M heats. But he came up with a doctor's sick note and was reinstated. Personally I believe that common sense prevailed, as he did not want to compete in the 800 and was forced to only because the Algerian team never withdrew his nomination in time. But maybe they could have come up with a note from his mum before the race started.
As mentioned earlier Anna Meares scored another Gold for Australia in the Women's Cycling Sprint. finally beating Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton after she was disqualified in the first race for riding out of the sprint lane. Pendleton won Silver in the three race event. But the British run of Cycling success continued with Sir Chris Hoy winning the Keirin and Laura Trott the Women's Omnium on the last day at the Velodrome. Great Brittain finished with a remarkable 7 Golds, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze. Australia, their closest rivals, managed only the 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze.
British brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee won Gold and Bronze in the Men's Triathlon. The event took place mainly in Hyde Park and the route was lined with cheering fans 12 deep most of the way. Javier Gomez of Spain separated the brothers to claim the Silver in the event, which involves a 1,500 m (1,600 yd) swim followed by a 40 km (24.9 miles) bike ride and a 10 km (6.2 miles) run.
Great Britain added another Gold to their tally on horseback in the Dressage, beating out Germany and the Netherlands who claimed Silver and Bronze.
In Women's Basketball the Australian Opals beat China and now face the USA in the semi final. Basketball fans will be looking forward to the same fixture in the men's quarter final today.
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The London Olympics Day 10 – Australia Wins Second GoldTuesday, August 7th, 2012
Highlights and results from Day 10 of The London Olympics 2012
There have been some unkind jokes going around on the web, mostly from British and Kiwi fans. They go something along the lines of – Call any Aussie friends you may have and say: 'You've just won Gold!' When they ask which sport, say: 'Sorry I meant you've just ONE Gold.'. Well day 10 at the London Olympics changed all that, well at least until they can come up with a joke for two. Tom Slingsby, of Gosford, raised the nation's morale by winning a long awaited second Gold medal in the Laser class of single-hander dinghies at the Olympic Sailing. Now that may mean something to all of the sailor types out there, but to the rest of us it means Australia rocketed to 19th on the medal table.
To keep the jokesters at bay, Australia's pairing of Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen have secured an unassailable lead in the 49er skiff class, they only have to finish Wednesday's final event to pick up another Sailing Gold.
In the Athletics stadium five more medals were decided. The Women's Pole Vault was the first event to start and the last to finish, in the evening session. Swirling winds in the stadium played havoc with all competitors, not to mention having to stop for track races and medal ceremonies. Australia's Alana Boyd came in 11th with a vault of 4.30 metres. British hope Holly Bleasdale was equal 6th on 4.45. Jennifer Suhr of the USA and Yarisley Silva of Cuba both finished on 4.75 metres, Suhr was awarded the Gold on a count back. Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia won Bronze.
The Women's Shot Put was a much shorter event; they even managed to get their medals awarded on day 10. But it takes more than a slight wind to affect a 4 kilogram (8.8 lb) ball. Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus won Gold with a 21.36 metre put. Valerie Adams of New Zealand won Silver, Evgeniia Kolodko won another Bronze for Russia.
There were qualifiers and semi-finals of the Women's 200 metres and 400 metres hurdles, but the first track final of the night was the Men's 400M Hurdles. British hope and Athletics team captain David (Dai) Green finished fourth behind Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic, Michael Tinsley of the USA and Javier Culson of Puerto Rico. Sanchez went into some serious celebrations after winning the event, then burst into tears during the medal ceremony, before he even mounted the dais. He continued to sob uncontrollably after his medal was placed around his neck and his national anthem was played. Now this was a great comeback for Sanchez, having won the Gold in Athens in 2004 and failed to medal in Beijing and it's nice to see commitment, but I am informed that Sanchez's only connection to the Dominican Republic is that his parents are from there, he was born raised and trains in the USA.
The Women's 3000 Metres Steeplechase is an event that has been dominated by the Kenyans and Ethiopians. But the tables were turned at the London Olympics. Yuliya Zaripova of Russia led from start to finish, the Kenyans and Ethiopians challenged but were not able to pass her for any significant amount of time and she seemed to gain 5 metres on the field at every water jump. In the final straight she streaked away from the field and Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia beat off the other challengers for Silver. Sofia Assefa of Ethiopia claimed Bronze, Kenya's first finisher was fourth.
The Men's 400M final featured 19 year old Australian Steven Solomon, but he was not the youngest in the race. In fact the Gold and Silver were both won by teenagers. Kirani James of Grenada was pulling away at the end and finished over half a second in front of World junior champion, Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic. Lalonde Gordon of Trinidad and Tobago claimed the Bronze.
So a good night in the stadium for Russia and the Dominican Republic, Day 11 will see the Women's 100M Hurdles semi-finals and final, where all Australians will be hoping that Sally Pearson can break their duck on the track and bring home the Gold.
In Basketball, Australia narrowly beat Russia 82-80. Great Britain finished their campaign with a convincing 90-58 win over China and the US Dream Team did the same in the angry and high scoring 126-97 point win over Argentina. Basketball now moves into the quarter final knockout rounds, where Australia face the mighty USA on Wednesday. The Australian Women's team, the Opals, face China in their quarter final today.
The Boxing has also reached the gnarly quarter final rounds. All semi finalists are guaranteed a medal, as there is no fight off for the Bronze in Boxing. British Middleweight (75Kg) Anthony Ogogo won his bout against German Stefan Hartel and countryman Anthony Joshua beat China's Zhilei Zhang in the Super Heavyweight (91Kg) class.
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The London Olympics Day 9 – The Bolt is BackMonday, August 6th, 2012
Highlights and Results of Day 9 of The London Olympics 2012
Day 8, Super Saturday in the Athletics stadium was always going to be a hard one to follow, but in terms of excitement Day 9 at the London Olympics was pretty close. The Blue Ribbon event, the Men's 100 Metres, was losing some of its shine, with Olympic champion and current world record holder Usain Bolt being off his best form. But all of that changed in the semi-final. Bolt qualified for the final with the third fastest time behind Justin Gatlin of the USA and Yohan Blake of Jamaica, but he cruised home once he knew he had it won and we all knew he had so much more for the final.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. When the final arrived the atmosphere in the stadium was reaching fever pitch. All the favourites were there, including Tyson Gay who had beaten Bolt earlier this year. The Jamaicans put on their little comedy routines before the cameras at the start, the Americans were much more serious. Then in under ten seconds it was all over. Bolt went flat out and blitzed the field, setting a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds. The first five all set personal best or seasons best times. Only Asafa Powell of Jamaica went over 10 seconds and he pulled up injured 20-30 metres short of the line.
Bolt's compatriot and training partner Yohan Blake came in second for a Jamaican double, Justin Gatlin collected the Bronze. But there was no doubt that the crowd favourite had won and celebrations went on long after the finish with Bolt and Blake throwing poses, shaking hands and hugging people all around the stadium. Another great event for the London games, bring on the 200 metres where most of the same competitors will line up again.
Before the 100M final there were a few other events that helped the crowd reach that fever pitch. In the field Krisztian Pars of Hungary had won the Men's Hammer Throw and Olga Rypakova had continued Kazakhstan's remarkable record in this Olympics winning the Women's Triple Jump. Kazakhstan now has 6 Gold medals and no Silver or Bronze. They seem to live by the rule "go hard or go home".
On the track, apart from the 100 metre semi-finals there were semis of the 400 and 1500 metres which both produced drama in terms of falls and the results. Young Aussie Steven Solomon qualified for the 400 metre final amongst illustrious company.
The Women's 400 metres was won by American Sanya Richards-Ross, who was almost run down at the end by British girl Christine Ohuruogu, the current Olympic champion (who I believe also served on the Starship Enterprise as one of Captain Kirk's support staff). It was another remarkable comeback for Ohuruogu, in front of her home crowd, after suffering injury and poor form ever since the last Olympics. DeeDee Trotter of the USA picked up the Bronze with her very unusual running style.
The Men's 3000m Steeplechase added more drama with stumbles and falls. Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad split the Kenyans Ezekiel Kemboi and Abel Kiprop Mutai in the medals. While Brimin Kiprop Kipruto staged an amazing recovery, to finish 5th after falling late in the race and finding himself in last position.
Outside of the stadium Great Britain picked up two more Golds. Sailor Ben Ainsle won in the Finn class, which I am afraid means nothing to me. And Andy Murray finally beat Rodger Federer, to win the Men's Singles in Tennis.
I must say I have strong reservations about Tennis being an Olympic sport. It has its own non-stop world tour and I am sure that most Tennis players would much rather win a Wimbledon title than an Olympic medal. Well this year they get the best of both worlds, as they can win an Olympic medal at Wimbledon. But Tennis is a big draw card, the crowds flock to the matches so it is obviously there to stay.
Today in the main stadium we have the qualifiers of the Women's 100 Metres Hurdles which will feature the first appearance of Australian favourite Sally Pearson and five medals will be decided in the evening session. Outside of the stadium a multitude of events continue at other venues, including Sailing, Cycling, Boxing and a couple of big Basketball fixtures featuring the Aussie Boomers and USA Dream Team.
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The London Olympics Day 8 – The Great British Gold RushSunday, August 5th, 2012
Highlights and Results from Day 8 of The London Olympics 2012
Day 8 the second Saturday of the London Olympics proved to be the best Olympic day for Great Britain ever. Jessica Ennis fulfilled her promise, winning the 800M final event of the Heptathlon in front of a packed stadium of 80,000 people and who knows how many millions on TV. The pressure on Ennis had been immense, being the face of the games, appearing on billboards and screens all over the country and abroad. But she never let it affect her and delivered in all 7 events.
Sometimes the final leg of the multi discipline events can be an anti climax, with the winner of the whole event finishing down the field in the last race. But Jessica's sense of the occasion never let anyone down. She led the 800 metres from the start, but was over taken at about 500 metres by three or four hopefuls, Ennis fought back on the final bend and overtook them all to a cheering crowd and delivered all the drama that her triumph deserved.
Jessica Ennis was rumoured to be the most heavily sponsored athlete going into these games, well I am betting she will be plagued with endorsement requests from here in. You are going to see a lot more of this young lady's face and highly toned frame in the future.
One place I am hoping that we do not see it is in the 100 metres hurdles on Monday. There is talk of her backing up in the individual event that she started the Heptathlon with so well. But I would hate to see anything wreck the fairytale ending, should she not win and I would also like to see Sally Pearson of Australia get her moment in the sun, winning the event she has dominated and trained so hard for in recent years.
Following Ennis's win on the track, next up was Britain's other great medal hope Mo Farah he was also an almost unbackable favourite to win the 10,000 metres. But it was never going to be easy, being up against the Kenyans and other Africans who have ruled this event for so long. But they seemed to run the wrong race, not going out fast enough to negate Farah's renowned fast finish. And Mo ran his own tactics perfectly, streaking into the lead on the last lap. His American training partner Galen Rupp of the USA was right behind him and the Kenyans Tariku and Kenenisa Bekele came in third and fourth.
Meanwhile in the same stadium Greg Rutherford was earning Great Britain's third Gold medal of the evening in the long jump. He leapt to victory with a jump of 8.31 metres ahead of Mitchell Watt of Australia and Will Claye of the USA.
All this British Gold overshadowed the final event of the night and one that normally takes the headlines, the women's 100 Metres. Jamaican Shelley-Ann Fraser-Price successfully defended her Beijing title, beating out Carmelita Jeter of the USA, who led in the first 50. Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica came in third. It was a great race, but way too many hyphens for my liking.
Prior to the Brits lighting up the stadium with Gold, their countryman had already picked up 3 Gold medals in the Velodrome and in their boats. Great Britain won Gold in the Women's team Pursuit and set a new world record on the way. The USA and Canada claimed Silver and Bronze. Australia and New Zealand came in fourth and fifth.
In Rowing Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking won the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls and Great Britain picked up their fourth straight Olympic Gold in the Men's Coxless Four just beating Australia in a thrilling race.
In the last night at the pool Michael Phelps ended his Olympic career in style, with Gold in the 4 x 100M Medley. The USA finished almost 2 seconds in front of Japan and Australia who collected the Silver and Bronze. James Magnusson swam a great anchor leg for Australia, which will hopefully silence his critics.
The US Women were also clear winners in the Women's 4 x 100M Medley. Again almost 2 seconds clear of the place getters, but the position were reversed from the Men's event with Australia collecting Silver and Japan the Bronze. So Liesel Jones finishes her Olympic career with medal too.
The Brits did not have it all their way on super Saturday. Their Men's Football team crashed out of the tournament losing in a penalty shoot out to South Korea, after finishing 1-1 after extra time. This followed the Women's 2-0 loss to Canada on Friday. In Basketball Australia beat Great Britain convincingly 106-75. This game followed the American Dream Team's narrow win over Lithuania 99-94.
But all that Gold saw Great Britain finish the day third on the medal table, with only China and the USA in front of them. Australia are sitting 19th after their most disappointing week in the pool in recent memory.
Whatever day 9 holds, it will be hard to pass the glory and drama of day 8, especially if you are British. But the Olympics will always have something to surprise and delight.
By Max Power
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The London Olympics Day 7 – Athletics BeginsSaturday, August 4th, 2012
Highlights and results from The London Olympics Day 7
On day 7 Athletics began in the main stadium of the London 2012 Olympics. Many people see Track and Field as the true beginning of the Olympics, but that denies a whole wealth of sports for which an Olympic medal is the pinnacle. But there is no denying it gets the big headlines and heaps of coverage.
The track and field events began with Men's Shot Put and Women's Heptathlon, where Jessica Ennis is one of Great Britains biggest hopes for a Gold Medal and quite the glamour girl. She did not disappoint her adoring fans, coming up with the fastest ever time for a heptathlete in the 100m hurdles. Her time of 12.54 seconds matched the winning time of American Dawn Harper in the individual hurdles at the Beijing Games in 2008. That really is the way to start a competition. But Jessica did not have it all her own way, four other girls in her heat clocked personal best times of sub 13 seconds.
The second event of the heptathlon, the High Jump saw Ennis come in 5th equal with a leap of 1.86 metres. Austra Skujyte of Lithuania won that one, clearing 1.92 metres, with 19 year old British competitor Katrina Johnson-Thompson coming in second.
In the afternoon session the Heptathletes moved on to the Shot Put, where Austra Skujyte once again finished in front with a Put of 17.31 metres, another world best. This not being one of Ennis's best events she finished a little down the field in 8th, the only time she scored less than 1000 points on day one.
The final event of the Heptathlon for the day was the 200M. Ennis finished first equal with Dafne Schipers of the Netherlands in a time of 22.83 another personal best for Ennis. At the end of the day she led the field on 4158 points, 184 clear of Austra Skujyte in second and her best first day score by 34 points.
Medals were decided in two events on day one of the Athletics. The Men's Shot Put was won by reigning Olympic Champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland, the first non-American to go back to back in the event. Silver went to David Storl of Germany and Bronze to Reese Hoffa of the USA. The Women's 10,000 Metres was won by Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia with Kenyans Sally Jepkosgei Kipyego and Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot collecting Silver and Bronze.
Swimming's penultimate night saw four finals resolved and Michael Phelps amazing Olympic legend grow even more. The first final of the evening saw the USA pick up Gold and Bronze with Missy Franklin setting a new world record of 2:04.06in the Women's 200M Backstroke. Compatriot Elizabeth Beisel picked up the Bronze and Anastasia Zueva of Russia separated them.
The legend continued in the Men's 100M Butterfly. Michael Phelps was lagging a little behind on the first 50 but ran down the competition on the home stretch to collect his 21st Olympic medal 17 of them Gold. This was his last individual race before he is due to retire, but he kept up the record breaking by winning the event for the 3rd time in succession. Chad le Clos of South Africa claimed the Silver and Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russia the Bronze.
The Women's 800M Freestyle featured British hope Rebecca Adlington, who won Gold in the same event and the 400M Freestyle four years ago in Beijing. But this race was dominated by 15 year old American Katy Ledecky who led from start to finish. Adlington challenged a few times but never really looked like passing Ledecky and Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain caught and passed Rebecca to finish with the Silver. Lauren Boyle of New Zealand finished fourth with a new Oceania record.
The Men's 50M Freestyle featured Eamon Sullivan of Australia who was the slowest qualifier and sadly the slowest in the final. But there was only 0.64 of a second between first and eighth. The Gold went to Florent Manadou of France, he is the younger brother of Laure Manadou who won the Gold medal in the Women's 400M Freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Silver went to Cullen Jones of the USA and Bronze to Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil.
British and American success continued on day 7 while Australia floundered a little, picking up only a Silver in the Women's Double Sculls for Kim Crow and Brooke Pratley. The event was won by Britons Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger. While Women's Cycling Sprint pair Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch only managed Bronze. The British pair were disqualified for an illegal changeover in that event.
But Victoria Pendleton was not to be denied on the second day at the Velodrome, picking up Gold in the Women's Keirin. In the Men's Team Pursuit Great Britain won Gold again with Australia and New Zealand winning Silver and Bronze.
Rowing continued to be a great source of hardware for those Commonwealth countries too, with New Zealand winning the Men's Single Sculls and GB the Bronze. The Men's Quadruple Sculls went to Germany and Team GB picked up another Bronze. The Men's Pair was won by New Zealanders Eric Murray and Hamish Bond, the British winning Bronze again and somehow finishing in the same lane as the Kiwis.
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LAKE WALES –Janie Howard Wilson Elementary first graders are fired up about fire safety after a special training last month from Polk County Firefighter Kent Van Hook.
(PHOTO #1) One classmate, De'Shun McNeil, tried on child-size firefighter gear and posed for a photo with Van Hook. De'Shun also demonstrated how to crawl on the ground when there might be a lot of smoke.
Students learned about the importance of smoke alarms, ways to prevent fires, and how to escape a house fire. All the students received a firefighter hat, smoke alarm bracelet, and fire safety worksheet from the Polk County Fire Department.
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It is almost here! RunDisney's biggest race weekend-WDW Marathon Weekend- is practically here! I will be running the Minnie and the Donald. The Minnie is a 10k-an inaugural race, and the Donald is a 1/2 marathon. I am beyond excited as well as nervous to be running back to back races.
To take my mind off of my nervousness I will spend some time at Expo doing some shopping. The big question is-will I purchase a pair of the runDisney New Balance sneakers?
I am undecided whether I will be purchasing a pair of the sneakers. However there are some items that I will definitely be purchasing.
When I run you can find me wearing either a Bondi Band or Sweaty Bands-so I will definitely be buying both at Expo (the Bondi Bands are on the upper left, and the Sweaty Bands are on the lower right).
I will definitely be purchasing a magnet for my car. That is always a must have item for me with each race. The bigger question is whether I will purchase my I Did It shirt. With the Tower of Terror 10 Miler I bought the I Did It shirt before the race, and got swept. I wondered if it jinxed me. However with the Wine and Dine 1/2 Marathon I purchased my I Did It shirt prior to the race, and finished. So is buying the shirt prior to the race a jinx or good luck? Any opinions, feel free to let me know your thoughts!
Julia collects Vinylmations so after she runs her race-the 200m dash-this will be her special gift!
Lastly I will be taking a look at the runDisney tutus for Julia. Somehow it slipped my mind to put together a running outfit for Julia-so one of these will be perfect as long as I can adjust it to her size!
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The Rev. Judith Geisler Mannheim has been called as permanent minister by the congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, Fountain Hill.
She will begin her duties May 8.
Mannheim will conclude an interim ministry this month at All Souls Unitarian Church, Colorado Springs, Colo. Previously, she spent four years with the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston as a consultant in education and adult programs and as dean of its independent study program.


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PHILADELPHIA — Donovan McNabb is changing uniforms and staying in the NFC East.
The Philadelphia Eagles traded McNabb to the Washington Redskins for a pair of draft picks Sunday night. The Eagles will receive a second-round pick (37th overall) in this month's NFL draft and either a third- or fourth-round pick next year.
The trade is the boldest move to date for new Redskins coach Mike Shanahan and could spell the end in Washington for Jason Campbell, the starter for 31/2 seasons. Shanahan already has signed free agent Rex Grossman as a backup and has been actively scouting the top quarterbacks available in the draft, when the Redskins will have the No. 4 overall pick.
"Welcome to our newest teammate to DC!" cornerback DeAngelo Hall posted on Twitter. "Really excited about what Coach Shanahan and [general manager] Bruce Allen are doing to help us compete for a championship!"
Shanahan can only hope the 33-year-old McNabb works out as well as the last big-time Washington-Philadelphia quarterback deal. The Eagles in 1964 sent Sonny Jurgensen to the Redskins, where he played 11 seasons until he was 40 and became a Hall of Famer.
Trading McNabb to a division opponent could haunt Philadelphia for years.
"We thought this was the best for Donovan, and the compensation was right," Eagles coach Andy Reid said. "We surely took into consideration Donovan's feelings."
McNabb is entering the final year of a contract, and it's not known whether he is negotiating an extension with the Redskins. Reid said the possibility McNabb could refuse to go to another team or decline to extend his contract was not a factor.
McNabb, a six-time Pro Bowl quarterback, led the Eagles to five NFC championship games and one Super Bowl in 11 seasons in Philadelphia. His failure to lead the team to its first NFL championship since 1960 plus the emergence of Kevin Kolb made him expendable.
McNabb, the No. 2 overall pick in the 1999 draft, leaves as the franchise leader in yards passing (32,873), completions (2,801), attempts (4,746), completion percentage (59.0) and touchdown passes (216). He also rushed for 3,249 yards and 28 TDs.
Kolb, who has started two games in three seasons, becomes the starter. Michael Vick is the backup. Both have one year remaining on their contracts.
"This was a very tough decision," Reid said. "Donovan McNabb represented everything a football player could be during his 11 seasons in Philadelphia. He carried this organization to new heights and set a high standard of excellence both on and off the field. We thank him for everything he did for this football team and for this city."
McNabb threw for 3,553 yards and 22 touchdowns with 10 interceptions in 14 games last season, leading the Eagles to the playoffs. His passer rating of 92.9 was the third-highest in his career.
But McNabb played poorly in a loss to Dallas in Week 17 that cost Philadelphia a division title and a first-round bye. He also struggled in a loss to the Cowboys the following week in the wild-card game.
Reid said immediately after the season that McNabb would return in 2010. Reid repeated that several times throughout the offseason until acknowledging last month the team was listening to offers for all three of its QBs.
McNabb then issued a statement saying he wished to remain with the Eagles but understood the situation and hoped for a quick resolution.


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With the foundation now set in place for the new CBA agreement we can start to speculate what may happen to potential free agents. I'm sure the Colts organization isn't too pleased with the news. The idea of loosing the tendered players currently on the roster would be a major blow to remaining in contention. If players with four years of service and contract is up become unrestricted free agents, prepare now to say good-bye to some familiar faces. The Colts in the past have always managed to deal with roster losses without effecting the overall team too much. However, this doesn't mean they are set-up to see the large number of team members depart at this time. If the Colts cannot discover some way of re-signing bigger names like Peyton Manning, Joseph Addai, Adam Vinatieri, Melvin Bullitt, among others, then another playoff run is unlikely. After the jump let's look at the possibility of who might leave and who might be in a Colts jersey next year.
Peyton Manning
The most important name on the list has to be Peyton Manning. We know besides from the option of Jim Irsay selling his soul to get a deal done (heck maybe he would). We're destine to see number 18 in blue and white for the rest of his career. So, let's move onto the others whose future maybe not as certain.
Chances of being back: 100%
Joseph Addai
He's now 28 young in age, but the Colts normally do not re-sign veteran running backs. In recent history we've watched Marshall Faulk head to the greatest show on turf and Edgerrin James both move on before they hit the ripe age of 30. Yet, the only difference I see today could be, will Addai require a contract as monumental as the backs before him would have ordained? And, what teams with room within their salary cap are willing to offer for his services? Taking both of those questions in consideration, I cannot feel comfortable believe he'll be back. The Colts also may already taken this into the deciding factor when they selected Delone Carter in the draft.
Chances of being back: 35%
While serviceable on our offensive line, he's far from elite by many standards. This is not a bad thing, in fact that could play a major roll in the Colts bring him back. Charlie can play on the outside at tackle or inside at his natural position guard. His versatility is the most valuable asset to receiving a new contract offer. Are there better options soon to be sitting out there in free agency? Yes. But, the price tag for what others can bring to the table might not be worth the same when examining what the Colts ask of their offensive-linemen.
Chances of being back: 85%
Melvin Bullitt
The departure of Bob Sanders skyrocketed the need to make a decision, who will be the starting SS for the Indianapolis Colts? Coming from a long line of UFA's who have contributed to the Colt's success, Melvin Bullitt has exceeded people's expectations when placed in the line-up. He's not the playmaker Sanders' is yet, he doesn't cost you games like fill-in Aaron Francisco will. Bullitt stated the only way he sees himself a Colt next year is with a long-term deal. I'm not sure the team sees him as a long-term solution thou, putting in question him being a high priority. When paying for a starting caliber player you don't want average/backup style play from him. We've already had that benefit of going through that with Kelvin Hayden.
Chances of being back: 50%
Adam Vinatieri
Even at the age of 38, Adam has hardly lost a step. Maybe he doesn't have the leg he once had but, with Pat McAfee as a kickoff specialist, that's a non-factor. The facts are he's a future hall-of-fame candidate and when the game is on the line there's no one you'd rather have lining-up to kick for you. He has ice water running through his veins, no matter the pressure (Super Bowl game winner) he just does his job. Not to mention he's also a leader in the locker room.
Chances of being back: 99.9%
At the beginning of last year, you could easily argue Clint was the best linebacker on the team. Middle linebacker Gary Brackett is intelligent and instinctive but, when it comes to playing with heart Session can't be beat. He attacks the ball carrier in a lot of ways like he was trying to replace Bob Sanders' presence. Possibly leading to the reason he landed on IR. His size will not attract many suitors, especially as more teams switch large 3-4 linebackers. If another team is willing to pay for his willingness to give 110% and not his size; then no doubt he'll be playing for another contender. Colts would greatly benefit from the depth but, he becomes merely a luxury with the play of 7th round selection Kavell Conner.
Chances of being back: 40%
Antonio Johnson and Dan Muir
One of these two should manage to return to the Colts. The fan's (including myself) display a fondness for Mookie over Muir's ability to help stop the run. The difference is noticeable, after seeing a strong showing in the final 4 regular season games. Unfortunately, Johnson goes down due to injury and Muir comes in and gets pounded like fresh meat in a prison during the playoff's game vs. the Jets. After all of this the Colt's organization seems to favor their pick towards Dan Muir being the chosen one. Of course you can never be sure what the Polians' might do, as it turns out they may upgrade over both of them.
Chances of being back: One of them - 82%, Both - 15%, Neither - .1%
Closing Analysis
The general consensus is Ryan Diem and Kelvin Hayden will be cut to make room for others. If that happens there will be a few more million dollars of cap space. Personally if the Colts are going to pay for an elite corner they might is well have one, Jonathan Joseph fits that bill. He's not the biggest name out there but, he deserves to be mentioned with the best of them. Another direction to consider should be a defensive tackle who mandates double teams. Brandon Mebane could be that gem to apply pressure and free up Freeney and Mathis. Finally, strong safety is a position that will have to be address after Peyton's contract. I'm sure everyone has their front runner to take the job but, I'll choose not to play favorites.
The offense may see some remodeling as well depending on Johnson and Addai's statuses. The running back position is now is flux relating to possible losses of Joe Addai to free agency and Javarris James to stupidity. If available Jerome Harrison is an affordable scat-back which seemed poised to breakout a couple years back. He's one person barely mentioned but has big play ability also. And, as far as Johnson goes, if/when Diem is released Charlie's bound to be kept. That's not to say the team might not upgrade the offensive line still but, more likely the current members will round out the roster.
Thank you very much for listening and please speculate your own ideas.
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Givony has tweeted, Kawakami has rumor mongered, Sheridan has speculated, and multiple threads have been created. The rumor seems to be coming around to a Kevin Love for Anthony Randolph straight up swap. I thought it was necessary to put out a poll to see CH's thoughts on such a deal.
Kevin Love has a higher floor, Anthony Randolph has a higher ceiling, Kevin Love is a better rebounder, Anthony Randolph is a better shot blocker. Kevin Love can't earn a starting position on a 15 win team, Anthony Randolph can't earn 25 minutes on a 24 win team. Kevin Love is short and pudgy, Anthony Randolph is long and skinny. Kevin Love is full of on court intangibles, Anthony Randolph may not even realize he's playing basketball. What do they both do the same? Shoot, each carry nearly identical career FG%.
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Arrogance in the atheist community – by Godless Teen
May 16, 2013 in Uncategorized
So, I hear that we're having a reunion. glad to see that She-Devil's back. Personally, I've been on my own (less depressing) hiatus that has consisted mostly of studying, more studying, AP exams, going back to studying, and the like. Anyhow, this is something that has been bothering me for a very long time about our community.
First, I would like to compare the following two statements:
If you don't believe in God, you're going to Hell!
If you believe in God, you're a stupid, irrational person!
These two statements are similar in that they attempt to persuade you that, if you choose one "inferior" side over the other, you'll suffer from some kind of punishment. Both are an arrogant way of saying "I'm right, you're wrong, discussion over."
"But… But… Not all atheists are like that!"
You're right! However, a terrifyingly large proportion of the atheist community is. For example, I'll borrow a passage from an article written by "geekysteven" on one of my favorite online blogs "WWJTD", about a month ago (note that this passage has no bearing on what the attitudes of any of the other writers are like):
As skeptics, we strive to be as logical as possible. One of the best ways to do this is to learn what logical fallacies are and avoid using them.
Wait, what?! When did the word "skeptical" suddenly become the same as "logical"?! Is it logical to be skeptical? Of course, but only to a degree. If I lived my entire life skeptical of the idea that all of my actions are secretly part of some alien controller's plan to dominate the world, I'd be living a rather pointless life. After a while, skepticism of a subject becomes irrational; there's no reason to doubt something after enough evidence supporting it has been presented, or until evidence that would appear to contradict past evidence shows up. To act skeptical of certain subjects, after a while, becomes a pointless and tiring act.
Furthermore, being "skeptical" doesn't mean that you're being logical, necessarily. I could be skeptical and yet believe that clouds were created by factories. Being skeptical just means, essentially, looking for both sides of the argument. That doesn't mean that you'll always find the good side of the opposing arguments; you just have to keep researching to increase the probability that you do find the best opposing arguments.
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there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a
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There is an old adage that it is better to give than to receive. Einstein said it, St. Francis said it, but I want to challenge this notion when it comes to love. St. Francis said, "It is in giving that we receive". I say when it comes to love it is also "in receiving that we give..." Please take a moment to try something. I invite you to stop taking in-breaths and only breathe out. What happens? Probably you will turn blue just before you pass out for lack of air. I suggest that if we want more love in the world, we must learn to receive love as well as give it.
Consider this – if you look deeply enough you will see that almost everyone has a deep longing to be loved, to be seen, to be appreciated – especially in the West. So if we have this culture of people who long to be loved, what is the most loving thing we could do? Be a receptor of love! The more love we receive, the more love we have to give. In order to fully experience love we need to learn to receive it. To trust that we are loved... and let it in! We need to listen that we are loved and know that we are worthy of being loved...
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create
the capacity to receive it.
Read the entire letter from Michael here.
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What's Love got to do with it?
It seems to me that the only thing that has the power to break the myth of separation that allows us to demonize others, to rationalize the bombing of innocent women and children, committing genocide, and other atrocities against our brothers and sisters (and the earth) is love. I am not talking about sugary hearts and flowers, romantic pop country music love and all its absurd manifestations, but the kind of love that challenges you to your very core, that forces you to dissolve your identity until you can fully see yourself mirrored in the sacred other.
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within
yourself that you have built against it.
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New 5 Rhythms Wave series
This series will be offered in the spirit of Dāna*
February 18th: Grounding in Space
*Dāna is the Buddhist practice of cultivating generosity through giving. It is an opportunity to give, to find the appropriate amount for your individual situation, which will be different for everyone, according to their means and the value received. Prices for 5Rhythms classes in Nevada City have not been increased for 10 years. In most parts of the world the classes are offered between $15-40.
All contributions of any amount are received with gratitude and appreciation.
The practice of Dāna supports the teachings, so they can continue to be offered, and enables people to attend who might not be able to afford it otherwise. The Buddhist teachings are considered priceless, and therefore are offered freely, and contributions from students support the teacher to continue making the offering available. Myself and other 5Rhythms teachers consider these teachings as priceless and want to insure that they are available to everyone.
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Local Nevada County Peace Activities: March 19th
The Peace Center of Nevada County presents nationally known peace activist Cindy Sheehan. Join us on this National Day of Action. Citizens of Nevada County will join peace groups from around the country, and the world, to say Stop the US occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan! Stop spending our money on endless wars!
The Peace Rally takes place at The Union, 464 Sutton Way, Brunswick Basin, Grass Valley at 1:00 p.m. At 1:45 as a collective whole we march up Sutton Way, then we will cross over the Brunswick Bridge over Highway 49, and then turning right to Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters where we' ll have music, speakers, and Cindy Sheehan. The public is asked to create banners and to carry signs that send the message to the White House of their frustration with wars and the state of the national economy. For more information contact the Peace Center of Nevada County, 216 B Main Street, Nevada City, 265-0200, or visit website at www.ncpeace.org.
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Beyond Forgiveness: Phil Cousineau, Stephanie N. Van Hook and Michael Nagler
Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, worldwide lecturer and storyteller. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him on a worldwide search for what the ancients called the "soul of the world." With more than 25 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of myth in modern life" is a thread that runs through all of his work. He is currently the host of Global Spirit, Link TV's "internal travel" television series. His books include Stoking the Creative Fires, The Art of Pilgrimage, The Hero's Journey, Wordcatcher, and Beyond Forgiveness. www.philcousineau.net
Raffi Cavoukian: Child Honouring and the Compassion Revolution
Professor John A. Powell: Race, Ethnicity, Poverty and the Law
Joel Salatin and Rita de Quercus: Nevada County Sustainable Local Food & Farming Conference!
Jess Rimington and guests: One World Youth Project
Gabrielle Roth: Balancing Intuition, Instinct and Intellect
John Robbins: The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
Book of the Month
Be Love Now, The Path of the Heart
This lovely and inspiring book, is the third by Ram Dass, one of America's most beloved spiritual teachers. His first book, Be Here Now, was a flagship for the spiritual revolution of the 60s that inspired a still deepening path of conscious awareness, compassion and right living. His second, Still Here, recounts his devastating and life-changing hemorrhagic stroke, and how the ensuing challenges deepened his spiritual awareness.
Be Love Now takes us on a journey of learning to practice unconditional love without needing anything in return. How can we be complete and fulfilled by just being loving awareness? Ram Dass shows us that unconditional love exists within us, it is at the very core of our essential being. Woven into a memoir of his life of spiritual seeking, teaching, and exploring, this book is an inspiring guidebook to discovering our own spiritual path to being love and living with an open heart.
Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?Sarah Byrnes, Chuck Collins
Yes! Magazine
This isn't a future you can, or should, face alone. How to make sure you don't have to.
"I don't believe the economy is getting better," says Billy R., a member of a mutual aid group in Oregon that he jokingly calls "my reality support group." "All around me I'm surrounded by media and advertising urging me to keep borrowing, buying, and sleepwalking. I love meeting with others who are staring down the potential risks and challenges of the future."
Maybe more of us could use a reality support group. Even with the announcement that the official unemployment rate fell to 9.4 percent, millions of people remain in dismal economic straits. The pace of home foreclosures has barely slowed and millions remain out of work. Even upbeat scenarios still assume protracted unemployment and economic stagnation for much of the decade ahead. The unspoken scenario is that things could get worse.
To read the full article, click here.
World Hunger Best Cured by Small-Scale Agriculture: ReportNidhi Prakash
The key to alleviating world hunger, poverty and combating climate change may lie in fresh, small-scale approaches to agriculture, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute.
The US-based institute's annual State of the World report, published yesterday, calls for a move away from industrial agriculture and discusses small-scale initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa that work towards poverty and hunger relief in an environmentally sustainable way.
The authors suggest that instead of producing more food to meet the world's growing population needs, a more effective way to address food security issues and climate change would be to encourage self-sufficiency and waste reduction, in wealthier and poorer nations alike.
To read the full article, click here.
The Great Food Crisis of 2011Lester R. Brown
Earth Policy Institute
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the United Kingdom. Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18-percent annual food inflation rate, sparking protests. China is looking abroad for potentially massive quantities of wheat and corn. The Mexican government is buying corn futures to avoid unmanageable tortilla price rises. And on January 5, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announced that its food price index for December hit an all-time high.
To read the full article, click here.
Five Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights MovementDrew Dellinger
Tikkun Magazine
1. If you want to change the world, change the worldview. To get to the root of our current ecological and social crises, we have to look at the structures of consciousness -- the stories, myths, narratives, and paradigms -- that shape the modern world and inhabit our minds. Racism, patriarchy, oppression and ecological destruction can be seen as dysfunctional "stories" made tragically real. To heal the culture, we need to heal our cosmology, our worldview or cultural story. As my teacher, Thomas Berry, often said (drawing on Jung), "The dream drives the action." The dream of a society drives and guides its actions. Tapping into the electric currents of our national psyche, Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement transformed the country by dreaming and embodying a new cultural narrative.
To read the full article, click here.
African Farmers Displaced as Investors Move In
Neil MacFarquhar
"SOUMOUNI, Mali — The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave.
"They told us this would be the last rainy season for us to cultivate our fields; after that, they will level all the houses and take the land," said Mama Keita, 73, the leader of this village veiled behind dense, thorny scrubland. "We were told that Qaddafi owns this land."
To read the full article, click here.
EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?Jeff Biggers
It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop and announced their veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia.
"This ushers in a new era of civility in the coalfields," said long-time coalfields justice leader Bo Webb. He added: "I think Judy Bonds just sent us all a little smile," referring to the recent passing of the "godmother" of the anti-mountaintop removal movement.
To read the full article, click here.
Words Matter: How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy ItSarah van Gelder, Brooke Jarvis
Yes! Magazine
The media can, as we know, promote fear, hatred, and extremism. Can it also lead us to greater civility and more productive debate?
"Just as media outlets have been used to create a pervasive sense of fear, they have also been used to convince people that conflict is inevitable. This leaves media consumers resigned to the notion that conflict will happen."
Those words could have been used to describe an increasingly hostile and provocative media in the United States. In fact, they were written to describe the use of the media to incite Hutus to slaughter their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
To read the full article, click here.
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Roger Pielke, Jr. is a professor of Environmental Studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow, at the Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. Pielke is a Senior Fellow of The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank. His latest book is The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians won't tell you about Global Warming. http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu /about_us/meet_us/roger_pielke/
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One of the most inspiring events of our lifetime has just taken place, but our corporate controlled media failed to give it the depth and integrity that should be a part of a democratic media. I am referring to the peaceful overthrow of the Mubarak government in Egypt and the uprisings that have been happening in Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and throughout the middle east. Democracy Now is one of the few media programs that gives us in-depth coverage of national and global events as they unfold. I recommend you bookmark this site and listen in when you really want to know what's going on in the world...
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The Sun Never SaysEven
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole
- Hafiz
Last Night As I Was SleepingLast night as I lay sleeping,
I dreamt - oh, marvelous error! -
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of new life
that I have never before seen?
Last night as I lay sleeping,
I dreamt - oh, marvelous error! -
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
Last night as I lay sleeping,
I dreamt - oh, marvelous error! -
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
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Last night as I slept,
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that it was God I had
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Will Oscar Nominee Michael Shannon Play Elvis Presley On Screen?
By Carey Purcell
Michael Shannon is in talks to play iconic rock star Elvis Presley in a new film, according to Showbiz411.com.
The movie will focus on Elvis' 1970 meeting with Richard Nixon at the White House, when the rock star gave the President a gun and requested that he be made a special federal agent-at-large in the war on drugs.
The encounter served as the basis for Showtime's 1997 movie "Elvis Meets Nixon," starring Rick Peters ("Dexter") as Elvis and Bob Gunton ("The Shawshank Redemption") as Nixon.
Further casting has not been announced.
Oscar nominee Shannon recently performed in Simpatico at Chicago's A Red Orchard Theatre, which he helped to found. He will perform in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in November. Shannon has also worked with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Northlight Theatre Company.
He made his Broadway debut in Grace in 2012, and his film work includes "Bug," "Revolutionary Road," "The Iceman" and "Man of Steel." He has also appeared in "Boardwalk Empire."
In 2014, Shannon will star in Ionesco's The Killer at Theatre for a New Audience. Previews of the new translation by Michael Feingold, directed by Darko Tresnjak, will begin May 17.
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Royce Millar, Melissa Fyfe and Marika Dobbin Jeff Xu is outgrowing Melbourne. Xu, 35, is one of the city's new wave of wealthy Asian property developers dominating Melbourne's apartment and hotel market.
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Melissa Fyfe The CFA's smartphone application is still malfunctioning, infuriating hundreds of people.
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Melissa Fyfe and Royce Millar It's dusk in northern Victoria and 30,000 rust-red hens are scratching in and around a 120-metre-long shed. Morning will find them settling on a nest box to produce an egg for Coles.
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Advice columnist Dear Abby's response to a letter signed "Unhappy in Tampa" is getting nationwide attention.
The couple, a man and woman, say they recently relocated to Florida, and moved into a new neighborhood. In the letter, they say there are two gay couples in the neighborhood, one male and one female.
The letter writer says she and her husband did not include the gay couples when it was their turn to host neighborhood events because "we do not approve of their lifestyle choices".
The letter writer says she and her husband used to live in a "conservative community". She says that after they excluded the gay couples from events, she and her husband were excluded from events and called bigots.
Dear Abby did not mince words in her response, saying that a person's sexuality is not a "lifestyle choice", and that gay people are born gay.
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Dear Abby ended her response by saying the couple has a chance to grow by interacting with people different than them, and they shouldn't "blow it".
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