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Condition should be evident from the images. Better pile toward the margins, lower pile (to knot loops in places) through the center. A small hole (about an inch) in the upper part just to right of center. A few rows of knots lost at both ends,--a bit into the border at upper left. Colors appear to be good; no dye bleeding or running. The rug is dirty, and colors will undoubtedly be brighter after washing.
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TCR Best of: Arizona Phil Votes Early and OftenSubmitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 10:40am
Here on election day, I'm voting for none other than Arizona Phil. Anyone armed with so much information can't lead our country wrong. I can't wait for Chris Berman to get his post-election interview with Phil.
Strong commentary by Az Phil from the "Cubs make the First Trade of the Offseason" post.
On newly acquired Ryan Buchter:
Ryan Buchter was drafted by the Nationals in the 33rd round of the 2005 draft, but he didn't sign, and instead went to a JC in New Jersey.
The Nats signed Buchter as a "Draft & Follow" in May 2006 (prior to the new CBA, clubs retained rights to their Rule 4 Draft picks until one week before the next year's draft), an indication that his draft stock had gone up after his year playing JC ball.
What probably happened is, the Cubs area scout in New Jersey "turned in" Buchter off his performance in JC in '06 ("turned in" being the term used by scouts when they recommend a player), but the Cubs never got a chance to draft him in 2006 because the Nats had already signed him as a DNF in May, although the Cubs probably kept his name on file for future reference should a trade be made with the Nationals at some future date.


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Soldiers in the field could have access to a secure phone that will self-destruct if it's tampered with, thanks to a new Boeing creation.
Boeing will soon debut a new secure phone for government
agencies and defense contractors that can erase itself.
"Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable," the company said on its filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The phone will be known as "Boeing Black" but additional details, including price and release date, aren't yet known. Don't expect to find the phone at your local retailer, however.
"It's geared towards defense and security customers. It's not aimed at the consumer," Boeing spokeswoman Rebecca Yeamans told CNN.
The phone will use Google's Android operating system and
will encrypt calls and stored data.
The military has long sought such technology, known as Vanishing programmable Resources. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced last year it was working on a plethora of battlefield electronics ranging from radios, remote sensors and phones, that are capable of different forms of self-destruction.
The DARPA work centers on the ability of devices to breakdown on a signal sent from a command or even from triggers such as heat or moisture.


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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Usain Bolt is worried chilly weather could slow him in the rematch between the world's fastest men at the DN Galan track meet.
When he faces Asafa Powell in the 100 meters on Tuesday, the temperature by race time is expected to dip to 57 degrees.
"It's cold for me, I definitely prefer to run in warmer weather," said Bolt, the world-record holder in the 100. "I'm from tropical Jamaica. I hope the weather changes."
A dozen sprinters in the field have personal bests under 10 seconds in the 100. Bolt set the world record of 9.72 seconds in New York on May 31, breaking Powell's mark of 9.74. They last met during the Jamaica Olympic trials in late June. Both qualified for the Beijing Games.
Others in the 100 field include Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas, who finished third behind American Tyson Gay and Powell in last year's World Championships, and defending Olympic 200 champion Shawn Crawford of the United States.
Powell is trying for a third straight victory at Stockholm's Olympic Stadium.
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WINCHESTER, Va. - This Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Winchester will be hosting its first family-oriented Kidz Fest on the Old Town Walking Mall. Many of the ongoing activities are free, and everything will go on rain or shine.
The idea for this event was proposed by the Winchester City Council and it is being presented by Winchester Academy.
"We're looking forward to getting to meet and greet people in the community," said Sherry Allen, Winchester Academy administrative assistant. "It's going to be a great opportunity for us and all the exhibitors to get their names out there, all while having fun."
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Children are shown playing on the walking mall in downtown Winchester.
Winchester Academy is a private school for students in pre-K through 12th grade. The school will have many of its parents and students volunteering at the event.
Some of the businesses that will have interactive demonstrations at Kidz Fest include Competitive Edge Gymnastics, Kids First Swim School, Handley Softball & Baseball and Polka Dot Pot.
"There will be close to 50 exhibitors, all with their own tent and activity to be done," said Dario Savares, Full Circle Marketing representative. "So bring a canvas bag for all the crafts and prizes you'll collect."
Many businesses are excited to get their name out there and mingle with the community - even some of the Old Town shops are getting involved in the event.
There is also a lineup of performances that will be going on throughout the day, including Peter McCory the One Man Band, Selah Theater Project, Jerry the Jester, Winchester Academy Dancers and Mister Chandler. They will be performing on the stage in front of the Courthouse on Rouss Avenue. Also, the Old Court House Civil War museum will be open with an entry fee of $5 for adults.
For more information about the ongoing events and businesses involved, visit www.oldtownwinchesterva.com/kidz-fest.


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Opening ceremonies are starting; Bushes out for the coin toss
Blue and white balloons carried by people dressed in black are forming a star over the hidden star. Fireworks were set off as five panels are removed, revealing the star.
Now the cheerleaders are coming on the field…
After player introductions, President George W. Bush and wife Laura are headed to midfield for the coin toss. They received a warm reception.
Dallas wins the toss, and the Cowboys will receive.
Now an American flag held by members of every branch of service covers the entire field for the national anthem, which will be sung by Jordin Sparks.


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Russ Lande and Sporting News analyze the draft's top tight ends.
And it starts with Kyle Rudolph.
Scouting report
Kyle Rudolph, Notre Dame
NFL position: TE
Height: 6-5 3/4
Weight: 265
40 time: 4.64
Current projection: Second round
Hands: Has soft hands with a rare, natural ability to track and adjust to the ball in the air. Can make a difficult catch look easy, but lacks concentration on easy throws. Will extend his arms to snatch the ball away from his body. Is a productive underneath-to-intermediate receiving threat. Grade: 7.5
Routes: Has outstanding route-running skills. Is quick and smooth on his breaks. Has great size and athletic ability, which causes match-up problems. Is too quick for most linebackers when in the slot. Is too big for most defensive backs. Is able to break from route without losing speed. Has great body control and balance. Can use his body to shield the defender from the football. Grade: 8.0
Run after catch: Has excellent run-after-the-catch ability. Battles for the ball in the air in tight coverage and has a strong stiff arm to break tackles. Lacks the vertical speed to pull away from defenders with an angle on him. Is not explosive or elusive when running after a catch. Grade: 7.0
Release: Shows excellent quickness in his release off the line of scrimmage. Has the size, strength, athletic ability and lateral agility to defeat the jam by the strongside linebacker. Aligns on the line of scrimmage and even in the backfield, at times. Grade: 7.0
Blocking: Has the size and strength to develop as an in-line blocker at the next level. Spends a majority of his time blocking on the perimeter. Shows outstanding effort to finish plays, but lacks a violent streak. Is most effective on the move or on the perimeter. Does a good job on the edge in pass protection. Can work off the double-team block to get to the second level. Grade: 6.5
Bottom line: Rudolph was a three-year starter for the Fighting Irish but has missed parts of the past two seasons due to serious injuries. He's an ideal size for an NFL tight end and has elite speed, quickness when breaking routes, outstanding body control and an excellent ability to run block at the line of scrimmage. However, he lacks the nastiness to finish off defenders, even though his strength is solid. Rudolph merits second-round consideration because of his injury history, even if his talent his first-round caliber.
Tight end rankings
1. Kyle Rudolph, Notre Dame
2. D.J. Williams, Arkansas
3. Lance Kendricks, Wisconsin
4. Rob Housler, Fla. Atlantic
5. Luke Stocker, Tennessee
6. Daniel Hardy, Idaho
7. Jordan Cameron, USC
8. Charles Clay, Tulsa
9. Weslye Saunders, South Carolina
10. Kyle Adams, Purdue
11. Cameron Graham, Louisville
12. Ed Barham, North Carolina
13. Richard Gordon, Miami (FL)
14. Andre Smith, Virginia Tech
15. Martell Webb, Michigan
16. Tommy Gallarda, Boise State
17. Michael McNeill, Nebraska
18. Virgil Green, Nevada
19. Preston Dial, Alabama
20. Charlie Gantt, Michigan State
21. Josh Baker, Northwest Missouri State
22. Greg Smith, Texas
23. Will Yeatman, Maryland
24. Zack Pianalto, North Carolina
25. Ryan Taylor, North Carolina
26. Allen Reisner, Iowa
27. Colin Cochart, South Dakota State
28. Ben Guidugli, Cincinnati
29. Christopher Hunt, Trinity College
30. Jeff Lindsey, Purdue
31. Collin Franklin, Iowa State
32. A.J. Simmons, Arizona
Best of the best
Hands: D.J. Williams, Arkansas. Very strong hands. Shows excellent technique and body control to snatch ball out of the air.
Receiver: Rudolph. Big target with soft hands. Runs well and show ability to make difficult catches.
Deep threat: Lance Kendrick, Wisconsin. A bit undersized as TE but shows break-point quickness in his routes.
After the catch: Williams. Surprising speed to make plays after the catch as a receiver. Absorbs hard hits and keeps on going.
Sleeper: Jordan Cameron, USC. Has an astonishing vertical leap and good hands to reach high throws.


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Salma Hayek understands the desire to stop the aging process, but she says beauty, as you get older, is something to be brought out and enhanced, not manufactured by a doctor.
"I believe that every woman is entitled to fight to preserve her youth," the actress, 44, tells Allure in its September issue, on newsstands Aug. 23.
Just not through plastic surgery. "It's like the uniform of a generation," she says. "And it's not necessarily beautiful. It's not wrinkled-looking, but it's not beautiful."
The Oscar nominee freely admits that she's showing signs of aging. Asked whether any part of her body looked better 10 years ago, she replies with a laugh: "My boobs. They're not bad, by the way. I'm not complaining about them."
Yet she radiates youth, partly because she's been applying "creams" her whole life, she says. This summer, she even launched a beauty line, Nuance, which in many ways is a tribute to her grandmother, who studied to be a beautician.
"She started working on my skin when I was 12 or 13," Hayek says. "I never used soap on my face. Once, she shaved our heads and put egg on it and all these things. But I have to give her credit – my hair is great."
The philosophy behind the new products, sold at CVS, is that "within you there is beauty, and you have to learn how to find it and enhance it in a natural way," Hayek adds. "One thing that is exciting about being a woman is that you can rediscover your beauty over and over and over."
One other advantage, she says, for women as they get older: They can get sexier.
"As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s," she says. "You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be. If you are a girl who cannot walk in heels, it doesn't matter how beautiful you are. If you look like a chicken that's been spiked in the feet, it's not going to be sexy."
Salma Hayek on Plastic Surgery: 'It's Not Beautiful'
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will the 16 bit apps, that are currently being sold on the Breadbox
Web site still work on the 32 bit platform?
I have the Newdeal 2000 software.
I thought that the first thing that was going to be done was to get
rid of the 640K barrier, while the software was still 16 bit. I
thought that Jenns or someone had said (and this is a while ago so I
could be wrong) that this would solve alot of the errors. Has this
already been done in Breadbox Ensemble?
I think that the reason that they said it was because 32 bit would be
a vast undertaking, and extending the 640K barrier would be a faster
and easier way to fix most problems.
Also I was curious, is the OS on the global PC on ROM. I thought
someone said that. The reason I am asking is because I love the fact
that it is made for the Geos system (with its own Express button on
the bottom row and quick link buttons at the top) and did not know if
it was going to be possible to change the OS from what ever is on
there to BE or the New 32 bit BE. If it is not possible, would I just
put BE on the harddrive or one of the harddrives as I would on a
regular computer? If I were to do that would it have access to the
modem and ports as the Myturn software does? I am concerned that the
hardware is locked into the Myturn software (if it is on rom).
Also I did not see the NewBasic program on the stats for BE. Is there
not a version from breadbox?


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The U.S. Coast Guard came to the aid of a commercial tug Wednesday that was dead in the water 69 miles northwest of Maui following an engine room fire.
The Honolulu Command Center received a mayday call from the Phyllis Dunlap with six people aboard at about 2 p.m. Wednesday. During transit from Seattle to Honolulu, there was a fire in the engine room that resulted in a complete loss of propulsion.
The captain activated the engine room's fixed fire suppression system, which is believed to have extinguished the fire at 2:30 p.m.
Coast Guard aircrews aboard an HC-130 Hercules airplane and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter were launched from Air Station Barbers Point; the Coast Guard Cutter Galveston Island was diverted and a nearby vessel, the Mahi Mahi, was requested to assist.
The Galveston Island arrived at 9 p.m, the Coast Guard news release said. After assessing the damage, the Phyllis Dunlap crew was advised to stay aboard the vessel. A Sause Brothers assist tug, Kokua, arrived and established a tow at 10:15 p.m.
All six crew members were reported safe and accounted-for, with no medical concerns, the news release said.
The Phyllis Dunlap crew is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu between 2 and 4 a.m. today.
At the time of the fire, the Phyllis Dunlap crew was towing a barge, called the Westward Trader, which collided with the tug when its engines were disabled. The damage to both tug and barge was superficial.


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'Brassies, Mashies, & Bootleg Scotch' by Bill Kilpatrick
"Brassies, Mashies, & Bootleg Scotch" is subtitled "Growing Up On America's First Heroic Golf Course," and the latter certainly sums up this marvelous little book. In only 162 pages author Bill Kilpatrick gives us a well-written look at golf in the post-World I era.
It's a book about a boy and his dad who was, for years, the greenkeeper at the National Golf Links of America on Long Island, N.Y., and ought to be required reading for every collegiate program in golf-course maintenance. It portrays golf before "Pittsburg Persimmon" metal woods, computer-controlled irrigation systems, motorized equipment and the chemical-doctoring of greens and fairways.
In the first of a handful of illustrations is a photo of the first gasoline-powered fairway mower at a club in New York. It looks like the skeleton of a small locomotive. Prior to this, fairways and roughs were cut short mowed with horse-drawn sickle-bar mowers and greens were shaved by push-mowers that at times required two men to navigate.
The author's father was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, and emigrated to the States as a young man, served in the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe in "The War To End All Wars," and took a job on a golf course construction crew. Such a hard and dedicated worker - and a perfectionist - he was singled out by architect A.W. Tillighast when both were building Sunningdale Golf Course on Long Island. He was greenkeeper there and then moved on to that position at National Golf Links of America, which was built in the first decade of the 20th Century and designed by Charles Blair Macdonald. Famed golf writer Herbert Warren Wind termed it the "First Heroic Course," a name that still applies.
Author Kilpatrick grew up involved in a variety of jobs on that fabled course. He reminisces in a poignant chapter about the euthanasia of a favorite mower-pulling horse named Charlie; describes the annual sanding and painting of every one of the course's 123 croquet ball-sized tee markers; never meeting his father's expectations; spilling paint cans, brushes slipping from his hands; and other misdeeds. It's pretty funny. He hauled back-breaking hoses - some fire-hose size, to monster sprinklers on the fairways. These and the smaller greens sprinklers had to be moved often, sometimes several times a day in particularly hot weather.
There's a segment about watching a course employee who, in his spare time, built golf clubs. Kilpatrick provides a detailed step-by-step of turning a block of persimmon wood into a finished implement of function and beauty, using no electric sanders, grinders or epoxy. Fitting the tapered wooden shafts into the hosels, all hand-built, astounded me.
Not long ago, National Golf Links of America ranked high in a golf magazine's tally of the snootiest clubs in America. I mention this because another part of the book deals with Kilpatrick's stints as a caddie. He did this job during the Depression when, despite the members being celebrities, captains - if not generals - of industry, usually tipped the caddies 25 cents for 18 holes. Some of the cheapskates offered a dime or a stick of chewing gum. The really cheap ones didn't tip at all.
One of the caddies' requirements was to find errant balls. No matter the rough or jungle where the ball disappeared, it had to be found. High-grade balls, after all, cost a half-buck each.
I love this book. It's a page-turner. I also identify with Bill Kilpatrick because he is a contemporary of mine, albeit a decade older. Likewise a passing comment that he lived in moccasins or tennis shoes as I did and still do, even when playing golf. He portrays the Depression from the eyes and mind of an observer: no sentimentality, just the facts.
I have only one negative word about the book. Whether it's my reading style or a fault in either the writing or editing, the flow of the narrative gets interrupted by what I consider an excessive use of parentheticals. For this reason, on a scale of one to 10, I'd give it a 9.97.
"Brassies, Mashies, & Bootleg Scotch," by Bill Kilpatrick, 2011, 162 pages, $16.95, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-4.
Bob Spiwak took up golf in 1953 as a respite from the rigors of selling bibles door-to-door in North Dakota. Though suffering a four-year lapse, he's back to being a fanatical golfer. Now a contributing editor for Cybergolf, Spiwak has written articles for almost every golf magazine in the Western world. Bob's most treasured golf antiquity is a nod he got from Gerald Ford at the 1990 Golf Summit. Spiwak lives in Mazama, Wash., with his wife and several pets next to his fabled ultra-private Whispering Rattlesnakes Golf & Flubbers Club.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Sculpture commemorating the 65-mile Bataan Death March, right down to the footprints, was dedicated Saturday on the eve of a 60th anniversary march across the White Sands Missile Range.
In the World War II atrocity, the Japanese army forced an estimated 70,000 U.S., Philippine and other troops on a deadly 65-mile march to a rail-head, where they were packed into boxcars and shipped to prison camps. About 1,800 of the Bataan captives were from New Mexico. Fewer than 900 of them returned home.
Overall, only 54,000 survived. Many were randomly killed, sometimes decapitated, or died from fatigue and illness.
Tens of thousands more died in the camps, and still more were placed on "hell ships" and sent to labor camps. They were liberated in 1945.
"I do not think words can fully describe the bravery of these veterans and the horrific conditions they endured," Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said during dedication ceremonies at the park. "For those survivors and their families, there is a great sense of pride. Of course, there is much lingering pain, as well. But by establishing a memorial in their honor, we build a bridge to that emotion, a bridge that will allow all generations of Americans to imagine the suffering these men endured and to remember, forever, their valor."
President Bush added his thanks for the time and energy devoted to the cause.
"The heroism of our veterans has saved our nation and ensured our freedom," the president said. "I salute you and all our nation's veterans, for responding to the call of patriotic duty with strength, resolve and courage."
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., pushed for compensation for the American victims of Japan's atrocity. But compensation would come from U.S. funds. The bill calls for $20,000 to those soldiers who were enslaved or to their spouses, Bingaman said.
"From December 1941 to April 1942," Bingaman said, "American military forces stationed in the Philippines fought valiantly for almost six months against overwhelming Japanese military forces on the Bataan peninsula. As a result of that prolonged conflict, U.S. forces prevented Japan from achieving its strategic objective of capturing Australia and there by dooming allied hopes in the Pacific theater from the outset of the war."
His legislation, he said, "would recognize the vital military contributions made by members of the armed forces, many of whom are New Mexicans, and would complensate those heroes for the many sacrifices they were forced to make at the hands of their Japanese captors."
Albert del Rosario, the Philippines ambassador to Washington, D.C., participated in the dedication of the "Heroes of Bataan" monument Saturday at Veterans Park.
About 3,000 people are expected to make the 26.2-mile trek with backpacks Sunday, about the number that participated in the past couple of years.
Hotels and motels were sold out in Las Cruces this weekend for events marking the 60th anniversary.
"Typically for this time of the year the city's hotels and motels are about 60 percent full ... But it just takes a couple of major groups, or events like the Bataan anniversary commemoration, to put us over the top. The city is pretty much sold out," said Chris Faivre, media publications manager for the Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Additionally, part of U.S. 70 from Las Cruces to Alamogordo will be designated this weekend as the Bataan Memorial Highway.
The 14th annual Bataan Memorial Death March will be held Sunday at White Sands Missile Range.
"For all Americans who are unable to travel to the Southwest to see the beautiful bronze statue portraying an American soldier and a Filipino soldier comforting an injured American comrade during the midst of that seven-day march, I would encourage you to take time to learn about the horrors these men suffered - to learn their story," Domenici said in a Senate statement earlier. "It is both sobering and inspiring, and I pay tribute to their heroism today."
The four-month battle with Japanese troops engulfed Bataan and Mount Samat after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. At the time, the Philippines, a U.S. commonwealth, was among the first targets of Japanese invasion.
After the soldiers surrendered April 9, 1942, Japanese troops forced the estimated 70,000 men on a deadly 65-mile march to the rail-head.
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NEW YORK - U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children.
But there may be a silver lining: The decline in 2011 was just 1 percent - not as sharp a falloff as the 2 to 3 percent drop in other recent years.
Most striking were steep declines in Hispanic birthrates and a new low in teen births.
Falling births is a relatively new phenomenon in this country. Births had been on the rise since the late 1990s and hit an all-time high of more than 4.3 million in 2007.


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Penn State looking for another title
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Three of the teams in the final four of women's volleyball -- Penn State, Texas and Michigan -- scheduled matches at the site of the final four this season. It gave them a chance to acclimate themselves to the city and the KFC Yum! Center, which, with its large size, is different than the average volleyball venue.
But no player knows Louisville better than Penn State junior Deja McClendon, who went to Dupont Manual High School here. Her younger sister, Maya, plays there now and will be competing here Friday in the Under Armour All-America match that features the top prep seniors. (Maya will play for Louisville next season.)
Naturally, a lot of the questions when Penn State met with the media on Wednesday were directed to Deja, the hometown girl.
"I'm excited to be back home," McClendon said. "I have such a great support system here, and I think that will really help our team."
Not that the top-seeded Nittany Lions need much help. They are seeking the program's sixth NCAA title, which would be the second for McClendon. She was named most outstanding player when Penn State won the NCAA championship in 2010, her freshman year. McClendon was a second-team All-American in that season and made the first team last year.
Two Nittany Lions -- setter Micha Hancock and right-side hitter Ariel Scott -- were named to the AVCA All-America first team this season, which was released Wednesday. Meanwhile, McClendon is on the third team, but not because her play has diminished.
To the contrary, McClendon has become a more well-rounded player for Penn State and isn't subbed out when she rotates to the back row. Her kill numbers are down (389 this year to 432 last year), but her dig numbers are up (330 to 245).
"I told her that her value to the team was far greater this year than it was last year," Penn State coach Russ Rose said. "Because her game has evolved in a totally different way.
"When she was a freshman, she had a smaller responsibility. She didn't have a defensive presence. The development of her game is what I am proudest of, other than the fact that she is just a fabulous kid."
At that compliment, McClendon smiled broadly -- one of her trademarks. It's a counterbalance to what you might call Rose's mirthful grumpiness.
"That is really who she is," Rose said of McClendon's perpetual sunshine. "As much as I might get mad and want to say something to her, then she will look at me and smile. Then I will be like, 'Oh, well, I guess I will have to yell at Micha instead.'"
Another try for Texas
Like Penn State, Texas has been a frequent visitor in recent seasons to the final four. The Longhorns are making their fourth appearance in the past five years. In 2010, they were among Penn State's conquests, losing a national semifinal match that seemed like it was over a few minutes after it started.
Penn State blitzed Texas 25-13, 25-13, 25-22 in that one. Bailey Webster, who along with teammate Haley Eckerman was named a first-team All-American on Wednesday, didn't play that season because of a knee injury that forced her to redshirt. Setter Hannah Allison dealt with a recurring ankle injury that season that kept her from being her best. Webster and Allison, both juniors, are eager to have another shot at the final four while fully healthy.
"I think we remember that like it was yesterday, even with how little we got to play," Allison said in regard to the brevity of their 2010 national semifinal. "We remember the emotions that went along with it. We were disappointed with our performance in that match and can take a lot of those lessons we learned and apply them."
Wolverines keeping their cool
After Texas won its regional final match last Saturday in Austin, Texas, Longhorns coach Jerritt Elliott went back to his house to watch the Michigan-Stanford final with his assistants.
"The thing that all of us noticed is how relaxed and how much fun Michigan is having," Elliott said of his team's opponent here in the semifinals. "They got into a really good rhythm against Stanford."
The Wolverines -- rather than getting tight as the NCAA tournament has progressed -- have loosened up. Not in their play, but in their emotions. Michigan, the only unseeded team to advance to the elite eight, has been playing like a team confident it can win.
"All season, we've been working on our mental game and making connections with each other," Michigan senior Claire McElheny said.
"When there's a lot of pressure on us, or things aren't going well, it's easy to internalize things. But I feel like after a whole season of working on that, our mental side of our game and the connections we have been making are really peaking right now."
'Ancient' history for Ducks
Oregon defeated Penn State in August 2011 to open that season. That victory ended the Nittany Lions' 94-match home winning streak. What impact does that have on the teams' national semifinal match here?
None, says Ducks coach Jim Moore. Even though most of the players on both teams were also playing then, it was the equivalent of two seasons ago.
However, the victory did matter to Oregon's program, which is now making its first appearance in the final four.
"It let us know that we were good and it put us on the map," Moore said. "But it really has no bearing on the match [Thursday] night."


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He was fighting in Lewis Bowe and Holyfields era a tough group of champion there not to mention Oliver Mccall Ray Mercer and Micheal Moorer.damn the hws were deep wtf happened.
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Morrison's a bit underrated. He got knocked out by Bent and Mercer, mainly because he was shagged out. I don't think he'd have lost either of those fights had he not been in a Rocky film and become a hard drinking playboy. The HIV thing, which he now denies is a pretty bizarre situation in itself. Well it certainly put full blown aids into his career thats for sure.
As for Morrison the fighter, he wasn't bad at all. A natural athlete with one of the best left hooks in the business. Kind'a falls into the category of contenders (or WBO champs) who on their day could have beaten a handfull of ex lineal champs but so happened to be in a tough era while suffering from sex and drink addiction.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – Nate Hutcheson will miss many things about University Arena.
"Not the stairs," the Western Michigan University senior basketball player said with a smile.
That'll happen when you have to run up and down them countless times.
"I love our fans – our fans are awesome. We always have a bunch of fans that come out and support us and they've been huge," said Hutcheson, a 6-foot-7 forward from Marion, Iowa, who will tie Demetrius Ward's WMU record for career games played today with his 130th. "And just the people – I'll miss all the people I've gotten to know over the four years."
What better way to go out, too, than if the Broncos (18-11, 9-6 Mid-American Conference) are able to stage a postgame MAC West Division title celebration following a win over arch-rival Central Michigan (11-18, 4-11) with those fans at their home arena.
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WMU and CMU clash on the Broncos' home court at noon today in the regular-season finale. The Broncos are going for the season sweep of the Chippewas, as well as the Michigan MAC Trophy, which measures success against CMU and EMU in a given season.
"It would be fun. It would be cool to have all the fans here and have a little celebration for winning the MAC West," Hutcheson said. "It'd be fun, but again it's on to the next game, really (MAC Tournament quarterfinals at 9 p.m. Thursday in Cleveland)."
On Tuesday, WMU clinched the divisional title and No. 3 seed in next week's MAC tourney, but those things came on a night when the Broncos lost at home to Ball State, 89-85. No mob scenes at mid-court, no net-cutting ceremony – just long faces as they walked off the floor toward the locker room.
WMU coach Steve Hawkins kept it in perspective Friday afternoon following the final practice of the regular season.
"I mean, it wasn't like we were in a great mood or anything (the past few days), but we reminded them that even though we've lost a couple, we've also won 10 of our last 14," he said. "If you're not careful, you get caught looking at a very small picture and with this group I think it's important that for me as a coach we work on improving some of the areas we still think we can improve.
"Now, some of the areas we can't improve until the offseason. We're physically weak in some spots. We can't do anything about that between now and Saturday, and Saturday to next week. Those are some areas that can be addressed in the offseason. But the areas that we can improve – angles of passes, cleaning up sets, things like that, we want to do. … Even though we've lost a couple, we lost a game in overtime, lost a game by (four), let's keep in mind we've also won 10 of 14. If somebody were to take a bigger-picture look at it, we're playing pretty well."
The Broncos lost last Saturday at Eastern Michigan, 50-49 in overtime, then dropped the four-point decision at home Tuesday against red-hot Ball State after they had trailed by 19 with nine minutes remaining.
"The only reason we're talking about all that is because we wrapped up the MAC West on a night that we lost. And if we won and Eastern had lost (or won), then we wrap it up that way, we wouldn't be talking much about how are you playing, this and that, the mindset of the team," Hawkins said. "No matter how you arrive at 9-6, 18-11 -- whether you've lost the first 11 and then won 18 or vice versa -- you are where you are at the end of the day and you've earned whatever it is that you're at and you've lost for those same reasons. Nothing changes that."
Here's a look at today's game:
Central Michigan at Western Michigan
When: 12 p.m. at University Arena
Records: Central Michigan 11-18 (4-11 MAC); WMU 18-11 (9-6)
History: WMU leads the all-times series, 83-46, including a 42-13 advantage during games played in Kalamazoo. The Broncos are 14-7 against CMU under coach Steve Hawkins' watch. In the teams' previous meeting, Jan. 26 at Mount Pleasant, WMU claimed a 76-59 victory.
Tickets: $13-$19, available at the arena, online at wmubroncos.com or by calling 1-888-4-WMU-TIX
Promotion: Fans purchasing tickets should ask for "The Rivalry Special," which is available at the door today but only while supplies last. For $10, fans will receive a ticket to the game and concession voucher good for a hot dog, NO CHIPS (WMU is playing the Chippewas, i.e. Chips – get it?) and small fountain drink.
TV: Xfinity TV Channel 900 across Michigan and SportsTime Ohio, plus streamed live on ESPN3
Radio: WKZO-96.5 FM (Kalamazoo area); WMAX-96.1 FM (Grand Rapids/Muskegon areas); WVIC-94.1 FM (Battle Creek/Lansing areas)
About Central Michigan: It's been a bit of a rough season for CMU and first-year coach, Keno Davis, but the Chippewas are on a two-game winning streak. They won at Northern Illinois (69-50) last Saturday and beat visiting Eastern Michigan (61-59) on Tuesday. That win over EMU, ironically, helped WMU – it clinched the MAC West title and No. 3 seed in the MAC Tournament for the Broncos. CMU is projected to start four freshmen and one senior today. That one senior, 5-10 guard Kyle Randall, is averaging 17.8 points (19.9 in MAC contests). Point guard Chris Fowler (6-foot) is a candidate for MAC Freshman of the Year. He is averaging 7.8 points and 5.6 assists, which ranks him second nationally for assist average by a freshman. " … In these two games – the (back-to-back) wins – it's similar to Ball State. They're playing more free," Hawkins said. "Those guards are where things are at, Fowler and Randall. … (The Chippewas are) just better at doing what they did the last time we played them."
About WMU: The Broncos are coming off back-to-back losses, but still feel good about what they've accomplished and know other that goals are still in front of them – namely the MAC tourney title and postseason play (NCAA Tournament being the ultimate goal). Redshirt junior center Shayne Whittington, a 6-11 former Lawrence all-stater, posted his 10th double-double of the season in Tuesday's loss to Ball State with a career-high 28 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks. He is the first Bronco to average 8.0 rebounds per game since Joe Reitz in 2006-07. Darius Paul, a 6-8 forward, leads all MAC freshmen in scoring (10.6) and rebounding (6.0) and should be frontrunner for the MAC Freshman of the Year Award. The Broncos are 14-4 in games when they've shot 40 percent or better – but 0-2 in the past two, when they have exceeded 40 percent from the floor.
Prediction: WMU 77, Central Michigan 67
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Setting off sparks in jaded Hollywood usually requires more than two sticks and some dried dung, but not for Rae Dawn Chong, 21, the plucky daughter of joke-and-toke comic Tommy (Up in Smoke) Chong, Cheech's other half. In Quest for Fire, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's $12 million prehistoric saga, Rae Dawn plays Ika, a child-woman from a tribe that is way ahead of the film's Neanderthal men in the flame (and sex) department. Critics can throw cold water on Quest's bizarre anthropology (see box) but not on Chong's performance. With only some high-pitched screeching for dialogue and a costume consisting solely of mink oil and mud, she builds a touchingly plausible character instead of the predictable calendar-art cavewoman.
Rae Dawn is happy with her reviews ("unaffectedly radiant," raved Variety) and the film's success ($20 million to date) but is more pleased with her father's approval. The two haven't always seen eye to eye. "My father is Oriental," she explains. "They don't show emotion." Rae Dawn, whose mother is black and Indian, is sharp and sassy, groaning openly over the 17 weeks she spent alternately freezing and frying in the buff on location in Canada, Scotland and Kenya. "It wasn't the Flintstones, it was a bitch," she says. The rape scene with actor Everett McGill left her "scratched, bruised and crying. They shot it nine times. I counted." The nudity, however, was no hassle for her, her dad or Owen Baylis, 27, the New York stockbroker she wed on Valentine's Day and the father of the child she's expecting "any minute." Recently Rae Dawn adorned Playboy unadorned and later posed pregnant in the nude as a gift for Owen. "There's nothing coy, Hollywood or Bo Derek about it," defends Rae Dawn. "I'm not a centerfold."
Rae Dawn, who has worked since 12 as a model in commercials and as a TV actress in shows like Walt Disney and Lou Grant, sees Quest as her "big break." Before the film she had felt slotted in black roles, though socially she says she was oblivious to racism. "I had a father who was always 'in,' " she reports. Real prejudice didn't enter until she started modeling. "They'd hire me for two weeks and then make me watch the same blonde get used for every picture. It hurt."
Rae Dawn credits her upbringing with helping to overcome. "I learned very young that my parents were human," she says. Born in Edmonton, Canada, Rae Dawn didn't find out who her real mother was until she was 12. It seems father Tommy was living with Maxine Sneed (now an editor of a black radio magazine) in 1960 when he went on the road and had an affair with another black woman, stenographer Gail Toulson, who gave birth to Rae Dawn. Tommy, however, married Maxine and won custody of Rae Dawn in a legal battle with Gail, who was only 17. "The lion's ego," chides Rae Dawn. "He brought Maxine this baby and said, 'Look, this is what I did when I was away.' Maxine took me in. Then she and Tommy had their own daughter, Robbi [now 18 and a model], and we grew up together in L.A."
Except for missing Tommy, who was touring a lot with Cheech, Rae Dawn says her childhood was happy. But when Tommy finally told the truth about her mother, a shaken Rae Dawn moved to Edmonton to be with her natural mother. She loved Gail, but not Edmonton, and returned after eight months to Maxine. On Tommy's orders, she entered boarding school in Ojai, Calif. "She saw it as a lack of love," he says, "but I wanted her to get the discipline I couldn't give." By then Tommy had left Maxine for 17-year-old Shelby Fiddis, the blond babysitter next door, with whom he now has three children and no marriage plans. "It was a regular Peyton Place," quips Rae Dawn.
Admittedly rebellious, she is now fast friends with the women she calls "my three mothers." Despite her dad's pothead humor, Rae Dawn also credits Tommy with steering her away from hard drugs. "My father makes fun of people who do coke," she says.
Rae Dawn found her fun in sports (especially wind-surfing), reading, writing journals and dating. "I mostly went out with white guys," she says. "No preference, just geography." Even after a two-year relationship with record producer Richard Perry, Rae Dawn says, "I always saw the end until Owen." She and Baylis, a native Californian who had never dated a black woman, met last year at a Manhattan fashion show. "It was love at first sight," says Owen. Soon it was more than that. "I knew I was pregnant the day it happened," recalls Rae Dawn. "I said, 'We have done it.' " She gave Owen a month to decide whether he wanted to share responsibility for the baby or not. "I was so happy he said yes," she reports. But she kept rejecting his proposals. "Babies are natural, marriage is not," she states. The deciding factor was a balanced home. "I never had one, so I thought it would be a nice gift for a child."
Rae Dawn and Owen live in his bachelor SoHo loft, where they're making plans for a family reunion (all but Robbi missed the Manhattan wedding). Rae Dawn still hasn't met Owen's conservative grandmother. "At first poor Owen couldn't even tell her I'm mostly black," she laughs.
Waiting for the baby and a new role to match Quest, Rae Dawn is relishing her new life. "I've found the perfect partner," she says of Owen. With the help of Christian Science, her faith since 18, she's also come to terms with her father. "My anger at his not being there was driving him to hate me," she confesses. Now they share a mutual pride. "Like my father, I'll survive," says Rae Dawn, "I'm an alleycat."
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Skip to comments.The Anti-Jobs President (Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline and blames Congress)
Posted on 01/18/2012 4:58:03 PM PST by Dysart
The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President's hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions. The tragedy is that the economic recovery has been so lackluster because the second impulse keeps winning.
Yesterday came proof positive with the White House's repudiation of the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada's $7 billion shovel-ready project that would support tens of thousands of jobs if only it could get the requisite U.S. permits. Those jobs, apparently, can wait.
Unless the President objected, December's payroll tax deal gave TransCanada the go-ahead in February to start building the pipeline, which would travel 1,661 miles from Alberta to interconnections in Oklahoma and then carry Canadian crude to U.S. refiners on the Gulf Coast.
The State Department, which presides over the Keystone XL review because it would cross the 49th parallel, claimed yesterday that the two-month Congressional deadline was too tight "for the President to determine whether the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest." The White House also issued a statement denouncing Congress's "rushed and arbitrary deadline," which merely passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.
This is, to put it politely, a crock.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
We got a traitor in the WH
Bringing down the USA will make him the most welcomed man in the world. He will be able to live safely just about anywhere in the world once he is done turning the USA into what Al Qaeda had failed to turn us into.
Just listen to that reverend preacher of his. THAT is the America (AmeriKKKa) Obama knows.
Obama HATES this nation.
There is NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING this man has done since 2008 that was to benefit this nation.
I don't think it should be a political issue but... follow the birth certificate and other documents he hides. The truth is there. The truth also lies in his accomplishments.
America Haters +10
America -10
That's the score after only 3 years.
Blame Congress is going to be Obama theme until election night. Obama always needs someone else he can blame other than himself.
Can't stand this mulatto POS!
Blame shifting, envy and playing the Race Card will be his three-point prong attack against the Republicans. This is on the level of teenagers. I imagine that this is the maturity level of their target set of voters.
Yes, he will play the blame game and in this instance he'll depend on an ignorant voting public. The necessity and intricacies of tying together Keystone with the payroll tax cut issue will soar right over the heads of literally most people. And when he says it's Congress's fault, too many will actually believe him.
He just signed his retirement papers.
He'll probably drop Michelle and go back with Phil Boener.
"He just signed his retirement papers."
I think they're so sure of his re-election chances they're going to let him start cruising the Chicago gay bathhouses again.
What is obamas authority to blOck the pipeline? Can't congress pass a law that calls for the pipeline, or defund the state department for blocking th pipeline?
I never watch the network news, but I was briefly in a place of business tonight that had the ABC nightly news on and they were featuring this story. I might as well have been watching the Airstrip One Evening News. No mention of criticism at all, only that the pipeline was in an unspecified "environmentally sensitive" area, and that "the Republican governor of Nebraska" also supports the decision. You'd never know there was a controversy at all.
Larry Sinclair is Barry's better half.
Indeed, they soft peddled any POTENTIAL negatives that could possibly be associated with axing the project. Not only that, they vastly underreported the jobs not realized associated with it. The number you hear most often is 20k, but the real impact in terms of numbers is around 200k owing to unaccounted for support roles, transportation, maintenance and the like. The conveniently omit these things. It is so much propaganda.
His blaming everyone else especially Congress will work like a charm. And if he has to face Mittens in the general, he'll be able to pocket most of his campaign mula since Mittens will be easy pickens for the media and debating.
Keystone will go down the memory hole by St. Patrick's day at best.
What the hell does his race have to do with anything? Sheeesh....
obama was put in the White House for the sole purpose to destroy the United States botheconomically and morally. Thus far he is doing an excellent job of that.
Stuff such this is what every son of a bitch that voted for him voted for.
Excellent post bookmark, thanks.
BTW, pundit declaring on Hannity that this is an opportunity for Republicans to peel off blue-collar dems over the lost jobs.
Zero gave as his reason for rejecting the pipeline was they rushed the legislation without resolving the issue of the pipeline going through the sensitive Nebraska's Ogallala Aquifer. We know the truth of the matter. TransCanada has approved an alternative route around the environmentally sensitive Sandhills area of Nebraska.
Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada's president for energy and oil pipelines, said rerouting the Keystone XL line would likely require 30 to 40 additional miles of pipe and an additional pumping station, but said Nebraska will play a key role in deciding the new route. It's a state's rights issue for Nebraska to call the shots here, and I suspect Zer0 is bound and determined not to let that happen either.
I thought there was a provided remedy in such cases. I believe it initiates in the House.
Mulatto is not a race.
I would love to see a move to ignore Obama, that the pipeline indeed does start. That the states in which it will transit activate their individual national Guard and even as to go further with calling in an organized militia to guard the process from Federal agents intent on following the treasonous orders from the usurper Obama.
Yeah this from a Guy who tramples Daily on the Constitution,says the REPUBLICANS gve him a Deadline that is why he has to do this! LIAR,Obama Gave Himself the deadline 3 months ago to make the decision and he says he needs a Year to study effects of the Pipeline there in Nebraska, convienient,just past the election,keep those enviornment nuts checks coming. This is an Outrage that should be Used to really expose this Traitor as if we need more,Is there anyone that will stand up to this Piece of Human Excrement occupying the White House?
I want to see the picture of those presidents, captions included, in every schoolroom in America. ;^)
Tell that to a Mulatto. Like my kids.
Mulatto is NOT a race! Look it up!
Alright professor. Just let me ask you a question.....what race is someone who's half black and half white?
Technically, a HYBRID!Not a race !BTW, I have taught genetics .
I ask you again.....what race is someone who is half black, and half white?
Hybrids are not a race. They can't breed pure strains.They are a mixed blend of two separate races.
So, people of any mixed ancestry are impure hybrids, and can't be designated as any particular race? What are they then - generic humans?
I guess we may as well throw out racial designations for the vast majority of Americans, if that's the case. I know very few who are 100% racially pure.
So, I'm asking you for the third time......what is the racial designation for someone who is half black, and half white?
For the third time —Hybrid mixed breed.The only people who class mulatto as a race are those that are mulatto or related to them. The federal government( United States) stance on this matter is that mulatto was thrown out as a race designation in 1930.Complain to them.
If you decide to move your family to South America they recognize mulatto as a race.The United States does not.
It's pretty clear to me that you have some sort of low-minded consideration about people who are racially 'impure', and are using science to justify categorizing some people the same as you would any animal.
Do you honestly think that people who are racially mixed should accept your label? I'll bet you do. How demeaning.
"Hybrid mixed breed", indeed.
Do you realize that the only racially pure blacks in this country are from Africa? The rest of us, whose ancestors came to America in chains, are what you call "hybrid mixed breed". Not a one of us has 100% pure African blood.
Whatever. I'm talking to a wall anyway.
If you want an ax to grind find someone else .I will leave you with this. My niece is a fine white mother married to a fine black man and has two young mulatto children. She thinks you are nuts.
PS They both think the mulatto president is a POS also.
If you want an ax to grind find someone else .I will leave you with this. My niece is a fine white mother married to a fine black man and has two young mulatto children. She thinks you are nuts.
PS They both think the mulatto president is a POS also.
Is that right? Did you tell her that her children aren't 'mulatto', but Hybrid Mixed Breeds, like you told me about my kids?
Bet you didn't.
Face the wind and fly away.Hope you enjoy S.A.BTW,the government thinks your kids are hybrid mixed breed.Just stating a fact.
You ashamed of your 'Hybrid Mixed Breed' nieces and nephews? Are you man enough to call them that to their mother and father's face? I highly doubt it.
the government thinks your kids are hybrid mixed breed. Just stating a fact.
Take your demeaning animal designations and stick 'em up your azz, you racist pos.
If was racist, I wouldn't be the die-hard Steelers fan. Good nite !
Truth hurts doesn't it ? You are an angry person who IMHO needs an anger management class.
You call slapping an utterly degrading term like "Hybrid Mixed Breed" on living human beings the truth? And I'm "angry" if I dare to point that out?
Pardon me, but that's the sort of dehumanizing thing the Nazis did to people in the 1940s. I can't believe that someone with your racist ideas has lasted so long here.
The Government of The United States of America does not recognize mulatto as a race group.There is not even a box to check for Mulatto on the census. Be angry at them ,not at me .Write your Congressman.Maybe he can change a situation of classification that started in 1930.
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Indian movie star Salman Khan is due to be tried for homicide over his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago, his lawyer Deepesh Mehta has said.
Aaja Nachle star Madhuri Dixit is set to sizzle once again after the actress was today named by Madame Tussauds London as the latest Bollywood film star to join the A-list line up at the world famous attraction. Madhuri, famed for her dazzling dancing, has already given a sitting to the Madame Tussauds' sculptors in Mumbai and is expected to unveil her likeness in London in March.
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar talks about his latest role in fast paced comedy about one-man and his mission to con a whole village in his latest venture, Tees Maar Khan. The film also stars Katrina Kaif and Akshaye Khanna and is directed by Farah Khan.
Award winning Bollywood actor, Hrithik Roshan, was recently measured up for his new wax figure by Madame Tussauds sculpting team during two sittings in Mumbai and London. They captured a catalogue of reference photographs and hundreds of precise measurements for the figure, which will be unveiled in London in January next year.
World famous Madame Tussauds has announced it will be marking one of South Asia's most colourful and popularly celebrated festivals, as it launches its first ever Diwali weekend next month. Guests at Madame Tussauds will enjoy some of the authentic musical traditions of India, including sitar, flute and tabla players as well as traditional dance performed by accomplished classical musicians.
Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan will be the next indian star to feature in the world-famous London attraction, Madame Tussauds. Hrithik's figure will join our other leading Bollywood actors including Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.
Aamir Khan starrer, 3 Idiots won nearly all the top gongs at the International Indian Film Awards - billed as the 'Indian Oscars.' 3 Idiots won 16 out of the 27 awards including best film and best director award during the ceremony which was held at in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
Bollywood celebs and top cricketers batted it out during the IIFA celebrity cricket match on Friday. The three teams, Sangakkara XI, Hrithik XI and Suniel XI captained by Kumar Sangakkara, Hrithik Roshan and Suniel Shetty - respectiveley - played at the SSC grounds in Colombo as part of the IIFA weekend celebrations.
After a successful year for Indian cinema, with stellar performances at the box office, the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) has announced the nominations for the IIFA Awards to be held in Columbo this year. The nominations were released as a result of the industry voting for the Micromax IIFA Awards in March.
PREVIEW: Two childhood friends had little in common, except the connection their families had with music. While Arjun's (Ajay Devgan) life was consumed by a passionate drive to get on stage and realize his grandfather's unfulfilled dream, Mannu (Salman Khan) had little interest in his father's music instruments and was content with remaining a child at heart; bold, loud and boisterous, and enjoying the good things in life.
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This thesis explores street traders as a bridge between trade unions and social movements in contemporary South Africa. It achieves this by focusing on, first, the emergence and development of new democratic street traders organisations in Durban, South Africa; second, their relations with the largest union federation, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and its affiliates; third, their engagement with the shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo; and finally, the alliance of these three with the other constituencies of the marginalised people in the World Class Cities For All (WCCA) Campaign on the way to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This thesis explores street traders/informal workers within the marginalised labour force and goes along with studying their marginalisation within the society at large. The main hypothesis is: As they are playing a bridging role between trade unions and social movements, street traders can be a promising agent for revitalising social movement unionism in contemporary South Africa. Through a survey applied to 105 street traders in six areas in Durban and 21 in-depth interviews with selected persons, this thesis investigates the following issues: With particular reference to the South African context, what is the relation between the history of the black working class and the contemporary livelihood strategies of the truly disadvantaged? How much did the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid change the lives of these marginalised people? Furthermore, how do these people struggle against their marginalisation and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa? This thesis examines the issue of organising informal workers in relation to both the labour movement and emerging social movements in contemporary South Africa. Firstly, as integrating informal workers requires gradual changes in the union structures, the thesis questions to what extent trade unions show their will to develop respective policies and, more importantly, implement them. Secondly, this thesis looks at the post-apartheid social movements that emerged in response to the growing commodification of basic social services. Among these movements, it particularly focuses on the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. How would we explain it if many people living in shacks were to make a living by engaging in informal economic activities - above all street trading? The relation between their living conditions in shack communities and working conditions in the streets is very unique for this study. Thus, this thesis constructs the link between the workplaces and communities of the marginalised labour force and explores, therefore, how their vulnerability brings together their demands and struggles. Following these stages, this thesis investigates a more concrete alliance between street traders organisations, trade unions and social movements in the case of the WCCA Campaign. This part predominantly makes clear how street traders organisations play a bridging role between trade unions and social movements through the activities of the campaign. This thesis finally defines street traders movement as "the movement of the marginalised labour force". It identifies some characteristics of this movement and endeavours to integrate their agency into social movement unionism approach.


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"When I was throwing like 75, I was feeling good," Perez said. "After that, in the last inning, I was feeling a little tired."
Perez was the first in what will be a steady trickle of Mets players returning from the WBC in the next couple days.
After David Wright's game-winning hit kept the U.S. alive and eliminated Puerto Rico, the six Mets who played for Puerto Rico -- Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Alex Cora, Pedro Feliciano, Jesus Feliciano and Nelson Figueroa -- are on their way back to Port St. Lucie.
There was a rumor Tuesday that the Houston Astros were close to signing Pedro Martinez, but it looks like that was bogus. Astros general manager Ed Wade told the Houston Chronicle the team has had "zero discussions" regarding Martinez.


text: I've been accumulating over last 4 months. I'm sure the launch will go well in december and generate some publicity and demand for shares. Plus those Dulles guys are obessively meticulous with launch prep and diagnostic testing. Only question is how much of a bump we will get from a successful docking to space station in the future. Not pumping here because anything can happen but I haven't found any publicy traded company with launch AND dock capability.....glty and glta!


text: Explore Beyond Ölüdeniz: hamlets along the Lycian Way Fethiye Around Fethiye Ölüdeniz Beyond Ölüdeniz: hamlets along the Lycian Way Dalyan and around The Xanthos valley Kalkan and around Kaş and around Gömbe and around The Kekova region Arykanda The coast to Olympos Phaselis Share South of Kıdrak, the Yediburun (Seven Capes) headlands constitute some of the most beautiful and least exploited coastline in Turkey, with several isolated villages lying just inland. The mountains, which reach close to 2000m in height, plunge dramatically into the sea, making road construction, and therefore tourist development, extremely difficult. What tourism there is remains low-key, with the majority of visitors either hanging out in bohemian "Butterfly Valley" or Kabak, or making the very most of the wild and picturesque seafront by walking the waymarked Lycian Way trail. The Lycian Way Read More


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Traffic currently entering the Kiss and Ride using the right lane on the two-lane ramp, will have to start using the left lane as an entrance after the shift next week.
As work to rehabilitate the ramp is completed on the left side, the work area will move to the right before it is finished.
This is the later half of the second stage of construction to rehabilitate the ramps at the terminal, and it is expected to last four months.
The $175 million project is completely funded with stimulus money and is the largest stimulus-funded project in New York City. It's anticipated completion date is February 2013.