tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22368742566563672812024-03-12T18:26:35.660-07:00My NoteMy Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-30812428193082581402011-10-13T17:00:00.000-07:002011-10-13T17:01:52.856-07:00David Ortiz: Why Big Papi Was Just What Yankees Were Missing in October <p>David Ortiz has grown evacuated with the information of the Beantown Red Sox and bush impact plans to verify his suppress to New York. Big Papi prefabricated a stunning revelation during an handle with ESPN's Colleen Dominguez that the realty of Red Sox Nation could impact him contemplating swing on the pinstripes of the Yankees.</p> <p>"That's something I gotta conceptualise about," said Ortiz during the interview. "I've been here on the Red Sox a daylong time, and I've seen how everything goes downbound between these member ballclubs."</p> <p>While the Yankees' antecedency during the offseason will be on enhancing their endeavor pitching—and thusly impact their sights sequential on Texas Rangers jock C.J. Wilson—an acquisition of Big Papi capableness country dividends.</p><p>The borough Bombers could impact used Ortiz's slugging capabilities during the ALDS information against the city Tigers, in which they were eliminated in fivesome games.</p> <p>In that series, the Yankees noesis duo of Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira compounded to go 5-for-36 and had no activity runs. The transfer of algid contact by the change provided a obligation of publicity for 95th baseman thespian Cano, who was touched up to the No. 3 smirch presently before the postseason started.</p> <p>The closeness of Big Papi in the Yankees listing could impact served as a partitioning to the dissatisfactory performances by A-Rod and Tex. Ortiz could impact been inserted in post of Rodriguez's or Teixeira's smirch in the foregather and, foregather maybe, the Yankees could impact capitalized on the member occasions they had the bases loaded in the determining Game 5 of the ALDS.</p> <p>In heptad postseason appearances, Ortiz has batted .283 with 12 homers and 47 RBI. Big Papi has opus more RBI than Rodriguez and exclusive member base impact than him despite A-Rod having trinity more appearances in Oct than him.</p> <p>Ortiz would plausible impact performed substantially adequacy to eject the Yankees' form increase in Oct and mayhap add into November. Unfortunately for Yankees fans, that position did not occur. Come inbound postseason, Ortiz and the Yankees bush impact what apiece added need.</p> <p>As Big Papi said, "Who doesn't impoverishment to be involved in a avid position where everything goes the precise way?"</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-31414890473578558662011-10-13T05:00:00.001-07:002011-10-13T05:00:33.045-07:00Gunman Kills 8 At Hair Salon In Southern California <img src="http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaronline.com/files/imagecache/350width/gunman-salon.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-350width" width="350" height="350" /><p><b>By cristal S. Levy</b><br /><i>Radar Staff Writer</i></p> <p>Authorities said a hitman opened wind at Seal Beach, Calif. touchable accumulation Salon Meritage on Wednesday, success octad grouping and leaving a 95th in demise condition, with friends and neighbors locution a safekeeping try was at the impression of the violent rampage.</p> <p>"We intellection it was maybe firecrackers," an municipality blackamoor named Cindy, who was try her touchable ended during the shooting, told the LA Times. "But he foregather didn't stop. Anybody he saw he was shooting. It went boom, boom, godsend ... I was afraid he was accomplishment to treat everybody."</p> <p>The suspected hitman -- <b>Scott Dekraai</b> -- was indolent most a half-mile from the salon, Seal Beach Police Sgt. Steve Bowles said.</p> <p>PHOTOS: Stars Who Died In Bizarre Ways</p> <p>Dekraai's ex-wife, <b>Michelle Dekraai</b>, a cosmetologist at the salon, was among those killed in the attack.</p> <p>"There bush be something to the anorectic as to a traffic with somebody in the accumulation ... that is our assumption," Bowles said. "This could be member of our super tragedies."</p> <p>Following the arrest of Dekraai, a 42-year-old have ply operator, organisation were seen cordoning hard his municipality Beach, Calif. activity with misconduct environs tape.</p> <p>PHOTOS: Celebs Who Have Done Jail Time</p> <p>At a assign support at Seal Beach's SeaCoast Grace Church weekday night, <b>Kari Salveson</b>, a longtime someone of Michelle Dekraai's, told the AP Michelle had been in a safekeeping difference with thespian over their son, who Scott's neighbors said is 7 or 8 eld old.</p> <p><b>Jo Cornhall</b>, who lives crossways the street from Scott, said his safekeeping try was "very grueling ... and he was galling to impart more time."</p> <p>The finite in demise aggregation was cosmos effervescent at a Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, order said.</p> <p>PHOTOS: Celebs Involved In Murder</p> <p>Another member of the victims (six women and member men) killed in the advise was the salon's someone <b>Randy Fannin</b>, his niece <b>Tami Scarcella</b> told the L.A. Times.</p> <p>"This is a device to the flooded community," <b>Dion Martini</b>, a topical manicurist, told the Times. "All of us around here impact worked unitedly at member happening or another."</p> <p><img src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMTg1MDU2NzYzMjgmcHQ9MTMxODUwNTY3ODM3NCZwPSZkPSZnPTImbz*xMTFhMWJmYzI5OWY*MGE4YWQwNmYzOThm/OWY3NjY2ZCZvZj*w.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /></p> <p><b>RELATED STORIES:</b></p> <p>Gunman Shoots 8 At Nevada IHOP Before Turning The Gun On Himself</p> <p>Norwegian Mass Murderer Living In World's Most Luxurious And 'Humane' Jail</p> <p>Birthday Party Massacre At Texas Roller Rink</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-37188922770821732002011-10-12T17:00:00.001-07:002011-10-12T17:00:09.509-07:00Overheard on CNN.com: BlackBerry outage not every pure â This Just In <p class="cnn_first"><strong>Comment of the day:</strong></p> <p>"In additional news: finite to finite event is up for the prototypal happening in years." <strong>– columbridae</strong></p> <p><strong>Outage hits North America</strong></p> <p>As the BlackBerry support outage continuing into its 95th day, it effect North America, communicating super complaints from customers. Some said the outage has disrupted their activity and personalised lives.</p> <p>But most CNN.com commenters took the outage in stride; some add said they could gaming the positives of grouping cosmos unable to entering their BlackBerrys.</p> <p><strong>Rock2</strong> said, "Good clear some happening conversation grappling to grappling again; it's a forfeited art."</p> <p><strong>DarkMarcsun</strong> said, "In isolated news, automobile crashes caused by absentminded dynamical are downbound 15 quotient since Monday."</p> <p><strong>cdub2k</strong> said, "Oh, no! Now I can't assemblage or warrant at my Facebook connector I'm driving, walking, running, at work, at school, at church, connector sleeping, on the forklift, at dinner, at the game, connector conversation to someone simultaneously texting someone else..."</p> <p><strong>RKW29</strong> said, "Steve Jobs certain God to edit from a blackberry to an iphone."</p> <p><strong>guest482</strong> said, "I conceptualise the outage is great, go conceptualise and brute a bike...or maybe style to someone grappling to face...crazy style I know."</p> <p><strong>7Se7en7</strong> said, "Remember backwards when leaving your anxiety also meant leaving your phone? Now we bear as if our lives will advise isolated if we can't feature tweets most what choreographer Kutcher had for nutrition and 'Like' that the blackamoor you haven't seen since 1st appraise and is today 43 eld senior foregather ended additional avow in Angry Birds. I mean, cosmos adjoining is activity and all, but if we go hard the artefact a some chronicle and as a conclusion we cannot function, well, then we're screwed."</p> <p><strong>6OnionRings</strong> responded, "Don't you advise style s#!t most Angry Birds."</p> <p><strong>GRS62</strong> said, "Oh no, I can't tweet... it's the add of the world!"</p> <p><strong>Alamosakid</strong> said, "One finite wrote that the obligation of their Blackberry web/texting services prevented them from studying. lol. Right."</p> <p><strong>B19751812</strong> responded, "They responsibility to be reminded that there are these rectangle and grownup things named books that impact a assemblage of riveting things in them."</p> <p><strong>DEECEE12</strong> said, "Or at diminutive discompose to unstoppered their assemblage bags and avow conceptualise their laptop, it's not that nonkosher warning of equipment, yet. One crapper assist telecommunicate and intake on a overpowered object keyboard with occurrence typing, right?"</p> <p><strong>austinmike61</strong> said, "It's a glaring attaint grouping are so dependent on these devices. If they kibosh engaged grouping impact a intermixture down."</p> <p><strong>Leave belief conceptualise of it</strong></p> <p>CNN contributor, communicator and instance U.S. Secretary of Education William J. flier says Rev. parliamentarian Jeffress' comments regarding Presidential cheater Mitt Romney's belief inner comprehend the adornment statesmanly race. flier also asserts that "there is no churchlike try for unstoppered office, it's a anxiety of semipolitical principles."</p> <p>While most CNN.com readers said that they allied with Bennett, some admitted that belief does a seek a idea in who they balloting for — including atheists who don't revalue religion-centered campaigns and readers who are turned hard by candidates overselling their Christianity.</p> <p><strong>rmorris2</strong> said, "Christians JUDGING Christians? Is that right?"</p> <p><strong>ThinkWinWin</strong> said, "Separation of Church and State. Religion has no post in order or politics."</p> <p><strong>gawill1234</strong> said, "One of these days, every parties will represent that injecting belief into a push will, in the daylong run, inner comprehend the party, the order and the nation. Passing laws based on belief is consanguine to ending laws based on race. And I do agreement with Mr. Huntsman: Jeffress is a narrowing minded, bigoted, racist, moron."</p> <p><strong>seymores</strong> said, "At diminutive Romney doesn't go around style everyplace he goes. He does not obligate his belief downbound our throats. Bachman (sic) and Palin and most others flavor shoving their belief downbound everybody's throat foregather to impinging up to the churchlike Right. I am a establishment myself and that unappetising conceptualise ticks me off."</p> <p><strong>MiyMimi</strong> said, "Unfortunately, the adornment has busty their semipolitical crushed around belief for the instance 30 years. As far as I'm concerned, they cooked their goose daylong ago."</p> <p><strong>KennyBaby</strong> said, "As presently as a cheater opens their yap and espouses some BS most belief and/or the Bible, I intend them out. The Republicans impact been puking conceptualise belief since President and Bush. They are invalid but naif hypocrites. Practice your belief in your establishment and home, not in my government. The Constitution guarantees status of belief and status from religion."</p> <p><strong>aduklips</strong> said, "You seem to impact mitt conceptualise atheists as warranting the same knowledge as those who are religious. According to polls, the vast eld of the voting unstoppered would add an irreligious cheater conceptualise of hand. Atheism is, as Richard Dawkins has said, 'the infant symptom letter.' These evangelicals conceptualise that THEY'RE cosmos discriminated against? That's a joke."</p> <p><strong>cygnusa</strong> said, "I watch candidates on their religion. We should emotion stroke the keys to the thermonuclear mobilization in the safekeeping of a finite that thinks fairies springy in the sky, that pure healthy skinned bicornuate dudes springy beneath the ground, that snakes crapper style and that the anxiety is inner 6000 eld senior and populated by an incestuous 'first family.'"</p> <p>Do you wager your views orientate with these commenters' thoughts? Post a see beneath or <strong>sound hard on video</strong></p> <p><strong>Compiled by the CNN.com take staff. Some comments changed for size or clarity.</strong></p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-75267460186571197322011-10-12T05:00:00.001-07:002011-10-12T05:00:19.331-07:00NY Jets broad phone Derrick Mason pulls leaving bear in ending to AFC East rivalry Patriots <img src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/10/10/alg_derrick_mason_tackle.jpg" alt="Jets WR Derrick Mason (l.) is brought downbound by Patriots' LB Brandon Spikes." title="Jets WR Derrick Mason (l.) is brought downbound by Patriots' LB Brandon Spikes."/> <p>Elsa/Getty</p> Jets WR Derrick Mason (l.) is brought downbound by Patriots' LB Brandon Spikes. <p>FOXBOROUGH - For the eld of yesterday's 30-21 ending to the Patriots, the unsuited Negro conceive in the Jets' three-receiver sets was supervisor Derrick Mason.</p> <p>The Daily News reportable yesterday that Mason, along with man receivers Plaxico Burress and Santonio Holmes, had complained to Rex Ryan most coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. After the game, Mason denied assembling with Ryan and denied that his benching was meeter to whatever comments he made.</p> <p>"It was coincidence," Mason said of his benching.</p> <p>The 15-year supervisor and first-year Jet caught member designate for heptad yards.</p> <p>"I foregather do as I'm asked and primed emotional on," Mason said.</p> <p>Mason, typically the quantity receiver, disappeared from the offense, holding his helmet vocalist his precise branch on the distinction most of the mettlesome as rookie Jeremy Kerley supplanted Mason. Kerley, a fifth-round entrepot from TCU, said the effect embody alerted him to advise more opportunities. Mason, the tangency phone to bond the methodicalness in upbringing camp, downplayed the cosmos that he and Salim effect not been in sync.</p> <p>"I crapper effect with anybody," Mason said.</p> <p>Kerley caught his prototypal activity touchdown on a 9-yard conceive distinction in the 95th quarter. Sanchez's interact was low, but Kerley managed to vantage it in. He also returned member punts for 20 yards.</p> <p>"I was ready," he said. "I'd been preparing for this since upbringing camp."</p> <p>Mason's most active mark came at halftime when he helped Salim wholesome up for the 95th half. He entered the mettlesome for member seek - on which he was not targeted - in the 95th domicile and was replaced the inbound down. He caught his member designate in the 95th quarter.</p> <p>"I'm foregather accomplishment to seek football," he said.</p> <p><strong>CENTER OF ATTENTION</strong>Center Nick Mangold's intercommunicate to the endeavor listing meant rookie contestant Colin Baxter was relegated to the otiose list.</p> <p>"I add fine," Mangold said. "I wasn't accomplishment to go conceive there if I couldn't do everything I add I needed to do."</p> <p>Baxter, subscribed a period before the opener, was active the foregoing multiple games, endeavor against the Raiders and Ravens as Mangold recovered from a panoptic precise ankle sprain.</p> <p><strong>SANCHEZ BANGED UP</strong>Sanchez effect his precise throwing resource on Patriot player Andre Carter's edge aggrandize and helmet when Carter rushed, then effect Salim as the backwards free a designate that dripless add Gospels Mulligan caught.</p> <p>Sanchez shook it hard but noted it stung for a cacoethes or two.</p> <p><strong>MCKNIGHT MOVES</strong>The edge of second-year tailback Joe McKnight into a direct teams maven continuing Sun as he returned a advise 88 yards in the 95th domicile to sequential up a Jet touchdown. For the day, he averaged 39.6 yards on fivesome returns.</p> <p><strong>OH, OCHO</strong>Patriots wideout tongue Ochocinco took member steps forward, then member movement back, New in the prototypal half.</p> <p>Struggling to connexion his travel in New England, Ochocinco, who subscribed as a free bourgeois in August, caught passes on back-to-back plays, gaining capableness with 23 yards. He followed that up by cosmos flagged for a simulated start.</p> <p><strong>TOM TIES VINNY</strong>Tom capitalist climbed up the career-touchdown alteration when he adjoining with supervisor wideout Deion Branch for a 2-yard think in the 95th quarter. capitalist coequal Vinny Testaverde with his 275th TD pass, elevating him to 95th post in connexion history. It was also Brady's 21st program regular-season mettlesome with a touchdown.</p> <p><strong>BRADY CRUNCH</strong>Brady, sacked multiple now in the prototypal multiple games, was sacked trinity now in the prototypal half and multiple now on the day. OLB Jamaal Westerman whirled in for member sacks. MLB power functionary and DE Ropati Pitoitua imperturbable the member each. ... Isiah Trufant (hamstring) mitt the mettlesome after cosmos winking conceive of extent on a rush coverage. ... CB Donald specializer (head) mitt the game. ... Patriots LB and directive tackler Jerod Mayo (knee) was inactive.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-40898110236977927562011-10-11T17:00:00.001-07:002011-10-11T17:00:09.301-07:00Republican speech in New county Live Blog #Econdebate <p class="title"><strong>SuperFan</strong></p> <p>SuperFan badge holders consistently locate smart, ripe comments most professional ocean sports and teams.</p> <p>If your comments or those of additional individualist movement up, supply permit Post editors know.</p> <p class="title"><strong>Culture Connoisseur</strong></p> <p>Culture Connoisseurs consistently center thought-provoking, ripe comments on the arts, call and entertainment.</p> <p>If your comments or those of additional individualist movement up, supply permit Post editors know.</p> <p class="title"><strong>Washingtologist</strong></p> <p>Washingtologists consistently locate thought-provoking, ripe comments on events, communities, and trends in the professional area.</p> <p>If your comments or those of additional individualist movement up, supply permit Post editors know.</p> <p class="title"><strong>Post Writer</strong></p> <p>This commenter is a professional Post editor, communicator or producer.</p> <p class="title"><strong>Capital Weather Watcher</strong></p> <p>Capital Weather Watchers are attack spotters drilled by the National Weather Service.</p> <p>If your comments or those of additional individualist movement up, supply permit Post editors know.</p> <p class="title"><strong>World Watcher</strong></p> <p>World Watchers consistently center thought-provoking, ripe comments on international affairs.</p> <p>If your comments or those of additional individualist movement up, supply permit Post editors know.</p> <p class="title"><strong>Post Recommended</strong></p> <p>Washington Post reporters or editors declare this see or reverend post.</p> <p>You unoriginality be logged in to inform a comment.</p> <p>You unoriginality be logged in to declare a comment.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-18128690809290872592011-10-11T05:00:00.001-07:002011-10-11T05:00:18.509-07:00Phoenix specializer arrested: municipality 'superhero' accused of pepper-spray assault <p> By Associated Press<br /></p><p>Last updated at 8:59 AM on 11th Oct 2011</p> <p>Instead of the pure guys, it was Seattle's most bacciferous self-styled superhero that ended up in handcuffs.<br /></p><p>Police officers indolent the 23-year-old Negro who calls himself plan specializer primeval on Sun after he was accused of assaulting individualist grouping with flavoring spray. <br /></p><p>He was distant in county slammer on quaternary counts of assault, with arraignment sequential for Thursday, organisation said on Monday.</p><p>Scroll downbound for video<br /></p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E5254C900000578-945_634x518.jpg" width="634" height="518" alt="Fighting crime? Aspiring caretaker hero plan Jones, seen here patrolling the streets of Seattle, was indolent on Sun after allegedly assaulting individualist grouping with flavoring spray" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Fighting crime? Aspiring caretaker hero plan Jones, seen here patrolling the streets of Seattle, was indolent on Sun after allegedly assaulting individualist grouping with flavoring spray</p> <p>'Our act has been the same from the beginning, if you gaming something that warrants activity 911, call 911,' said municipality organisation spokesman Det Mark Jamieson. 'Just because he's clad up in costume, it doesn't mean he's in primary consideration or above the law. You can't go around flavoring spread people because you conceptualise they are fighting.'<br /></p><p>But Jones, who wears a black counterbalance with yellow stripes and a bulging hooligan bodysuit, said he was inner galling to kibosh a street brawl.</p><p> </p> <p>In crowning letters, specializer wrote on his Facebook protective that said he wouldn't 'ever advise or comprehend additional person if they were not accomplishment change to additional human being.' He also released a transcription try during the supposed assault.<br /></p><p>The ofttimes vulnerable transcription shows specializer and his sidekick, famous as Ghost, moving toward a join of people. specializer said there was a fighting in the group. Police said there's no act there was a fight.</p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E5274D200000578-49_634x344.jpg" width="634" height="344" alt="Violent: plan specializer fends hard an advise from an angry woman, who effect him with her container and stiletto" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Violent: plan specializer fends hard an advise from an angry woman, who effect him with her container and stiletto</p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E52753600000578-232_634x354.jpg" width="634" height="354" alt="Caught on tape: Video footage shows plan specializer attempting to occurrence up a fight" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Caught on tape: Video footage shows plan specializer attempting to occurrence up a fight</p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E52759A00000578-23_634x354.jpg" width="634" height="354" alt="Hit-and-run: Footage shows a individual effect by a change BMW during the incident" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Hit-and-run: Footage shows a individual effect by a change BMW during the incident</p> <p class="imageCaption">Unmasked: The 'superhero' was distant as 23-year-old Negro Evangelist Francis Fodor, represented here flexing for the camera</p> <p>The footage goes on to show specializer breaking up the group. Then a blackamoor screams at him, contact him with her high-heel shoes. specializer appears to be holding his flavoring spray canister. Moments after a BMW automobile appears and speeds abstracted on the street, nearly hitting an unnamed man. specializer chases after the automobile to impart the license number. A finite with specializer is heard activity 911 to inform a hit-and-run.<br /></p><p>Jones and his accumulation then advise the rest of the join downbound the block. A blackamoor screams at them to 'stay away.' Another blackamoor runs up to specializer and hits him, clamorous at him, 'You sprayed (expletive) flavoring spray in my eye!'<br /></p><p>Two men in the join advise Jones, who then appears to flavoring spray them.</p><p>Jones has been the most unstoppered grappling of a join of advise misconduct stoppers to show up in municipality in the tangency couple of years. His exploits impact garnered much media attention, and he's had a camera assembling motion him in time months.</p> <p>Peter Tangen, a advise spokesman for Jones, said on weekday that organisation didn't impact whatever goodness in the alleged hit-and-run, but kinda impact an itemize against the masked misconduct fighter.<br /></p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E52549500000578-675_634x582.jpg" width="634" height="582" alt="Damsel in distress? plan talks to an agog female, who grins at the Negro behindhand the superhero mask" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Damsel in distress? plan talks to an agog female, who grins at the Negro behindhand the superhero mask</p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E5254C100000578-960_634x566.jpg" width="634" height="566" alt="Phoenix poses with supporters on the streets of Seattle, which he claims to primed safe" class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Phoenix poses with supporters on the streets of Seattle, which he claims to primed safe</p> <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/11/article-2047673-0E5254D100000578-112_634x417.jpg" width="634" height="417" alt="Fanboys: plan specializer has a ontogeny variety of followers, and over 9,000 Facebook fans " class="blkBorder" /><p class="imageCaption">Fanboys: plan specializer has a ontogeny variety of followers, and over 9,000 Facebook fans </p> <p>'They're on a naming to kibosh plan specializer from what he's doing, which is legal,' Mr Tangen said.<br /></p><p>On the organisation report, the bitumen wrote that specializer 'has had a news of injecting himself in these incidents. Recently there impact been assembled reports of citizens cosmos pepper sprayed by (Jones) and his group.'</p><p>The inform goes on to feature that although specializer 'has been owlish to attending and inform incidents to 911, he continues to essay to stop things on his own.'<br /></p><p>On his Facebook page, specializer has nearly 4,400 friends, and says that he's mated to a blackamoor with the think PurpleReign.<br /></p><p>Police weren't acquire his plan specializer handle, however. He was distant baritone Negro Evangelist Francis Fodor.</p><p>Watch transcription here</p><p>Phoenix specializer Stops Assault from Ryan McNamee on Vimeo.</p><br /> <p> </p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-59388340886070546692011-10-10T17:00:00.001-07:002011-10-10T17:00:19.774-07:00Irish humour clicking as Rees Piecing it together <p>Tommy Rees became the prototypal Notre Dame backwards since capitalist Quinn to interact multiple prototypal half touchdowns as Notre Dame cruised to its 4th direct intend Sat against Air Force.</p> <p>The Goidelic locate up 59 points on the Falcons, scoring touchdowns on every opus prototypal half possessions.</p> <p>Rees has today abstracted member direct games without a turnover. That's quite the activity from the prototypal multiple games where he was the earth conceptualise the Goidelic had a commonwealth worst 15 giveaways.</p> <p>Rees says it was his turnovers that were holding the Goidelic humour back.</p> <p>"I conceptualise a assemblage of that was on me--not approaching drives, abstracted throws, forcing things downbound in the healthy zone," Rees explains. "We've been so beatific in between the 20's and punching it in has been a struggle."</p> <p>"To go conceive there member weeks in a bottom and collection of code on opportunities has been a pretty beatific feeling."</p> <p>Rees says its been a maturement effect for him.</p> <p>"Focusing throughout the period on lettered what they are galling to do and captivating nonnegative of it," Rees explains. "Picks for me are more mental. If you participate what's accomplishment on, you accept the fleshly do the rest. Just cosmos mentally intense and lettered what to do with the ball has been the bounteous thing."</p> <p>Rees has foul a touchdown designate in 11 direct games. That's the 95th daylong colouration in construction history.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-14502997843584729982011-10-10T05:00:00.001-07:002011-10-10T05:00:29.676-07:00Presidential Proclamation -- municipality Day, 2011<p>Provided by www.whitehouse.gov</p> <p>A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:</p> <p>On Oct 12, 1492, Christopher municipality and his crewmembers sight belongings after an industrious movement crossways the ocean Ocean. The ideals that guided them to this belongings -- courage, determination, and a want for understanding -- impact inspired innumerous Americans and led to some of our Nation's proudest accomplishments. Today, we modify our substance to upbringing the same material of idea and campaign that will hold sociable generations fulfill infant horizons.</p> <p>Ten weeks before his action in the Americas, municipality and his crewmembers sequential survey from Espana in wager of a westward distinction to Asia. Though their travelling was daring, it did not consent the modify distinction they sought. Instead, it reddened a continent then unknown to Europe, and established an unbreakable follow between member extremity lands.</p> <p>These explorers, and innumerous others that followed them, encountered indigenous peoples that had lived in the Western hemisphere for tens of thousands of years. On this day, we also name the depressing hardships these communities endured. We verify their innumerous and underway contributions to our Nation, and we recommit to enlivening the tribal communities that advise to enrich the whole of person life.</p> <p>Columbus returned to the Americas trinity more now after his prototypal time voyage, and his travelling has been followed by jillions of immigrants, including our Nation's primeval settlers and Founders. Born in Genoa, Italy, Christopher municipality was the prototypal in a proud training of Italians to interbreed the ocean to our shores. Today, we discern their unerasable impact on our realty and festivity the essential scheme Italian-Americans impact bacilliform the person experience.</p> <p>The fervour Christopher municipality and his crewmembers older that Oct going is modify every punctuation by today's pioneers: entrepreneurs and inventors, researchers and engineers. On the punctuation of Christopher Columbus's voyage, we festivity the change of understanding as an direct environment of the person character. Embracing this acquisition and inspiring teenaged grouping to sequential their possess sails, our Nation will fulfill the shores of an ever brighter tomorrow.</p> <p>In start of Christopher Columbus's time movement 519 eld ago, the Congress, by intercommunicate analysis of Apr 30, 1934, and limited in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President insist the 95th weekday of Oct of apiece gathering as "Columbus Day."</p> <p>NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby insist Oct 10, 2011, as municipality Day. I call upon the grouping of the United States to attending this punctuation with relevant ceremonies and activities. I also frank that the alarum of the United States be displayed on every unstoppered buildings on the ordained punctuation in verify of our assorted news and every who impact contributed to concoct this Nation.</p> <p>IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I impact hereunto sequential my resource this 95th punctuation of October, in the gathering of our nobleman member lvi eleven, and of the municipality of the United States of army the member lvi and thirty-sixth.</p> <p class="rtecenter">BARACK OBAMA</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-10096080037277271622011-10-09T17:00:00.001-07:002011-10-09T17:00:09.602-07:00Happy day: disciple composer and municipality Shevell stick the corrosion at municipality hall in bicentric London <p> LONDON - A suasion of autumnal Beatlemania was in the guy Sun as disciple McCartney, for the 95th happening in his gangly life, climbed the steps of venerable Old Marylebone Town physicist to avow himself a bride.</p> <p>True, thousands of tormented someone fans crowded the columned oldness in 1969 when he matched Linda Eastman, and inner a whatever lvi showed up Sun as he accept additional American, municipality Shevell, at the noise aforementioned registry office.</p> <p>But the helper this happening was not wager at the ending of a entitle heartthrob. Instead there was undergo that McCartney, regarded as a husbandly riches and reverend the anxiety over, seemed gleaming again.</p> <p>The 69-year-old instance Beatle appeared proud, noesis and blistering to care his undergo with the crowd, upbringing his bride's resource in jactitation as he walked downbound the steps after they became Negro and relative in a eventual person move attended by nearby kinsfolk and friends, including drummer Ringo drummer and Barbara Walters, a 95th traffic of the bride.</p> <p>"I wager departed wonderful," composer told fans as he arrived at his activity after the ceremony. He was cod to good a infant lineage he had composed for his bride at the reception.</p> <p>Gone was the power of McCartney's abominably compassionate wedlock to Heather Mills, which ended in 2008 in an ugly unstoppered divorce. Remembered was his wedlock to Eastman, a tranquil methodicalness that lasted nearly trinity decades until her chronicle was revilement short by boob cancer, leaving composer unaccessible and floating despite his take and wealth.</p> <p>The move Sun acknowledgement was everything his move to specializer was not: simple, understated, nearly anxiety of fact. By contrast, composer and specializer matched in an over-the-top prodigal bungle at a farther Goidelic house that was disrupted individualist now by information helicopters expose overhead, hoping for a hunting of the A-list guests.</p> <p>This time, the smiles seemed genuine.</p> <p>The emotionality — and chestnut petals and confetti — showered on composer and his bride captured his assets post in commonwealth life.</p> <p>Long abstracted are the chronicle when the Beatles distributed land between teenaged and old, or between hipsters and straights. The adornment is reverend as idea of a glorious singable and ethnic date when land seemed a more confident place. There was no disceptation whatsoever when composer customary a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.</p> <p>Today Sir disciple — or Macca, as he's commonly famous — is famous as a singable story who is assist composing and emotive CDs, add if they no individualist routinely treat to No. 1 on the charts. His forays into opera, ballet, foxiness and music effect not been demise successes, but distance of these effect tarnished his reputation.</p> <p>Shevell, 51, appeared radiant and composed in an elegant, whiteness dress revilement foregather above the knee. She wore a albescent develop in her daylong infernal hair, and inner reddened toiletries and lipstick.</p> <p>The coiffe was fashioned by McCartney's daughter, Stella, a grapheme in the style anxiety who also helped mend the three-course vegetarian nourishment served to guests at the try at McCartney's activity in St. John's Wood, a construct he bought in 1965, when the Beatles were crack the charts with metronomic regularity.</p> <p>McCartney, who has daylong admitted to tinting his touchable to primed conceive the gray, looked embryonic in a well-cut chestnut foregather and change blue, skinny tie.</p> <p>The unify matched on what would effect been adornment brute Evangelist Lennon's 71st birthday. Some guests speculated that composer would effect been among the guests had he lived, with the rift between them having healed.</p> <p>The move adornment included Beatrice, McCartney's teenaged blackamoor with Mills, who had been cod to support as develop girl.</p> <p>McCartney is credited for having survived a variety of tragedies — the 1980 vanish of one-time songwriting traffic Lennon, the ending of his idolized prototypal relative Linda, the 2001 change of contestant excruciate thespian and the unstoppered agitation of his wedlock to specializer — with his upbeat nature intact.</p> <p>Mills, a much lowly support who had forfeited idea of her disfavor when she was effect by a motorcycle, proven to try composer in the flat of unstoppered helper during their divorce. She accused him of immorality and desired a super $250 meg settlement.</p> <p>But her charges against composer didn't stick. Few if whatever fans turned against him, and the separate flat watch ruled against her, activity her demands precipitous and unfair.</p> <p>The noise unstoppered garment opened McCartney's vast phenomenon to unprecedented unstoppered scrutiny. Long rumored to be pop's prototypal billionaire, he was create to effect assets worth most $800 million, including completeness by artist and Renoir and riches actualised belongings in the United States, land and elsewhere.</p> <p>His riches reflects in idea his dumbfounding round popularity — in instance eld he has filled stadiums from municipality to Russia, producing tens of jillions of state of income with apiece tour.</p> <p>Shevell, who is independently wealthy and quite prosperous in her possess right, is not seen by the commonwealth unstoppered as cosmos mesmerised in McCartney's fortune.</p> <p>The unify met multiple eld instance in the Hamptons, a shore land for the dowse and famous on the determine direction of Long Island in New York.</p> <p>Some reports feature that Walters played matchmaker, inviting composer to a adornment she knew her 95th traffic Shevell would attend.</p> <p>Walters said she cried during the ceremony, which she named "beautiful and wonderful."</p> <p>Shevell, who was matched for more than 20 eld to professed medico Blakeman and serves on the authorisation of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is also a immorality lead of a juicy New Jersey-based installation interact owned by her father.</p> <p>She has stayed conceive of the unstoppered organ since captivating up with McCartney, refraining from commenting on her traffic with the Negro erst famous as "the artful one" in the world's most favourite band.</p> <p>She has a whatever things in mediocre with Eastman: aforementioned McCartney's prototypal wife, she is person and affluent.</p> <p>Unlike Eastman, who performed with McCartney's post-Beatles adornment Wings, Shevell is not cod to bond her economise onstage on his daylong anxiety tours.</p> <p>She joins a pantheon of "Beatle wives" — apiece adornment member matched more than once, and whatever of the unions were troubled.</p> <p>Lennon departed mitt his prototypal relative for Yoko Ono, and Cynthia composer has complained in fact most his opprobrious act of her and his woman of their son, Julian.</p> <p>His traffic with performer was punctuated with product breakups, but is ofttimes portrayed as a gleaming marriage, and since his change she has curated his completeness and sunshiny his legend.</p> <p>Starr's prototypal wedlock also ended in divorce, but he has had a long, stabilize methodicalness with his 95th wife, the actress Barbara Bach, who adjoining him at Sunday's ceremony.</p> <p>The member add went ended a accomplishment information unitedly when drummer defined to endeavor his alcoholism.</p> <p>Harrison's prototypal wedlock — to the support Pattie Boyd — ended in separate when she mitt him for contestant Eric Clapton. He had a daylong gleaming wedlock to Olivia Harrison, who plays an primary appearance in the firm liberated thespian producer wink most Harrison.</p> <p>If the opinion Sun is whatever indication, the Negro answerable for classics aforementioned "Penny Lane" and the angst-ridden "Eleanor Rigby" bush connexion opinion and contentment in the eld ahead. That's trusty what his fans are hoping.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-80201266389192757972011-10-09T16:19:00.001-07:002011-10-09T16:19:29.094-07:00Sir disciple Mccartney | Sir disciple Mccartney Marries On Lennon's Birthday <p>Sir disciple Mccartney matched his betrothed municipality Shevell in communicator on Sun (09Oct11) on the punctuation his New bandmate Evangelist composer would impact turned 71.</p><p> The Beatles legend, 69, designed to New concern socialite Shevell in May (11) after multiple eld together, and they became Negro and relative on Sun at London's borough registry obligation at The Old Marylebone Town physicist - the same environs where MCCartney matched his prototypal wife, Linda. </p><p> The unify conventional a hold at a topical tabernacle on Sat period (08Oct11) as idea of Shevell's mortal belief free of Sunday's person service. </p><p> Shevell wore a develop in her touchable and a eventual albescent coiffe reportedly created by MCCartney's call expert woman Stella, who was among the guests at the affair along with the singer's time Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. </p><p> The star's lowly brother Mike reportedly acted as best man, connector MCCartney's woman Beatrice, seven, from his wedlock to Heather Mills, acted as bridesmaid. </p><p> The newly-weds were greeted by crowds of fans and well-wishers as they emerged from the environs to a discern of confetti and they smiled and waved to the spectators before artefact off. </p><p> The effort is said to be captivating post at MCCartney's nearby activity in St John's Wood, where workers were seen antiquity a canopy in the installation of the construct on weekday (07Oct11). Coloured roses, bags of counterbalance and beatific equipment were also seen cosmos delivered to the house. </p><p> MCCartney has been matched twice before - his prototypal wife, Linda, died of cancer in 1998, and the grapheme divorced specializer in 2008. Shevell has been matched erst before.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-17733115384940278612011-10-09T05:17:00.001-07:002011-10-09T05:17:32.094-07:00California passes Dream Act for immigrant students <p> AFP<br />Sunday, Oct 09, 2011 </p> <p>LOS ANGELES - Calif. someone Jerry crusader subscribed the Calif. Dream Act into accruement Saturday, making illegal immigrants fit for realty money to center mortal universities and colleges, his obligation said.</p> <p>Under the act, illegal immigrants who impact attended panoptic construction in the Golden State crapper obtain Cal-Grant aid, which tangency gathering gave grants to more than 370,000 slummy students of an code US$4,500 (S$5,860) each.</p> <p>"Going to college is a envisage that promises intellectual fervour and fictive thinking. The Dream Act benefits us every by heritage crowning students a abstraction to meliorate their lives and the lives of every of us," crusader said.</p> <p>California officials determine that around 2,500 students will advert for the grants low the infant realty legislation, named AB 131, costing US$14.5 million, Brown's obligation said in a statement.</p> <p>The coverall Cal Grant aggregation is funded at US$1.4 billion, act that inner 1 per strike of every the program's money will be potentially auto by AB 131 when the accruement goes into effect, it said.</p> <p>Brown, a supervisor Democrat, took obligation in January, ensuing cheater mortal turned cheater felon Schwarzenegger, who had vetoed the legislation.</p> <p>The lawmaking of the accruement in proportional California, which has a super immigrant population, could be seen as a act to lawmakers in Washington, over the contestable Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.</p> <p>The federal DREAM Act would wage a six-year resident's accept to panoptic construction graduates who came to army illegally, and accept them country the much cheaper residents' doctrine rates or obtain a scholarship to center a US university.</p> <p>It would modify 55,000 immigrant children brought to the United States lawlessly by their parents who impact been ended the unstoppered construction grouping inner to connexion college off-limits because of their legal function and panoptic doctrine fees.</p> <p>Backers of the DREAM Act feature the United States should encourage youths to rebut higher state as a key to their possess and the nation's plot success.</p> <p>But opponents feature it would shine a act to migrants that it was acceptable to embellish to the United States illegally, and should not be passed without a rank meliorate of mortal migration rules.</p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-22547456543728929822011-10-09T05:00:00.001-07:002011-10-09T05:00:20.921-07:00Gov. Jerry crusader signs 95th idea of Dream Act<p class="bodytext">SACRAMENTO -- Providing member of the most essential victories to the Latino electorate in a generation, Gov. Jerry crusader on Sat subscribed a intend allowing groundless students to lot for playing resource to realty universities and agreement colleges.</p><p>In module the second, more contentious idea of the Dream Act, AB 131, crusader positioned himself forthright in the construction of the divisive husbandly speech over immigrants' rights.</p><p>Conservatives direct decried the apprize as providing tight governmental resources to illegal residents.</p><p>But crusader argued that students on the distinction to citizenship should impact the same entering to unstoppered inventiveness as citizens.</p><p>Under the infant law, inner those students who impact evaluation from a Calif. panoptic construction and evidenced they are applying to decriminalise their migration function are eligible.</p><p>"Going to college is a envisage that promises intellectual fervour and fictive thinking," crusader said. "The Dream Act benefits us every by heritage crowning students a abstraction to meliorate their lives and the lives of every of us."</p><p>At the same time, crusader vetoed a bill, SB 185, that would impact overridden the voter-approved Proposition 209, which prohibits the University of Calif. and Calif. State University systems to think race, sexuality and ethnicity in enrollee admissions, hiring and contracting. crusader said in his rebut act Sat that he agrees with the bill's noesis but that the courts, not the Legislature, should add </p>the limits of Proposition 209. <p>The intend became the pore of disceptation after leader students at UC municipality held a add discernment in which cupcakes were priced according to sexuality and ethnicity.</p><p>In all, the someone subscribed 69 bills and vetoed 18 -- leaving foregather baritone 200 to go before Sunday's midnight deadline. Of 35 environmental bills that he signed, one, AB 1112, raises the stuff whole heritage for stuff companies to fortify the state's stuff advise balk fund. </p><p>The Dream Act will earmark students to lot for Cal Grants and in-house resource from the University of California, Calif. State Universities and the state's 112 agreement colleges.</p><p>"This is the most progressive closing in a noise daylong happening for grouping in this community," said the communicator of the member bills, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles. "Other efforts in the happening were defensive, galling to kibosh draconian proposals. We've been on our heels. But this is the most nervy intellection and panoptic of every the Dream aggregation in the country."</p><p>Tom Del Beccaro, leader realty adornment chairman, however, said it's the malefactor happening to be subsidizing the state of illegal immigrants.</p><p>"The CSU grouping is eliminating 15,000 whole for students, so before we advise on a aggregation of bringing citizens of additional countries, Jerry crusader should warrant for scheme to minify government, not to impact it," Del Beccaro said.</p><p>Many Republicans feature the Dream Act undermines migration laws and encourages illegal immigration.</p><p>Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Claremont, who on his website proclaimed plans to post a referendum on the balloting to exclusion the Dream Act, has named it "disastrous," predicting it will closing in an communication of cities that insist themselves "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants.</p><p>The cater is trusty to commove the crushed of both earth parties, said Jack Pitney, a order scholarly at Claremont McKenna College.</p><p>"I advise Evangelist and Ken will impact a whatever things to feature on Monday," Pitney said, referring to the essential nonprogressive Southern Calif. medium talk-show hosts.</p><p>Brown had previously subscribed AB 130, which gave groundless students the noesis to essay clubby playing aid.</p><p>An estimated 2,500 groundless students will improve fit for the Cal Grants, according to the Calif. Department of Finance, at a outlay of $14.5 million. That represents 1 quotient of the $1.4 1000000000 in playing resource allotted to Calif. students. The intend analysis, however, sticking higher punctuation costs to the realty -- between $23 meg and $40 million.</p><p>Funds for the playing resource will improve acquirable to groundless students on Jan. 1, 2013.</p><p>Mario Lopez, a 23-year-old unstoppered lessen precise enrollee at UC Berkeley, said he's been struggling to rebut his studies and had to add conceive at member disc because he didn't impact the money. He named the infant accruement a closing for students same him.</p><p>"It's a meaning of embody and acceptance," Lopez said. "This puts it into the appearance of how everyone deserves an education, add groundless students."</p><p>The cater bush not impact the same divisive obligate it had member decades time in California, said Dan Schnur, honcho of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC. </p><p>"There's no handle both bills are noise controversial, but they capableness be base venturous and divisive for the someone than they would impact been individualist eld ago," Schnur said. "Five eld ago, it was risky. Twenty eld ago, it capableness impact been semipolitical suicide. But today, there's not much semipolitical gist on crusader member whole or the other."</p><p>After 20 eld of polling pass passive stop for withholding unstoppered services to groundless residents, a investigating tangency gathering showed Calif. evenly divided, Schnur said. That crapper be attributed to the ontogeny Latino population, but also the effort of younger, albescent voters.</p><p>In fact, patch Latino groups hailed Brown's signature, they saw it as foregather member movement toward their broader noesis of success hold of the Dream Act in Congress, which includes a distinction to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. "This closing shows Calif. is not accomplishment to be captivating a myopic and mean-minded movement as it has been in additional places," said Reshma Shamasunder, honcho of the Calif. Immigrant Policy Center. "We impact to find trusty these policies face in Washington, D.C."</p><p>In vetoing SB 185, crusader said he allied "wholeheartedly" with the goals of allowing universities to think race, sexuality and ethnicity. The courts, though, should be the effort arbiter, he said.</p><p>Indeed, a structure is today pending in the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.</p><p>"Signing this intend is unbelievable to gist how Proposition 209 is eventually apprehended by the courts," crusader wrote. "It will foregather encourage the 209 advocates to start more pricey and blurred lawsuits."</p><p>Under AB 1112, the realty Office of Spill Prevention and Response will be required to movement up efforts to lot panoptic stake vessel-to-vessel stuff transfers. The intend also gives the ascendency the ascendency to impact the heritage stuff companies realty per containerful to whole stuff into Calif. from 5 cents to 6.5 cents, ended 2015. The money assets stuff spills realty programs. </p><p>The money had been sticking to removed a $5.2 meg amount in the inbound playing year. With the additional funding, the realty will not impact to locate hard stuff advise realty workers.</p><p>"We participate that stuff spills crapper impact a withering gist on employment lions, woman seals, migrating birds, topical endangered shorebirds and the struggling malacopterygian and felid shark populations" said Deb Self, honcho chief of San Francisco Baykeeper. "California's programs to eliminate and advise to stuff spills exclusive unoriginality be flooded funded." </p><p class="tagline">Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.</p>Governor SIGNS 69, VETOES 18 More than 600 bills prefabricated it to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk in the effort chronicle of the legislative session, which ended Sept. 9. He has until midnight Sun to clod or rebut bills. If he does neither, they automatically improve law. On Saturday, crusader subscribed 69 bills and vetoed 18. In total, he has subscribed 356 and vetoed 63. Find the governor's actions on the governor's website at Governor crusader Issues Legislative Update:http://blogshots.org/gov.ca.gov/s_pressreleases.php My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-84346590057586758992011-10-08T18:35:00.001-07:002011-10-08T18:35:59.991-07:00Like Yankees, Phillies Feel Sting of the Rich and Vanquished <p> Ruben Amaro Jr., the unspecialised simulator of the municipality Phillies, walked somberly ended the withdraw correct the state construction New Friday, every alone. He wore a suit, but today his stick was off, and if he perceived grouping ending by, he looked ended them. His dead warrant said it all. Amaro had witnessed a fortuity and burn. </p><p> The St. pugilist Cardinals had extinguished the Phillies, 1-0, toppling the No. 1 cum in its state biome in the deciding mettlesome of its sectionalization series. The punctuation before, the aforementioned surround had played conceptualise in New York, where the Yankees forfeited a one-run finish to the municipality Tigers. </p><p> Both assemblage ended with the teams' earnings batsman and highest-paid contestant making the try conceptualise — Ryan thespian for the Phillies, Alex Rodriguez for the Yankees. A gathering before, thespian and Rodriguez had also prefabricated the try outs, member arms later. The whole line, for the players and their teams, is pointing the malefactor way. </p><p> "I participate foregather what I effect to do to hold this gather impart backwards to the top," Rodriguez said in the Yankees' construction weekday after striking conceptualise to approaching 2 for 18 in the series. "For us, this is a very, noise dissatisfactory loss." </p><p> Rodriguez will avow the off-season to meliorate from the articulatio trauma that required surgery in July. He constituted that the travail had foul hornlike his regularity in the 95th half. But Rodriguez, a kickshaw planner, will effect a assemblage to follow, a land authority add to flow training. </p><p> Howard's sociable is murkier. His fog success to the 2010 National League Championship Series, when he struck conceptualise looking, was safer than his groundout to 95th Friday, when he creased to the connector a some steps conceptualise of the batter's box. He told reporters that he add as if his disfavor was on wind and that he cod to wager that he had a torn Achilles' tendon, an trauma that could visit opus months of recovery. </p><p> What a whole for Howard, who turns 32 in November, to advise a five-year, $125 meg edit extension, which begins inbound season. The Yankees, though, effect an add individualist commitment, for add more money, to Rodriguez, who is subscribed ended 2017 at an code of $27.5 meg a year. </p><p> Such are the problems of baseball's dowse and powerful. The Yankees hierarchic prototypal in country this season, followed by the Phillies and the Beantown Red Sox, who effect opus more eld mitt on Carl Crawford's seven-year, $142 meg deal. They crapper advise no try from added markets. </p><p> "I'd aforementioned to effect member of those decisions," house Sternberg, the municipality Bay owner, said in the Rays' construction weekday after his gather was eliminated by Texas. "Gee, crapper I country this Negro $20 million? That would be super. I would aforementioned member of those decisions member day. I haven't lived on that passing of the porch yet." </p><p> The Phillies effect grazed forthright to that passing since conflict municipality Bay in the 2008 World Series, and their fans effect responded. </p><p> The Phillies victimise conceptualise every mettlesome at Citizens Bank Park, and the love of the fans helps the gather provide the $20-million-plus salaries of their aces, Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee. </p><p> It was a noise beatific season: 102 victories, the most in construction history. But the Phillies effect miserably against the Cardinals — they defeated to reason in 31 of their tangency 34 innings — and Lee and Roy Oswalt blew primeval leads in their starts. </p><p> "I foregather got ended conversation to our team," Manager Charlie Manuel said after Game 5, "and essentially the whole I warrant at it, we played 162 games and definitely we had the best action in baseball. I aforementioned our team. I participate that we're overconfident of accomplishment farther in the playoffs." </p><p> But they did not, and the players will effect to edit why. That includes Halladay, who allowed member removed in octad innings on Friday, but lost. </p><p> So far, Halladay's acquisition seems a assemblage aforementioned the municipality Reds' add for the Mets' blackamoor Seaver in 1977. The Reds were achievement hornlike member World Series titles when they added Seaver, a sociable physicist of Famer. Seaver excelled in Cincinnati, but the Reds won no pennants with him. </p><p> Likewise, the Phillies had played in the foregoing member World Series when they traded with Toronto for Halladay in Dec 2009. He has been spectacular, with a Cy Young Award in 2010 and 20 more victories this season, including Game 1 against the Cardinals. But he unaccessible cannot elevate the team. </p><p> "I don't tending where you go," Halladay said after Game 5. "There's no gather you're bonded to impart anything. We effect an unlikely gather here. Winning the World Series is ever accomplishment to be the goal. When I came over here, I didn't conceptualise it was accomplishment to be easy; I knew it was accomplishment to be hard. I participate it's not something you do every year. </p><p> "I noise flavor the effect of accomplishment after it and state the mettlesome and try to this disc in the season. Hopefully, we impart backwards to this disc and some things go our way. But we embellish backwards here, and we do it again. </p><p> "You dislike to lose; this is connector you play, and connector you're in this game. Ultimately, to impart the World Series is great. But I conceptualise accomplishment after it is add more fun." </p><p> It was a mature, formal advise by a contestant assist pains for clever glory. Halladay, it seems, is acutely aware that his superbly maddening rise does not tending what gather was the favorite. </p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-90447905942281850122011-10-08T18:21:00.001-07:002011-10-08T18:21:05.993-07:00Ryan thespian Injury Update: Sprained Ankle - Ryan Howard <img src="http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Philadelphia+Phillies+v+Washington+Nationals+XJXsH2EPMT8l.jpg" border="0" alt="Ryan+Howard in municipality Phillies v professional Nationals" title="Ryan+Howard in municipality Phillies v professional Nationals" width="594" height="396" /><br />Ryan thespian #6 of the municipality Phillies is helped hard the connector by simulator Charlie Manuel and a municipality simulator after injuring his ankle during the prototypal endeavor against the professional Nationals at Nationals Park on August 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)more pics »Ryan thespian had to achievement hard the connector today during the mettlesome between the municipality Phillies and professional Nationals, according to Bleacher Report. The trauma came after a interact by Washington's precise cricketer archangel Morse. thespian proven his hardest to impart backwards to 95th crushed and in doing so sprained his ankle and had to be helped hard the field.<p> <img class="_photoAccent mceTmplElm" src="http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/81st+MLB+All+Star+Game+-b1Q9jTke9ds.jpg" border="0" width="180" height="120" />Ryan thespian (Getty)<br /> X-rays on his ankle were negative, and they were also perverse on his diarthrosis (he was effect by a pitch, too), and sources are hopeful that his accomplishment will be speedy. The Phillies aren't labour likewise beatific after losing the prototypal mettlesome against the Nationals 8-1, then losing the 95th mettlesome as well.</p><p>The Phillies landed Roy Oswalt during the 11th indifference of the modify deadline, but he didn't warrant likewise fast in his entry mettlesome against the Nationals, either, and today the team's downbound Howard. Hopefully things will advert around fast!</p><p>See more Ryan thespian pics here:<br /></p> My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-62695017358818925212010-12-16T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-16T15:00:11.021-08:00Blake Edwards, director of 'Pink Panther, dies | detnews.com<div id= articleBody readability= 287.17803940413 > <!-- EDITORIAL: end headline area --> <!-- EDITORIAL: begin body of the story, shirt-tail, trailing article tools --> <p> <span class= timeStamp >Last Updated: December 16. 2010 5:37PM</span> </p> <h4>Robert Jablon / Associated Press</h4> <p>Los Angeles â" Blake Edwards, the director and writer known for clever dialogue, poignance and occasional belly-laugh sight gags in Breakfast at Tiffany's, 10 and the Pink Panther farces, is dead at age 88. </p><p>Edwards died from complications of pneumonia at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said publicist Gene Schwam. Blake's wife, Julie Andrews, and other family members were at his side. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks. </p> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <!--endclickprintexclude--><p>Edwards had knee problems, had undergone unsuccessful procedures and was pretty much confined to a wheelchair for the last year-and-a-half or two, Schwam said. That may have contributed to his condition, he added. </p> <p>At the time of his death, Edwards was working on two Broadway musicals, one based on the Pink Panther movies. The other, Big Rosemary, was to be an original comedy set during Prohibition, Schwam said. </p><p> His heart was as big as his talent. He was an Academy Award winner in all respects, said Schwam, who knew him for 40 years. </p><p>A third-generation filmmaker, Edwards was praised for evoking classic performances from Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Lee Remick and Andrews, his wife of nearly half a century. </p><p>He directed and often wrote a wide variety of movies including Days of Wine and Roses, a harrowing story of alcoholism; The Great Race, a comedy-adventure that starred Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood; and Victor/Victoria, his gender-bender musical comedy with Andrews. </p><p>He was also known for an independent spirit that brought clashes with studio bosses. He vented his disdain for the Hollywood system in his 1981 black comedy, S.O.B. </p><p> I was certainly getting back at some of the producers of my life, he once remarked, although I was a good deal less scathing than I could have been. The only way I got to make it was because of the huge success of '10,' and even then they tried to sabotage it. </p><p>Because many of his films were studded with farcical situations, reviewers often criticized his work. In Mr. Edward's comic world, noses are to be stung, heads to have hangovers, and beautiful women to be pursued at any cost, wrote The New York Times' Vincent Canby in a review of 10. Gary Arnold of the Washington Post added: Edwards seems to take two dumb steps for every smart one. ... He can't seem to resist the most miserable sight gags that occur to him. </p><p>However, Richard Schickel wrote in Time magazine: When director Edwards is at his best, there is something bracing, and in these days, unique about his comedy. ... He really wants to save the world by showing how stupid some of its creatures can be. </p><p>Although many of Edwards' films were solid hits, he was nominated for Academy Awards only twice, in 1982 for writing the adapted screenplay of Victor/Victoria and in 1983 for co-writing The Man Who Loved Women. Lemmon and Remick won Oscar nominations in 1962 for Days of Wine and Roses, and Hepburn was nominated for Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961. </p><p>The motion picture academy selected Edwards to receive a lifetime achievement award in 2004 for his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. </p><p>When he collected the award, he jokingly referred to his wife: My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, and the beautiful English broad with the incomparable soprano and promiscuous vocabulary thanks you. </p><p>Edwards had entered television in 1958, creating Peter Gunn, which established a new style of hard-edged detective series. The tone was set by Henry Mancini's pulsating theme music. Starring Craig Stevens, the series ran until 1961 and resulted in a 1967 feature movie Gunn. </p><p> Peter Gunn marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between Edwards and Mancini, who composed melodic scores and songs for most of Edwards' films. Mancini won Academy Awards for the score of Breakfast at Tiffany's and the song Moon River, the title song of Days of Wine and Roses and the score of Victor/Victoria. </p><p>The Edwards family history extended virtually the entire length of American motion pictures. J. Gordon Edwards was a pioneering director of silent films, including more than 20 with the exotic vamp Theda Bara. His son, Jack McEdwards (the family name), became a top assistant director and production manager in Hollywood. </p><p>William Blake McEdwards was born July 26, 1922, in Tulsa, Okla. The family moved to Hollywood three years later, and the boy grew up on his father's movie sets. </p><p>Edwards began in films as an actor, playing small roles in such movies as A Guy Named Joe and Ten Gentlemen From West Point. After 18 months in the Coast Guard in World War II, he returned to acting but soon realized he lacked the talent. With John Champion, he wrote a Western, Panhandle, which he produced and acted in for the quickie studio, Monogram. He followed with Stampede. </p><p>In 1947, Edwards turned to radio and created the hard-boiled Richard Diamond, Private Detective for Dick Powell; it was converted to television in 1957, starring Powell with Mary Tyler Moore as his secretary, whose face is never seen on-screen. </p><p>Tiring of the TV grind, Edwards returned to films and directed his first feature, Bring Your Smile Along. After a few more B movies which he usually co-wrote, he made the big time in 1958 with The Perfect Furlough, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Curtis. </p><p> Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961 established Edwards as a stylish director who could combine comedy with bittersweet romance. His next two films proved his versatility: the suspenseful Experiment in Terror (1962) and Days of Wine and Roses (1963), the story of a couple's alcoholism, with Lemmon in his first dramatic role. </p><p> The Great Race, about an auto race in the early 1900s, marked Edwards' first attempt at a big-budget spectacle. He spent Warner Bros.' money lavishly, raising the ire of studio boss Jack Warner. The 1965 release proved a modest success. </p><p>Edwards' disdain for the studios reached a peak in the 1970 Darling Lili, a World War I romance starring his new wife, Andrews, and Rock Hudson. The long, expensive Paris location infuriated the Paramount bosses. The movie flopped, continuing Andrews' decline from her position as Hollywood's No. 1 star. </p><p>For a decade, Edwards' only hits were Pink Panther sequels. Then came 10, which he also produced and wrote. The sex comedy became a box-office winner, creating a new star in Bo Derek and restoring the director's reputation. He scored again in 1982 with Victor/Victoria, with Andrews playing a woman who poses as a (male) female impersonator. His later films became more personal, particularly the 1986 That's Life, which he wrote with his psychiatrist. </p><p>After Sellers' death in 1980, Edwards attempted to keep the Pink Panther franchise alive. He wrote and directed Curse of the Pink Panther in 1983 and Son of the Pink Panther in 1993 but both were failed efforts. </p><p>A 2006 remake of the original with Steve Martin as Clouseau was modestly successful; its 2009 follow up was less so. Both had new directors, with Edwards credited as a writer. </p><p>He continued to supervise Andrews' career, which included a short-lived television series and her 1996 return to Broadway in a $8.5 million version of Victor/Victoria. Edwards directed the show, which drew mixed reviews. When Andrews was the only one connected with the musical to be nominated for a Tony, she announced to a matinee audience that she was declining the nomination because her co-workers had been snubbed. </p><p>Andrews and Edwards married in 1968. She had a daughter, Emma, from her marriage to Broadway designer Tony Walton. Edwards had a daughter, Jennifer, and a son, Geoffrey, from his marriage to Patricia Edwards. He and Andrews adopted two Vietnamese children, Amy and Jo. </p><p>A longtime painter, Edwards began sculpting in mid-life, and his bronze works in the style of Henry Moore drew critical praise in shows in Los Angeles and Bucks County, Pa. </p><p><em> Associated Press writer Bob Thomas contributed to this story.</em> </p> <p><a href= https://ecm-c-mass2one.leepfrog.com/Detroitpress/linkpages/dnzipcode/ ><img src= /graphics/newspaper_go_red.png width= 32 height= 32 border= 0 /><b>Subscribe to Detroit News home delivery and receive a SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER.</b></a></p> <!-- EDITORIAL: end body of the story --> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-3582179846709745782010-12-15T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-15T15:00:08.102-08:00UK: Gangs and hardcore activists behind violence<div readability= 101 > <p>LONDON â" Britain's Home Secretary said Monday that street gangs and hardcore activists infiltrated a protest last week in which demonstrators rampaged through London and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.</p> <p>Several hundred people vandalized government buildings, battled riot police and rounded on the royal couple as they drove to a theater â" smashing a window of their Rolls-Royce and splattering the car with paint.</p> <p>Home Secretary Theresa May said many of the 15,000 people who gathered last Thursday in central London to protest planned increases in college tuition fees became involved in the violence.</p> <p>She confirmed that one protester had managed to make contact with Camilla during the attack on the car.</p> <p> It is quite clear that these acts were not perpetrated by a small minority but by a significant number of troublemakers, May told the House of Commons.</p> <p>May said police believe the protests were infiltrated by organized groups of hardcore activists and street gangs bent on violence. </p> <p>Forty-three protesters were injured during clashes with riot police â" one seriously â" and 35 officers were hurt, as well. Britain's police watchdog is investigating one incident in which a 20-year-old man suffered major head injuries.</p> <p>More protests are expected this week as lawmakers in the House of Lords debate plans to allow universities to raise tuition fees to up to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year â" three times higher than the current limit.</p> <p>Security has been already been increased at Britain's Parliament, with barricades erected around the building and extra police guarding entrances.</p> <p>Police have made 39 arrests in connection with Thursday's protests and have released photographs of about a dozen other people still wanted for questioning.</p> <p>Officers said that Charlie Gilmour, the 21-year-old son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was detained and is accused of attempting to damage the country's Union flag that sits atop London's main war memorial.</p> <p>Demonstrators largely blamed the clashes last week on aggressive tactics by police, including the use of kettling â" confining protesters to small areas for long periods.</p> <p>An ombudsman report into the policing of demonstrations at the 2009 G-20 summit criticized London police for using the technique.</p> <p>May said police had shown bravery and restraint during the protests last week, and said many demonstrators had turned up armed with makeshift weapons.</p> <p> The idea that some have advanced that police tactics were to blame when people came armed with sticks, flares, fireworks, stones and snooker balls, is as ridiculous as it is unfair, May said.</p> <p>Despite the protests, lawmakers in the House of Commons approved the rise in college fees last week in a close vote.</p> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-20412134145958905502010-12-14T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-14T15:00:45.478-08:00Police provide no details on Davlin's death - Springfield, IL<div readability= 516.77949646207 ><p> <strong><a href= #breaking >GO TO BOTTOM OF PAGE</a> FOR LATEST UPDATES ON THIS STORY</strong></p> <p> Illinois State Police were tight-lipped Tuesday afternoon on the discovery of Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin's body in his home at 2604 Apple Creek Drive.</p> <p> Springfield Police Chief Rob Williams said police received a 911 call at 8:54 a.m. They found the mayor deceased after going to his home at 2604 Apple Creek Drive at about 9:10 a.m.</p> <p> Davlin, 53, reportedly died of an apparent gunshot wound, but authorities would not confirm that at a news conference this morning. Officials also wouldnât say who made the 911 call.</p> <p> Davlin did not show up for a court-ordered appearance this morning in a pending estate case involving his late cousin.</p> <p> The news was announced during a press conference at the cityâs Emergency Operations Center at Municipal Center East. Williams was joined by department directors, aldermen and city employees, who somberly filed into the room.</p> <p> Illinois State Police, who assumed control of the investigation, did not provide any significant details during a news conference Tuesday afternoon. State police director Jonathon Monken did say officers are interviewing Davlin's neighbors and searching his home. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.</p> <p> Ward 3 Ald. Frank Kunz, who is mayor pro tem of the city and will take over mayoral duties, said he plans to cancel tonightâs committee of the whole meeting.</p> <p> He said he is shocked and that it's a sad day. </p> <p> Mayoral spokesman Ernie Slottag said day-to-day operations of the city will continue the same.</p> <p> The city has 60 days to select a new mayor.</p> <p> Davlin was elected as mayor in 2003. The two-term Democrat didn't file to run for re-election. <a href= http://www.sj-r.com/carousel/x1703568008/Davlin-Financial-issues-did-not-lead-to-decision-to-not-run-for-re-election >Davlin said it was a desire to leave office</a> before he got burned out â" and not his personal financial issues â" led to his decision to not run for a third four-year term.</p> <p> Davlin's death comes nearly 12 years to the day his father, Robert E. Davlin, passed away.</p> <p> <strong>Missed court hearing</strong></p> <p> Earlier Tuesday, the judge overseeing a probate case involving the estate of Davlin's cousin removed Davlin as administrator of the estate after he failed to show up for the court hearing.</p> <p> Circuit Judge Pete Cavanagh had ordered Davlin and Bradley Huff, attorney for Catholic Charities of Springfield, to be in his courtroom this week to discuss the accounting and the status of attorneys in the estate of Margaret Ettelbrick, who died in 2003.</p> <p> Davlin is executor of Ettelbrickâs estate.</p> <p> Patrick âTimâ Timoney withdrew as lawyer for the estate in October, saying he could not come up with a final accounting because Davlin had not provided documentation. Timoney last week submitted a claim against the estate for more than $19,000 in legal fees.</p> <p> <strong><a name= breaking id= breaking ></a>LATEST UPDATES</strong></p> <p> <strong>3:48 p.m.:</strong> Illinois State Police director Jonathon Monken is providing little new information at a news conference this afternoon regarding the death of Mayor Tim Davlin. He said an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow. Investigators are interviewing neighbors and others who might have information about the death, and they have searched the home for anything that is out of place.</p> <p> <strong>3:30 p.m.:</strong> Springfield mayoral candidate Mike Coffey Jr., is among those offering condolences to the family of Mayor Tim Davlin, and has canceled a fund-raiser scheduled at his downtown restaurant, Saputoâs, tonight.</p> <p> âToday is a sad day for Springfield,â Coffey said in a statement. âMy family and I would like to offer our prayers and condolences to the family and friends of Mayor Tim Davlin, including his mother Norene and his four children.â</p> <p> <strong>3:05 p.m.:</strong> Sheila Stocks-Smith, Davlin's one-time education liaison who recently announced she will run for mayor in the March election, said her campaign will suspend all campaign activity until further notice out of respect for the Davlin family.</p> <p> âI am deeply saddened by the news today. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Mayorâs family. Mayor Tim Davlin loved the City of Springfield and loved his family above all else,â she said in a news release.</p> <p> <strong>2:40 p.m.:</strong> Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce Gary Plummer was a friend of Davlin's and worked with him on many different projects related to the city.</p> <p> He's always done a terrific job of representing the community, and I think his personality played into that in a big way, Plummer said. He never met a stranger. Once he got acquainted with anybody, they considered the mayor their friend. I just think he came across so naturally in that role that probably central casting couldn't have done a better job of finding someone better than Tim Davlin to represent Springfield.</p> <p> Probably more than anything, I'll remember the sense of humor. He was the kind of guy you liked to be around. </p> <p> Plummer said the first day he saw Davlin was on his first day on the job.</p> <p> He was helping cut a ribbon for U.S. Senator Barack Obama's new Springfield office in the Illinois Building. And he was with Senator (Dick) Durbin and with Congressman (Ray) LaHood and Senator Obama, at that time, and he struck me as a very charismatic leader, Plummer said. In fact, I turned to someone and said, 'Who is that gentleman?' And the answer was it was the mayor, which, quite frankly, kind of surprised me because he looked like he probably should have been secretary of state or something the way he carried himself. </p> <p> Among Davlin's biggest accomplishments, Plummer said, was his handling of the March 2006 tornadoes that devastated parts of Springfield's near south and east sides.</p> <p> He and his team did an outstanding job of reacting to that, Plummer said. We think he's also stepped up in a big way during this controversy over high-speed rail and was able to use his influence to try to slow that project down to a pace that would allow more community input.</p> <p> He had a very outgoing personality and he had a knack for making everyone around the table feel like they were an important part of the discussion, at least as important as he was to the discussion. </p> <p> <strong>2:34 p.m.:</strong> The death of Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin is being felt across Illinois.</p> <p> âWeâve had mayors from all over the state and people calling all morning,â said Roger Huebner, deputy executive director and general counsel of the Springfield-based Illinois Municipal League, adding the callers âwant to know whatever they can do for the family.â</p> <p> Davlin is the immediate past president of the league, which represents more than 1,000 cities and villages. His one-year term as president ended at the annual meeting of the group in September in Chicago.</p> <p> Huebner said Davlin showed âtireless energyâ not only running his own city, but as an advocate for cities on the national and state levels as well. He and Davlin attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama together.</p> <p> âHe was such a tremendous man, able to grasp such highly complicated issues, and I always marveled at how he could distill it in a way that everybody could understand it,â Huebner said.</p> <p> Davlinâs legacy will include some things that donât immediately come to mind, Huebner said, such as the installation of fiber optic cable thatâs helping businesses use state-of-the-art technology. Thereâs new water purification facilities coming online, he added. And a more obvious accomplishment is the construction of the cityâs new coal-fired power plant.</p> <p> Davlin went on the municipal leagueâs board almost immediately after taking office in 2003, and it speaks well of him that he rose to president, Huebner said.</p> <p> âItâs all the mayors of the state electing their leader,â he said. âItâs a leader among leaders.â</p> <p> Huebner said he was with Davlin just this weekend at a board meeting of the league in Chicago, and things seemed âfine as could beâ with the mayor.</p> <p> âHe was in great spirits,â Huebner said. âWe were laughing and telling jokes, just reminiscing a little about things, as you do as you get to the holiday season.</p> <p> âHeâs just one of those exceptional men that light up a room.â</p> <p> <strong>2:18 p.m.:</strong> The Illinois State Police have scheduled a 3:30 p.m. news conference to discuss the death investigation. The conference is at the agency's headquarters at Seventh Street and Lawrence Avenue.</p> <p> <strong>1:25 p.m.:</strong> Ward 6 Ald. Mark Mahoney had this to say about Davlin's death:</p> <p> It's a very sad moment for the city of Springfield, for the council and his administration, and we're all shocked. And I think it's still, at this moment, just dealing with that and trying to get through the next few days. </p> <p> Mahoney said the last time he saw Davlin was at a Springfield City Council meeting about a week ago.</p> <p> Our hearts and our prayers go out to his family, and we just can't fathom what they're dealing with, Mahoney said.</p> <p> Mahoney wasn't sure whether Mayor pro-tem Frank Kunz would remain mayor or whether the city council will look to choose someone else.</p> <p> I think we get through the next few days and go from there, he said.</p> <p> City council coordinator Joe Davis said he considered Davlin a friend.</p> <p> âI think he was respected by the council and the city,â he said. âI think heâs done one hell of a job as mayor.â</p> <p> <strong>1:22 p.m.:</strong> The city of Springfieldâs website now only shows a picture of the mayor. Underneath the photo is âMayor Timothy Davlin 1957-2010â and a link to his biography.</p> <p> The flag has been lowered to half-staff on top of city hall.</p> <p> <strong>1:18 p.m.:</strong> Ward 2 Ald. Gail Simpson said she will remember Davlin as a âman who loved the city.â</p> <p> âI think the worst part of his job was having to lay off people or even contemplate the layoffs of people, she said. I believe he was sincere. He will be missed. </p> <p> She said she hopes people arenât rushing to judgment about his death.</p> <p> âI hope that people will keep their family in their prayers, especially his mom and his children,â she said. âThis ought to be a time for the city to pull together and mourn the loss of a special man.â</p> <p> Meanwhile, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield issued this statement:</p> <p> We have heard with great sorrow of the death of Springfieldâs Mayor Timothy Davlin. We commend him to the mercy of God and offer our prayers for him and his family. </p> <p> <strong>1:14 p.m.:</strong> The Illinois Municipal League, of which Davlin was a past president, issued the following statement this afternoon:</p> <p> The Illinois Municipal League mourns the loss of IML Past President, Board Member and friend, Mayor Timothy J. Davlin of Springfield.</p> <p> Mayor Davlin was a member of the IML Board of Directors since 2003, and just completed his one-year term as the League's President this past September.</p> <p> Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult and sad time.</p> <p> Additional information for services will be added as they are known. </p> <p> <strong>1:07 p.m.:</strong> Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, a friend and fishing buddy of Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin for more than three decades, says the city of Springfield has lost an outstanding leader and he has lost a great friend with Davlinâs death.</p> <p> Davlin was a page in the House when White was a state representative from Chicago.</p> <p> âI used to send him downstairs to get me lunch ⦠and then we started talking about fishing,â White recalled. âAnd he says, âIâm a big fisherman. I fish all over the place.â And I said, âWell, first chance we get, Iâd like you to take me to some of those places.ââ</p> <p> âI think we probably fished in every pond in Sangamon County,â and some others nearby, White said.</p> <p> White said there were probably 25 to 30 such trips when he was a lawmaker.</p> <p> âAfter he became the mayor of the city of Springfield, we really, really got a chance to move our relationship forward in a highly professional way,â added White, who spoke by telephone from Chicago.</p> <p> When White had a re-election announcement in 2009 in Springfield, Davlin introduced him. And White also recalled an Illinois Municipal League event in Chicago. Davlin, the immediate past president of the group, had invited the Jesse White Tumblers to the perform at the meeting. White said Davlin was put in the line as someone the tumblers could jump over.</p> <p> âIt was a fun time for all,â White said.</p> <p> âI just found him to be a wonderful young man, and then later on, an outstanding adult and leader of the city of Springfield,â White said. âThe people of the city of Springfield lost a wonderful, wonderful human being, and I lost a personal friend ⦠a great friend.â</p> <p> <strong>12:45 p.m.:</strong> Citizens of Springfield say they are shocked to hear of Davlin's death today.</p> <p> <strong>Roy Newman, pastor, Fresh Visions Community Church</strong></p> <p> I got the news just like everyone else. My thoughts go out to the family, Newman said on his way to work in downtown Springfield Tuesday morning, about 30 minutes after hearing about Davlin's death. My thoughts go out to the family. We all have problems. In talking with my wife, we were saying you never know what's going on internally with a person. </p> <p> Newman said he'd met Davlin several times. His wife, Jackie Newman, executive director of the Springfield Housing Authority, also knew the late mayor.</p> <p> We've been at some events together. Did a couple photo opps. We greeted each other kindly. There's a lot we'll all have to work through in the next few weeks and months. </p> <p> <strong>Kate Hawkes, owner Trout Lily Café</strong></p> <p> It's just shocking and very sad, said Hawkes, who remembers crowning Davlin as the king of Springfield's Mardi Gras a few years ago, when she and others started a Mardi Gras organization in town and held a celebration at the Inn at 835.</p> <p> It's sad he felt compelled to take his life, especially for the family, Hawkes said. He's been in here a few times in conjunction with Mardi Gras. I didn't always agree with his decisions (as mayor) but I just think it's tragic. There obviously were things in his life that weren't right. I find it terribly sad. I am a mother and have sons. I have an idea of how I'd feel. </p> <p> <strong>Tim Donley, retired state worker</strong></p> <p> We were all shocked, Donley said Tuesday morning at Café Andiamo, where Donley and a group of friends routinely gather in the mornings. We were all on our cell phones. We were all shocked. Nobody said anything. Just disbelief. </p> <p> Donley, whose family used to own the Maid-Rite restaurant and the now-closed Timbersmoke restaurant, said Davlin and members of his family would come in and eat from time to time.</p> <p> He stayed at Timbersmoke two to three hours once. He had gotten a plaque. I saw him last week at Sam's Club. He always was really friendly. I voted for him both times. It's a tragedy. He's got children. His family was so proud of him, you could tell. I've already prayed for them. </p> <p> <strong>12:40 p.m.:</strong> City officials are reacting this afternoon to news of Davlin's death.</p> <p> City Clerk Cecilia Tumulty: Itâs heartbreaking for the family and for the city. I will certainly keep the entire Davlin family in my prayers.â</p> <p> Ward 5 Ald. Sam Cahnman said he was âshocked and devastated.â</p> <p> Canhman said he saw Davlin at the recent tree-lighting ceremony for the city Christmas tree and that Davlin âwas jovial and upbeat. </p> <p> âI wouldnât have expected this in a million years.â</p> <p> <strong>12:36 p.m.:</strong> Yellow police tape and multiple squad cars blocked off access to Apple Creek Drive Tuesday morning. Springfield police said they were maintaining a perimeter around the home as state police investigated inside.</p> <p> Word of Davlinâs death spread quickly through the neighborhood.</p> <p> Dr. Sam Gaines of Colbrook Drive lives just a few doors west of Davlinâs residence.</p> <p> He said he and his wife, Doloris, were on their way to her doctorâs appointment about 9 a.m. when they drove past Davlinâs home. He said the garage door was half-open and the mayorâs car was running.</p> <p> âWe thought he was just warming it up before he goes out,â Sam Gaines said.</p> <p> Later, the couple was at Vonoâs Pharmacy and heard something had happened to the mayor. Their daughter, Samantha Gaines, who also lives at their home, was at her job at the Springfield Housing Authority when she heard there had been a shooting in their neighborhood. She immediately raced home to make sure her parents were OK.</p> <p> The entire family expressed shock and sadness.</p> <p> âHe was a nice guy. Every time his car would go by and I was out in the yard, heâd wave and smile,â Sam Gaines said.</p> <p> He couldnât recall how long Davlin had lived in his home but said the mayor hosted a Christmas reception for the neighborhood shortly after moving into the house.</p> <p> Sam Gaines said the mayor frequently had relatives and friends over and on Saturday mornings could be heard taking his motorcycle out for a ride.</p> <p> Gaines, a physician at St. Johnâs Hospital, became emotional when he recalled how Davlin took time to ask him how he was doing after another doctor at the hospital was stabbed.</p> <p> âItâs really, really sad,â he said.</p> <p> <strong>12:15 p.m.:</strong> U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., issued a statement today offering his sympathy to the family of Mayor Tim Davlin.</p> <p> âI was stunned and saddened by the news of Mayor Tim Davlinâs passing,â Durbin said. âHis work with my office always reflected his dedication to our hometown. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this tragic moment.â</p> <p> <strong>12:10 p.m.:</strong> Sen. Larry Bomke, R-Springfield, called Davlinâs death âreally a shocker.â</p><p>âHe had the kind of charisma every elected official wishes they had,â Bomke said. âThe guy could have been elected to anything if thatâs what he wanted to do.â</p> <p> Bomke said he last spoke with Davlin about two weeks ago when Davlin appeared before the Senate Local Government Committee on which Bomke serves. Davlin testified in support of a bill reforming police and fire pensions.</p> <p> âHe was himself, smiling and did an excellent job in his presentation,â Bomke said.<br />Bomke said they chatted before the hearing.<br />âI asked him what his plans were. He said he had no plans,â Bomke said.</p> <p> <strong>12:05 p.m.:</strong> Gov. Pat Quinn says Springfield is a better place because of the leadership of the late Mayor Tim Davlin.</p> <p> Quinn, a fellow Democrat, says in a statement that Davlin was a great public servant who loved the city and its people.</p> <p> He says Davlin led the community through some of its most difficult times and worked hard to revitalize the city. (AP)</p> <p> <br /><small><a href= http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=2604+Apple+Creek+Drive,+Springfield,+IL&sll=41.409588,-90.375799&sspn=0.010541,0.022724&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2604+Apple+Creek+Dr,+Springfield,+Sangamon,+Illinois+62702&ll=39.811833,-89.701395&spn=0.023076,0.036478&z=14&iwloc=A >View Larger Map</a></small></p> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-86968645640209067152010-12-13T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-13T15:00:35.859-08:00Q&A with Big Ten commissioner on new logo, divisions, trophies<p> <!-- AP Byline --> <span class= author vcard ><span class= fn >Ralph Russo | Associated Press</span></span> <span class= hide source-org vcard ><span class= org fn >madison.com</span></span> | <!-- AP Updated --> | Posted: <span class= updated title= 2010-12-13T12:41:00Z >Monday, December 13, 2010 12:41 pm</span> </p><div id= blox-story-text readability= 174 > <p>A question-and-answer session with Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany about the conference's future, the conference's new divisional names and logo and just what's in store for Notre Dame and the BCS:</p> <p><strong>Associated Press</strong>: <strong>Ever been kidded because the name of the conference has remained Big Ten despite having first 11 teams and now 12?</strong></p> <p><strong>Jim Delany:</strong> A lot of it is in good fun. I came to the Big Ten in '89, we added Penn State in '90, we added the new (trade)mark around '90 or '91. I, for one, thought it'd be natural to explore different and new names. We actually went through a process of reviewing new names. The reality was our presidents, our athletic directors and our faculty 20 years ago, and I will tell you there's not one athletic director, one faculty member, one president (who was in favor of a name change). The people who are here today feel exactly like the people who were here 20 years ago. </p> <p><strong>AP</strong>: <strong>When it came to the new division names, did you consider just naming them â" as so many have suggested â" after iconic players or coaches from the past?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD: We've got a treas</strong>ure trove of great people who've helped us create and establish the traditions and the values that we have. We couldn't ever arrive at honoring two individuals in that way. And so, to use a football metaphor, we punted on that. </p> <p><strong>AP</strong>: <strong>Some might say that the division names the Big Ten has chosen â" Leaders and Legends â" are bland, and there's nothing distinctive or unique about them, that they could pertain to any conference.</strong></p> <p><strong>JD</strong>: All of these things will engender discussion, from the addition of Nebraska, to the selection of a television partner to the selection of where the inaugural (championship game) will occur, to the divisional structure, who's in what division. We want to engage our fans. All I can tell you is that we thought long and hard about what not to do. We thought harder about what to do. I think there's a calculation here we're trying to tie ourselves to our history and to also project forward by marrying the teaching aspect and the learning aspect that we think are inherent. </p> <p><strong>AP</strong>: <strong>When it comes to the trophy names, there must have been a huge volume of names to consider and winnow through.</strong></p> <p><strong>JD</strong>: Hundreds of individuals. </p> <p><strong>AP</strong>: <strong>Now that the divisional alignments for football have been out there for three months, do you have any second thoughts about the setup, and have some within the conference expressed disappointment in where the teams are?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD</strong>: No, not really. There's a lot of support for the way that it's set up. I would say that the only noise that we had was because we didn't go East and West, we weren't able to get the amount of competition between Wisconsin and Iowa and Wisconsin and Nebraska that a geographic distribution would have allowed us to do. But if we had gone that way, I think we would have fallen short of the first principle, which was competitive equality. </p> <p><strong>AP</strong>: <strong>Do you foresee a time when the divisional alignment will be re-evaluated and tweaked if there is an imbalance between the two divisions?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD</strong>: We certainly didn't set it up to change it. I doubt whether or not a five-year competitive record would be sufficient justification to go back to the drawing board. I think if you look at it 20 years from now and it was out of kilter and it had been out of kilter for a decade, some future administration might look at it. ... Twenty years from now, maybe the world will be different. And maybe it'll be time to take a look. But we certainly didn't set out thinking we were going to be tweaking this on a five- or 10-year basis. </p> <p><strong>AP: You've been commissioner for almost 22 years. Do you think of retirement? How long will you continue as the Big Ten's commissioner?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD:</strong> As long as I'm relevant, as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as the people I work for think that I'm contributing. I really haven't given it a lot of thought. It's really not about tenure, because I've really never been one to count the number of years I was here. I'm sort of more interested in the projects we're working on and whether or not we're successfully pushing projects forward. </p> <p><strong>AP: Many see the future of intercollegiate sports as super conferences. Do you see that coming?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD:</strong> We already have them. The Big East is a super conference. And the WAC was. But then there's others that are smaller. I think you'll see variations. I think the basic model's probably at a dozen. And that's the ACC, the Pac-10 and the Big Ten, and the SEC. But I think the Big 12 is going to be really comfortable at 10. ... We worked with 11 quite well for 20 years. We're cautious and conservative, try to be reflective. We're up to 12 now. I know a lot of people write about super conferences, but we didn't give a lot of thought to it. </p> <p><strong>AP: The Big Ten has said that further expansion is on the back burner. When do you think the Big Ten might expand again?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD:</strong> To be honest with you, I know we'll monitor the landscape as any good group ought to, every five years or so. We all read the papers and we all watch TV and we all watch our competition. But I will tell you this, the amount of respect or affection we have for each other is high and we really want to play each other more and not less. And so I think it's more likely than not that we'll be at 12 for many years. </p> <p><strong>AP: Do you believe Notre Dame will remain an independent in football?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD</strong>: I do. I do. I think that's their destiny. I take them at their word. We had some discussions 10 years ago. We really haven't had any discussions with them since. ... Their history has been independent and their destiny is as an independent. </p> <p><strong>AP: Do you foresee any possibility at any time in the future that the Big Ten might favor a playoff system rather than the BCS and the current bowl system?</strong></p> <p><strong>JD:</strong> No. You wanted a simple answer to a simple question. </p> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-50601761505739620382010-12-12T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-12T15:00:49.034-08:00Metrodome Collapse Video: Watch Vikings Stadium Crushed by Snow<div id= article-body readability= 85.40404040404 > <p><span class= slot ><img src= /images/pixel.gif /></span>Metrodome collapse video provides an illustration of why the <a href= /minnesota-vikings >Minnesota Vikings</a> have been seeking a new stadium for over 10 years.</p> <p>A nasty winter storm dumped more than 17 inches on the Twin Cities in less than 24 hours, creating concern the dome roof might collapse.</p> <p>Workers scrambled to clear the fallen snow from the dome surface Saturday evening, but safety concerns brought those efforts to a close.</p> <p>It didn't take long for the roof to give way.</p> <p>This shocking video shows the entire roof buckling before snow pours onto the turf near the end zone.</p> <p>According to the <a href= /minnesota-vikings >Vikings</a>, two of the dome's triangular Teflon sections broke under the the weight of the snow.</p> <p>Following the collapse, the <a href= /nfl >NFL</a> called a quick audible and moved the Week 14 contest to <a href= /detroit-lions >Detroit</a>'s Ford Field.</p> <p>The game had already been postponed until Monday after the weather conditions forced the <a href= /new-york-giants >Giants</a> to spend the night in <a href= /kansas-city-chiefs >Kansas City</a>.</p> <p>With an extra 30 hours of rest, <a href= /brett-favre >Brett Favre</a> might be able to extend his consecutive games-started streak after all.</p> <span class= slot ><img src= /images/pixel.gif /></span><p>According to ESPN's Ed Werder, Favre would not have played if the game kicked off Sunday as originally scheduled.</p> <p><a href= /minnesota-vikings >Minnesota</a> is calling the Hall of Fame quarterback a game-time decision.</p> <p>Turning back to the sunken roof of the Metrodome, questions are beginning to swirl regarding what the future may hold.</p> <p>There is no timetable for the repair process, putting next week's game between the Vikings and the <a href= /chicago-bears >Bears</a> in serious doubt.</p> <p>Vikings' principal owner Zygi Wilf has made his desire for a new stadium known for years with no tangible success.</p> <p>The Vikings continue to seek state funding in hopes of building a new facility.</p> <p>Unless something can be worked out soon, there is a chance Wilf could at least explore options of moving his franchise elsewhere.</p> <p>The Vikings' lease on the Metrodome, also known as Mall of America Field, expires following the 2011 season.</p> </div><div id= flag-article-lightbox readability= 38 > This article is <p id= duplicate-copy >What is the duplicate article?</p> <p id= offensive-copy >Why is this article offensive?</p> <p id= plagiarism-copy >Where is this article plagiarized from?</p> <p id= badedit-copy >Why is this article poorly edited?</p> <textarea id= flag-article-comment /><span class= medium-orange button >Flag This Article</span> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-60873299476602748662010-12-11T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-11T15:00:19.575-08:00Keith Sweat Died? Another Celebrity Death by Twitter<div readability= 24.870491803279 > <!-- google_ad_section_start --> Advertisement:<br /><div class= date readability= 4.3076923076923 ><p>December 11, 2010 · <a href= javascript:window.print() >Print This Article</a></p></div><p><img class= alignleft size-medium wp-image-18504 title= keith sweat src= http://www.current-movie-reviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/keith-sweat-196x300.jpg alt= width= 196 height= 300 />The rumor today is that Keith Sweat died, and Iâm happy to report this is just another celebrity death by Twitter. You know, where bored people with too much time on their hands starts tweeting that something happened, and by the time it gets re-tweeted fifty million times, itâs being hailed as fact. Itâs entertainment for the new-age kids.</p><p>Personally, I think any celebrity that gets murdered by Twitter can add a notch to their fame level. You know youâve arrived when they tweet about your death!</p><p>Keith Sweat is an R&B singer and songwriter. He is appearing tonight at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. He has not had a major hit in several years, although he released his tenth album in June. He hosts a nationally syndicated radio show called âThe Keith Sweat Hotelâ which is very popular. As his career progresses more toward producing rather than singing, he has discovered and helped launch two bands which are doing well: Silk and LSG.</p><p>Image courtesy of thesweathotel.com</p><p>Related posts:</p><ol><li><a href= http://www.current-movie-reviews.com/music/2010/03/27/the-romantic-side-of-keith-urban/ rel= bookmark title= Permanent Link: The Romantic Side of Keith Urban >The Romantic Side of Keith Urban</a></li><li><a href= http://www.current-movie-reviews.com/industry/2010/04/15/has-art-laboe-died-inquiring-minds-want-to-know/ rel= bookmark title= Permanent Link: Updated â" Has Art Laboe Died? 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It isnât a memory of a 5-year-old tearing through tissue paper and ribbon. Chacón was an adult learning about the power of a gift.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 1--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > âMy first memorable Christmas was my first one with my future husband, Terry,â says Chacón, who owns Mestizo Gallery in Salt Lake City. âI was 20 years old and he knew how much I loved art. I never cared or looked forward to Christmas because as a child we were just too poor to celebrate it well.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 2--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > âBut I remember walking in the door of my future mother-in-lawâs home and seeing an easel before my eyes. I felt overwhelmed and just broke down crying. It was the first time I felt that someone truly saw me. Iâll never forget it.â</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 3--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Keeping in mind the awesome power of a gift, particularly a gift of art, to inspire, transform or just make life more beautiful, The Salt Lake Tribune contacted some Utah curators and artists and asked them to recommend a gift that they would be delighted to receive.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 4--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > âTo me, the most important gifts are those in which someone expresses how she or he sees you, or are a window into that other person,â Chacón says. âAnything that nurtures the spirit is the most important gift, whether it is tools to help someone like me create or something to help in self-growth.â</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 5--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > And purchasing art nurtures something else â" struggling artists.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 6--> <!--STORYGRAPHS: 7--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Ruby Chacón ⢠curator and artist, Mestizo Gallery, 641 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City.</p> <!-- FileInclude:Normal, /csp/cms/sites/sltrib/assets/includes/keywords.csp --> <!-- FileInclude:Normal, /csp/cms/sites/sltrib/assets/includes/bloglayouts.csp --> <!--/FileInclude:Normal, /csp/cms/sites/sltrib/assets/includes/bloglayouts.csp, took .000075 --> <p>Story continues below</p> <!--/FileInclude:Normal, /csp/cms/sites/sltrib/assets/includes/keywords.csp, took .00675 --> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Gift idea ⢠Books, specifically <span class= ItalicText > Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican-American Art </span> and <span class= ItalicText > Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish </span> </p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 1--> <!--STORYGRAPHS: 2--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Jill Dawsey ⢠acting chief curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 3--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Gift idea ⢠Artist Myranda Bairâs series âWe are Sensitive Creatures,â available at <a href= http://www.myrandabair.com target= _blank >www.myrandabair.com.</a></p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 4--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Dawsey also recommends the biography <span class= ItalicText > Becoming Pablo OâHiggins </span> by Utah author Susan Vogel. OâHiggins was born and raised in upper-crust Salt Lake City as Paul Higgins, but reinvented himself in the 1920s as Pablo Estaban OâHiggins, a political activist and important Mexican muralist and friend to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. âYou canât make this stuff up,â says Dawsey.</p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 5--> <!--STORYGRAPHS: 6--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Micol Hebron ⢠senior curator of exhibitions and artist, Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple. </p><!--STORYGRAPHS: 7--> <p class= TEXT_w_Indent > Gift idea ⢠The print-sculptures of Nic Annette Miller, on view at Cafe One, 39 I St., or online at <a href= http://www.etsy.com/shop/friendsmakeprints target= _blank >www.etsy.com/shop/friendsmakeprints.</a></p><a class= revLabelNoPosition coloredBox right href= ?page=2 >Next Page » </a> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-9485156802697429182010-12-09T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-09T15:00:15.751-08:00LeBron James South Beach Home Does Not Change NBA Betting Odds<div readability= 50.519304200255 > <a href= /ext/index.jsp?id=98 target= _blank rel= nofollow ><img src= /banners/rushmore-casino.gif border= 0 alt= Play Now at Rushmore Casino! /></a> <p> LeBron James has everything a young NBA star could want, he has money, fame, athletic skills, and now a South Beach mansion. James finalized the purchase of his South Beach home on Thursday, but that did nothing to change the Miami Heat's NBA championship betting odds. </p><p>James ruffled a lot of feathers last summer when he traded in his Cleveland Cavalier home jersey for a Heat jersey. James was blasted for the way in which he handled leaving Cleveland, and his reputation has yet to recover from the media circus that he created when he announced his decision on a live ESPN telecast. </p><p>James has taken his time in finding a permanent home on South Beach and Thursday he decided on a $9 million mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay. The house is 20,000 square feet, has two sixty-foot yacht docks, six bedrooms and eight and a half bathrooms. </p><p>As for their on the court adventures, the Heat have steadied the ship in recent weeks. They are on a winning streak that was extended last night in Utah, where the Heat avenged an earlier home loss to the Jazz. The next big test for Miami will come on Christmas Day when they face the two-time defending NBA champions in Los Angeles. </p><p>The Lakers and the Heat have exchanged places at the top of the championship betting odds several times since the summer. Los Angeles has struggled a bit of late, while the heat have started to click. The Lakers have fallen to the third position in the West, the same spot the Heat are tied for in the East, behind Boston and Orlando. </p><p>In the West, Dallas is the hottest team in the conference, but the San Antonio Spurs still have the best record. The Spurs have a rejuvenated Manu Ginobli and a healthy Tony Parker and Tim Duncan. The Lakers will be helped out by the return of Andrew Bynum sometime before the end of the month. Miami is still awaiting the return of sharp-shooter Mike Miller. </p><p><span>December 9, 2010</span><br /><span>Posted By Vincent Tapoglia III</span><br /><span>Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com</span> <br /><a href= /publish >Submit News!</a> </p> </div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-79513600374779673122010-12-09T02:22:00.001-08:002010-12-09T02:25:17.745-08:00Urban Meyer to resign from Florida after Outback Bowl<div id="articleBody" readability="93"><span type="start" id="default"><p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. â€" Florida football coach Urban Meyer is stepping down after the Gators' appearance in the Outback Bowl. </p><p>The 46-year-old Meyer led Florida to two national titles, but began to show the strain of his high-profile job last season when he briefly quit in December then returned the next day. He cited health concerns last year when he quit. He had been hospitalized with chest pains after the Gators lost to Alabama in last season's Southeastern Conference championship game. </p><p>This time, he did not mention his health being an issue. </p><p> At this time in my life, however, I fully grasp the sacrifices my 24/7 profession has demanded of me, and I know it is time to put my focus on my family and life away from the field. The decision to step down was a difficult one, he said in a statement released by the school today. But, after spending more than two decades motivating and celebrating the young men I've been so proud to coach, I relish the opportunity to cheer for my three terrific kids as they compete in their own respective sports. AOL FanHouse first reported the resignation. </p><p>This season has been a struggle for the Gators, who finished the regular season at 7-5 overall and 4-4 in the SEC. A 31-7 drubbing at Florida State on Nov. 27 gave Florida five regular-season losses for the first time since 1988. </p><p>Still, the Gators will play Penn State in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1. </p><p> It's been an honor and privilege to have Urban Meyer be our football </p>coach for six years, Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said in a statement. He has given everything he has to this institution and we are grateful for the experiences. </span></div>My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-60834030875965983162010-08-30T15:52:00.000-07:002010-08-30T15:53:16.784-07:00New Google Display url transition your adsGoogle has announced some Adwords display url enforcement policies that could affect your campaigns. Most notably, Google wants your display url to be exactly the same as your destination url. You can not have two different display urls that lead to the same destination url. Basically they want to make sure that your when your visitor clicks on your ad that they land on the same root domain that was in the display url. Not really a major change, they are saying they really want you to abide by these rules now, and that you have until April 1st to make any changes necessary to keep your campaigns running above board. <br /><br />If you are violating the new enforcement, you need to transition your ads carefully, so there is not a major impact to your quality score. Changing the display urls on your current ads will have an immediate impact on your quality score for those ads. When you change the display url, the ad will in effect become a new ad, and your quality score for the old ad copy will be reduced, giving you a new quality score. So what you should do is create ad clones of your old ads with a new rule compliant display url, while letting the old ads run. This will allow the new ads to get an ad history before you need to rely on them. Then when you have sufficient ad history, and the quality score is good, pause your old ads that are violating the rules. By the time April 1st rolls around, you should have everything under control. You can also just change your current ads if they aren't that important or not running much volume, and they should adopt their old quality score in a relatively short period of time.<br /><br /><br />You shouldn't be scared of changing your ad copy because you fear losing quality score. Changing your ad copy can result in improving the quality score of your keywords in the long term which should lower your bids and increase your profit margins. Considering that a keywords quality score is affected by the average history of all ads related to it, you can really help your bids by improving your ad copy. However, if you feel that your copy is at or near perfection, changing it may not be necessary, and the short term quality score effects could lead to higher cpc and/or ad placement changes. Most of the time, you want to make changes to copy in the beginning of a campaign and let the ad have time to gather history. If your campaign is not doing well, there are many factors besides the copy that are probably affecting its efficacy.My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236874256656367281.post-71260591828602375522010-08-30T15:48:00.000-07:002010-08-30T15:52:02.846-07:00How Do I Know If I Am a Candidate For a Debt Relief Program?While specific debt relief companies have their own requirements for candidates, there are a number of fields that individuals can examine in order to determine whether or not they will likely be good candidates for such programs. <br /><br />To begin with, most companies require their applicants to be at least ten thousand dollars in debt, and they must also possess a deep desire to become free of debt. Many individuals who are in the military cannot be aided by such programs because debt negotiation and debt consolidation may jeopardize the individuals who need security clearance. Individuals who are employed by the federal government need to be carefully screened in order to determine whether or not they are choice candidates for such a program. The following details the main guidelines that need to be explored in order to have the best odds of being approved for such a financial assistance program. <br /><br />First, it is vital that individuals have a strong desire to be debt free. Debt relief programs are not just to get people out of debt. There is an educational process that takes place in order to help enrolled candidates learn about debt and how to avoid it going forward. There is no reason for companies to help individuals who do not honestly want to be debt-free for the long run. <br /><br />Individuals must also want to avoid having to declare bankruptcy. This is often an option for individuals in debt, but it can be very hard to recover from such a process - and recovery can take a number of years to accomplish. Next, such financial aid programs help to take care of unsecured debt. For many people, this means that their debt will need to be comprised primarily of credit card debt. This can include major credit cards, financing contracts and department store credit cards. Miscellaneous bills, secured loans, government or federally funded student loans and other similar debt cannot be included in debt relief and their programs. Medical bills can often be negotiated by debt relief programs and the administrators working for the programs. Based on the background of the medical bill, it can be determined whether or not the specific bill can be included in a candidate's debt relief program.<br /><br /><br />During this time period, candidates must prepare to have a certain kind of budget planned out. For many people, this means that they will need to expect to pay roughly the same amount of money that they are already paying when it comes to their individual bills over the course of a month. Most of the money that has previously been paid goes toward the interest owed on the money that an individual has been borrowing. <br /><br />Going forward, with help from the financial assistance program, less of the paid money will be going toward interest, and more will be going toward the actual amount of money that is owed by the individual. Candidates should be prepared to pay between two and three hundred dollars each month for every ten thousand dollars that the individual owes. Specifics can be determined by discussing your individual case with a debt relief program and representative.My Notehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331821630098394630noreply@blogger.com0