us open tennis 2009

US Open Tennis 2009, Schedule, Fixtures, Live Scores, Live Streaming.

The 2009 US Open Tennis Championship will be held from 31st August to 13th September, 2009 at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City.

US Open Finish	Base Prize Money	Olympus US Open Series 1st Place Finisher	2nd Place Finisher	3rd Place Finisher
Winner	$1,600,000	$2,600,000	$2,100,000	$1,850,000
Finalist	$800,000	$1,300,000	$1,050,000	$925,000
Semifinalist	$350,000	$600,000	$475,000	$412,500
Quarterfinalist	$175,000	$300,000	$237,500	$206,250

US Open Tennis Singles Prize Money (Men & Women – 128 Draws)

US Open Tennis 2009 Round	US Open Tennis 2009 Prize Money
Winners	$1,500,000
Runners-Up	$750,000
Semifinalists	$320,000
Quarterfinalists	$160,000
Round of 16	$80,000
Third Round	$46,000
Second Round	$30,000
First Round	$18,500
Total	$7,050,000

US Open Tennis Doubles Prize Money (Per Team, Men & Women – 64 Draws)

US Open Tennis 2009 Round	US Open Tennis 2009 Prize Money
Winners	$420,000
Runners-Up	$210,000
Semifinalists	$105,000
Quarterfinalists	$50,000
Round of 16	$25,000
Second Round	$15,000
First Round	$10,000
Total	$1,800,000 ($3,600,000)

US Open Tennis Mixed Doubles Prize Money (Per Team – 32 Draws)

US Open Tennis 2009 Round	US Open Tennis 2009 Prize Money
Winners	$180,000
Runners-Up	$90,000
Semifinalists	$30,000
Quarterfinalists	$15,000
Second Round	$10,000
First Round	$5,000
Total	$500,000

Session No. Date Day/Evening Time Featured Matches
1	Monday, Aug. 31	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s 1st Round
2		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s 1st Round
3	Tuesday, Sept. 1	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s 1st Round
4		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s 1st Round
5	Wednesday, Sept. 2	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s 1st/Women’s 2nd Round
6		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s 2nd Round
7	Thursday, Sept. 3	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s 2nd Round
8		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s 2nd Round
9	Friday, Sept. 4	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s 2nd/Women’s 3rd Round
10		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s 2nd/Women’s 3rd Round
11	Saturday, Sept. 5	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s 3rd Round
12		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s 3rd Round
13	Sunday, Sept. 6	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s 3rd/Women’s Round of 16
14		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s 3rd/Women’s Round of 16
15	Monday, Sept. 7	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s/Women’s Women’s Round of 16
16		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s/Women’s Women’s Round of 16
17	Tuesday, Sept. 8	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s Women’s Round of 16/Women’s Quarterfinal
18		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s Women’s Round of 16/Women’s Quarterfinal
19	Wednesday, Sept. 9	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s and/or Women’s Quarterfinal
20		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s and/or Women’s Quarterfinal
21	Thursday, Sept. 10	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s Quarterfinal/Mixed Doubles Final
22		Evening	7 p.m.	Men’s Quarterfinal/Women’s Doubles Semifinal
23	Friday, Sept. 11	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s Quarterfinal/Women’s Semifinals
24	Saturday, Sept. 12	Day	11 a.m.	Men’s Semifinals
25		Evening	7 p.m.	Women’s Final/Pre-Match Ceremony
26	Sunday, Sept. 13	Day	12 p.m.	Women’s Doubles Final/Men’s Final

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The subject of circumcision is back in the news since the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently published a theory that circumcision reduces the spread of HIV in Africa:

“We have a significant H.I.V. epidemic in this country [in Africa], and we really need to look carefully at any potential intervention that could be another tool in the toolbox we use to address the epidemic,” Dr. Peter Kilmarx, chief of epidemiology for the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention, told the Times. “What we’ve heard from our consultants is that there would be a benefit for infants from infant circumcision, and that the benefits outweigh the risks.”

According to various reports, “over 70 percent of adult American men are already circumcised, though circumcision of newborns has dropped to about 65 percent in recent decades” and is expected to drop more as fewer pediatricians recommend the procedure as routine. In fact, after my only son was born in 2000, my pediatrician, a veteran of 30 years in her practice, shrugged off the idea when I asked her, “Should I have him circumcised? Is it necessary?” She said I could if I wanted to, but that no, it wasn’t necessary. Although all the males in my family were circumcised, I decided not to have my son undergo the procedure and instead allow him to make that decision for himself when he was an adult. After all, it’s his body, not mine. I could not justify the pain and potential risk of having him subjected to something as sensitive as circumcision when he had no say in the matter.

For whatever bizarre reason, Rush Limbaugh decided to weigh in on the circumcision issue on his radio program by stating:

michael jackson

Michael Jackson's death last June unleashed a flood of memorial media coverage across media. In print, everyone from Time to Us Weekly to Jet converted regular issues into Michael Jackson specials, rushed special issues to newsstands and published book-a-zine tributes. Time magazine, for example, published a 64-page special extra issue on June 29, which retailed for $5.99, with a special Pepsi ad on the back that read, "You will always be the king of pop."

MagNet's analysis of Michael Jackson's impact includes July, which won't help the approaching circulation report covering January through June that's due Monday from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Early looks at many publishers' results have suggested that subscriptions held up fine over the first half but that newsstand sales suffered some sharp blows from the recession and a dispute with wholesalers.

New numbers from Hearst Magazines and Conde Nast are further reinforcing that picture.

Hearst said in its report to the Audit Bureau that its titles sold 10% fewer copies on newsstands in the first half than in the first half of 2008. Every title declined, with the biggest losses at Town & Country, down 20%, and Good Housekeeping, down 18%. The smallest declines belonged to Seventeen, where sales slipped just 2%, and House Beautiful, down 4%. The company said its competition, by comparison, lost about 14% of its newsstand sales.

Conde Nast titles lost 12% across the board, including newsstand drops of 25% at Details, 21% at Architectural Digest and Golf Digest, and 20% at Modern Bride. W and Gourmet also reported declines larger than 20%, but cover-price increases were partly to blame. Only GQ posted a gain, with a 7% increase, which Editor in Chief Jim Nelson attributed partly to timely Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Aniston covers.

Conde Nast said it has improved the profitability of its subscription circulation, where it gets an increasing proportion of its overall paid circulation, so newsstand is not quite as important as it once was. "We love the newsstand business," said Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., group president of Conde Nast Consumer Marketing. "We'd have loved it to be a little better. But our subscription business is quite strong, and it's so key to our strategy in building strong, qualified readers for our advertisers."

Newsstand declines aren't over, but they'll be less dramatic in the second half, Mr. Sauerberg predicted. "My gut instinct is the rate of decline will lessen," he said.

MagNet's Mr. Brechtel, who said the wholesaler problems hurt single-copy sales more than the recession did, agreed that the year should finish stronger than it started. May and June outperformed the first four months of the year, he said, not just because of June's Michael Jackson coverage but also because those first four months absorbed all the wholesaler fallout.

"It took a little while," said Ken Godshall, exec VP-consumer marketing at the Magazine Publishers of America. "But it appears newsstand sales started to heal starting in May and June of this year."

For some context, MagNet projects that magazine retail sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2009 will reach between $1.8 billion and $1.975 billion.

Ascii Art

Looking for some ascll art? Well, you have one example above. But what is ASCII Art? In layman’s terms, ASCII Art are pictures or images created using ascll characters. What is ASCII or what are ASCII characters? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange or in other words the characters you see on your keyboard (plus others that are not). 

Here is a sample of ASCII characters:

So in other words ASCII Art are just images that are created using those characters. It takes a lot of creative power to do so and if you have that, then feel free to play with this type of art.

I don’t know for how long this has been “released” because I’ve never searched for it. If you Google for “ascii art” then you’ll receive a very pleasant surprise. A Google logo made of ASCII code, and this is deeply an ASCII art. I don’t know why, but now I’m beginning to like ASCII art. It’s crazy how such a small thing, and rather unimpressive can have such a powerful effect on someone. Although ASCII art is usually uncolored, Google respects its logo which is colored the usual way, unlike in those Google Chrome OS screenshots that we’ve seen last month. 

Well, if you want to see this wonder, just search for ascii art on Google and check it out for yourself. Enjoy!

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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — As Sen. Edward Kennedy's family prepares for his public memorials, people are already visiting the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston to pay their respects.

About 20 people were lined up before the library opened at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Kennedy's body will travel the 70 miles from Cape Cod to lie in repose at the library he helped develop in tribute to one of his slain brothers.

Austin Howe, a 15-year-old a high school student from Laurel, Md., came with his father to see the museum and pay his respects to the senator, who died Tuesday at age 77 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Howe says Kennedy was "someone who made a difference."

Family members will attend a private Mass at Kennedy's Hyannis Port compound at noon Thursday, and the motorcade is scheduled to leave around an hour later.

Kennedy will be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia Saturday evening near his slain brothers — former president Kennedy and former senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Other family members buried on the famous hillside include former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and the former president's baby son, Patrick, who died two days after birth.

Kennedy is eligible for burial at Arlington because of his service in Congress as well as his two years in the army from 1951 to 1953. He was a private first class and served in the military police at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, located at that time in Paris.

shrew

If you had your choice, would you rather be attacked by a crazed shrew or a crazed giant leech?


Having trouble deciding? There's a double feature showing tonight that'll lay it all out for you.


"The Killer Shrews," made in 1959 by Ray Kellogg, tells the story of an island, a hurricane and stranded humans terrorized by ferocious fur balls.


"Attack of the Giant Leeches," also from 1959, was directed by Bernard Kowalski and tells of a community where people start disappearing and where a mysterious creature lurks about.


The double feature, which closes the "Attack of the B Movies" series, is today at 7 p.m. at Showcase Cinemas Buckland Hills, 99 Red Stone Road in Manchester; and Connecticut Post 14 Cinema de Lux is at 1201 Boston Post Road in Milford.

michael jackson alive

In a turn of events worthy of a spooky "Twilight Zone" episode, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley returned to walk among the living Tuesday night after agreeing to perform one last time in a concert to prove which one of them is truly the all-time "King of Pop."

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 after letting his skills fade as a result of years of substance abuse and obesity. Since his death, rumors of him still being alive remain strong. Despite the hopes and prayers of his devoted fans, Presley was indeed dead.

“I don’t know why they thought I never died,” Presley said. “But I appreciate the love and devotion they have shown me over the years.”

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson stopped breathing once he was administered the powerful anesthetic Profol. His death sent a shockwave around the world and has made headlines every day since.

“I’m honored and grateful for what my friends, family, and fans have done since my passing,” Jackson said. “I’m eager to take the stage one last time and prove myself once again.”

Logic would tell us resurrection isn’t possible, and that they faked their deaths to make their return all the more dramatic. Yet, for no reason whatsoever, two entertainment icons have risen from the grave. Both of them died and remained dead until now.

“It really defies all known science,” an unnamed scientist said. “I don’t know why they’re here, but I have my tickets and I will be there to see them live.”

Although reporters and fans have countless questions to ask Presley and Jackson, they aren’t appearing to answer any questions. All they want to do is treat their fans to one last performance. If their careers are any indication, I doubt they will disappoint.

tenuous

TENNIS: Courting new players in tenuous economic climate
Jordan Aldred has the sights on her tennis career set high. Really high if you consider she’s entering her sophomore year at Niagara-Wheat field High School and has never played the game competitively.

“My plan is to play through college. I don’t know if that’ll work out, but I’d like to try,” Aldred said this week while working out on the N-W courts in preparation for the school’s upcoming tryouts. “But I have a lot of goals for college, so who knows? I think I’ll keep doing it no matter what. Even if I don’t make the team, I think I’ll keep practicing and I’ll try to make the team next year. It’s fun.”

Aldred, 14, isn’t alone in her new found passion for the game. Tennis has emerged as a surprising winner in the recent economic downturn, a sport that can played at little cost and with outstanding health benefits. A survey released by the U.S. Tennis Association said that almost 27 million Americans played tennis in 2008 — the largest number in 15 years — and six million tried it for the first time.

“I think it goes in a cycle,” said Kristen Janese, the Niagara-Wheat field varsity girls tennis coach, and a longtime advocate of the game. “When I started coaching 14 years ago, there was a huge group of kids. Then it calmed down quite a bit when the more extreme sports got the TV coverage and they got popular. The coverage of tennis and the motivation to play dropped a little, but I feel like seeing Venus and Serena Williams on TV helps, at least on the women’s side.”

Janese has noticed a surprising trend in first-timers who understand the game’s nuances, in part because of the Wii Sports craze. Tennis is one of the games that comes with most Nintendo Wii systems, and that helps introduce facets of the game that she typically needs to teach newbies.

“More of the younger kids are coming in already knowing how to keep score and they already have an idea how to swing the racket,” Janese said. “It’s kind of exciting.”

So between understanding the game’s rules, and having equipment at their disposal, more newcomers are willing to give the game a try.

“Everyone has tennis shoes,” said Kurt Kamperman, the United States Tennis Association’s CEO of community tennis. “It helps that there are low-cost, no-cost public courts in almost every city, and you don’t need a lot to get started.”

It also doesn’t eat up an entire afternoon.

“In this economy, to spend 4-5 hours playing a round of golf, it’s a challenge,” Kamperman said, “where in 90 minutes, you can get to the courts, get a good workout in and you’re back home.”

While golf’s TV ratings have increased in the Tiger Woods era, the number of actual golfers has flattened over the past few years (down 1.4 million players since 2005, to 28.6 million). Meanwhile, tennis is regaining popularity and is the fifth-fastest-growing sporting activity this decade behind pilates, the elliptical machine, lacrosse and, stretching.

Summertime in Western New York means plenty of available public courts, but tennis is not free: A high-quality racket can cost $100 or more, but that’s still less than a new set of irons or a new driver, and industry leaders are conscious about keeping the price of a can of balls at less than $3.

“It’s affordable. You only need a racket and a can of balls to get out there and play,” Janese said. “There’s a place for everybody. There’s singles, couples, doubles, boys, girls, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters. It’s just a place where the family can get together and get excited to be out doing something. And with every conversation that talks about sports you have to talk about staying physically fit. This helps.”

The family aspect is one that wasn’t lost on Aldred and her companions warming up at N-W on Thursday. Barbara Dafoe, 15, and her sister Ellie, 12, said they started playing with their father and were eager to tryout for the team after seeing the results.

“We just started playing,” Barbara said. “It looks boring on TV, but it’s fun to play.”

Janese made the trip to Toronto last week to watch some of the Rogers Cup women’s tournament and she plans on watching plenty of coverage on the upcoming U.S. Open, which qualifying starts this Tuesday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Yet the movement is at the grassroots level, on courts like those at Niagara-Wheat field, where players continue to come out for the sport in larger numbers.

“I’ve seen an increase each year I’ve been here,” said Janese, who played at N-W and has been the coach there for four years after stints at Canisius College and Sacred Heart. “Every time we start thinking tennis is dying it starts growing again.”

And that will bring those like Alexa Bax, 15, back to the pavement.

“It was really fun,” said Bax, who was playing for the first time. “I have plenty of things to work on. I thought it was just hitting the ball back and forth, but there’s a lot more to it. But I recently found tennis more interesting than I ever had before and I just wanted to try it.”

Midazolam

Michael Jackson's sister Latoya believes King of pop was murdered and justice will be served

Michael Jackson's sister La Toya believes her brother was murdered. 

"I am thankful to the investigators for uncovering the truth to the world," she said in the statement released Tuesday to ABC News. "And I look forward to the day that justice will be served to all the parties involved in my brother's homicide."

La Toya Jackson, 53, spoke out a day after it was revealed that the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled the King of Pop's death a homicide.

A shocking police affidavit described the details of the tormented superstar's last night alive - and revealed Jacko's personal doctor injected him with "lethal levels" of the dangerous anesthetic propofol.

wilco

Wilcom the greatest band that never gets played on the radio a profile

Wilco’s mythology is that they are the greatest band that never gets played on the radio. The Chicago-based, all-American band is popular on college campuses around the US. And if you asked a room full of music critics to list the greatest American rock bands performing today, chances are a large majority of them would have Wilco on their list.

If you’ve never heard of Wilco, or can’t quite think of any of their greatest hits, you can’t blame the band, they’ve been putting out their unique brand of music for 15 years, play to sold-out audiences, have won two Grammy awards, and sold more than 4 million albums. But Wilco has always been a band just under the radar - while a favorite of critics and big on college campuses, they've never cracked Top 40 radio.

The name Wilco comes from a voice procedure ‘wilco’ meaning ‘will comply’. Wilco was formed in 1994, and they use elements of alternative and classic pop in their songs. The band was formed following the break-up of a country music group Uncle Tupelo, and the only original members left are Jeff Tweedy, lead singer and John Stirratt, bassist.

Not one for false modesty, Jeff Tweedy said, "We would be happy to be the second greatest band that does get played on the radio." And he just might get his wish - Wilco’s new album is their fastest seller ever, and the band notched its first # 1 song in early August with You Never Know.

Rocket Launch May Be Delayed to Next Month

GOHEUNG, South Jeolla Province ― South Korean attempts for its very first space launch may be delayed to September, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Thursday.

In a news conference at the Naro Space Center, Vice Science Minister Kim Jung-hyun said a software malfunction related to a high-pressure tank regulating valves inside the rocket engine caused the countdown to be aborted.

Although engineers at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the country's space agency, said that it was a relatively minor problem, they also said it could take as much as three days to analyze and fix the glitch.

Korean and Russian scientists and engineers are currently analyzing the software problem.

Should the adjustment process take any longer, the KSLV-1 launch could be moved to September, considering that the current "launch window" will be good only until Aug. 26.

"It would be great if we can find a way to pull off the launch before Aug. 26. But the priority is investigating the software problems, adjusting them, checking the condition of the rocket and ground launch equipment, and also the weather conditions," Kim said.

The rocket was taken down from the launch pad, where it had been standing since Monday.

and moved back to the assembly complex, over concerns that weather conditions might adversely affect it.

Should the KSLV-1 be cleared for a second launch attempt, the engineers at the will move the rocket back to the launch pad and conduct another technical rehearsal a day ahead of the liftoff to check the machinery and electronic systems, a process that will take two days at least.

"To fix the software, we have decided that it would be better to take the rocket back to the assembly complex, where we can provide a better environment for heat and air control," said KARI President Lee Ju-jin.

"There will be no need to separate the upper stage of the two-stage rocket from the lower assembly."

The 33-meter, 140-ton KSLV-1 was a result of $403-million investment and generates a thrust of 170 tons. The Russians engineered and designed the KSLV-1 first stage, which contains the rocket engine and liquid-fuel propulsion system. The second stage of the rocket, which will carry the Science Technology Satellite No. 2 (STSAT-2), is a work of domestic technology.

ryan alexander jenkins wikipedia

Aug 20, 2009: Jasmine Fiore playboy pics, Ryan Alexander Jenkins wikipedia. Finally the inevitable has happened. VH1 that was airing the super duper successful show Megan Wants a Millionaire has cancelled the airing of the show. As of now the Television channel has not said as to when it plans to bring back the show.

Man sought for questioning in model's death believed in Canada, Reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins is wanted for questioning in the strangulation of Jasmine Fiore, whose body was found in a suitcase in Buena Park.

The Whatcom County sheriff's office in Bellingham, Wash. says a man wanted for questioning in the slaying of a California swimsuit model apparently walked into Canada.

The sheriff's office says deputies received word Wednesday that Ryan Alexander Jenkins could be in the county. They found his car and an empty boat trailer at a Blaine marina. They had a report that a man matching his description arrived by boat at Point Roberts where they believed he walked across the border to British Columbia. --AP

An international manhunt intensified Wednesday for a reality TV contestant wanted for questioning in the slaying of his wife, a swimsuit model found inside a suitcase dumped in a Buena Park trash bin.

Citing the killing, VH1 pulled the show off the air.

Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a participant on "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and the self-described chief executive of a Canadian real estate development company, was named by Buena Park police as a "person of interest" in the strangulation of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore.

Jenkins reported her missing Saturday after they attended a San Diego poker tournament.

Canadian authorities said Wednesday that Jenkins had a previous conviction for assault on an unidentified woman. And in June, Jenkins was charged in Las Vegas with battery against his wife, Jasmine Kinkade-Jenkins, according to court records. (Fiore sometimes used Kinkade as a last name, her mother said.)

Jenkins used his fist to strike his wife in the arm in early April, the records show. They were fighting at a hotel swimming pool when he hit her, a law enforcement source in Las Vegas said. Jenkins is scheduled for trial in December. Officials stressed that they want only to question Jenkins and that he is a not a formal homicide suspect.

Jenkins operates Skyhomes in Calgary, which sells million-dollar-plus apartments and homes. He is listed as the chief executive on the company website. A spokesman for a property company affiliated with Skyhomes said Jenkins has not been seen in Calgary for three months.

According to an online resume, Jenkins graduated from Calgary's Mount Royal College in 1999 and worked for Townscape Developments from 2000 to 2008. He also lists himself as an investment sales associate for Calgary-based Concrete Equities, a company that has several buildings in bankruptcy. It was a departure from the image of a successful young man that earned him a spot on "Megan Wants a Millionaire." On the show, a woman dates various men, hoping to land a wealthy bachelor.

Jenkins was also scheduled to appear on the third season of VH1's "I Love Money," which was set to air in January, according to sources with knowledge of the show who were not authorized to speak to the media. In that show, contestants perform various physical and mental challenges, with the winner receiving $250,000. Fiore's mother, Lisa Lapore, said Jenkins was eager to move forward with his new TV career. "He was excited about being a star in Hollywood," Lapore said. Law enforcement sources confirmed that the couple were married in Las Vegas. Lapore questioned the legitimacy of the union. She said they had been together since March and that she was unaware of any significant issues in the relationship.

Fiore lived in a penthouse unit in an apartment building in the 800 block of North Edinburgh Avenue in the Fairfax district with Jenkins and a female roommate, according to a neighbor.

"They were really sweet people," said the neighbor, who asked not to be identified. "We're just in shock," she said. "All of a sudden your neighbor is dead, and he's being chased by the cops."

The neighbor said that when she moved into her apartment about a month ago, Fiore and her female roommate left a note on her door:

"Welcome to the building. We are your neighbors in PH7," the note read. "If you need anything, give us a ring! Or if we are too loud, call us and tell us to shut up."

In announcing that "Megan Wants a Millionaire" would not immediately air, VH1 said in a statement: "Given the unfortunate circumstances, VH1 has postponed any future airings. This is a tragic situation and our thoughts go out to the victim's family."

Most UK companies already hit by swine flu -survey

LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of British businesses have already suffered temporary staff losses because of H1N1 swine flu and many managers fear they will lose revenue due to the pandemic, according to a survey on Wednesday.

In all, 72 percent of employers reported they had experienced swine flu absenteeism and 38 percent anticipated sales would be hit.

One in five also said they expected to have to close or partially close premises, results from the survey of 429 small and medium-sized companies by law firm Eversheds showed.

The new H1N1 influenza virus has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century and is spreading out of control, according to the World Health Organisation. When the northern hemisphere's autumn weather sets in it is expected to worsen.

Britain has seen one of the highest number of cases, although most people have experienced only mild to moderate symptoms.

The new H1N1 flu affects younger people than seasonal flu, making it a bigger potential threat to the working population. The high number of children catching the virus also means parents often need to take time off work for childcare.

Regular hand-washing is one of the simplest ways to keep the disease at bay and 87 percent of British employers affected by swine flu said they had introduced new sanitation measures.

Clinical trials of an H1N1 vaccine are currently under way and health officials hope mass immunisation programmes, which could start in some countries next month, will help contain the spread of the disease.

Leading flu vaccine makers include Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline , Novartis (NOVN.VX) Baxter (BAX.N), CSL (CSL.AX) and Solvay (SOLB.BR) (Reporting by Ben Hirschler; editing by Simon Jessop)

Indonesia has confirmed 22 new cases infected by A/H1N1 virus, putting the total number of confirmed cases to 930 in the country, a Health Ministry official said here Wednesday.

Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the ministry, Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said that the virus spread to 24 out of 33 provinces in Indonesia.

"The cumulative number of people infected by swine flu reaches 930," he said in a statement issued Wednesday evening.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the disease has killed over 1,000 people out of more than 162,000 cases in 168countries. In Indonesia four were killed by the virus so far.

Experts feared that the avian influenza sub-type A/H1N1 virus could combine with the H5N1 virus, which have already existed in the country, and create a new type of virus with the speed of spread similar to the A/H1N1 and the severity equal to the H5N1 virus.

Indonesia was hardest hit by H5N1 virus with fatality of more than 100 people.

Jacko to be buried on his birthday

Michael Jackson will be buried on his birthday.

The late star’s father Joe Jackson claims Michael – who died on June 25 following a suspected cardiac arrest – will finally be laid to rest on August 29, which would have been his 51st birthday.

Joe revealed the service will take place at 10am at Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

The 80-year-old music executive, who had a difficult relationship with the singer following claims he mistreated Michael as a child, will attend the ceremony next weekend before heading to Las Vegas to pay tribute to his son.

The New York Daily News newspaper reveals: “The elder Jackson says he will return to Vegas after his son is buried that Saturday to receive a celebrity star in the singer's honour at the Brenden Theatres, a cinema at the Palms that Michael Jackson and his children frequented. The Brenden will also screen the 1988 film ‘Moonwalker’ that day.”

Joe said the decision had been made in the past few days.
Earlier this month, it was revealed the Jackson family was planning to buy a private garden at the Los Angeles memorial park so they can all be laid to rest at the same place.

A source said: "They are waiting to work out the details on buying plots for the whole family before they lay Michael to rest."

Since his death, Michael’s parents have reportedly kept his body in a “secret freezer”, allowing them to visit him in private while they decide how to bury him.

The ‘Thriller’ singer’s mother, Katherine Jackson has visited the body several times since it was moved to the unknown location and often stays by the gold casket until she is shaking with cold.

Meanwhile, Joe claimed he tried to spend time with the pop superstar in the months leading up to his death, but says “the security guards wouldn’t let me get to him”.

hard rain

hard rain
Many years ago there was a show on ABC Television called GTK. The initials stood for the rather quaint phrase ‘getting to know'. The broadcast ran from 6.30 in the evening and, from memory, lasted somewhere between ten and 20 minutes. For adolescents such as myself who could occasionally wrestle the television from their parents, GTK offered a briefly glimpsed window into youth culture, rock 'n' roll in particular. It was an odd program, in the light of the format-driven, all-information-in-advance entertainment culture of today. Anything could pop up. The show came from Sydney, and could swing through fashion, international bands currently on tour, counter-cultural stuff, and local rock news and bands. It was a quick, idiosyncratic and enlightening report that also featured a skilful selection of overseas music clips and films.

Three of these clips remain in my mind. David Bowie in a startling combination of make-up and suit, singing ‘Life on Mars' on a white set. Ry Cooder in a recording studio with a live band, playing Paradise and Lunch era funky blues - one of the first occasions I'd seen a group of musicians playing great music together. And Bryan Ferry doing ‘A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall', seated at the piano in profile, with jet-black hair and black T-shirt, three female backing singers behind him in 1930s/'40s garb. It was probably the first time I'd ever seen him perform, although I owned two albums by his band, Roxy Music, and These Foolish Things, his first solo album, from which the cover of Bob Dylan's ‘A Hard Rain' came.

Ferry doing Dylan in 1973 seemed a strange proposition. Through his slick and flamboyant Roxy persona, Bryan Ferry was at the absolute peak of his influence. In contrast, and at the time in an artistic wilderness, Bob Dylan was the '60s but the wrong kind, not camp or plastic but earthbound and a bit grubby. Ferry, though, pulled off a stroke of genius. With ‘A Hard Rain', he took one of Dylan's greatest and most revered early works, a stark and compelling piece of protest-era song-writing, and put it into the glam-rock blender. And by God, it worked. ‘A Hard Rain' being a three-chord folk song, Ferry not only saw the possibilities of pounding it into a fantastic three-chord rock song, but the opportunity to add all the touches so characteristic of his work at that moment: grand camp gestures that the song just had to lie down and take.

What also got Ferry, beyond the pleasure of completely reconstructing a '60s classic, was the chance to sing its words. Here was the primary connection. In his own work, and shown in his hip appreciation on These Foolish Things of everything from Cole Porter through to Lesley Gore's It's My Party, it was obvious Ferry valued the lyric and had a particular take on its history in popular song. So he was drawn to Dylan. He also knew Dylan's supreme gift as a songwriter and a singer, dipping into his catalogue again for ‘It Ain't Me, Babe' on Another Time, Another Place (1974), his second solo album. And from then on, it's been appreciation from afar, Ferry noting in interviews that he'd never met the great man nor heard his opinion on Ferry's cover versions. But even given this initial fruitful crossing back in '73, it still came as a surprise to hear that Ferry, notoriously hesitant in releasing albums and always mistrustful of anything approaching spontaneity, had recorded a complete album of Dylan songs in a week.

First off, nothing succeeds on Dylanesque as well as ‘A Hard Rain', and to give Ferry his due he doesn't really put himself in a position to try. This is the record of an older man, knowing that he has already recorded one of the greatest cover versions of Dylan ever, and who is happy to revisit the songwriter's work but in the glow of that achievement. It's not an album that sets out for total engagement, to collar you and scream or whisper its pain or prophecy, as albums of original material often do. Ferry's coolness as an artist comes into play here, too. This is an album you can let play in another room, wander in on and smile appreciatively when he gets it right, and leave on the occasions he gets it a little wrong.

The record begins strongly and surprisingly with ‘Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues', off Highway 61 Revisited (1965). It's Dylan in his wildest and most fantastically poetical period, the time when he let his hair explode in curls and wrote ‘Like a Rolling Stone'. Two other songs on Dylanesque also come from this era: ‘Gates of Eden', from Bringing it All Back Home (1965), and the single ‘Positively 4th Street', also from '65. These are big songs to go at, not only because of their monster status in the Dylan catalogue, but also because of the first-time authority Dylan whacked on them. Plus, they are druggy, weird and evocative of the mid-'60s milieu they vividly portray. But Ferry gets under their skin, his trembling voice and the stripped-down instrumentation revealing a vulnerability in the lyrics that the original recordings had hidden. ‘Positively 4th Street' is no longer a caustic kiss-off but the rueful pleading of a former friend; ‘Gates of Eden' is not a strident song-poem but a gliding, spooky hymn. It is the turning of these songs - from familiar conceptions to something fresh - that is the album's triumph.

One other highlight is ‘Make You Feel My Love'. Ferry's atmospheric tears-in-the-rain treatment of this, highlighting the song's latent romanticism, eclipses Dylan's original version on Time Out of Mind (1997). On that album the song is a little buried, and for once not helped by a Dylan vocal that fails to fully reach the beauty of the melody. Ferry steps in and gives the song the tenderness and the arrangement it's always needed. His more commercial approach to recording, which he's always had, is a kick against the norm for artists tackling Dylan. Bar bands, singer-songwriters and big rock guns love Dylan and usually mimic his rough-and-ready approach to the studio. So it's interesting to see what Ferry brings to these songs, and it's amazing also how often in the first ten or so seconds you can tell whether or not his treatment will succeed.

In general, the quieter numbers on the album work better than the rock ones. On the more subdued songs Ferry brings the sophisticated Roxy touch, and this makes for an effective and seldom-heard contrast to Dylan's recordings. The louder approach, with Ferry's love of '70s guitar licks to the fore, and the presence of the celebrated '80s mixer Bob Clearmountain and his crashing snare, lands ‘Baby, Let Me Follow You Down' and ‘All Along the Watchtower' straight in the bin. The inclusion of the latter is bizarre. Dylan's stripped-back original is magnificent; Hendrix's inspired rock cover definitive. Where else can you go? ‘If Not for You' also suffers from its Velvets ‘Sweet Jane' chug, and anyway, who is ever going to top Olivia Newton-John's gorgeous pop rendering from 1971?

crazy

In Pennsylvania last week, a citizen, burly, crew-cut and trembling with rage, with his baffled senator: "One day God's going to stand before you, and he's going to judge you and the rest of your damned cronies up on the Hill. And then you will get your just deserts." He was accusing Arlen Specter of being too kind to President Obama's proposals to make it easier for people to get health insurance.

In Michigan, meanwhile, the indelible image was of the father who wheeled his handicapped adult son up to Rep. John Dingell and bellowed that "under the Obama health-care plan, which you support, this man would be given no care whatsoever." He pressed his case further on Fox News.

In New Hampshire, outside a building where Obama spoke, cameras trained on the pistol strapped to the leg of libertarian William Kostric. He then explained on CNN why the "tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of tyrants and patriots."

It was interesting to hear a BBC reporter on the radio trying to make sense of it all. He quoted a spokesman for the conservative Americans for Tax Reform: "Either this is a genuine grass-roots response, or there's some secret evil conspirator living in a mountain somewhere orchestrating all this that I've never met." The spokesman was arguing, of course, that it was spontaneous, yet he also proudly owned up to how his group has helped the orchestration, through sample letters to the editor and "a little bit of an ability to put one-pagers together."

The BBC also quoted liberal Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin's explanation: "They want to get a little clip on YouTube of an effort to disrupt a town meeting and to send the congressman running for his car. This is an organized effort . . . you can trace it back to the health insurance industry."

So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests.

In the early 1950s, Republicans referred to the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as "20 years of treason" and accused the men who led the fight against fascism of deliberately surrendering the free world to communism. Mainline Protestants published a new translation of the Bible in the 1950s that properly rendered the Greek as connoting a more ambiguous theological status for the Virgin Mary; right-wingers attributed that to, yes, the hand of Soviet agents. And Vice President Richard Nixon claimed that the new Republicans arriving in the White House "found in the files a blueprint for socializing America."

When John F. Kennedy entered the White House, his proposals to anchor America's nuclear defense in intercontinental ballistic missiles -- instead of long-range bombers -- and form closer ties with Eastern Bloc outliers such as Yugoslavia were taken as evidence that the young president was secretly disarming the United States. Thousands of delegates from 90 cities packed a National Indignation Convention in Dallas, a 1961 version of today's tea parties; a keynote speaker turned to the master of ceremonies after his introduction and remarked as the audience roared: "Tom Anderson here has turned moderate! All he wants to do is impeach [Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl] Warren. I'm for hanging him!"

Before the "black helicopters" of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a "civil rights movement" had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would "enslave" whites. And back before there were Bolsheviks to blame, paranoids didn't lack for subversives -- anti-Catholic conspiracy theorists even had their own powerful political party in the 1840s and '50s.

The instigation is always the familiar litany: expansion of the commonweal to empower new communities, accommodation to internationalism, the heightened influence of cosmopolitans and the persecution complex of conservatives who can't stand losing an argument. My personal favorite? The federal government expanded mental health services in the Kennedy era, and one bill provided for a new facility in Alaska. One of the most widely listened-to right-wing radio programs in the country, hosted by a former FBI agent, had millions of Americans believing it was being built to intern political dissidents, just like in the Soviet Union.

So, crazier then, or crazier now? Actually, the similarities across decades are uncanny. When Adlai Stevenson spoke at a 1963 United Nations Day observance in Dallas, the Indignation forces thronged the hall, sweating and furious, shrieking down the speaker for the television cameras. Then, when Stevenson was walked to his limousine, a grimacing and wild-eyed lady thwacked him with a picket sign. Stevenson was baffled. "What's the matter, madam?" he asked. "What can I do for you?" The woman responded with self-righteous fury: "Well, if you don't know I can't help you."

The various elements -- the liberal earnestly confused when rational dialogue won't hold sway; the anti-liberal rage at a world self-evidently out of joint; and, most of all, their mutual incomprehension -- sound as fresh as yesterday's news.

Lonelygirl15

That's the short version of how Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried came to be co-founders of the social entertainment company Eqal. 
 

"The conversations you have in college, we were having post-college, late into the night about the Internet, entertainment, and where it was all headed," Beckett tells Sun Media. 

 

In 2006, Beckett (who was in a plastic surgery residency program), Goodfried (the lawyer) and another friend, Ramesh Flinders, created lonelygirl15, a video-blog featuring a seemingly "real" teenage girl named Bree. 

She quickly built up a massive audience on YouTube that had no idea they were watching a scripted show, delivered by Beckett and his pals. Eventually, the secret became too hard to keep and the web community caught on, but fans decided to stick around and lonelygirl15 evolved into a hit multi-character web program. 

Interactive stories 

"From the success of lonelygirl we have just been building, and building, and building the company," Beckett said. "Our goal as a company is to enable people and organizations to tell interactive stories online." 

Eqal later worked with CBS, creating Harper's Globe, a web series companion to the TV show Harper's Island. Through their relationship with CBS, Beckett and Goodfried met Anthony E. 

Zuiker and, before long, Eqal was hired to create the web experience for Zuiker's digi-novel, Level 26. 

"They have done this before and they're kind of the creators of the genre of social community in terms of narrative," Zuiker says. 

The website for Level 26: Dark Origins launched this weekend. Besides being the home base for the motion-picture bridges that link readers from one group of chapters of the novel to the next, level26.com hopes to develop a successful online community. 

"Think of it like a book club online. It's going to be a community for people to talk about the book and then also talk about the greater Level 26 universe," Beckett says. "What if the Harry Potter books launched with an official community built around the universe and mythology, where there was the creator J.K. Rowling, and there was extra content, and the books themselves were interactive, and everyone could have profile pages, and they could come up with their own characters and write their fan fiction and create their own story lines?"

Beckett's plans for Zuiker's creepy thriller series don't end there. 

"For Book 2 and Book 3 there are going to be sections of the forum featuring recurring contests, and calls to action for people to actually create their own characters and their own storylines that might actually become a part of the second and third books."

Burma frees Suu Kyi trial man

An American whose unauthorised visit to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi led to her extended detention, has been released, the office of US Senator Jim Webb said.

The statement from Washington said Webb, who was on a two-day visit to Burma, secured the release of John Yettaw, who was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years' imprisonment for swimming secretly to Suu Kyi's lakeside residence.

Webb was allowed to meet Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to 18 months house arrest for allowing Yettaw to stay at her residence for two days.

raiders vs cowboys

raiders vs cowboys

SOMETHING WAS MISSING from the Raiders' debut possession of their 2009 exhibition season Thursday night.

Something beside a touchdown. Someone, actually. No, not Michael Vick, who is now property of the Philadelphia BooBirds.

To paraphrase the theme of the Raiders' 50th anniversary season: Where were you ... on that first drive, Darren McFadden?

He was on the sideline, much as he was last season when the Raiders foolishly shied away from using their scintillating rookie running back.

McFadden must become the Raiders' go-to man, or else they'll pay for it in ways similar to their past six seasons of sorrow. They can't win if he can't get on the field.

Once he made his way onto the Oakland Coliseum dance floor Thursday against Dallas, he proved once again he's the electrifying playmaker this youth-oriented offense needs.

Once McFadden broke loose for a 45-yard run to end the first quarter, that effectively should have ended Justin Fargas' hold on the starting job.

If staying strictly with Fargas on the first series was a token sign of respect for his years of crash-test-dummy service, the Raiders can check that off their to-do list. Now just give D-Mac the job, and the ball.

Fargas (one carry, 2 yards) and Michael Bush (three carries, 23 yards) will complement McFadden when needed, so it's not as if they should be shackled to the bench. In fact, a Cowboys linebacker told one of

his club officials this week that the Raiders may tout the league's top running back trio.

The Raiders offense will experience plenty of growing pains this season, especially with quarterback JaMarcus Russell embarking on just his second year as the full-time starter.

McFadden's presence is needed to offset those setbacks.

He's not perfect. He may miss a blitz pick-up that leads to an easy sack, as happened on his first snap Thursday. He may get disturbingly caught from behind on a long run, as happened last year in a toe-injuring instance against the Kansas City Chiefs.

But he's a weapon, and if given more opportunities, he'll prove worthy of last year's No. 4 overall draft pick. Last year, injuries and sporadic playing time limited him to 499 yards rushing (4.4 yards per carry) and 285 yards receiving in 13 games.

In his two series Thursday, he had four carries for 63 yards and a 9-yard reception on a screen pass. As for the Raiders, it's no coincidence they had themselves a lead after his series.

What a bonus it would be if the Raiders' other ballyhooed first-round draft picks in recent years also come alive, including Russell (6-of-9, 50 yards, 0 touchdowns/interceptions), rookie wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (one catch for 8 yards) and safety Michael Huff (an interception but also a pass interference penalty in the end zone).

Russell will command the majority of attention this season by virtue of (a) his position, (b) his No. 1 overall draft status and (c) his weight.

Russell looked enormous in his unflattering uniform. He must be pushing close to 300 pounds, and he admitted at the start of training camp that he is a "little heavy." Thursday, he had a Santa Claus torso with thighs that resembled a defensive tackle's.

But Russell came to the Raiders with an oversized body. An 18-yard scramble on the Raiders' second series showed he's no dashboard hula girl (imagine: hips moving, head bobbing but feet staying still). He also rolled nicely to his right before heaving a pass nearly 50 yards that drew a pass interference penalty at the Cowboys' 8-yard line.

All the Raiders got out of that golden field position was a Sebastian Janikowski field goal for a 3-0 lead. Missed opportunities like that on their first possession (see: three points instead of seven) are why Janikowski is their all-time leading scorer and why they get outscored every year.

That's not to let the Raiders defense off the hook. Abysmal in stopping the run in recent seasons, the Raiders showed early progress before regressing to their generous state.

That's not the type of nostalgia needed in this 50th anniversary season. Nor is the sight of McFadden waiting for his turn on the sideline.

Tyler Palko

• Five former Pitt players who are now members of the Arizona Cardinals visited the Panthers at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on Thursday before their preseason game against the Steelers at Heinz Field. All-Pro receiver Larry Fitzgerald, linebacker Gerald Hayes, quarterback Tyler Palko, running back LaRod Stephens-Howling and secondary coach Teryl Austin took turns speaking to Pitt players. "Ever since I've been back here, I've been trying to bring alive our great tradition. That's one thing we have here that a lot of schools don't have around the country," Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said. "Those are the guys that made this program. It was awful nice of them to come by and spend a little time, and they all said something to our team. Hopefully, it sticks with a few guys and makes a difference with a couple guys."

• Wannstedt said he was "pleased" with the placekicker competition between Kevin Harper and Dan Hutchins and called it "a good problem."

"They both kicked the ball well today," Wannstedt said. "It's going to be a tough decision, but it's going to be a good decision either way because we have two guys that can do it."

• Sophomore Andrew Taglianetti replaced redshirt junior Elijah Fields at free safety with the first-team defense because of what Wannstedt termed an "internal issue" involving Fields on Wednesday. "Elijah will be back working with the first group," Wannstedt said. "He hasn't started yet. He hasn't done anything. We're being very demanding on these players. It's not just what happens on the field."

ufc 101 justin tv

ufc 101 justin tv

The Main event would Bj Penn (Title Holder) vs Kenny Florian in their championship bout at 155-pounds. Will we have a new champion or will we need a new challenger. Watch it live here.

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Our site will provide a UFC 101 live stream for free. BTW you can checkout the full UFC 101 fight card below:

• BJ Penn Vs. Kenny Florian
• Anderson Silva Vs. Forrest Griffin
• Amir Sadollah Vs. Johny Hendricks
• Kendall Grove Vs. Ricardo Almeida
• Josh Neer Vs. Kurt Pellegrino
• Shane Nelson Vs. Aaron Riley
• Tamdan McCrory Vs. John Howard
• Thales Leites Vs. Alessio Sakara
• Matthew Riddle Vs. Dan Cramer
• George Sotiropoulos Vs. George Roop
• Jesse Lennox Vs. Danillo Villefort

UFC 101 Resuls [Updated]

BJ Penn Vs. Kenny Florian

TBD

Anderson Silva Vs. Forrest Griffin

Anderson Silva Wins by Knock Out at 3:23 in the 1st round .

Amir Sadollah Vs. Johny Hendricks

Johny Hendricks Wins by Technical Knock Out at 0:29 in the 1st round .

Kendall Grove Vs. Ricardo Almeida

Ricardo Almeida Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

Josh Neer Vs. Kurt Pellegrino

Kurt Pellegrino Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

Shane Nelson Vs. Aaron Riley

Aaron Riley Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

Tamdan McCrory Vs. John Howard

John Howard Wins by Split Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

Thales Leites Vs. Alessio Sakara

Alessio Sakara Wins by Split Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

Matthew Riddle Vs. Dan Cramer

Matthew Riddle Wins by Unanimous Decision at 5:00 in the 3rd round .

George Sotiropoulos Vs. George Roop

George Sotiropoulos Wins by Submission (Arm Lock) at 1:59 in the 2nd round by kimura.

bruce smith

bruce smith



Smith, Woodson among six entering NFL Hall of Fame
Superstar defenders Bruce Smith and Rod Woodson were among six men inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame at enshirement ceremonies here at the sporting honor shrine.

Also inducted Saturday were Bills owner Ralph Wilson, guard Randall McDaniel and two posthumous honorees - linebacker Derrick Thomas and receiver Bob Hayes. That boosts the number of people in the Hall of Fame to 253.

Smith, the long-time Buffalo Bills defensive end, is the National Football League's all-time quarterback sack leaders with 200 and was twice named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Smith played for 18 seasons.

"I have come full circle," Smith said. "This induction into the Hall of Fame marks my passage into football's immortality."

Woodson played for four teams in 17 NFL seasons but made his fame in a decade with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He intercepted 71 passes and returned them for NFL career records of 1,483 yards and 12 touchdowns.

"It's an honor. I thought about what I was going to say, but to be on this stage, it's a whirlwind," Woodson said. "It's more than putting on the jacket -- it's being part of the elite team of pro football. I'm very humbled."

McDaniel was an All-Star blocker in 12 of his 14 NFL seasons while Wilson helped found the American Football League half a century ago, leading to a 1970 merger that created the modern NFL.

Thomas, who made an NFL record seven sacks in one game, died in a car accident in 2000 at age 33.

Hayes, who won two gold medals in athletics at the 1964 Olympics, spent 11 seasons in the NFL living up to the nickname "Bullet Bob". He caught 371 passes for 7,414 yards and 71 touchdowns. He died in 2002 at age 59.

derrick thomas death

derrick thomas death

Derrick Thomas Death: How did Derrick Thomas die

Derrick Thomas Death, How did Derrick Thomas die, Thomas dies on February 8, 2000, at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. On January 23, 2000, Thomas’1999 chevrolet suburban went off Interstate 435 as he and two passengers were driving to Kansas City International Airport during a snowstorm, where he was going to fly to St. Louis to watch the NFC Championship game; police reports indicate that Thomas, who was driving, was speeding and weaving through traffic at the time of the accident. Thomas and one of the passengers were not wearing seat belts and both were thrown from the car; the passenger was killed instantly. The second passenger, who was wearing his safety belt, walked away from the scene uninjured. Thomas was left paralyzed from the chest down. He died on February 8, 2000, in Miami, of a pulmonary embolism, a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed lower extremities and traveled through his venous system to his lungs.

How did Derrick Thomas die?

Ans: Derrick Thomas died on 1/23/00 when his SUV went off the road. Thomas, who was driving, was speeding and weaving through traffic.

tiger woods fart

tiger woods fart

Tiger Woods wins Buick in style but what about that fart on the 18th?

Sometimes you have to be convinced that you actually heard what you thought you heard. A Youtube.com video posted around the Internet has me laughing at myself. Why didn't I just go with my first instinct and realize the unmistakable sounds of a long, pronounced fart?

There was a lovely scene developing at the 18th green. Tiger, with a three-shot lead, was in the fairway, comfortable with the knowledge that he would win what could be the final Buick Open in at the Warwick Hills golf course in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan. Recap available,

We were reminded constantly about the state of the economy, the automotive industry bail-out, the continued struggles of GM, the end of the Buick sponsorship of Tiger Woods and how grateful the tournament sponsors and the crowd were that Tiger graced their grounds.

And then the fart sound is picked up on the microphones nearby, Tiger says, "Are you serious?", caddy Stevie Williams and he share a giggle, he turns to the side to continue to enjoy the moment and we are never told by the announcers what just happened. They, of course, don't acknowledge it happened. I'll bet you that when they went to break that the randy Mr. Nick Faldo had a giggle over it.

Listen for yourself and you tell me if it was a pre-recorded sound, a real human fart and if you think it came from Stevie, Tiger or a cameraman.

rob newbiggin

rob newbiggin

He can hit Manny Pacquiao with pulverizing punches.

She can smash Pacman, and the key part of the name is “man,” with a glittering and stylish purse.

He can talk smack about how he will destroy the Pinoy Idol. He has even sparred with the Mancunian idol Ricky Hatton who, as far as I know, has no plans to become Rochelle Hatton.

She can give Manny a smack, a smooch, with freshly glossed lipstick.

He is Rob Newbiggin, journeyman boxer from the United Kingdom.

She is Melissa, the woman inside the boxer who is about bloom fully with medical treatment to enhance his/her/its estrogen.

They are one and the same.

I’ve found the ultimate opponent for Pacquiao, a foe against whom Manny can make ring history and ring herstory simultaneously.

I think we should call it “Shim Versus Pacman.”

Forget about tennis playing Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs or Sorenstam or any woman golfer trying to outdo the boys on the professional links.

This fight would truly be “The Battle of the Sexes,” with the emphasis and underline on sexes, plural.
I don’t know about you, ahem, guys but the very concept sends a tingle up my skirt. Imagine how stimulating it must be to Professor Dumbledore, Bernie Vee, Arcadia and the other acidic comment posters you read underneath my columns.

Surely, Roberta, I mean promoter Robert Arum would get the appeal of this Mixed Match instantly.

We can subtitle it “Gender Bender” and open up a world of sponsor tie-ins you can’t lure for a man fighting another man.

Obviously, given Rob’s new chosen name, I’d think the Mercedes carmakers would be fascinated and quite eager to open up their purses, I mean pockets.

And how about the inevitable HBO 24/7 program which could tell the tail of Newbiggin.

The baby (boy but confused) was born in Pennsylvania in September of 1964 and was quickly ditched by his South American parents.

The child had high levels of estrogen and, according to him, was “intersexuall and not truly classified as male or female.

uncovered

uncovered


Obama’s desire to trash the status quo in heath care and bring online a single payer system in the U.S. is revealed in this shocking uncovered video. Congress, who has never managed anything efficiently, has screwed up America at every twist and turn. Remember their failures social security, Medicare, cash for clunkers and take it in the polling booth with you in 2010

President Barack Obama says that his health care plan that is currently being shuffled through Congress won't eliminate private insurance. We proved a few weeks ago that this is wrong...the American people will be forced into a public option that will turn into a single payer system.