http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4669621 ]]>
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colum...6&sportCat=nba
Random quote from the article:
Still, this is not as bad as the tattoo that Washington Wizards G/F DeShawn Stevenson added this past offseason -- a Pittsburgh Pirates "P" on his cheek. The only problem is, it's backward. Did you do it yourself in a mirror, DeShawn? Because it looks like a 9. "If you're standing [farther away] it looks like a P," Stevenson told The Washington Times in what has to be the leader for Dumbest Quote of 2009.
Um, nope, still backward, DeShawn. From close-up, from far away, from the Hubble telescope, still backward. Luckily, it's only on your face. ]]>
North Carolina at Boston College
Wisconsin at Northwestern
Purdue at Indiana
Penn State at Michigan State
Connecticut at Notre Dame
Louisiana State at Mississippi
California at Stanford
Oklahoma at Texas Tech
Oregon at Arizona (5 point bonus game) ]]>
With 12 points on the week, Gage jumps back into the lead for the regular season championship. Entering 4 points down to SGallan, the 5 point bonus was the difference as Gage had the right pick to put him back into a one point lead with 2 weeks remaining in the regular season. (Dang for some, the season ends next Saturday.)
Jimmy the Greek for Week 11
CB 12
Gage 12
nywrestler4life 12
RYou 12
Stardust 12
tpay 12
Trusty 10
UGLY 10
Zapp Brannigan 10
Big Stiffy 9
mhs189 9
ViceGrip 9
HuskerDu 8
SGallan 7
Drooke 6
Horatio 6
Akin 5
cap'n combover 5
Dum Dum 5
Rockhard 5
Viratas 5
Champ Kind 4
Jake T 2
Season Championship Leaders
Gage 108
SGallan 107
Big Stiffy 95
Zapp Brannigan 94
RYou 93
Stardust 93
CB 92
tpay 88
mhs189 86
Drooke 84
UGLY 83
Akin 81
Jake T 80
Trusty 79
Champ Kind 78
JensenS 78
nywrestler4life 78
Dum Dum 75
therick 74
ViceGrip 74
Gripsnhips 71
HuskerDu 67
RD149-2 64
Viratas 57
Horatio 25
cap'n combover 18
Rockhard 5
Jimmy the Greek for Week Champs
Week 1
Akin
Big Stiffy (1)
Week 2
Drooke
Gage (1)
JensenS
Stephen VonVesthell
Zapp Brannigan (1)
Week 3
Champ Kind
Week 4
Gage (2)
RYou
SGallan
Week 5
Zapp Brannigan (2)
Week 6
Gripsnhips
mhs189
Week 7
Jake T (1)
JensenS (2)
SGallan (2)
Week 8
Gage (3)
Drooke (2)
therick
Week 9
Jake T (2)
Big Stiffy (2)
Week 10
SGallan (3)
Stardust
Week 11
CB
Gage (4)
nywrestler4life
RYou (2)
Stardust (2)
tpay ]]>
2009
North Carolina 20 No.13 Virginia Tech 17
North Carolina 33 No.14 Miami 24
2008
North Carolina 38 No.24 Connecticut 12
North Carolina 28 No.20 Georgia Tech 7 ]]>
]]>I mean things got a little weird when involving time traveling...I even thought that it was a joke or really a dream of hers...or is it? and why elena was alive?...all things aside, I love this series. I love that she ended up with Ben, and I love that she found what she really wanted.
and I want to watch all over again.
___________ ]]>
the lovelorn, after chasing the guy she loved to NY, after all the breakups and getting back together, after four years of sweetness, bitter and pains, found what she really wanted.
‘That's what love is, risking a part of yourself.’
I can’t remember what the exact circumstance is when Felicity said that. But this was all she was doing, waiting for the guy Ben, who was kinda immature and unperceptive.
After all the things they’d been through, there was always a dawn on the horizon with the one you love waking up right beside you.
After his father’s surgery, holding Felicity’s hand when they walked out of the hospital, Ben said that it’s not about the thing that they are the best student, it’s just they care.
Ben: Sometimes I think u should be with someone else, sometimes I think u should be with Noel.
Ben, I wanna be with you.
Noel, the one who had spent the past three and half years of his life waiting for someone who wants to be with someone else. Actually he’s kinda guy most of the girls dream of yet maybe the pathetic part is that they have to figure this out till the last minute, just like Felicity.
‘She loves u, not me. You guys love each other, and u should be together.’
See, how cute the guy is.
It's amazing that things just don't work out the way you think they are. He sighed before Felicity the day before his wedding to another girl.
_______ ]]>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrf6Qg4T4E ]]>
Clemson at NC State
Tennessee at Mississippi
Nebraska at Kansas
Colorado at Iowa State
Missouri at Kansas State
Arizona at California
Texas Tech at Oklahoma State
Auburn at Georgia
Michigan State at Purdue (5 point bonus game) ]]>
DumDum was the only player to pick up a point off the Stanford upset of Oregon since the game was at home. Surprisingly, only 4 players had Ohio State over Penn State - akin, RD149-2, Ms. Stardust and SGallan. akin, RD149-2, mhs189 and UGLY had Illinois over Minnesota.
SGallan moves into the top position for the season championship leading Gage by 4 points. Gallan is our first player to reach 100 points. Big Stiffy and Zapp Brannigan are within striking distance.
Jimmy the Greek for Week 10
SGallan 10
Stardust 10
Akin 8
RD149-2 7
Dum Dum 6
CB 5
Gripsnhips 5
HuskerDu 5
mhs189 5
nywrestler4life 5
Big Stiffy 4
Champ Kind 4
Drooke 4
Gage 4
Jake T 4
JensenS 4
ViceGrip 4
Zapp Brannigan 4
RYou 4
therick 4
Trusty 4
tpay 3
Viratas 3
Horatio 2
UGLY 2
Season Championship Leaders
SGallan 100
Gage 96
Big Stiffy 86
Zapp Brannigan 84
RYou 81
Stardust 81
CB 80
Drooke 78
Jake T 78
JensenS 78
mhs189 77
Akin 76
tpay 76
therick 74
Champ Kind 74
UGLY 73
Gripsnhips 71
Dum Dum 70
Trusty 69
nywrestler4life 66
ViceGrip 65
RD149-2 64
HuskerDu 59
Viratas 52
Horatio 19
Jimmy the Greek for Week Champs
Week 1
Akin
Big Stiffy (1)
Week 2
Drooke
Gage (1)
JensenS
Stephen VonVesthell
Zapp Brannigan (1)
Week 3
Champ Kind
Week 4
Gage (2)
RYou
SGallan
Week 5
Zapp Brannigan (2)
Week 6
Gripsnhips
mhs189
Week 7
Jake T (1)
JensenS (2)
SGallan (2)
Week 8
Gage (3)
Drooke (2)
therick
Week 9
Jake T (2)
Big Stiffy (2)
Week 10
SGallan (3)
Stardust ]]>
According to an overnight report from the Phoenix Police Department, Keith King, 62, and Stacy Legg-King, 38, were arrested on burglary charges after officers discovered the bags during an investigation into luggage theft from Sky Harbor.
http://www.kpho.com/news/21507442/detail.html
It appears that this couple have stolen over 1000 pieces of luggage from Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. I have traveled through this airport a number of times since my son and his family live there and I visit as often as I can, but have always had to wait for my bag and golf clubs at the belt. Just wondering if anybody has had any problems with LOST luggage there. ]]>
Right now it's possible for the following to end up undefeated:
Florida/Alabama - whoever wins the SEC title game
Texas - Big12 champ
Cincinnati - BigEast champ
Iowa - Big10 champ
Boise State - WAC champ
TCU - MWC champ
In past years, when there has been multiple teams with one loss, you could always say to any of the team, "if you'd won all of your games you wouldn't have to worry about this....." This year, you could have an Iowa team, with a much stronger schedule than Texas, Cinci, or Bama, left out because they started too low in the pre-season rankings. You could have a Boise St. team, who demolished the pac-10 champ, being left out of any BCS bowl game because of the conference in which they play and because TCU is ranked higher.
I know they won't all end the season unbeaten, but as a play-off fan, I can certainly hope for the unbelievable outcry that would happen if all of them ended unbeaten after the regular season and at least 4 of them were unbeaten after the bowls.
Anyone else rooting for complete BCS chaos? ]]>
http://www.newsok.com/college-footba...rticle/3413884
PAC-10 BOSS TO MEET WITH BLOUNT
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said he will meet with suspended Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount and school officials over possible reinstatement.
Blount was suspended for the season after punching a Boise State player in the aftermath of Oregon’s 19-8 loss to the Broncos in the season opener.
Scott says he’ll meet with Blount, university president Richard Lariviere, athletic director Mike Bellotti and coach Chip Kelly. He didn’t say when the meet will take place. ]]>
Wisconsin at Indiana
South Carolina at Arkansas
Houston at Tulsa
Kansas at Kansas State
Oklahoma at Nebraska
Texas AM at Colorado
Washington at UCLA
Oregon at Stanford
Ohio State at Penn State ( 5 point bonus game) ]]>
Jake T, cap'n combover, SGallan and Viratas were the only ones to pick Minny over Michigan State.
Jake T also called the Oregon win over USC, as did Gage, JensenS, Stardust and Trusty
Even though Gage missed the bonus pick this week, he scored enough wins to retain the lead for the season championship. SGallan was one in the minority to pick Auburn over Mississippi State and now moves back to within 2 points of the lead. Big Stiffy and Zapp Brannigan are not far behind the leaders.
Jimmy the Greek for Week 9
Jake T 12
Big Stiffy 12
cap'n combover 11
Horatio 11
Stardust 11
UGLY 11
ViceGrip 11
Zapp Brannigan 11
Champ Kind 10
SGallan 10
therick 10
Trusty 10
Dum Dum 10
Viratas 7
Drooke 6
Gage 6
Gripsnhips 6
Akin 6
JensenS 6
mhs189 6
nywrestler4life 6
RYou 6
tpay 5
RD149-2 4
CB 4
HuskerDu 3
Season Championship Leaders
Gage 92
SGallan 90
Big Stiffy 82
Zapp Brannigan 80
RYou 77
CB 75
Drooke 74
Jake T 74
JensenS 74
tpay 73
mhs189 72
Stardust 71
UGLY 71
Champ Kind 70
therick 70
Akin 68
Gripsnhips 66
Trusty 65
Dum Dum 64
ViceGrip 61
nywrestler4life 61
RD149-2 57
HuskerDu 54
Viratas 49
Horatio 17
cap'n combover 13
Jimmy the Greek for Week Champs
Week 1
Akin
Big Stiffy (1)
Week 2
Drooke
Gage (1)
JensenS
Stephen VonVesthell
Zapp Brannigan (1)
Week 3
Champ Kind
Week 4
Gage (2)
RYou
SGallan
Week 5
Zapp Brannigan (2)
Week 6
Gripsnhips
mhs189
Week 7
Jake T (1)
JensenS (2)
SGallan (2)
Week 8
Gage (3)
Drooke (2)
therick
Week 9
Jake T (2)
Big Stiffy (2) ]]>
Looking for something nice but not too white tablecloth-ish. I thought I remembered someone saying something about a microbrewery. I'm open to other suggestions though. ]]>
Now the company is scrambling to salvage the situation. The damages award was handed down on Sept. 30. PepsiCo filed motions to vacate the order and dismiss the claims on Oct. 13, saying it wasn't even aware of the lawsuit until Oct. 6.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Price-....html?x=0&.v=1 ]]>
TELEVISION REVIEW
'The Botany of Desire' Oct. 28
By ROBERT LLOYD Television Critic
Based on Michael Pollan's book of the same name, “The Botany of Desire,” airing tonight on PBS, looks at the ways in which plants have advanced their agenda, metaphorically speaking, by making themselves attractive to humans. There is a lot of speaking in metaphors in the two-hour documentary, much of it by Pollan himself, who regularly takes pains to remind us that he is, in fact, speaking metaphorically, because we have no words to describe the psychology of species beside our own. Besides, a little anthropomorphizing can be a useful thing when you're telling a story, especially when the moral is that we are all in this together, plants and people and every living thing, and so mutually dependent that it's impossible to tell the user from the used.
All plants share an "existential predicament," Pollan says, in that they cannot move. And yet they have gotten themselves around the world, sometimes stowing away, but sometimes showing a bit of metaphorical leg, like Claudette Colbert in "It Happened One Night," to flag down a ride. It was Pollan's inspiration to try to view this process from the point of view of the plant. The four species profiled here are the apple tree, which does its work by sweetness; the tulip, which seduces with its beauty; cannabis, which gets you high, dude; and the potato, which, if I understand it correctly, gives you the illusion of "control" by being easy to grow with a high yield and full of calories and nutrients.
This is, as you might imagine, an extremely pretty show -- not the potatoes or the pot so much, though some of the marijuana plants, reshaped by hydroponic farming and a kind of "extreme sexual frustration" (that's correct) to get you even higher -- dude -- look like Dale Chihuly glass sculptures. And the Peruvian potatoes come in a surprising variety of shapes and colors, each adapted to its own mountain microclimate. (Compare and contrast with the Burbank Russet, the McDonald's French fry potato, which has taken over Idaho.) The tulips are, of course, beautiful, and the apples look good enough to eat, even the ones that aren't.
Besides being nice to look at it, it is full of interesting things to know. We visit the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, get the lowdown on Johnny Appleseed, the cider boom, and the rebranding of the apple as a talisman against doctors. The marijuana section, which includes clips of films I'm sure I saw in health class (and footage of Louis Armstrong that I'm sure I didn't) is the certainly rare instance in which a public television documentary, by virtue of its theme, paints pot as a success story. We go to Amsterdam's pot-filled "coffee shops" and to labs where mice are made forgetful. (THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, mimics the naturally occurring brain chemical anandamide, which helps us forget -- something we never would have learned if some people didn't smoke pot and other people didn't study them.)
For the tulip, we travel to Holland in the 17th century, when a prized bulb could cost as much as a house, and where today the international flower market is largely based, a multibillion-dollar trade in what Pollan calls "exquisitely useless" things. The humbler potato takes us to the Andes, and to Idaho, and to Ireland, where the spud first fed a nation and then, when a spore killed them all, didn't.
That was not the fault of the potato, but of a decision to plant only one variety of spud all over Ireland, so that when disaster came, it came everywhere. Though Pollan sees human interference in plant life as part of the evolutionary process, its effects can be disastrous. (Except in marijuana, apparently, where we've done great things.) Monoculture, in which naturally occurring varieties of a plant are suppressed in favor of the ones that sell, is the enemy of genetic health, requiring the farmer to pour on the pesticides. Pollan's pitch is for diversity; all four segments are essentially a pitch for working with, rather than against, nature.
He remarks at one point how strange it is that humans and bees should react positively to so many of the same things -- the same sorts of colors, patterns, perfumes. And whether it is the case that the bee is more human than you might have imagined or the human more of a bee than you would like to imagine, Pollan's larger point is that we are all in it together. While that is not exactly news, it remains the great still-needs-to-be-really-learned lesson of our time, if we want a future with buds and bees in it.
robert.lloyd@latimes.com ]]>
http://www.gotoquiz.com/personality_quiz_1
My results: Your score on this personality test was 64%
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out. ]]>
Before anybody gets too excited it's only a quiz, I doubt it's very scientific.
I scored 18% ]]>
New hotel owner hounded by racism charges
Hispanic employees protest after being told to change their first names
TAOS, N.M. - Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.
The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the run-down, Southwestern adobe-style hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they'd be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.
No more Martin (Mahr-TEEN). It was plain-old Martin. No more Marcos. Now it would be Mark.......... ]]>
Quote:
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A dad who shot dead a judge and a senior politician because they molested his three-year old daughter has become a national hero after going on the run in Lithuania. Horrified Drasius Keyds, 37, gunned down the perverted pair on Monday after police turned a deaf ear to his pleas for justice for his tortured tot. Now in hiding, Keyds has become a hero on YouTube and Facebook with hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the world pledging support. "You are a hero to all of us," reads one Facebook message. "What you did is nothing but justice." Mugs and t-shirts with his image on them have begun appearing alongside the logo "Drasius: Lone-avenger". Keyds' nightmare began a year ago when daughter Deimantela told him about a meeting set up by his then fiancee with judge Jonas Furmanavicziusa and the Speaker of Lithuania's parliament , Andrius Us. The pair allegedly raped and abused the youngster who reported her ordeal to her father. But a year long campaign for a police investigation failed when detectives told Keyds there was not enough evidence to proceed with a case. Now the fugitive dad is being offered a safe haven in neighbouring countries like Poland. Parliamentary deputy speaker Stefan Niesiołowski said: "This is a clear case of incompetent law enforcement on the original crime." |
A representative for Phillips also announced the former Mets general manager was entering a treatment facility "to address his personal issues."
Phillips' acknowledgment Wednesday of his relationship with 22-year-old Brooke Hundley was splashed across the New York tabloids for days, embarrassing the Bristol, Conn.-based sports giant........
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/1...fired-by-ESPN# ]]>
Central Michigan at Boston College
West Virginia at South Florida
Miami (FL) at Wake Forest
Mississippi State at Kentucky
South Carolina at Tennessee
Michigan State at Minnesota
Missouri at Colorado
California at Arizona State
Southern California at Oregon
Mississippi at Auburn (5 point bonus game) ]]>
Gage slipped ahead of SGallan this week as the latter opted for loser BYU. Gage now commands has a 6 point lead over the pack half way through the regular season.
Jimmy the Greek for Week 8
Drooke 13
Gage 13
therick 13
CB 12
mhs189 12
HuskerDu 11
Jake T 11
Stardust 11
ViceGrip 11
Akin 10
nywrestler4life 8
RYou 8
SGallan 8
Big Stiffy 7
Champ Kind 7
JensenS 7
tpay 7
Trusty 7
Zapp Brannigan 7
Horatio 6
UGLY 6
Dum Dum 6
Viratas 4
Season Championship Leaders
Gage 86
SGallan 80
CB 71
RYou 71
Big Stiffy 70
Zapp Brannigan 69
Drooke 68
JensenS 68
tpay 68
mhs189 66
Akin 62
Jake T 62
Champ Kind 60
Gripsnhips 60
therick 60
Stardust 60
UGLY 60
nywrestler4life 55
Trusty 55
Dum Dum 54
RD149-2 53
HuskerDu 51
ViceGrip 50
Stephen Von Vesthell 45
Viratas 42
vaisforlovers 39
Horatio 6
Jimmy Champs
Week 1
Akin
Big Stiffy
Week 2
Drooke
Gage (1)
JensenS
Stephen VonVesthell
Zapp Brannigan (1)
Week 3
Champ Kind
Week 4
Gage (2)
RYou
SGallan
Week 5
Zapp Brannigan (2)
Week 6
Gripsnhips
mhs189
Week 7
Jake T
JensenS (2)
SGallan (2)
Week 8
Gage (3)
Drooke (2)
therick ]]>
http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Coca_Cola.htm
Want to change your vote now? ]]>
Alabama v. Tennesee was a FG contest, but it was still a good one. Cody could have been penalized for taking his helmet off immediately after blocking the kick(during the play essentially) which would have given Tennessee more yards and a closer fg attempt. But who wants to win like that? ]]>
A white Southerner, he risked his career -- and life -- as a reporter covering the major events of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, including the March on Selma. He was one of those brave journalists who made the world aware of the bigotry in action in the US South 45 years ago.
http://www.ajc.com/news/jack-nelson-...er-169731.html ]]>
Pilots missed Twin Cities by 150 miles _ but how?
By JOAN LOWY (AP) – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Were the pilots distracted? Catching up on their sleep? Federal investigators struggled to determine what the crew members of a Northwest Airlines jetliner were doing at 37,000 feet as they sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination and military jets readied to chase them. Unfortunately, the cockpit voice recorder may not tell the tale.
A report released late Friday said the pilots passed breathalyzer tests and were apologetic after Wednesday night's amazing odyssey. They said they had been having a heated discussion about airline policy. But aviation safety experts and other pilots were frankly skeptical they could have become so consumed with shoptalk that they forgot to land an airplane carrying 144 passengers.
The most likely possibility, they said, is that the pilots simply fell asleep somewhere along their route from San Diego...
(For the rest of the story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...vjYdQD9BH4FIG2
The Christian Science Monitor tells us this isn't the first time airline pilots have been caught napping -- or too engaged in cockpit conversation: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1024/p90s01-usgn.html ]]>
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-...-us_obit_sales
Sales dies at 83
By DAVID N. GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.
Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.
"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.
Also in the article, which I found particularly amusing:
Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, North Carolina, where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. ]]>