Roger Federer Marches On in Halle, Faces Baghdatis Next
Top seed and four-time champion Roger Federer dismissed Czech qualifier Jan Vacek 7-5, 6-3 for a place in the quarterfinals at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle on Thursday.
"I served well," said Federer. "I put him under a lot of pressure from that standpoint which then allowed me to take sometimes a little more chances on the r
Paramilitary force personnel on Thursday conducted flag marches in the wake of violence in Siliguri town and adjoining areas on the issue of a separate Gorkhaland state even as the WBengal govt asked the army to take to the streets.
The violent incidents including clashes took place during a bandh called by anti-Gorkhaland outfits in Siliguri [...]
Here I covered a news, few days back on inflation when the inflation was 7.57% and expected it to rise further till 8%. And that seems to be coming true now. The latest inflation figures released on Saturday for the week ending Apr 26th stands at 7.61%.But this time around it was on the [...]
The company announced the results during trading hours today, 7 May 2008.Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was down 31.86 points, or 0.18%, to 17,341.15.On BSE, 31,328 lakh shares were traded in the counter. The scrip had an average daily volume of 12,764 shares in the past one quarter.The stock hit a high of Rs 271 and a low of Rs 255 so far during the day. The stock had a 52-week high of Rs 382.70 on 4 January 2008 and a 52-week low of Rs 183.15 on 8 November 2007.The mid-cap scrip had outperformed the market over the past one month till 6 May 2008, gaining 16.78% compared to the Sensex`s return of 10.26%. It had underperformed the market in the past one quarter, declining 4.39% compared to Sensex`s decline of 4.23%.The company`s current equity is Rs 60.76 crore. Face value per share is Rs 10.Th
Today I walked five miles and my daughter was transferred to a different hospital. I know you think both of those things are lies since I a) abhor exercise, and b) Maddie has been on the brink of transfer every day, but today both actually happened! We started the day by attending the March for Babies in Griffith Park. Mike and I, along with 15 awesome friends and family members, walked five miles
Obama's buddies Al and Jimmy may be teaming up with plans to tell Sen. Hillary Clinton to get lost, but she's not listening. Tuesday evening she spanked Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic Pennsylvania primary by ten points."Obama-nites" have been trying to convince each other for weeks that Obama's comments, about how Pennyslvania voters "cling to guns or religion" due to their frustrations with the economy, would not effect his Pennyslvania campaign in any way. They were obviously wrong. "Annie Oakley" came out with a win."Some people counted me out and said to drop out, but the American people don't quit and they deserve a president who doesn't quit either," Clinton told cheering supporters in Philadelphia after the Obama smack-down.A long-faced and obviously frustrated Obama offer
I really like this line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run ”
Each minute in our life IS unforgiving. It goes whether we want it to, or not. Each minute gathers into hours, hours into days and days into your lifetime. Where we are [...]
Great news for DooWop music and its fans (from my friend Pam in New Jersey): It is with bittersweet emotions i'm announcing the new organization/club that will take place at the Paramus Elks Club inParamus, NJ the last Saturday of every month starting June 28th, 2008.For the past few years this has been the home of UGHA. As most areaware we have suffered the loss of the founder and president...Mr. Ronnie I. We all know he played a major part in preserving the R&B/DooWopp music for the last past 30 years, and no one will or can take hisplace. Julie Moltz has taken on the job to keep our musical familytogether. Basically continuing the same format...last Saturday of each month, membership fee $25.00 - admission $20.00 for members & $25.00 for non members, and donations are welcomed.
Hundreds of peace activists gathered in major centres in Germany Saturday to participate in traditional Easter marches against war, with the focus this year on Iraq and Afghanistan. Some 70 events were taking place across the country between Good Friday and Easter Monday, with the main marches on Saturday and Monday. This year, the demonstrators could be counted in dozens, rather than the hundreds of thousands seen at the highpoint of the peace movement. Some 250 participated at the start of a three-day march in the Ruhr region from Duisburg to Dortmund. ~ more... ~
Protester in Honolulu Hawaii burn Durham's effigy
Inspired by presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech on race, thousands of enraged protesters marched on the home of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's maternal grandmother. Nervous residents of normally sedate Honolulu, Hawaii barricaded their homes and the Hawaiian governor called the National Guard as the crowd overturned cars and burned Madelyn Dunham in effigy:
"She's a divisive figure. She's insensitive. She made Obama cringe!" said Obama supporter Chad Thurston.
"Her comments forced Obama to question who he was," said professional peace activist and barista Mary Howell, "Now, she must pay!"
Pastor John Peters addressed the crowd, accusing Durham of developing a more severe strain of common cold, going to predominantly black neighborhoo
Trying to step out of the shadow of a famous father is tough enough for anyone, but JAYCEE CHAN has the added pressure of proving himself not just as an accomplished actor -- but as the son of JACKIE CHAN! The 25-year-old actor is starring in 'The Drummer' -- his fifth film -- a drama...
With exams finishing off on Saturday, to open up the third month of the year, the Siamerican finds himself with a slight cold as he prepares to pack up and head on a south-bound bus later in the day. By plan, tomorrow morning should see the Siamerican arriving in Phuket town bus station, after [...]
Today was my 52nd birthday. That sounds like a good many years...but really, I don't feel different from where I was, say 25 years ago. I'm healthy, I'm not losing my memory, my hair is not grey and I have been avoiding the dowdies....Ahhhhh, another year.......To now be 52 is somewhat like having an out of body experience. I feel like the years are marching on, but I've somehow been left behind somewhere in time, and I feel as if I need to catch up but my head is spinning.Where in the world does all that time go?I was born December 7, 1955. At one time that date did not sound like a long time ago because it was a youthful time, but now what can I say? Now my generation its becoming the years of "do you remember when.....?"Today my Aunt Sally forwarded this e-mail to me. I think it fit the day......Do you "remember the time when?";Those Born 1930-1979TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
The Prostate Cancer Foundation has an annual scientific retreat where the top research scientists get together and review and summarize the major breakthroughs of the year. The Foundation provided a summary this week that, thank you, offered the summaries in language that would excite a scientist, and a separate summary that helps us normal folks understand what the heck they were trying to say.
Just a few of the highlights that I believe we can draw hope from was the discovery of chromosomal fusion. In a nutshell, knowing that this DNA change takes place at the very beginning of the formation of prostate cancer may offer new ways to test for early onset. Previously we had to wait until there was some change in the PSA and often, by the time the PSA showed a significant enough change to warrant further testing, the cancer was advanced. By testing for chromosomal fusion, tests such urinalysis could be used to determine if any DNA shifting had occurred.
While the conclusion was that furt
Here's the latest from Vertical Day: Lu Hardin, the President of Central Arkansas University chimes in on Huckabee and the issue of education. Yet another Gues blogger, Huckbee in '08, tells us why he supports Mike! Mike talks about Newt Gingrich's "Nine Nineties in Nine" debate plan and why he supports it.Speaking of Newt, the former Speaker of the House checks in with a plug for "Solutions Day" on September 27th and 29th. I'll also cover this on my blog. Mike Huckabee will be participating on the 29th. More coming up later, after dinner and my daily exercise session.
From TelegraphGo, if you possibly can, to see The First Chinese Emperor, the exhibition devoted to the Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuangdi that opens next week at the British Museum. It is at once enthralling and intimidating.If you are anything like me, you will be captivated by the exquisite craftsmanship of the artefacts on display in the old Reading Room. Pride of place rightly belongs to the 17 terracotta warriors the Museum has borrowed from the army that guards the Emperor's vast (and only partially excavated) tomb at Xi'an. These clay soldiers are indeed Qin (pronounced "chin") Shihuangdi's most famous legacy, and deservedly so. Ever since a farmer stumbled upon the buried army in 1974, they have symbolised the vanished might of an ancient empire.The figures are slightly larger than life. They are also exquisitely detailed; no two are the same. And they look formidably well trained and armed. The most important point about the terracotta warriors, however, is that they were mass
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KeyOn Communications Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of wireless broadband data and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services and satellite video in small to midsized and rural markets, announced the further expansion of its Digital Voice VoIP product. KeyOn Communications has been testing voice services in select markets and based on positive reception from its subscribers, the Company has widened its roll-out of Digital Voice to include additional areas in its 11 state footprint. In this phase, KeyOn will be demonstrating additional VoIP capabilities including the testing of new devices, such as video phones and "soft" phones, across the expanded areas of operations.Jason Lazar, Vice President, Corporate Development of KeyOn Communications, said, "As a result of customer demand, we have decided to deliver voice services to more of the communities we serve. Digital Voice is a perfect complement to our broadband data and satellite
Last night, I posted what turned out to be the 100th Daily Photo! Hooray! That's almost a THIRD of a year. Sort of a big deal for me. It has been very tricky...sticking with a daily type project, remembering to actually do the daily type project... It's getting done, but very imperfectly. The part of that last sentance I am focusing on is the "it's getting done" part. There are ups and downs- parts where it ceases being fun, and other parts where it suddenly is fun again. It's good to know that it can swing back around like that! Here are a few picks from the last week:Daily photo 8.27.07 Originally uploaded by chicken widget This one's from yesterday. A brand new softie in a koala track suit perches on my ancient sewing machine.Daily Photo? 8.26.07 A Originally uploaded by chicken widget I couldn't choose which one of these would be the Daily Photo, so I just had A and B parts. (It's not her dinner- it's her treat jar. And yes, she got a treat immediatley after I shot the phot
When I first read about the Samsung U740, it seemed like a fantasy phone that really dressed to kill. It’s not until I got the feel of how it actually feels to own a double folding cellphone. EVDO high-speed data speeds make this one a favorite for those with the need for speed. There’s also an incredibly impressive media player and a microSC card slot so that you can happily store all the songs you need to keep you humming all day. The 1.3 megapixel camera is strictly okay. Other features bundled up in this include Bluetooth, internet browser, two color displays (wow!) and of course, a Double-Flip design."(Via Gizmodude.com.)
I’m all about giving props to people who I feel deserve a nice, sound pat on the back for a job well done. John Corvino, a columnist for 365gay.com and philosophy professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, wrote a column about Hairspray, not the aluminum can but the movie, and examined the relationship between race and homosexuality. It was such a well-written and extremely thought-provoking piece that I wanted to share it with the Lez Keep it Real audience.
When I was in junior high I used to sit at the “black” lunch table in the cafeteria, much to the shock (and occasional ridicule) of my white schoolmates. The seating was not officially segregated, but with rare exceptions African-Americans sat together, and I sat with them.
It wasn’t a grand political statement or a conscious act of solidarity or anything high-minded. On the contrary, it was a reluctant acknowledgment of my outsider status. While members of the white, mostly affluent student majority called me a
The hundreds of police, most of which were Hispanic, could have coordinated an attack on peaceful immigrants in front of thousands of cameras and in liberal LA, but I'm just saying that's probably not what happened. I guess we'll have to wait for the report.
Chicago Tribune: Protest marches going way of Internet - Students have left picket line for onlineExcerpt:""E-activism and blogging online are so much more popular these days as venues for youth expressing their opinions and expressing discontent," said Phaedra Pezzullo, an assistant professor of rhetoric and public culture at Indiana University in Bloomington. "Many will sign a petition online and say they were active.""http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0703250256mar25,1,6121061.story?coll=chi-technology-hed&ctrack=1&cset=trueAlex
This one is a little simpler than the flares I posted last week. Marches are a logical progression of baby scratches and is an excellent way to practice hand-fader timing. QBert explains it well and breaks the motions required for the scratch. Is a nice simple scratch to lead into a combo of scratches.
This one is a little simpler than the flares I posted last week. Marches are a logical progression of baby scratches and is an excellent way to practice hand-fader timing. QBert explains it well and breaks the motions required for the scratch. Is a nice simple scratch to lead into a combo of scratches.
New EuroYank War BlogA blog to document War. Video Documentaries and Special Reports documenting all wars on all fronts. Secrets of war including undisclosed videos and info seldom released to the public.First UpThird Reich BlitzkriegAction Videos and Marches*Third Reich Blitzkrieg Combat Videos and Marches
