| January 2006
I know I'm becoming a broken record about this, but Doug Fredericks' photos are sheer artwork. Here's one called "Sunny Morning" from 2005. *Put your hands together for Herb Huseland/Bay Views, who has completed his first year of blogging Monday, an impressive feat not to be taken lightly, here. *Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise is on a blog roll today, posting re: Phil Reberger's denial that he's not a lobbyist here, state Rep. Jim Clark's comments that he's not pushing property tax relief to hurt children here, and an interesting bill among the 31 calling for property tax relief that could help millionaires here. *Cis/From A Simple Mind explains why she's going to pass on President Bush's State of the Union speech tonight here. *Sam Taylor/Vandal Sense, former news editor of the UI Argonaut, has returned to reporting, which he loves but it's not conducive to school work here.
Former soldier shot in the face at Emporia truck stop, suspects sought
Police are searching for the men reponsible for shooting a former soldier at a truck stop in Emporia. Corey Batts says he and his friend were confronted by three men at Love's Truckstop in Emporia on January 20th. Batts said he told the men he didn't want any trouble, but as he tried to walk away, they opened fire. "Boom, just like that, point blank, just like that," he said. "Before I knew it, I was shot in the face. I mean, just, like, a blink of an eye; a snap of the finger, I was shot in the face." .
02.15 F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" (Part II)
In addition, FEMA controlled all news to create panic. The scheme worked, and Anglo-American supremacy was reasserted over the industrial and financial world. Nothing is stable forever, however, and within a decade new rumblings would be felt. .
Sports Columnists
Tennessee is No. 1 in the RPI but entered having appeared pedestrian in losing at Kentucky on Tuesday. The Vols can look great when allowed to rip and run, markedly less great when forced to slug it out in the halfcourt. Against such an opponent, the idea is to slow it down and give yourself a chance at the end. Georgia didn't give itself a chance in the beginning. It made 15 turnovers before it sank its fifth basket. It defended so abominably that the Vols appeared to playing with an extra man. (Big Orange on the power play!) It trailed by 10 points after six minutes, by 21 at halftime, by 26 before Tennessee lost interest. "Far too many times we weren't strong and decisive," said Dennis Felton, Georgia's coach. "We were soft to start the game." Put bluntly, Georgia played a game that wouldn't have looked out of place in the 8-20 season of 2004-2005.
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So with the Presidential election heating up and MLB Spring Training games scheduled to start in less than three weeks, the timing couldn't be better.
Notable names in the "Presidential Predictor" set include, from the Democratic side, Barack Obama and John Edwards; and from the Republicans: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. A few other surprise candidates and political personalities are also showcased in the collection including Al Gore being tagged out by reigning U.S. President George W. Bush in a funny portrayal of Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch's phantom tag of Boston's Jose Offerman during the '99 American League Championship Series.
Other parodies include John McCain and Ted Williams, a pair of decorated war veterans who served their country proudly; John Edwards' portrayal of Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, both healthcare advocates, the latter who appeared as a right fielder in a single MLB game for the New York Giants (June 29, 1905); Fred Thompson blending with Babe Ruth, two larger-than-life characters who have appeared on the silver screen; and Rudy Giuliani as overzealous Yankee fan Jeffrey Maier whose infamous eighth-inning catch of Derek Jeter's long fly ball in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS tied the score, 4-4, before the Yankees went on to win the pennant and their first World Series title since 1978.
Cashing in on pollution
The New Jersey landfill redevelopment deal has been more problematic. Plans stalled as Cherokee, state officials and politicians wrangled over who should fund the cleanup costs. New Jersey's inspector general is now investigating a Cherokee partner called EnCap Golf Holdings, and the state's Sierra Club branch says putting housing atop unstable landfills is a bad idea. "It's been an interesting learning experience," says Darden, who brought Trump into the deal last fall in hope of moving the project along. Cherokee and Darden are also working to help rebuild New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward with the actor Brad Pitt and the "green" architect William McDonough. Their joint project, called Make It Right, calls for building 150 affordable, environmentally-friendly homes. Like all real estate firms, Cherokee has been affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, the resulting credit crunch and declining home prices.
Helicopter crashes in Antarctica, killing two
The helicopter was shuttling between the German ship Polarstern and German research base Neumayer II on the icy continent when it crashed. The survivors are waiting with the bodies of those killed for evacuation to Cape Town as soon as weather permits a plane to land. .
SGA Presidential debates focus on many issues
Music artist Common will be Program Boards concert guest this semester. It was announced at last Wednesdays SGA assembly meeting that he will perform at Clowes Hall on April 3. Time of the concert and a date for ticket sales have yet to be announced. .
MARHedge World Wealth Summit 2006
After a brief spell with Bank of America in 1983, O'Neill joined International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank. In 1988, he joined Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) to start a fixed-income research group in London, helping to pioneer research on the ECU bond market. In 19991, he became Head of Research globally for SBC. He joined Goldman Sachs in October 1995 as a Partner, Co-Head of Global Economics and Chief Currency Economist. O'Neill received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Surrey after graduating in Economics from Sheffield University in 1978. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled An Empirical Study of the OPEC Surplus and its Disposal. O'Neill joined the board of the European economics think tank Bruegel when it was established in 2004 and is also a board member of a new think tank called Itinera Institute of Research.
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