| Wisconsin Sports Spectacular
I was watching the Skier-X competition where like 5 skiers race down this hill with apparently no rules. They were shoving each other, flying over jumps and wiping out. And the wipe outs...Oh...My...Gosh! I saw 4 races and 3 of them had people who crashed. One had a really bad one where I seriously hope that the two guys who got the brunt of it are okay. They were bumping going into this jump and before you know it, both of them are flailing in mid air trying to get the center of gravity right before they hit to no avail. It looked horrible. Not to mention the guys going into the fence. The commentators were calling it a "net". Around here, we call it a snow fence, it's a regular sight along the landscape in these parts. The other event I absolutely have to see is the smowmobile freestyle. Talk about messed up in the head! These guys take a snowmobile, jump and do flips and what not while flying through the air.
Going Residential
Rooms are apartment-style suites with four single bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full eat-in kitchen and hardwood floors. Cindy Allen, Jackson’s director of community relations, said that when Daniel J. Phelan, the college’s president, first proposed building on-campus housing, there was skepticism within the college and the local community. "People were saying, ‘This is not what community college is about,’ " Allen said. "But we did two surveys ... and found that it was exactly what would bring traditional-age students here." The college started small, beginning with the $6.8 million, 24-suite building that opens this year. Just the first of three residential buildings planned on the campus, Allen said that Phelan "will probably go to the trustees in a month or two to say, ‘We’ve filled this dorm, let’s get started on building another.’ " One survey found that about 700 students wanted to live on campus; a more conservative study estimated 400 students.
UW forces way past 'Cats
A record fell. Bodies fell. Even foul shots fell. In a rugged Pac-10 encounter not for the meek, Washington got back on its feet and Arizona did not, with the Huskies slipping out of Edmundson Pavilion on Thursday night with a 75-66 victory and splitting the season series. Among all the pushing and shoving, UW freshman guard Venoy Overton came through with a career-high 19 points, five more than his previous best, before fouling out. Most importantly, he led a free-throw shooting revival, sinking all nine of his attempts, all in the second half, for the Huskies (15-12 overall, 6-8 Pac-10). Teammate Ryan Appleby gave the near-capacity crowd of 9,529 something to cheer about early by becoming the Huskies' career 3-point record-holder with a pair of first-half treys.
Latest Share Chat
Amomg AIM newcomers, Coastal Energy started life, post the share consolidation, at 121-1/2 pence, while Greenko Group, the owner and operator of clean energy projects in India, was quoted at 104-1/2, compared with an issue price of 97.6 pence. Asia Distribution Solutions, which provides distribution and manufacturing services for foreign and People's Republic of China (PRC) companies to import and sell their branded beverage and food products in the PRC, began at 29-1/2. Elsewhere, London & Stamford, a newly formed closed-ended investment company based in Guernsey, ticked up to 102 from the offer price of 100. On the downside, Charterhouse Communications dropped 27 pct - or 0.375 to a penny - after the company warned it is not certain at this stage it will meet the current year's overall profit expectations.
Internet Family Sues MySpace After Teen Commits Suicide
While the Internet has a wealth of good things going for it, there are some bad points as well. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook illustrate these points well. Most users of MySpace and Facebook use the sites as they were intended -- a place to meet friends and find like-minded people to chat with and make new friends. However, both Facebook and MySpace have had problems with sexual predators preying on unsuspecting children using the sites. DailyTech reported earlier this month that Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl, had committed suicide after a cyber-bully tormented her on her MySpace page. In the case of Meier, the local district attorney said charges were unlikely to be filed. The Dallas Morning News reports that another young girl, a 14-year-old identified only as Julie Doe from California killed herself in July of 2006 after being sexually assaulted by a 30-year-old man that she had met on MySpace named Kiley Ryan Bowers.
Denise Van Outen's female fancy
Denise Van Outen prefers kissing girls. The blonde beauty believes women make better kissers because they are "softer" and have no "stubble", but insists she is not interested in becoming a lesbian. Denise - who had to kiss a woman for her role in a theatre production of musical 'Rent' - said: "I played Maureen the bisexual so I got to kiss girls and run around on stage grabbing t**s. A whole new experience for me. .
New cookbook celebrates old Brass Tavern Inn
In 1845 when the Brass Tavern and Inn first opened its doors on the corner of Old Pike and Old Highway in what is now Munster, the journey from this section of Northwest Indiana into Chicago took about a day.Because the journey was hard (travelers could be mired in mud when the dirt roads were wet or cloaked in dust in dry weather), the tavern offered a place to rest and to dine. What made stopping there even better is that Julia Watkins Brass, who owned the Brass Tavern with her husband (and ran it while he was looking for riches in California during the Gold Rush), kept a crock jar full of sugar cookies, and her menus were described by contemporaries as "attractive and delectable." Time moves on.Now the trip from Ridge Road (Old Pike) and Columbia Avenue (Old Highway) in Munster takes less than an hour instead of a day.And the tavern, which in 1864 became the Stallbohm Inn, closed its doors in the 1890s as railroads and paved roads made traveling much easier and eliminated the need for a stagecoach stop.The building burned in 1909; all that is left to mark the site is a bronze historical plaque donated in 1927 by the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.But the Brass Tavern and those days still live on, in the memories of those who have heard stories of the inn and in the old recipes handed down by generations of local residents.Now these recipes and more have been collected by the Munster Historical Society and presented, along with photos and stories of early area settlers, in a delightful book titled "The Brass Tavern Cookbook: A Collection of Nostalgic Recipes Commemorating the Establishment in 1845 of The Brass Tavern & Inn, the First Permanent Settlement in Munster, Indiana," compiled by JoAnne Shafer. "The oldest recipes for a baked ham glaze and apple crisp both date back to 1855," says Shafer who, with other members of the society, worked on this project for 12 years.Besides providing a history of the region, the cookbook also tells a story of how the foods we eat have changed (partridge wrapped in vine leaves having been dropped from most menus today) -- and stayed the same.
Rotting fish in MIC
However it is still a positive development that the old man is voicing out against the party that he led for 22 years and the successor that he handpicked. Any help from him to weaken this corrupt ruling gang of looters should be welcomed, even if it is from Dr M whom many of us sane Malaysians hated for so long. On 'Unseen hand' manipulating inquiry JC: In answers given to the commission on an issue as important as the corruption of the judiciary, ‘I can't remember’ seems to be the most common response. What is amazing is that this seemingly standard response came from our former prime minister (Mahathir) and two chief justices of our highest court (Eusoff and Fairuz). Having to toil under the burden of such forgetful minds, isn't it amazing that these people could run the executive and judicial arms of government for so many years? On Mahathir defends Suharto's legacy OD: Of course Mahathir would defend Suharto's legacy.
TimesSelect, R.I.P.?
The velvet rope outside any ordinary New York club seems more obnoxious. ... 1:53 A.M. I always thought of L.A.'s Earl Ofari Hutchinson as an establishment-friendly, coalition-preserving PC type. I guess I was wrong--here he is on Mirthala Salinas, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's girlfriend, who may or may not lose her job next week: Salinas is as much a victim of Tony's rapacious political and media egoism as she is a victim of her heart. Politics is a dirty business and the dirt and the business doesn't stop at the bedroom door. If a politician can lie, cheat and manipulate to scurry up the political career ladder, that same politician can lie, cheat and manipulate love. [E.A.] P.S.: Some of the most rapacious and egoistic pols are the best leaders, of course.
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