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29

US Basketball: Jazz win, maintain Northwest Division lead

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Mehmet Okur scored 12 of the last 14 points for the Utah Jazz in the final minutes of their game against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night, propelling the Jazz to a 100-95 win against the Bulls. Okur finished with 20 points and was the high scorer for the Jazz, who now have won three in a row. He played most of the fourth quarter despite picking up a fifth foul early in the final period. In addition to Okur’s contribution, Deron Williams contributed 18 points and 13 rebounds in the effort.

Kirk Hinrich was the game’s leading scorer with 26 points, and Luol Deng contributed 23. However, the Jazz shot 50% from the field and dished out 24 total assists. The Bulls could not match those numbers, only shooting 40% and earning 15 assists. The lack of ball movement was obvious early on, as the Bulls committed three offensive fouls in the second quarter – all as the result of Bulls players attempting to drive the ball rather than pass and try to break the effective zone of the Utah Jazz. Ben Gordon also picked up a flagrant foul early in the second quarter, starting off what would be an ugly twelve minutes for the visiting Bulls. The Bulls were outscored 33-18 in the second quarter, leaving them down 57-43 at the half.

It almost wasn’t enough of a lead for the Jazz, as the Bulls were able to fight back and cut the lead to three with a three-point shot from Chris Duhon with 1:20 remaining in regulation time. However, the Jazz answered right back with an Okur three-point field goal, and the Bulls could not recover. While the Bulls would answer back with another field goal, the Jazz would score the next four points and pull away with the victory.

  • Andres Nocioni was scratched with a foot injury. Team doctors believe that he may have a torn or inflamed plantar fascia; MRI results are not due back for another day or two. [1]
  • Jazz coach Jerry Sloan received a technical foul for arguing with the officials midway through the fourth quarter.
  • Earlier in the day, the Bulls’ Tyrus Thomas was named as one of the four participants in the 2008 Slam Dunk Competition during All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas.
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Nine dead after small plane crashes in New Zealand

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Monday, September 6, 2010

Nine people died in New Zealand after a small tourist plane crashed on Saturday afternoon on the West Coast of the South Island, killing all on board. The aircraft, a Fletcher FU24 owned by a local sky diving company, crashed and caught fire at 13:15 local time soon after taking off from the Fox Glacier Airport to carry out tandem skydiving over the Fox Glacier. The cause of the accident is not yet known, but the plane banked, dipped, smashed nose-first into the ground, and burst into flames.

There were four overseas tourists on the plane, from Australia, England, Germany, and Ireland. The five New Zealanders were the pilot and four divemasters. Police spokeswoman Detective Sergeant Jackie Adams said that the victims were so badly burned that members of the police disaster team had to be called in to assist. She was trying to track a group of tourists who were to have gone on the flight, but wanted to go together as a group so let those who died go ahead of them.

The plane crash was the worst in New Zealand for nearly 17 years. The regional coroner Richard McElrea was travelling to the crash scene to begin inquiries, and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission has dispatched a team of six investigators. The probes may take a year to complete. There was a similar crash near Fox Glacier when a helicopter crashed killing seven people in October 1994, and a crash near the nearby Franz Josef Glacier in October 1993 which killed 9 people. Because of the earthquake in Christchurch the bodies had to be sent to the Auckland morgue rather than the nearer Christchurch morgue.

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26

Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election

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Friday, May 6, 2005

The United Kingdom General Election
Labour Conservative Lib Dems
355 197 62
DUP SNP Sinn Féin
7 6 5
Plaid Cymru SDLP UUP
3 3 1
RESPECT IKHH Ind.  
1 1 1  
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At 21:00 UTC yesterday, the polls closed in the United Kingdom general election. With only a handful of seats left to declare, Labour reached the 324 seats necessary to form a majority in the House of Commons, with the result in Corby at 03:28 UTC.

The Conservative Party remains the Opposition party, with the Liberal Democrats being the third largest party in the House of Commons.

Both the Labour victory and the reduced majority were widely predicted by opinion polls before the election. The BBC/ITV exit poll predicted Tony Blair a majority of 66 seats, which continued to be forecast as the final result as declarations were made. Some early results in the north-east indicated a bigger swing away from Labour than the opinion polls had been suggesting, but later results confirmed the survey.

Overall, there has been no clear swing in votes between the parties. Many seats have seen large swings, but in many different directions, with perhaps the national swing of 5% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat being the most dramatic with many much larger local swings.

The new Labour government has been elected with the lowest proportion of the popular vote ever – just 35.2%. However, the Tories only gained 32.3% barely more than the last election in 2001. The biggest winners in terms of popular vote were the Liberal Democrats led by Charles Kennedy, who secured 22.1% of the vote. With 645 of 646 seats declared so far, this has given the Liberal Democrats another 11 seats in Parliament, but the Conservatives have gained another 33 seats. Labour have lost 47.

As a result, Tony Blair is forecast to be governing with a majority of 66 in the new Parliament. However, on some major issues such as university fees and anti-terror laws, many Labour MPs have voted against their leadership. With a greatly reduced majority, Tony Blair may be forced to water down many more controversial policies in order to guarantee their passage through the House of Commons. Speaking on BBC News, commentator David Dimbleby pointed out the uncertainty of such possibilities, and noted that a majority of 66 was larger than the 43 seat majority won by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom general election, 1979.

One surprise vote was the election of ex-Labour member George Galloway in Bethnal Green & Bow, in East London. The area has a very high number of Muslims in it, and Galloway moved from his home in Scotland in order to gain their anti-war support. He ousted Britain’s only second female black MP, Oona King, in the process.

Robert Kilroy-Silk, the ex-talkshow host who was sacked from the BBC after writing racist newspaper articles, only came fourth in his election in Erewash in the East Midlands. His party, Veritas, which fielded 65 candidates across the country, stood for withdrawing from the European Union and blocking immigration.

Turnout in the general election is 60%, up 2% on 2001.

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26

Microsoft Bootcamps Are Set Up For Rapid Emersion Learning And Certification Exam Prep

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By Chester Flake

Because the world is moving into one that is full of technology, more people are having to take courses to help them succeed in job applications and improved career advancement. Microsoft boot camps have proven to be one of the most effective learning methods in the technology arena, because they are specifically designed for IT professional applications.

You are able to find some boot camps available free of charge and delivered through email correspondence. This is typically not an a great method of learning. The type of boot camps designed for rapid and effective learning do cost, but you get hands on training with an accredited Microsoft Trainer and usually end with a Microsoft Certification exam, which is accepted by many work places. Certification training combined with real work experience will help professionals gain better positions.

Boot camps are technology specific that way IT professionals can target specific points of interest. A good example is the boot camp for Microsoft Exchange email server system. This is something that is used with many companies, as a way to offer fee-for email accounts, which look more professional than using sites such as Yahoo! and Google Mail.

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This boot camp makes it possible for people in the IT world to become specialists in the Exchange server. Everything is done through hands on classes allowing students to learn about the server in a real-world manner. The Boot camp method of learning has proven to be one of the most effective methods of quickly learning and retaining information, because it implements real-world examples providing actual experience that they will need to secure the first job after wards.

Professional Boot camps provide an actual Microsoft Certification exam at the end of the course which everyone has to do. Boot camp learning provides one of the highest certification exam pass rates and once the exam has been passed, the students receive Microsoft certifications, which are accredited and accepted by most workplaces. However, you will need to check to make sure that your qualification is accepted for the role that you are apply for.

The exams can be either be done by an independent company or the course provider depending on the providers qualifications. This makes sure that everyone is learning the exact same thing and is tested on the same merits. This is something that universities do not offer since it is the lecturers that set the papers. The tests are done in separate centers all around the country and it is possible to register at a center close to you.

The problem is that there are new releases and upgrades on a regular basis. It means that technology is continually changing and it can be difficult for students to stay on top of the latest release. Its essential that you know which specific course is right for you.

The training available through Microsoft boot camps is targeted, effective and geared toward IT professionals. Boot camps include presentations from lecturers and labs to help with gaining practical experience. There are also discussions that are held in class, which help to expand the knowledge and find solutions to many common problems and one practice exam is available per person, which will help prep you for the actual Microsoft certification exam.

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26

An interview with gossip columnist Michael Musto on the art of celebrity journalism

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

There are two things one can expect on a trip to see Michael Musto at the offices of the Village Voice: a 20-minute round-trip wait for the elevator and rapid fire answers from one of the most recognizable gossip columnists in the United States. Musto, in addition to his appearances on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and the E! network, has been writing his column for the Voice since 1984. He has recently compiled the best of them in a book released this year titled, La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World’s Most Outrageous Columnist. He was Carrie Bradshaw, replete with a prodigious use of puns, before Sex in the City was a thought. His column is a romp through his life, spats and opinions on socio-political issues. As David Thigpen of the Chicago Tribune wrote, Musto is “a funny and caustic satirist who masquerades as a gossip and nightlife columnist.”

Musto, a Columbia University graduate, is a rarity in today’s celebrity world: he is accessible. He often corresponds with his readers and his public functions are a mix of parties, nightclubs, academic lectures, university panels and film premieres.

He is friendly and frank, and he welcomes people to join him in his world (“I just got a message that Michael Lucas died!” he says staring wide-eyed at his phone; the message turned out to be false). Wikinews reporter David Shankbone spoke with Musto about his life and his relationship to the world of celebrity journalism. And he did not hold back.

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24

Ahmadinejad sends letter to George W. Bush

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006For the first time in three decades, direct and at least partially public diplomatic communication will commence between the United States (US) and Iran. Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the U.S. president George W. Bush proposing “new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world”.

Mr Gholam-Hossein Elham did not say whether the letter mentioned the nuclear dispute, one of the diplomatic problems currently straining relations between Iran and the USA. This information arrived one day after the Iranian parliament announced that it might retract from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Western pressure over its programme was to increase.

Differing reports have been made as to whether or not the letter will be made public, and if so, when. In its online report of 8 May 2006, 09:25 GMT, the BBC quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying that the contents of the letter would be made public once Bush had received it. The updated version of the report of 8 May 2006, 14:52 GMT, quotes Asefi as saying that the contents would be made public “at the right time”. An ABC report quoted Gholam-Hossein Elham as saying “it is not an open letter.”

Iran’s foreign affairs minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, delivered the letter to the United States’ interests section in the Swiss embassy in Tehran on Monday. The United States has not held diplomatic relations with Iran since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said “this letter isn’t it. This letter is not the place that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or anything of the sort.”

“It isn’t addressing the issues that we’re dealing with in a concrete way,” she added.

John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, also read the letter, saying, “I think it is typical of Iran that when major decisions are about to be taken … that they have tried to throw sand in the eyes of the proponents of the action. That’s what this may be.”

The letter has since been put on an official Iranian website, and on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad said “the letter to US President George Bush carries the Iranian nation’s views and comments on international issues as well as suggestions for resolving the many problems facing humanity.”

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23

China College Fashion Trends 2011

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By Simon Lau

When you step into any one of Chinese colleges, you can find that there are various dressing styles. As most of the boys in China are not so keen in fashion, its hard to tell which style of dressing they are. However, things are different in Chinese girls. Every time you see a Chinese girl, you can easily tell the style of her dressing. Actually, the dressing styles, or we say China fashion trends of college girls can be divided into three categories. I will tell you one by one in the following part.

The most common one is Japanese style. The major feature of this kind of style is cute or we say kawaii in Japanese. If a college girl wears a t-shirt with a big hello kitty on it or a pink backpack just as the primary school kids, there is no doubt that shes following the Japanese style. The popularity of Japanese style is actually following the daily-better relationship between China and Japan. But the political issue is not our key point here. Not only because of the frequent cultural communication between China and Japan, but also because the Japanese culture is basically based on the traditional Chinese culture although we can see many innovative change here, like the miniskirts or sun-tops.

Then next style arises only in this decade along with the popular TV series. Obviously, the trend I mention here is the Korean one. Chinese even coined a local word Hanliu for this special fashion trend. We can use a key word to describe the Korean style: the Girl Next Door. How can we define the dressing of a girl lives next door? It always means that its comfortable, looking good but not so exaggerated as the Japanese style. Girls may carry the little elegant hand bag with them or wear the hairband with a bow on it. Instead of being sexy, girls in this style seem more accessible to others.

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Last but not least, the western style. This trend has the longer history than the two we mentioned above, however, its not adopted by the majority of college girls in China. The major reason is that we Chinese girls have different builds from the western people. You can find that college girls who have preference for this style are mostly tall and thin like models. They wear super miniskirts to show their slim figures or huge coats to outstand their arrogance. Actually there is a minor trend thats not easily discovered by most people, the campus trend. Students in college are no longer required to wear uniforms which makes them cherish the memory of that dressing.. Thats why campus trend appeared. Its rooted in the western dressing style since they have the most beautiful uniforms for student in high schools.

China College dressing fashion is actually the combination of the three kinds of styles from different countries as I mentioned above. Next time if you have time, you could come to China and walking around in the Chinese Colleges, you will find it very different from yours.

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20

Anthrocon 2007 draws thousands to Pittsburgh for furry weekend

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Local caterers get ready for big business, as almost three thousand fans converge on the David L. Lawrence Convention Center over the Independence Day weekend for the world’s largest ever furry convention, Anthrocon 2007.

Many hope to renew acquaintances, or meet new friends. Others look to buy from dealers and artists, or show off new artwork or costumes. Some attend to make money, or even learn a thing or two. But one thing unites them: They’re all there to have fun.

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20

Shooting at school leaves one dead in Tennessee, United States

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

On Thursday, 15-year-old student, Ryan McDonald, was shot and killed. The shooting occurred at just after 8:00am (UTC-5), at Central High School, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

According to Deputy Chief of Police of the Knoxville police department, William C. Roehl stated that the shooting was not “random” and that “they had contact with one another”. The shooting which occurred 8:11am (UTC-5), followed a confrontation in the cafeteria. Police arrived on the scene at 8:13am, and the suspect was taken into custody at 8:17am. McDonald was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center where he died at 8:57am, according to the police.

Police have arrested Jamar B. Siler, also 15, and charged him with first-degree murder. Judge Tim Irwin set September 17, 2008 as the trial date. Siler is being held at a juvenile detention center.

Kevin Perry, a pastor at Word of Life Ministries, said he had spoken to a student who witnessed the shooting.

“He saw them when they were arguing and pushing and shoving,” Perry said, recounting what the student had told him. “He didn’t see the guy shoot him. What he did see was the guy fall.”

Another high school student, Chad Griffin, was ten feet away from where the confrontation occurred and said that “he [McDonald] got shot and started walking and he was holding his chest. There was blood everywhere. And then he fell and his arm hit me.”

The school was preparing to release students, and bring them to a local church were they could be picked up by their guardians. Central High School has around 1,400 students.

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19

Why Is Online Homework Help Beneficial?

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Nowadays, students are bombarded with assignments. This is because assignments are considered by educational institutions, both schools and colleges as the means of judging the understanding of students. Earlier, parents were helping children to complete their assignments. But, most of the present day parents of college children are not aware of computers and so they are not in a position to help. In addition, even though, students can understand different computer subjects like C++ and Java, the problem is that when they get assignments in all these subjects, it becomes difficult for them to complete the work within a few days of vacation. This is where C++ assignment help and Java assignment help can be of great help to them.

Not only for these two subjects, they can also find help for visual basic homework and even accounting homework help is possible for students to get. Generally, there are good websites providing this service and here are the benefits of the services provided by these websites:

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Time saving: As the students are busy with the assignments in different subjects, even when they get some doubts in a particular subject, they cannot spend time to visit the home of their class teacher or professor to get the clarification. This is where accounting homework help online can be a useful resource for getting the required clarification. All that is to be done is to search a website and post the questions on their website. Even, students can send the questions to the tutors through email too. These tutoring websites will deliver the assignments to the students as per the turnaround time they agree. As the students are busy with the assignments in different subjects, even when they get some doubts in a particular subject, they cannot spend time to visit the home of their class teacher or professor to get the clarification. This is where accounting homework help online can be a useful resource for getting the required clarification. All that is to be done is to search a website and post the questions on their website. Even, students can send the questions to the tutors through email too. These tutoring websites will deliver the assignments to the students as per the turnaround time they agree.

Comfortable: In addition to time-saving benefits, students can also find it to be a comfortable option. When they get visual basic homework help right at the comfort of their home, they need not visit the local library or an online resource center for finding the books written by different authors on the subject to get an understanding of the concept. They can just get the answers right by sitting at their study room. Also, as the questions are solved by trained tutors, they can give clear step-by-step instruction as well as solution for solving different computer programs on visual basics. In addition to time-saving benefits, students can also find it to be a comfortable option. When they get visual basic homework help right at the comfort of their home, they need not visit the local library or an online resource center for finding the books written by different authors on the subject to get an understanding of the concept. They can just get the answers right by sitting at their study room. Also, as the questions are solved by trained tutors, they can give clear step-by-step instruction as well as solution for solving different computer programs on visual basics.

Clarifications: Also, after receiving Java assignment help, if a student still has some doubts, he can just send clarifications to the tutor through email. This is a great service, such that students can gain confidence in the subject.

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