Pakistan team announced for World Squash C’ship
Three players in the final squad are from KPK and one from Punjab. The championship is starting in Germany on August 21. Amir Atlas, Waqar Mehboob and Nasir Iqbal are from Peshawar while Yasir Butt from Lahore.
Amir Atlas, Pakistan’s No. 1, says he is attaching great importance to the championship. Yasir is ranked number 3, Waqar number 4 and Nasir is ranked number 7 in Pakistan. All the squad is hopeful of producing good results at the contest. Pakistan last played the championship in 1993.
Pakistani team will leave for Germany on August 18. The players say they all eye the trophy and would love to send home a good news for the nation.
2011 FLL Robot World Cup opens in China
April 13, 2011 by Trend PK
Filed under Technology
Hangzhou No. 2 Middle School team finally won the championship and would play in the world final to be held in the Netherlands in June as the Chinese representative team.
Contestants have to complete 14 contestant items within two and a half minutes with the robot they have built themselves, and scores will be given based on the performance of each item. The China Open Match of 2011 FLL Robot World Cup carried the theme of “Bio-science”, such as doing the “bandaging and giving emergency treatment to broken bones and automatically recognising and sorting out dead cells”.
Nevertheless, scores obtained from the performance at scene would not determine the outcome of each constant team. In order to test whether these precision or sophisticated robots are completed by these little contestants on their own, they have to answer the referees queries and explain on his or her designs ideas for the programme. Then, the referees give scores by taking into account the whole processes and all the items must be completed by the contestant pupils themselves.
The FLL Robot World Cup competition, first held in 1998, has entered China since 2003. Nowadays, the country s contestant teams have grown 112 teams from merely some 40 at the first event.
ICC Threats Champions Trophy
ICC champions’ trophy was scheduled to hold in 2013. The future of the ICC champions’ trophy is under threats as ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said that they are willing to have just one edition of each format of the game. ICC has intentions to have one primary edition of each format to save the interest of cricket.
Sebastian Vettel becomes the Youngest F1 World champion
Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel has become the new world champion, and the youngest in history, after a gripping Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel led from the start and only surrendered the lead after his tyre stop, but the outcome of the championship was effectively decided on the opening lap when Mercedes GPs Michael Schumacher spun and was mounted by an unsighted Tonio Liuzzi. As the safety car came out, Renault crucially pitted Vitaly Petrov, as did Mercedes Nico Rosberg. Both stops later played key roles in the title winning of Vettel.
At 23 years and 106 days, Vettel took the title with a faultless drive from pole position to the chequered flag, resisting a strong challenge from Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, who in 2008 had achieved the same feat at the age of 23 and 307 days.
Pre-race series leader and two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and Vettel’s Australian team-mate Mark Webber fell out of contention for the title when they emerged down the field after early pit-stops.
13th International Tennis Championship starts in Karachi
13th International tennis championship has started in Karachi. Five senior Indian tennis players could not come due to delayed permission from the Pakistani authorities.On the first day of the event in Karachi gymkhana, only one player each from Georgia and Germany are participating in 35-plus singles round whereas five senior Indian players also applied to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for Pakistans visa in order to play but unfortunately could not get the visa in time. In fact they were granted permission by Pakistans interior ministry just two hour before the commencement of the championship. Talking to Dunya News, Secretary Pakistan Senior Tennis Federation Khalid Rehmani said that according to ITF rules no player can participate after the draws get prepared.
Ironman Wisconsin 2010
Sunday will see more than 2,500 athletes in Madison, Wisconsin, to run the ninth Wisconsin Ironman. We do not see defending champion Raynard Tissink and Amy Marsh, who assumes in the field of training for the Ironman race next world championships in Kuna in the next month, but this is not a problem because this race is always a big race on each side of the professional age grouper.
As always, this race also marked the first Ironman World Championship qualifying race in the following year. What is new is this year’s race is the first event in the Ironman World Championship new series of the playoffs, which offers advantages in the first opportunity to earn valuable points in the search for Kuna qualifying slot in 2011.
Update the list of pros and not race race on Sunday. Sold and race in the period from Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in downtown Madison and starts with early morning swim in Lake Monona.
The features of this race in the ramp and parking the famous “snail” that athletes use to up and down for access to the area in transition on the balcony of Monona, totally unique in the sense that the changing rooms and tents, but not the conference rooms in the building.
Has attracted a series of new qualifying slot for the race next year’s championship a powerful group of professionals to Madison. The field at this time is 49 in total with 34 men and 15 women. On the side of women, including former champions Ironman Wisconsin Hillary Biscay (2008) and Jenna Crawford (2007) and Mike Twelsiek (2007) on the side of men with a variety of timers for the first race. We will have to see who can conquer the hills during a presentation with the approach of these hard to win.
Footballer Mesha Daud among plane crash victims
ISLAMABAD: Renowned national female footballer Mesha Daud was also among those 152 passengers aboard on Air blue’s plane, which met deadly crash in Islamabad on Wednesday morning, Geo News reported.
She was hailing from Karachi and was flying to Islamabad for participation in 6th National Women Football Championship (NWFC) due to be held in Islamabad from today.
The sad demise of Mesha has left the participants deeply saddened.
19-year-old Mesha would play from Dia Club in Karachi. She could not accompany her teammates due to studies and was heading to join them but the tragic national disaster did the otherwise.
She was to play a match against Punjab team today but life did not permit her.
For her memorial, her teammates observed silence for a minute before commencement of match.
Her fellow footballers said they would remember Mesha all life long and also named their first match of the championship in her memory.
miami shark
June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Miami Hurricanes baseball coach Jim Morris has heard the story repeatedly. But he still can hardly believe it.
It’s the tale of how the father of UM star third baseman Harold Martinez swam 10 hours on his back, covered with motor oil to keep him warm and clear of sharks, from Southeast Cuba to Guantanamo Bay to make a better life for his wife — a former competitive synchronized swimmer — and then 1-year-old son, Harold.
“Wow!” Morris said. “I’m scared to put my foot in the ocean. I’m afraid a shark might bite me.
“Harold says, `I was supposed to be a water person, not a baseball player.’ ”
The Canes are glad he chose land. As No. 1 seed Miami (40-17) prepares to meet No. 4 Dartmouth (26-17) at 4 p.m. Friday in the Coral Gables Regional, Martinez is tied for the Atlantic Coast Conference home run lead with 19 — more than anyone in the four-team tournament.
Only a sophomore, he is 11th in school history in home runs in a single season, and needs six more to tie the UM record set by Phil Lane in 1982. He leads the team with 60 RBI and ranks second to ACC Player of the Year Yasmani Grandal in slugging percentage (.601) and total bases (131).
“That would be amazing, when you think of all the great players who have come through here,” Martinez, 20, said when asked how significant it would be should he tie or break the record. “Hopefully it happens, because if it [it does] it means I’ll be bringing a lot of runs in — and hopefully our team will be winning.”
A former shortstop at Miami Braddock High, Martinez, 6-3 and 202 pounds, was moved to third base last year. Though he leads the team in errors with 17 at a position described in baseball as “the hot corner,” his fielding was flawless at the ACC tournament, where he was named to the all-tournament team. Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 19th round out of high school, Martinez should be UM’s top major-league prospect next season.
“People can have deceiving numbers in baseball,” said UM freshman Michael Broad. “But Harold’s 19 home runs have included a lot of big home runs. When he hits a bomb it’s a momentum-changer.”
source:miamiherald
jujitsu
June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Jujutsu or Jiu-Jitsu, literally meaning the “art of softness”, or “way of yielding”, is a collective name for Japanese martial art styles including unarmed and armed techniques. Jujutsu evolved among the samurai of feudal Japan as a method for defeating an armed and armored opponent without weapons. Because striking against an armored opponent proved ineffective, practitioners learned that the most efficient methods for neutralizing an enemy took the form of pins, joint locks, and throws. These techniques were developed around the principle of using an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.
There are many variations of the art, which leads to a diversity of approaches. Jujutsu schools (ry?) may utilize all forms of grappling techniques to some degree (i.e. throwing, trapping, joint locks, holds, gouging, biting, disengagements, striking, and kicking). In addition to jujutsu, many schools teach the use of weapons.
n Toledo at Premier Martial Arts of Toledo, located at 5333 Monroe St., Brazilian Jujitsu is taught and mastered. Students of various ages, sizes, ethnicity and careers do exercises and practice escaping and attacking while on their backs.
Deon Thompson, a Brazilian Jujitsu instructor who has been practicing for approximately 10 years and has won various medals and tournaments, including a bronze in the Pan Am Games, gold in the Ohio Grapplers Challenge and the Super Fight title at the Michigan Open Brazilian Jujitsu Tournament in January 2010, teaches the Gracie style of fighting.
”In the past, people would see the guy on the ground and say, ‘He’s losing,’” stated Mr. Thompson.
He said that about 90 percent of fights end up on the ground, therefore Brazilian Jujitsu best prepares them for the situation.
Mr. Thompson emphasizes that the art is for everyone and is not for just the best physically fit or the strongest person. He says learning that particular style is about leverage and technique.
Dr. Linda Whittington-Clark, a student of Mr. Thompson, confirmed that Brazilian Jujitsu is for everyone and isn’t discriminatory towards age, being that she just turned 58.
”I see myself walking around with a lot more confidence,” Dr. Clark emphasized
” height=”528″ />Tips for practicing and benefiting from Randori in Jukido-Jujitsu:
* Don’t worry about winning or losing – just practicing and learning
* Do not attempt throws with raw strength. This is not only dangerous for everyone involved but is never the correct method of throwing in Jukido
* Be loose – move loosely in all directions and avoid being rigid. Self-defense requires that the student be loose enough to move and take advantage of the attackers weaknesses – being tight only occurs at the correct moments.
* Look for patterns in your partner’s offensive and develop a strategy with a variety of techniques utilizing the opponents patterns against him (mental kuzushi).
* Be patient and look for and create lapses in your opponents judgment
* If your opponent begins to attempt a throw but hesitates take advantage with your own throw or series of renzoku-waza. Take advantage of your partner’s unsuccessful technique or incorrect tsurkuri and kuzushi.
* Do not resort to only one type of technique (foot sweeps, sacrifice throws,etc.)
* Do not try techniques that have not been taught to you.
* If you are a senior student try to compete a level that is just a bit higher then the Jukido-ka your working with. For example, a shodan who is practicing randori with a green belt might practice at a brown belt level. This enables the junior student to push harder at a gradual pace and it enables the shodan to fine tune some of the techniques at that level as well as increase the teaching and learning involved. In this way both students are throwing and being thrown and everyone benefits.
* Have fun and try your best!
anamika veeramani
June 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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Anamika Veeramani – Scripps National Spelling Bee 2010 Champion
2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee Winner
Anamika Veeramani, a 14-year-old girl from Ohio, won the 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee last night at Washington’s Grand Hyatt Hotel.
The competition began with 273 spellers and ended with just one: Veeramani, who correctly spelled “stromuhr,” defined by Merriam-Webster as “a rheometer designed to measure the amount and speed of blood flow through an artery.”
Anamika winning word was Stromuhr, which a medical term not in daily used. There were 274 contestants all over America and from Canada and Jamaica too. National Spelling Bee 201o was held from June 2nd to June 4th.
Most of the people don’t know the word Stromuhr means but Anamika knew that it’s the instrument that measure the blood flow in the vessels. Anamika want to be graduated from the Howard and want to be cardiovascular surgeon and like to write the books on her future profession.
Anamika won the prize money of $40,000 in cash long with tilt of the championship. Last year she participated in the competition but came fifth. But she this year did and full fills the dreams of her parents and herself too. National Spelling Bee has became the tradition since last few years even this is championship is so get famous that a movie Spell Bee has been nominated for the Academy Award. Well, congratulation to Indian American Anamika on fulfilling her dream.
In the largest field in the history of the competition, the spellers ranged in age from 8 to 15 years old, but 80% were between 12 and 14.
This year has already held one shocker. The 2009 second place finisher, Tim Ruiter, was eliminated in round four. He had been considered the favorite to win the 2010 competition.
At the beginning of the Friday night championship finals, the following ten spellers remained:
