Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off US
Researchers from the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking for clues to the identity of a 200-year-old shipwreck lying just off the Rhode Island coast.
The two recreational divers who found the wreck are confident that the ship is the USS Revenge, commanded by navy hero Oliver Hazard Perry. The Revenge sank in 1811 after striking a reef.
Researchers are using a torpedo-shaped robot to survey the wreck. They hope to use the data to locate artifacts that could confirm the ship s identity.
Rhode Island native Perry was cleared of responsibility for the loss of the Revenge. But his career stalled until he was sent to the Great Lakes, where he commanded U.S. forces to victory over the British navy in the War of 1812.
Manchhar Lake bloats to threatening level
As many as 400 villages have been inundated as the authorities could not be able to plug breaches in Suprio and FP Bunds, while Manchhar Lake reached its ultimate level of 121 feet.
Ural Head was breached to dilute the water pressure at the Lake, raising the outflow to 10,000 cusecs with inflow from MNV Drain at 28,000 cusecs. According to the Irrigation Department, the water from the Lake would be let out into Indus Link by causing a cut in MNV Drains Zero Point.
A three-member commission has struck final decision in this connection. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah will formally announce it today. Meantime, the torrents from various canals of the Lake have inundated at least 60 villages and crops standing on several acres of land.
In view of massively precarious condition, the Irrigation Department officials are supervising the work regarding raising the bunds from Lakes Zero Point to RD-100 by two feet with the help of heavy machinery.
A temporary protective embankment is being built to save Tehsil Sehwan city of Bhan Saeedabad from the flood situation.
sushi ko
May 15, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Members of the Hatae family have celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to thank for the artwork now hanging over the fireplace and above the staircase of their two-story home in Thousand Oaks.
But the task of saving Sushi Ko, the eatery they moved from Bel Air to The Lakes shopping center in Thousand Oaks in 2005 and closed last summer, probably was too big even for the famous chef and his restaurant-makeover TV show, “Kitchen Nightmares,” to tackle, said Lisa Hatae.
“At that point we had nothing to lose; we already were going to the landlord and asking for relief,” Hatae said of opening the restaurant’s doors to Ramsay and a TV crew near the end of May 2009.
“We just thought of it a little too late,” she added with a laugh.
The results — some of them, anyway — will be seen when the Sushi Ko episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” makes its rescheduled, American-TV debut at 9 p.m. today on FOX.
Thanks to a social media acquaintance who lives in England, Hatae said that she, husband Akira Hatae and their children — Samson, 23, Hana, 21 and Summer, 12 — already have seen snippets of the episode as it appeared in the United Kingdom, where both Ramsay and the “Kitchen Nightmares” concept were born.
“I’m sure it’s going to be different when it airs here, but at least we’re prepared,” Hatae said, laughing again. “It shows all the negative things we assumed it was going to show.”
At least one person has seen an officially sanctioned version of the program, which was bumped from its original April 23 airdate by a Friday-night episode of “Glee.” Writing in the current issue of Us magazine, TV critic John Griffiths called the outcome of the Sushi Ko show “jubilant.”
Little League Base Ball World Series Scores 2009
The 16-team field is now set for the 2009 Little League Baseball World Series, to be played at Lamade Stadium in Williamsport, Pa., August 21-30.
The teams of 11- and 12-year-olds are divided into four pools of four teams each, with the first and second place teams in each pool advancing to the Semifinals on August 26-27. The International and U.S. Championship games are set for August 29, with the Consolation and World Series Championship Games set for August 30.
All 32 games of the World Series will be televised again this year. Thirteen World Series games will be televised on ESPN and 14 will be televised on ESPN2. In addition, the ESPN family of networks will carry all eight of the U.S. Regional Championship finals in the Little League Baseball division. The U.S. regional finals have been televised by ESPN and ESPN2 every year since 1997.
llnewsThe international teams come from eight regions across the world. They are:
Asia-Pacific: Kuei-Shan Little League of Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei
Canada: Hastings Community Litttle League of Vancouver, British Columbia
Caribbean: Pabao Little League of Willemstad, Curacao, N.A.
Europe: KMC American Little League of Ramstein Air Base, Germany
Japan: Chiba City Little League of Chiba City, Japan
Latin America: Coquivacoa Little League of Maracaibo, Venezuela
MEA: Arabian American Little League of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Mexico: Guadalupe Trevino Kelly Little League of Reynosa, Tamaulipas
The U.S. teams are:
Great Lakes: Logan County/Russellville Little League of Russellville, Ky.
Mid-Atlantic: South Shore Little League of Staten Island, N.Y.
Midwest: Urbandale Little League of Urbandale, Iowa
New England: Peabody Western Little League of Peabody, Mass.
Northwest: Mercer Island Little League of Mercer Island, Wash.
Southeast: Warner Robins American Little League of Warner Robins, Ga.
Southwest: McAllister Park American Little League of San Antonio, Texas
West: Park View Little League of Chula Vista, Calif.
Little League Base Ball World Series Scores 2009 was first posted on August 22, 2009 at 11:17 am.
