Suu Kyi to sue Myanmar junta over dissolution
October 4, 2010 by Trend PK
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YANGON: Myanmar’s detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will try to sue the country’s military rulers for dissolving her political party after it decided to boycott next month’s election, her lawyer said on Monday.
Suu Kyi, who is currently under house arrest for breach of an internal security law, told lawyers of her now defunct National League for Democracy (NLD) party to file a lawsuit with the Supreme Court.
“On her behalf we will demand that the court declares that the NLD is still in existence,” lawyer Nyan Win told Reuters.
Legal experts said it was highly unlikely the case would be accepted by the court, which usually rules in favour of the military regime that has kept Suu Kyi in detention for 15 of the last 21 years.
Some even suggested the move could anger the junta so much that it might seek to detain her longer to prevent her from
david morgan whips
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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Morning everyone. So here I was, sat wondering what I might write by way of a preamble for this, the second installment of the world’s most underwhelming cricket series, when this email landed in my inbox…
“Thank you so very much for contributing to our cricket project in response to Andy Bull’s guardian.co.uk article. We have now raised over ÂŁ2,200 which is enough to fund a cricket pitch for a school in Afghanistan. We will build away! It is a really exciting project and one which brings real hope and joy to children who are often living very difficult lives in areas of poor security. Nearly half of Afghanistan’s population is under the age of 18 and cricket is proving to be a great way to keep these young occupied. There is even a slogan…put down your guns, pick up your bats!
“Afghan Connection has been working in Afghanistan since 2001. We have funded many health projects, concentrating on medical training and vaccination work. We have built 32 schools and a teacher training centre and now the cricket has proved to be a project which is gathering great momentum with the rise of cricket in Afghanistan. I could hardly have believed just 2 years ago, when I was handing out cricket balls to the Afghan Cricket Team on a dusty Kabul field, that they would be playing in the Twenty 20 World Cup 2010. This is hope for Afghanistan. The story of the Afghan Cricket Team shows that dreams can come true and the Afghan children love cricket and want to be like the heroes of the National Team.”
If you are one of the many guardian readers who has donated money to Afghan Connection, thank you so much. At the risk of sounding far too sincere, I think you can be extremely proud of what you have helped achieve. Dabs tear away from eye.
As for the rest of you, the slovenly ones, well you haven’t heard the last on this from me yet. So if you want to spare yourself the guilt and self-loathing that will accompany a summer of nagging from your correspondent, you can donate here.
elizabeth diane downs
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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Over 27 years ago, Elizabeth Diane Downs shot her three children on a dark, rural road, according to OregonLive.com. It was one of the most notorious murder cases Oregon had ever seen.
But Downs claimed then, and still does today, that a “shaggy-haired man” approached her on that dark road, tried to hijack her car, and shot her kids. Cheryl, 7, died. Danny, who was 3-years-old at the time was paralyzed. And Christine, 8, suffered a stroke, Glamour Magazine reports in a new story about the old case.
“Over the years, I have told you and the rest of the world that a man shot me and my children. I have never changed my story,” Downs said in her application for parole, according to PoliticallyIllustrated.com. Her Parole was denied. Lane County District Attorney Douglas Harcleroad sited that “Downs continues to fail to 
demonstrate any honest insight into her criminal behavior… Even after her convictions, she continues to fabricate new versions of events under which the crimes occurred.”
When Downs appeared for trial in 1984, she was very pregnant, and always smiling for the cameras. She was found guilty and sent to prison but she briefly escaped from the Oregon State Penitentiary three years after being locked up. Hers was a sensational case for sure.
As if the Downs tale couldn’t get any more like a made-for-TV-movie, the child Downs was pregnant with during her trial has come out to tell her story. Rebecca Christine Babcock says she knew she was adopted and knew her biological mother was in prison, but it wasn’t until she saw a movie dramatizing her mother’s story that she figured out exactly what Elizabeth Diane Downs had done.
Babock, now 25, is a single mother and a college student. Four years ago, she got up the nerve to contact her mother, who is serving a life sentence plus 30 years at a California federal women’s prison. They exchanged letters but Downs’ writings eventually became “filled with paranoid fantasies,” the Glamour article says.
“On 12 pages torn from a legal pad, Diane scrawled stories about a secret man — ’someone very powerful has been watching over you all your life for me’ — and how she was in jail so she’d be safe from the real killer,” Babcock said.The piece begins by describing how Babcock, after an idyllic childhood, sat down to watch “Small Sacrifices” on video — the TV movie starred the late Farrah Fawcett — with a boyfriend when she was 16. She was horrified.
“It was like a dream,” Babcock says in the article. “I couldn’t be from the belly of such a monster. But I was.”
She had run to a bookstore years earlier, after a baby sitter told her the truth, and flipped through the pages of the book, but had never fully understood the magnitude of it all. That led to episodes of teenage rebellion, drug use, fears that she had evil blood flowing through her veins, teenage pregnancy and other parallels with Downs’ life, she says in the article.
california election results
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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California Primary Election 2010:Results Election 2010 – California voters went to the polls today to cast their votes in the primary elections that are taking place today. These elections will decide who will be running both for Governor and for the US Senate in November. Some have stated that many of the races seem to be very tight, and that it is a little hard to tell who will be coming out on top. Today the voters will vote on a number of propositions, and will be deciding on which measures they will be voting on in the future.
These voters will also be voting on Proposition 14, which will institute an “open primary” system. This will allow voters to vote for any candidate of their choosing, without having to vote for a certain party or within a certain system. They would be able to vote for any candidate that they choose. As it stands now, voters can only vote for individuals within their own party, which really limits the way that many feel that the primary system should work in the state.The competition between the candidates for the california Primary Election 2010 have been long and costly. Candidate former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has spent $70 miilion during their time attempting to enter office. Former Silicon Valley executive, Steve Poizner spent $25 million during his bid to become Governor of the state.Carly Fiorina who was dumped as the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard five years ago has also dropped a fortune in her hopes to become senator.
The competition in the California Primary Elections is really tough, with so much at risk, voters are trying their best to vote wisely for a brighter future America could have
washington nationals
June 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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On a day when one Washington pitcher was performing in vain to keep his spot in the starting rotation, the poor showing of another Nationals arm may have brought its owner’s role on the team nearer to jeopardy.
Closer Matt Capps gave up three earned runs in the ninth inning Sunday at Nationals Park. He blew his fourth save in his past six chances, and although the Washington bats kept him from also being charged with the loss, the Nationals did eventually fall to Cincinnati, 5-4, in 10 innings.
“I [stunk] today,” Capps said. “There’s no if, ands or buts about it. I missed on a lot of pitches. That one’s on me.”
Washington tied the score in the bottom of the ninth on a two-out, two-RBI double by pinch hitter Mike Morse. The Nationals’ brief offensive spurt atoned for a poor outing by Capps, but it could not be sustained long enough to provide a cheerier end to a solid outing by starter Craig Stammen.
When his day — and perhaps temporarily his time in the major leagues — was through, Stammen stole a brief glance at the Nationals Park scoreboard. Through 6 2/3 innings, he had thrown just 66 pitches. He had allowed just one earned run. He had recovered successfully from a shaky first inning.
For the past several weeks, Stammen had known the start would come in which he would be forced to declare — at least for the time being, if not once and for all — whether he deserved to keep his spot in the team’s pitching rotation when the organization’s most prized prospect, Stephen Strasburg, finally was called up from the minor leagues.
With Strasburg set to debut on Tuesday, that start for Stammen came Sunday. With an ERA approaching six and the burden of a pitcher that had not been credited with a win in nearly seven weeks, Stammen took the mound cognizant that even a strong performance against Cincinnati — one of the top-hitting lineups in the National League — might not be enough to alter his fate.
“The proof is in the pudding,” Stammen said. “I knew I was kind of one of the guys that was in line for that. I haven’t been very consistent, and that’s just the way it is.”
Ronaldo Lifts Real To Comeback Win At Almeria
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a trademark solo goal and Rafael van der Vaart struck a clinical winner to give Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback victory at mid-table Almeria and keep alive their La Liga title hopes.
Leaders Barcelona followed up Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Real with a 3-0 home win against Deportivo Coruna on Wednesday to go six points clear on 83 but Real’s success in Andalucia has trimmed the gap back to three with six games left.
President Florentino Perez spent a record 94 million euros to buy Ronaldo from Manchester United and the 25-year-old’s goal against Almeria was his 19th in the league this season, eight short of Barca’s La Liga top scorer Lionel Messi on 27.
“At the start we were a bit flat because of what happened on Saturday (against Barcelona) but then we got into the match very well and created a lot of chances,” Ronaldo told reporters. “We didn’t play a fantastic match but we managed to win and that’s the important thing.”
Ronaldo Lifts Real To Comeback Win At Almeria was first posted on April 17, 2010 at 4:46 pm.
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Most Innings in a Baseball Game
Most Innings in a Baseball Game, The longest baseball game ever played in the history of Major league baseball
came on May 8, 1984 between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers. The game went 7-6 in favor of Chicago after a total of 25 innings. The official game time was a staggering 8 hours and 6 minutes.
Back in 1920, a National League game between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves lasted 26 innings and ended in a 1-1 tie. Talk about good pitching and defense. Or maybe it was poor hitting. There’s no official game time on that one, but it definitely might qualify as longest MLB game.
As for the other major sports, the longest basketball game ever played was between the Indianapolis Olympians and Rochester Royals. The January 6, 1951 game went six overtimes and approximately four hours with Indianapolis winning 75-73. In football, there’s been five NFL games that went into 2OT’s, all playoff games. The longest is said to be the Dolphins vs Chiefs on December 25, 1971 which had a total of 82:40 of overall playing time. Dolphins won that one 27-24. In hockey, back on March 23, 1936 the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons went 6 Overtimes and 116:30 of total time.
So now you know the lengthiest games of all time including the longest baseball game ever played. Although purists may debate whether it was the American League game on 1984, or the historic National League 26 inning game in 1920. One of those two is definitely the longest MLB game ever, but records were made to be broken!
Most Innings in a Baseball Game was first posted on April 18, 2010 at 10:43 am.
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asean
April 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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Unrest in Thailand and controversy over Burma’s elections are likely to overshadow a summit of 10 Southeast Asian leaders who had intended to focus on economic matters.
The summit was set to open in Hanoi on Thursday, one day after Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the face of escalating anti-government protests. At the last minute, he canceled his participation in the 16th annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Motorcyclists ride past the My Dinh National Convention Center, the main venue for 16th summit of the Southeast Asian Nations in Hanoi. (Photo: Getty Images)
“The situation in Bangkok is worrying, and it’s a somber backdrop to our discussions,” Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said. “I really hope that the situation there will not lead to violence.”
Leaders from the 10 Asean nations were expected to focus on economic integration and climate change.
Some members are likely to press privately for a statement urging Burma’s military junta to modify new laws governing the elections, which the largest opposition group plans to boycott.
Burma’s junta plans to call elections sometime this year, but under the election laws, detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is forbidden from participating.
Last week, members of her party, the National League for Democracy, announced they would not participate in the polls, the first in 20 years.
“It’s disappointing that, because of the way the election laws have been crafted, it’s not possible for the NLD to participate in the elections,” Yeo said, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the meeting Thursday morning.
However, he said, it was unlikely that the group would strongly criticize Burmese junta.
“We are not in a position to punish Myanmar [Burma],” Yeo said. “If China and India remain engaged with Myanmar, then we have to.”
Asean has a tradition of noninterference in its members’ political affairs, so a strong public rebuke is unlikely. Political consensus is also difficult to reach among the 10 nations, which include a military junta, communist states and democracies.
The leaders also plan to issue a statement about climate change, but the focus is likely to be on economics, said Carl Thayer, a Vietnam specialist at the Australian National Defence Force Academy.
Asean hopes to advance its goals of forming a European-style economic community by 2015 and promoting development across the region.
At the last Asean summit, held in Thailand, the group agreed on ways to deal with the global economic crisis. With the regional outlook beginning to improve, they may decide to remove steps taken previously to stimulate the regional economy.
Last year’s summit was disrupted by political protesters known as the “Red Shirts,” who demanded the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Some visiting leaders had to be airlifted out by helicopter.
That same anti-government protest movement launched a new wave of rallies in the Thai capital in recent weeks. On Wednesday, some Thai officials were evacuated by helicopter after the protesters briefly forced their way into Parliament.
masters
April 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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Tiger Woods walked softly to the first tee for his practice round on Monday, and the throng of spectators on hand at 8 a.m. silently parted to let him pass, their reception as cool as the dew that sparkled on manicured grass.
There was a lot of gawking but very little talking and no hollering in the first few holes as Woods faced the public from inside the ropes for the first time since the final round of the 2009 Australian Masters in November. In the early going, most of the noise came from helicopters hovering near the perimeter of the golf course.
Polite applause accompanied Woods’s first-tee mulligan — he hooked his first tee shot into the woods bordering the left side of the first hole, eliciting a few gasps and probably the worst thing he heard all morning — “That one’s left — WAY left!” one fan said.
Fred Couples, who received some applause when he walked on the tee, made for a comfortable pairing for Woods, who was actually smiling at fans and responding to those who welcomed him back with a “Thank you.”
His game had some rust on it. He did reach the green at No. 2 with two big shots, but had problems at the par-three fourth, hitting his first ball into the front bunker and his second into the grandstand. When he played the first ball, he failed to get it out of the bunker.
Security was very much in evidence in the galleries following Woods, with uniformed guards from the Securitas firm sprinkled liberally throughout the large crowds. Among the spectators at the first tee was Nick Faldo, who stationed himself right next to the gallery rope at the first tee as a show of support to Woods — whose feathers he once ruffled by critiquing his swing at the 2006 British Open at Hoylake.
Following Woods were his agent Mark Steinberg and publicist Glenn Greenspan as well as his swing coach Hank Haney. Steinberg and Greenspan were smiling and greeting reporters, shaking hands and seeming relaxed. The Masters chairman, Billy Payne, watched play at the first hole from a less conspicuous spot in the shade of the tall pines adjacent to the landing area at No. 1.
Payne said he was not planning to be in attendance for the Woods news conference later in the afternoon. There had been some speculation that the chairman would preside over the interview, but Payne deferred to the media committee chairman, Craig Heatley.
Judging from the comportment of the galleries in the morning, there would not be any questions in the afternoon about heckling or any other forms of rudeness aimed at Woods. It may have been that some in the gallery picked up the practice round sheets, available, as always, in stands all over the course, which carry the famous comments on conduct, customs and etiquette from the tournament founder, Bob Jones, written in 1967.
“In golf, customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play,” Jones wrote. “It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effects on other players.”
iphone os 4
April 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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Up Next From Apple, a Preview of iPhone SoftwareEven before the dust has settled after this weekend’s iPad bonanza, Apple is ready to announce a new iPhone operating system.
Technology journalists received an e-mail message from Apple on Monday morning inviting them to “a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software.” The event is set for Thursday at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
The invitation shows a big “4,” which most likely signals version 4.0 of the iPhone operating system. Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch currently run the 3.1 OS, which was last updated in July 2009.
