| Fighting a war with two mobikes, one phone and no drinking water
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls it the most serious internal security threat the ountry faces. The toll in Naxalite violence has surged over the last two years to almost one death each day. The Sunday Express reporters travel to police stations in the heart of Naxal country in six states. To find out how and why security personnel at the frontlines of this war are little more than sitting ducks .
Revisiting young dreams with D-Backs
Sunset, Room 2593. I'm lying on the bed, unable to move. My leg muscles are locked up in protest, my knee a bloody mess. My shoulder is barking with pain. I'm a beaten man.
Emotionally, I'm in an even darker place. I've just played my worst game of baseball since the 1975 Dolton Boys Baseball League All-Star Game, when I struck out on three pitches, made a throwing error and rode my bicycle home in a fog of shame. .
Commutation plea carries a political risk for Patrick
He is the first inmate whose plea to be set free has made it to the desk of Governor Deval Patrick, and his attempt has met with the unanimous approval of the state Parole Board. His request for a commutation - a reduction in sentence - along with the Parole Board's support, marks the first test of whether Patrick's attitude toward prisoners will be different from that of his Republican predecessors, who last commuted a sentence 11 years ago. It also forces the governor to wade into what has been a political minefield. "In this society, everybody gets a second chance," said King, 55, in a recent interview in a bare conference room at the Bay State Correctional Center, a medium security prison. "I think what I want people to understand is there is a possibility for change," King said.
Jury awards $350,000 in Blacksburg triathlon lawsuit
A Montgomery County jury late Tuesday night awarded $350,000 to a woman involved in a crash that killed a bicyclist during a Blacksburg triathlon more than seven years ago. Sharon Knight, a Blacksburg resident, had filed a civil lawsuit against the town and the director of the third annual Greater Blacksburg Triathlon, claiming they were negligent in failing to warn passing motorists of the race course. Triathlon participant Gary Wayne Taylor, a 30-year-old sports promoter from Lynchburg, died midway through the June 18, 2000, competition after his bicycle crashed into Knight's car. Knight was heading to church east on Southgate Drive toward Lane Stadium about 9 a.m. that morning when Taylor crashed into the side of her car at the intersection with Tech Center Drive.
Just say no to two-tiered TV
Check out my blog posting on the subject (http://carmenbranje.blogspot.com).
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
We live in capitalist/socialist mixed society and how we mix this is very important, if you don't teach kids or heal people, why are your hands in my pockets. If you can't make it in the private free market then you don't deserve to exist, please find other work. I could see news like CBC being supported, as that is a necessary service, but CORNER GAS???? Why is my tax money going to CORNER GAS??? I though that show was a huge hit in the states, but still they get government handouts?? This is insanity.
No wonder Canadians taxes are so high and yet our health care system generally sucks. All of our money is going into private hands as 'subsidies' and 'levies' rather then to public institutions that need it.
Tiger tales
Leyland acknowledged the Tigers appear to have more pitching depth in camp than he had in his first two springs as Tigers manager. It is a significant statement, given reliever Joel Zumaya 's absence because of shoulder surgery. "We've got some real quality stuff in this camp to make a 12-man pitching staff," Leyland said. Although right-hander Francisco Cruceta is now almost two weeks late reporting because of visa problems in the Dominican Republic, the Tigers believe they have adequate bullpen candidates in Matt Mantei and Denny Bautista . Mantei, an ex-Arizona reliever, had some excellent seasons in the National League. Bautista, a hard-throwing right-hander, came from Colorado in December's trade for Jose Capellan . Lynn Henning .
Iggle Piggles, kidults and the Slinky - all in a day’s work for The ...
It is about ten inches high, light blue, and as hideous as only toys for the very young can be. Press its foot, and it lisps childishly. It is an Iggle Piggle, and if you haven’t got one yet this Christmas, you probably won’t now. Every year there is some must-have item that the shops sell out of, to the despair of the parents of inconsolable tots. Remember Cabbage Patch Dolls? You shudder at them still. Toy manufacturers and retailers are routinely accused of engineering such artificial shortages to boost interest in their products. Gary Grant, chairman of The Entertainer, says it is no conspiracy, but the impossibility of knowing, in a business with a 16-week delay between order and arrival in the shops, what will be irresistible to the young this year.
Players want more noonball
Noon basketball is enjoying a revitalization at the Whitney Recreation Center in St. Cloud. The recreational basketball games are co-ed opportunities for people to play basketball games during their lunch hours. Although noonball — as members call it — has been offered by the city for decades, organizers said they had seen a sharp decrease in players attending the three-times-a-week activity. "Over the past year or so, the numbers have dropped off to literally zero," said Todd Cariveau, a regular noonball player who has spearheaded the effort to bring the activity back to life. The cost and some players' overly competitive nature led to the decline, said Cariveau and John Anderson, recreation supervisor for the city's Recreation Department.
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