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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationTeen ace shuns Comets in bid to ride for ScorpionsTEENAGER Richie Dennis says he doesn't want to commit himself to Workington Comets despite an eye-catching display last Saturday which made him favourite for a permanent role in the team. Dennis, 18, explained that he wants to be able to ride for Scunthorpe next season if they make the transition to the Premier League. Although flattered by Workington's interest and having enjoyed his outing for the Comets against Newcastle last Saturday, Dennis wants to concentrate on the Conference League with the Scorpions. Comets boss Graham Drury said: “He wasn't interested in joining us as our Grade C reserve rider for the rest of the season because he wants to keep himself clear in case Scunthorpe make the move up. “The Scunthorpe management haven't definitely decided to do that but it is a possibility.Cops and CourtsA Salinas man was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for shooting and wounding four childhood friends on Highway 1 in Aptos two years ago after a dispute at a downtown nightclub, according District Attorney Bob Lee.Raymond Avila, 19, pleaded guilty in May to one count of mayhem and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon in the July, 2004 shooting from a car that left four Seaside men in another car injured. The assault took place after members of both groups got into a dispute Tuesday night dance party held at a Pacific Avenue club. All four men riding in the victim's car were struck by bullets. Two suffered serious injuries. One was left a paraplegic and one suffered extensive nerve damage and required several skin grafts. Rio del Mar .
O2 buys UK broadband operator BeO2 became the third UK mobile operator in about a month to branch out into fixed-line broadband services, with an announcement on Tuesday that it bought broadband operator Be.
Be expects to make its broadband network available to about half of the UK population by the end of this year and 70 per cent of the population by the end of next year.
O2 didn't reveal specific details of the broadband offering it plans to make in the but it will meet stiff competition. Orange recently unveiled a service that offers free broadband connections to mobile subscribers on service plans that cost £30 or more per month. Carphone Warehouse also offers free broadband to subscribers of its fixed-line telephone service. Mobile operator Vodafone recently said that it plans to bundle broadband with its wireless service across its markets.
Self-deprecation a new quality in EnglishPerhaps it was inevitable, given the prevailing resentment among many Tartan Army foot soldiers to the alleged superiority complex of the English commentators at the World Cup, that a few neanderthals should advance to the next illogical step and perpetrate acts of violence on anybody rash enough to be caught supporting Sven's brave boys in Linwood and Munich.But, honestly, as somebody who has spent the weekend surveying the wreckage of several England teams, across the sporting spectrum, it is surely a sad indictment of how Scotland has descended into such a self-perpetuating spiral of anti-Sassenach sentiment. Why have so few people noticed the air of apprehension and self-deprecating humour, which has increased among the St George brigade? On Saturday, for instance, Stuart Barnes, the erstwhile England stand-off, could not have been more scathing in his assessment of England's latest rugby debacle in Australia if he had been wearing a kilt, a See-You-Jimmy wig and carrying the Calcutta Cup. Stobart Motorsport ready to strike on Jim Clark RallyStobart Motorsport are ready to strike on the second round of the Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championship as the five car strong force looks to the tarmac stages of the Jim Clark Rally with the squad bolstered by stand-in driver Dorian Rees. Rees, BRC Production Champion in 2004, takes the place of Julian Reynolds who has had to step down from his seat in the Stobart VK Subaru Rally Team for this rally only, due to personal reasons. "I'm looking forward to making my debut with the Stobart VK Subaru Rally Team," says Rees. "It's an honour to be asked to compete with the team and to line up next to reigning champion Mark Higgins will be quite some challenge." Rees joins Stobart Motorsports reigning British Rally Champion Mark Higgins who won the Jim Clark Rally last season by 37 seconds on his way to his second BRC title. "It's a good, challenging event that I have won a couple of times," says Higgins.Bad knees and all, siblings take rivalry to triathlon levelS ome things never change, like sibling rivalry. Now gray and middle-aged, we still revert back to the parlance of our youth: "You cannot do it!" "Can, too!" Can not!" Can, too!"If the baby of the family was marking his 50th birthday by signing up for a triathlon in Chicago, then by gum, his 52-year-old sister (that would be me) was crazy enough to register, too. And once our equally deranged 55-year-old brother heard his little brother and sister were committed to the Olympic challenge, well, what makes you think a 6-foot-4, 250-pound bear of a man with on-the-brink knees couldn't compete in a 1-mile swim, 26-mile bike ride and 6.2-mile run? So there! You wanna bet? Suffice it to say, if only my little brother hadn't turned 50 and forced us to prove that age is just a mindset, we might have saved a lot of blood, sweat and tears, and I mean that literally.
Photographs by Jeff FuscoIt's a block where on a sun-soaked Thursday afternoon in early summer, neighbors set up water ice stands and kids splash in an inflatable pool. It's a block where little girls sit on a step and giggle over a notebook, and where a little boy runs to the corner store for a soda.It's a block where boarded-up houses are overshadowed by pretty ones, where neighbors celebrate children's graduations by putting their pictures in the window, and where one front-door sign proclaims: "JESUS IS LORD." It's a block where neighbors congregate on front steps, and kids play in the street all day. It's also a block where, not too far away, there are shootings, and where less than a month ago, when a stray bullet critically wounded a 4-year-old girl who was playing outside, no one said a word.
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Bitchiness: It's not just a girl thingPerhaps the tipping point came when Prince William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton, was reported in a gossip column to have made snide comments about the racy clothes and hard-drinking ways of Prince Harry's girlfriend, Chelsy Davy. Or maybe it was when South Africa's safety and security minister, Charles Nqakula, told the fellow countrymen he called 'constant moaners' to 'stop bitching or get out'. What started on Channel Four's Big Brother and spread to the World Cup WAGs (wives and girlfriends) has gained an unstoppable momentum. Bitching, it seems, has become an epidemic, as acceptable among quasi-royals and celebrity wannabes as among academics, politicians and the general public. Not long ago, people preferred to keep their bitching a guilty secret. Now it has become brash and reckless - just look at Grace Adams-Short, 20, who was recently voted out of the Big Brother house where she became known as 'Queen Bitch'.
Beating the Gulf with nature: A costly yet vital task for ...NEW ORLEANS -- Last year's hurricanes showed that nearly every part of Louisiana's long, circuitous and sinking coast is vulnerable to catastrophic flooding similar to what happened to New Orleans.So, while engineers work at breakneck speeds to erect earthen levees and flood gates around New Orleans, officials say there is an urgent need to pour money into a second line of defense: The natural world of barrier islands and marsh lands that stand between towns and the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, state and federal officials prepared to embark on a tour of several multimillion dollar projects started before Katrina and Rita. The work involved building sand dunes, planting marsh grasses and dumping mud on shorelines. The tour of islands where pirates once held court and plantations flourished in better days highlighted the desperate, and seemingly futile, war Louisiana is fighting against Mother Nature while it tries to patch up the human mistakes of the past. |
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