| How Gus took on India over monkey chants
GUS Worland, the star of An Aussie Goes Bolly, talks to NICK WALSHAW about how he made a stand against racism in cricket, taking on 40,000 Indian fans while armed only with a camera. GUS Worland has never thrown a punch in his life. Ever. Proof not all fighters have tattooed knuckles. "How many Indians was I arguing with? Mate, I dunno - thousands?" he says. "But hearing those monkey chants in Mumbai, mate, it disgusted me. I'm the softest bloke in the world but there comes a point when you just can't walk away". This is the untold yarn of a lone Aussie who stood up against racism in cricket. A knockabout North Shore boy who, while filming his Fox 8 documentary An Aussie Goes Bolly in India this year, was unexpectedly thrown headlong into the ugly Andrew Symonds drama.
MJC dancers having Off-Balance 'Moments'
Modesto Junior College's Off-Balance Dance Company performs "Moments in Between," a modern dance repertory concert, beginning next week. The show is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31, Feb. 1-2 and 7-9 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Cabaret West Dance Theatre on West Campus off Blue Gum Avenue. Tickets are $8-$10; 575-6303. East meets West Sierra Repertory Theatre opens its 2008 season with a staging of "The King and I," Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical about a British woman who takes a job teaching the King of Siam's children. The show runs Feb. 2 through April 6 at the company's East Sonora theater, 13891 Mono Way. Songs include "Getting to Know You," "Something Wonderful" and "Shall We Dance?" Tickets are $15-$28; 532-3120 or www.sierrarep.org.
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The American Holistic Nurses Association elected Glenda Christiaens its new education coordinator, starting in June 2008. She is an associate professor of nursing at BYU. BYU Honors Eight With Emeriti Awards Brigham Young University's Emeriti Alumni Association has honored some of its distinguished alumni and educators. The honors reflect professional, personal and community contributions of teachers from the class of 1968 or earlier. Honorees include: Rulon G. Craven, of Centerville; Roger DeMordaunt, of Idaho Falls, Idaho ; B. Keith Duffin, of Salt Lake City; Marilyn Winterton Edmunds, of Beijing, PRC; D. Wilson Hales, of Ogden; Phyllis Smart Olsen, of Provo; Blaine R. Porter, of Provo; and Karl N. Snow, Jr., of Provo. Emeriti alumni are those graduates from 40 years ago or earlier.
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A total of 1,000 wreaths were placed against the headstones of veterans buried at Andrew Johnson National Cemetery on Friday in preparation for a ceremony today to honor American servicemen and servicewomen. The local event will be one of hundreds of "Wreaths Across America" ceremonies taking place on Saturday across the United States. Thirty cadets with the Greene County Air Force Junior ROTC and Greene County veterans were busy Friday as they fanned out to place a fir wreath with a bright red ribbon on each grave site. They individually bent over and placed a wreath against a headstone, sometimes fluffed up the wreath to make it look better, then stood at attention and saluted each fallen veteran. The local "Wreaths Across America" remembrance ceremony will be held at 11:45 a.m.
Weekend Calendar for Saturday, March 1-Sunday, March 2
Piano master class: 9 a.m., McDaniel College, Levine Recital Hall, 2 College Hill, Westminster. Featuring John Salmon. Information: 410-857-2599.Quilts-for-Charity day: 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Calvary United Methodist Church, 3939 Gamber Road Gamber. Adult, middle and high school volunteers needed to help with tying quilts for wounded soldiers. Lunch provided. Sewing skills not required. Bring scissors, sharp needle with large eye if available. Students may earn service hours. Hosted by the Calvary Quilters. Information: Church office, 410-795-9343/mysite.verizon.net/calvary_umc.Benefit auction: 10 a.m., Snyder's Auction House, 4112 E. Mott Ave., Hampstead. Gift certificates, furniture, household items. Refreshments and desserts available. Hosted by Boy Scout Troop 380. Information/donate: Lynda, 410-239-7324.Blood pressure screening: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., West Falls Christian Community Church, 5330 Buffalo Road, Mount Airy.
GHANA: 'Nearly 275,000’ affected by floods in little-known disaster
There is an imminent famine in the area," added Nana Akrasi-Sarpong, public relations manager at the Ministry of the Interior, appealing to the international community for help.
The government says it has set up an emergency task force to plan for future floods, and has already taken “adequate measures" to deal with the expected famine resulting from the flooding, according to the government website.
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Teens plan boycott of Clearview Mall
The fight against a new curfew for teenagers at Clearview Mall has gone viral with more than 1,000 young people organizing themselves online and calling for a boycott of the Metairie shopping center this weekend. Rise Against the Clearview Age Ban, or RACAB, was founded on Saturday, a day after officials at Clearview began strictly enforcing its Parental Escort Policy. Under the rule, patrons 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21-years-old when arriving at the mall on Fridays and Saturdays from 4 p.m. until closing. "It's being too strict, too quick," said Matt Shaver, 17 of Jefferson, who set up RACAB's online group forum via the social Web site MySpace. "I want to be able to hang out with my friends that are under 16 on the weekends." Officials said they increased security and began carding patrons last weekend to control the crowds of teens and children who congregated in the food court near the ticket booth for the mall's movie theater complex.
British Airways Holidays makes booking a city break to New York even ...
Only 50 minutes from Manhattan, this Mecca of designer outlets has some 220 stores all crammed with cut-price treasures enabling visitors to wander through the Gap outlet, Nike factory, Versace and Barney's factory outlets to bag those bargains. Additional suggestions available on the site for anyone looking for a bit of peace after a hectic day include heading to the Top of the Rock observation deck and quietly soak up the sights of the city. 70 stories high, the panoramic views are unobstructed for 360 degrees through the glass panels and give a serene bird's eye view of Northern Manhattan's landmarks; even the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the distance. New York is known for good food and has over 20,000 eateries to choose from, making dining out in New York a daunting prospect for some.
Just Call Me Wingmom
When my two best friends, Erika and Carol, announced that they were sick of nursing their broken hearts and were ready to start dating again, I was elated for them and terrified for myself. Where, I wondered would that leave me? At age 38, with two kids under 6 and a husband, my romantic life was far from exciting. Although we are all the same age, and Carol also has two children, the possibility loomed that they would soon be leading exciting lives as youngish singletons while I was stuck in the doldrums of advancing years and married life. The first inkling of what lay ahead came last Halloween. Erika, who doesn't have children, went to a singles party dressed as a sexy bee and danced till dawn on a podium. I, on the other hand, spent Halloween trudging around a Medway subdivision trying to keep Kieran, my milk-allergic son, from accidentally ingesting a Milky Way while I was unsuccessfully scraping dog poop from the bottom of my shoe.
Tigers got their man, did what they had to
Renteria brings strong glove and bat to Detroit; for that, Jurrjens and Hernandez had to go. Burning questions after the Tigers pulled off a whopping trade Monday for shortstop Edgar Renteria Q . How good, or bad, was Detroit's trade for Renteria? Does he fill the bill? Did Detroit give up too much? A . Renteria appeared all along to be the Tigers' best option. They had to find an optimum mix of defense and offense that would hold up over 162 games and they probably got their most practical answer in Renteria. Q . Does he have significantly better range than the man he replaces, Carlos Guillen? .
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El-Alsson School (EA) offers co-educational English education and serves Egyptian and expatriate children. Established in 1982, the school is custom-built on a 23,000-square-meter site in Haraniya, in the countryside near the Giza Pyramids. The school offers the Egyptian Ministry of Education curriculum, the British National Curriculum for England leading to GCSE, AS and A-levels and recently the American Middle And High School Diploma. .
Telecom regulator slams DoT
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai has shot off a second letter to the DoT (department of telecom), cautioning it against its continued attempts to manipulate Trai's recommendations and mislead various stakeholders in the telecom community.
Trai has warned the telecom ministry of cherry picking parts of its recommendations, which it says is "unfair and misleading". DoT has issued 120 letters of intent (LoIs) for award of unified access service licences (UASL) citing Trai's August 28 2007 recommendations that there should be no cap on the number of access service providers in any service area.
Trai points out that its recommendation on the entry of new service providers has always been linked to the availability of spectrum. Trai conveyed this to DoT in a letter dated February 22 2003 and later, again on October 27 2003.
Yale’s Sex Week organizers battle detractors
A week into shopping period at Yale University, sex defeated war. Before embarking on an overview of pro-slavery literature, Professor David Blight informed his "Civil War and Reconstruction Era" lecture that, after a heated battle in the Registrar's office, Professor William Summer's "Biology of Gender and Sexuality," more commonly known as "Porn in the Morn," had won the Law School Auditorium because of its larger enrollment. Blight would henceforth have to rekindle great moments of American history within the dark confines of SSS 114. While the fact that the class fulfills the science distributional requirement and does not have a cumulative final exam may have attracted some, every year, hundreds of Elis flock to Summer's class in a display of driving curiosity among Yalies — to study sexuality in a non-bedroom context.
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