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| global warming |
| 01.27.08 (2:17 am) [edit] |
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The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, challenges recent research that suggests global warming could be contributing to an increase in the frequency and the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes.
At the same time, it reaffirmed earlier views that warmer sea waters might result in atmospheric instabilities that could prevent tropical storms from forming.
Atlantic storms play a pivotal role in the global energy, insurance and commodities markets, particularly since the devastating 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, which hammered U.S. oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new study suggests that warmer seas, caused by greenhouse gases blamed for a rise in global temperatures, are linked to an increase in vertical wind shear, a difference in wind speeds at different altitudes that can tear apart nascent cyclones.
Hurricanes feed on warm water, leading to conventional wisdom supported by some recent research that global warming could be revving up more powerful storms.
But the new study, by oceanographer Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Sang-Ki Lee, a scientist at the University of Miami, examined 150 years of hurricane records and found a small decline in hurricanes making landfall in the United States as the oceans warmed.
"The attribution of the recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity to global warming is premature. ... Global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States," the researchers wrote.
Much of the recent research focused on the total number of tropical storms and hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, but Wang said the number of those hurricanes actually hitting the United States is a much better indicator.
Prior to the mid-1960s when satellites and other technology made it easier to spot cyclones, some tropical storms and hurricanes lived and died far out at sea, undetected.
As a result, scientists trying to track long-term trends in the frequency of Atlantic storms work with uncertain data.
"We believe U.S. landings for hurricanes are most reliable measurements over the long term," Wang said.
The study found that warming of the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans increases Atlantic wind shear while rising sea temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic decrease shear.
The two effects compete, but the net impact is an increase in wind shear in the main Atlantic hurricane development zone, from the west coast of Africa to Central America.
"The Pacific and Indian warming wins and the result is a decrease in landfalling U.S. hurricanes," Wang said.
In 2004, four strong hurricanes hit Florida, causing billions of dollars in damage across the state. In 2005, a record-breaking 28 tropical storms formed, including Katrina, which killed 1,500 people and caused $80 billion damage.
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| play at adelaide |
| 01.27.08 (2:16 am) [edit] |
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The Adelaide Oval remains one of cricket's most picturesque Test venues despite recent developments to increase the capacity and upgrade the facilities. Its position, situated amid gardens and trees and with the spire of St Peter's Cathedral as a backdrop, gives it a quintessentially English feel.
The ground opened in 1873 amid bitter local disputes over boundaries and money, and in its early years the pitches were often dreadful. Things gradually improved, although Adelaide's tendency to attract controversy remained. In 1884-85 it staged its first Test, but that was dogged by arguments with the English tourists over appearance money and who would umpire. In 1932-33, the Bodyline affair reached its nadir at The Oval when Bill Woodfull and Bert Oldfield were struck, and on the third day mounted police patrolled to keep the 50, 962 spectators in order. But these days the pitches are true and disputes rarer.
The ground has hosted many sports other than cricket - the biggest attendance there was 62,543 to watch the 1965 AFL final between Port Adelaide and Sturt - as well as concerts.
The ground is a true oval, which makes straight sixes a rarity but ones square of the wicket more common. The western public and members grandstands and the famous scoreboard are all items listed on the City of Adelaide Heritage Register, and two news stands finished in 2003 have raised the capacity to 34,000 (for football) and 32,000 for cricket
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| play at adelaide |
| 01.27.08 (2:15 am) [edit] |
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The Adelaide Oval remains one of cricket's most picturesque Test venues despite recent developments to increase the capacity and upgrade the facilities. Its position, situated amid gardens and trees and with the spire of St Peter's Cathedral as a backdrop, gives it a quintessentially English feel.
The ground opened in 1873 amid bitter local disputes over boundaries and money, and in its early years the pitches were often dreadful. Things gradually improved, although Adelaide's tendency to attract controversy remained. In 1884-85 it staged its first Test, but that was dogged by arguments with the English tourists over appearance money and who would umpire. In 1932-33, the Bodyline affair reached its nadir at The Oval when Bill Woodfull and Bert Oldfield were struck, and on the third day mounted police patrolled to keep the 50, 962 spectators in order. But these days the pitches are true and disputes rarer.
The ground has hosted many sports other than cricket - the biggest attendance there was 62,543 to watch the 1965 AFL final between Port Adelaide and Sturt - as well as concerts.
The ground is a true oval, which makes straight sixes a rarity but ones square of the wicket more common. The western public and members grandstands and the famous scoreboard are all items listed on the City of Adelaide Heritage Register, and two news stands finished in 2003 have raised the capacity to 34,000 (for football) and 32,000 for cricket
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| what's ur story? |
| 01.22.08 (3:46 am) [edit] |
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Every one has got his own music!
Do not think he is stupid!
Why don't you listen up to the tone?
He has got something wheeling him!
Something the minds are lost of!
And many others to be laid down!
So many scenes that has been embarked!
What is thy music?
Reveal it and lets feel the tone!
How does the strings sounds?
Dance to it in the presence of the lord!
Has the tone been approved?
The truth know itself!
What is thy music?
The truth is confused!
The minds are doubled!
Assurance has got no trust!
What is thy music?
You've got the whole in the hands!
It's wheeling me from thy hearts of thy lord!
Choruses shall be listened to!
In remembering hearts shall this be store!
What is thy music?
Truthfullness in thy journey straighten thy tone!
Committments in thy's lord renew the beats!
In thy music of thy lives need a careful keys!
What is thy music?
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| my sins |
| 01.22.08 (3:45 am) [edit] |
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My sins still lives in me!
Even when i knew it all, my carelessness will always persist!
I tried to wake up to it, but the evils in me wont let go!
I sin days after days!
Yet i cry out to god lostfully!
Who is deceiving who?
I asked myself in secret!
My blindness still sees but i knocked it off sight!
I kept on in decieves, knowing perfectly about tommorrow!
Who then is the devil?
I remain lost to it!
Because the truth is far from my heart!
I already knew of it, but the evil in me enjoys it most!
I'm scared of my sins, yet i dine in it!
I claim to have accepted my god, in secret i still messes around!
When will it then work out of me?
Truth tell's me to have my mind made up!
I tried harder but still lives in decietes!
I knew for sure his words and believe it's real!
Yet i lay claim on satan!
Then where is he?
My sins of course are him!
Make up my mind mercyfull lordContinue Reading
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| tem win |
| 01.20.08 (4:16 am) [edit] |
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Indian captain Anil Kumble praised the character of his players after they beat Australia by 72 runs in the third Test in Perth to keep the series alive at 2-1.
Victory was assured on day four of the match with Australia bowled out for 340 after they had been set a target of 413 to win. It was their first Test loss for nearly 30 months and a first at home for nearly four years.
A delighted Kumble told a press conference after the match:
"We had our moments in Melbourne and Sydney but I'm really happy that we could grab those opportunities here in Perth.
"We were 2-0 down and we knew could lose the series here if we didn't play really well so it was important that we came back and we've done that."
He also paid tribute to the way in which his players had moved on from the controversy that surrounded the series in the wake of Australia's last-gasp win in Sydney. Harbhajan Singh was subsequently banned for racially abusing Andrew Symonds and the Indian board threatened to cancel the tour.
"I don't think there was any kind of revenge or ill-feeling but it was important that we rallied around ourselves," he said.
"We all sat down and discussed how we were going to go forward. That's when we decided we'd concentrate on cricket and leave the rest of the matters to whoever needs to handle it.
"It was important we focussed all our efforts on playing cricket. I'm really glad everyone responded and stepped up to the plate."
Kumble said that the win ranked as one of India's greatest achievements on a cricket field.
"Considering the fact that no visiting team gets any sort of chance coming into Perth and being 2-0 down, it was a great effort and a brilliant victory," he said.
"If you look back at whatever victories I've been involved in both at home and away this will probably rank as one of the best.
"We came here to win the series, to play good cricket and show that the Indian team is a good test cricket unit and I'm really happy that we've been able to do that.
"Even in Sydney we did that but unfortunately we didn't get the result there and we've showed that, in what is regarded as probably the home turf for Australia, that we've been able to beat them here so it's very special.
"Now we have to take this confidence to Adelaide and try and level the series."
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| flirting |
| 01.16.08 (4:21 am) [edit] |
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Flirting, the word always flash in our mind with a negative neck tag. After marriage for most of the couples flirting is something unethical and has no role in marriage life.
Flirting has a great role in daily life. The tickling emotions of your mind are not to be kept masked. Flirting in the right manner is a great honor to the sexuality. Among all the hustle and bustle of your daily life flirting is the most productive way of releasing the sexual tensions bulging within everyone. By all means flirting is living a life of love.
Whenever you flirt, things should go in the proper perspective, barriers are to be well respected, that your partner should never feel that you go too far and wide which certainly an attack on his or her personal sphere.
In marriage flirting doesn't mean only sex being the topic of all your conversation. But it is expressing your love, feelings, and emotions towards him or her. Whatever ways you experiment when you flirt the ultimate goal is the same, happiness and understanding among you and your partner. In marriage life a simple smile or a lovely touch can be flirting.
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What is Flirting
In marriage flirting doesn't mean only sex being the topic of all your conversation. But it is expressing your love, feelings, and emotions towards him or her.
Flirting, of course is the expressions of your love but not just a verbal expression, as many of us have been mis-concepting it. It is all about understanding each other as persons with feelings and emotions. It is all about fondling the soft feelings of each other in the most sexually civilized way. It is jokes, fighting, consoling, and sharing.
Flirting has great scops in marriage as sexual feelings are evergreen, irrespective of your age or life situation. Flirting is the most effective and successful way of conversing with your wife or husband as there are no barriers in between the spouses.
Touch: a way to flirt
The most sensitive organ in human body is the skin, therefor use the seamless pleasures it can render you. Hold hands each other fondle with love and there wont be any need to speak anything else to express your love to the other person. When you touch it is not just the body temperature that you share each other but you are conversing in the most successful way of flirting where words may be felt so limited. It is the language of body and it is the language of souls.
Smile: the weapon that conquers minds
Smile is so powerful as it can work wonders for you. Smile at you spouse, and you clearly are sending the message of love. When you smile at your wife or husband you are not just displaying your teeth but it is your mind which is filled with love to your spouse is opened up to him/her. Humor has the unique quality of breaking the ice between each other. A well said joke will remain in everyones minds for years. Use the eternal possibilities of humor to flirt with your spouse.
In marriage there are uncountable ways to flirt with your wife or husband. Eating together, teasing each other, talking openly about sexual feelings, knowing and understanding one another.... the ways are so many, but you should have the mind to explore them.
Flirting has an important role in marriage life. It always releases the tensions between couples and enable them to face the life in a friendly way. You may be conversing a message of oneness with your spouse when you flirt with him or her. Flirting will help couples to invade new phases of happy life.
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| Impacts on health |
| 01.14.08 (4:05 am) [edit] |
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Since the onset of the industrial revolution, there has been a steady change in the composition of the atmosphere mainly due to the combustion of fossil fuels used for the generation of energy and transportation.
Air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting the developing and the developed countries alike. The effects of air pollution on health are very complex as there are many different sources and their individual effects vary from one to the other. It is not only the ambient air quality in the cities but also the indoor air quality in the rural and the urban areas that are causing concern. In fact in the developing world the highest air pollution exposures occur in the indoor environment. Air pollutants that are inhaled have serious impact on human health affecting the lungs and the respiratory system; they are also taken up by the blood and pumped all round the body. These pollutants are also deposited on soil, plants, and in the water, further contributing to human exposure. As you read on you can learn about health impacts of specific air pollutants.
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| Air Polution |
| 01.14.08 (4:02 am) [edit] |
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Go back
What is air pollution?
‘I’ll go out for a breath of fresh air’ is an often-heard phrase. But how many of us realize that this has become irrelevant in today’s world, because the quality of air in our cities is anything but fresh.
The moment you step out of the house and are on the road you can actually see the air getting polluted; a cloud of smoke from the exhaust of a bus, car, or a scooter; smoke billowing from a factory chimney, flyash generated by thermal power plants, and speeding cars causing dust to rise from the roads. Natural phenomena such as the eruption of a volcano and even someone smoking a cigarette can also cause air pollution
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| reduce air pollution by: |
| 01.14.08 (4:01 am) [edit] |
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Encourage your family to walk to the neighbourhood market.
Whenever possible take your bicycle.
As far as possible use public forms of transport.
Don’t let your father drop you to school, take the school bus.
Encourage your family to form a car pool to office and back.
Reduce the use of aerosols in the household.
Look after the trees in your neighbourhood.
Begin a tree-watch group to ensure that they are well tended and cared for.
Switch-off all the lights and fans when not required.
If possible share your room with others when the airconditioner, cooler or fan is on.
Do not burn leaves in your garden, put them in a compost pit.
Make sure that the pollution check for your family car is done at regular intervals
Cars should, as far as possible, be fitted with catalytic converters.
Use only unleaded petrol.
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| no fair play and justice in cricket anymore |
| 01.12.08 (3:11 am) [edit] |
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A number of popular connotations remain attached with the game of cricket since its inception on the international scene. At the very start it was called a ‘royal game’ or the ‘princely game of cricket’ because it was played by the elite of a city, town or a country. The ‘lords’ comprising the team took the field in fancy flannels and silken shirts. With unprecedented expansion and popularity, the game has travelled down from the elite to the street urchins.
With the monopoly of two major countries England and Australia on the game having ended and cricket gained international perspective, such a transformation is acceptable. The second quotation that ‘cricket is the game of glorious uncertainties’ is based on the characteristics of the game. It is a fact that one cannot predict the result till the match ends and many matches end on the last ball. Two such matches involving the Pakistan team have already become a part of our cricket history. Javed Miandad’s famous six on the last ball of a match against India at Sharjah that we won and Misbahul Haq’s inability to score two runs on the last four balls in the final of the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup that we lost will remain alive in the memory of the cricket lovers. Having proved its truth the quotation is meant to stay for all times to come.
One, however, feels sorry to note that the third and the most important quotation that ‘cricket is the game of justice and fair play’ is fading out with the passage of time. It is happening on account of the gradual degeneration of character qualities of the players, umpires and all others involved in the game. The conflicts and controversies during matches and tournaments and disputes of various nature have become an order of the day. The umpiring crisis during the Sydney Test between Australia and India became so acute that the series was almost on the brink of cancellation. The adjudication by the ICC elite panel umpires Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson was downright poor or one may say ‘partial’. Commenting on India’s defeat at the hands of the umpires, India’s manager Chetan Chauhan said: “A lot of decisions have gone against us. Had 50 percent of the decisions been received in our favour, the result would have been different.”
I absolutely agree with Chetan Chauhan. I watched the last day’s proceedings ball to ball on the TV. India were well on their way to draw the match when the catastrophe occurred mainly on account of the incompetence of the umpires. The streak of wrong and partial decisions demoralized the Indian batting line thereby ruining their chances of saving the defeat. Australia may be the top cricket team of the world but one thing is sure that they lack the sportsman spirit. A wicketkeeper is the best judge of every ball that he collects, whether edged or not. Adam Gilchrist is not only a senior player but also one of the top wicketkeepers in the game. He should have at least shown the sportsman spirit of telling the umpire that the batsman did not snick the ball. Same was for Andrew Symonds who picked the ball from the ground and claimed the catch.
Going back by two decades one finds that the concept of ‘neutral umpires’ emerged for the reason that the local umpires supervising the international matches were not only ‘considered’ incompetent but also partial in helping the home side to win. As per the new system the ICC’s elite panel comprises of the umpires nominated by various cricket boards. They are supposed to be the best among those who supervised matches at home. The only change that the system of neutral umpires has brought is that while deputing them to supervise matches it is ensured that they are alien to the competing teams. Though the factor of advantage to home team is eliminated, providing advantage to the ‘favourite team’ cannot be ruled out. In the case of Sydney Test, the factors of both incompetence and partiality were pretty evident. All said and done, it was the massacre of the spirit of justice and fair play which is the key-stone of the glorious game of cricket.
The Indians were inflicted with another serious blow when spinner Harbhajan Singh was banned for three Test matches by match referee Mike Proctor for racism. It was alleged that Harbhajan had an argument with Symonds during which he called him a ‘monkey.’ While Harbhajan denied the charge, the referee awarded the punishment considering the remarks as an offence against Symonds ‘race or ethnic origin’. Perturbed by the storm engulfing them from all directions, the Indian team, not only protested but also threatened to call off the tour. The injustice meted out to the Indian team was badly resented by the cricket lovers back home. In a poll conducted by a leading newspaper, nine out of ten Indians pleaded the team to abandon the tour and return home.
In a surprising change of attitude the Indian protest was reckoned by the ICC which axed umpire Steve Bucknor and replaced him with Billy Bowden. A High Court judge from New Zealand who happens to be a member of the ICC code of conduct commission was also appointed to hear Harbhajan Singh’s appeal. To the Indian team’s delight, his punishment will remain suspended till completion of the hearing. Finding the decisions favourable, India have decided to continue the tour. It is heartening that instead of making it a prestige point the ICC has settled the issue amicably which is not only good for cricket but also for the mutual relationship between the cricket-playing countries.
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| NEW IDEAS FOR EDUCATION |
| 01.11.08 (4:15 am) [edit] |
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An educational revolution is happening behind (politicians') backs. The Chinese failed to rescue British car manufacturing, but to China we must look to see the future of education. People there talk openly of the "education industry". In China - and India too - private education, whether chains of posh academies and universities, the mushrooming of private schools for the poor, or innovative e-learning for the masses, is becoming big business. As the market progresses, competition will force prices down, and force the pace of innovation.
My prediction is that innovation in education, if freed from the restraints of the state, will mean challenging the grossly inefficient and wasteful systems that governments have set in stone. Once this happens, education can be reclaimed from the "two tyrannies", the state and schooling. Free of the state, the educational market will be free to challenge the shibboleth of schooling. And once the new industry develops in the east, globalisation will bring the new sunrise industry to our shores.
says Prof. James Tooley, Professor of Education and Director of the E.G. West Centre, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the IEA 50th Anniversary Lecture on 20th April 2005 at the Institute of Economic Affairs, London. The E.G. West Centre is dedicated to understanding the role of choice, competition and entrepreneurship in the delivery of "Education for All."
Expanding on the above theme, Prof Tooley asks
What will education reclaimed mean in practice? As the market develops, we will wonder how it was possible to believe that all the diverse aims of education –preparation for citizenship, careers and family life, and initiation into the best that has been thought and known – could possibly be realised through schooling. Education will become organically linked again into everyday life, not forced into schools and colleges where young people sink into an alienated youth culture, into compulsory idleness and irresponsibility. And the market will look askance too at the wasteful egalitarian way in which all teachers are straitjacketed. Why, it will probe, are inspirational teachers given not only the same pecuniary rewards, but also the same number of children to teach, as teachers who lacked motivational ability? The market will not tolerate such inefficiency, and will reward those innovators who find more effective and efficient use of scarce teaching resources.
And what will educational institutions look like? Once education is reclaimed, I believe that question will look rather odd. Education will be known to pervade the whole of society. Educational institutions will be family homes, workplaces, sports’ centres, town halls, reading rooms in pubs, debating chambers, bookstores, and so on. There might be some dedicated learning centres where you’ll go when you want to learn – you’ll probably see the distinctive bright orange logo of the “EasyLearn” chain, and the characteristic red “V” of “Virgin Opportunity”. And there would be “places apart”, like monasteries, dependent on subscriptions and patronage, where young and old together can engage in study and research for the love of it. But you won’t see the youth ghettoes we call schools and colleges. They’ll definitely be consigned to the wastebin of history, a state-sponsored experiment that grossly failed.
For politicians, the threat comes from the east. For everyone else, it will be liberation.
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| Gentleman's game |
| 01.10.08 (3:41 am) [edit] |
No more, perhaps. "Only one team was playing with the spirit of the game," said an upset Team India skipper Anil Kumble after his team were beaten by Australia in the second Test in Sydney on Sunday.
The second Test that was ridden with controversies and bowled by wrong umpiring decisions put the visitors on the backfoot. India spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for three Tests for his alleged racist remarks against Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds on Day 3 of the second Test in Sydney. The altercation has not just cast a shadow over India's tour Down Under, but the relationship between the two teams if there was any has soured. Symonds claimed that Harbhajan called him 'a monkey' while the two were involved in a volley of words.
Unlike various other team sport, cricket has witnessed fewer incidents of players coming up with intimidating tactics to outplay their opponents. Racial remarks during the game is emerging as a big problem in cricket. It was an Aussie player who was first banned in the history of the game for racial abuse. It all started in 2002-2003 cricket series, when Darren Lehmann of Australia was suspended for five One-dayers over a racial remark in the earshot of the Sri Lankan dressing room. Then during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, Aussie wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist accused Pakistan's then man in gloves Rashid Latif of racial abuse. But due to lack of evidence, Latif was let off.
And now the axe has fallen on the Indian cricket team, as the Turbanator has been banned for three Tests after the ICC Match Referee Mike Procter upheld the Aussie charge that he had racially abused Symonds. Although the off-spinner got complete support from the Indian cricket board (BCCI) and the team, all went in vain. In fact, the Indians also lodged a complaint against Aussie spinner Brad Hogg for using abusive language during the second Test.
Harbhajan refuted the allegations of making racial remarks against the Aussie all-rounder. It is to be noted that Symonds has been involved in a couple of incidents with Indian players and spectators during Australia's tour of India in October, 2007. In the One-dayer played in Baroda and the Twenty20 match in Mumbai, he claimed to have been racially abused with 'monkey chants'. There have also been reports, that during the series, Symonds was involved in verbal spats with pacer S Sreesanth and Harbhajan. Keeping this in mind, there is a possibility that Harbhajan has been a victim of false allegations of racial abuse, it could have been just an on-field banter between the two players during the second Test.
The BCCI has protested against the ban imposed on the spinner, and has decided to lodge an appeal with the ICC's legal counsel. And agitated India, that is totally against racism, is hoping that their very own 'Bhajji' gets respite from the controversial ban.
In a nation where cricket is religiously followed, the unfortunate turn of events have hurt the sentiments of the Indians. With such unhealthy incidents the gentleman's game might soon turn out to be a war pitch for vandals. 'May the best team win' that plays with true sportsman spirit. Not only the players, but the spectators have been hurling racist remarks rather than hooting for their home-team. With such nasty incidents hanging over the cricket pitch it looks like the game is now no longer played in the right spirit. If this continues, cricket will be no more remembered as a gentleman's game.
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| icons tell team to behave |
| 01.10.08 (3:35 am) [edit] |
Australia's top sporting greats from games other than cricket have criticised Ricky Ponting and company for behaving arrogantly. They feel that the cricket team's moral compass is getting blurred and it needs to be returned.
"We believe the No 1 rule is to show respect for your fellow competitors and currently this does not appear to be the case. Sport is only sport. It's not war. We believe Australia's Test teams’ moral compass needs to be returned and we want Cricket Australia to know that," Sport Australia's Hall of Fame's chairman John Bertrand told Herald Sun .
Sport Australia Hall of Fame has almost 500 members. To understand what it stands for, it is important to know what Sir Donald Bradman said in his induction speech in 1985.
Sir Donald said, "When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness."
Old-timers feel these qualities are now at stake. Bertrand, a sailor who won the America's Cup in 1983, said the organisation would seek an urgent meeting with Cricket Australia this week. "We will be seeking a meeting with Cricket Australia to seek to get the Australian team to readjust their behaviour so that they do show respect for their opponents," he told Herald Sun . He added, "The fallout that we are seeing at the moment is not acceptable. It's clearly damaging international relations and clearly a lot of people are upset."
According to Bertrand, two greats Australian athletes Herb Elliott and Rob de Castella have also expressed their concern about the Aussie Test team. So has Australian Football League legend Ron Barassi.
According to Barassi, Australia should be the world leader in all aspects of the game. "I'm very concerned the word unsportsmanlike is being thrown around in relation to the cricket, and there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence. It concerns me that the Australians are regularly being referred to as being arrogant and because it is mentioned so often, you begin to wonder," he was quoted as saying in the newspaper
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| New Scientific Theories |
| 01.08.08 (2:01 am) [edit] |
An American magazine held a competition, inviting its readers to submit
new scientific theories on ANY subject. Below are the winners:
5th place (Subject: Probability Theory)
If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of
pickup
trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number
of highway signs, they will eventually write the complete works of
Shakespeare in Braille.
4th place (Subject: Bio-Mechanics)
Why Yawning Is Contagious: You yawn to equalise the pressure on your
eardrums. This pressure change outside your head unbalances other
people's ear pressures, so they then yawn to even it out.
3rd place (Subject: Symbolic Logic)
The Chinese are technologically underdeveloped because each of their
alphabetical characters represents a
whole word or phrase, rather than a single letter. Thus they cannot
use
acronyms to communicate technical ideas at a faster rate.
2nd place (Subject: Newtonian Mechanics)
Deforestation will eventually cause earthquakes, tidal waves or even
the
total destruction of our planet. Just as a figure-skater's rate of
spin
increases when the arms are brought in close to the body, the cutting
down of tall trees may cause the Earth to spin dangerously fast on its
axis with disastrous results.
Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion)
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet and when toast is
dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of
toast is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up and the animal is
then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning
inches above the ground. If enough toast-laden felines were used, they
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