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Friday, April 11, 2008

Elections of Difference

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai gestures ...

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai gestures in a television studio in Johannesburg April 14, 2008. Zimbabwe's opposition has challenged election results for about 60 parliamentary seats won by President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party, a lawyer for the Movement for Democratic Change said on Monday.

src: Siphiwe Sibeko

Thursday, April 10, 2008

CHENNAI SUPERKINGS SQUAD

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Batsmen

  • Matthew Hayden - 36 - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
  • Stephen Fleming - 35 - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman
  • Suresh Raina - 21 - India - Left-handed Batsman
  • Michael Hussey - 32 - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
  • Anirudha Srikkanth - 21 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Subramaniam Badrinath - 28 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Napoleon Einstein - 18 - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain) - 26 - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
  • Parthiv Patel - 22 - India - Left-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

  • Jacob Oram - 28 - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium-fast
  • Albie Morkel - 28 - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
  • Shadab Jakati - 27 - India - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
  • Abhinav Mukund - 18 - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm leg-break
  • Viraj Kadbe - 18 - India - Right-arm leg-break

Bowlers

  • Muttiah Muralitharan - 35 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm off-break
  • Joginder Sharma - 24 - India - Right-arm fast-medium
  • Makhaya Ntini - 30 - South Africa - Right-arm fast
  • R. Ashwin - 21 - India - Right-arm off-break
  • Sudeep Tyagi - 20 - India - Right-arm fast-medium
  • Lakshmipathy Balaji - 26 - India - Right-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

  • Owner - India Cement Ltd.
  • CEO - TBA
  • Ambassador - Kris Srikkanth, film stars Joseph Vijay and Nayantara
  • Chief Selector - V. B. Chandrasekhar

Coaches:

  • Head Coach - Kepler Wessels
  • Assistant Coach - TBA
  • Physiotherapist - Tommy Simsek
  • Physical Trainer - Gregory King
src: http://premierleaguecricket.in/

MUMBAI INDIANS SQUAD

MUMBAI INDIANS


Batsmen

  • Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) - 35 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Robin Uthappa - 22 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Loots Botsman - 30 - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman
  • Ashley Prince - 30 - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman
  • Manish Pandey - 18 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Saurabh Tiwari - 18 - India - Left-handed Batsman

Wicket Keepers

  • Yogesh Takawale - 23 - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper
  • Pinal Shah - 20 - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper

All Rounders

  • Sanath Jayasuriya - 37 - Sri Lanka - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
  • Shaun Pollock - 35 - South Africa - Right-arm medium-fast
  • Ajinkya Rahane - 19 - India - Right-arm medium

Bowlers

  • Harbhajan Singh - 27 - India - Right-arm off-break
  • Lasith Malinga - 24 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast
  • Dilhara Fernando - 29 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast-medium
  • Abhishek Nayar - 24 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
  • Ashish Nehra - 28 - India - Left-arm fast-medium


Administration and Coaching staff
Front Office:

  • Owner - Reliance Industries Limited
  • CEO - R Balachandran
  • President - Mukesh Ambani

Coaches:

  • Head Coach - Lalchand Rajput
  • Assistant Head Coach - TBA
  • Physiotherapist - TBA
src: http://premierleaguecricket.in/

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS SQUAD

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS

Batsmen

  • Rahul Dravid (Captain/Icon Player) - 35 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Shivnarine Chanderpaul - 33 - West Indies - Left-handed Batsman
  • Wasim Jaffer - 30 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Misbah-ul-Haq - 33 - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman
  • Ross Taylor - 24 - New Zealand - Right-handed Batsman
  • Arun Kumar J. - 33 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Appanna K. P. - 19 - India - Right-handed Batsman
  • Bharat Chipli - 25 - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicket Keepers

  • Mark Boucher - 31 - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper
  • Shreevats Goswami - 18 - India - Left-hand Batsman / Wicket keeper
  • Devraj Patil - 23 - India - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper

Allrounders

  • Jacques Kallis - 32 - South Africa - Right-arm fast-medium
  • Cameron White - 24 - Australia - Right-handed Leg-break googly
  • Sunil Joshi - 37 - India - Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox spin
  • Akhil B. - 30 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
  • Virat Kohli - 19 - India - Right-arm medium

Bowlers

  • Anil Kumble - 37 - India - Right-arm leg-break googly
  • Zaheer Khan - 29 - India - Left-arm medium-fast
  • Nathan Bracken - 30 - Australia - Left-arm fast-medium
  • Dale Steyn - 24 - South Africa - Right-arm fast
  • Praveen Kumar - 21 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
  • Abdur Razzak - 25 - Bangladesh - Slow left-arm orthodox
  • Vinay Kumar R. - 24 - India - Right-arm medium-fast

Administration and coaching staff

Front Office:

  • Owner- Vijay Mallya
  • CEO - Charu Sharma
  • Adviser - Martin Crowe

Coaches:

  • Head Coach - Venkatesh Prasad
  • Assistant Head Coach - TBA
  • Physiotherapist - TBA

src:http://premierleaguecricket.in/

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

MGS Forever!!

The game takes place in the year 1964.  As the game opens, Major Zero and Jack
are talking in an office. Zero tells Jack that the CIA has approved their FOX
unit's Virtuous Mission.  FOX will become official if the mission succeeds.
Zero explains the details for a questioning Jack.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater


Two years ago a Soviet scientist named Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov asked for
asylum in America by speaking with an American spy. Sokolov was a weapons
expert who worked in a weapons facility. Sokolov helped develop the multi-
engine cluster used in the Soviets' first manned rocket space flight. After
working in the weapons facility, Sokolov realized the power of the weapons was
getting out of hand and wanted to defect. Sokolov's family was taken out of
the country first, and Sokolov followed shortly after. Zero was able to get
Sokolov over the Berlin Wall, but the Sokolov was in a bad state from the
journey and had to be taken to a hospital in West Berlin. During his stay,
the Cuban Missle Crisis was happening in the U.S. Soviet nuclear weapons were
placed in Cuba and America demmanded they be removed. The Soviets refused, and
the world was put on the edge of a possible nuclear attack. To avoid a nuclear
war, President John F. Kenedy had to make a deal with the Soviet Union to get
them to remove the missiles. As a cover story, the American government led
people to believe that America's part of the deal involved removing American
nukes from Turkey. America's real part of the bargain was to give Sokolov back
to the Soviet Union. Sokolov was forced to continue working on one of his
weapons for the Soviets.

According to recent intelligence, Sokolov is near completion of the nuclear
weapon and conducting tests in the Virgin Cliffs located in the Soviet Union.
Testing is the only chance they have of rescuing Sokolov.


http://faqs.ign.com/articles/578/578456p1.html

Smallest Girl ( INDIAN)



Jyoti Amge,15, of Nagpur, India, is the Worlds Smallest Girl. Here she reads at her desk in school. She sits in a tiny desk chair and wears a miniature version of the school uniform.



Jyoti, who is 23 inches tall and weighs 11 pounds, poses with her classmates.



Jyoti, now fully grown, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, that affects an estimated one person out of 25,000.



Jyoti talks on the telephone. At home Jyoti sleeps in a teeny bed, bathes in a small bucket and eats with specially made plates and utensils.



Jyoti next to the wheel of a truck.




Jyoti leans next to a bucket of water.



Jyoti learns in class.



Ranjana Amge holds her daughter.
She told Britian's Daily Mail "Jyoti is small, yet cute and we love her very much."




Jyoti is small, but has big dreams. "I would like to work in a big city like Mumbai, act in films and travel to London and America," she said.



Jyoti chats on her mobile phone.



Jyoti watches a video on a camera.


Jyoti poses next to a bicycle.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Cronje Mystery

On what would turn out to be the last daylight of his being, Hansie Cronje was returning late from a trade convention in Swaziland when he became delayed in traffic in the fringes of Johannesburg.

It was Friday twilight, the final day of May 2002, and he was on route to the airport for a planned journey back his home, a plush golf resort at George in the Western Cape.

An essential diversion to the office of Bell Equipment, a global concern specialising in the assembly of earth-moving apparatus, postponed him more.

Hansie had worked there as an account manager for less than a year since being barred from any taking part in international cricket subsequent the match-fixing racket that may yet revisit to threaten the game.

'When he let pass the flight, it was freezing and hailing in Jo'burg,' recalls his ex- secretary at Bell, Pam Jooste. 'It was late in the morning; most of the employees had gone. It was icy cold outside and Hansie asked whether anyone sought russet. He seemed concerned, a little troubled.'

Ever attentive to substitute, especially those that would save or create him money, Cronje had a position pact with the small charter airline AirQuarius which permit him to take a trip as sole passenger on one of its cargo planes.

It would be the last time the pilots would happily agree to the former South African cricket captain using their jump seat.

Though Bell were prepared to pay for a flight every weekend so that he could make the 1,500-mile round trip home to be with his wife, Bertha, Cronje preferred to fly for free with AirQuarius.

The plane crash that finished Cronje's being after 32 eventful years happened in the charcoal hours of an otherwise ordinary Saturday morning, but information of it first reached South Africa's streets at lunchtime on 1 June 2002. By then Hansie's brother, Frans Cronje, and his wife, Rene, went to George to be with his widow Bertha.

The Hawker Siddley 748 freight plane in which Cronje was travelling had dashed into a peak known nearby as Cradock Peak after trailing its way in the hostile Cape climate. Two pilots died alongside Cronje, who was largely unhurt and still tied to his seat when salvage team found the debris strewn across the frozen ridge.

Bertha Cronje had been at George airfield while the night previous to, her looming widowhood becoming more positive with each transient hour. Thus was it ended, the life of a man who found enormity, sold it for a lot of dollars and a pelt coat, and thought a few scheming words (and a veer of lawyers) could buy it back.

In truth, Cronje had little to worry about. The basics of his fortunate life had been laid centuries before, and the mortar that bound them was contradiction and as denial twisted his verve, so it embalmed him in his loss. Even now, the millions whose benchmark he bore snub to accept the truth of his fraud; to them, he relics a great man who 'made a mistake'.

They have no need to pardon him because, as they see it, he did no mistake. Only a few South Africans are ready to disagree openly. Tim Noakes, a sports scientist who worked with the South African cricket team, says: 'People were scared of him. Even these days players who had their occupation lethally affected by Cronje are afraid to say no matter which because they can still be wounded further.'

Cronje's slander sway extends afar the grave? Or might it be that his bereavement was not an disaster?

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