2012年11月7日星期三

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2012年10月9日星期二

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The navy said there was strong evidence arizona cardinals store the body of one of two men killed in the shootout Sunday was Lazcano, known as "El Lazca." But it added that more forensics tests would have to be carried out to confirm the identification. "Information was obtained after the first forensics tests were carried out that yielded indications that suggest that one of the bodies is Heriberto Lazcano," the navy's statement said. "The Navy Department is coordinating efforts with Coahuila state, and will be awaiting the conclusions of the forensics examination in the case," the statement said. The death of Lazcano would be a major victory for Mexican law enforcement. The Zetas cartel that he helped found with other deserters from an elite army unit went on to carry out some of Mexico's bloodiest massacres, biggest jail breaks and fiercest attacks on authorities. Lazcano, who is also known as "El Verdugo" (the Executioner) for his brutality, is suspected in hundreds of killings, including the June 2004 slaying of Francisco Ortiz Franco, a top editor of a crusading weekly newspaper in Tijuana that often reported on drug trafficking. Ortiz Franco was gunned down in front of his two young children as he left a clinic. The United States has offered a $5 million reward and Mexico an additional $2.3 million for information leading to Lazcano's arrest. The Sunday shootout came in the rural area of Progreso, Coahuila, about 80 miles (125 kilometers) west of the Texas border, near Laredo. The navy said it received complaints about armed men in the area and sent out a patrol to check out the reports. Gunmen tossed grenades at the browns home jersey patrol from a moving vehicle, wounding one of the marines. His injuries were not life-threatening. Two of the gunmen were killed in the ensuing shootout, the navy's statement said. In the gunmen's' vehicle, authorities found a grenade launcher, 12 grenades, what appeared to be rocket propelled grenade launcher and two rifles. Under Lazcano's leadership, the Zetas recruited more hit men, many of them former Mexican soldiers, and hired "kaibiles," Guatemalan soldiers trained in counterinsurgency, transforming what had been a small group of assassins into a ruthless gang of enforcers for the Gulf cartel. The Zetas also were in charge of protecting the Gulf cartel's drug shipments. The Zetas finally split from their former bosses in 2010 and have since been fighting a vicious battle for control of the drug business in northeastern Mexico, the traditional home base of the Gulf cartel. The result has been a surge of drug-related killings. Lazcano "is credited with strengthening the organization ... he created a new structure of regional cells that specialize in specific crimes," Mexican federal cheap stitched nike nfl jerseys prosecutors say in their profile of Lazcano. The Zetas earned their notoriety for brutality by becoming the first to publicly display their beheaded rivals, most infamously two police officers in April 2006 in the resort city of Acapulco. The severed heads were found on spikes outside a government building with a message signed "Z'' that said: "So that you learn to respect."

2012年7月27日星期五

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2012年6月30日星期六

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2012年6月25日星期一

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2012年5月21日星期一

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Spectacular as it seemed, it was nothing we haven't seen from LeBron James before. Maybe that's the funny thing about all the hoopla lv sneakers for women over James' performance in Game 4 of the Pacers-Heat series. Because for once, it wasn't just his talent that deserved the spotlight, but his maturity. The question, after all, was never how good James was; he answered that long before his fateful decision to trade Cleveland for Miami turned James into the superstar everybody loves to hate. He won a scoring championship, back-to-back MVP awards and single-handedly dragged the Cavs into the playoffs each of his last five seasons there — and still had enough energy left to deliver a handful of postseason performances every bit as eye-popping as the one he dropped Sunday on Indiana. People forget that now. In 2007, James scored 48 points, including all of his team's last 25, in a double-overtime victory over Detroit. Former NBA sharpshooter Steve Kerr, who played alongside Michael Jordan and was doing the color commentary that night, bestowed the ultimate compliment that night: "Jordanesque." In 2009, James put up 41, 44 and 37 points in consecutive games against Orlando. Over those five postseasons with the Cavs, he averaged 43 minutes and 30 points. Somehow, it was never enough. So it's worth remembering the reason that Jordan, Charles Barkley and a handful of other NBA greats — plus nearly every NBA fan outside Miami — turned thumbs-down on James' decision to leave Cleveland in the first place. They simply thought he was too good and too young to go looking for so much help so soon. To say James should have developed a sense of urgency since doesn't tell the half of it. He's 27 and still without a ring after the first season of the "Big Three" experiment ended in failure against the Dallas Mavericks. So when Chris Bosh went down in the first game of the series against Indiana, and Miami's response was two shaky losses in a row, everybody was quick to drop the blame into LeBron's lap instead of where it squarely belonged — on Dwyane Wade's shoulders. It's one measure of how much James may have matured that he took the criticism in silence. Usually, he finds no slight too small to ignore and he's had so many public buy louis vuitton hoodie feuds running at any moment that it's hard to keep track of them all. Earlier this season, he correctly pointed out, "If someone wants to get a point across — just throw LeBron's name in there. You could be watching cartoons with your kids and you don't like it, you say, 'Blame it on LeBron.' If you go to the grocery store and they don't have the milk that you like, you just say, 'It's LeBron's fault.' " And so it seemed likely to happen again this postseason as the Heat's tailspin — and Wade's funk — continued through the early going in Game 4. Consistency comes when people know what's expected of them. And despite two-plus seasons trying to make their talents mesh, James' supporting cast in Miami is finding it just as hard as the one he left behind in Cleveland to figure out what their roles are when the star of the show is still trying to decide what his is going to be. For this one game, at least, James erased all doubts by doing just about everything. He scored down low, knifed through the lane, blocked shots, defended the post, brought the ball up — anything and everything Miami needed to stay within touch of the Pacers. Just before halftime, with 19 points of his own, he fired off an assist to set Wade up for a dunk that may have reversed the momentum in the series for good. That one pass said more than any pregame pep talk James may have considered. "I didn't say anything to him for a reason," James recalled afterward. "He's one of the best players in the world, but I know that the best thing for a scorer who's struggling is to get him an easy one." "When 'Bron gave it back to me, I caught it in rhythm and you could tell I wasn't thinking of anything," Wade confirmed. "I was just playing basketball again." The two combined for 70 of Miami's 100 points — 40 white louis vuitton bag for James; 30 by Wade — including 38 straight at one point. Wade had 10 in a row by himself. Even Udonis Haslem got into the act, doing a passable imitation of Bosh in the paint. "I felt like I had to do whatever it takes for us to win," James said. Yet the difference between James trying to do it all himself in Cleveland and Miami wasn't apparent until the end. It was only then that Wade realized he'd already spent too many minutes doing what James' teammates have been doing since LeBron first wrapped his hands around the ball: Watching. "We played off each other really well. We were both," Wade said almost sheepishly, "aggressive at the same time."

2012年5月20日星期日

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Phil Mickelson's tee shot on No. 11, a short par-4 where players can take driver and attempt to hit the green for a momentum-building eagle or birdie, nearly hit a group of fans on the hill Sunday afternoon. You can bet a few of them would have preferred shoes 2012 that. First, it would have stopped the ball from bounding across Byron Circle, a road that dissects part of the golf course, thereby helping Mickelson, a clear fan favorite at the HP Byron Nelson Championship in the Dallas area. But it also would have provided a great story to tell at the office Monday, not to mention a likely gift from one of the world's top golfers. About six or seven years ago, Mickelson hit a fan on a par-3 here at the Nelson and handed him a signed glove. There was a $50 bill inside. Of course, by not hitting anyone, Mickelson gave fans the chance to sprint to his errant tee ball like they were chasing Olympic gold. Two of those were 33-year-old Stephen Noll and his 8-year-old nephew, Nicholas. They secured a prime spot to see Mickelson work his magic with a wedge, hitting a flop shot over the trees and just off the green, saving par on the hole. Maybe that's worth more than $50. "This was how I got Nicholas to come today," said Noll, one of 75,000 in attendance Sunday -- at least half of them following Mickelson. "He wanted to see Lefty. This might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You don't know when or if he'll be back here. He's nice and friendly. He loves fans. You never know what he might do and that's fun." Dallas fans have waited five years to see Mickelson walk inside the ropes at the Nelson and he gave them the full Phil experience Sunday. He made long putts, pumping his fist and tipping his visor. He nearly chipped in a few times, pummeled a few drives and worked his way up the leaderboard in Sunday charge mode. At one point, he was 1 stroke back. But part of watching Mickelson is seeing the mistakes that make you shake your head. Like his three-foot miss for par on 17. Or his 9-iron second shot on 18 that ended up wet. All of that is why fans love him. None of us can hit flop shots as consistently as Phil can. But all of us miss three-footers. "It was disappointing to have missed that first louis vuitton handbags 2012 collection putt [for birdie]," Mickelson said about No. 17. "I don't know what happened on the second. I gave it my full attention. I left it like I wanted to, it spun out." Still, Mickelson was pleased that he made some putts and put himself in a position to make things interesting. "I had a great day today," said Mickelson, who ended up tied for seventh, five back of champion Jason Dufner. "The wind was calm and left the golf course accessible to birdies. I got hot with the putter. I didn't knock down the pins, but I gave myself some putts and made a few and it was nice to see some of them going in." After Mickelson finished with the media, a fan reached over a fence with a golf glove in his hand, begging Mickelson to sign it. He waved him around to the autograph area and stayed nearly 30 minutes signing for fans, something he did every day here. The Nelson had another exciting finish Sunday and Dufner is a worthy champion, making a memorable 25-footer on the final hole for a one-shot win over Dicky Pride. But it was Mickelson who controlled the crowd. They came out early Sunday hoping to see Mickelson scare the leaders and he obliged. His 11-foot birdie putt on five got him going and he made three more after that. When he drained a 30-footer on No. 8, the fans -- six deep around the green -- let out a mighty roar. "He's the guy I wanted to see," said Aaron Quarles, a 33-year-old banker from Denison, Texas. "I thought about driving to Houston in April, but I'm glad he's playing here. He hits it in some tough places and it's fun to see him get out of it." After Mickelson made par on No. 9, he saw 5-year-old Beau McFarlane wearing a Masters hat and sitting near the ropes. Mickelson tossed him the ball, causing everyone in the family to cheer and smile. The McFarlanes, which included Beau's 6-year-old brother, Ryder, had waited through five or six groups just hoping to be in the right spot to see Mickelson. "He got Vijay Singh's ball last year and we brought it with us," said Beau's father, Brian. "Phil is just a tremendous player. He's got great morals, true character and he handled his wife's cancer like a real gentleman. We're missing that today in sports." Mickelson said he normally tries to find a cute kid to give a ball to after most holes, joking that he wouldn't dare toss one to the older folks covering his every move in the media. On No. 15, Mickelson found himself in a green-side bunker. As soon as he hit out of it, a voice yelled: "Get in the hole." It nearly did, as it burned the edge, eliciting a reaction from Mickelson. That voice was Stacy Elliott, who just couldn't help himself. "He's Phil, man," Elliott said. "He's from California and so am I. And he's Phil. What else can I say?" Phil won over the Dallas fans all over again. They also won him over. Mickelson attended the Texas Rangers game Wednesday, watching Yu Darvish pitch, and is always complimentary of the Dallas sports scene. "Dallas has given me some of the best, most exciting sports events that I've been a part of," Mickelson said. "I went to a Dallas Stars game [years ago], and I didn't grow up with hockey, and to have that experience, to see 48,000 people at a regular Rangers game, that's special. I've popular louis vuitton handbags 2012 been to a couple of Mavs playoff games. "The community supports sports so well here and this tournament is no different. The size of the crowd, as well as the quality of the crowds, is great, and it's fun for us to be a part of it."

2012年5月17日星期四

The loss of Pearce led Domene to immediately go out

Suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, claiming the league's top executive Burberry handbags outlet, cheap burberry bags on sale, 60% off made false statements that tarnished Vilma's reputation and hindered his ability to earn a living playing football. The suit in U.S. District Court in New Orleans claims Goodell, "relied on, at best, hearsay, circumstantial evidence and lies" in making comments about Vilma while discussing the NFL's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints. Goodell has said Vilma was a leader of the team's bounty program that put up thousands of dollars for hits which took out opposing teams' star players from 2009 to 2011, including $10,000 each on then-Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner and then-Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre during the playoffs in 2010. Vilma wrote on his Twitter account that, "As I've said before..I NEVER PAID, NOR INTENDED TO PAY ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY, TO ANY PLAYER FOR INTENTIONALLY HURTING AN OPPONENT." Goodell has suspended Vilma, an eight-year veteran and defensive captain, for the entire 2012 season. Vilma and three other current of former Saints who received shorter suspensions — defensive end Will Smith, defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove and linebacker Scott Fujita — all have designerburberyoutlet appealed their punishments. Hargrove now plays for Green Bay and Fujita is with Cleveland. Top-ranked Novak Djokovic overcame a poor first set and a smashed racket to beat Juan Monaco, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, and reach the Italian Open quarterfinals in Rome. Also through at Foro Italico were five-time Rome champion Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Serena and Venus Williams and French Open champ Li Na. Defending champion Suzann Pettersen of Norway didn't last long at the Sybase Match Play Championship at Gladstone, N.J., and neither did three well-known Americans. Pettersen, the world's No. 3-ranked player, was eliminated 3 and 1 by Jodi Ewart of England on Thursday in the first round. Paula Creamer, Brittanny Lincicome and Michelle Wie were upset by fellow Americans. Finnish forward Jesse Joensuu's winning goal with nine seconds left lifted Finland past the United States, 3-2, for a place in the semifinals of the hockey world championships in Helsinki. Finland meets Russia on Saturday in the semifinal. Old Dominion is leaving the Colonial Athletic Assn. and louis vuitton mens shoes joining Conference USA. The move will be effective July 1, 2013, school President John R. Broderick said in a release Thursday. The Monarchs, who restarted their football program only three seasons ago, will play at the Bowl Subdivision level after one more year in the Championship Subdivision. Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an incident in which police used pepper spray to subdue him after an off-campus party. Rees, who turns 20 next week, is charged with one count of battery, two counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. Chivas USA General Manager Jose Domene pulled off two of the biggest trades in franchise history Thursday, adding talented striker Juan Agudelo from the New York Red Bulls and veteran U.S. national team defender Danny Califf from the Philadelphia Union in separate deals. Both Agudelo and Califf are expected to be available to play in Saturday's SuperClasico with the Galaxy at the Home Depot Center. The price for Agudelo was steep, with Chivas giving up All-Star defender Heath Pearce. But in Agudelo, who notched his first goal for the national team at age 17, Chivas may now have the scoring punch it lacked in its first 10 games, when it scored a league-low six times. "I am certainly excited to have Juan Agudelo joining our team," said Chivas Coach Robin Fraser, who has been under fire during a start in which his team has been held scoreless five times. "He's a dynamic forward who has an incredible future ahead of him." The loss of Pearce led Domene to immediately go out and get 32-year-old defender Califf, who has played in the Danish Superliga and as well as with the U.S. lv suits for men national team. Chivas sent midfielder Michael Lahoud, a former first-round draft pick who has been plagued by injury this season, to Philadelphia in return. In addition, Chivas sent allocation money to both New York and Philadelphia to complete the deals.

2012年5月16日星期三

In another sign of the growing power of comedic content

A YEAR ago, the television industry was abuzz about the CBS decision to keep the popular series “Two and a Half Men” on the air by replacing Charlie Sheen with Ashton Kutcher. A year later, all eyes are on “Men” again as CBS readies a move of the sitcom to Thursday from Monday, louis vuitton womens sunglasses 2012 on which it has spent its entire run. The shift, which CBS discussed during its 2012-13 upfront presentation on Wednesday, will be the second time that CBS has moved a successful Monday comedy to Thursday to try to establish a stronger beachhead with viewers later in the week. For the 2010-11 season, it was “The Big Bang Theory,” which became a bigger hit on Thursday than it had been on Monday. For 2012-13, it will be “Two and a Half Men,” the sitcom that was revived nine months ago with the casting of Mr. Kutcher to replace Mr. Sheen. “The Big Bang Theory” will remain at 8 p.m. and “Two and a Half Men” will follow at 8:30, replacing a skein of sitcoms that failed to capitalize on the large audiences for “Big Bang.” Thursday is a particularly lucrative night of the television week because advertisers like movie studios, retailers and automakers run commercials to reach viewers making weekend plans. “We’ve created a super comedy hour,” Kelly Kahl, senior executive vice president for CBS prime time, told reporters at a preview of the network’s schedule. Mr. Kahl, who heads scheduling for CBS, part of the CBS Corporation, said the block should help build viewership for “Person of Interest,” a drama returning for a second season, which will lead out of the two sitcoms at 9 p.m. A new drama will be shown at 10 p.m., “Elementary,” a modern take on Sherlock Holmes that brings him to New York — and turns Dr. Watson into a woman. (To make room for “Elementary,” CBS will shift the drama “The Mentalist” to 10 p.m. on Sunday.) Another new drama, “Vegas,” will run on Tuesday at 10 p.m., and a third, “Made in Jersey,” will appear on Friday at 9 p.m. CBS will also add a comedy to its fall schedule, “Partners,” about a pair of male friends, one straight and one gay, to be shown at 8:30 p.m. on Monday. The sitcom now in that slot, “2 Broke Girls,” is being moved to replace “Men” at 9 p.m., becoming the anchor of the CBS Monday lineup. To underline that coming prominence for “2 Broke Girls,” the stars, Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings, took part in a skit during the CBS presentation, and they were joined by one rich football-playing boy, Tim Tebow. “Men” is entering its 10th season, a longevity rare for sitcoms — or any TV fare, for that matter. “2 Broke Girls,” by contrast, was renewed for a second season in the fall after becoming the No. 1 new comedy of 2011-12. The focus on sitcoms at CBS is another example of how important they will be for the broadcast networks in 2012-13. For instance, NBC, part of the NBCUniversal unit of Comcast, will add four comedies, bringing its total to 10, and it has three in reserve for midseason. CBS is the most-watched television network in total viewers and, Mr. Kahl said, is only a tenth of a point behind Fox Broadcasting in viewers ages 18 to 49 — the group most appealing to advertisers — in an important rating category known as C3 (C3 is an estimate of the commercial views within three days of the show’s telecast.) Mr. Kahl and other CBS executives are confident going into the fall, not only because they think they have a particularly strong schedule but also because of what Leslie Moonves, president and chief executive at the CBS Corporation, called “the Halley’s comet of television”: in a four-week period early in 2013, CBS will broadcast the American Football Conference championship game, Super Bowl XLVII and the Grammy Awards. The CBS presentation was one of 10 events on Wednesday, which some reporters were calling “Humpfrontday” because of the crowded schedule. At the presentation by the TBS and TNT cable channels, part of the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner, it was, coincidentally, the preview clips for a revival of a CBS series that drew the most applause. The series, to make its debut on TNT on June 13, is “Dallas,” which ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991. Three stars of the original are returning for the new version: Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Larry Hagman; they appeared on stage during the presentation and at a media luncheon afterward, with Mr. Hagman wearing a hat like that of his character, J. R. Ewing. In another sign of the growing power of comedic content, Turner Broadcasting said it would take a minority stake in Funny or Die, a producer of online comedy videos that recently started a division to handle commercial production. The investment, for undisclosed financial terms, will link Funny or Die with two Turner television brands: TBS, known for sitcoms, and Adult Swim, which shares channel space with Cartoon Network and is known for irreverent content. The deal will effectively give Funny or Die some louis vuitton hoodie men old-media muscle; the Turner digital ad sales staff will become the exclusive manager of ad sales for Funny or Die. The agreement comes on the heels of other recent pairings of traditional TV and Web companies, like the acquisition of Revision3 by Discovery Communications and a deal between TBS and another producer of online comedy videos, DumbDumb. Separately, Funny or Die signed an agreement to create short videos for marketer clients of NCM Media Networks, which specializes in ads in movie theaters. The deal, announced at the NCM event on Wednesday, will include videos to run online and on theater screens.

2012年5月15日星期二

Just one example of the culture of impunity

In a mere 11 years, Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, climbed from secretary to editor of The News of the World; she reached that pinnacle at the age of 31. She not only survived but dominated the tough, testosterone-fuelled culture of the British tabloids, first at the News of the World and then, for six years, at The Sun; she put the fear of God into hundreds of journalists working under her, while louis vuitton womens sunglasses 2012 charming the all-but-uncharmable Rupert Murdoch. And his son James. And his wife Wendi. And three prime ministers. And, even more remarkably, two of their wives: Cherie Blair and Sarah Brown were both Rebekah's besties in their day. Throughout her interrogation at the Leveson inquiry she was cool, occasionally testy, but never for a second intimidated. Though she had been forced to walk the plank by News International, there was no hint of disloyalty. As for power – well, that of course resided in the readers of The Sun, not in her, nor in her boss Rupert. She'd never thought in terms of power. And when, at last, after months of anticipation, the axe fell, was she supplicatory? Was there the faintest hint of regret or apology? Certainly not. There was haughty disdain for her prosecutors: " ... an expensive sideshow, a waste of public money as a result of a weak and unjust decision". And sheer, unmitigated fury: "I cannot express my anger enough that those closest to me have been dragged into this unfairly." Brought before the House of Commons Committee on Culture last year at the height of the firestorm about the hacking of Milly Dowler's telephone, her boss Rupert famously declared it the most humble day of his life. But this lady is not for humbling. And in one way she is surely right. Though they might carry, in theory, a life sentence, the charges against Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, and sundry personal assistants, chauffeurs and aids, hardly go to the heart of the matter. They were caught, just last year, attempting to make off with seven boxes of files from the News International building; and of secretly chucking a laptop and sundry other paraphernalia into a bin near the Brooks' London home; we assume (but of course do not know) that all this stuff had something to do with the great phone-hacking cover-up which Brooks and her colleagues at News International had been engaged in for a decade. Very naughty, if true. And banal, too. After all, just the other day, HSU national president Michael Williamson was allegedly found in an underground car park with black plastic garbage bags full of papers while the boys and girls in blue were prowling the corridors above him. It's a natural instinct to bury, allegedly, the alleged dirt. But even if the defendants are found guilty, suits for men 2012 months or years down the track, that will not tell us what we really want to know: and as Rebekah Brooks rightly said, what we want to know is about her, not her husband, her assistant, her chauffeur, her bodyguard or her bottle-washer. She was the editor of The News of the World at the time of the hacking into Milly Dowler's voicemail - and literally hundreds of others, it seems, from the deputy prime minister's to Hugh Grant's. She was the editor of The Sun when it was apparently shelling out many tens, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of pounds to policemen, and army officers, and officials up and down the Whitehall hierarchy. She was the CEO of News International for some of the years when it obstinately, and in the face of mountains of evidence already in its own possession, insisted that one rogue reporter had been engaged in a practice which, it now seems, was routine and widespread. The egregious Paul McMullan, he of the strawberry birthmark and the devastating frankness, who famously declared that privacy is for paedophiles (and Rebekah waged a furious campaign as editor of the News of the World against paedophiles), told Four Corners' Sarah Ferguson last year: Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch and Andy Coulson are saying, "I have clean hands. It was the reporters. I didn't know what they were doing. I'm innocent. It was them. Send them to jail not me." Why don't you stand up and tell the truth and say, "Sometimes, you know, if you want to catch a politician with his trousers round his ankles you've got to hack his phone. We did it. It's justified." Ferguson's report contained another nugget that only the more assiduous followers of the saga would already have come across. In 2002, while Rebekah Brooks was editor of the News of the World, the police reopened an investigation into the brutal murder, back in the 1980s, of a man who'd been the business partner of Jonathan Rees, one of the more thuggish private eyes employed by Fleet Street papers. Rees was the main suspect. By 2002, Rees was serving a seven year sentence for conspiring to plant cocaine on an innocent woman and get her sent to prison, because she was involved in a custody battle with one of Rees's clients. Another major client of Jonathan Rees was the News of the World, and in the 1990s a certain Alex Marunchak, one of that newspaper's most senior journalists, was running a business from Rees's premises. The policeman who was conducting the murder cheap burberry inquiry, and his wife, and their children, soon found themselves under surveillance. His wife – also a police officer - told Sarah Ferguson: I saw a van at the end of my driveway parked up and what was I suspect a camera lens looking back ... However hardened you are as a police officer, when you become part of the case and your children are involved, it's hard to actually explain how frightening that is. The detective got his colleagues to stop the van on the freeway. The driver turned out to be Alex Marunchak. Called to Scotland Yard and accosted with these facts, the editor of The News of the World seemed untroubled. Sarah Ferguson reports: By all accounts Rebekah Brooks offered no explanation. All she had to say was that Marunchak was a great reporter doing great work for the paper. Not only did Alex Marunchak continue to work at a senior level for the News of the World, on his release from prison Jonathan Rees was again hired by the paper. Just one example of the culture of impunity, the sense that the rules did not apply to them, that seems to have surrounded News International's newspapers in those years. And the flip-side of that brazen lack of caution was the fear that they were able to instil in policemen, and politicians, and public officials. As British Labour MP Tom Watson told the House of Commons in 2010: The truth is that, in this House we are all, in our own way, scared of the Rebekah Brookses of this world. But in truth, there are not many Rebekah Brookses. She is a one-off. What did she know? When did she know it? What did she demand, and order, and threaten? What did she cover up, and obfuscate, and ignore? Those are the questions that many, many Britons – especially the members of the 'chattering classes' so derided by Rupert Murdoch, his columnists and editors over the years – would love to see answered. You do wonder when, if ever, those arrested – sometimes in dramatic dawn raids with plenty of sound and fury – will actually face charges that relate to the substance of the scandal and its cover-up. Of course, the shenanigans that took place in the Burberry handbags outlet, cheap burberry bags on sale, 60% off. News of the World building last July may have been intended to prevent such charges ever being laid, at least against Rebekah Brooks. But compared to those matters, last year's shenanigans are indeed a sideshow.

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City ended a 44-year wait for league glory when taking the Premier League crown on the final day of the season. Ferguson feels City will look to back up their success by adding yet more quality to their ranks. Vast resources are available at Eastlands, but it is not something louis vuitton shoes Ferguson will run away from. "We know City are going to spend fortunes, pay stupid money and silly salaries. We know that happens. We can't do anything about that," Ferguson told MUTV. "We are not like other clubs who can spend fortunes on proven goods. We invest in players who will be with the club for a long time, who will create the character of the club and the excitement for our fans. We are good at that and we are going to continue that way." United have been linked with Borussia Dortmund duo Shinji Kagawa and Robert Lewandowski and Lille winger Eden Hazard, but Ferguson does not believe he has to overhaul his squad. "We have set out our stall for certain players and we want to make sure the evolution continues at United," he said. "I have been at the club for 25 years and I have to maintain a certain standard that keeps us there all the time. "We don't always win it because we are always there, which is great credit to how we view things. But there is nothing materially wrong with us. I know there are some critics but we got 89 points." After letting another fourth-quarter lead slip away in Boston, the 76ers took it right back and held on to it, fighting off every run the host Celtics made down the stretch louis vuitton hoodie for an 82-81 victory on Monday that evened their second-round series at one game apiece. "We knew to expect the same type of game," said Evan Turner, whose layup with 40.4 seconds to play put Philadelphia ahead to stay. "We did what we needed to do to win this game, just like we didn't the first time around." Turner's layup gave the Sixers a 76-75 lead and they clinched it by going 6-for-6 from the free-throw line over the final 12 seconds. "We just found a way," Philadelphia coach Doug Collins said. "All season long we couldn't win these games, and now our guys are believing they can do it. And it is pretty special to watch." Turner finished with 10 points, Jrue Holiday scored 18 and Andre Iguodala added 13 points, seven assists and six rebounds for the Sixers, who blew a 10-point fourth quarter lead as the Celtics won Game 1. Philadelphia failed to hang on to the lead again, but this time the Sixers outplayed the Celtics down the stretch. Philadelphia won its first playoff game in Boston since 1982 despite committing a playoff-high 19 turnovers and getting outrebounded 47 to 36. "We're keeping our composure. We're keeping our confidence burberry handbags and know it's going to be grind-out games," Iguodala said. Every time the Celtics appeared to have regained the momentum, the Sixers came up with an answer. After trailing by eight entering the fourth quarter, Boston's Kevin Garnett tied it 65-65 on a turnaround jumper with 4:33 to play. He scored 11 of his 15 points in the fourth and finished with 12 rebounds. But after a blocked shot at the 76ers' end, Lavoy Allen got the ensuing inbounds pass and banked in a shot from 22 feet, and the Sixers were back in the lead. Thunder 119, Lakers 90: Russell Westbrook had 27 points and nine assists, Kevin Durant added 25 points, and host Oklahoma City sent Los Angeles to its 12th-worst playoff loss in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals. ... The Thunder took a 15-point halftime lead, opened the third quarter with a 15-2 blitz full of crowd-pleasing three-pointers and dunks, and led by as many as 35 points, getting a measure of vengeance for the elbow Metta World Peace delivered to the head of the Thunder's James Harden three weeks ago. ... Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum scored 20 points each for the Lakers, and Bynum had 14 rebounds. ... The Thunder, who had eight days off, committed a franchise record-low four turnovers. ... The Lakers, who responded with a Game 7 victory against the Grizzlies on Saturday night after losing by 28 points two nights earlier, will need another big bounce-back for Wednesday's Game 2 in Oklahoma City. Bosh out: Heat center Chris Bosh will be sidelined indefinitely because of a strained abdominal muscle, sustained in Sunday's 95-86 victory over the Pacers. Joel Anthony and Ronny Turiaf saw extra time after Bosh was injured. Knicks seek Bird rights: The NBA players association filed an appeal on behalf of the Knicks asking for a hearing on the "Bird rights" of Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak. Bird rights, which allow a team to go over the salary cap to retain a player, aren't granted to players who have been waived during the prior new burberry handbags blue beige cheap buy 2012 season, as both Lin and Novak were. New York and the NBAPA are arguing that because both were claimed off waivers, their status should be the same as a player who is traded, which would give them Bird rights and allow the Knicks to avoid using a mid-level exception.

2012年5月13日星期日

I think the intensity goes up so much after the second round

If the playoffs are a time for leaders to show their true character, then Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown is emerging as a force. Brown had a goal and an assist as the eighth-seeded louis vuitton shoes Kings continued to steamroll through the NHL playoffs, defeating the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2 Sunday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference final. Brown scored the winner over St. Louis a week ago to clinch a berth in the final four and was working his magic again, getting the go-ahead goal to break a 2-2 tie early in the third period and picking up an assist to lead L.A. with 13 points. Brown took a beautiful pass from Kings defenceman Slava Voynov to set up a breakaway. Brown’s wrist shot beat Coyotes goalie Mike Smith, who was by far the busiest of the two netminders. Smith faced 47 shots. L.A.’s Jonathan Quick — who gave up a clunker from centre ice to Derek Morris in the first period — faced 27. It’s the first time Phoenix has trailed in a series this post-season. The Kings are a remarkable 9-1 in the playoffs. This is a battle between two teams few picked to get this far. Being in the conference finals is heady stuff for both franchises. The Kings haven’t been this far since 1993, when Wayne Gretzky starred in L.A. The Coyotes have never been this far. Neither has had much success in the playoffs and one of louis vuitton belts them is guaranteed a spot in the Stanley Cup final. The game unfolded according to the template the Coyotes have used to much success: Get outplayed, get outshot, rely on Smith to stand on his head and score a few timely goals. They were outshot 39-20 in Game 6 vs. Chicago and won 4-0. They were outshot 42-24 in Game 1 vs. Nashville and won 4-3. But the Kings’ template has also been successful: Pass, shoot, hit and swarm the net like bees on honey. “I don’t think that we’ve gotten away from our game for three or four months, so I can’t imagine it should change now,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said before the game. “I think the familiarity with being in the division is important, too. “Most of these guys have played against each other a lot. I think they know how both sides are going to play. The coaching staff, that’s what we expect out of our group, for sure.” To some, having the Kings play the Coyotes in the third round is a testament to just how good the Pacific Division is. “I think we’re pretty familiar with each other,” Coyotes captain Shane Doan said prior to the game. “I mean, we’ve had some pretty intense, physical games already. I’m assuming that it’s just going to kind of go up even more than that. We’re pretty comfortable playing each other. I don’t think there’s going to be too many surprises. “It will be a fun, intense playoff hockey. I think the third round, as a fan, I think the intensity goes up so much after the second round, because the second round, you’re happy to get into the second round, get out of the first round. Sometimes there’s a little bit of a lull. “Third round, you recognize how close you are to achieving your goal. From watching it way too many times, that intensity is fun to see and will be fun to be part of. “ Dwight King had two goals — including an empty-netter with 48 seconds to go — and Anze Kopitar also scored for Los Angeles. Mikkel Boedker also scored for Phoenix. A giant flying taco, a little “who let burberry handbags outlet the dogs out” and a massive white-out and they were ready to drop the puck at the Jobing.com arena on the Western Conference final. Sometimes fans can get the team up. Sometimes nerves get the better of the players. The Coyotes fell victim to the latter as the Kings dominated play in the first period, not that it mattered by the end of the first with the scored tied 1-1 due to a rather unusual goal. Kopitar opened the scoring at 3:53 with a nice backhand past Smith. The Kings swarmed the Coyotes, who didn’t get a shot on Quick until about seven minutes in. And that was only a long shot, more a clearing attempt from the Coyotes’ end to relieve the pressure. But long shots are exactly what the Coyotes are, and that’s what worked on Quick. Morris blasted a shot from centre ice that fooled Quick. It looked as if the L.A. goalie thought it was a dump-in toward the corner and he cheated that way. Morris sold it, but blasted toward the net and tied the game at 13:26, his second of the playoffs. The second period — which ended 2-2 — was much the same, with the Kings dominating play and Phoenix getting a timely goal. Richards and King went in on a 2-on-1 with Richards taking the first shot, Smith giving up a juicy rebound and King pounding it home. But toward the end of the period, the Kings seemed to tire. Phoenix picked up its play and a bang-bang play between Vermette and Boedker seemed to catch the Kings napping as the Coyotes tied the game heading into the third. NOTES: It was the first meeting of the two Pacific Division rivals since Feb. 21. . . . The Coyotes posted a regular-season record of 3-2-1 against L.A. Three of the six games went into OT or a shootout. . . . Coming into the game, Phoenix’s roster featured 23 players with 756 new burberry handbags blue beige cheap buy 2012 games of Stanley Cup Playoff experience. . . . Ray Whitney leads the team with 98 career post-season games. . . . Phoenix dressed D David Schlemko in place of Adrian Aucoin, who left the clincher against Nashville with an undisclosed injury and didn’t skate again until Saturday.

2012年5月11日星期五

An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain on Thursday evening

Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their louis vuitton sunglasses mother and sister, and he was armed with a rifle, sawed-off shotgun and pistol as officers closed in. Adam Mayes could have killed them days ago, could have left them in the woods as he fled for another hideout, could have shot them in desperation as he was surrounded by officers. Yet 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain went home to their father Friday alive, with no apparent injuries other than being tired, scared and itchy from poison ivy. Beverly Goodman, the aunt of their slain mother, Jo Ann Bain, said she was relieved the girls were home but saddened by the killings of Bain and Bain's 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne. "He's been missing for so long. How do you hide out from 350 million people?" she said. "I thought they were going to find them dead -- the girls and him -- so I am very, very relieved." At one point, Mayes claimed to be the girls' father. That may be why he spared them. He also was close to the family, described as an uncle-like figure who smiled louis vuitton hair pins cheek-to-cheek with the girls in Facebook photos. Authorities said Mayes, 35, killed Jo Ann Bain and Adrienne on April 27 in Whiteville, Tenn. Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, is charged with murder in the killings. She told investigators she saw her husband kill the mother and oldest girl, then drove him, the younger girls and the bodies to Mississippi, court documents say. His mother, Mary Mayes, also is charged in the kidnapping but says she is innocent. Adam Mayes and the girls were holed up in a structure in the woods in Mississippi, 90 miles from where the girls were kidnapped in Tennessee, said a law cheap burberry bags enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain on Thursday evening. Officers ordered Mayes to show his hands, but he pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot himself, said Aaron Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn., office. Many questions remain about what happened: Investigators have not said whether Mayes spoke before killing himself, nor disclosed what the girls told them. Authorities also have not said why Mayes kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and sister. It also wasn't known how they burberry sunglasses 2012 survived in the woods, nor how long they were there. The girls were released from a hospital, officials said Friday, and reunited with relatives in Tennessee.

2012年5月10日星期四

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Hollie Cavanagh, the pint-sized blondie with the funny accent and the big voice, was eliminated on "American Idol" tonight, and although she was one of my favorite louis vuitton shoes contestants this season, this was the only result that would have made sense this week. After last night's second round of songs where Phillip Phillips, Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez gave fantastic performances, Hollie's good-but-not-great showing with Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" was the final nail in the coffin. There is some irony in the fact that the song that began the "Idol" journey for Season Four winner Carrie Underwood was the end for Hollie, a big fan of Carrie's who sang "Jesus Take The Wheel" a few weeks back. Her version of the country-pop hit was only one of many quality performances with which the 18-year-old from Texas (and England) wowed the judges and voter nation. Her renditions of "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera and "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus come to mind. Her pure, almost classic voice was always her calling card, but for Hollie, a lack of confidence and emotional connection often kept her from delivering the whole package. Her Holliepops — a nickname given to Hollie's fans — women louis vuitton shoes fashion best online discount purple will undoubtedly sob over the news of Hollie hitting the high road, but after several bottom-three scares, some will say it was amazing that Hollie lasted this long. Hollie's best performance, in my opinion, can be found here. No bottom threes or twos this week. Instead Ryan Seacrest revealed one-by-one who would be heading home to be treated like kings in their hometowns and who would simply be headed home. In the end, Phillip Phillips and Hollie were left, with Hollie being revealed as the low vote-getter. As her final bow, she sang "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus, another ironic tune for Hollie. In her first audition in 2010, a nervous Hollie sang "The Climb," sending her to Hollywood for the first time. Nearly two years later, a more mature, confident performer sang the same song, only to countless fans across the country and her crying co-contestants. A fitting end to a the "Idol" chapter of Hollie's life, but something tells me this only just the beginning for, as Will.I.Am called her, "little tinkerbell." With a possibility of Colton Dixon still hanging around, I'd have to say that the Top 3 this season is pretty much in line with the level of talent each remaining contestant possesses. At this point, I can see any of the remaining three — Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez and Joshua Ledet — winning at this point, but in my gut, I see Phillip and Jessica in the final. For as good as Joshua is, I don't think he has the same backing that the other two do. But this is just my rambling. What did you think? Did Hollie deserve to go home? Comment below. Oracle failed to convince a federal judge in an intellectual property case that Google Inc. unfairly used its technology in the search engine provider's Android software for mobile devices. On Wednesday U.S. District Judge William Alsup burberry handbags outlet in San Francisco denied Oracle's request for a ruling that could have established that Google is liable for copyright infringement. Oracle asked Alsup for a judgment in its favor on "fair use" after a jury found that Google infringed parts of its Java programming language and deadlocked on whether the copying constituted fair use. Liability rests on whether there was fair use, Alsup said after the jury reached a verdict Monday. "I don't think it would be right," Alsup said at a hearing Wednesday. The decision could pave the way for a new trial on the question of whether Google's infringement makes it liable for as much as $1 billion in damages for using parts of Java to develop Android without paying for a license. The legal doctrine of fair use states that anyone can use copyrighted work without consent of the owner under certain circumstances, such as for teaching, in news reporting and commentary or to advance the public interest by creating something new. Monday's jury verdict came in the first phase designer burberry cheap bags for women brown sale of an eight-week trial that began April 16. The jury is hearing testimony this week on Oracle's claims that Google also infringed two Java patents. The last phase of the trial will deal with damages.

2012年5月8日星期二

Many people who met Mr. Sendak over the years remarked

The cliché about children’s book writers is designer burberry outlet that they’re sensitive, mewling types — wearers of cardigans, dispensing uplift as if it were Purell hand sanitizer. The best, of course, from the Brothers Grimm through Roald Dahl and the brilliant Maurice Sendak, who died on Tuesday, have always been exactly the opposite. Their stuff is anarchic and verges on the nightmarish. These writers want children to take themselves seriously. They want them to grow up a bit, starting now. Mr. Sendak’s books weren’t in my house when I was a child, an omission that, I have come to realize, was a perverse kind of gift. I got to discover them while reading them aloud, approximately 250 times each, to my two children. “Children are made readers,” the writer Emilie Buchwald said, “on the laps of their parents.” I was made a Sendak devotee with my children on my lap, and I could sense their delight reinforcing my own. His acknowledged classic is “Where the Wild Things Are” (1963), about Max, who is sent to bed without supper only to find that a tangled forest and a wild sea sprout from his imagination. He stares down fanged monsters by looking into their yellow eyes without blinking. He is made “the king of all wild things.” He throws what is surely the greatest dance party in kid-lit history, engaging the Burberry handbags outlet, cheap burberry bags on sale, 60% off monsters in a “wild rumpus” that Don Cornelius, the creator of “Soul Train,” would envy. I’ve loved some of the things that Mr. Sendak would later say about “Where the Wild Things Are.” In 2006, for example, he wondered aloud to a New Yorker writer, Cynthia Zarin, about where Max would be now. “My God, Max would be what now, 48?” Mr. Sendak said. “He’s still unmarried, he’s living in Brooklyn. He’s a computer maven. He’s totally ungifted. He wears a wolf suit when he’s at home with his mother!” You don’t have to agree with that assessment — I bet Max became a marine biologist and resembles Richard Dreyfuss in “Jaws” — to find it terrific. The gifted British critic Francis Spufford called “Where the Wild Things Are,” correctly, “one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate, and beautiful, use of the psychoanalytic story of anger.” In her New Yorker article, Ms. Zarin proposed that Max was a louis vuitton shoes youthful version of early Philip Roth neurotics like Neil Klugman in “Goodbye, Columbus” and Alexander Portnoy in “Portnoy’s Complaint.” There’s a dissertation topic for the student willing to take it on. The Sendak book that most resonated with my children and me is “In the Night Kitchen” (1970). It’s about a boy named Mickey who floats free of his bed and down into a surreal kitchen staffed with what seem to be Oliver Hardy look-alikes with Hitler mustaches. They almost succeed in baking him into a “morning cake.” The whole thing is supple and serene and terrifying at the same time. “In the Night Kitchen” has become contentious, among people I hope never to meet, for its mild nudity: We get peeks at Mickey’s penis and testicles. Some have also objected to its would-be sexual innuendo (milk, phallic bottles and the like), and it was on the American Library Association’s list of the “most frequently challenged books” of the 1990s. Like me, the children of these people can have the distinct joy of discovering this book for themselves in a few decades. It makes a plangent kind of poetry out of its visions and lingers in the mind. It roots around, with marvelous sensitivity and wit, in issues of vulnerability and security. As an added bonus, it proposes cake as breakfast food. Many people who met Mr. Sendak over the years remarked that he resembled one of his own characters. That is, he was a shaggy and somewhat ornery beast, and he didn’t louis vuitton lady outwear mellow as he aged. If you’d like a hit of vast and undiluted pleasure, watch Mr. Sendak’s two-part interview, taped this year, with Stephen Colbert. Last year Mr. Sendak told Emma Brockes, a reporter for The Guardian, who asked him about electronic books: “I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.” Some of Mr. Sendak’s relatives died in the Holocaust, and from an early age he was acquainted with death. “I cry a lot because I miss people,” he once said. “They New LV sunglasses outlet 2012 new sale online coolest die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.” Mr. Sendak, like Max, was the king of all wild things. It’s impossible not to miss him already.