Wednesday 23 November 2011
Friday 28 October 2011
The Final Game Seven Who will win?
Who will win Game 7?1:St. Louis Cardinals:
2:Texas Rangers:
A game seven is the final game of a best of seven series. This game can occur in the postseasons for Major League Baseball (League Championship Series and World Series), the National Basketball Association (all rounds of the NBA Playoffs), and the National Hockey League (all rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs).
National Basketball:
The game is traditionally played at the site of team holding the home advantage across the series.Because of the final nature of this game, where the losing team is done for the season, game sevens add an element of drama to their sports. Since this is the final game of the series, the winning team advances in the playoffs or wins the championship.
Aside from North American sports leagues, game sevens are also a fixture in many other sports around the world, mostly in baseball, basketball, ice hockey leagues. Most codes of football do not employ a best-of-seven series (or any best-of-x series in general), hence game sevens are not played in those leagues.The game seven is comparable to a final or to a single game in a single-elimination tournament or to a one-game playoff.
pervious Chinese Professional Baseball League schedule:
Taiwan Series that were decided on a game seven:
Year Winning team Losing team Score Site Notes
1991 Uni-President Lions Wei Chuan Dragons 13–5 Taipei City
1998 Wei Chuan Dragons Sinon Bulls 5–2 Taichung City Capacity audience.
2000 Uni-President Lions Sinon Bulls 4–1 Taichung City Capacity audience. Lo Min-ching homered the fifth time and then the sixth in the series.
2001 Brother Elephants Uni-President Lions 7–5 Tainan City Capacity audience. Yofu Tetsu saved the Elephants.
2004 Sinon Bulls Uni-President Lions 8–6 Tainan City Capacity audience. Chang Chia-hao hit the winning triple in the ninth inning.
2007 Uni-President Lions La New Bears 4–2 Kaohsiung County Capacity audience. Nelson Figueroa became the first player taking 3 starting wins in CPBL playoff history.
2008 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions Brother Elephants 4–0 Tainan City Capacity audience. Luther Hackman closed the game.
2009 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions Brother Elephants 5–2 Tainan City Capacity audience. Lions wins 3 streak champions.
World Series that were decided on a game seven:
ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Cardinals, who were a strike away from losing the World Series on Thursday night, won it on Friday by beating the Texas Rangers, 6-2, in Game 7 at Busch Stadium.David Murphy flied out to left fielder Allen Craig off closer Jason Motte for the final out, and the Cardinals players hugged and piled onto one another in small groups in the infield as red, white and blue confetti filled the air. It was the Cardinals’ 11th World Series title, and the team’s first since 2006.st. Louis’ ace, Chris Carpenter, delivered for his team again, improving to 2-0 in the World Series and 4-0 in the postseason. Pitching on three days’ rest, Carpenter gave up two runs in the top of the first inning but settled down and shut out the Rangers before leaving after leaving after allowing a leadoff double in the seventh. The Rangers, close enough to taste the title on Thursday, failed to produce a hit against four Cardinals relievers in the final three innings on Friday.The Cardinals erased the Rangers’ early lead with David Freese’s two-run double in the bottom of the first, and took the lead on Craig’s homer in the third. The Rangers’ pitchers blinked in the fifth, issuing a bases-loaded walk to force in a run and then following it by hitting the next batter to give the Cardinals a 5-2 lead.It was a stunning reversal of fortune for the Cardinals, who lost Game 5 in part because of a communications disaster with their bullpen and were down to their last strike — twice — in Game 6. But they rallied for two runs in the ninth inning in that game, did it again after falling behind in the 10th, and then won in the 11th on a home run by Freese.Freese, whose two R.B.I. in Game 7 gave him seven in the series and a record 21 in this year’s playoffs, was named the World Series M.V.P.
Thursday 20 October 2011
After The Death Of Moammar Gadhafi More Oil Flow
Gadhafi's death Details:
Notorious Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most wanted man in the entire world, has been killed, the country's rebel government and ABC News claim.The tyrant who terrorized the North African nation and much of the world during his 42 years of rule was cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, Libya.Moammar Gadhafi was born and maintained a stronghold of his supporters there, but word that he is dead sparked celebrations in most of the country.The White House and NATO have yet to confirm reports of Gadhafi's deathThe National Transition Council said Moammar Gadhafi is dead following a battle in Sirte, which finally fell to the rebels today after weeks of tough fighting.Gadhafi, 69, had been on the run for several weeks after being chased out of the capital Tripoli, the capital of Libya, by NATO bombers and rebel troops.He had been believed to be hiding in the vast Libyan desert while calling on his supporters to rise up and sweep the rebel "dogs" away, but to no avail.NATO said its fighters struck a convoy of Gadhafi's loyalists fleeing Sirte, but could not confirm Gadhafi was in the convoy, the Associated Press reported.Still, many accounts claim that one of the world's most notorious tyrants - if not the most, after Osama bin Laden was killed - has been knocked off.
Gadhafi’s death to open more oil flow:
NEW YORK — Although Libya will not be able for several months to export as much oil as it did before it descended into civil war this year, the killing of Col. Moammar Gadhafi reduces the chance that violence will get in the way as the North African nation cranks up production again.As Libyan crude returns, it could lower the price of oil on the international markets and gasoline at U.S. pumps.The type of crude produced by Libya, known as light, sweet crude, is rare. It is especially valuable because it is easier for refineries to convert into diesel and gasoline. Many refineries can’t switch easily to processing other varieties of crude.Before the civil war, Libya produced only 2 percent of the world’s oil. But even small interruptions in oil production can have a big effect on the price because the balance between supply and demand is delicate. When fears arise that supplies might fall short, traders get nervous and prices can go up fast.The price of oil jumped 35 percent between Feb. 15, when protests started in Benghazi, and April 29, when oil hit almost
$114 per barrel, the highest since 2008. Gasoline prices in the U.S. rose from $3.12 before the fighting to a three-year high of $3.98 on May 5.By Wednesday, oil had returned to its price before Libya’s uprising began. It fell 81 cents Thursday to $85.30 a barrel in New York trading. The average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. was unchanged at $3.47.The oil market’s reaction to Col. Gadhafi’s death was muted because efforts to revive the Libyan oil industry have been under way for months under the Libyan transitional government.“It was a foregone conclusion that Gadhafi was finished,” said Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS CERA, an energy research firm, and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the oil industry.Before the war, Libya, which sits on the biggest oil reserves in Africa, produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. Production collapsed during the war. Libya now produces about 390,000 barrels a day, a Libyan official said this month.Analysts predict the country can produce 600,000 barrels per day by the end of the year and 1.6 million by the second half of next year. By then, oil, depending on where it is traded, could fall $10 to $25 per barrel, said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research.
But getting back to regular oil production could prove difficult for Libya as its government is still in its infancy. It has no parliament, no constitution and few remaining national institutions. Infighting also could spark a second uprising similar to the insurgency in Iraq, Barclays Capital analyst Helima Croft says Certainly, having Gadhafi no longer on the scene takes away one source of instability.
Notorious Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most wanted man in the entire world, has been killed, the country's rebel government and ABC News claim.The tyrant who terrorized the North African nation and much of the world during his 42 years of rule was cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, Libya.Moammar Gadhafi was born and maintained a stronghold of his supporters there, but word that he is dead sparked celebrations in most of the country.The White House and NATO have yet to confirm reports of Gadhafi's deathThe National Transition Council said Moammar Gadhafi is dead following a battle in Sirte, which finally fell to the rebels today after weeks of tough fighting.Gadhafi, 69, had been on the run for several weeks after being chased out of the capital Tripoli, the capital of Libya, by NATO bombers and rebel troops.He had been believed to be hiding in the vast Libyan desert while calling on his supporters to rise up and sweep the rebel "dogs" away, but to no avail.NATO said its fighters struck a convoy of Gadhafi's loyalists fleeing Sirte, but could not confirm Gadhafi was in the convoy, the Associated Press reported.Still, many accounts claim that one of the world's most notorious tyrants - if not the most, after Osama bin Laden was killed - has been knocked off.
NEW YORK — Although Libya will not be able for several months to export as much oil as it did before it descended into civil war this year, the killing of Col. Moammar Gadhafi reduces the chance that violence will get in the way as the North African nation cranks up production again.As Libyan crude returns, it could lower the price of oil on the international markets and gasoline at U.S. pumps.The type of crude produced by Libya, known as light, sweet crude, is rare. It is especially valuable because it is easier for refineries to convert into diesel and gasoline. Many refineries can’t switch easily to processing other varieties of crude.Before the civil war, Libya produced only 2 percent of the world’s oil. But even small interruptions in oil production can have a big effect on the price because the balance between supply and demand is delicate. When fears arise that supplies might fall short, traders get nervous and prices can go up fast.The price of oil jumped 35 percent between Feb. 15, when protests started in Benghazi, and April 29, when oil hit almost
$114 per barrel, the highest since 2008. Gasoline prices in the U.S. rose from $3.12 before the fighting to a three-year high of $3.98 on May 5.By Wednesday, oil had returned to its price before Libya’s uprising began. It fell 81 cents Thursday to $85.30 a barrel in New York trading. The average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. was unchanged at $3.47.The oil market’s reaction to Col. Gadhafi’s death was muted because efforts to revive the Libyan oil industry have been under way for months under the Libyan transitional government.“It was a foregone conclusion that Gadhafi was finished,” said Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS CERA, an energy research firm, and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the oil industry.Before the war, Libya, which sits on the biggest oil reserves in Africa, produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. Production collapsed during the war. Libya now produces about 390,000 barrels a day, a Libyan official said this month.Analysts predict the country can produce 600,000 barrels per day by the end of the year and 1.6 million by the second half of next year. By then, oil, depending on where it is traded, could fall $10 to $25 per barrel, said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research.
But getting back to regular oil production could prove difficult for Libya as its government is still in its infancy. It has no parliament, no constitution and few remaining national institutions. Infighting also could spark a second uprising similar to the insurgency in Iraq, Barclays Capital analyst Helima Croft says Certainly, having Gadhafi no longer on the scene takes away one source of instability.
Sunday 16 October 2011
The Walking Dead Season 2 (2011–2012)
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the ongoing comic book series, The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. The series centers on a small group of survivors led by Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes and his family.The series premiered on October 31, 2010, and is broadcast on the cable television channel AMC in the United States.The first season premiered to universal acclaim and was nominated for several awards, including the Best Television Series Drama at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. Based on its reception, AMC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes which premiered on October 16, 2011.
Season 2 (2011–2012):
The second season premiered on October 16, 2011 and will feature 13 episodes. At a 2011 Paley Center for Media panel, it was announced that the second season will feature Grimes' group of survivors leaving Atlanta for the countryside, including the Greene family farm, a setting in the comic book series. Filming of season 2 began in June 2011 in the greater Atlanta area. Prior to the start of season 2, a 6-part webisode series aired October 3, 2011 on AMC's website. The webisodes detail the events just when the outbreak began, specifically the life of Hannah, also known as "bicycle girl", who appeared in the first episode of the series.
Cast:
Main
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh
Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes
Laurie Holden as Andrea
Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath
Steven Yeun as Glenn
Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon
Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier
Madison Lintz as Sophia Peletier
IronE Singleton as T-Dog
The Walking Dead': 10 things to know before watching the season 2 premiere:
The Walking Dead" returns to AMC Sunday (Oct. 16) for a second season of zombie-infested drama. It's been nine months since we last left Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his rag-tag band of zombie-pocalypse survivors outside the exploding headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Season 2 promises more friction between survivors, a richer understanding at some of the characters (Norman Reedus' Daryl, for instance), twice the episodes (13 in all) and lots and lots of blood-splattered, zombie-fueled terror.
As we head into the 90-minute premiere, we've gathered these 10 important things to know before you watch. For fans, it'll serve as a refresher. For newcomers, it should give you all the information you need to survive a zombie attack. Okay, not really -- but you'll at least make it through the premiere unscathed:
1. Pay close attention to Rick's opening monologue. He'll give a brief re-cap of where things stand, too. You'll probably be left with one dangling question. The answer: Jacqui.
2. The nasty, black-toothed people you see on the screen are not meth addicts. The entire population of the earth (as far as we know) has been decimated by a virus that turns the infected into zombies.
3. If you read the Robert Kirkman comic books, don't assume you know where this ship is headed -- the show only uses the comics as a loose guide for its own story line.
4. Zombies, though lethal, are slow and stupid. They're easy to outrun, characters just need to avoid getting trapped and/or surrounded by them.
5. We don't know if there's any cure for the virus. At the end of season 1, we met Jenner (Noah Emmerich), a CDC scientist who was pretty sure he knew how the infection worked. He chose to stay and die when the building self destructs.
6. Before they left, Jenner whispered something in Rick's ear. We don't know what that something was. Could he have seen something -- say a surprising encounter between two characters -- or did he discover something interesting from the blood tests he did on the group?
7. Andrea (Laurie Holden) didn't want to leave the CDC alive. If you're wondering why she's got a death wish, know that she had to shoot her younger sister in the head at point blank range when she (her sister, Amy) was bitten and turned into a zombie.
8. Lori Grimes (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Rick's best friend and fellow sheriff, Shane (Jon Bernthal), had a post-zombie-pocalypse friends with benefits kind of relationship when they both thought Rick was dead. When he surfaced alive, they broke things off. Rick doesn't know.
9. Carol's (Melissa Suzanne McBride) husband was killed when zombies swarmed their camp in season 1. She and daughter Sofia are kind of downcast about that, but not really since he was a pretty abusive guy who had more nterest in his daughter than was probably healthy.
10. Daryl's older brother, Merle (Michael Rooker), was left handcuffed to the roof of an Atlanta building by Rick. We know he cut his hand off to escape. We don't know what became of him after that.
Season 2 (2011–2012):
The second season premiered on October 16, 2011 and will feature 13 episodes. At a 2011 Paley Center for Media panel, it was announced that the second season will feature Grimes' group of survivors leaving Atlanta for the countryside, including the Greene family farm, a setting in the comic book series. Filming of season 2 began in June 2011 in the greater Atlanta area. Prior to the start of season 2, a 6-part webisode series aired October 3, 2011 on AMC's website. The webisodes detail the events just when the outbreak began, specifically the life of Hannah, also known as "bicycle girl", who appeared in the first episode of the series.
Cast:
Main
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh
Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes
Laurie Holden as Andrea
Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath
Steven Yeun as Glenn
Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon
Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier
Madison Lintz as Sophia Peletier
IronE Singleton as T-Dog
The Walking Dead': 10 things to know before watching the season 2 premiere:
The Walking Dead" returns to AMC Sunday (Oct. 16) for a second season of zombie-infested drama. It's been nine months since we last left Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his rag-tag band of zombie-pocalypse survivors outside the exploding headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Season 2 promises more friction between survivors, a richer understanding at some of the characters (Norman Reedus' Daryl, for instance), twice the episodes (13 in all) and lots and lots of blood-splattered, zombie-fueled terror.
As we head into the 90-minute premiere, we've gathered these 10 important things to know before you watch. For fans, it'll serve as a refresher. For newcomers, it should give you all the information you need to survive a zombie attack. Okay, not really -- but you'll at least make it through the premiere unscathed:
1. Pay close attention to Rick's opening monologue. He'll give a brief re-cap of where things stand, too. You'll probably be left with one dangling question. The answer: Jacqui.
2. The nasty, black-toothed people you see on the screen are not meth addicts. The entire population of the earth (as far as we know) has been decimated by a virus that turns the infected into zombies.
3. If you read the Robert Kirkman comic books, don't assume you know where this ship is headed -- the show only uses the comics as a loose guide for its own story line.
4. Zombies, though lethal, are slow and stupid. They're easy to outrun, characters just need to avoid getting trapped and/or surrounded by them.
5. We don't know if there's any cure for the virus. At the end of season 1, we met Jenner (Noah Emmerich), a CDC scientist who was pretty sure he knew how the infection worked. He chose to stay and die when the building self destructs.
6. Before they left, Jenner whispered something in Rick's ear. We don't know what that something was. Could he have seen something -- say a surprising encounter between two characters -- or did he discover something interesting from the blood tests he did on the group?
7. Andrea (Laurie Holden) didn't want to leave the CDC alive. If you're wondering why she's got a death wish, know that she had to shoot her younger sister in the head at point blank range when she (her sister, Amy) was bitten and turned into a zombie.
8. Lori Grimes (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Rick's best friend and fellow sheriff, Shane (Jon Bernthal), had a post-zombie-pocalypse friends with benefits kind of relationship when they both thought Rick was dead. When he surfaced alive, they broke things off. Rick doesn't know.
9. Carol's (Melissa Suzanne McBride) husband was killed when zombies swarmed their camp in season 1. She and daughter Sofia are kind of downcast about that, but not really since he was a pretty abusive guy who had more nterest in his daughter than was probably healthy.
10. Daryl's older brother, Merle (Michael Rooker), was left handcuffed to the roof of an Atlanta building by Rick. We know he cut his hand off to escape. We don't know what became of him after that.
Thursday 13 October 2011
Ups And Down in Christopher Tucker Life:
Christopher Tucker was born in Atlanta Georgia on August 31, 1972,he is an American actor, dancer and comedian. He is best known for playing the role of Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour film series.the youngest son of Mary Louise (née Bryant) and Norris Tucker. His father was an independent businessman who owned a janitorial service. Tucker was raised in Decatur, Georgia. After graduating from Columbia High School in Decatur, GA. Tucker moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy and movies.
Ups And Down :
Chris Tucker Facing Foreclosure On Florida Mansion:
Chris Tucker's financial woes are worsening - he's facing foreclosure on his $6 million Florida mansion after failing to keep up repayments, according to a report.The Rush Hour star was hit with a staggering $11 million tax bill last year after allegedly falling behind on fees in 2001, 2002 and 2004 through to 2006.Reports claimed he would have to sell his $6 million home, which has a monthly mortgage payment of almost $26,000, and now officials have filed foreclosure papers against Tucker, according to the Orlando Sentinel.The star is said to owe $4.4 million to chiefs at SunTrust Bank in relation to his property.
Chris Tucker show at Palace Theatre canceled:
Chris Tucker's Oct. 16 show at the Palace Theatre in Albany has been canceled, LiveNation has announced, blaming it on "unforeseen circumstances."The comedian is perhaps best known for his high-pitched voice and his appearances in the "Rush Hour" films with Jackie Chan. The Oct. 16 show had been the rescheduled performance of his postponed Sept. 3 show.
Chris Tucker returns to his first love — standup — at The Joint:
With a slew of hit movies to his credit, actor Chris Tucker this year returned to his first love: standup comedy. He performed last night at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel, and his police uniform from the Rush Hour film series was nowhere in sight.Our thanks to contributing photographer Erik Kabik for his photo gallery of the Def Comedy Jam star who really stood out onstage in a bright orange suit and says he is a born-again Christian. Chris was last in Las Vegas as a prominent part of the NBA All-Star weekend in 2009 with Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Dominique Wilkins.Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.
Chris Tucker To Lose $6 Million Home:
Rush Hour star Chris Tucker's $6 million Florida mansion is in foreclosure, with more than $4.4 million owed to the bank, reports the Orlando Sentinel, citing papers filed in Circuit Court in Lake County.
Tucker, 39, bought the 10,000-sq.-ft. waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007. The newspaper says the residence contains five bedrooms, three fireplaces, a personal spa, an outdoor kitchen overlooking a pool, and a basement outfitted to resemble a pirate ship, including the sail.Court documents reportedly show an $11.5 million IRS lien on the home in 2011 in order to collect federal income taxes from Tucker, whose monthly mortgage payment, the documents also show, was $25,812.50.There has been no comment from Tucker, but the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., reports that his comedy show scheduled in the city for this Sunday – and was a rescheduling of a postponed Sept. 3 performance – has been canceled because of "unforeseen circumstances.
Florida Mortgage Company to Chris Tucker: Pay Up!!
Rush Hour star Chris Tucker hopefully understands the words coming out of his Florida home loan provider's mouth: His $6 million mansion is being foreclosured on.The actor owes more than $4.4 million, reports the Orlando Sentinel.Tucker bought the 10,000-SF waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007. Sounds like an awesome crib ... if you take away the $11.5 million IRS lien.
Chris Tucker performance moved to Plachta Auditorium after low ticket sales:
Comedian Chris Tucker’s Saturday performance has been moved to Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium after selling only 1,200 tickets so far.The Central Michigan University Program Board decided to change the venue originally scheduled in the CMU Events Center, but the low number of tickets sold could not fill enough of the 5,300 seats available.Student Activities Coordinator Damon Brown, PB adviser, said the show unfortunately had to move due to low ticket sales. Brown said he felt Plachta Auditorium would be more suitable for the 1,200 individuals who already purchased tickets.“We didn’t sell enough tickets and had to make a decision in the best interest of everyone going to the show,” Brown said. “We wanted to make sure it would be a good environment for Chris and for people attending the show.”Brown said he felt the ticket prices did not play a role in the poor sales, and said Chris Tucker performances in different markets generally cost much more to attend.I don’t think ticket prices are high by any stretch of imagination with bleacher tickets for only ten dollars,” Brown said. “For those 1,200 people that have tickets, it will be a great show.”Damon said Plachta Auditorium will be sectioned off to reflect the value of tickets already purchased. For example, those who bought floor seats will have seats closer to the stage reserved.
Ups And Down :
Chris Tucker Facing Foreclosure On Florida Mansion:
Chris Tucker show at Palace Theatre canceled:
Chris Tucker's Oct. 16 show at the Palace Theatre in Albany has been canceled, LiveNation has announced, blaming it on "unforeseen circumstances."The comedian is perhaps best known for his high-pitched voice and his appearances in the "Rush Hour" films with Jackie Chan. The Oct. 16 show had been the rescheduled performance of his postponed Sept. 3 show.
Chris Tucker returns to his first love — standup — at The Joint:
With a slew of hit movies to his credit, actor Chris Tucker this year returned to his first love: standup comedy. He performed last night at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel, and his police uniform from the Rush Hour film series was nowhere in sight.Our thanks to contributing photographer Erik Kabik for his photo gallery of the Def Comedy Jam star who really stood out onstage in a bright orange suit and says he is a born-again Christian. Chris was last in Las Vegas as a prominent part of the NBA All-Star weekend in 2009 with Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Dominique Wilkins.Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.
Chris Tucker To Lose $6 Million Home:
Rush Hour star Chris Tucker's $6 million Florida mansion is in foreclosure, with more than $4.4 million owed to the bank, reports the Orlando Sentinel, citing papers filed in Circuit Court in Lake County.
Tucker, 39, bought the 10,000-sq.-ft. waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007. The newspaper says the residence contains five bedrooms, three fireplaces, a personal spa, an outdoor kitchen overlooking a pool, and a basement outfitted to resemble a pirate ship, including the sail.Court documents reportedly show an $11.5 million IRS lien on the home in 2011 in order to collect federal income taxes from Tucker, whose monthly mortgage payment, the documents also show, was $25,812.50.There has been no comment from Tucker, but the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., reports that his comedy show scheduled in the city for this Sunday – and was a rescheduling of a postponed Sept. 3 performance – has been canceled because of "unforeseen circumstances.
Florida Mortgage Company to Chris Tucker: Pay Up!!
Rush Hour star Chris Tucker hopefully understands the words coming out of his Florida home loan provider's mouth: His $6 million mansion is being foreclosured on.The actor owes more than $4.4 million, reports the Orlando Sentinel.Tucker bought the 10,000-SF waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007. Sounds like an awesome crib ... if you take away the $11.5 million IRS lien.
Chris Tucker performance moved to Plachta Auditorium after low ticket sales:
Comedian Chris Tucker’s Saturday performance has been moved to Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium after selling only 1,200 tickets so far.The Central Michigan University Program Board decided to change the venue originally scheduled in the CMU Events Center, but the low number of tickets sold could not fill enough of the 5,300 seats available.Student Activities Coordinator Damon Brown, PB adviser, said the show unfortunately had to move due to low ticket sales. Brown said he felt Plachta Auditorium would be more suitable for the 1,200 individuals who already purchased tickets.“We didn’t sell enough tickets and had to make a decision in the best interest of everyone going to the show,” Brown said. “We wanted to make sure it would be a good environment for Chris and for people attending the show.”Brown said he felt the ticket prices did not play a role in the poor sales, and said Chris Tucker performances in different markets generally cost much more to attend.I don’t think ticket prices are high by any stretch of imagination with bleacher tickets for only ten dollars,” Brown said. “For those 1,200 people that have tickets, it will be a great show.”Damon said Plachta Auditorium will be sectioned off to reflect the value of tickets already purchased. For example, those who bought floor seats will have seats closer to the stage reserved.
Monday 10 October 2011
How We should Celebrate the Birthday of Christopher Columbus :
Grade School Mythbusters:
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” but not because he wanted to defy any maniacally tyrannical flat earthers. That this falsehood still endures in countless textbooks is both remarkable and (if you’re like me) completely maddening.You see, there were no serious flat earthers in Columbus’ time. None. Everyone with much education knew that the world was, is, and ever shall be, round. In fact, everyone had known this about the earth for ages.
It’s as simple as that.So why is it that my daughter’s homework today read “On Columbus Day, we remember a sailor named Christopher Columbus. During his time, people thought the world was flat.”? Half the books I found in the library echoed the same refrain, despite the fact that this bit of historical fluff has been disproved over, and over, and over…Why has such a silly idea found such remarkable staying power? The various answers to that question are nearly as infuriating as the myth itself. There are several theories.
The top 5 misconceptions about Christopher Columbus:
1. Columbus set out to prove the world was round:
If he did, he was about 2,000 years too late. Ancient Greek mathematicians had already proven that the earth was round, not flat.Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. was one of the originators of the idea. Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. provided the physical evidence, such as the shadow of the Earth on the moon and the curvature of the Earth known by all sailors approaching land. And by the third century B.C., Eratosthenes determined our planet's shape and circumference using basic geometry. In the second century, Claudius Ptolemy wrote the "Almagest," the mathematical and astronomical treatise on planetary shapes and motions, describing the spherical Earth. This text was well known throughout educated Europe in Columbus' time. Related: Earth Is Flat in Many People's Minds.Columbus, a self-taught man, greatly underestimated Earth's circumference. He also thought Europe was wider than it actually was and that Japan was farther from the coast of China than it really was. For these reasons, he figured he could reach Asia by going west, a concept that most of educated Europe at the time thought was daft — not because the earth was flat, but because Columbus' math was so wrong. Columbus, in effect, got lucky by bumping into land that, of course, wasn't Asia.The Columbus flat-earth myth perhaps originated with Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus; there's no mention of this before that. His crew wasn't nervous about falling off the earth.
2. Columbus discovered America.:
Yes, let's ignore the fact that millions of humans already inhabited this land later to be called the Americas, having discovered it millennia before. And let's ignore that whole Leif Ericson voyage to Greenland and modern-day Canada around the year 1000. If Columbus discovered America, he himself didn't know. Until his death he claimed to have landed in Asia, even though most navigators knew he didn't. [Top 10 Intrepid Explorers.What Columbus came across was the archipelago of the Bahamas and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now called the United States.So why does the United States celebrate the guy who thought he found a nifty new route to Asia and the lands described by Marco Polo? This is because the early United States was fighting with England, not Spain. John Cabot (a.k.a. Giovanni Cabot, another Italian) "discovered" Newfoundland in England's name around 1497 and paved the way for England's colonization of most of North America. So the American colonialists instead turned to Columbus as their hero, not England's Cabot. Hence we have the capital, Washington, D.C. — that's District of Columbia, not District of Cabot.
3. Columbus introduced syphilis to Europe.:
This is hotly debated. Syphilis was present in pre-Columbus America. Yet syphilis probably existed for millennia in Europe as well, but simply wasn't well understood. The ancient Greeks describe lesions rather similar to that from syphilis. Perhaps by coincidence, an outbreak of syphilis occurred in Naples in 1494 during a French invasion, just two years after Columbus' return. This sealed the connection.But aside from descriptions of syphilis-like lesions by Hippocrates, many researchers believe that there was a syphilis outbreak in, of all places, a 13th-century Augustinian friary in the English port of Kingston upon Hull. This coastal city saw a continual influx of sailors from distant lands, and you know what sailors can do. Carbon dating and DNA analysis of bones from the friary support the theory of syphilis being a worldwide disease before Columbus' voyages.
4. Columbus died unknown in poverty.:
Columbus wasn't a rich man when he died in Spain at age 54 in 1506. But he wasn't impoverished. He was living comfortably, economically speaking, in an apartment in Valladolid, Crown of Castile, in present-day Spain, albeit in pain from severe arthritis. Columbus had been arrested years prior on accusations of tyranny and brutality toward native peoples of the Americas. But he was released by King Ferdinand after six weeks in prison. He was subsequently denied most of the profits of his discoveries promised to him by Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.After his death, though, his family sued the royal crown, a famous lawsuit known as the Pleitos colombinos, or Columbian lawsuits, lasting nearly 20 years. Columbus' heirs ultimately secured significant amounts of property and other riches from the crown. Also, most European navigators understood by the end of the 15th century, before his death, that Columbus had discovered islands and a large land mass unknown to them.
5. Columbus did nothing significant.
With all this talk of a hapless Columbus accidentally "discovering" the New World, as well as the subsequent genocide of native cultures, it is easy to understand the current backlash against Columbus and the national holiday called Columbus Day, celebrated throughout North and South America. This isn't entirely fair.While Columbus was wrong about most things, he did help establish knowledge about trade winds, namely the lower-latitude easterlies that blow toward the Caribbean and the higher-latitude westerlies that can blow a ship back to Western Europe. Also, while Columbus wasn't the first European to reach the Western Hemisphere, he was the first European to stay. His voyages directly initiated a permanent presence of Europeans in both North and South America.News of the success of his first voyage spread like wildfire through Europe, setting the stage for an era of European conquest. One can argue whether the conquest was good or bad for humanity: that is, the spread of Christianity, rise of modernism, exploitation and annihilation of native cultures, and so on. But it is difficult to deny Columbus' direct role in quickly and radically changing the world.Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books "Bad Medicine" and "Food At Work." His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on LiveScience.
Monday 3 October 2011
Cheryl Burke Lost a Lot of Weight' from Dancing:
Birth Name: Cheryl Bautista Burke
Birth Place: California
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/03/1984, Taurus
Profession: Dancer; choreographer; reality cast member
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Cheryl Stephanie Burke (born May 3, 1984) is a professional dancer. She is best known for being the first two-time champion of ABC's American version of Dancing with the Stars.
Acting:
Burke had a guest role on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, in the episode "Loosely Ballroom" along with fellow Dancing professionals Louis van Amstel, Ashly DelGrosso, and Lacey Schwimmer. She portrays Shannon, a nurse attending to the ensemble cast during a dance contest at the series setting, The Tipton Hotel. In the final round of the competition, Burke's character volunteers to replace an ill competitor. She and her partner go on to win the competition.In November 2009, US Magazine magazine announced that Burke is in talks to star as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway during the hiatus from Dancing With the Stars.
Awards and honors:
2005 World Cup Professional Rising Star Latin Champion
2005 San Francisco Latin Champion
2005 Ohio Star Ball Rising Star Latin Champion
UK Championships
4th in U.S. in the "Under 21s."
Dancing with the Stars (season 2) champion with Drew Lachey
Dancing with the Stars champion Season 3 with Emmitt Smith
Two-time nominee: Prime Time Emmy 2006, Outstanding Choreography for Paso Doble and Outstanding Choreography for Freestyle; Burke is the youngest nominee to ever receive nominations in that category.
On October 20, 2007, Cheryl won the Role Model Award at the 7th Annual Filipino/American Library Gala.
On the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards, she won the Viewer's Choice award for Favorite T.V. Personality.
Dancing's Cheryl Burke: Rob Kardashian Is Better Than Kim:
After three straight athletes for partners, Cheryl Burke is thrilled to be paired with Rob Kardashian on Dancing with the Stars. "It is a little change of pace, but I like it," she tells TVGuide.com. "Athletes are awesome, but I love working with Rob. He really wants to do well and is working so hard." But the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is not giving it his all solely to win the Mirrorball trophy.
Cheryl Burke: Rob Has 'Lost a Lot of Weight' from Dancing:
Rob did a great job last week on Dancing with the Stars. He was really feeling the dance. I think it gave him some confidence with the judges. And he was really happy, especially when Carrie Ann told him he was better than his sister.It's just nice to hear positive feedback, especially for Rob. He does have his insecurities and he does have low self-confidence. I think it really pushed him to do even better this week.Rob's also become more and more competitive. No one wants to get a bad score on Monday night, and the only way to avoid that is to really work hard. He's taken it seriously from the beginning, but I think now he wants to make sure he improves every week.He's lost a lot of weight. His whole physical appearance has changed. He's using different muscles. He's super sore all the time. I'm not sure if he's changing his diet, but the cardio is really good. I think he lost most of the weight just rehearsing from the jive because it's so fast-paced.
PHOTOS: Dancing with the Stars: Meet Season 13's Competitor:
I can tell Rob is getting more comfortable with his body because he's starting to wear tank tops to rehearsals. And you'll see his arms out. In the beginning, you'd never see that. He looks at himself in the mirror. It's really cute.This week we're doing the foxtrot, and the theme for the couples is "most memorable year of your life." It's a very touching and really sweet story that Rob is telling. People will see more of the sensitive side, and how family-oriented Rob is.He's a quick learner. He picked up the foxtrot in one day. Now it's a matter of making the quality of the dance good.
Jazzercise Launches Cheryl Burke Apparel Line:
Jazzercise, the world’s leading dance fitness program, announced the launch of the Cheryl Burke apparel line in its Fall 2011 catalog. Jazzercise is the first major retailer committed to carry the two-time Dancing with the Stars champion’s hot new styles. Designed by Burke, the apparel line features lifestyle pieces that will take women from their workout to the street.Jazzercise continues to offer high quality, on-trend fitness apparel with a focus on performance and function,″ said Jazzercise Founder & CEO, Judi Sheppard Missett. ″We have an outstanding partnership with Cheryl and we are proud to be the first to offer the Cheryl Burke collection.″
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