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In China, 19 television stations, two websites and a mobile phone company pay to broadcast live the NBA match between Houston and Milwaukee, featuring two of the biggest names in Chinese sport, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian. The audience is more than 200m. 'I have seen the future - and it is Chinese,' says the NBA commissioner, David Stern. · Athletics: The IAAF, the sport's world governing body, is told by a BBC executive during negotiations for a new European broadcast deal that 'athletics is dying'. · Cricket: Coverage of the first Australia-Sri Lanka Test match is restricted, with international agencies refusing to provide print photographs, in a row (since resolved) over media rights; Test cricketers from around the world are warned against taking part in the 'rebel' Twenty20 league in India in February.
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Then, John Wildermuth breaks down a handful of bond measures and propositions, with the prediction that California voters will reject most of them. Plus: Marc Sandalow goes over a few of the major Senate races and says that the Democrats, who are hoping to win a majority in the House, are still spooked by the last two national elections. His predictions: the Dems will prevail, picking up 27 House seats, and a 50-50 tie in the Senate. But, he reminds us, the game's not over till it's over. .
Grow veggies without displacing flowers
I'm too foolish about flowers to give over my limited bits of sunny garden to a proper vegetable plot. But this time of year I think about it, with yearning. I've tasted sautéed spinach picked from the garden not 15 minutes earlier. I've swooned over steamed young potatoes my son dug with a kindly farmer at a bed and breakfast in the south of England. Although that experience was 11 years ago, it's a persistent and pleasant food memory for both of us. .
United States Coast Guard Chooses Eatec Corporation's Back-Office ...
EMERYVILLE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Eatec Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise back-office solutions and services for foodservice management, announced today that the United States Coast Guard has selected Eatec's software solution, EatecNetX, to automate, standardize and simplify its foodservice operations.
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'Stolen truck' taken by dog in Azusa, Calif.
Police said Charles McCowan parked his pickup in front of a mini-mart Wednesday, leaving his 80-pound Boxer named Max in the passenger seat. When he came out, the truck and Max were gone.
McCowan called police, assuming the truck had been stolen. When officers arrived, they found the pickup across the street in a fast-food parking lot but had no idea how it got there.
In security video shown Thursday on KCAL-TV, the truck can be seen rolling backward out of the store lot and across the street, threading its way through traffic and out of view.
Police said that after McCowan left the truck, Max knocked the vehicle out of gear and sent it rolling backward.
Both Max and the truck emerged without a scratch. .
Home Diagnostics up for incentives
The city of Fort Lauderdale has already approved a deal that would give the diabetic testing supply manufacturer the same amount of incentives. The balance of the funds would come from the state's Qualified Target Industries program. Home Diagnostics (NASDAQ: HDIX) would create the 135 jobs over four years and must maintain each new employee for at least one year. The average salary must be at least $42,629. "They are adding the types of jobs that we want to have in the community," said James Tarlton, president of the Broward Alliance, which worked with the company on the deal. "They are creating the knowledge base of workers that are important to building a high-tech environment here." The county estimates the expansion would generate $837,671 in tax revenue, which would be tapped to give the company incentives.
Shirvington urges Ross: Don't give up
While Ross faces a massive challenge to qualify for Beijing, Shirvington has declared he may continue his sprint career beyond Beijing. Shirvo won his last national crown in 2002 while his previous Olympic campaign was in Sydney in 2000. But his impressive form in winning the Sydney grand prix and a third place behind world record holder Asafa Powell last week has given him a confidence boost in his bid to qualify for Beijing. "Can I secure the national title again (tomorrow night) and put pressure on the selectors to choose me? I'd like to think so," he said. "The way I am heading, I believe I am going to be running fast in August and I believe I can justify a spot to be there. I have always thought of Beijing being 'my Olympics'." Ross's coach Paul Nancarrow believes his disillusioned superstar still has the time and talent to make it to the Beijing Games.
Can this shiny lip gloss slim your hips?
Rub on a lip gloss and lose weight. Sip a berry drink and look younger. Down some iced tea and burn calories. If only it were that simple. “Always on the lips … never on the hips," promise ads for the new "Fuze Slenderize Guilt free" lip gloss. Marketed by Too Faced Cosmetics, the flavored lip gloss claims it can suppress your appetite with the same mix of minerals and ingredients found in Coca-Cola's Fuze energy fruit drinks. As Americans continue to struggle with weight loss, marketers are getting more outlandish with their quick-fix diet claims. At least with Fuze, a blend of the minerals chromium and L-carnitine, along a hydroxycitric acide extract called Super Citrimax, the calorie conscious had to drink a full bottle of the beverage to get the promised hunger-easing metabolism boost.
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