| Olympic champion Meares could miss Beijing due to race accident
If I miss out on points, I will have to continue training through and hope the UCI gives me that wild card," she said. Australian track cycling head coach Martin Barras said Meares' Olympic selection "has been taken out of our hands". "Where we had control of the selection process, now we don't anymore," Barras said. "Considering the severity of the injuries, we don't want to mingle with her recovery with any sort of pressure with regards to qualifying or getting back into racing before she is fully ready — the severity of the neck injury dictates that." Meares also suffered torn neck muscles, torn shoulder tendons and bruising in her fall in the kierin final in Los Angeles. "I remember hitting my head and being in a lot of pain straight away, and the next thing that I remember was being on the bottom of the track being tended to," she said.
NASCAR for prisoners: Taking a mind trip
Very much so," he says. "That was my first sport." Racing reminds him of the good times, back when he was a boy growing up in Wilkes County, spending weekends at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem watching his dad race. He idolized Junior Johnson, Joe Weatherly and Fireball Roberts, some of the sport’s pioneers and earliest stars. "In the old days, they just put on a pair of coveralls, a helmet and jump in the car. They’d just put a rollbar in, knock out the windshield and go racing," he says. "Now, everything’s run by the officials." Talking racing brings life to his face, but it can’t do anything for the rest of his body. Harris is finishing the last two months of a sentence for speeding to elude arrest.
Township boosts mall tax assessment
HOBART | Ross Township Assessor Randall Guernsey said Thursday that the township is correcting a "huge undervaluation" of Westfield Southlake Mall, more than doubling the assessed value of the shopping center.Earlier this year, with the help of Indianapolis-based consulting firm Nexus Group, the township was able to obtain documents from the 2002 sale of the mall to Westfield to determine its value for 2006 as $129.5 million.The township trended the price back two years to increase the mall's assessed value from $53 million to $117 million. The combined assessed value for 2004 and 2005 will be $234 million, a $128 million increase from the original assessed price.The increase in assessment will mean additional tax revenues for Ross Township, Guernsey said.Westfield is appealing its 2006 assessment, but Guernsey said the documentation from the 2002 sale will help the township's case before the Lake County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals."I feel pretty confident that we should win.
Last of the ancient wonders
They dug a hole to steal the contents but left her coffin intact inside a second wooden sarcophagus, her bracelet still on her right arm along with parts of her necklace. And while Queen Hetepheres's sarcophagus in a subsidiary pyramid at Giza was empty, the canopic jars containing her viscera were still in place among her intact funerary items. The view that the pyramids were tombs was therefore endorsed by a number of scholars. Some suggested the pyramids had sloping sides so the dead Pharaoh could symbolically climb to the sky and live forever. They even inferred that the mastaba structure of the Step Pyramid, the first known pyramid, was a symbolic staircase. The Bible says: 'Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven.' Although this refers to the gardens of Babylon, the concept is the same.
Letters to the Editor (Jan. 23)
According to David Dodson, the developer was going to preserve that part of the interior ("Developers abandon Whiteside," Jan. 4). The brick wall on Fourth Street is not attractive. Making the Whiteside into a museum to preserve the ceiling seems like a great idea!Louise Marquering, CorvallisDo we need more second lieutenants?During the Nevada Democratic debates, the candidates were asked if they were in favor of requiring ROTC to be offered by the top 10 elite colleges.The colleges, starting with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc., do not now have ROTC programs. The students at these elite schools apparently are not eager to become second lieutenants.All three candidates answered that they would request these schools to offer ROTC or have federal funds cut off. With endowments in the billions I don't think this is much of a threat.Only John Edwards went on to state the case for support of those who do offer to serve their country in the armed services.
Can Someone Channel Ron Paul Supporter Energy For Good Instead Of ...
Paul make it to the front page of Digg on a daily basis, and any blog post that triggers a Google Alert for his name is sure to see a flood of comments arrive shortly thereafter. Now some of his supporters have been caught promoting their preferred candidate using decidedly unsavory means. SecureWorks has released a report detailing the mechanisms behind a four day pro-Paul spam flood (one that we noted back on November 1). Apparently a botnet was employed to send unsolicited emails via infected computers, in much the same illegal style that's used to hawk pirated software and disc0unt v1agra. Dirty pool, to be sure — and foolish on the part of the Paul fans behind it. The spam and rigged online polls aren't fooling anyone, and only make it easier to dismiss the campaign's online prominence as a the work of a handful of talented geeks.
KT Tunstall rocks the vote
I asked them if they felt it was maybe a little weird having her use my song . . . they said, 'We desperately need a Democratic government, so just help how you can'. So that's how I feel about it." The 32-year-old singer/songwriter is gearing up for her first tour to Australia after visiting Sydney "for a matter of hours" on a promotional trip last year. She'll arrive in March to join an impressive line-up for the Easter weekend Bluesfest at Byron Bay and is looking forward to visiting the beach retreat she's heard so much about. "Everyone keeps banging on about Byron Bay, so finally I can tell them to shut up 'cause I've been," she laughs. The tour comes on the heels of quite an eventful Christmas break for Tunstall. Her boyfriend Luke Bullen (who is also the drummer in her backing band) turned up on the doorstep of her family home in St Andrews on Christmas morning to propose.
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