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Moving Minutemen
AMHERST - The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team is a power without portfolio, winning votes in the preseason polls before winning any games.While tactfully avoiding grand promises, coach Travis Ford still feels the Minutemen are ahead of the game, in terms of preparing for the 2006-07 season.
Strategies and plays were mapped out and practiced in August and September, weeks earlier than usual. All UMass must do now is polish its execution.
"The first week we got back on campus in September, we got almost everything in," Ford said. "In my 10 years of coaching, I'd never had a team this far along in terms of putting things in."
UMass will be tested Saturday night, when the Minutemen play Bridgeport at the Mullins Center.
UQ Wire: Mohamed Atta Associate in South Pacific
An FBI terror alert has been released in the South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot first identified as a "close associate" of Mohamed Atta three years ago in the MadCowMorningNews and the opening chapter to "Welcome to TERRORLAND" in interviews with Atta's former American girlfriend, Amanda Keller."U.S. authorities have uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to September 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta," reported the Associated Press.
Bohringer recently fled tiny Fanning Island in the South Pacific aboard his yacht after a story in the MadCowMorningNews headlined "Close Associate of Mohamed Atta Surfaces in South Pacific" revealed his presence and drew attention to his suspicious intention to open, on an island with no electricity and barely a hundred inhabitants more than a thousand miles from a city of any size, a flight school to train pilots to fly only DC3's.
'Special' program for kids
This past weekend, the Board of Directors of Special Olympics Bahamas organized its 'Healthy Athlete Program' in which some 100 special athletes were screened by medical professionals for their eyes and teeth. According to National Director, Amanda Moncur, most of the athletes in this program are from lower economic families, who are not in a position to afford these services, so this service would not otherwise be available to them. Local Optometrists and Dentists volunteered their services to examine the athletes and produce recommendations for treatment. Athletes are also provided with prescription glasses "free of charge". Much to their credit, many of the professionals provide free consultation to the needy athletes, The 'Healthy Athlete Program' is headed by Optometrist, Ebbie Shearer-Jackson, and Dentist, Mitchell Lockhart, who attended a training workshop in the Cayman Islands sponsored by Special Olympics.
Courier News Online - Daniel Craig makes Bond debut in `Casino Royale'
LONDON -- Fans lined up in the London rain Tuesday to catch a glimpse of the new blond Bond, as sandy-haired Daniel Craig made his screen debut as suave secret agent 007. "Casino Royale," the 21st James Bond film and the grittiest to date, was receiving its world premiere before an audience including Queen Elizabeth II. The movie opens in Britain and North America on Friday.
Stars, including Elton John and Beyonce Knowles, were expected in the audience in London's Leicester Square for Craig's date with double-O destiny.
Craig, 38, is already being praised in some quarters as the best Bond since Sean Connery, who originated the role in 1962's "Dr. No." His debut has restored the buzz around a franchise that many felt was past its prime.
"With 'Casino Royale,' we've not only got a new Bond, we've also got a new approach to the genre," said James Chapman, author of "Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films." "It's revisionist.
BTC connects Haiti to outside world
Assisting Haiti with its efforts to upgrade its telephone services, The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) have laid a fiber optic submarine cable between Matthew Town Inagua and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The move is expected to fully connect Haiti to the outside world."BTC's technicians from its outside plant division visited Haiti to assist the staff of Teleco d' Haiti with the installation of the cable" said Minister of Works and Utilities Bradley Roberts on Wednesday. "This is the first submarine fiber optic cable connecting Haiti to the outside world so there was little experience in this type of work in Haiti. The cable to Haiti is now installed and passing telephone traffic between The Bahamas and Haiti."
But in addition to upgrading telephone services in Haiti, Mr.
Holiday wine tasting benefits heart
Imagine a glass of $200 red wine. You taste the wine's bouquet with your nose, you swirl the wine in your glass and then in your mouth, letting the rich flavours mingle a moment before spitting it out. Then you pour out the remainder of your glass, rinse it with water, and do it all over again, 70 more times.Whether a connossieur or a debutante masquerading as one, the wine tasting at the Westin on Sunday evening had dozens of vineyards and vintages to taste, from six-dollar chardonnys to $200 cabernets. Butler & Sands' third annual benefit wine tasting, the event made its first appearance in Grand Bahama, with the proceeds of the wine tastings this year, going to the Red Cross of the Bahamas and the Heart Association of Grand Bahama.
There are no hard and fast rules at a wine tasting, and to be sure, there were many on hand who weren't spitting out their wine.