| Local golf: Cook, Sluman commit to ACE Group Classic
Cook said in a conference call last week that he would be coming to Naples' Champions Tour event, from Feb. 11-17 at Quail West Golf & Country Club. Sluman had indicated at last month's Merrill Lynch Shootout in Naples that he would be playing. Both are technically rookies on the tour, even though they both played a handful of tournaments last year. “It is exciting to see these seasoned veterans making the transition from the PGA Tour to the Champions Tour,'' tournament director Jason Camp said in a press release. “John has already won in his brief time as a 50-year-old, and Jeff is not far behind with several top-25 finishes. I know they want to make a big splash in 2008, and we are happy to have them in Naples for what we hope is the first of many memorable efforts.'' Cook won in his second start at the AT&T Classic in San Antonio in mid-October.
Suns notebook: Shipping Thomas a sound move
Skinner makes $1.1 million this year, while Thomas would have cost Phoenix $16 million in salary and taxes. But Thomas isnt helping to make that argument stronger as he is posting a strong performance in his first and perhaps only season as a Sonic. After missing nine of the first 12 games with nagging injuries and watching most of Seattles 2-14 start, Thomas has given the Sonics all they could ask for by grabbing 9.7 rebounds in just more than 24 minutes a game, helping the team play close to .500 ball over the past 15 games (7-8). In the past four games coming into Thursday, he had 52 rebounds more than one out of every four the Sonics had. That would translate to 19 boards per 48 minutes for Thomas who has had 10 double-figure rebound games and set a career high with 16 defensive rebounds against Indiana on Nov.
MEIFF announces closing night film gala and sponsors $100,000 cash ...
MEIFF announces closing night film gala and sponsors $100,000 cash prize for UAE filmmakers The Middle East International Film Festival - Abu Dhabi (MEIFF) revealed its Closing Night Film, director Paul Haggis's IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, which is a story about a war veteran and his wife who are in search of their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has since gone missing. .
Clinton denies running a scorched-earth campaign
They are appealing to that kind of implicit racial bias," said Shanto Iyengar, a political science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I think they are getting pretty close to the tipping point if they keep showing that style of campaigning where they attack Obama repeatedly." Clinton, with her high negative ratings, must hold on to the Democratic base if she is to be successful. She received an early indication of those risks in the Michigan primary when only she and the leftwing candidate, Dennis Kucinich, were on the ballot. African-American voters, who make up a quarter of the state's Democratic electors, chose to vote for "uncommitted" rather than Clinton. Although Obama performs strongly among independents, pollsters admit that he has a smaller margin of success because of voters who simply may not vote for an African-American candidate - even if they will not say so in public.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Gary Coleman Paid? Foxy Free? Budden Calls Jay-Z ...
Foxy is using whatever means she can to get out of Rikers Island. The latest is she recently met with the presiding judge and there is a glimmer of hope. The only doctor that has been able to help Foxy and her ear situation is located in California. As expected the DA was hating, saying that there should be no sentence reduction even of Fox was dying. The judge will rule later in the month.
BROOKE HOGAN LEAVES SCOTT STORCH?
I don't know what kind of contract Brooke Hogan had with Scott Storch. I would assume the Hulkster can get her out off any contract –even Scott Storch. Well, Brooke has a myspace page that has her record label status as, “Trying to find a good one!" She signed to Scott Storch's Storchavelli Records in 2006 and hasn't done a lot musically.
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Media giant Tribune Co., which last month passed from public to private, employee ownership under the direction of real estate mogul Sam Zell, gave its nearly 20,000 employees a handbook yesterday outlining appropriate workplace policies and behavior and the new company's values. .
Budget entertaining: A make-your-own pizza party
The party plan: Everyone can construct pizzas simultaneously, if you have enough space and baking sheets. If not, stagger guests at a central workstation, preparing one or two pizzas at a time while other guests watch, talk or play games. Mr. Silva recommends having a stash of spare snacks, drinks and ingredients in case a guest forgets to bring a contribution. "You can always freeze the dough later, or chuck the vegetables," he says. But if you run out of food, your party's over. What guests should bring: It's like a potluck, but with a savvier plan. You provide the pizza basics – crust, sauce and cheese. Let your guests supply the rest: -Veggie and meat toppings. -Baking sheets – the flat ones with a single lip on one end.
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The red planet Mars is becoming prominent in the night sky. It is already brighter than most of the stars, and is of course very red, which is why it was named in honour of the God of War. It is a small world, only just over 4000 miles in diameter, and further away from the Sun, so that it is a cold pIace – but it is less unlike the Earth than any other planet, and it has always been regarded as a possibIe abode of life. And at the moment a new space craft, Phoenix, is winging its way there.By now many probes have been to Mars. Some have passed by, others have entered orbit round the planet, and several have landed there, NASA's rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been crawling happily around, sending back amazing pictures as well as data. We know much more about Mars now than we did a few years ago, but one thing we do not know is there any life on Mars – and if not, have living things ever existed there? Perhaps Phoenix will tell us. We are quite sure that there is no intelligent life, and indeed intelligence does not exist anywhere in the Solar System except (possibly) on the Earth, Percival Lowell's brilliant, canal-building Martian engineers belong to fiction, not to fact.
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