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PERTH: The on-pitch beer party by the WACA staff, hours before the Perth match, is an insult to Test cricket and a political disaster, a media report said.

An Indian TV channel showed footage of a few men and women sitting and drinking beer on the WACA pitch, the night before the Perth Test between India and Australia.

The WACA curator had said it was just a customary celebration after a good work ahead of the match.

However, a report in Daily Telegraph slammed the behaviour by the WACA staff.

Australians, it seems, will drink anytime anywhere without any respect or regard. Is there anything more sacred or central to a Test match than the pitch on the evening...

The Loyola (MD) Greyhounds take a trip north to square off with the Niagara Purple Eagles. The Greyhounds look for their third straight win after knocking off St Peters 66-54 while the Purple Eagles seek to rebound from a 71-64 defeat at Manhattan.

Loyola (Maryland) has been a surprise team in the MAAC thus far with a 7-2 record that has them in a three way tie for first with Iona and Manhattan. The Greyhounds have outscored opponents 68-65 overall which arent impressive numbers but the defense has been playing far better in conference play which has made everything fall in to place. Having said that, Loyola (MD) is not a team that is so strong at either end of the floor to win on on their...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Jan 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
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Lake City High School junior Joshua Norwood lifts dumbbells in weight-lifting class at Lake City High School on January 4, 2011. Norwood is much like a typical high school junior, though he suffers from spina bifida which requires him to use the only handicap accessible rest room twice-a-day in the schools Health Connections Clinic. The clinic received a $500,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services in December for improvements to the Health Connections clinic at the school. The clinic serves up to 40 students a day, dispensing medication, providing resources to students with medical needs and registered nurses on site to provide support to the school.

A bit of a splash erupted on the Web yesterday in the form of photos showing a boat displaying two hammerheads. One was a shark. The other was the celebrity, Rosie ODonnell.

The Web quickly lit up with attacks on Rosie, saying among other things that because she brought her kids fishing for sharks, she was a bad mom.

Well, maybe. But lets dissect just a little. Im willing to cut her some slack.

First, although Im a lifelong ocean conservationist, I am going to resist quite piling onto the attack. And Ill tell you why; Ive done something rather similar, as Ill explain. Then, for what its worth, Ill tell you the two things I found distasteful. But before we get to that,...

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Applications for ICANN’s new Top-Level Domain program open 12 Jan for 90 days. ARI Registry Services provides insight into how the application period will unfold

A third of all applicants participating in ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) new Top-Level Domain program will come from the IT and financial services industries, according to figures released by ARI Registry Services today as the application window opens tomorrow.

ARI Registry Services is predicting more than 1000 applications will be submitted between 12 January and the 12 April 2012 deadline.

According...

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Relying on social media, Russian activists are attempting to organize more mass rallies against the Russian government. Here, protesters staged a huge rally in Moscow on Dec. 24, 2011, alleging vote rigging in parliamentary polls.

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Walt Disney Studios has tapped former Participant Media prexy Ricky Strauss as head of marketing, ending a monthslong search to replace MT Carney, who announced her departure last week after a rocky 18-month tenure.

Strauss, who spent 16 years as a marketing and production exec at Sony, comes into the job with considerably more experience than had Carney, a Hollywood newcomer who was chosen to bring out-of-the-box thinking to Disneys campaigns.

Though Strauss is a seasoned studio marketing vet, his selection by no means signals that Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross is abandoning that strategy. Ross...

Shopping at Michael’s Arts Crafts – m4w (Tennessee) You had curly brown hair and lovely skin – I like a woman who doesn’t obsess over her weight. I couldn’t help but peek in your basket – great fabric choice. And I noticed when I followed you to the parking lot that you have a small dog – I have a small dog, too! Would love to get together sometime and share lotion.

Handsome fella in the town square – w4m (Boston) You helped me when I dropped my scarf in the mud. You looked so embarrassed when our fingers touched briefly – your cheeks turned scarlet. I’d enjoy sharing a cup of tea sometime. Ask anyone –...

The finance ministry has put a spanner in railways minister Dinesh Trivedi’s proposal, to incorporate five projects involving the construction of 453.73 km of rail tracks at a cost of Rs 2,197.41 crore in the upcoming rail budget in March.

The finance ministry’s reservations are that, four