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Miami Dolphins show football the way down a perilous road
Times Online – Oct 26, 2007
You will know by now, because it isa very well-oiled PR machine, that the Miami Dolphins — seven games and nowins in the league so far — take on the New York Giants, undefeated in five,in a league match at Wembley on Sunday that really does count. If the Giants, who look the more likely of the two, happen to make it to theSuper Bowl in Arizona in February, you’ll know that this game was part ofthe journey. There will be no more than 10,000 travelling fans at the match,which means that the 70,000 or so who make up the rest of the congregationon Sunday are home grown — or at least Europe grown. Sure, they won’tnecessarily be Dolphins or Giants fanatics, but they will largely be aconverted audience that doesn’t need American football selling to them. What the NFL hopes, apart from providing a “fix” to UK-based fans, is thatseeing a packed Wembley, reading about the fixture all week and thenwatching highlights, if not all of the match, might grow the fanbase somemore, helping them to sell more merchandise and bump up the value oftelevision rights. This is an important fixture for the NFL, but in many ways it is much moreimportant for the Barclays Premier League. Where American sport treads, weare inevitably destined to follow, at least when it comes to football… If this is all sounding a bit far-fetched, you really haven’t been followingEnglish football for a few years, but to appease you, let us start on asmaller scale; every weekend thousands of Irish football fans make the tripacross the water to take in Premier League and Clydesdale Bank PremierLeague football. So give them Sunderland v Manchester United in Dublin, oreven better in Cork, as a reward? No issues about travel or jet lag to dealwith — the only stumbling block would be which team forfeit the fixture as ahome match. If you limit the travelling fans to get a real sense of the“home” crowd, ie, those who live in that country, you could have as littleas 10,000 of the 70,000 who would normally be at Old Trafford for thatfixture. And I am not sure they’d all be delighted. But I am sure in tryingto placate them, something along the lines of “you can buy another CristianoRonaldo” might be uttered. And to Sunderland’s fans: “You can buy your firstRonaldo. ”I know I have to move with the times but where will it end? Perhaps nextseason every team will have the right to play Ronaldinho once: the fixturewill be pulled out of the hat to make it fair as he becomes the PremierLeague’s first roving player — owned by the League itself.
Weaponisation phase: Tejas fires its first missile
Deccan Herald – Oct 26, 2007
The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has fired its first missile marking the beginning of the weaponisation phase of the home grown fighter, which is slated to be inducted in the Indian Air force by 2010. The Light Combat Aircraft successfully test fired close combat missile R-73 on Thursday at the air-to-air range off Goa coast,, Defence Ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar said. A naval Sea Harrier fighter chased the Light Combat Aircraft to photograph the maiden missile firing.
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SportingNews.com – Oct 26, 2007
html>Bon Jovi to the rescue! With folks in New Jersey smarting over bad decisions and promises of jobs and revenue gone “poof!” in the building of their new arena, Rock Star Jon Bon Jovi & Co. inaugurated The Prudential Center. But will anyone other than the Devils and a home-grown superband ever play at the arena?.
Grow Curcuma in Pot or Ground | Home and Garden | PE.com | Southern…
Press-Enterprise – Press-Enterprise (subscription) – Oct 26, 2007
It may take more than one year for your plant to grow to flowering size, but as it gets older, it will produce more and more flower spikes. Each flower spike lasts for many weeks so you will have months of color. A well-grown curcuma is always a showpiece in the home or garden. Q: My daylilies have finished blooming. Is this a good time to divide them?A: Late fall and early spring are the best times to divide daylilies, Hemerocallis. However, they are such robust plants that, if necessary, they can be successfully divided virtually any time of the year. Simply lift the plants, split the clumps of rhizomes into undamaged sections, and replant.
Switzerland mastering the art of wine making
Economic Times – Oct 26, 2007
The Alpine nation
has been overshadowed by more flamboyant wine producing neighbours like France,
Italy, Germany and Austria , but home-grown vintages have graced Swiss tables
for centuries. In fact, even
today locals love their wine so much that they drink most of it, leaving very
little for export. But the relative anonymity of Swiss wines may be about to
change. The country’s
premier wine growing region of Lavaux was granted World Heritage status by
Unesco earlier this year. Lavaux, which lies between
Lausanne and Vevey, won the status on the strength of its ancient vineyards,
spectacular lakeside setting and alpine panoramas.