| Curt Cavin: IRL & Formula One Q&A
I used to sit accross from pit row and watch as teams would pull out their back-up cars, swap drivers, etc. Listening to WIBC during those long (and sometimes boring) afternoons was insightful. It certainly isn't the same today. What fourth qualifying day excitement, right? What are some of your greatest memories of those bump days? (Troy Vaughn, Cape Girardeau, Mo.)
Answer: Oh, I suppose you could say any day where someone hops in a ride at the last minute and qualifies fits that category, like Felipe Giaffone leaving a Toys R Us on Sunday afternoon in 2003. But no years can match Rahal and Penske missing the show.
Question: What are the chances we see Bryan Herta back at Indy with XM Radio support? Could AGR run a sixth car or maybe let Sam Schmidt run an "AGR Jr" team.
Tabby's picks column: Playoff hunt begins tonight
As I write this column (on Thursday) I notice the date is Nov. 8. In exactly one month, high school football will be over. With 1A-3A title games being played on Dec. 7 followed by 4A and 5A played on Saturday Dec. 8, all will be revealed in one short month. By that time my perfect bracket will have red ink all over it. We will then know if Bastrop will have made it a 3-peat and if West Monroe can get past that haunted second round this post season. Will OCS get its rematch against Cedar Creek in the quarterfinals in 1A? Is this the year Rayville stops coming up short of the Dome and actually clinches the 3A crown? This is what I go to bed wondering and wake up asking. In one month these questions along with many others will be answered, and we will go from 32 to 1.
The Chronicle Local News Blog
Henry K. Lee is liveblogging the Hans Reiser murder trial. See all his Chronicle articles on the case here and all his blog entries here. 12:26 p.m. Defense attorney Richard Tamor continued his cross of OPD criminalist Shannon Cavness far beyond the time to break for lunch, and now we know why: Judge Larry Goodman's clerk, Fil Cruz, has a personal matter to attend to and, as a result, we won't be in court this afternoon. Tamor had been going through a lot of calcuations as to the odds of Nina and Hans Reiser's DNA being on various items. One juror got permission to stand up and stretch. He also did a twirl. "That was very graceful," Goodman said, giving him a thumbs-up as fellow jurors laughed. Another juror had previously requested that we not be in session on Thursday, Jan.
PlayStation2 Brings Mini-Game Fun Into Your Living Room With Buzz!
FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced the release of Buzz! The Mega Quiz and Buzz! Junior Jungle Party, available exclusively for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. Regardless of gameplay ability, Buzz! The Mega Quiz and Buzz! Junior Jungle Party provide a social gaming experience for gamers and non-gamers alike as the games utilize the pick-up and play Buzz! buzzer peripherals instead of a game controller. Ideal for holiday gatherings with friends and family, Buzz! The Mega Quiz is the ultimate trivia game with over 5000 questions across a variety of topics and genres, including celebrities, music, sports, film, history, science and more. Buzz! The Mega Quiz features a TV style game show experience delivered live in your living room where up to eight players compete in a wide variety of fun, engaging trivia.
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Mass Media 1991-2000
Shamil' Tarpishchev, the presidential adviser on sports, had lobbied for this decree at the request of his friend, banker Aleksandr Smolensky - one of the sponsors of the project.
In November, AO Russian Public Television (ORT) was created by the presidential decree "On Improving Operations of the First Frequency Television Channel and its Distribution Network." A controlling block of shares (51%) was assigned to the state represented by the State Commission for the Management of State Property (GKI). Under the decree, the remaining shares were divided among four banks, MENATEP, Stolichny, Russian Credit, and Inkombank, and two other companies, AO Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines and AO AvtoVAZ.
1995
In January, Vladislav List'ev became general director of ORT and immediately began to make major changes in the company's economic policy.
Cuba cruise visitors plunge 90 percent after Castro's comments, US ...
He said that despite the canceled contract with the Italian company, cruise arrivals to Cuba declined only about 10 percent until October 2006, when Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. bought Spain's Pullmantur Cruises. Royal Caribbean canceled a route that brought a cruise liner called "Holiday Dream" to Cuba, he said. "The cause is the blockade and the (U.S.) Torricelli Law which keeps cruise ships from reaching the ports of Cuba," Lopez told to reporters during a tour of the Havana docks. He said officials only expect about a dozen cruise ships, most operated by British and German firms, to come to Cuba between January and April of this year. "Everyone wants to come to Havana but no (company) can because they penalize them," Lopez said. .
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