| Wow! Woods wallops Cink for another World Golf title
Alas, this putt spun around the lip and stayed out. Having raised his putter over his head, Woods cringed and let the club fall through his finger, and both players laughed and tapped fists. It was that moment Sunday at Dove Mountain that illustrated where Woods is on the world stage of golf. His expectations have never been higher. His game has never been stronger. Woods closed out Cink on the next hole with a wedge that climbed over a bunker and spun back to 2 feet, his 14th birdie in 29 holes in his 8-and-7 victory, the largest margin in the 10-year history of the tournament. It was his 63rd career victory, moving him past Arnold Palmer into fourth place alone on the PGA Tour's career list. He won for the 15th time in these World Golf Championships, earning more money in 26 starts than Tom Lehman has earned in 438 starts in his PGA Tour career.
The Weedpatch Gazette
Some of these activities enabled even children to make their contributions, things like peeling foil from gum and cigarette pack wrappers, rolling it in a ball and turning it in to a scrap metal collection center. I would help grandad flatten tin cans with hammer and anvil for the same purpose. Many children were also turning in metal toys for the war effort, most of which would command a very high price today as "collectibles." Few people today would think about wire clothes hangers being hard to come by, but even such a mundane though utilitarian item was scarce at the time, so, grandad made them. Grandad being a jack of all trades, building our house, the church and grocery store in Little Oklahoma (Southeast Bakersfield) there were construction materials around the place before the war, and having a roll of wire on hand he fashioned a jig of a board and nails, then cutting the wire to the proper length he would twist it around the jig and voila; a wire clothes hanger.
Bond News
James Bond's Aston Martin DBS is fast. Properly, shockingly, terrifyingly fast fast enough to dilate your pupils and send your heart rate rocketing. I'm riding in one down a deserted, twisting rural road near Aston Martin's headquarters in Warwickshire. As we round a bend, bodies pressed hard against the sides of the carbon-fibre race seats, I spot the next corner 50 yards away. But in the instant it takes me to notice it, the car gets there. There's a deep, loud bellow from the 510bhp, 6.0-litre V12 engine hidden under the elegant bonnet that stretches away in front of us. Suddenly, we are forced hard back, and nearly two tonnes of supercar and passengers lunge forward as if they were weightless. Inside, it's pure Aston Martin. There's original design, with carbon-and- Kevlar seats, while in no other car do you insert a crystal "emotion control unit" into the centre of the dashboard to start the engine.
Loonie surpasses $1.10 US
The United States, our biggest trading partner, now has a huge external debt and its weakened dollar will further increase the costs of borrowing, causing its debt to balloon even more and further weakening that economy. Meanwhile, the resource sector can't sustain us indefinitely and the manufacturing jobs we are losing will never be replaced. And in the midst of this, the Canadian government is bloody irresponsible! It should be encouraging the Bank of Canada to adopt monetary policies that help keep the dollar in line. And meanwhile, it should be putting more of that budget surplus into research and development and other areas to encourage the development of industries that will sustain us when the oil economy comes to an end. But what is it doing instead?? The government is choosing to use a substantial chunk of that surplus to give us GST cuts and more income tax cuts for the rich.
Boris: End free travel for young troublemakers
Young troublemakers should lose their free travel cards, Conservative London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson says. Mr Johnson said the plan to remove free bus travel for any young people abusing it aimed to end rowdiness and violence faced by commuters. He said anyone who lost their travel pass would have to do community service to get it back. The community service could include graffiti removal. Mr Johnson said he would also push to have Police Community Support Officers take more of the paperwork facing sworn officers, releasing them to get back out on the beat. A spokesperson for Mayor Ken Livingstone's campaign said travel cards were already being confiscated. .
July 2006 Archives
They split in the spring after less than four years of marriage and 100s of denials that their marriage was on the rocks. So... who should Paul date next? Let's play matchmaker for the former Beatle: Sheryl Crow: She's single after Lance and has a thing for older rockers -- like Eric Clapton. Maybe Paul and Sheryl will make music together? Geri Halliwell: The former Spice Girl -- who is single -- just had a baby. Maybe she and Paul could get together, change nappies and talk about the good old days they both had with their respective bands. Yoko Ono: Considering they hate each other, this would be the match from hell. But wouldn't it be funny if their years of animosity stemmed from the fact that they secretly had crushes on one another? Hey, anything's possible.
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