Thursday, July 22, 2010

Reggie Bush Trophy And His Image was take away From USC university grounds

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In a letter to school supporters, arriving USC President Max Nikias states that Garrett will be replaced by Pat Haden effective Aug. 3 and the school also will return its copy of Bush's trophy to the Heisman Trust, among more than a few measures to disassociate itself from the Super Bowl winning tailback.
“We're going to do better,” Haden said. “We have to do better. We don't have any choices here. We stub our toe, there's going to be some problems.”
Reggie Bush may have thought that he didn't have to deal with the issues that the University of Southern California has come under fire for but the University has decided to handle the situation for him.
In an effort to clean up the now tarnished image of its athletic department, USC Athletic director Mike Garrett and Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy are the first two items to go.
USC was hit with four years of trial, a two-year bowl ban and severe football scholarship restrictions after the NCAA found serious rules violations in the athletic department, primarily around the football and men's basketball teams. Most involved illegal benefits for Bush and O.J. Mayo, the talented basketball player who spent just one season at USC.
The NCAA cited Garrett's administration for a lack of institutional control while slapping the school with heavy sanctions last month, but Haden believes he can change the culture of a program that has been wildly successful and heavily scrutinized over the past decade.

Angelina Jolie:Act as Super Spy in Salt

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Angelina Give her best to the movie”salt” it is very challenging to her.
Salt, a CIA official accused of being a Russian spy, dashes home to grab the supplies she needs to go on the run and hunt for her husband, who's missing. She grabs a backpack hidden in a trunk full of clothes, but while she's there she also sees her scruffy, little terrier, padding about the apartment, nervous because everything is in upheaval. Once she escapes by climbing out the window and slinking from ledge to ledge, high above the sidewalk — barefoot in a pencil skirt, in the winter, no less — she persuades a young girl in a neighboring apartment to let her in.
There, Salt opens the backpack and produces — you guessed it — the aforementioned scruffy, little terrier. (Good thing they didn't have a Great Dane.) And you realize right then and there that anyone who would go to that much trouble to save a dog cannot be a bad person. It's impossible. So from that point on, while there's tension in "Salt," there really is no suspense. Any attempts to confuse us about our heroine's true nature — and there are many — feel like an elaborate sham.
Under the direction of Phillip Noyce, though, at least it's a well-made sham. "Salt" allows Noyce to return to the kind of action thrillers he's made previously, like the Tom Clancy adaptations "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger." It's muscular, gritty and propulsive. (Robert Elswit, an Oscar winner for "There Will Be Blood," is the cinematographer.) It's also totally ludicrous and lacking in even the slightest shred of humanity.

18 Birthday of selena Gomez

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teen sensation turns 18 on Thursday - she's organised a barbecue bash for 250 people.

The Disney star will celebrate the milestone at her Los Angeles home, and her mum, Mandy Teefy, is putting on a Texas-style grill to remind Gomez of her home state.

But Teefy won't have much time to enjoy the party - she's in charge of overseeing the barbecue meat and making potatoes for the huge number of guests.
She says, "We're throwing her a big Bbq bash, 250 of her closest friends and family are coming over to our place in L.A. and it's going to be so much fun.
"We're ordering the Bbq meats but I'm cooking the cheese potatoes."

Gomez received an early gift during a meal with her family on Monday, when a group of fans serenaded her with Happy Birthday at the restaurant.

David Cameron sight on foreign trade policy

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The new permanent secretary at the Foreign Office will be Simon Fraser, who has been at the Department for Business since May 2009.
Mr Cameron described him as "Britain's leading expert on trade in the civil service".
The prime minister told reporters: "I want to refashion British foreign policy, the Foreign Office, to make us much more focused on the commercial aspects... making sure we are demonstrating Britain is open for business.
"I think it is a big opportunity. As we come out of recession and into recovery we have got to pay our way in the world and I want to reorientate the Foreign Office to be much more commercially minded."
He added: "I want us to be much more focused on winning orders for British business overseas, attracting inward investment back into Britain.
Speaking in New York on the last day of his trip to the US, the prime minister said he wanted diplomats to use every opportunity to win orders for UK firms.He announced that he was appointing a civil servant with expertise in business to head the Foreign Office.The department would also recruit a commercial director, Mr Cameron said.
'Open for business' The prime minister was speaking as he met financial and business leaders in the US.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Jenna Fischer's minister at her wedding: Jeff Probst

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As the main host of "Survivor", Jeff Probst has presided over a lot of an coalition. But none was as star-studded as the July 3 wedding of "The Office" star Jenna Fischer to writer Lee Kirk.
Probst, a longtime pal of Fischer's and an ordained priest in the Universal Life Church since the 1990s, officiated at the close Malibu wedding, sources verify to PEOPLE. Though on site in Nicaragua for "Survivor's" 21st season, Probst, 47, managed to go back to Southern California for 24 hours to conduct the ceremony.
Fischer and Kirk are not the first to be married by Probst, who over the years has helped more than a few friends tie the knot. He also conducted his parents' 35th anniversary vow restitution.
Next month, Probst will yet again return to Los Angeles for 24 hours to be present at the Emmy Awards. The two-time champion is again nominated, this time for his third successive year, for terrific Host for a Reality.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Eastern European street kids facing 'HIV epidemic'

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Growing numbers of vulnerable children across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are at risk of dying from AIDS, with widespread drug use and the sex trade contributing to an "underground HIV epidemic," UNICEF warned on Monday.

The former Soviet states, from Baltic Russia to Tajikistan in Central Asia, and parts of the Balkans remain the only regions of the world where rates of HIV infection continue the rise, according to the UNICEF report, released at an international HIV/AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria.

"Today, street children in the region are dying of AIDS and drug use in much the same way as they died of cold, famine and typhoid in the twentieth century," claims the report, entitled "Blame and Banishment."

Newly diagnosed HIV cases increased by eight percent in Russia in 2009, by 10 percent in Georgia and by 22 percent in Belarus, according to figures released last week by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Some parts of Russia have experienced a 700 percent increase in rates of infection since 2006, UNICEF says.

Widespread social stigmatization and discrimination associated also threaten to drive the epidemic underground, warned UNICEF's regional HIV/AIDS specialist Nina Ferencic.

"There's an unwillingness to acknowledge that there are young people and minors involved in these behaviors," said Ferencic, a co-author of the report.