| Boarder slapped with hefty fine for sidewalk skating
HAYWARD Mason Francouer would have had to be driving a car pretty fast to earn the kind of ticket he picked up last fall for riding through downtown on a skateboard. The 17-year-old's first brush with the law happened after school one day. He was rolling down a B Street sidewalk when a police officer on a bicycle pulled him over and fined him $560. "I was going like 3 miles an hour and, I don't know, I got a ticket. It was kind of lame," said Francouer, a shaggy-haired high school senior who has been plying downtown on wheels since seventh grade. His parents were infuriated by the ticket, and his father, electrician David Francouer, took several hours off work to join his son in court. "We just thought it was kind of bogus," the teen said. "I don't mess up the sidewalk.
Tian Liang pays for cashing in on fame
Tian Liang knows what it is like to be at the heart of China's secretive state-run sports sector. Plucked from the long-jump pit on the school playing fields of Chongqing at the age of 7 and sent to the swimming pool, he was carefully nurtured to become one of the country's most successful divers. During a 20-year career he won three world titles, 15 World Cups, two Olympic gold medals and a bronze. The 28-year-old also knows what it is like to be cast out of the system. Despite his two-medal haul in Athens in 2004, he was kicked off the national team in 2005 for endorsing everything from electric bicycles to seafood snacks. His coaches, who demoted him to a provincial team despite his continued superiority, said that he had been "violating team regulations concerning commercial activities ...
Suicide bomber strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
The WWI may not have been a religious war, but WWII certainly was.
1. All the Fascist Axis (Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, even France) were Catholics, and had Pope's blessing
2. The Allies were Protestants (USA, UK, Netherlands etc.)
3. Both concurred on a Final Solution in the West (even for Canada 1 Jew was too many). Israel is a living proof
4. Fascist wantedHoly Victory (Sieg Heil). Revisionsts now say that they only meant Hail Victory
5. The tone of the movie Triumph of the Will is religious
That is understandable. The soul of the Modern Democratic West is anti-Jewish. Magna Carta contains 3 clauses limiting Jewish activities.
How does the WWII differ from the present unstated Sunni-Shia carnage? What confuses the Westerners is that in Islam religion is not separate from politics, in the West it is.
Community sports: Cyclist McCune on road to recovery
It's been just over six months since Jenny McCune became a commonality in locals' hearts and prayers. Deirdre Eitel/Chronicle Ed Scheterlak, Jenny McCune's husband, teaches a free class at the Bozeman Yoga Center Tuesday morning during Community Celebration Week to acknowledge the people who have helped him and McCune after she suffered a life-altering bicycle accident in July. On July 5, the former Gallatin Valley Bike Club president, Team Delphine rider and long-time Bozeman resident took a corner too wide on her bicycle, crashed into a ravine and suffered a spinal-cord injury for which doctors have little understanding and no cure.In an instant, McCune went from an elite athlete to a woman without movement below her shoulders.It was a devastating blow to the community, and proved that the growing Bozeman area still has the small-town atmosphere, McCune's husband, Ed Scheterlak said."In some ways the real story is the way the Bozeman community came together: the biking people, the people from the Zen community, those from the environmental community, people from all the gyms, everybody," Scheterlak said.
New Blacksburg bridge opens up park access
A Blacksburg public works employee rakes a gravel surface leading up to a new bridge spanning Toms Creek in Blacksburg's Heritage Community Park. The bridge, which measures 24 foot long by 12 foot wide, connects the two ends of the 169-acre Heritage Park. Locator map Huckleberry Trail, existing and planned .
The times they are a changin
Nasser had the courage to say no to the foreign powers when it involved the future of something as major as the High Dam. Now, we cant say no to the minor things. Im not siding with Nasser, Im siding with an ideology: the dignity of a nation. But dont get me wrong! We believe in the private and public sector alike, but the private sector should fall under the supervision of the public sector, it should produce basic commodities we need, like the bread loaf, not Chipsy [the popular brand of potato chips]. .
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