According to Iranian state television, there are now three choices for Team Melli.

Cons: Despite his knowledge, he is not there yet to be national team coach.

Ten Sports retains rights for West Indies Cricket

Dubai-based broadcaster, Ten Sports, retained the global media rights for West Indies cricket, excluding the UK, in a four-year, from 2008 and 2012, deal with the West Indies Cricket Board.

CEO of Ten Sports, Chris McDonald commented: “We are thrilled to extend our partnership with the West Indies Cricket Board for another 5 years.

Your Comments : Keep President Fijian

The traditional leaders like to reap the benefits from tourists other ethic groups and countries and yet decline to be part of them.This shows how selfish they are or they are just stubborn.If they would have thought about this before 1874 this problem would not have existed.All those who had been displaced ,today they would be living in a country where there is respect.This is twentiath century.

Moderator: Given that it's a constitutional post, doing away with said post would require a constitutional amendment passed by a 2/3 majority in a duly elected parliament.

The Breakdown of Wall Street Alchemy

The Michigan higher education student loans authority cited 'current and unprecedented capital markets disruption' for its decision to axe its alternative loans programme. Student loans are typically packaged into securities that have a floating interest rate determined through regular auctions - called the auction-rate securities market, worth an estimated $360bn. In recent weeks, many of these bonds have been left unsold."

February 15 - Bloomberg (Jody Shenn): "The larger home loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will temporarily be allowed to guarantee won't be accepted into the main market for mortgage bonds, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association said...

Scots do not want to end the Union, merely modify it

IT'S time. Time for a change. Time to move on. This is the last column from this writer which will appear in this position in this paper. A new and extremely challenging role on the business desk awaits.Sadly, it means no time for the glorious self-indulgence of expressing a weekly opinion on the affairs of the nation.The world of politics is a continuously fascinating one. There is always something new. Political parties take power and always, in the end, lose it. Politicians' fortunes ebb and flow. Plots and conspiracies abound. Policies evolve and change.Over time, the decisions made by our elected representatives really do "make a difference", a phrase politicians use frequently, to the lives of the poor, long-suffering voters whose interests they are supposed to represent. Politics matters.And having spent many years at both Westminster and Holyrood as a reporter – and worked, albeit for only a year, on the "dark side" as a special adviser to former First Minister Henry McLeish – politics had become like a drug.

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KRIEGER: More character, not characters, needed

The NFL began its annual weeklong religious holiday in Indianapolis on Wednesday. No, not Super Bowl week. That's its annual weeklong orgy of excess. The religious holiday is the festival of weights and measures, also known as the scouting combine.

Top Ga. economic developers visit Sumter

Twenty seven of the state's top economic development project managers were in Americus earlier this week to meet with community leaders. Top Ga. economic developers visit Sumter From Staff Reports AMERICUS — Twenty seven of the state's top economic development project managers were in Americus earlier this week to meet with community leaders. This was part of a bus tour of Southwest Georgia sponsored by Georgia Power Co. The project manager group consisted of statewide economic developers from both Georgia Power and the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

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I would argue that private economic enterprise is not under government control (quite the contrary), with a few benefitting at the expense of many. However, be that as it is and not withstanding that fascism originated on the "right," opponents of the administration’s policies in Iraq are being increasingly fascist-baited. From the currently fashionable "Islamo-fascism" to sly suggestions of "appeasement" (Dick Cheney) and more overt analogies to "those who enabled Hitler" (Newt Gingrich), Webster is flung to the winds. And for a cross-spectrum, if muddled, reference, there’s George Bush in a recent speech at an American Legion Convention, citing both fascism and communism as "the decisive ideological struggle of the twenty-first century." Somehow it’s hard to picture him as middle-of-the-road.

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Mayor's budget request has $831.5 million in projects

Mayor Mufi Hannemann today submitted an annual budget that proposes operating funds of $1.839 billion and a capital improvement budget of $831.5 million, according to the city.

$245.3 million for sewer rehabilitation and sanitation-related projects.

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Claflin University is embarking on a new communications and marketing initiative to promote the university to a global audience and position the institution as a national resource for information and answers on education and research issues.In keeping with those objectives, Claflin President Dr. Henry N. Tisdale has announced the appointment of Jason Darby as director of public relations in the Division of Institutional Advancement."Mr. Darby brings a great deal of experience and expertise in the area of marketing and media relations for colleges and universities to his role here at Claflin," said Vivian Glover, assistant vice president for communications and marketing. "I am confident that his abilities and experience will be indispensable assets."Darby's responsibilities include generating and managing local, regional, national and international media publicity for the university.Darby comes to Claflin with more than a decade of experience in higher education communications and marketing.

Ralph Kiner - 1955 :

He led the NL in home runs from 1946 thru 1952 and was an All-Star from 1948 thru 1953. Ralph spent one year in a Tribe uniform (1955) and finished with a .243 batting average with 18 HR's and 54 RBI. Kiner was enshrined at Cooperstown in 1975. Roger Maris - 1957: Best known for his years with the New York Yankees, Maris broke in with the Indians in 1957 and posted a .235 batting average with 14 HR's and 51 RBI. Roger was traded to the Kansas City A's during the early portion of the 1958 season. In 1961, as a member of the Yankees, Maris belted out 61 HR's breaking the cherished Single Season Home Run Record held by Babe Ruth. Hoyt Wilhelm - 1958: This Hall of Fame knuckleballer had a lenghty career and played for many teams. He was a starter early-on and a relief pitcher towards the end of his career.

Chris Matthews: Defeat Means Troops Still in Iraq--What About WWII?

Did you know that the US is still at war with Korea, Germany, Japan, Bosnia and Kosovo? Based on “Hardball" host Chris Matthews' recent claims, we are still at war with those countries and will be until our troops leave their soil. (h/t Weasel Zippers)

On his November 28 show (transcript here), MSNBC's Matthews discussed Iraq with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, wondering when “will we be able to come home." In the process, the former Carter speechwriter said, “If we can't ever come home, we can't ever say we won."

Evangelicals Credited With Delivering Huckabee Win

Candidates will try to hammer home their main themes while campaign workers focus on getting out the vote. 'We plan to contact voters - undecideds, in particular, and our supporters - multiple times before Election Day,' says Ben LaBolt of the Obama campaign, which says it has signed up 700 ward and town captains and issued 10,000 yard signs. Clinton will campaign with her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and Robert F. Kennedy."

The Iowa outcome has the media beginning to question Hillary Clinton's long-term viability. The Washington Post reports in a front-page story that for Clinton, "the presumed front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Iowa was always a risk.

Brazil and the United States: from dependency to equality

Brazil under President Lula is seeking an ambitious new role for itself on the regional and global stage. How will it negotiate this change with the United States, its fellow-giant to the north? To mark the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) summit in Miami, a respected Brazilian scholar examines the past, present and possible future of this special relationship .

Can Eli's performance give Jets fans hope?

It probably won't turn into a messy public affair, a la Pete Kendall, but that doesn't mean there won't be stuff happening behind closed doors.

• Best wishes to ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli, who underwent quintuple-bypass surgery on the eve of the Super Bowl. Len is one of the hardest working, most knowledgeable football writers in the business.

Tom Daley and Kenneth Lester: The boy wonders

The best piece of advice young Tom Daley received last week came from a fellow Olympian. "Just enjoy every minute of it and try to remember as much of it as you can," said Kenneth Lester. As the youngest ever British male Olympian, back in the days of hooped cotton singlets and smart blazers, Lester speaks from experience. Forty-eight years on, he still regrets that no photographic or even written record remains of his brief, but historic, Olympic career as a cox of the pair in Rome in 1960.

Lester and Daley, the two youngest British male Olympians, met for the first time last week, one reflecting happily on an achievement still vividly remembered across the years, the other blissfully ignorant of the limits to his own future. Lester had felt uncomfortable about claiming any of the limelight from the boy proclaimed in the euphoria of his qualification for Beijing last weekend as the youngest ever Olympian.

Hidalgo County sheriff attends FBI seminar

EDINBURG — Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevi�o returned from an intensive two-week FBI workshop last week ready to improve his office. Trevi�o attended the federal agency’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. He joined 39 other police leaders from across the globe at the event, which is held three times a year. Trevi�o’s class was the 58th since the program’s inception in 1998. "Believe me, it was no vacation," he said. "It was very intense nighttime and daytime classes." The workshop ran Jan. 20 to Feb. 1. Only the afternoon of Jan. 27 was set aside as free time. The top cops took classes on things such as management techniques, said Mark D’Amico, a supervisory special agent in the Leadership Development Institute at the FBI Training Academy.

Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Filled With World’s Seeds Comes to Life

This is my first post on Commondreams ,though I have been a reader for about the last 3 years, long before we had a comment section. So, the reason for me to touch the key board and post. For so long I read of gripes about Monsanto et all. But how many of those people who gripe do something physical about it? I'm not talking here of protest on the streets, but protest in the back yard. My protest is, growing my own veggies and fruit. I, my wife and I. We make our own beer, soap, fruit juice, cook our own food, are label readers in the shop, ie: only buy foods we recognise, organic if we can. How many of our posters do that, not many I expect. I suppose this will cause some comment. For us this is grass roots objection, and if enough people do?…… Reminds me of a slogan in my youth, I'm 57, Ok a baby boomer.

The Demise of Hyphy

On a sunny weekend afternoon, San Francisco offers no better place to be odd than bright-and-grimy Haight Street, with its colorful backdrop of boutiques, bars, and litter. Ice-cream-slurping tourist families-of-four are strolling nonchalantly past carnivals of small-time drug dealers, dreadlocked suburban white kids, and street people. .

HSBC builds team spirit through fire exercises

HSBC conducted a live fire drill yesterday competition facilitated by the Operation 'B' Belait Fire and Rescue branch at the drill yard of Belait fire station to test the speed, vigilance and teamwork capabilities among its officials.

HSBC Chief Executive Officer Tareq Muhmood said the live fire exercise is part of the corporate team-building activities organised for 20 staff from various HSBC branches in the country.

"The fun bit about this particular activity is that all the management staff had no idea that the exercise take place and their only form of preparation was the briefing delivered by the fire and rescue team," said Mr Tareq.

The participating staff were divided into five groups. The group who completed the fire extinguishing tasks in the fastest time won the challenge.

Hominy & Hash

Another three years passed and the British declared war on Spain. Not to be outdone, the Spanish showed up at St. Simons with 52 ships and more than 3,000 men. With only 630 men, Oglethorpe with bravery and cunning drove off the entire Spanish force. The long-term result of this battle, the Battle of Bloody Marsh, was that the territories northward would be British and the English language would be spoken instead of Spanish." The sopurce provided for those observations was one "Schoettle, H.E. Taylor."

The ambush lasted only about an hour before the Spanish retreated. They lost 50 men. The area where the fatally wounded fell is small, so the marsh did indeed run red from blood shed there.

To my knowledge, no one has ever suggested changing the name of the place to something less graphic.

This year, the American people will choose between two diametrically ...

The Democratic Party looks at our nation and sees the twilight of the American soul.

This is not some abstract formula. It is the vibrant, beating heart of the American experience. No matter how complex our problems, no matter how difficult our tasks, it is freedom that inspires and guides the American Dream.

Officials: Preventing floods a priority

Officials emerged from a regional flood summit in Binghamton on Thursday with plans to spend $650,000 on local flood-mitigation projects.

During the last four years, New York had nine floods that were declared major federal disasters.