Japan wins 1st World Cup title in penalty shootout
By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer / 19 minutes ago
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)—Amid the sorrow that lingers throughout Japan, the determined women on its World Cup team may have brought a little joy.
Japan beat the Americans for the title in a riveting final Sunday, 3-1 on penalties after rallying from behind twice in a 2-2 draw. The star of the shootout was dogged goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori, who made two brilliant saves in the shootout.
All tournament the teammates poignantly reminded the world they were playing for their battered country, still reeling from the devastation of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Winning goalie Ayumi Kaihori of Japan made two saves in the shootout.
They held the gleaming trophy high above their smiling faces as confetti swirled around the podium, flecking their hair with gold.
“Before we went to the match tonight we had some commentary on television and we heard comments on the situation in Japan,” coach Norio Sasaki said. “We wanted to use this opportunity to thank the people back home for the support that has been given.”
This was Japan’s first appearance in the final of a major tournament, and they had not beaten the Americans
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Great story of this year 2011
Police: Train ticket helps crack 1957 Ill. killing
By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press
AP – Sat, Jul 2, 2011
...The grave site of Maria Ridulph at Elmwood Cemetery is shown in Sycamore, Ill., on …
....SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Charles "Chuck" Ridulph always assumed the person who stole his little sister from the neighborhood corner where she played and dumped her body in a wooded stretch some 100 miles away was a trucker or passing stranger — surely not anyone from the hometown he remembers as one big, friendly playground.
And, after more than a half century passed since her death, he assumed the culprit also had died or was in prison for some other crime.
On Saturday, he said he was stunned by the news that a one-time neighbor had been charged in the kidnapping and killing that captured national attention, including that of the president and FBI chief. Prosecutors in bucolic Sycamore, a city of 15,000 that's home to a yearly pumpkin festival, charged a former police officer Friday in the 1957 abduction of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph after an ex-girlfriend's discovery of an unused train ticket blew a hole in his alibi.
Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, has been held in Seattle on $3 million bail. A judge overseeing a Saturday court appearance for him said he had been taken to a regional trauma center but did not elaborate. She rescheduled his bail hearing for 12:30 p.m. Monday.
"I just can't believe that after all these years they'd be able to find this guy," Chuck Ridulph told The Associated Press at his duplex in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago.
A 65-year-old minister who mainly serves his area's senior citizens, Ridulph once shared a bedroom with his sister and already has his headstone placed on a burial plot next to her grave. With McCullough's arrest, he worries about a drawn-out legal process that will dredge up bad memories but also perhaps answer some nagging, stomach-churning questions about what happened to the little girl who loved to play dress up.
"It's in my every thought, even in my dreams," he said of his sister's death. "It was just like it was yesterday. It comes up all the time in conversation."
By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press
AP – Sat, Jul 2, 2011
...The grave site of Maria Ridulph at Elmwood Cemetery is shown in Sycamore, Ill., on …
....SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Charles "Chuck" Ridulph always assumed the person who stole his little sister from the neighborhood corner where she played and dumped her body in a wooded stretch some 100 miles away was a trucker or passing stranger — surely not anyone from the hometown he remembers as one big, friendly playground.
And, after more than a half century passed since her death, he assumed the culprit also had died or was in prison for some other crime.
On Saturday, he said he was stunned by the news that a one-time neighbor had been charged in the kidnapping and killing that captured national attention, including that of the president and FBI chief. Prosecutors in bucolic Sycamore, a city of 15,000 that's home to a yearly pumpkin festival, charged a former police officer Friday in the 1957 abduction of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph after an ex-girlfriend's discovery of an unused train ticket blew a hole in his alibi.
Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, has been held in Seattle on $3 million bail. A judge overseeing a Saturday court appearance for him said he had been taken to a regional trauma center but did not elaborate. She rescheduled his bail hearing for 12:30 p.m. Monday.
"I just can't believe that after all these years they'd be able to find this guy," Chuck Ridulph told The Associated Press at his duplex in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago.
A 65-year-old minister who mainly serves his area's senior citizens, Ridulph once shared a bedroom with his sister and already has his headstone placed on a burial plot next to her grave. With McCullough's arrest, he worries about a drawn-out legal process that will dredge up bad memories but also perhaps answer some nagging, stomach-churning questions about what happened to the little girl who loved to play dress up.
"It's in my every thought, even in my dreams," he said of his sister's death. "It was just like it was yesterday. It comes up all the time in conversation."
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Some photos from Jakarta city
The clouds for Cloud lovers ( left ) - Views of Jakarta city from centre to Southern ( right ). 
- To the port we go, trucks / containers goes to the harbour to export on the toll bridge.
Traffic in General Sudirman Avenue, Central Jakarta at peak hours, views to Northern ( left ) - The clouds for Cloud lovers ( right ).
I have a lot of work recently until 2 months later ( July 2011 ), so I brought you some photos when I go to do that works. See you next time !..... Bye !.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Last US WWI veteran dies at 110
BY MAURICE SCARBOROUGH
America’s last remaining World War I veteran has passed away at age 110.
“Frank Buckles enlisted in the Army at the age of 16, and then served as an ambulance driver. He was captured by Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Buckles was held as a prisoner of war for more than three years, before being freed by U.S. troops.”
KSBW
Buckles was the last of America’s Doughboys - and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki called him a - quote - “living link to an important era in our nation’s history.” But the New York Times explains Buckles almost missed his chance at making history.
“The Marines turned him down as underage and under the required weight. The Navy didn’t want him either, saying he had flat feet. But the Army took him in August 1917 when he lied about his age, and he volunteered to be an ambulance driver, hearing that was the quickest path to service in France.”
While Buckles’ military service ended after the war, his service to honor those who fought continued. During his life he actively advocated for a National World War I memorial in the nation’s capital.
“Buckles wanted the existing World War I memorial on the national mall in Washington to be restored and rededicated as a national memorial to all the veterans who died in that war.”
Fox News
Buckles’ wish for a national memorial in Washington has yet to come true, but his dream of being buried next to fellow service members and friends will become a reality.
“...with no wounds or medals for bravery, he was eligible under Arlington National Cemetery protocols only for inurnment in a vault for cremated remains. In March 2008, however, the Bush administration ordered a rare exception... Mr. Buckles wanted a grave site at Arlington and a traditional white marble headstone. And he will get his wish.”
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America’s last remaining World War I veteran has passed away at age 110.
“Frank Buckles enlisted in the Army at the age of 16, and then served as an ambulance driver. He was captured by Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Buckles was held as a prisoner of war for more than three years, before being freed by U.S. troops.”
KSBW
Buckles was the last of America’s Doughboys - and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki called him a - quote - “living link to an important era in our nation’s history.” But the New York Times explains Buckles almost missed his chance at making history.
“The Marines turned him down as underage and under the required weight. The Navy didn’t want him either, saying he had flat feet. But the Army took him in August 1917 when he lied about his age, and he volunteered to be an ambulance driver, hearing that was the quickest path to service in France.”
While Buckles’ military service ended after the war, his service to honor those who fought continued. During his life he actively advocated for a National World War I memorial in the nation’s capital.
“Buckles wanted the existing World War I memorial on the national mall in Washington to be restored and rededicated as a national memorial to all the veterans who died in that war.”
Fox News
Buckles’ wish for a national memorial in Washington has yet to come true, but his dream of being buried next to fellow service members and friends will become a reality.
“...with no wounds or medals for bravery, he was eligible under Arlington National Cemetery protocols only for inurnment in a vault for cremated remains. In March 2008, however, the Bush administration ordered a rare exception... Mr. Buckles wanted a grave site at Arlington and a traditional white marble headstone. And he will get his wish.”
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Happy New Year 2011
May our life journey on this Earth happily .............. Happy New Year 2011 for everyone !!!.
Photo credit : Flickr.com / Satyajit Basu.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Henrietta Lacks - Pioneering the Cure Cancer
‘Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Tells a True Story of Science, Ethics and Family
Photo: nih.gov HeLa cells as seen through a powerful microscope
FRITZI BODENHEIMER: And I’m Fritzi Bodenheimer with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the most important scientific discoveries of the last century -- the development of HeLa cells. Reporter Rebecca Skloot explores this in her book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” The book is a history of science, professional morals and the human story behind a famous line of cells.
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STEVE EMBER: For much of his career, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland had been working to find a way to grow human cells outside the body. George Gey and his team of researchers wanted to grow cancer cells in a laboratory. They believed scientists could study this illness to understand its causes and find a cure.
Dr. Gey tested many different human cells in many kinds of liquid. But the cells always died quickly. However, one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end. Cancer cells from a patient at the university’s hospital were more than just surviving. These cells were growing faster than anyone had ever seen before.
(MUSIC)
STEVE EMBER: For much of his career, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland had been working to find a way to grow human cells outside the body. George Gey and his team of researchers wanted to grow cancer cells in a laboratory. They believed scientists could study this illness to understand its causes and find a cure.
Dr. Gey tested many different human cells in many kinds of liquid. But the cells always died quickly. However, one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end. Cancer cells from a patient at the university’s hospital were more than just surviving. These cells were growing faster than anyone had ever seen before.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Bird are dying - fell from the top
Birds are dropping in droves. The thing is, it's perfectly normal.
In recent days, 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead in Arkansas. Dozens of jackdaws in Sweden fell from the sky as well. So did a few hundred turtle doves in Italy.
Associated Press
The natural questions: Are these deaths somehow linked by a common cause, a sign of an impending apocalypse or the result of a common environmental trigger? Biologists say it's unlikely.
"Large mortality events in wildlife aren't that uncommon," says Paul Slota, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., which has been tracking mass animal deaths since the 1970s. "In the last 10 years we have logged 188 cases just involving birds with mortality exceeding 1,000 animals per event."
The causes vary. Some animals starve. Others eat toxic food or get poisoned by people. Many die in severe weather, or succumb to pollution or bacterial and viral illnesses. In many causes, though, the cause remains a mystery.
In recent days, 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead in Arkansas. Dozens of jackdaws in Sweden fell from the sky as well. So did a few hundred turtle doves in Italy.
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Hundreds of dead birds cover the Morganza Highway in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., on Monday.
The natural questions: Are these deaths somehow linked by a common cause, a sign of an impending apocalypse or the result of a common environmental trigger? Biologists say it's unlikely.
"Large mortality events in wildlife aren't that uncommon," says Paul Slota, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., which has been tracking mass animal deaths since the 1970s. "In the last 10 years we have logged 188 cases just involving birds with mortality exceeding 1,000 animals per event."
The causes vary. Some animals starve. Others eat toxic food or get poisoned by people. Many die in severe weather, or succumb to pollution or bacterial and viral illnesses. In many causes, though, the cause remains a mystery.
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