US President Barack Obama has said he will halve the budget deficit he inherited from the Bush administration by 2013.
The promise comes despite the huge amounts of money he plans to spend on his economic stimulus package.
Mr Obama also announced that he has put Vice-President Joe Biden in charge of overseeing the implementation of the $787bn (£540bn) package.
Former secret service agent Earl Devaney will be the plan's watchdog.
Mr Devaney's new job will be as chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board and he will have to ensure wow gold that the stimulus funds are not wasted.
"He looks like an inspector, he's tough, you know he barely cracks a smile," the president said.
Healthcare funding
The president also said that $15bn would be released on Wednesday to help states pay their healthcare bills.
Some states have been struggling to pay for their Medicaid programmes, which provide healthcare for people on low incomes.
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2009年2月23日星期一
On this day of 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Di to marry
The Prince of Wales and the Lady Diana Spencer have ended months of speculation with the announcement they are to be married.
At 1100GMT Buckingham Palace made the engagement official.
Lord Maclean, the Lord Chancellor made the following statement at an investiture at the Palace: "It is with greatest pleasure that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh announce the betrothal of their beloved son the Prince of Wales to the Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the Earl Spencer and the Honourable Mrs Shand Kydd."
Prince Charles proposed to Lady Diana three weeks ago at a private dinner wow gold at Buckingham Palace before she went to Australia.
He wanted her to use the trip to think over his proposal but she accepted immediately and he gave her a diamond and sapphire engagement ring.
Despite the intense public interest, they managed to keep their news a secret.
Lady Diana, who is 19, will leave her job as a kindergarten teacher and move out of her flat share in Kensington to live in Clarence House until the marriage.
The couple will then move to the Prince's house in Highgrove, Gloucestershire.
In a BBC interview, the 32-year-old Prince said he was "delighted and frankly amazed that Diana is prepared to take me on".
Looking shyly up through her long blond fringe and giggling occasionally, Lady Diana said she too was "delighted and thrilled, blissfully happy".
Asked how she would cope with a dramatic change to her life she said: "With Prince Charles beside me I cannot go wrong."
Tributes to the couple were made in both Houses of Parliament. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, said the news brought "great pleasure" to government and MPs.
They will be married in late July, but exactly when and where has yet to be decided.
Earl Spencer, Lady Diana's father, said he was also very happy for the couple.
Speaking outside Buckingham Palace with his wife Raine, daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, he said his daughter had handled the pressures of constant media attention over the last six months very well.
"It will be easier now. She will be under some protection whereas before she had to face the music on her own," he said.
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At 1100GMT Buckingham Palace made the engagement official.
Lord Maclean, the Lord Chancellor made the following statement at an investiture at the Palace: "It is with greatest pleasure that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh announce the betrothal of their beloved son the Prince of Wales to the Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the Earl Spencer and the Honourable Mrs Shand Kydd."
Prince Charles proposed to Lady Diana three weeks ago at a private dinner wow gold at Buckingham Palace before she went to Australia.
He wanted her to use the trip to think over his proposal but she accepted immediately and he gave her a diamond and sapphire engagement ring.
Despite the intense public interest, they managed to keep their news a secret.
Lady Diana, who is 19, will leave her job as a kindergarten teacher and move out of her flat share in Kensington to live in Clarence House until the marriage.
The couple will then move to the Prince's house in Highgrove, Gloucestershire.
In a BBC interview, the 32-year-old Prince said he was "delighted and frankly amazed that Diana is prepared to take me on".
Looking shyly up through her long blond fringe and giggling occasionally, Lady Diana said she too was "delighted and thrilled, blissfully happy".
Asked how she would cope with a dramatic change to her life she said: "With Prince Charles beside me I cannot go wrong."
Tributes to the couple were made in both Houses of Parliament. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, said the news brought "great pleasure" to government and MPs.
They will be married in late July, but exactly when and where has yet to be decided.
Earl Spencer, Lady Diana's father, said he was also very happy for the couple.
Speaking outside Buckingham Palace with his wife Raine, daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, he said his daughter had handled the pressures of constant media attention over the last six months very well.
"It will be easier now. She will be under some protection whereas before she had to face the music on her own," he said.
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2009年2月17日星期二
A Surprisingly Fun Game
Among the thousands of Native American tribes, there were a lot of games being played similar to what we now call Lacrosse before the civilization of North America. According to many, the first Europeans to see this game being played were French explorers. These French explorers thought the stick resembled a bishop’s crosier. A Bishop’s crosier translates to Lacrosse in French and this is where the name of the game originated.
In 1856, the first step towards turning Lacrosse into a modern organized sport came when the Montreal Lacrosse club developed the first written rules for the game. George Beers wrote these rules. His rules called for a 12-player team and named each position: goal, point, cover point, first defense, second defense, third defense, center, third attack, second attack, first attack, out home and home. Beer also changed the design of the ball and the sticks, to better suit catching the ball and throwing it more accurately.
Beer was later named the father of lacrosse. The Canada’s National Lacrosse Association
Was established in 1867 and the sport became quite popular in Bristol, London and also in the United States.
After lacrosse died out in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century, the U.S amateur lacrosse Association was founded in 1879. After the big bang of success in the ALA many of colleges started playing lacrosse to improve their player skills in the game of field hockey,
Many of years passed by until 1971 when the NCAA began conducting it’s annual championship lacrosse tournament. Since 1934, the U.S Lacrosse association has been conducting the U.S open tournament.
Lacrosse is a contact game played by ten players on each team: one goalie, three defense man, three midfielders and three attack man. Each team must keep at least four players including the goalie on the defensive half of the field, and three players on the offensive side of the field. There are three other players that are allowed to attack both ends of the fields, buy wow gold some call these players roamers. Body checking is permitted if the opponent has the ball or is within five yards of a loose ball. A attacking player can not enter the crease of the goal.
There are lots of great Lacrosse teams but one that sticks out to me the most is a small team called the Panthers. Middlebury Vermont is the home of this great Lacrosse team. The Middlebury Panthers has won its fourth straight NESCAC men lacrosse championship as they defeated Wesleyan twelve to seven. The Middlebury Panthers are also making their ninth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament; this is almost as big as it gets in the sport of Lacrosse. This is a great group of talented young lacrosse players joint together by the love of the game. Look, if you have never played this game you really need to, it is full of fun and excitement.
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In 1856, the first step towards turning Lacrosse into a modern organized sport came when the Montreal Lacrosse club developed the first written rules for the game. George Beers wrote these rules. His rules called for a 12-player team and named each position: goal, point, cover point, first defense, second defense, third defense, center, third attack, second attack, first attack, out home and home. Beer also changed the design of the ball and the sticks, to better suit catching the ball and throwing it more accurately.
Beer was later named the father of lacrosse. The Canada’s National Lacrosse Association
Was established in 1867 and the sport became quite popular in Bristol, London and also in the United States.
After lacrosse died out in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century, the U.S amateur lacrosse Association was founded in 1879. After the big bang of success in the ALA many of colleges started playing lacrosse to improve their player skills in the game of field hockey,
Many of years passed by until 1971 when the NCAA began conducting it’s annual championship lacrosse tournament. Since 1934, the U.S Lacrosse association has been conducting the U.S open tournament.
Lacrosse is a contact game played by ten players on each team: one goalie, three defense man, three midfielders and three attack man. Each team must keep at least four players including the goalie on the defensive half of the field, and three players on the offensive side of the field. There are three other players that are allowed to attack both ends of the fields, buy wow gold some call these players roamers. Body checking is permitted if the opponent has the ball or is within five yards of a loose ball. A attacking player can not enter the crease of the goal.
There are lots of great Lacrosse teams but one that sticks out to me the most is a small team called the Panthers. Middlebury Vermont is the home of this great Lacrosse team. The Middlebury Panthers has won its fourth straight NESCAC men lacrosse championship as they defeated Wesleyan twelve to seven. The Middlebury Panthers are also making their ninth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament; this is almost as big as it gets in the sport of Lacrosse. This is a great group of talented young lacrosse players joint together by the love of the game. Look, if you have never played this game you really need to, it is full of fun and excitement.
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50 Years of Speed
The Goodyear Thunderdome was the first purpose built Oval speedway outside of the continent of America.
Construction started in November 1984 and it was officially opened by the Mayor of Keilor on August 3rd. 1987 although it was christened by Americans Richard Petty, Bobby Hillin Jnr. and Rodney Combs along with local men Jim Richards,Graeme Crosby and Gary Rush.
The first race was only a couple of weeks later when a 300 Km.wow gold Touring Car race was run on the combined Oval/road circuit.The race was won by Terry Sheil and John Bowe in a Nissan Skyline(the only time a Japanese car has won on the Thunderdome) from the Commodore of Larry Perkins and Bill O’Brien. Allan Grice had been quickest in practise with a lap of 1m.45.74s and he also set the fastest lap in the race with a time of 1m.46.17s.
Later that year another race took place on the combined circuit and this was a round of the World Touring Car Championship.Pole position went to Klaus Ludwig in an Eggenberger Ford Sierra with a 1m.42.92s but in the race it was his team mates Steve Soper and Pierre Diuedonne who took the honours from Emanuelle Pirro and Roberto Ravaglia in a BMW M3. The race was not without problems as it began to rain very heavily just before the start and so for the only time a race was run on the Thunderdome in the wet. The other feature was that the combined circuit goes in a clockwise direction (same as for AUSCAR) which was fine for the locals but not so good for the European Fords and BMWs.
The first Oval meeting was held on February 28th. 1988 and it was a mixture of Americans, mostly from the Winston West series,and Australians. A bonus for the organisers was that just 2 weeks before the event Bobby Allison, one of the imported stars, won the biggest NASCAR race of them all, the Daytona 500, giving the Thunderdome a huge publicity boost.
A crowd of over 46,000 saw a typical NASCAR race which,of course, had a typical NASCAR multi car shunt.On lap 80 the cars of Allan Grice, Gary Collins, Dick Johnson, Brad Noffsinger, Harry Goulart, John Lawes, Terry Byers and Bill Venturini were all put out of the race after coming together in Turn 3 but again typical to NASCAR the injury toll was very light with only Allan Grice sustaining anything serious, a broken collar bone.
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Construction started in November 1984 and it was officially opened by the Mayor of Keilor on August 3rd. 1987 although it was christened by Americans Richard Petty, Bobby Hillin Jnr. and Rodney Combs along with local men Jim Richards,Graeme Crosby and Gary Rush.
The first race was only a couple of weeks later when a 300 Km.wow gold Touring Car race was run on the combined Oval/road circuit.The race was won by Terry Sheil and John Bowe in a Nissan Skyline(the only time a Japanese car has won on the Thunderdome) from the Commodore of Larry Perkins and Bill O’Brien. Allan Grice had been quickest in practise with a lap of 1m.45.74s and he also set the fastest lap in the race with a time of 1m.46.17s.
Later that year another race took place on the combined circuit and this was a round of the World Touring Car Championship.Pole position went to Klaus Ludwig in an Eggenberger Ford Sierra with a 1m.42.92s but in the race it was his team mates Steve Soper and Pierre Diuedonne who took the honours from Emanuelle Pirro and Roberto Ravaglia in a BMW M3. The race was not without problems as it began to rain very heavily just before the start and so for the only time a race was run on the Thunderdome in the wet. The other feature was that the combined circuit goes in a clockwise direction (same as for AUSCAR) which was fine for the locals but not so good for the European Fords and BMWs.
The first Oval meeting was held on February 28th. 1988 and it was a mixture of Americans, mostly from the Winston West series,and Australians. A bonus for the organisers was that just 2 weeks before the event Bobby Allison, one of the imported stars, won the biggest NASCAR race of them all, the Daytona 500, giving the Thunderdome a huge publicity boost.
A crowd of over 46,000 saw a typical NASCAR race which,of course, had a typical NASCAR multi car shunt.On lap 80 the cars of Allan Grice, Gary Collins, Dick Johnson, Brad Noffsinger, Harry Goulart, John Lawes, Terry Byers and Bill Venturini were all put out of the race after coming together in Turn 3 but again typical to NASCAR the injury toll was very light with only Allan Grice sustaining anything serious, a broken collar bone.
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