Mardi 07 septembre 2010

Revis returns, adds big piece to Jets’ Super Bowl puzzle

FLORHAM PARK, N.J.—Sounding more relieved than exuberant, Darrelle fashion boots Revis(notes) returned to the Jets on Monday, ending a 36-day holdout by signing a four-year, $46 million contract with $32 million guaranteed. "This was a long process," Revis said at the Jets' practice facility. "It was rough on me. I'm a football player, and I love to play the game. I'm happy it's over with." Revis' holdout did not end a moment too soon. The Jets face three of the league's top wide receivers to start the season—the Ravens' Anquan Boldin(notes) in Week 1, the Patriots' Randy Moss(notes) in Week 2 and the Dolphins' Brandon Marshall(notes) in Week 3. With their All-Pro cornerback on the field, the Jets have a better chance of having a successful September. "It makes our job a lot easier," Jets coach Rex Ryan UGG Roxy Boots said Monday. "We're better coaches now. Everybody's got a piece of that puzzle—Darrelle's just happens to be much larger. He allows us to do things on defense that we probably couldn't do if he wasn't with us." Revis' ability to neutralize the NFL's best receivers man-to-man allows Ryan to call more blitzes and to take other chances without the fear of giving up big plays. "When you have a guy like Darrelle, you can put him on a guy and act as if that guy doesn't exist," Jets inside linebacker Bart Scott(notes) said. "I don't even look toward that side; I can go do something else." The Ravens signed veteran receiver T.J. UGG Ultra Tall Boots Houshmandzadeh(notes) on Monday, but Revis figures to spend most of next Monday night shadowing Boldin. To shorten his prep time, Revis said he has been studying Boldin's game tapes for weeks. "I'm always trying to be the best," Revis said. "I'm always trying to study. I always prepare myself." Revis' teammates had different opinions on how much Revis would be impacted in Week 1 after missing all of training camp and the preseason games. "It'll be tough," Scott said. "It'll be key UGG Ultra Short Boots for us to get off the field on third down, keep his numbers down. I'm sure he's been working out and getting in tremendous shape, but nothing like football shape. Sometimes it takes a couple of games to get where you need to be." Outside linebacker Jason Taylor(notes), however, expects Revis to play at his Pro Bowl level immediately. "I'm sure he prepared himself when he was gone," Taylor said Monday. "He'll be fine. He's the best corner in the league." When Revis walked into the locker UGG Nightfall Boots room Monday, there were no visible signs of resentment. "Nobody took it personally," Scott said. "We understand it's the business side of football. At some point, every player has to deal with those situations." Revis was relieved by the warm reception. "I didn't know how my teammates were going to accept me," Revis said. "I wasn't there for training camp. I've been on the news every other day. I'm sure they were tired of hearing my name." Almost certainly. But they sure were Ugg Sundance II Boots glad to see Revis' face Monday.
Par xiaoyu858808 - 2 commentaire(s)le 07 septembre 2010
Lundi 06 septembre 2010

Revis, Jets agree to terms on 4-year deal

NEW YORK (AP)—Darrelle Revis(notes) is ending his cheap ugg boots holdout and joining his teammates for what they hope is a Super Bowl run. The All-Pro cornerback and the New York Jets agreed in principle to a four-year contract Sunday night, reaching a deal a week before the team’s season opener. The Jets wouldn’t disclose financial terms, but the Daily News reported it was worth $46 million, including $32 million guaranteed. “Barring something unforeseen, we expect Darrelle to be here (Monday),” general manager Mike Tannenbaum said during a conference call early Monday morning. Revis planned to fly from his home in South Florida to New Jersey on Monday, and is expected to finalize the deal and end a 36-day holdout. “This is an intermediate step to what we hope is an entire career of Darrelle as a Jet,” Tannenbaum said, “for him to retire a Jet, for him to hopefully go to the Hall of Fame one day as a Jet and for him to be in our ring of honor.” Revis, who made no public statements about the sometimes acrimonious negotiations since minicamp in June, used his Twitter account to thank his family and agents, Neil Schwartz and Jonathan Feinsod. “To my family, neil, & john I love u guys I’m comin UGG Classic Short Metallic Boots home baby!!!” Revis wrote. “Revis Island LET’S GO.” Both owner Woody Johnson and coach Rex Ryan flew down to South Florida on Saturday and met with Revis, mother Diana Gilbert, and uncle and former NFL player Sean Gilbert over the weekend to try to help get a deal done. “I think that was an important step in the process, but there was still obviously more work to be done,” Tannenbaum said. “We spent all day looking at it and probably about (11 p.m. Sunday), we made a very significant breakthrough to finding a landing spot that was good for both sides.” Ryan was scheduled to have a conference call with reporters Saturday night to discuss the Jets’ roster cutdown, but Tannenbaum handled it instead. A team spokesman said Ryan was unavailable because he was at an “appointment.” That turned out to be a visit with the man whom UGG Classic Argyle Knit Boots Ryan has repeatedly called the best cornerback in the NFL. The new contract means Revis will likely be back on the field in time for the opener next Monday night against Baltimore at the New Meadowlands Stadium. “That’ll be Rex’s call,” Tannenbaum said. The general manager said he “had no idea” what corresponding roster move the Jets would make once Revis was signed, sealed and delivered. “I’m sure Rex will be able to figure out what to do to get Darrelle on the team,” Tannenbaum quipped. Revis’ holdout began Aug. 1, when the team reported for training camp in Cortland. Tannenbaum said the nearly $600,000 in fines Revis accrued for sitting out would be handled internally by the team. He was scheduled to make $1 million in the UGG Classic Cardy Boots fourth year of his six-year rookie deal, but said he wanted to become the league’s highest-paid cornerback. While he didn’t get that this time around, he’s getting the guaranteed money he sought during negotiations over the last several months. With NFL Films cameras following the Jets all summer for HBO’s “Hard Knocks” series, Revis’ holdout was a major story line without him ever appearing in an episode. He’ll certainly be a major focus in Wednesday night’s series finale, especially since Tannenbaum acknowledged he wasn’t sure the deal would ever get done and said the Jets looked into trades over the weekend for other cornerbacks. “This was one of those things where I really wasn’t optimistic,” Tannenbaum said. “I really wasn’t. I’m an optimist by nature, but this was really hard. There was a lot of heavy lifting, a lot of work put into it.” Since early August, the team and Revis’UGG Classic Crochet Boots agents agreed to keep all negotiations confidential after things got testy through the media. There were some accusations made by both sides, with Johnson saying he was “rebuffed” by Revis’ agents when he asked if he could be part of a meeting at the Roscoe Diner in Roscoe, N.Y.. Schwartz responded by saying that was “a blatant lie” and that Johnson was given “incorrect” information. He also said he’d meet Johnson “any time, any place.” Ryan even got into it, suggesting he give the team a day off from practice so the entire organization could sit down with Revis, his agents and anyone else the star player wanted in an effort to complete a deal. Then came a code of silence from both sides—and the fear that Revis could sit out the entire season, as his uncle once did. In the end, though, Revis will be back with the team in time to begin a season Ryan and the Jets are convinced will be special. “I’m happy, I’m relieved,”UGG Classic Tall Patent Paisley Boots Tannenbaum said. “Obviously, Darrelle’s a great player. He’s our guy and he’s an important piece to what we’re trying to accomplish here. … I don’t think anyone wanted it to take as long as it did, but it did. Now, we can put it behind us and move on to Baltimore.”
Par xiaoyu858808 - 1 commentaire(s)le 06 septembre 2010
Samedi 04 septembre 2010

Qatar pulls out the stops in bid to win 2022 WCup

The sidewalks and parks in Doha are empty in June, as discount ugg boots residents head to the air-conditioned malls for relief from temperatures that soar to 48 degrees (118 F). Professional footballers from the region flee to the cooler climes of Europe to train. And anyone looking to cool off with a cold beer in Qatar’s capital has to make do with a handful of pubs hidden in five-star hotels, since drinking alcohol anywhere else is prohibited in the conservative Muslim country. Still, Qatar has brushed aside questions about its climate and social constraints to launch an ambitious campaign to host the 2022 World Cup that is also being sought by the United States, Australia, South Korea and Japan. In some ways, Qatar is the wild card in the competition to win over FIFA’s 24-man executive committee. It’s the smallest nation bidding and the only one that has not hosted either an Olympics or World Cup. At the same time, the Persian Gulf nation of just 1.3 million has the financial muscle to guarantee a successful tournament—it has the world’s second-highest per capita UGG Mayfaire boots income thanks to its vast oil and gas reserves. “I believe we have a very strong bid and a very unique bid,” Hassan al-Thawadi, the CEO of the Qatar bid committee, told The Associated Press. “It’s a historic bid in terms of coming for the first time to the Middle East, a region that is very hospitable, rich and diverse in terms of its culture and has an unprecedented passion for the game,” he said. “Bringing it to the Middle East will truly allow football and FIFA to reach its true potential as a culture event.” Qatar has taken an aggressive approach to promoting the bid. It struck a deal to sponsor the Confederation of African Football congress in January, negotiating an agreement that gave it exclusive access to the top officials in African football. It also plans to fly Brazil and Argentina into Doha for an exhibition match just two weeks before the winning bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups are announced in December. It also hired the likes of Dutch great Ronald UGG Lo Pro Button boots de Boer and Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola to promote the bid, as well as consultant Mike Lee, who was instrumental in helping London secure the 2012 Summer Olympics and Rio the rights for the 2016 Summer Olympics. “They have the money and they will spend generously on this,” said Abdul-Khaleq Abdulla, a political science professor at Emirates University in Abu Dhabi. “There is no limit to how much they could pay. Money talks in these events. It has been proven time and again. If you are serious, you have to raise your investment profile. ” Al-Thawadi said Qatar is developing “second-generation cooling technology” that will keep stadiums, training facilities and fan areas at about 27 degrees (81 F), far cooler than the 41 (106 F) that Qatar averages in June, July and August. Qatar also plans to allow alcohol consumption in fan zones and bathing suits to be worn at hotel pools. Al-Thawadi, a football fan educated in England, acknowledges he was inundated with questions concerning Qatar’s weather when he visited South Africa for the recent World Cup. But he says once he explains the UGG Elsey wedge Boots proposed system that continuously pumps cool air into the venues, most people come away convinced Qatar can keep the heat at bay during matches. “I will tell people who have heat concerns come to the Qatar, visit the country and see what it has to offer,” al-Thawadi said. “Meet the people and meet expats who come from cold countries and make Qatar their home and are here over the summer and haven’t left. The concerns shouldn’t be much of a concern at all.” To bolster its case, Qatar has unveiled a $4 billion plan to build nine stadiums and renovate three others—all with the new cooling system. A prototype stadium for five-a-side football is scheduled to be on display when FIFA’s inspection team visits on Sept. 13 and the technology “will be tweaked” over time to ensure it also can be used at training sites for the 32 competing teams and fan zones, al-Thawadi said. Qatar also plans $42.9 billion in infrastructure upgrades that will include a new international airport and an air-conditioned public transport system. Everything for a World Cup bid could be ready as early as 2017. The stadia have futuristic design blueprints, UGG Kids Classic Tall Boots including one designed in the shape of a dhow—a traditional Arab sailing vessel—and another with an asymmetrical seashell motif. FIFA president Sepp Blatter also gave Qatar’s bid a boost earlier this year when he said the Arab world deserves to stage a World Cup. He was instrumental in delivering the World Cup to South Africa, the first on the African continent. Blatter said the government’s successful hosting of the 2006 Asian Games showed it was capable of organizing big international events. Still, the bid has its doubters. Critics question whether Qatar’s largely untested cooling system will work and many Westerners remain unconvinced that Qatar will relax its conservative ways and allow fans to let loose with dancing and drinking in the streets— which has become the norm at World Cups. “It would not be in the best interest of FIFA to allow Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022,” said Austrian strategist Erwin Roth, who has spent almost three decades promoting international sporting events,UGG Coquette Slipper including the failed bid by Salzburg to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. “A lot of problems would arise,” he said. “What do you do with the fans when the games are over? You will have all fans in this tiny, little city in 40-plus centigrade temperatures. Where do you put them? You would have to build zones where they party and women would be allowed.” Simon Chadwick, a sports marketing expert at Coventry University in England, said Qatar’s bid has been helped by the success of South Africa, which showed that a developing country with a history of problems could host a successful World Cup. “There are concerns about the culture of Qatar,” Chadwick said. “You are going to watch football. Are you going to be able to drink heavily, eat pizza and hang around in the streets singing songs? People perceive that because Qatar is a Muslim country that they won’t be able to do that.” And even if Qatar can overcome these UGG Amelie Sandals concerns, its bid could be hampered by relations with Israel and competition with China. Since it has no diplomatic relations with Israel, Qatar could face a quandary should Israel qualify, or if it officials or fans want to attend. Qatar, which ended low-level contacts with Israel last year, has said repeatedly that any team that qualifies would be welcome. FIFA would require Qatar to allow any Israeli delegate to attend its congress and opening ceremony. Another issue is China’s possible bid in 2026. A China bid could weigh on FIFA committee members, who would have to debate whether to vote in favor of an Asian host like Qatar in 2022 or wait until 2026. One continent cannot host consecutive World Cups.
Par xiaoyu858808 - 3 commentaire(s)le 04 septembre 2010
Mardi 31 août 2010

Saudi superstores breaking taboo

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's leading ugg boots 2010 supermarket chain has broken the country's strict taboo on women working in public with a pilot program of women cashiers, a company official said. Panda hypermarkets has put 16 Saudi women to work at one store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah to test the concept in a country where Islamic conservatives have prevented women from working in gender-mixed environments. "The women, compared to men, are really hard workers," Panda spokesman Tarik Ismail said. "If everything goes okay, then we will expand the program (in) the kingdom." Ismail said the company has been quiet about the move due UGG Classic Tall Bomber Jacket Boots to the sensitivity of the issue. A conservative Islamic educator has already called for a boycott of Panda due to the mixing, but it is not yet clear whether that has had any impact. Operating more than 100 retail stores across the country, the United Azizia Panda Co, owned by publicly listed foods giant Savola, already employs women sales clerks in its hypermarket in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. But inside Saudi Arabia, Islamic conservatives have for decades enforced a prohibition against unrelated men and women mixing in the workplace. The result is that nearly all retail sales are UGG Classic Short Patent Paisley Boots conducted by men. A Jeddah University business professor, Reem Asaad, has been campaigning since 2008 to force the labor ministry to allow women sales clerks in lingerie shops, but with little success. The caution in the test suggests how sensitive and revolutionary the idea is, in a country that bans women from driving and forces them to cover up in shroud-like black abayas and face-covering veils when in public. The test was permitted by the local labor office in Jeddah, the relatively progressive Saudi city where the kingdom's ultra-conservative rules on women are more loosely enforced. Inside the HyperPanda market in the UGG Classic Tall Patent Paisley Boots Roshan mall in a wealthy area of Jeddah, the female cashiers are sectioned off in check-out lanes "reserved for women and families." That models Saudi restaurants, which have separate sections for men and for women and families. Unlike their male counterparts, the new cashiers are not in Panda uniforms, instead wearing abayas and veils. Ismail stresses that the company UGG Classic Crochet Boots has mainly hired "needy" women - those who lack other sources of income. "We want to help them," he said. Still, Ismail said the company plans to expand the program nationwide, if the labor ministry gives the go-ahead. "We are waiting for permission." But opposition to Panda's move has UGG Classic Cardy Boots already materialized. Last week, Sheikh Yussef al-Ahmad, a professor at Riyadh's Imam University known for his strident opposition to gender mixing, called on a television program to boycott Panda. Ahmad said mixing was against Islamic tenets and an aspect of the westernization of Islamic culture. Agence France-Presse
Par xiaoyu858808 - 5 commentaire(s)le 31 août 2010
Samedi 28 août 2010

Fashionable white-collar health row poison keep a yan four

Although this year "100" was deposed and mung bean uggs outlet meal, and tortured by the health, but he is not continuous high-temperature heat fever, especially old women and office white-collar workers is completely crazy infatuated with art. Man is just to live a long and healthy life, but also for children with healthy slim, white-collar workers, as is not needed for longevity, it is in order to health and beauty. I was a white-collar workers... So they and all together to discuss what health is more effective, exactly? A, sports, if you have plenty of time within one week, the best times, sports every 2 hours, but the best is better aerobic exercise, such as swimming, jogging. Or you can choose to competitive sports like tennis, squash, or is climbing in such extreme sport climbing, the amount of exercise is good for you, the life is exercise! Because the movement, your body fat burning, the function of each organ are more powerful, the people UGG Roxy Boots directly you unlimited vitality, the younger. Second, yoga, yes, the world's health from India before motion system deep influence on each practitioners and amateur idiots. Because it is one of the characteristics of ancient and easy to master the application methods, to improve the physiology, psychology, emotional and mental ability, is a body, mind and spirit to a harmonious unity of the movement. And still can cultivate one's morality, more can be developed to improve the body discharges sweat detoxification skin condition, it is with a regimen. Third, diet, with the mouth, actually 100 words also right, is a healthy food. It is to learn how to eat, how to eat. If it is hot, then introduces the mightiness suggestion you a vegetarian, and blessed is the turn deserves another UGG Ultra Tall Boots product have indeed now meat. Health experts say: "HuoRou fish, vegetables ShengTan guaranteed safe", bean curd, not only can let you vegetarian intestinal smooth, reduce weight, also can endotoxin accumulation and seductive, detoxification and beautiful. Another is eating more fruit and less milk so that they can supplement abundant vitamin C, make you more beautiful and white detoxification only men and health and vigor. Four, drugs, if you don't have time for exercise, if you don't really like yoga, but also like hand.it, well, then you can take it. In panlong clouds row poison keep a yan capsule, for example, I have been eating... Actually it's components are almost all proprietary Chinese medicine, and efficacy is qi, aperient detoxification. For qi difficiency and blood stasis caused by thermal poison inside, constipation, acne, facial UGG Ultra Short Boots pigmentation, etc. I have to eat, the effect is good, because I really love sports and love is prohibited. Yes, is on TV that little girl li xiaolu advertising of panlong clouds.
Par xiaoyu858808 - 1 commentaire(s)le 28 août 2010
Jeudi 26 août 2010

Honolulu's long-standing trash woes growing worse

HONOLULU – Gigantic piles of ugg outlet store shrink-wrapped garbage have been moldering in the heat of a Hawaii industrial park for more than five months, waiting for a place to be shipped. That wait appeared to end Monday when city officials inked a deal to dispose of the 40 million-pound pile of odious rubbish over the next six months by mostly burning it in an existing waste-to-power plant. But bigger problems remain for Honolulu as the state's largest city struggles to find a home for all its waste. With its lone dump filling up fast, officials had UGG Mayfaire boots been counting on a plan to ship at least 100,000 tons of blue, plastic-wrapped garbage bales each year to a landfill near an Indian reservation in Washington state. But the tribe vehemently objected and won a court ruling last week that put the plan on hold indefinitely. Acting Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell acknowledged as much Monday. "The city bent over backwards to try to make this shipping effort work, but it is clear that shipping is not a viable option at this time," he said in a statement. Honolulu makes up 80 percent of Hawaii's population and generates nearly 1.6 million tons of garbage a year. More than a third of the trash is incinerated to generate electricity. The remaining garbage is sent to the 21-year-old Waimanalo Gulch landfill on the island of Oahu's southwestern coast. But the amount of available land on Oahu is limited, with Honolulu leaders reluctant to add landfills in their backyards and near sites known for their breathtaking, pristine beauty. And the trash can't be taken elsewhere in the UGG Lo Pro Button boots state; the Big Island has by far the most vacant land, and a dump with 71 years of capacity remaining. But a local ordinance bars importation of trash from outside that island. "Honolulu has all the elements of a form of NIMBYism on steroids," said James Spencer, associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Hawaii. "In fact, the only place that is not in Honolulu's backyard seems to be off in Washington state." And Washington state, at least the part overseen by the Yakama Indian Nation, isn't having it. The tribe, by treaty, has a degree of authority over nearly 11 million acres that it ceded to the U.S. government in 1855, including a regional dump in Klickitat County. That's where a Seattle-based firm called Hawaiian Waste Systems wanted to ship some of Honolulu's trash. Starting last September, the trash was to be UGG Elsey wedge Boots shredded and compressed into bales, wrapped in at least eight layers of thick plastic sheets and transported to the landfill, where it was to be covered with 18 inches of soil. Tribal members were outraged that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates interstate waste transfers, granted preliminary approval to the shipments. They then went to court. The federal government "totally ignored us, and we took issue with that," said Harry Smiskin, the tribe's chairman. The landfill is "a rock's throw" from the Columbia River, where the tribe enjoys fishing rights, and the waterway could be affected by rodents, insects and other invasive species that hitch a ride on Honolulu's garbage, he said. "We don't know what's in that trash," he UGG Kids Classic Tall Boots added "We know it's not local to the environment that's there now." The tribe and environmental groups sued the USDA in federal court and last month won a temporary restraining order, leading to the department last week revoking Hawaiian Waste System's permit before it could ship its first bale. That frustrated company President Mike Chutz, who insisted the bales would have contained nothing ecologically dangerous because the plastic wrapping deprives oxygen to anything living inside. "I know in my heart that this is absolutely not only acceptable but environmentally safe and will (do) no harm whatsoever to the environment," Chutz said last week. Because of repeated delays in the shipping plan, hundreds of trash bales collected in the company's facility in a Kapolei industrial park — far from the eyes of tourists and residents. A few of the 4- to 5-foot tall bales are in shipping containers, but far more sit stacked three and four high, some sprouting tears, holes and other signs of weathering. Monday's agreement between the city and UGG Coquette Slipper Chutz' firm requires the garbage that cannot be burned to be sent to the Waimanalo Gulch landfill, which must close by July 2012. Around that same time, the city hopes to start operating a third trash furnace at its electricity-generating plant in Kapolei, allowing the burning of about 902,000 tons a year. Still, that leaves this island with a lot of garbage generated from some 907,000 residents, 51,000 military service members and families, and an average of 80,000 tourists a day. They produced almost 1.6 million tons in the fiscal year that ended June 30, a drop from the 1.8 million tons the previous year that is largely due to the recession and a decline in tourism. The city is forming a panel to search for new landfill sites. But that process could take years, and is fraught with political and cultural implications, Spencer said. "Honolulu has placed its sole landfill on the Leeward Coast of Oahu, a generally poor and disproportionately Native Hawaiian area," he said. "It is ironic that the UGG Amelie Sandals original destination (of the trash going to Washington state) was next to Indian tribal land, and the default destination is likely to be the Waimanalo Gulch, next to the largest concentration of Native Hawaiians on Oahu."
Par xiaoyu858808 - 5 commentaire(s)le 26 août 2010
première page « » dernière page

Recherche sur NoxBlog

Connexion à NoxBlog.com

Nom d'utilisateur
Mot de passe
Toujours connecté
 

Inscription sur NoxBlog


Adresse du blog
.noxblog.com

Mot de passe

Confirmation

Adresse email valide

Code de sécurité anti-spam

Code anti-bot

J'accepte les conditions d'utilisation de NoxBlog.com