|
|
2月29日 Of course not so many interesting facts about this day, because it only occurs once every 4 years.
1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies
1712 - February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style
1916 - Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old
1940 - For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award
1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town
1996 - Novelist Joan Collins awarded US $1 million from Random House for breach of contract
2000 - This leap year day is the last in a turn of the century year until February 29, 2400
Birthdays on 29 February
Alex Rocco (1936), Sonja Barend (1940), Suanne Braun (1968), Naoko Iijima (1968), Dave Williams (1972), Ja Rule (1976), Emma Barton (1976),
Another fact about 29 February:
A leap day is more likely to fall on a Monday than on a Sunday. This is because the Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years, which is exactly 20871 weeks including 97 leap days. Over this period February 29 falls thirteen times on a Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday; fourteen times on a Friday or Saturday; and fifteen times on a Monday or Wednesday.
Ed Courtenay's side were well beaten on Thursday night
The Belfast Giants received a 6-1 thrashing by Sheffield Steelers at the Odyssey Arena on Thursday night.
Jonathan Phillips scored twice in the first period but Peter Campbell pulled one back for Ed Courtenay's side in the second period.
Ashley Tait (2), Phillips and Ryan Finnerty were the scorers in the third period as Sheffield romped home.
The Giants have another home game on Saturday with Newcastle Vipers being the opposition on that occasion. Here's an article from a couple of weeks ago that I have just found... Interesting stuff....
Belfast Giants co-owner Jim Yaworski last night confirmed that positive
discussions had taken place between himself and the NHL's New York
Rangers about an affiliation between the two clubs.
And an agreement would include the Madison Square Garden club coming to
the Odyssey Arena to play an exhibition game in September 2008.
Yaworski, the Calgary businessman who bought into the Giants in the
summer of 2005, met with Rangers General Manager Glen Sather in New
York on Thursday before arriving in Belfast to support the Giants in
last night's home game against Newcastle Vipers.
He said: "There were positive discussions with the Rangers about a step
towards a Euro affiliation between the two teams. Among the items on
the agenda were preliminary talks about an exhibition game involving
the Rangers and another NHL team here at the Odyssey Arena in September
2008."
The opposition would likely be another team from the east coast of the
USA. Sather is himself Canadian and led the Edmonton Oilers to five
Stanley Cups in seven years back in the 1980s before becoming the GM of
the New York Rangers in 2000.
At a time when American Football's NFL are trying to expand into Europe
with the announcement that the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants will
play a regular season game at Wembley Stadium later this year, it comes
as no surprise that the NHL would also be interested in doing the same.
To bring the Rangers, the team with the biggest media market in the
NHL, to Belfast would be a huge coup for Yaworski and for the Giants.
2月28日
|
|
Eddie Patterson's side were playing their first Setanta Cup match | Cliftonville manager Eddie Patterson says his side were denied "a stonewall penalty" in the dying seconds of their 3-2 Setanta Cup defeat by Drogheda.
"We could have snatched a draw with that, plus we had the ball kicked off the line twice," said Patterson.
"It was maybe a fair result in the end but on the effort the lads put in, maybe they could have got a draw.
"We could have been two or three down at the break and a few things were said at half-time to shake the boys up."
"We didn't do ourselves justice in that half but after the interval we played the type of football we are capable of playing, passed it about well and created a few chances.
"At half-time we spoke about composure on the ball, passing and movement off the ball and the boys applied themselves well in the second half.
"We gave them too much respect in the first half and sat off them a bit. After that, we played some good stuff, some neat football and created a few chances, although, on the night, Drogheda probably deserved to win."
Patterson is hopeful that Barry Holland, who had to retire hurt with a dead leg, will be "patched up and ready" for Saturday's Irish Cup quarter-final with Cliftonville.
"It's a big game for the lads but we will be up for it and tailor our training methods on Friday night to get the boys freshened up.
"We are used to playing games in midweek and on Saturday so it will just be a matter of checking on the injuries." |
|
|
Trapattoni will take up the Republic of Ireland job in early May | The Republic of Ireland will face Colombia in a friendly on 29 May at Craven Cottage.
The match will be Giovanni Trapattoni's second game in charge of the Republic and will follow the 24 May friendly against Serbia at Croke Park.
A training camp will also take place in Portugal in the week before the two friendly games.
The game has been arranged for the London venue because Croke Park is unavailable on that date.
Colombia, currently 21st in the Fifa World Rankings, will play France in Paris on 3 June.
They lie third after four games of the South American World Cup qualifying group. |
|
|
Caddis tries to rob Barca's Ronaldinho of possession | Celtic defender Paul Caddis believes his side will need a miracle if they are to overturn Barcelona's Champions League aggregate lead in the Nou Camp.
Despite twice going in front, Barca hit back to win the Parkhead first leg 3-2.
The SPL champions will likely need to win by two clear goals to progress to the last eight for the first time.
"In football nothing is impossible but we are probably going to need a miracle over there," Caddis said.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Barry Robson's goals were pegged back by strikes from Lionel Messi and Thierry Henry before Messi sealed the win for the Catalans.
|
It's every boy's dream to play against a team like Barcelona
Celtic defender Paul Caddis |
It was a Champions League baptism of fire for 19-year-old Caddis who cleared a net-bound Henry header from the line with the match goal-less.
And after deputising for the cup-tied Andreas Hinkel, Caddis fulfilled a big ambition early in his career.
"Six weeks ago I was playing in the reserves up in Inverness and then I'm facing the likes of Ronaldinho, Messi and Henry," he said.
"It's every boy's dream to play against a team like Barcelona."
Celtic captain Stephen McManus was philosophical despite the defeat that tips the tie in Barcelona's favour.
|
|
MY SPORT: DEBATE
|
"There's no shame getting beaten by a team like Barcelona but I felt we didn't pass the ball as well as we should have and that was the biggest disappointment," he said.
"They're another level up from us.
"There are only so many teams that can win this tournament and they're certainly one of them." |
|
|
McDonald gave Celtic the lead on the stroke of half-time | Celtic kept the pressure on league leaders Rangers with a hard-fought win over Inverness CT at Celtic Park.
Inverness keeper Michael Fraser kept the hosts at bay before Scott McDonald swept home Shunsuke Nakamura's free-kick on the stroke of half-time.
Georgios Samaras was denied twice by Fraser before despatching a bullet header past the keeper in 60 minutes.
Marius Niculae pulled one back for Inverness when he pounced on Scott Brown's misplaced pass to score.
Celtic made two changes to the team that beat St Mirren at Love Street on Sunday.
Midfielders Barry Robson and Paul Hartley dropped to the bench and were replaced by Shunsuke Nakamura and Massimo Donati.
Inverness player-manager Craig Brewster made one change to his side which lost to Hibs, striker Markus Paatelainen coming in for Graham Bayne who dropped out of the squad.
Georgios Samaras doubled Celtic's advantage with a bullet header |
Celtic pressed for an early opener and Samaras raced past Grant Munro into the box but his 15-yard drive was blocked by Fraser.
The Greece international was thwarted again in the 20th minute when Fraser saved his drive low to his right.
McDonald eased nerves among the home support when he flicked home Nakamura's free-kick just before half-time for his 25th goal of the season.
Celtic's second goal came on the hour mark when Samaras headed Aiden McGeady's cross powerfully past Fraser from eight yards.
|
|
MY SPORT: DEBATE
|
Gordon Strachan's side then endured a nervy end to the game after Niculae pounced on Brown's poor pass to fire pass Boruc.
But Celtic held on to ensure Rangers' lead at the top of the SPL remains four points.
Celtic: Boruc, Hinkel, Caldwell, McManus, Naylor, Nakamura, Donati, Scott Brown, McGeady, McDonald (Killen 83), Samaras. Subs Not Used: Mark Brown, Hartley, Riordan, Sno, Robson, O'Dea.
Goals: McDonald 45, Samaras 61.
Inverness CT: Fraser, Tokely, Munro, Duncan, Black (McBain 78), McGuire, Cowie, Hastings, Imrie, Niculae, Paatelainen (Wyness 78). Subs Not Used: Malkowski, Kerr, Vigurs, Proctor, Gillespie.
Booked: Imrie, Hastings.
Goals: Niculae 70.
Att: 56,787
Ref: W Collum |
|
|
Soldiers shot 13 people dead in Derry on Bloody Sunday | MPs have condemned Martin McGuinness for saying he would have killed every soldier in Londonderry after Bloody Sunday, if he'd had the opportunity.
The deputy first minister was speaking during an interview on RTÉ on Saturday.
The DUP's Gregory Campbell secured cross-party support for a parliamentary motion condemning the comments.
The MP and MLA for East Londonderry has also called on the deputy first minister to reveal the extent of his involvement in IRA activities.
"Nationalists are terribly good at demanding full disclosure and openness from others, particularly the police and the army," Mr Campbell said.
"It will be interesting to see if Mr McGuinness will abide by the standards he sets for others and own up to his own role in creating violence and mayhem in the province and offer a long overdue apology."
During the weekend interview Mr McGuinness said feelings in Derry were running high after the shooting dead of 13 people and that republican "attitudes hardened considerably" after Bloody Sunday.
"There is no doubt whatsoever that in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday there was a renewed determination to oppose the British Army and the RUC," he said.
"If I had had the opportunity to kill every single British soldier that was on the streets of Derry I would have killed every single one of them without any difficulty whatsoever." |
|
|
|
|
Eclectic musical and sartorial styles made Dustin a strong contender
| Eurovision winner Dana has called for Ireland to pull out of the international song contest.
Her call followed the news that puppet Dustin the Turkey will be representing Ireland in the competition.
Dana's career began when she won the 1970 Eurovision with "All Kinds of Everything", but she thinks the contest is in danger of imploding.
"I just think it's making a mockery of the contest and if we think it's such a big joke then let's get out of it".
She added: "Certainly don't put a turkey in a trolley up against singers who are desperately trying to make a way in their career."
Dustin has been a star of RTE's The Den since 1990, and it's hoped his performance of "Irelande Douze Pointe" will ruffle some feathers across the continent.
The turkey certainly has some fans, including RTE's deputy commissioning editor, Julian Vignoles. He thinks the public just wanted something different this year.
"The contest has changed over the years, it's moved with the times, televoting has brought it to a different level.
"Something that makes an impact on the stage is as likely to win as a well-crafted song".
But it's the prospect of Dustin's success that Dana is worried by.
"The problem is they love puppets in Europe. If, God forbid he wins, we'll probably have more puppets than people in next year's Eurovision," she said. |
|
|
The USPCA said the lions were all put down humanely | The carcasses of four headless lions have been found in the grounds of a former safari park in County Antrim.
The discovery was made after the USPCA regained control of the site at Benvarden, near Ballymoney, on Tuesday.
The USPCA said the animals were all put down humanely, but should have gone into the ground intact.
Norman Elder, who had run the site for the animal charity, said he removed the heads so they could not be stolen and then sold on.
"When they were put down there was a gentleman who said they would make good selling to taxidermists," said Mr Elder.
"I was the only one on site at that time and decapitated them so they could not be dug up and used."
The USPCA moved in to regain control of the site after obtaining evidence that Mr Elder had allowed people to be photographed petting a tiger.
Mr Elder, who had been running Wildlife NI for two years, was removed by the charity on Tuesday holds a licence to keep Dangerous Wild Animals, issued by the Department of Environment.
The department has launched an investigation following the discovery. |
|
|
|
By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News Magazine |  Pills aren't the answer to helping many people recover from depression, says a report out this week. But there's growing evidence that gloominess could be a positive experience.
What depressed the cavemen? It may strike us as a particularly modern malaise for a time-poor, fast-paced society but a new reappraisal of depression suggests it has always been around.
A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances.
Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress, although to varying degrees, and always have been.
The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger.
|
|
FAMOUS DEPRESSIVES
Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry (pictured)
Writers Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway
Artists Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, William Blake
Performers Caroline Ahern, Ewan McGregor, Morrissey | "There are benefits and that's why it has persisted. It's a tough message to hear while you are in depression but I think that there's a life afterwards," he says.
"I have received e-mails from ex-sufferers saying in retrospect it probably did help them because they changed direction, a new career for example, and as a result they're more content day-to-day than before the depression."
One woman left an abusive relationship and moved on, he says, and might not have done if depression had not provided the necessary introspection.
Similarly, unrealistic expectations are revised when depression sparks a more humble reassessment of strengths and weaknesses.
In Britain one in four men and one in five women are estimated to suffer depression during their lifetime, and one in 20 suffers it at any one time.
Creativity
Dame Kelly Holmes has spoken in the past about how the depression she suffered in 2003 made her a stronger person, a year before her double-gold performance at the Olympics. Alastair Campbell has said it was the making of him.
But there are other qualities depression generates, not just resilience, says Dr Keedwell, author of How Sadness Survived.
"Psychological unease can generate creative work and the rebirth after depression brings a new love affair with life."
Aristotle believed depression to be of great value because of the insights it could bring. There is also an increased empathy in people who have or have had depression, he says, because they become more attuned to other people's suffering.
|
|
 Don't beat yourself up about being depressed, in most cases it will run its course 
| Depression can be traced all the way back to the Stone Age, say Dr Keedwell, when close-knit communities of about 50 people would have identified it quickly. The rest of the group would have rallied round and changes followed, such as a new role for the individual.
Some remote communities are more aware of it. The Banda tribe in Uganda calls it "illness of thought" and those affected are allowed time out from the group, a concession not extended to many with the condition in the UK.
The high and rising incidence in the UK and US - compared to countries like Brazil and Mexico - could be due to the breakdown of family bonds and the fragmentation of society. And compared to past decades, there are increased expectations of success.
Anti-depressants, which were reported this week to have little clinical benefit for many patients, have a part to play, says Dr Keedwell, especially in severe depression. But an individual must address the social or emotional cause either on his own, with a loved one or with a professional.
"Don't beat yourself up about being depressed, in most cases it will run its course provided you take yourself out of the situation that caused it.
"I know that's an easy and glib thing to say, because I'm not a single mum living 12 floors up in a high-rise block. Sometimes it's not easy to escape but that's the fault of society, not the fault of depression."
GWB, not GDP
Politicians have recognised this and happiness is a word that has recently entered the political debate on both sides, with David Cameron saying that improving society's sense of well-being is one of the central political challenges of the times - GWB (general well-being) and not GDP (gross domestic product).
A happiness agenda is a laudable aim but it's meaningless, says Phillip Hodson, a fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, because happiness is not something you can buy in Tesco.
"Everybody's life is full of occasional misery and we are going to suffer. All life ends in grief, unless you are lucky and you and your loved ones all die simultaneously in some plane crash.
"So I applaud the government for trying but I think the happiness agenda can be simplistic. You can't legislate for happiness."
Happier days? | He agrees with Dr Keedwell that depression, however horrible, does imbue people with a useful resource.
"You would never ask for it or want it this way. But people who work through it, with a professional or with friends and family, for those people who have an awful journey, they are better travellers."
But identifying the cause and addressing it is easier said than done, says Stuart Summerfield, 68, from Chesterfield, who has suffered from depression throughout his adult life. Although he believes he has a genetic predisposition to it, he blames its severity on his possessive mother.
She never acknowledged his illness and made it difficult for him to seek help, but her death in 1999 relieved him of caring duties and sparked a recovery. He is now involved in running a self-help group.
Superman
"I don't think that knowing the cause is always the route out. Changing circumstances is a major part of it but it's not always something you can change. Sometimes the big problem is admitting what the situation is."
He concedes it has helped him in some ways because he has a new appreciation of life.
"They say adversity makes you stronger, so I should be Superman by now."
But it's an "awful journey" and not a price worth paying for longer-term gain. |
|
|
|
Network Rail has been fined a record £14m by the Office of Rail Regulation, after engineering work over-ran during the Christmas and New Year period.
But the company says that without further delays, it risks not meeting a December deadline for work to the West Coast Main Line at Rugby.
Passengers now face extra disruption through the summer, as lines are closed in order to complete the work.
Critics say the fine is "pointless" as it will end up being paid by taxpayers.
Network Rail's chief executive Ian Coucher said his company had now put "military-style" command posts in place, and he pledged that the delays suffered by passengers over the New Year would not be repeated.
Confusion
He said: "We will make changes in the way we plan and manage future work on the railways."
|
|
NETWORK RAIL
20,000 miles of track
1,000 signal boxes
40,000 bridges and tunnels
Operates 18 major stations
Carries 3m passengers per day
32,000 employees
|
Network Rail will pay its £14m fine to Department for Transport - but guidelines state that the DfT must pass the money straight to the Treasury, rather than spending it on rail improvements.
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker said: "All the fine means is that Network Rail will have £14m less to invest in railways, and the Chancellor £14m more in his coffers."
He said that because Network Rail had no shareholders, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) was effectively penalising taxpayers who funded a publicly-owned company.
The watchdog body Passenger Focus accused the regulator of "fining passengers twice".
Rail union leader Gerry Doherty called for senior directors to lose their annual bonuses rather than what he called "a pointless recycling of taxpayers' money."
The fine relates mainly to major engineering work at Rugby in late December and January, which over-ran by four days, severing the West Coast Main Line and causing massive disruption.
Mr Coucher conceded at the time that the work had been delayed because specialist workmen failed to turn up for work.
Disruption
There was more disruption in London when late-running work at Liverpool Street station forced it to close as people tried to return to work after the Christmas break.
Thousands of passengers were affected.
The ORR said the fine - the largest ever levelled on a rail company - was to reflect "the serious nature of this breach, the impact it had already had on passengers and rail freight users and the need for the company to take urgent action to improve its approach".
ORR chief executive Chris Bolt said that, while his office was powerless to reduce the size of Network Rail bosses' bonuses, the regulator could press for a possible tightening up of the procedures by which bonuses were awarded.
|
|
REGULATOR REPORT
Network Rail (NR) "failed to ensure good site management at Rugby"
NR "failed to conduct effective assessment of risks at Liverpool St station"
NR "failed to conduct effective risk assessment at Shields Junction" |
The ORR has also ordered Network Rail to provide a clear plan of how it intends to complete the upgrade of the West Coast Main Line.
Mr Coucher admitted on Thursday that the Rugby project was still two weeks behind schedule.
But he added: "We have already made changes and the action we have taken since the New Year to bring in more specialist engineers and to create military-style command posts will further improve our delivery record and enable us to build a bigger, better railway that passengers and freight users deserve."
Extra closures
The company already planned line closures over Easter and bank holidays, and has now pinpointed 13 extra weekends during the summer, when passengers will be forced to find alternative routes.
The lines will be closed between Saturday lunchtime and Sunday lunchtime.
The operations of 12 train companies depend on the project. They include Virgin, which is planning to launch a major marketing campaign in November to sell faster journey times on the modernised line.
The ORR fine came on the same day that the chairman of Network Rail, Sir Ian McAllister, was knighted by the Prince of Wales for "services to transport."
At the time of the disruption in January, Sir Ian declined to come into work because he said he would "only get in the way." | 1700 - Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar
1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight
1844 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others
1849 - Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor
1912 - Above the state Missouri, Albert Berry is the first to jump out of an airplane with a parachute
1922 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt
1933 - Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire
1935 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers
1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published
1939 - The word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation
1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden)
1947 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives
1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2)
1966 - The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles started there career is bankrupted
1983 - The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source)
1985 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day
1993 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff
1998 - First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace
2003 - It is reported that, citing "national interest" as a reason, the British government under Margaret Thatcher contributed approximately £1bn of taxpayer money to Iraq under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. Most of this money went into military infrastructure built by British companies such as GEC-Marconi
2004 - Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 - Steve Fossett prepares to set off on his attempt to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe, without refuelling, in a jet-powered plane – the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
2006 - For the first time in Europe, a domesticated cat is found infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus. The dead cat was found on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
2007 - Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft
2007 - Japan abandons its whaling hunt in the Southern Ocean for this year due to the damage caused to the Nisshin Maru
Birthdays on 28 February:
Joost Bürgi (1552), Louis Godin (1704), Maurice Lévy (1838), John Montague (1929), Mario Andretti (1940), Brian Jones (1942), Dino Zoff (1942), Sepp Maier (1944), Youp van 't Hek (1954), Cindy Wilson (1957), Claudio Chiappucci (1963), Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (1964), Patrick Monahan (1969), Pascal Bosschaart (1980)
28 February is also Andalusia Day in Andalusia, Spain and Kalevala in Finland
2月27日 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland
1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered
1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters
1900 - The British Labour Party is founded
1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
1932 - James Chadwick verifies the existence of the neutron, which he already suspected earlier
1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire
1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over
1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom
1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati
1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time
2003 - An internal investigation by the Washington, D.C. police department indicates that hundreds of people arrested for failure to obey a police order to disperse at Pershing Park on September 27, 2002 during protests against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were never actually ordered to disperse before being arrested. MPDC Chief Charles Ramsey was unapologetic, indicating that the actions of the police were necessary to protect the city
2004 - The California Supreme Court refuses a petition by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asking for an immediate ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage laws and a cease and desist order against San Francisco's granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples
2004 - In an angry public exchange, Yasser Arafat calls Fatah official Nasser Yousef a "traitor" and hurls a microphone at him
2005 - In Japan, engineers finish blasting a 26.5 km (16.5 miles) long railway tunnel through a mountain in the Aomori prefecture. The tunnel is the longest in the world so far
2006 - Facebook is opened to the public
2007 - A hail storm damages the Space Shuttle Atlantis, delaying the STS-117 launch orginally scheduled for March 15
2008 - Several parts of the UK felt earthquake tremors at approximately 0100GMT
Birthdays on 27 February:
James T. Farrell (1904), Lynn Cartwright (1927), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Ralph Nader (1934), Steve Harley (1951), Henk Westbroek (1952), Neal Schon (1954), Adrian Smith (1957), John Metgod (1958), Johnny Van Zant (1959), Peter André (1973), Hiroyasu Shimizu (1974), Barry Opdam (1976), James Beattie (1978), Kakha Kaladze (1978), Chelsea Clinton (1980)
|
|
Cliftonville celebrate after Francis Murphy had made it 1-1 | Cliftonville's first match in the Setanta Cup ended in defeat despite a spirited display in Drogheda.
Eamon Zayed's 40th-minute header gave the holders the lead but Francis Murphy equalised with a direct free-kick 12 minutes into the second half.
Richie Baker pounced from close-range to restore Drogheda's lead and Zayed headed in another.
Sub Mark Holland volleyed in a second for Cliftonville who had midfielder Barry Holland stretchered off.
That will be another injury worry for Cliftonville boss Eddie Patterson ahead of Saturday's Irish Cup game against Portadown as well as important league matches.
Zayed's opener came from a shot corner played to defender Brian Shelley who had space to cross into the danger area to set up the flicked header.
Late in the half Murphy cleared off the from Paul Keegan.
A foul on John Martin led to Murphy scoring the north Belfast club's first first Setanta Cup goal.
Baker then pounced from close-range to put Drogheda ahead again in the 74th minute.
After Drogheda went 3-2 up, Cliftonville's Davy McAlinden had an effort cleared off the line.
Right at the end the Irish league side appealed for a penalty when keeper Mikko Vilmunen clattered into Mark Holland but referee David Malcolm waved away the claims. |
Quote
More information on Friends in common
Have you ever met someone and only realized later that you have a lot of friends in common? Now you can find see whether you share friends with someone up front through our new ‘Friends in common’ feature.
In the friends module on another person’s space, there is a new area that highlights friends you have in common. Right away you can see the number of people you both know and the profile pictures of some of those friends.
Want to see the rest of your mutual friends? Click on In common and you’re taken to a full page view that shows all of your friends as well as separate lists of friends in common and friends that you don't have in common. This way you can also discover new people that you might know in real life, but are not connected with on Windows Live.
 
|
Finding friends in common is also especially important when planning an event on Windows Live Events. Who wants to go to a party when none of your friends are going?
On the Guest list area of every event, you can now quickly see how many of your friends have also been invited to the event. Just click on See who’s going and see whether or not your friends are planning to go.
|  |
On another note, we’ve been reading the comments about Lists that people have left on the Space Craft, and we wanted to use this blog entry to update you on our thinking. We made the changes to lists to improve consistency of the list feature on Spaces main page, but realize that displaying the list description is more important than layout consistency; therefore, we’ll be rolling back the changes we made last week to restore list descriptions to their original form. The restoration may take a few weeks, so please stay tuned.
We hope the new features will allow you to manage your relationships as well as find and connect with more people on Windows Live. Thanks for your continued feedback!
- Michelle Aleong
Program Manager, Windows Live 2月26日 1794 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down
1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba
1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens
1885 - The Berlin Act, which resulted from the Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, was signed
1887 - At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings
1917 - The first Jaarbeurs Exhibition center opens in Utrecht (NL)
1919 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park
1929 - The Grand Teton National Park is created
1935 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near Daventry which led directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom
1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb
1966 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1986 - Evert van Benthem wins his second consecutive Elfstedentocht in 6 hours, 55 minutes and 17 seconds
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser
1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand
1995 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan
2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years
2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion
2007 - Film director James Cameron claims to have found ossuaries that once contained the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, named Judah
2008 - Four school girls are killed in near Rome, Italy when a car crashes into a bus stop they were waiting at
Birthdays on 26 February
Victor Hugo (1802), Levi Strauss (1829), William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846), Tex Avery (1908), Jackie Gleason (1916), Fats Domino (1928), Johnny Cash (1932), Jan Jansen (1945), Michael Bolton (1953), Jaz Coleman (1960), Ole Gunnar Solskjær (1973), Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye (1978), Julia Bond (1987)
|
|
Stephen O'Neill scored the winner against Institute on Saturday | Shea Campbell and Stephen O'Neill are ruled out for Cliftonville's first outing in the Setanta Cup against the holders on Tuesday night (2005 GMT).
Campbell has a groin injury while fellow striker O'Neill suffered bruising to a foot and ankle in the weekend win against Institute.
Drogheda have signed Senegalese striker Ibrahima Thiam Iyane but he will not feature at United Park.
Injuries rule out United trio Shane Barrett, Jason Gavin and Shaun Maher.
"Drogheda are a quality side who have won this competition for the last two years and we don't want to be embarrassed," said Reds boss Eddie Patterson ahead of the clash at United Park.
"I have to make a decision on whether to use fringe players in the game."
Cliftonville midfielder Barry Johnston will make his 100th appearance for the north Belfast club if he is selected. |
|
|
Nigel Worthington's side could get a back-door pass to the finals | Uefa has warned Spain they could be thrown out of Euro 2008, which may open the door for Northern Ireland.
Uefa may step in if the Spanish government tries to interfere in the election process of the Spanish FA.
Spain topped their qualifying group for the European Championship, with NI finishing in third place.
"Uefa and Fifa deal with these sort of issues very seriously. These are no empty threats - we will back them up," said Uefa spokesman William Gaillard.
"It is similar to 1992 when Yugoslavia was suspended and Denmark, who finished second in the group, came in," added Gaillard.
Denmark went on to win the tournament in Sweden after beating Germany 2-0 in the final.
Spain and second-placed Denmark qualified for this summer's finals in Austria and Switzerland from Group F, with Nigel Worthington's side missing out.
"We have heard nothing about this," said Irish FA president Raymond Kennedy.
"There has been no communication and it is obviously an internal matter." | Two-time Setanta Sports Cup winners Drogheda United have several injury
concerns ahead of Tuesday night’s tournament kick-off against
Cliftonville at United Park.
Manager Paul Doolin has doubts over goalkeeper Dan Connor, defenders
Shaun Maher and Jason Gavin and forwards Shane Barrett and Declan
O’Brien.
Close-season signings Adam Hughes, Joe Kendrick and Sean Prunty could all make their Drogs debuts against the Reds.
The game marks Cliftonville’s first appearance in the Setanta
Cup, having qualified by finishing third in the Carnegie Premier League
last May.
And the Solitude outfit are certain to offer a stern test in
Drogheda’s first competitive outing of 2008, with Eddie Paterson’s side
currently just one point behind leaders Linfield in the Irish Premier
League.
Drogheda United v Cliftonville, Tuesday, 8.05pm – Live on Setanta Ireland
|
工具 
Interview: Celtic defender Paul Caddis 
Dustin's song 
