Sunday, August 18, 2013

Boyce / Jefford Track & Field Classic?Police Sports Club leads ...

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- Forde, Morgan impresses

As expected Police Sports Club with 105 combined points tally of head into today?s finals of this year?s Boyce / Jefford Track & Field Athletics Classic with a slim lead over Running Brave that finished the opening day on 87 points followed by Christianburg / Wismar on 47 and Guyana Defence Force on 35.

3,000 metres winner Alika Morgan leads Grenada?s Kenisha Pascal in the final lap yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground.

3,000 metres winner Alika Morgan leads Grenada?s Kenisha Pascal in the final lap yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground.

The event which for the first time is being staged over two days opened at the Police Sports Club. Eve Leary, yesterday saw some inspiring performances from leading distance runners Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan, who both dominated the field in the 5,000 and 3,000 metres respectively, while Stephan James was equally impressive, winning his heats in the 100, 200 and 400 metres to make his a firm favourite to capture the Most Outstanding Male Athlete award.
Other outstanding performances in the Men?s category came from Julio Sinclair, who led the field in the Shot and Discus events.
On the distaff side, Alita Moore is a strong candidate for the top individual prize, having placed first and second respectively in the 200 and 400 metres preliminaries.
In the men?s 5000 metres race, Forde, the Caribbean premier distance runner placed himself almost at the back of the field in the opening laps and seemed content on letting Nathaniel Giddings of Police Sports Club and the others do the early running.
He maintained that position until the final lap when he assumed the lead with about 150 metres to go, outsprinting Giddings, who had no answer to the devastating kick of Forde and conceded defeat quite meekly.
Morgan on the other hand led from start to finish in an encouraging display of front running, leaving the likes of Grenada?s Kenisha Pascal, who had trailed her from the start in her wake, while Jevina Straker never threatened and had to settle for third place.
Most of the finals are set for today at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground and fans are expected to come out in their thousands to witness what is being considered the biggest Track & Field event on the local calendar.
Meanwhile, the other clubs in contention are Mercury Fast Laners

Eventual winner of the Men?s 5,000 metres Cleveland Forde about to pass runner-up Nathaniel Giddings en route to victory yesterday.

Eventual winner of the Men?s 5,000 metres Cleveland Forde about to pass runner-up Nathaniel Giddings en route to victory yesterday.

AC on 25, Rising Stars Track Club on 10, Upper Demerara Schools with 10 and Grenada AAA on 8.

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Source: http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/08/18/boyce-jefford-track-field-classic-police-sports-club-leads-point-standings-heading-into-final-day/

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Illinois veterans get free legal help under new law - WREX.com ...

CHICAGO (WREX) -

Veterans and service members in Illinois can now qualify for free legal help thanks to a new law signed Thursday.

House Bill 3111 lets the Illinois Supreme Court start a pilot program to set up a legal hotline and access to lawyers. The program will be paid for from fees in civil cases collected by circuit court clerks. A panel examining legal fees for criminal defendants will also be established.

The law goes into effect immediately.

Source: http://www.wrex.com/story/23149027/2013/08/15/illinois-veterans-get-free-legal-help-under-new-law

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Diaper duty: Prince William tells of fatherhood

LONDON (AP) ? Prince William gave guests at a charity polo match an insight into his newfound paternal duties Saturday, saying his mind had been stuck in "baby mode" thanks to his feisty newborn son.

William was playing alongside his brother Harry at the Audi Polo Challenge in the English village of Ascot. The match came less than two weeks after he and his wife, Kate, had their first child, Prince George, and William told spectators it was "good to get out of the house" for the afternoon.

The 31-year-old royal managed to score the winning goal for his team and was later presented with a miniature polo stick for his baby boy. He jokingly asked if he'd be getting some nappies ? the British term for diapers ? instead, telling guests he had to "pick some up on my way home."

Of his performance on the pitch, William said he was "in baby mode out there, thinking about nappies. I wasn't really in the zone." When quizzed about George, he said the little prince, who was born July 22, "likes to move around a lot. He wriggles a lot. He keeps on our toes."

The polo outing was William's first public appearance since the birth of his son captured the world's attention. Kate and the baby were not in attendance.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/diaper-duty-prince-william-tells-fatherhood-183758514.html

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Sports ? Franklin wins 5th gold, Ledecky sets another world record

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Missy Franklin got back to winning at the world swimming championships, and now she's joined a very elite club. Franklin won her fifth gold medal of the championships with an easy victory in the 200-meter backstroke Saturday, tying the record for most titles by a woman at the biennial world? ...

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Bradley Manning, Clinton Fatigue, and the NSA

U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is escorted as he leaves a military court at the end of the first of a three-day motion hearing June 6, 2012 in Fort Meade, Maryland. Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy in his trial.

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?A Moderate Verdict: The Bradley Manning verdict and the failure of prosecutorial overreach,? by Fred Kaplan. On Tuesday, Bradley Manning was pronounced not guilty of ?aiding the enemy,? a capital crime that would have earned him life imprisonment. Manning will still spend time behind bars for other crimes, but the military court?s decision to absolve him of this charge sets an important precedent for reporters and leakers. Kaplan examines the prosecution?s approach, arguing that prosecutorial overreach might have shaped Manning?s verdict.

?The Danger of Clinton Fatigue: Hillary Clinton invites drama, even when she does nothing at all. Will voters tire of it before 2016 rolls around? Will she?? by John Dickerson. It?s hard to find an article on the Weiner scandal that doesn?t draw parallels between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton. Dickerson argues that the media?s eagerness to draw Hillary into the equation only feeds the media hype surrounding the former secretary of state. As this rate, will the public grow tired of Clinton before she even decides to run for president?

?Laws Are Not Enough: Stop telling us what the NSA can?t do to us legally. Show us real barriers to abuse,? by William Saletan. When Eric Snowden leaked the details of the NSA?s surveillance program, the public was stunned by the government?s oversight capacity. Government officials have, however, emphasized the existence of legal limits to data access. Saletan calls on the NSA to release all existing barriers to abuse, as we have a right to know exactly what ?checks and balances? are in place to protect us. Elsewhere in Slate, Jamel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman penned this handy guide on how to decipher the vague language of U.S. intelligence officials.

?Rape Myths: I was raped at 55. Here is how I responded,? by Beverly Donofrio. Why don?t rape victims scream for help? In this harrowing account, Donofrio describes her reaction to her own rape and notes that while keeping quiet during a robbery is often seen as ?coolheaded intelligence,? this is rarely the case with rape and suggests that women have internalized the idea that ?if it happened to them they must have at some deep, subconscious level caused, invited, even wanted it to happen.?

?I Wish I Was a Little Bit Shorter: The research is clear: Being tall is hazardous to your health,? by Brian Palmer. The advantages of height are well-documented: tall people tend to have higher IQs and earn more money than their shorter colleagues. Studies linking height and success reveal a correlation between these two variables, but they are far from definitive. In fact, Palmer argues, it?s probably safe to say that even if tall people are generally more successful, it is not their height that makes them so. But the ?evidence linking height to life-threatening disorders should give us all pause,? as ?the fact that tall people die younger appears to be an immutable physical reality.?

?Post-Tragedy: I once knew a girl who lost her whole family before she finished high school. I decided to see what happened to her,? by Emily Yoffe. Sara Kushnick lost her brother to AIDS and her father, and mother to cancer, all before she turned 17. Yoffe first met Kushnick, who now goes by Sara Gorfinkel 20 years ago and decided to find her this year. She finds that Gorfinkel has overcome many challenges to have a career and family and who can say ?life is good.?

"Soap Springs Eternal: All My Children, One Life to Live, and the sweetly human act of caring about fictional characters,? by Willa Paskin. As the soap opera fixtures All My Children and One Life to Live attempt to rekindle their former glory as Web series, Paskin looks at the transition of soap opera through the history of television. She observes how the genre impacted the industry and how, although today?s soap audiences are a fraction of their former size, fans remain dedicated to these fictional characters because the genre ?isn?t storytelling at its best, but it is storytelling at its purest.?

?Welcome to the Dongle: Google?s Chromecast is fast, cheap, and ready to take over the world,? by Farhad Manjoo. Google?s newest product, Chromecast, doesn?t reinvent the wheel when it comes to streaming media to your TV But, according to Manjoo, it does this simple task so well, and it?s so cheap, that it?s an investment worth making.

?Prepare to Be Shocked! What happens when you actually click on one of those ?One Weird Trick? ads?,? by Alex Kaufman. Everyone?s encountered those unavoidable Internet proddings to reduce your belly fat and achieve perfect health via one miracle spice, and now they?re finally explained by Kaufman. Although the products these ads market may be of questionable efficacy, the lessons they reveal about why we click are fascinating.

?The Most Beautiful Melody in the World: You know it when you hear it,? by Jan Swafford. Although Swafford?s not going to definitively declare the world?s most beautiful melody, he will give insights into music and how we understand. If you?ve ever wondered what makes tunes hummable and what differentiates genres, Swafford has the answers.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/cocktail_chatter/2013/08/bradley_manning_clinton_fatigue_and_the_nsa_the_week_s_most_interesting.html

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Windows 8 And Einstein's Definition Of Insanity

It's been a rough two weeks for Microsoft and Windows 8.

The company revealed that its Windows 8-based Surface products generated only $853 million in sales in fiscal 2013, and that it took a $900 million write-down because of unsold Surface RT devices. Not the returns Microsoft was hoping for.


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For perspective, research firm IDC estimated that Apple sold 19 million iPads in the first three months of 2013, adding up to an annual run rate of roughly $38 billion.

One InformationWeek reader, commenting on a story about the Surface slump by Michael Endler, put it succinctly (even if he overdid the nautical metaphors):

"Microsoft missed the boat on tablets and now they are trying to catch up. The problem is, they jumped in the water after the boat left the dock and now they are swimming against a riptide."

[ Microsoft's latest OS update addresses many concerns for business users, but questions remain. Read Microsoft Releases Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview. ]

What can Microsoft do? Cutting prices is a good first step. Many will accuse Microsoft of admitting failure. Too bad. The market has spoken and the Surface devices are overpriced. Microsoft wisely decided to cut the price of the dead-in-the-water Surface RT by 20% to 30%, depending on the model. The 32-GB model is now $349, down from $499. Microsoft may need to keep cutting to spark Surface RT's inertia.

The 64-GB Surface Pro is priced at $899 ($1,000 with keyboard cover!) and needs to be on par with or less than the iPad's $600 to $800 price range. As for those $120 keyboard covers that cost $18 to make: Include them for free.

Microsoft will have to take a hit on the sale price to get people using the Windows 8 Modern UI and buying apps and content from the Windows Store. That's what Amazon had to do with the Kindle Fire. To overdo a baseball metaphor, Microsoft thought it could price high and get into the tablet game on third base. But it has to step up to the plate like everyone else.

In pushing a product very few people want, a big part of Microsoft's solution is to hang tough and make incremental changes. But another part, unfortunately, is to yell louder: "YOU WILL LIKE THE MODERN UI IF WE KEEP ADVERTISING IT! YOU WILL LIKE THE HOMESCREEN TILES! It reminds me of Einstein's definition of insanity.

What about Windows 8.1? It has some solid additions, such as boot-to-desktop mode and a restored Start button. But it's a coat of paint and not real change. It's too late to significantly change Windows 8 anyway. Consumers and business customers didn't bite. Those weak Surface sales numbers speak volumes, as do an unprecedented decline in PC sales this year. As for its overall Windows 8 sales, Microsoft isn't breaking them out in its financial report, but for the fourth quarter, it said that total Windows revenue was down 6% for the quarter and 1% for the entire fiscal year compared with year-earlier periods.

In contrast, the iPad immediately fascinated the buying public when Apple introduced it in the spring of 2010. It didn't take a year to marinate -- it took 5 minutes. Android took longer, but Android operated in the shadows and slowly reached critical mass on smartphones first and is now leading the way on tablets as well. Android currently owns 52.4% of the smartphone market compared to Apple's 39.2%, according to comScore. Meantime, Android accounted for 67% of global tablet shipments in Q2 2013, according to Strategy Analytics. This growth happened organically; the masses (and the hardware makers) came to Android. Unlike Windows 8 and Windows RT, its success wasn't predicated on mass advertising.

Microsoft desperately needed consumers to snatch up Windows Phone smartphones and Surface tablets and bring them to work BYOD-style. That hasn't happened, and it's a serious threat to Windows' enterprise winning streak.

But make no mistake, Microsoft is still comfortably in the black. Last week it reported revenue of $77.85 billion for fiscal 2013, a 6% increase over the previous year. In Microsoft's just-ended fourth quarter, revenue for the company's Business Division (led by Office) grew 14% compared with the year-earlier quarter. It was up 3% for the year. Microsoft stated in its financial report that Office 365 is now on a $1.5 billion annual revenue run rate. The Server & Tools division revenue grew 9% for the quarter and 9% for the full year, driven by double-digit percentage revenue growth in SQL Server and System Center.

With SQL Server, System Center, Windows Azure, Lync and Office 365 product lines all healthy and growing, maybe Microsoft should stop trying to wow consumers and be more like Oracle, with its singular enterprise focus.

But the company's planned reorganization implies Microsoft is trying to be Apple-like by streamlining its portfolio of software, services and devices.

If Microsoft has any chance of becoming an Apple-like player in consumer computing, the best it can do now is retrench on its mobile strategy and re-enter its Surface devices running Windows 8.1 at lower prices and longer battery lives. Microsoft blew it by pricing Surface too high. Come back down to earth. Give buyers a deal. It may be the only way to keep Windows 8 vibrant long term.

Just don't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame: Bill Parcells, Cris Carter, Warren Sapp inducted in class of seven

There's a kinship created that lasts for the rest of your life." -- Bill Parcells

CANTON, Ohio ? Forcefully and emotionally, Cris Carter summed up the 50th induction ceremony for the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night.

The seventh and final inductee from the Class of 2013, Carter honored dozens of people in his life who were "going into the Hall of Fame with me tonight," as he followed Jonathan Ogden, Dave Robinson, Larry Allen, Bill Parcells, Curley Culp and Warren Sapp in being inducted.

More than 120 hall members, a record, returned for the 50th anniversary celebration of the shrine.

"I appreciate the process you have to go through to get to be a Hall of Famer," said Carter, who had perhaps the best hands of any receiver the NFL has seen. "To be able to join these men on this stage in football heaven is the greatest day of my life."

Carter needed six tries to make the hall even though he retired as the No. 2 career receiver behind Jerry Rice. He choked back tears as he made his speech after being presented by his son, Duron, and he spoke of his problems with alcohol while playing three years for the Eagles before being released.

He hooked on immediately with the Vikings and hooked onto nearly everything throw his way: Carter finished his 16-season career with 1,101 catches for 13,899 yards and 130 touchdowns.

"This game gave me identity, gave me a sense of purpose," he said.

Parcells also seemingly spoke for everyone in the Hall of Fame, and all the people gathered Saturday night.

"There?s a kinship created that lasts for the rest of your life," he said about his experience as one of the NFL?s most successful coaches.

Parcells, a native of New Jersey, had several of his proteges in the crowd at Fawcett Stadium. The only coach to take four franchises to the playoffs, Parcells won Super Bowls with the New York Giants in the 1986 and 1990 seasons. The master of the team turnaround with the Giants, Patriots, Jets and Cowboys, Parcells was called "the definitive winner" by former player George Martin, who presented him for induction.

"Every organization I worked for supported me to the fullest," Parcells said. "Without that, you?ve got no shot."

Parcells? career record was 183-138-1 and he won Coach of the Year honors in 1986 and 1994. He asked to have his bust placed somewhere near Lawrence Taylor in the hall "so I can keep an eye on that sucker."

And he mentioned a quote by former Giants defensive back Emlen Tunnell, the first black man inducted into the Canton shrine, in 1967:

"Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and players in other little groups. But winners assemble as a team."

As relaxed as if he had no one to block, Ogden became the first Baltimore Raven enshrined in the hall. Ogden was the leadoff inductee in his seven-member class, just as he was the first player drafted by the Ravens after the franchise moved from Cleveland in 1996 and was renamed. The man who made that selection, fellow Hall of Famer Ozzie Newsome, now Baltimore?s general manager, presented the massive offensive tackle.

A former college shot putter at UCLA, at 6-foot-9, 345 pounds, Ogden was an imposing presence at tackle for a dozen seasons in Baltimore, winning the 2000 NFL championship. Six months after the Ravens won their second Super Bowl, Ogden gave a smooth, humor-laden speech, always in control ? just like he was when neutralizing even the best opponents.

"He is part of the foundation of this franchise, part of the reason we have two Super Bowl championships," Newsome said.

Ogden, who was given a 2013 Super Bowl ring by the team, made the hall in his first year of eligibility. He was a six-time All-Pro, made the Pro Bowl 11 times and was the main blocker when Jamal Lewis rushed for 2,066 yards in 2003.

"Talent isn?t enough," Ogden said. "A lot of people have talent, they don?t always live up to it. For me it is about maximizing, striving for perfection.

"I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens? first Hall of Fame inductee."

Allen, who sniffled his way through his speech, was just as dominating a blocker as Ogden. He also was, he said, NFL?s strongest man, once bench-pressing 700 pounds, and saying "I did it naturally."

One of the key blockers for Dallas as Emmitt Smith became the NFL?s career rushing leader, Allen made six All-Pro squads and 11 Pro Bowls in his 14 seasons, the final two with San Francisco. He won the Super Bowl in the 1995 season and was voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility,

"I just knew I had to win every play," he said. "That?s the reason I am here I knew if I lost a play, I had 45 seconds to get even."

Presented by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who drafted Allen out of small-college Sonoma State in 1994, Allen punctuated his discourse with the requisite "How about them Cowboys?" as he joined the likes of Smith, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders in the hall.

Sapp became only the second Tampa Bay Buccaneer to be enshrined, 18 years after Lee Roy Selmon made it. He was elected in his first year of eligibility following 13 seasons in which he went from instant starter after being selected 12th overall in the 1995 draft to Defensive Player of the Year in 1999. That season, he had 12 1/2 sacks as the Bucs won their first division title in 18 years. For his career, Sapp had 96 1/2 sacks, extremely high for a defensive tackle.

"I sit here with the greatest among the great," Sapp said, breaking into tears. "We?re here, baby."

Presented Saturday night by his 15-year-old daughter, Mercedes, Sapp made the NFL?s All-Decade squads for the 1990s and the 2000s.

Sapp, who both Ogden and Allen said was as tough to handle as any player they faced, paid tribute to his roots in Plymouth, Fla.

"That dirt road was something rough," he said. "We sure turned it into something special."

Robinson became the 12th inductee from the vintage Packers coached by Vince Lombardi to be enshrined. Robinson was a prototype outside linebacker who could rush the quarterback, cover tight ends or running backs on pass plays, and stop the run. He made the NFL?s All-Decade team of the 1960s and won three NFL titles, including the first two Super Bowls.

"This is the biggest day of the 21st century for the Robinson family," he said, adding that he "lives 25 miles from here but it took me 38 years to get here."

Not quite: Robinson served on the Hall of Fame?s board of directors for 27 years. Now, he has a bust in the museum.

"I never dreamt about the Hall of Fame" when he was at Penn State, he joked. "There wasn?t even a Hall of Fame when I broke in to the NFL."

Indeed, Robinson?s rookie season was the year the hall was created, 1963.

"Now, I am immortalized."

As is Culp, one of the game?s most dominant defensive tackles for much of his 14 pro seasons, including the 1969 season when he helped Kansas City win the NFL title.

A five-time Pro Bowler, Culp also played for Houston and Detroit, retiring in 1981, then waiting more than three decades to be enshrined Saturday as a senior nominee.

"It gives me joy and inspiration that will last the rest of my life," Culp said. "I am just overwhelmed by the struggles, joys and tears of those who made it here. I?m happy to join them in the Hall of Fame.

Source: http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2013/08/pro_football_hall_of_fame_bill_parcells_cris_carter_warren_sapp_inducted_in_class_of_seven.html

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Netflix now allows up to 5 viewing profiles on same account

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Netflix's latest attraction will enable families and other people sharing the same account to set up separate identities so the Internet video service can give them better recommendations on what to watch next.?

The tool introduced Thursday can splinter a single Netflix account into up to five different profiles at no additional cost from the service's $8 monthly fee. The Los Gatos, Calif., company is hoping its 37.6 million worldwide subscribers will use the profiles feature and help Netflix's recommendation system distinguish between viewers who have drastically different tastes.

Until now, deciphering viewing preferences could be tricky with a shared account. Netflix couldn't tell when a 50-year-old dad was watching its Internet video service and when his 10-year-old daughter was viewing. That resulted in Netflix serving up a mishmash of suggestions that could include movies meant for mature audiences based on the father's viewing history, and kid-friendly programming drawn from the daughter's preferences.

"If the kids have been watching a lot of 'Shaun the Sheep,' that doesn't particularly help us help you find the next gritty drama to watch after they have gone to bed," said Neil Hunt, Netflix's chief product officer.

Profiles will now make it possible for several members of the same household to click on their screen name to get customized recommendations, based on what they have previously watched and seemed to enjoy in Netflix's library of movies, old TV shows and original programs. Netflix relies on viewers' own ratings of video, as well as computer-driven analyses of the genres previously watched.

The new feature initially will only be available on Netflix's own website and several other viewing outlets, including the iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Apple TV and some smart TV models. It may take up to two weeks before the profiles choice pops up in these options. Profiles should be available on the Wii console before the end of August and on Android devices before the end of the year. Netflix subscribers who use Netflix on Roku's set-top box probably won't be able to use profiles on that device until early next year.

Netflix considers its recommendation system to be one of its biggest advantages over rival Internet video services run by Amazon, Hulu and Redbox. As long as Netflix keeps steering its subscribers to videos that they like, the company figures customers will be less likely to cancel the service.

Even though it has often analyzed a jumbled mix of viewers, Netflix's recommendation system apparently is hitting a sweet spot more often than not. The company says about three-fourths of the video watching on its service is driven by its recommendations.

The new profiles can also be used to link to each user's Facebook account. That connection allows Netflix members see what the other people in their online social network have been watching on Netflix, too.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

India vs Zimbabwe: Virat Kohli eyes Zimbabwe whitewash after 4th consecutive win

India on Thursday thrashed Zimbabwe by nine wickets for a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.

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Bulawayo:? After hammering minnows Zimbabwe yet again, India skipper Virat Kohli now has his eyes trained on a 5-0 clean sweep of the hosts in the ODI series.

India on Thursday thrashed Zimbabwe by nine wickets for a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.

"Definitely (that's the aim). We want to end on a high and go home with smile on face. We want to finish the series properly and if we execute things, proper results will follow," Kohli said when asked if he has a 5-0 result in mind.

Kohli credited his bowlers and top-order batsmen.

"The pitch was doing a bit early and we tried to extract. Our bowlers did a great job and then Rohit and Raina finished it off well," he said.

Rohit Sharma (64) and Raina (65) scored unbeaten half-centuries and shared a 122-run strand in 21.2 overs in India's chase of 145.

"It was good to see Rohit performing consistently. He was not getting runs early in the series."

Kohli had good words to say about debutant paceman Mohit Sharma and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.

"Jadeja is a good allrounder and he showed what he can do with the wickets and that run-out. Mohit was accurate from ball one which was pleasing to see as it was his first game. We are really proud of him and I wish him luck," Kohli said.

Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor looked dejected after the side's fourth successive defeat.

"It is pretty frustrating. It was a good batting wicket. We did all the hard work but couldn't execute it there. We keep getting ourselves out and keep capitulating, it's difficult to come back from that," he said.

Nevertheless he hoped that the team would put up a good show in the last match on Saturday.

"We try to stay relax and keep the morale up. The series has not gone well and fortunately there's one more game. We've had our chances but couldn't grab them."

Mohit Sharma was named Man of the Match for returning figures of two for 26 on debut.

"I am feeling good. Thanks to the coach and captain for giving me this chance. I did not try much, just kept the things simple, I stuck to basics. Hopefully I will do well in the next match as well," he said.


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Twitter wars: another proxy battleground for the future of Western civilisation

Twitter, yesterday

So I'd just got back from doing a shop at Aldi (*) last night when I noticed that in my absence I'd been mentioned in 120 new tweets. "Ulp!" I thought. "What have I gone and done now?" In Twitterland, you see, being mentioned in lots of tweets is usually a sign you've been naughty.

(* Aldi's aged sirloin Aberdeen Angus steak is unsurpassed)

Anyway, it turned out that I had enraged the usual Twitter suspects. Some had chosen to take umbrage over a link I'd put up to another superb piece by Russell Taylor in which he had an entirely justified dig at the ghastly Co Op and its war on lads' mags; others were rising to the defence of publicity-seeking Labour MP Stella Creasy who can't seem quite to make up her mind whether she is a delicate wallflower in need of protective regulation or a feisty, fearless interweb provocatrice. The general verdict was that I was immature, mentally ill, devoid of love, psychologically damaged, inadequate and DEFINITELY NOT FUNNY, let alone worthy of a voice in the national debate.

So, as you do, I had a glance at the self-descriptions of my self-appointed Twitter jury and here are some examples of what I found:

"Labour party activist"; "Middle-aged old style socialist"; "leftie"; "Guardian-reading liberal"; "gig-going lefty"; "Socialist Labour party"; "Local government worker and political activist"; "Labour cllr (Withington)"; "@owenjones84."

Can any of you notice what they have in common? Yes. That's right. These are the kind of people who, if I wrote a 10,000 word panegyric on the beauty and wisdom of their mothers, would focus solely on my abject failure in paragraph 57 to include an exclamation mark after "and her crochet skills are fantastic too?" The kind of chippy malcontents, indeed, who are quite heftily over-represented in the comments section below this blog, busily pointing out stuff like how the spell of nice weather we've had recently makes a total mockery of my evil, Big-Oil funded climate change scepticism, or noting that because I suffer depression I am mentally unstable, or just spitting bile over the fact that they've got worthless degrees in climate "science" from the "University" of East Anglia and all that lovely work they had as advisers in the renewables sector seems to have dried up rather of late. Not normal people in other words. Not neutral voices who've thoughtfully weighed up the pros and cons before chipping in their tuppenny hapenny's worth. But shrill, angry, politically motivated, logic-proof, blinkered, standard issue greeny-lefty trolls.

Why am I telling you this? Because many of you, I know, consider that the goings-on at Twitter this week are beneath your lofty attention. Of course I understand why you think this: Twitter is indeed a bare-knuckle bear pit of a witch hunt frenzy nightmare of bile, invective and round, unvarnished evil. (Though it does have its plus sides too, or I wouldn't waste so much time there). But what some of you appear to be unaware of is its significance in the broader culture wars.

In these culture wars this week's Twitter debate is Leveson is Toby Young's free school is Drummer Lee Rigby and "Islamophobia" is climate change is Christopher Snowdon's "fake charities" is Piers Morgan and gun control is Trayvon Martin. Which is to say that every one of these issues serves as a proxy battleground for a much broader, and much more important conflict which is raging around the world right now and on whose outcome the future of our fragile civilisation depends.

What this war has very, very little to do with is whether nasty Mr Murdoch's wicked henchmen caused Milly Dowler's phone messages to be erased or about whether that idiot's undeniably stupid, offensive and wrongheaded rape threat to Stella Creasy was any more sincere than Paul Chambers's tweet "threat" to blow up Robin Hood airport. You'd never guess this from the way these stories have been gleefully spun by the leftist media ? the BBC and the Guardian especially ? but it just doesn't, it really doesn't.

What all these disparate issues are really about is the things they're always really about: the bitter, ongoing struggle between those on the one hand who cleave ardently to the statist religion of equality, diversity and sustainability in which society's "best interests" are decided by an "enlightened" elite of bureaucrats, technocrats, petty officials, social workers, Local Agenda 21 groupuscules, administrators, UN and EU apparatchiks, Guardian editorial-writers, grandstanding politicians and members of the BBC Trust. And on the other, those of us who have sufficient faith in human nature to take the view that ? barring the odd safety net here and the occasional piece of protective legislation there ? the best route to creating a more fruitful, enjoyable, richer and, yes, fairer world is for us all, pretty much, to be left to live our lives the way we want to live them, unencumbered by confiscatory taxes, Nannyish government edicts and pettifogging regulation which seeks to micromanage every last detail of our daily existence from how many different coloured bags we put our rubbish in to the degree to which we're permitted to be rude towards our enemies on Twitter.

I know which side I'm on. This columnist here seems to be equally sure which side she's on. You can all decide for yourselves where you belong on this ideological battleground. But don't kid yourself that this is a war where you can just sit on the sidelines or where there's a "reasonable middle ground". Ultimately, it's about liberty v tyranny; about freedom of speech v creeping state control; free market capitalism v anti-growth collectivism; personal responsibility v suckling on the teat of the state; optimism v pessimism.

You choose.

?

Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100229198/twitter-wars-another-proxy-battleground-for-the-future-of-western-civilisation/

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