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Today – Sat June 12, 2010 – is National Get open Day

What’s that mean? It means it’s time to get off your butt, measure away from the computer, and go outside!

National Get open Day was established to encourage healthy, active outdoor playfulness at site across the nation.

No organized activity near you? No excuse You can still get out for a hike, a game of golf or tennis, a run or a motorcycle ride.

In fact, I’m headed out with some friend right now!

This is what happened on Week 8 of WPS after . little rescheduling of games. FC gold Pride hosted the Washington Freedom . sky blueness FC took a little road trip down to Philly to face the independence , and the Athletica capital of Georgia Beat , now being called Atlantica , traveled to Windy City to take on the Red Stars .

FC gold Pride remain #1 in the standing after getting one point out of the next best squad in the conference on Saturday, June 5th. Allie Long got the Washington Freedom on the board first in the 38th min with a shot to the top corner of the end from 25 pace out Marta showed more of her thaumaturgy throughout the game and scored the equalizer for the pridefulness in the 75th min Christine Sinclair played the ball over the top of a freedom defender, Marta was able to touching it into infinite and out run the protector She attracted trey shielder toward her, got around them and blasted a shot past Erin McLeod.

The Philly independence discomfited sky blueness 2-1 on Sun on end from Amy Rodriguez and Lori Lindsey. The first goal came just trey minutes into the lucifer after Rodriguez laid off the ball for Lindsey, who shot a beautifully curved ball right into the top right corner of the end Laura Kalmari then equalized in the 11th min as she took a touching on a lofted ball from Rosana and tapped it past Val Henderson. Rodriguez later scored the game winner in the 28th min after jab a ball from Lianne Sanderson over Karen Bardsley.

The Windy City Red Stars, and capital of Georgia Beat put on a poor people display of “the best women’s association football in the world.” These two squad were at the undersurface of the standing and neither showed that they want to win in the stallion 90 proceedings I’ll give the round an alibi and say that they have quaternion new squad members in hope Solo, Lori Chalupny, Eniola Aluko, and Carolyn space from the St. Joseph Louis Barrow Athletica, and are trying to gel, but those quaternion participant are the only unity that showed any heart front he entire team Nothing great was created, and hope Solo was forced to make a few great save as she rescued her new squad from another loss Both squad walked away with one point They need a guest at their next training session to give them a motivational address They need some inspiration Luckily for the Beat, they have a pass week and won’t play a game at the end of this week That means they have II week of grooming ahead to regroup, figure out how to score, and focus on themselves before they take on the Red Stars again on June 19th.

The standing after Sun are as follows:

1. FC gold Pride, sixteen pts
2. Independence, fourteen pts
3. Freedom, fourteen pts
4. Sky blueness FC, XI pts
5. Red Stars, eighter from Decatur pts
6. Breakers, VII pts
7. Beat, II pts

Next week :

• Washington freedom – Windy City Red star at VII PM ET
• Boston surf – sky blueness FC at quaternion PM ET
• Philadelphia independence – FC gold Pride at 6pm ET on FSC

Seventeen year old Jess Laing has grown up surfriding with and competing against her two friend Nikki vanguard Dijk and Bharat Payne on Phillip island in Australia.

They’re all sponsored, breaker the same breaks, live within ten minutes of each other, and go to the same school . The young lady are all different in their own ways, but one thing’s for sure, they all love the same thing These focused teen are determined to find . way to do the one thing they love for the balance of their lives. The first step: conquer the world famous moving ridge of Hawaii!

Join these three young lady on their journey to become professional person surfboarder in the infotainment picture show First love Discover the trial and tribulation of training, competitions, injury and addition an insight to asp viper Women’s World Tour and the life of female professional surfers.

Francesca Schiavone will play Samantha Stosur in Saturday’s French Open final, the latest surprise in a week full of disturbance at Roland Garros.

Schiavone knelt down and planted a kiss on the red dust surface on center court as the unlikely competition set herself up to become the first Italian woman to win a chiliad sweep singles.

At the same time, Aussie Samantha Stosur is  trying to become Australia’s first women’s singles champ at a chiliad sweep since Evonne Goolagong at Wimbledon in 1980.

In the latest one shot of surprises, the women’s semifinal day produced two more disturbance as first Schiavone, who turn XXX this calendar month and is contesting her 39th chiliad sweep tournament, then  Stosur made it through to their first major singles finals.

The unlikely brace may not be new kids on the block but they most certainly  have shaken up the established order this week.

To get to the final, Stosur outplayed four-times French Open champion Justine Henin in the fourth one shot and then showed true Australian grit to eliminate world number one Serena Williams in the quarterfinal after economy lucifer point.  Stosur then benefited from a shocking display by fourth seed Jelena Jankovic, racing to a 6-1 6-2 victory in exactly an hour.

Long regarded as a doubles specialist, Stosur cracked the top 10 for the first time last month She’s now 6-19 against top-five opponent — and XX this hebdomad Her 20-2 record this year on clay is the best on the women’s tour.

Seventeenth-seeded Schiavone was helped in the semi final by the fact that fifth seed Elena Dementieva was struck by a calf trauma and unexpectedly retired after  losing the first set on a tiebreak.

The women’s final will be the fifth at a major tourney in the Open era between two first-time K slam finalists.

UPDATE: Schiavone wins!

Softball is a direct descendant of baseball game game , but differs from it in several ways, of which the top dog four are:

• The ball is always pitched underarm – in other words, it is released when the hand is below the hip and no further away from the body than the elbow – while in baseball game game the ball may be released in any position and is usually thrown overarm or sidearm at greater speeds.
• The ball is larger, softer , less dense, and heavier than a baseball.
• The W. C. Fields used for playground ball are normally smaller.
• The game is septenary innings long, as opposed to ennead in baseball game playground ball game tend to take between one and two hours to complete, as opposed to around three hours for most baseball game games.

Softball is said to be the most popular participant athletics in the United States. An estimated 56 million American will play at least one game of playground ball during a year and is played by both men and women.

Pretty Basic: playground ball is played on a smaller diamond than baseball, with a ball that is larger and softer   and a bat that is slightly different in size and weight and can also be made of aluminum.

The ball is thrown by a participant towards an opposing team participant called a slugger who endeavor to hit the ball with a round, smooth stick called a bat.

Scoring is accomplished by the slugger hit the ball as far away as she can and then running game and touch a series of four marker on the solid ground called base before the opposing team’s fielder tax return the ball The slugger can stop play at anytime by fillet on one of the base if she feel that he cannot get ‘home’ safely.  If the opposing squad can throw the ball to the contrabandist next base before he get there she is ‘out’ and no run is scored.

Rules of playground ball – Making Outs
In softball, a slugger is out if:

• The batted ball is caught in the air.
• The batted ball is caught and thrown successfully to any base before a runner get there.
• A baserunner is tagged by the ball while off of a base.
• Three strike are called by the umpire.

Softball has been an Olympic athletics for women since 1996 but has now been dropped although there are move afoot to re-establish IT The International playground ball federation hold world championships every four years.

Some participant to know:
Crystal Bustos: One of the best playground ball batter in the world, she broke Olympiad records with five home runs and tenner run batted in for the gold medal winning 2004 United States team
Lisa Fernandez: She was a part of three gold medal winning United States playground ball squad as a pitcher.
Jennie Finch: Arguably the most famous playground ball participant ever, finch was a twirler on the 2004 gold medal United States Team and 2008 silver ribbon team.
Jessica Mendoza: United States Olympic gold medalist and President of the Women’s sport Foundation.
Stacey Nuveman: A catcher, she had the only hit of the 2000 gold ribbon game and a home run in the 2004 gold decoration game.
Cat Osterman: The 6-foot-3 left-hander is the second all-time in NCAA history in strikeouts.
Natasha Watley: The first African-American jock to play on the United States playground ball squad in the Olympics.

Last week President Obama flew to Afghanistan to rally the troops before the upcoming offense in Kandahar He also paid . visit to President Karzai. According to the Associated Press, “The trip was intended to let Obama tell Karzai that he must business deal with corruption and cut the flowing of money from poppy production and drug trafficking that is sustaining the insurgency.” As if a quick flight to Afghanistan in absolute secrecy amid extremely high security concerns is a small price to earnings in the name of anti-corruption.

Perhaps it is. Afghanistan’s corruption situation does not appear to have changed much over the months since the fraudulent presidential election in 2009. The United States is hoping it is headed for the endgame in Afghanistan but this may require partnership with clean afghan government and not just Obama’s 30,000 additional soldiery Any country’s problems can only truly be solved by its own people, but in Afghanistan’s case the specific problem of outlaw elements infiltrated into the public and buck private sector means that the people pull the string section are not those on the Americans’ side .

Obama’s trip gives a powerful message that fighting corruption is a precedency for the administration, at least in Afghanistan. That message may not have come across. Karzai has his own battle to fight at home, and the United States’s anti-corruption agenda is likely a low pressure priority As Karzai play to the house servant crowd with accusations such as that the United States was the culprit of last year’s election fraud, the Obama administration may wish it had rigged the election a bit more securely.

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As . write this, British elector are going to the polls in what has been billed as one of the most exciting Great U.K. elections of the post-war period gouge Clegg, member of the third party liberalist Democrats, could overtake his mainstream competition Gordon Brown and David Cameron . Regardless of the outcome, this is the kind of run that inevitably brand you think hard about first-past-the-post systems.

Britain, like the United States, chosen the members of its legislature through the infamous system in which whoever get the most votes, wins. This has begun to look anachronistic in face of today’s global preponderance of scheme of proportional representation, in which smaller political party have more than a scrap chance at law-makers seats While American may look at the engagement over forming a alinement in place like Yisrael or Al-Iraq and think the stableness and governability of our system eclipse its disadvantages, it is hard to deny that having only two dominant political party bound voters’ internal mental representation and government accountability.

Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post last week, saying that Clegg’s rise in Britain should make us think on this side of the pond as well clegg has proposed far-reaching reform to the electoral system that could seriously disrupt the electric current party system there.

The liberalist Democrat have in fact had more representation than third political party in the United States, which have not gained any noticeable adhesive friction in the modern United States Congress The fact that running as an fencesitter is preferable to joining a third party certainly distinguishes our two legislatures. Another major difference is that third party clegg could be head of government, a effort basically unimaginable in today’s United States government politics. In the absence of major convulsion that disrupts our entire political system, the United States is unlikely to see an American clegg in the presidential race any time soon. Sir John Ross Perot and Ralph Nader served the purpose of stirring up the debate more than presenting a viable choice for the presidency.

This substance because we all know how stagnant the political debate can become when there are only two voices. If the entire political spectrum is divided into just two parts, political party rarely have to challenge established norms. This foliage them less accountable to the elector that put them in office, and instead free to select just a couple of briny issue to fight for while going the rest unchanged. That benefit no one but the people in power

And so, in the next election, when some third party campaigner is feeding into your majority-party’s share of the votes, endeavour reveling in your opportunity for choice rather than bemoaning the spoiler.

We’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of PUMA’s new line of city bikes and they’re finally available online and at select dealers.

PUMA motorcycle pull together the best, most practical parts of city and protein folding bikes, BMXs, American cruisers, and fixies to create a whole new urban typology.

The motorcycle were designed by the Danish capital based company Biomega and Jens St. Martin Skibsted. There are and five different theoretical account but when  you factor in all the colors and size available, there’s at least 120 configurations. Flashy against the gritty city cougar motorcycle boasting bold face colour combinations. From lemon yellow to funky fuchsia to ocean-glass turquoises, the colors are inspired by vibrant island colour and defy the expected.

The new  PUMA motorcycle are named after island in the Atlantic Ocean. This method is grounded in the Trans-Atlantic inspiration behind the bikes’ design, where smart and practical European design meets laidback, urban American style.

The Pico, named after an island in the telephone exchange Group of the Portuguese Azores,  looks a tidy sum ice chest than most protein folding bikes, thanks to a compact, BMX-style framing $695:

Nevis Lady is a city cruiser with an easy, vertical posture, $725. . Nevis Island is an island in the Caribbean Sea Sea, located SE of Puerto Rico.

Funk, named after a small island northeast of Wesleyville, Newfoundland, Canada,  is modeled after the fixed-gear bike favored by two-wheeled hipsters, $860:

And Disco, Biomega’s first breakout hit for Puma, $970.  is named after  a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. This bike  features an integrated cable lock in the frame. It’s structural rigidity depends on the cable; if a stealer cut it, the bike can’t be ridden.

Wonder if they’re looking at for mental testing driver for these sweet, colorful  rides?

NHRA driver Courtney Force documents her summertime on the drag-racing circuit in an online blog for U.S.A. TODAY.

This week sisters Courtney, Bretagne and Ashley were part of a race car-themed awarding ceremony at the Rio de Janeiro Vista elementary school in orange County. The retarding force automobile driver were asked to help pass out the awarding to the students who had succeeded in the reading competition throughout the yr These reading competition had been theme to racing with the various reading group being their “pit crews.” The gymnasium was even decorated according to theme.

The Force sisters brought some of their our own props – including die-cast cars, fire suits, helmets, and all other safety equipment – and got the chance to speak to the students about the importance of staying in school and how much it could have an impact on their future careers.

It’s always fun to introduce the NHRA to those who are unfamiliar with it and the young lady passed out signed hero cards and presented the students with gold, silver, and bronze medals.

After spending a day with the students, Courtney was back to towing around the parking wad in the funny Car working toward her own personal end in life She then head down the street to Cal State-Fullerton to take an English writing exam she need to pass in order to alum in the fall Her exam theme was on her personal feeling toward group projects. Group projects are kind of like teamwork on a race team and everyone knows there’s no “I” in Team!

Courtney says:

I believe that if everyone on a squad is passionate about what they do and are volition to put forth an effort, then you can achieve your ultimate end Without my crew guy and my family, I wouldn’t have the chance to say we’ve achieved winning a national event. I’ll never forget that day last July when my win light came on in Seattle and they handed me my first Wally. My squad is very important to me and we support each other all through race day.

Stay tuned to find out what else Courtney is up to this summertime and be sure to follow her on chirrup @courtneyforce.

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