Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr Kathleen Martinez, a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been excavating a site near Alexandria in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra. After being given permission to conduct a dig at the site for 2 months, Dr Martinez’s team have discovered two chambers which has won them the right to continue the [...]
Rhod on Public Affairs (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Several hundred gay activists rallied Thursday afternoon in Puerto Rico to demand a robust prosecution in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager nearly a week ago. Juan A. Martinez Matos was charged at a hearing Wednesday with first-degree murder and three weapons violations in connection with the killing of 19-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado. The teen's decapitated,...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The gruesome murder of 19-year-old gay man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico last week has shone new light on the potentially life-threatening dangers facing those who do not easily slide into our society's conventions of gender. He, and 161 others murdered due to anti-transgender violence and prejudice, are memorialized worldwide today as part of Transgender Day of Remembrance. Mercado was...
Memories Of Kevin Malone (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The 2009 Opening Day payroll was approximately 100 million dollars, and given all the recent divorce news, I find it hard to believe that number would be increased going into 2010. Therefore, my plan is based on a operating budget of about 100 million dollars with perhaps a bit of flexibility. Just to clarify, this is what I would do if I were the GM. Projected 2010 Payroll-100 Million Dollars As I...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
While this isn't related to gaming, I wanted to take a second to post something about an issue that might have missed the radar for some of the readers here. This story has only recently begun to receive mainstream attention. Last week the body of 19 year old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was found on the side of a road in central Puerto Rico. The body had been decapitated, dismembered and partially...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Was homophobia behind the murder of a gay Puerto Rican teen days ago? This is what investigators are examining in the gruesome death of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado. Police arrested a suspect in the killing of Lopez Mercado whose body had been found mutilated, decapitated, and dumped on the side of a local highway. According to local prosecutors, Juan A. Martinez Matos held a “deep-seated rage”...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Following today’s release by Human Rights Watch of “New Castro, Same Cuba,” a 123-page report about conditions on the island nation under Raúl Castro’s government, I decided it appropriate to share excerpts of my recent interview with Rosendo “Marty” Martinez, a St. Louis-area man whose family fled Cuba soon after Fidel Castro seized power in [...]
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
At least 15 people have been killed in a single day of violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city bordering the United Sates, the Mexican authorities have said. A child, three women and a university professor were among the dead, according to officials on Saturday. Arturo Sandoval, the state prosecutor's spokesman, said a seven-year-old boy was travelling with his father in a truck when armed men opened...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Independent (UK) : Once home to the highest ski resort in the world and now reduced to a rocky mountainside, Bolivia's Chacaltaya range bears powerful witness to the precipitous melting of glaciers. The rusting remains of a ski lift now dominate what was once the highest ski-run in the world perched on the Chacaltaya glacier at some 5,300 meters (17,390 feet) high. "That's all there's left:...
The Mighty Quinn Media Machine (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Jason Varitek, who will be 38 this coming April, took the full five days he was allotted to decide he'd exercise his player option for $3 million and will be back with the Red Sox in 2010. But let's face facts. What other choice did Tek have? He wasn't going to take a cut in pay and go somewhere else, where he wasn't even guaranteed being a starter. No one, and I mean no one, was going to give him...
working class boy from the north (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Here is some infomation and facts on Wigan Athletic..Thanks to http://www.gowigan.com/ for the infomation. Wigan Athletic was formed in 1932 and it was the fifth attempt to stabilise a football club in the town. In 1978 Wigan Athletic were elected to Football League. They were promoted to the Football League Championship only in 2003 and to the Premiership in 2005. In 2006 they reached the League Cup...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A Martinez high school graduate will appear in federal court today on charges that he masqueraded as a decorated military veteran after being photographed wearing a host of fake medals, including the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart, authorities said. Steven...
Brazos Sports (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Mike Martinez is a sure-handed receiver who is as likely to line up as wingback as he is on the line of scrimmage.If they're taking a photo of the Bryan Vikings' offensive line, though, Martinez expects to be in the picture."I kind of count myself mo ...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
CDI Medellin striker Jackson Martinez is a target for Wigan Athletic. read more
Epicureaddict rants on... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The one cocktail that has stood both the test of time and cowboy barmen the world over. James Bond did a lot for it (if misguidedly) and today a good cocktail bar and its head mixologist (very fancy barman) is judged by their version of the original Martini (which was originally a Martinez, and no one [...]
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