| etnies GvR of Surf Announces Starting Five for Goofy and Regular Teams
The etnies GvR of Surf Team Captains pulled out all the stops to get the big guns for their starting five for the finals on October 21, 2007 at the Oceanside Pier. More than just another contest, this is a two-day event includes a concert by MxPx, a festival village on the beach and more!
The unique format of the etnies GvR of Surfing contest pits two teams, Surfing Magazine's Regular Foot riders (left foot forward) against Transworld Surf's Goofy Foot riders (right foot forward), with each team appointing a team captain. The starting five pro surfers Evan Slater, captain of the Regular Team and editor of Surfing Magazine, picked include:
Sunny Garcia
Cheyne Magnusson
Kieren Horn
Killian Garland
Ratboy
"If you look at the world title record for regular vs.
January 2005 - December 2005
Okay, his timing was a little off but Michael Moriarty's prediction was pretty well correct: something big happened in China
Rock star judges usurp power for fame: Why are America's judges becoming increasingly activist? John T. Plecnik says it's natural when you achieve enough status to have groupies
Dowd's your mommy: Bernard Chapin couldn't let go unanswered a recent column by Maureen Dowd arguing that that men do not want to marry their equals
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Today, Ariel Sharon is irrelevant: Ariel Sharon once famously declared Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" but Ariel Natan Pasko argues that label only describes the Israeli prime minister these days
Butler a pleasant surprise: Contrary to what we would have suspected, Lady Liberty thought highly of both The Phantom of the Opera and the remake of Assault on Precinct 13
Student vouchers invite government involvement: Nancy Salvato says it's a good thing that the battle over school vouchers has mostly been a losing one because the second a private school accepts public money is the same second the government effectively takes them over
Taking oaths and stealing freedoms: The president's oath at the inauguration was the focus of a minor battle over the separation of church and state.
THE YOUNG MAJORITY
There are, however, young Iranians who remain passionate about the state of their country. “Almost all things are changing for the worse: Unemployment is getting worse, freedom is getting worse it's just not available," Bahram, 25, a master's student in urban planning, explains to me one evening. “Our quality of life is going down. Yet no one thinks about what we should do because people don't want to think. We just say, ‘the government is bad and that's it.'" Throughout hours of discussion and debate, he remains a fascinating teacher his modern brand of Iranian theory explained through excited eyes and passionate hand gesturing. “I want to decide for my country, for my city," he says. Asked why he chose urban planning as his path, his answer reveals, once again, his passion for Iran: “It's planning from the bottom up, from society to government.
The Basics: Your computer’s operating system (OS)
Once you are online you are at risk. There are things that make you vulnerable. Most of us have Windows on the computer. It's called an operating system and enables you to “operate" different programs on your computer such as a Word processing program like Microsoft's Office. But Windows is not perfect and it has some security glitches in it. Because Microsoft is a big company, some computer-savvy people try to find those flaws in the system and exploit them. This means they might be able to use the operating system to get into your computer when you are connected to the Net. When Microsoft hears about such security breaches, it tries to find a fix for it and then update the operating system. So how do you get these updates?
Microsoft calls their updates “patches." Think of it as if they are sticking plasters.
The INQUIRER Top 10 Travel Tricks
So here without further ado is our guide to making your trip a good one. 10. Pack as little as possible. You can buy stuff where you’re going and if you’re British it’s cheaper over there anyway. You should spend less than 10 minutes on this tiresome chore. Get a carry-on case. Life’s too short to wait for luggage at airports and
these things are now cheap as VIA chips. 9. Pack your toilet bag carefully. Air travel gives you bugs, dries you out and runs you down. Take one of those nasal things and stuff that zaps cold sores if you get them. You’ll need mouthwash, eye drops, lip salve and skin cream. Women will admire your
sophisticated man-of-the-world look.
8. Beg for an upgrade. Plead, cry, make up stories about illness.
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