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When: Noon TV: ESPN-25 Line: Arizona by 9 Series record: 1-1-1 What's at stake The Wildcats are appearing in their fourth bowl game in five years and their first under new head coach Rich Rodriguez. The Wolf Pack is making its eighth straight bowl appearance. Key matchup Arizona's offense is ranked seventh in the nation and Nevada's is ranked 11th. Both programs also are among the best in the Football Bowl Subdivision in points scored - and among the worst in points allowed. Players to...

The pie-in-the-sky scenario. Do away with everyone but the Sooners and Cowboys and have them go at it at the Chesapeake Energy Arena every December. Of course, you are asking the schools to give up their home Bedlam date every other year, if it's going to count as a conference game. If not, you are asking the NCAA and/or Big 12 to exempt the extra game from league records, and asking OU and OSU to face the prospect of four meetings in the same season. Good luck either way. 2. Bedlam...

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Track review of "Road to Lusaka" The beginning of an unusual release, "Road to Lusaka" is the first track from Canadian-born, New York-based saxophonist Michael Blake's In the Grand Scheme of Things. While maybe not as widely known in some circles, Blake is a masterful...

PHOENIX -- The company and the man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe. DEA spokeswoman Lisa Webb Johnson confirmed Thursday the planes owned by Las Vegas-based Starwood Management were seized in Texas and Arizona, but she declined to discuss details of the case. The agency also has subpoenaed all the company's records, including any correspondence it has had with a former Tijuana mayor who U.S. law enforcement officials have long suspected has ties to organized crime....

PHOENIX -- The company and the man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe. DEA spokeswoman Lisa Webb Johnson confirmed Thursday the planes owned by Las Vegas-based Starwood Management were seized in Texas and Arizona, but she declined to discuss details of the case. The agency also has subpoenaed all the company's records, including any correspondence it has had with a former Tijuana mayor who U.S. law enforcement officials have long suspected has ties to organized crime....

Reinhold Schmölzer is a vivid impressionist, a trait he makes evident as a composer, arranger and drummer on his debut, Miraculous Loss of Signal. He is as eloquent in his writing as he is in his arrangements, letting his Orchestraconteur express itself in all its majesty while opening the door for soloists, who go out on trails that are free, yet stay within the compass of the tunes which can weave in and out of idiomatic patterns. The result...

View All12Next » Led Zeppelin Celebration Day Three P Films Limited 2012 Many biographies and history books reveal that in the early autumn of 1968, in a stuffy London rehearsal room, guitarist Jimmy Page gathered together a group of newly found musical colleagues— singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham—to whom he called out a sequence of chords. Seconds later the studio room reverberated to the sounds of "Train Kept a Rolling," which laid the foundation of what would become one of the most influential forces in the history of rock music....

The ingredients are all electric on guitarist Eivind Aarset's Dream Logic: plugged-in guitar and bass; programming; samples; dictophone; and electronics. The resulting atmospheric layering of sound with subtle dynamics and inorganic drones could be described as sterile, but what a beautiful, mysterious sterility it is. The Norwegian guitarist has contributed to several...

Scott Feiner & Pandeiro Jazz Zinc Bar New York, NY December 01, 2012 Rio de Janeiro-based, New York-born pandeiro master Scott Feiner constantly seeks different approaches for the genre he arguably created when he incorporated his instrument—a trademark of sambas and chorinho—into a more contemporary jazz...

Voters in Egypt have begun voting in a referendum on a new constitution. The polls opened Saturday morning. The lead-up to the voting has been marked by violence and protests. Officials say they have deployed 120,000 soldiers to protect...

Peter Dobrin, Inquirer Classical Music Critic Posted: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 3:01 AM Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 has never quite taken off. The listening public adores the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, but mention the Third and you draw a stare. Is it that ideas in the Third, the "Polish," are exploited with greater economy and real edge in other Tchaikovsky works? Or has it suffered from inconsistent advocacy from the podium? Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda brought it out of the shadows Thursday night in Verizon Hall. His concepts of a lean sound and flexible beat were beneficial counterpoint to the Philadelphia Orchestra's natural inclination to swaddle Tchaikovsky in...

Ethel & Albert: Duck Hunting (ABC, 1949) Long before there was The Couple Next Door, there were Ethel & Albert. Creator/writer/co-star Peg Lynch fashioned the original at a Minnesota station, choosing to find the humour in the most mundane of mundanenesses around the house, almost like an urbane Vic & Sade, and often as not with support characters built entirely from the discourse between Ethel, Albert, and their precocious little daughter. "All Peg needs," co-star Alan Bunce (Albert) once told Newsweek, is a word, and she can write a script. She can write about nothing and do it entertainingly." She doesn't quite do that tonight, though: Albert (Alan Bunce) is hell bent on...

Fear not ladies: Ray J isn't engaged to on-again-off-again girlfriend and video vixen Mia Milano -- despite the...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A deal brokered by Iraq's president this week gives the central government and the Kurdish minority an opportunity to step back from a military standoff that has threatened to tip the country back into armed conflict just a year after the last American troops left. The Kurds, a different ethnic group from Iraq's majority Arabs, have their own armed fighters and enjoy considerable control over an increasingly prosperous enclave in Iraq's mountainous north. Thursday's accord calls for the eventual withdrawal of Iraqi military and Kurdish fighters who in recent weeks moved into disputed areas where both seek to extend their influence. There is no timetable governing the pullout...

AMMAN, Jordan - Weeks before the Obama administration and other Western nations recognized a new Syrian opposition coalition as "the legitimate representative" of the Syrian people, Syrian rebels were receiving training in the use of light and heavy weapons with the backing of the Jordanian, British and U.S. governments, participants in the training have told McClatchy Newspapers. The training took place as far back as October and involved hundreds of rebels, the participants said. In one case, the rebel participant said men he believed were American intelligence officers observed what was taking place. Another said he believed British officers were helping to organize the...

Ahmedabad, December 15: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi are scheduled to hold various rallies on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for second and last phase of Gujarat assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi will address a rally in Bhuj while Modi will be holding five rallies in various districts today. The first phase of the...

(Source: UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) GENEVA, 14 December 2012-The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed Dr Luiz Loures as the new Deputy Executive Director of Programme at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. "Luiz is a pioneer in the AIDS...

(Source: Suffolk Coastal District Council) Last month's decision by Suffolk Coastal's Cabinet to go ahead with plans to relocate Woodbridge's Tourist Information Centre (TIC) to the town's library has been confirmed by the Council's Scrutiny Committee. The move will enable the Council to improve its customer facilities by providing both a TIC and a customer service point for general Council inquiries in the centre of the town. The TIC at its current location is now scheduled to close at the end of January. The change will coincide with the launch of a new internet ticketing service from train operator Greater Anglia and the planned installation of a ticketing machine on the station platform....

WASHINGTON Rural lawmakers worried that $9 billion in annual federal crop insurance subsidies are an easy target for...

(Source: OAS - Organization of American States) Press Release OAS Secretary General Expresses Sadness and Outrage at the Massacre in Connecticut   December 14, 2012 The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, expressed his dismay at the massacre that occurred in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which claimed the lives of at least 20 children and 6...

New Delhi, December 15: Charging the UPA Government of trying to suppress voice of decent by using article 66 A of Information Technology act, activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed that the people will corner both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party in general election of 2014. "The government don''t want to amend the article 66 A to make it flexible. They want to suppress the people''s voice by this law and harass the...

As I was listening to talk radio today and a number of callers stated that a reason for this horrific shooting in a grade school in Connecticut this Friday, was the removal of religion/prayer/God from schools. Simply, it was not. First of all children can pray all they want, the only change since 1962 has been that the government itself was prohibited from...

(Source: Caerphilly County Borough Council) 14 December 2012 The Unique Places Christmas Shopping Card scheme is now live! Visitors to the town centres across Caerphilly County Borough can access a variety of special offers at participating retailers on production of the Unique Places Card between now and Christmas Eve (December 24th). The scheme,...

(Source: Kingdom of Bahrain Government) The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Japan, Dr Khalil Hassan, headed the country's delegation in the Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety being held in Japan from December 15 to 17. The conference is organized by the Japanese government and the International Atomic...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. commanders are offering glowing reviews of their 2012 war campaign, upbeat assessments that could be interpreted as leeway for President Barack Obama to order another round of troop withdrawals next summer. Obama faces a tension between calls by Democrats and even some Republicans to wind down the war more quickly and the military's desire to avoid a too-fast pullout that might squander hard-won sacrifices. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not yet recommended to Obama a specific pace of withdrawals for 2013. But during the Pentagon chief's two-day visit to the war zone this past week,...

(Source: International Committee of the Red Cross) 14-12-2012 News Release 12/248 Geneva/Manila (ICRC) - Typhoon Bopha (locally known as Pablo) has destroyed more than 90% of the infrastructure in the eastern half of the southern Philippines, with severe consequences for over a hundred thousand people. More than 900 deaths have already been confirmed. In response, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Philippine Red Cross, is scaling up its operations on the ground. To meet the most critical needs of some 200,000...

(Source: The President of India) HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL COUNT FOR NOTHING UNLESS TRANSLATED INTO TANGIBLE BENEFITS FOR POORER SECTIONS OF SOCIETY, SAYS PRESIDENT Rashtrapati Bhavan : 15-12-2012 The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Northern India Chief Ministers' Conclave organized by PHD Chamber of...

(Source: NS&I - National Savings and Investments) 15 December 2012 Savings levels rise for the second successive quarter Britons are now saving 7.33% of their income each month, £90 in real terms More than half of Britons savers (52%) feel they have enough money in savings to cope in an emergency, an increase from 50% Spring 2012. However future prospects are cautious, 28% believe they'll save less in the next three months New research released from NS&I's Quarterly Savings Survey shows that savings levels have risen for the second successive quarter. Britons are now saving 7.33% of their income each month, £90 in real terms, a rise from 7.17% in the previous quarter. Albeit positive news,...

(Source: The President of India) SHIFT TO CLEANER ENERGY SOURCES IS IMPERATIVE, SAYS PRESIDENT Rashtrapati Bhavan : 14-12-2012 The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the National Energy Conservation Day 2012 today (December 14, 2012) at Vigyan Bhavan. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that sustainable development mandates the use of available natural resources in a more efficient...