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2008-01-01T04:22:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-20T15:38:00.000-08:00

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Miss China Is The New Miss World

2007-12-01T22:23:00.000-08:00

Miss China Wins Miss World Pageant

Newly crowned Miss World Zhang Zhi Li of China, center, poses with first runner-up Micaela Reis of Angola, left, and second runner-up Carolina Moran Gordillo of Mexico
Newly crowned Miss World Zhang Zhi Li of China, center, poses with first runner-up Micaela Reis of Angola, left, and second runner-up Carolina Moran Gordillo of Mexico
23-year-old Zhang Zilin, who holds the title Miss China, has won the Miss World pageant, with Miss Angola and Miss Mexico the top runners-up.

The 57th Miss World contest was held at Sanya, a tourist resort in southern China's Hainan province, with the final round of judging Saturday. The program included messages aimed at increasing public awareness of the dangers of AIDS and HIV, in honor of World AIDS Day.

Zhang, a secretary, was the pre-pageant favorite to win the title. As the tallest woman in the competition at 182 centimeters, she made a wry reference to her height and China's huge population during the interview phase of the pageant, saying she felt strong support because "there are 1.3 billion people behind me."

As part of the pageant's AIDS prevention theme, Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela introduced a video of the former South African president's message for World AIDS Day. The Nobel laureate's daughter, Maki, was one of the competition's nine judges.

Nelson Mandela's son Makgatho died of AIDS-related illness in 2005.

Organizers say the Miss World competition was broadcast worldwide to an enormous potential audience. [Source: voanews.com]

Kiwi swim suit company eyes Beijing Gold

2007-12-01T17:59:00.000-08:00

Congrats to the Kiwis for making a big splash in the ironman arena:

"Kiwi Wetsuit company blueseventy has beaten global swimwear leaders Speedo and TYR to official approval for its new swimskin at the Beijing Olympics, offering competitors a 3-5% speed advantage.

The swimsuits, using a new ultra-smooth fabric which is also neutrally buoyant, will be worn by Australian swimmers next month trialling for the World Swimming Championships in Manchester in April.

But the big prize for the Kiwi company will be Beijing and beyond.

Chairman Lee Nicolson said far bigger global competitors would no doubt be working hard to emulate the Kiwi company's success in getting approval for its suit at all Fina-aligned events.

Fina is the International Swimming Federation and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

"But right now we have approval and no one else does, and that presents us with a huge window of opportunity," Nicolson said.

"We have all systems go, and a lot of resources are being put into development of the new swimsuit."

Steve Nicholls, who leads the production development team at blueseventy, said rivals wouldn't find it easy to match the company's breakthrough: "Just stitching together a suit made from the same material we use may not mean another brand's suit is Fina-compliant."

The way the blueseventy suit had been designed contributed hugely to its acceptance by Fina, he said.

The material is produced by Yamamoto Corp in Japan, and has a surface friction co-efficient which is more than 50 times lower than normal skin and four times lower than other fabrics on the market.

Blueseventy first made triathlon wetsuits from the new material in 2006 and launched them with huge success at the Ironman World Championships.

By the time this year's championships came around, three times as many participants were wearing the blueseventy suits compared with all other brands combined.

But it is the prospects for growth in the open and pool swimming market estimated to be anything from four to 10 times the size of the triathlon market which is exciting blueseventy.

Nicolson began the business in 1989 as a marketing company which imported products and sold them by direct marketing in New Zealand.

"I soon realised there were some great Kiwi ideas and products that were not being effectively marketed offshore, so we changed tack," she said.

In 1990 she signed a marketing agreement with an Auckland company which was making wetsuits for triathlon competitors and began selling them overseas.

Soon the business began to incorporate improvements into the product, which it then bought out as its own.

The company was renamed Ironman Wetsuits and grew exponentially when it shifted manufacture to China, opened an office in Seattle and started selling through distributors around the globe.

Ironman Wetsuits changed its name to blueseventy two years ago (70% of the earth's surface is covered by water) and is now challenging the technical dominance of companies such as Speedo." [Source]

World AIDS Day Video

2007-12-01T00:28:00.000-08:00

I found this video about World AIDS Day. It is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's World AIDS Day message...

Discover the realities of HIV in the UK and how you can make a difference.

What killed Evel?

2007-11-30T17:50:00.000-08:00

Since it wasn't a spectacular motorcycle crash that killed Evel Knievel, what was it? I wanted to know too. Here's what I found:

"Knievel died in Clearwater, Florida on November 30, 2007, at the age of 69. He had been suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis for many years. Longtime friend Billy Rundel reported that Knievel had trouble breathing while at his residence in Clearwater, but died before the ambulance could reach the hospital. "It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" was Rundel's reaction." says Wikipedia quoting a story from ESPN.

Death of a Daredevil: Evel Knievel, RIP

2007-11-30T17:15:00.000-08:00

Amazing really that Evel Knievel didn't die in one of his high-risk motorbike stunts. But hey, the movie about his life (we saw it recently on TV re-runs) was a heart stopper in a few places, wasnt it? Here's the story, from about an hour ago:

"In a decade largely absent of heroes, Evel Knievel was a real-life superhero.

Knievel, the caped 1970s showman who, thanks to a trusty chopper and sheer abandon, jumped land and water masses with a single bound (and sometimes a few bounces), and landed among the Watergate era's pop-culture elite, died Friday.

Knievel was 69—not ancient, but not bad for a man who bragged about making the Guinness Book of World Records on the strength, as it were, of 35 broken bones.

"Every time I make a jump, I thank God when it comes down, no matter how far I went," Knievel told ABC Sports in 1973.

From his roots as a high-school ski jumper in his native Montana to his rise on Wide World of Sports, the premiere TV sports showcase of its day, Robert Craig Knievel went a very long way.

If one could judge the folk heroes of the 1970s by walking a toy aisle, one would conclude that Knievel ranked among the giants: Muhammad Ali, the Six Million Dollar Man and Fonzie.

So big was the Knievel toy line—by the daredevil's own estimate it sold more than $300 million worth of action figures, model kits, Super Jet Cycles, and more—that the New York Times once reported its namesake superstar reputedly made as much money from its royalties as he did from his motorcycle stunts.

And, rest assured, Knievel made a lot of money from his motorcycle stunts: $1 million to clear 13 double-decker buses at London's Wembley Stadium in 1975; $6 million to rocket across Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a self-styled "Skycycle."

Knievel didn't always land cleanly—in London, he broke his pelvis; at Snake River Canyon, he was victimized by premature parachute ejaculation. Truth was, landing cleanly wasn't the point. The spectacle was.

Clad in a white-spangled jumpsuit, Knievel would enter an arena with a cape and walking stick. When the Rocky routine was over, the superhero donned his cowl—a matching white-spangled helmet—and went up, up and away. The show was so good that, according to Knievel's official biography, a 1975 leap over 14 buses at Ohio's Kings Island amusement park captivated more than half of all TV viewers that day.

The ride began on New Year's Day 1968 when Knievel, three years into his career as a professional death-defier, came into prominence by jumping the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas—and landing in a coma for 30 days.

By 1974, his Montana-man-made-good story was fodder for a Hollywood movie, Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton. (CSI's George Eads starred in a 2004 TV-movie version with the same name.)

Since nobody could really be Knievel but Knievel, he played a fictionalized version of himself in the action movie, Viva Knievel!" [Source: eonline.com]