 | Myths,Legends,and Facts about the "Owl" from different cultures around the world - It's place at "The Bohemian Grove" - And a surprising ending that will make all the hairs on the back of your neck stand up! I DARE YOU TO WATCH THIS SERIES! (Now has 4 parts!)... molech.weebly.com ********************************************************* People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy.As a man,I'am flesh and blood.I can be ignored,I can be destroyed,but as a symbol. As a symbol I can be incorruptable,I can be everlasting. What symbol? Something elemental,something terrifying... I chose the symbol of the "Owl" because the owl is known as "Wise" because it see's things in the dark like no other creature can see.Also,the NWO (New World Order have perverted such a noble creature (Created by God) by worshipping it at their groves.I WILL USE THEIR OWN SYMBOL TO STRIKE FEAR INTO THEIR HEARTS!!! To remind them that it is the people who have the power,NOT the government! I want there to come a day when they worship "Molech" ( The "Owl-god" at "Bohemian Grove") that they will be reminded of truth,freedom,and the American way (According to the Constitution of The United States of America,and The Bill of Rights) And that there is but one TRUE God,and his name is The Lord Jesus Christ... And wherever they (Members of the NWO) may be.When they hear the "Screech" (Or "Who-Who") of the Owl,they will be reminded of me...OwlMan...(Who truly stands for the people) and they won't <b>...</b> | From: TheOwlMan Views: 294876  0 ratings |
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Friday, January 28, 2011
The Mystery Of Molech
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Shannon Cleay : The best way to a flat stomach , CH9 "Whats Good For You "
 | Shannon Cleary's take on her feature stor on Channel 9's " What's Good For You ", Wednesday May 27, 2009 ARE SIT UPS THE BEST WAY TO A FLAT STOMACH ? Sorry people but it's silly to think SIT UP'S are going to burn fat off your stomach and give you a six pac. Let me add that functional abdominal exercises (if performed correctly) may assist in PULLING your tummy (organs) in giving it the appearance of "flatter" tummy however it's more important to "strengthen" your core (front and back of body) to improve your posture. It's important to understand that sit ups alone are for losers and won't assist in fat loss at all! Forget doing 100 sit ups before bed you are better off getting into bed and sleeping yourself slim SERIOUSLY! Best Exercise: There are several however here are a few to get you started. IE: The prone plank or side plank as demonstrated on my recent appearance on Mornings with Kerrie-Anne Flat and fat: "FLATTER" does not mean FAT LESS! People can pull their tummy in "flatter" via sucking in their transverse abdominal (core) but that doesn't mean they automatically have no fat on their belly! What to do: Sleeping really well, eating "real" food - especially animal / plant protein, being active and doing total body hard heavy weight training is the BEST way to assist your body in the fat burning process. I'll let you in on a secret: The two girls in this belly experiment did not "just do" either pole dancing or use Swiss ball alone for eight weeks as these <b>...</b> | From: Shannonspc Views: 41262 0 ratings |
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Defeat Michelle Bachman!
 | MSNBC's Hardball [featured] Congresswoman from Minnesota named Michele Bachmann...Bachmann said of Barack Obama, "I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." She then called on the media to "take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America?" I've heard a lot of toxic words in my time as Editor of The Nation. The magazine and its editors have been called un-American, unpatriotic, America- haters, and worse. But Bachmann's name-calling, and brazen channeling of Joe McCarthy made me angry. Really angry. When Matthews turned to me for my response I told him exactly what I was feeling, "Chris, I fear for my country.... This is a politics, at a moment of extreme economic pain in this country, that is incendiary, that is so debased that I'm kind of almost having a hard time breathing, because I think it's very scary, because this is a country I love." Since then, the backlash to Bachmann's (and McCain-Palin's) politics of fear and loathing and demonization, division and distraction is reason for hope, and it also looks as though it might lead to this right-wing ideologue's well-deserved defeat in November. Bachmann's challenger, Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg, has raised $1.3 million from approximately 20000 people since Bachmann gave voice to her politics of (self) destruction. According to the Washington Post, he has quadrupled his television advertising, the Cook Political Report now calls the race a "tossup <b>...</b> | From: AntiConformist911 Views: 2966   39 ratings |
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Korie Lucious
Spartans guard Korie Lucious reacts to news of suspension from Michigan State
Late Tuesday night, Michigan State University made the announcement that junior guard Korie Lucious has been suspended for the remainder of the 2011 season, according to a report from ESPN.com. Head coach Tom Izzo released this statement shortly after the decision on the team's site.
"Unfortunately, Korie Lucious displayed conduct detrimental to the program. My focus is on this team for the remainder of the season."
While there is no word as to the reasoning behind Michigan State's decision to dismiss Lucious for the rest of the season, it should be noted that he has established a reputation as a troublemaker since joining the team in 2008. He was charged over the summer for driving under the influence--which forced him to sit out the season opener after pleading guilty in September--and was also suspended at one point last season for skipping class.
Obviously, Lucious is far from the mature type of athlete Izzo and the rest of Michigan State hoped he would be. Prior to the announcement of his suspension, Lucious posted a message on his Twitter account that shows how mature of an athlete he really is.
"Man did I really mess up this time...off 2 the gym I go!"
While the tweet may seem a bit sarcastic, at least Lucious is willing to admit he's at fault in this situation.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Happy Holidays - Happy Xmas - Happy Christmas
Happy Holidays (and watch the cookies!)
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December can be a fun, joyous season. Families everywhere are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Each of these winter holidays brings many festivities and lots of yummy, delicious food. The temptation to eat and drink in excess can be hard to overcome.
Although getting your five-a-day is important for promoting good health, overindulging on anything is bad for you. Indeed, overindulgence — consuming more calories than your body requires — is one of the main factors contributing to weight gain. Many of us love sweets during the holidays, but large portions won’t do anything but add surplus calories that get converted into fat.
Cookies and Santa Claus
Consider Santa Claus. One of the benefits of being “good St. Nick” is eating all the holiday cookies left by children around the world on Christmas eve.
Lee Biosolutions, a producer of enzymes, glycoprotein hormones and related reagents for the diagnostic and life science industries, realized that, given all the houses Santa must visit, he would put on more than the usual holiday weight. They recently did the math to determine just how much Santa would weight [1].
To calculate the number of households Santa must visit, they took the world population of 6.8 billion people and divided it by the average of 2.5 people per family. Thus, Santa would visit approximately 2.7 billion households on Christmas eve. Now, this number over-estimates the number of Christians in the world who would be celebrating Christmas by about 3-fold [2]. However, many people celebrate Christmas that aren’t Christian and we’re already talking ridiculously huge numbers here, so we’re not going to argue.
To continue the calculation: assuming that every household leaves Santa two chocolate chip cookies, Kris Kringle would eat about 5.4 billion cookies (or 473 million pounds of cookies) and consume 936 billion calories, far exceeding a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet.
Giving him a belly like a “bowl full of jelly,” Santa would eat 123 billion total grams of fat. His cholesterol would off the charts with 27.5 billion grams in one night when an average person should only take in 24,455 grams in one year. And finally, keeping him awake for his trip, Santa would consume 38.5 billion grams of sugar.
Given these numbers, Santa would have or be at risk for a number of health issues, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and cancer.
This holiday season, take responsibility for your diet. Small portions of the “bad stuff” will make very little difference in your health, but going on a cookie binge very well could.
Have a happy, healthy holiday season!
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by Walter Jessen Clip to Evernote
This article has been viewed 47 times and has No comments.
December can be a fun, joyous season. Families everywhere are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Each of these winter holidays brings many festivities and lots of yummy, delicious food. The temptation to eat and drink in excess can be hard to overcome.
Although getting your five-a-day is important for promoting good health, overindulging on anything is bad for you. Indeed, overindulgence — consuming more calories than your body requires — is one of the main factors contributing to weight gain. Many of us love sweets during the holidays, but large portions won’t do anything but add surplus calories that get converted into fat.
Cookies and Santa Claus
Consider Santa Claus. One of the benefits of being “good St. Nick” is eating all the holiday cookies left by children around the world on Christmas eve.
Lee Biosolutions, a producer of enzymes, glycoprotein hormones and related reagents for the diagnostic and life science industries, realized that, given all the houses Santa must visit, he would put on more than the usual holiday weight. They recently did the math to determine just how much Santa would weight [1].
To calculate the number of households Santa must visit, they took the world population of 6.8 billion people and divided it by the average of 2.5 people per family. Thus, Santa would visit approximately 2.7 billion households on Christmas eve. Now, this number over-estimates the number of Christians in the world who would be celebrating Christmas by about 3-fold [2]. However, many people celebrate Christmas that aren’t Christian and we’re already talking ridiculously huge numbers here, so we’re not going to argue.
To continue the calculation: assuming that every household leaves Santa two chocolate chip cookies, Kris Kringle would eat about 5.4 billion cookies (or 473 million pounds of cookies) and consume 936 billion calories, far exceeding a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet.
Giving him a belly like a “bowl full of jelly,” Santa would eat 123 billion total grams of fat. His cholesterol would off the charts with 27.5 billion grams in one night when an average person should only take in 24,455 grams in one year. And finally, keeping him awake for his trip, Santa would consume 38.5 billion grams of sugar.
Given these numbers, Santa would have or be at risk for a number of health issues, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and cancer.
This holiday season, take responsibility for your diet. Small portions of the “bad stuff” will make very little difference in your health, but going on a cookie binge very well could.
Have a happy, healthy holiday season!
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Michelle Ryan's foot fetish
Michelle Ryan Feet Video. What has two feet, is married to a coach and is probably embarrassed half to fatality right now. Yes that is right wife of the Jet’s coach Rex Ryan! Their creepy foot video has gotten millions of views in only 1 day. Michelle Ryan feet are a hit apparently.
Even if you are not a foot lover you may feel pretty curious and ultimately venture over to watch and see what’s up with the Michelle Ryan feet. Don’t feel terrible if you do because you will be joining the ranks of millions of others that most likely do not have a foot fetish either – they are just curious.
Michelle Ryan Foot Fetish / Rebecca Budig wins skating with the stars / Antione Dodson new song
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Even if you are not a foot lover you may feel pretty curious and ultimately venture over to watch and see what’s up with the Michelle Ryan feet. Don’t feel terrible if you do because you will be joining the ranks of millions of others that most likely do not have a foot fetish either – they are just curious.
Michelle Ryan Foot Fetish / Rebecca Budig wins skating with the stars / Antione Dodson new song
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Trix Rabbit and the Million Dollar Money Drop Question
Smokey The Bear might be the winner in the Million Dollar Money Drop question but there are other interesting thing other than the Smokey Bear alone. Off course we are already aware about Ronald McDonald but what about the Trix Rabbit? Did he ever get as famous as the other two advertising icons?
Trix Rabbit is the famous advertising icons of Trix cereal that was made by General Mills for the North American and by Nestlé for the European, South American and Asian markets. The cereal consists of fruit-flavored, sweetened, ground-corn pieces. These were originally round cereal pieces, but were later changed to puffed fruit-shaped pieces. In January 2007, Trix Cereal company General Mills returned Trix cereal to their original shape.
The Trix Rabbit itself was made by Joe Harris who debuted in a 1959 Trix television commercial. The rabbit was famous because it always tries to continually attempted to trick children into giving him a bowl of Trix cereal. He would be discovered every time; the children would tell him that he was a silly rabbit and that “Trix [were] for kids,” and take back their cereal. These ads would often end with the Trix Rabbit following up the kids’ “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!” slogan with “…and sometimes, for tricky rabbits!”. The Rabbit originated as a puppet before he later became animated. He did however succeed in obtaining and eating the Trix on some occasions, including twice as the result of a box top mail-in contest (1976 and 1990) entitled “Let The Rabbit Eat Trix”. The results of the vote were an overwhelming “yes”, and the rabbit was depicted in a subsequent commercial finally enjoying a taste of Trix.
It seems that somehow, the Million Dollar Money Drop quiz question has managed to take us a few years back to learn the history of the famous advertising icons in our society, like the Trix Rabbit.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Leslie Nielsen dies at 84
Leslie Nielsen dies at 84; serious actor became a comic star - Los Angeles Times
29 November 2010 05:42
Leslie Nielsen, a serious actor who became a comic star with his career-changing roles in "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" comedies, died Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
Nielson died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home, surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent, John S. Kelly, said in a statement.
In "Airplane!," the 1980 send-up of just about every disaster movie plot imaginable, Nielsen as Dr. Rumack was "an essentially serious actor taking essentially preposterous material very straight," wrote Times Arts Editor Charles Champlin in his review.
Just how preposterous was it?
As the crew and passengers became ill, Nielsen said they needed to get the sick to a hospital.
"A hospital? What is it?" a flight attendant asked.
Nielsen: "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."
And when Nielsen was told, "Surely you can't be serious," he answered: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Nielsen followed up "Airplane!" with another goofy role delivered with deadpan conviction as Frank Drebin in the "Police Squad!" television show and "Naked Gun" movies.
It was quite a career shift for an actor who seemed perfectly cast as a handsome leading man when he came to Hollywood in the 1950s, already a veteran of live television appearances.
A typically serious early role was as the spaceship commander in "Forbidden Planet, " the 1956 science-fiction classic. "It's the reason I was never asked to do 'Star Trek' or 'Twilight Zone' for TV," he told the Toronto Star in 2002. "I carried too much baggage with me from that movie."
Nielsen played Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the 1957 film "Tammy and the Bachelor," was the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series "The Swamp Fox" and had roles in such TV series as "The New Breed" and "Bracken's World."
"I just always worked," he said. "I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts. Perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
Nielsen also was captain of the doomed ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie "The Poseidon Adventure."
All the while he "was a closet comedian," he told The Times in 1991.
Then "Airplane!" changed his career.
Producers-directors-writers Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker hired Nielsen and other veteran actors Robert Stack, Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges, all perfectly cast to spoof their own heroic and very serious images.
"I will be forever grateful to them," Nielsen told The Times in 1991. "It is just an amazing roll of the dice. I am so lucky to be a representative of their humor."
Nielsen then was cast in "Police Squad!," which aimed to do to cop shows was "Airplane!" did to disaster movies.
It lasted all of six episodes on ABC, but Nielsen moved on as Drebin to the 1988 movie "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!," with George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson and Priscilla Presley among his co-stars. Its success led to two sequels.
"Leslie has the idea to play it maybe not straight but deadly serious," David Zucker told the L.A. Daily News in 1994. "You can take any one performance and just transfer it from a comedy to a drama. There's just no difference — that's what he can do."
Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan. His father was a Royal Canadian mounted police officer and one of his brothers became a deputy prime minister of Canada.
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from high school and after the service studied at a Toronto radio school operated by Lorne Greene — who would become a TV star with the series "Bonanza"— before moving to New York to start working in television.
Nielsen's later movies included "All I Want for Christmas" in 1991, "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" in 1995, "Spy Hard" in 1996 and "Mr. Magoo" in 1997.
He also toured with his one-man show on the life of defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.
Nielsen had two daughters and was married three times previously, according to the Associated Press. A complete list of survivors was not available.
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29 November 2010 05:42
Leslie Nielsen, a serious actor who became a comic star with his career-changing roles in "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" comedies, died Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
Nielson died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home, surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent, John S. Kelly, said in a statement.
In "Airplane!," the 1980 send-up of just about every disaster movie plot imaginable, Nielsen as Dr. Rumack was "an essentially serious actor taking essentially preposterous material very straight," wrote Times Arts Editor Charles Champlin in his review.
Just how preposterous was it?
As the crew and passengers became ill, Nielsen said they needed to get the sick to a hospital.
"A hospital? What is it?" a flight attendant asked.
Nielsen: "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."
And when Nielsen was told, "Surely you can't be serious," he answered: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Nielsen followed up "Airplane!" with another goofy role delivered with deadpan conviction as Frank Drebin in the "Police Squad!" television show and "Naked Gun" movies.
It was quite a career shift for an actor who seemed perfectly cast as a handsome leading man when he came to Hollywood in the 1950s, already a veteran of live television appearances.
A typically serious early role was as the spaceship commander in "Forbidden Planet, " the 1956 science-fiction classic. "It's the reason I was never asked to do 'Star Trek' or 'Twilight Zone' for TV," he told the Toronto Star in 2002. "I carried too much baggage with me from that movie."
Nielsen played Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the 1957 film "Tammy and the Bachelor," was the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series "The Swamp Fox" and had roles in such TV series as "The New Breed" and "Bracken's World."
"I just always worked," he said. "I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts. Perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
Nielsen also was captain of the doomed ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie "The Poseidon Adventure."
All the while he "was a closet comedian," he told The Times in 1991.
Then "Airplane!" changed his career.
Producers-directors-writers Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker hired Nielsen and other veteran actors Robert Stack, Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges, all perfectly cast to spoof their own heroic and very serious images.
"I will be forever grateful to them," Nielsen told The Times in 1991. "It is just an amazing roll of the dice. I am so lucky to be a representative of their humor."
Nielsen then was cast in "Police Squad!," which aimed to do to cop shows was "Airplane!" did to disaster movies.
It lasted all of six episodes on ABC, but Nielsen moved on as Drebin to the 1988 movie "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!," with George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson and Priscilla Presley among his co-stars. Its success led to two sequels.
"Leslie has the idea to play it maybe not straight but deadly serious," David Zucker told the L.A. Daily News in 1994. "You can take any one performance and just transfer it from a comedy to a drama. There's just no difference — that's what he can do."
Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan. His father was a Royal Canadian mounted police officer and one of his brothers became a deputy prime minister of Canada.
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from high school and after the service studied at a Toronto radio school operated by Lorne Greene — who would become a TV star with the series "Bonanza"— before moving to New York to start working in television.
Nielsen's later movies included "All I Want for Christmas" in 1991, "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" in 1995, "Spy Hard" in 1996 and "Mr. Magoo" in 1997.
He also toured with his one-man show on the life of defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.
Nielsen had two daughters and was married three times previously, according to the Associated Press. A complete list of survivors was not available.
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Amazon.com and Apple iPad scams this Christmas
cyber monday deals 2010
Online holiday sales growth seen up again: comScore
28 November 2010
A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
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By Alexandria Sage
SAN FRANCISCO | Nov 28, 2010 10:05am EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online spending this holiday is now expected to rise by 11 percent over last year, comScore said on Tuesday, marking the second time the analytics firm has raised its closely watched view.
The increased bullishness over e-commerce sales comes as retailers both on and offline ready for the key Thanksgiving weekend when holiday shoppers head to stores or to their computers in search of deals.
The new spending outlook should bring total holiday e-commerce spending to $32.4 billion, comScore said.
Cyber Monday, the day when consumers head back to work after the Thanksgiving weekend, is considered the kick-off to the online shopping season. But brick-and-mortar retailers from Wal-Mart Stores Inc to Staples Inc are focused on early deals at their online units, while Internet giant Amazon.com has already gained market share this season, analysts say.
One week ago, comScore told Reuters in an exclusive interview that it was raising its forecast from an earlier projected gain of 7 percent to a new projection of 9 percent. It noted then that the outlook might be raised further.
The new outlook announced Tuesday is based on the first 21 days of the November and December season, in which $9.01 billion has already been spent, marking a 13 percent increase over the year-ago period, comScore said.
ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said the holiday e-commerce season had "gotten off to an extremely positive start."
"Despite continued high unemployment rates and other economic concerns, consumers seem to be more willing to open up their wallets this holiday season than last," Fulgoni said in a statement.
He attributed the surge of purchases to deep discounts that started earlier than in 2009, when U.S. e-commerce sales rose 4 percent during the two-month holiday period.
Online sales make up approximately 7 percent of the overall retail pie, according to comScore, and brick-and-mortar retailers are expecting a far less rosy sales outlook this year.
The National Retail Federation expects 2010 holiday retail sales -- which exclude online as well as food, vehicle and gasoline sales -- to rise a mere 2.3 percent this year to $447.1 billion.
(Reporting by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
McAfee warns of Apple iPad scams this Christmas
28 November 2010 12:41
McAfee is urging computer users to be wary of offers that look too good to be true this Christmas, after noting that scammers are increasingly using the iPad as a lure to obtain credit card details.
In the spam version of the scam, victims are encouraged to first buy other products in order to get a free iPad, supplying their credit card details in the process.
"Victims never receive the iPad or the other items, just the headache of reporting a stolen credit card number," said Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs.
A variation of this attack asks victims to supply their mobile phone number, which is then subscribed to a high-cost telecoms service.
McAfee also warned of a range of other scams likely to increase in frequency over the coming month. Business travelers, for example, could be at risk if they use unsecured mobile and wireless networks such as those found in hotels, said the vendor.
"Scams continue to be big business for cyber criminals who have their sights set on capitalising on open hearts and wallets this holiday season," said Marcus.
"As people jump online to look for deals on gifts and travel, it's important to recognise the common scams to safeguard against theft during the busy season ahead."
Another attack involves bogus distress messages from friends and family who might be travelling abroad asking for money to be wired in order to help them get home.
Cyber crooks may also turn to social media to promote fake gift cards, which are nothing more than a hook for consumer information which is often sold to marketers or used for identity theft.
Another personal data harvest could be perpetrated through SMS phishing attacks which purport to come from a bank or other trusted site, and ask users to input their password and log-in information.
"Cyber crooks know that people are more vulnerable to this scam during the holiday season when they are doing more online shopping and checking bank balances frequently," said McAfee.
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Online holiday sales growth seen up again: comScore
28 November 2010
A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
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By Alexandria Sage
SAN FRANCISCO | Nov 28, 2010 10:05am EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online spending this holiday is now expected to rise by 11 percent over last year, comScore said on Tuesday, marking the second time the analytics firm has raised its closely watched view.
The increased bullishness over e-commerce sales comes as retailers both on and offline ready for the key Thanksgiving weekend when holiday shoppers head to stores or to their computers in search of deals.
The new spending outlook should bring total holiday e-commerce spending to $32.4 billion, comScore said.
Cyber Monday, the day when consumers head back to work after the Thanksgiving weekend, is considered the kick-off to the online shopping season. But brick-and-mortar retailers from Wal-Mart Stores Inc to Staples Inc are focused on early deals at their online units, while Internet giant Amazon.com has already gained market share this season, analysts say.
One week ago, comScore told Reuters in an exclusive interview that it was raising its forecast from an earlier projected gain of 7 percent to a new projection of 9 percent. It noted then that the outlook might be raised further.
The new outlook announced Tuesday is based on the first 21 days of the November and December season, in which $9.01 billion has already been spent, marking a 13 percent increase over the year-ago period, comScore said.
ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said the holiday e-commerce season had "gotten off to an extremely positive start."
"Despite continued high unemployment rates and other economic concerns, consumers seem to be more willing to open up their wallets this holiday season than last," Fulgoni said in a statement.
He attributed the surge of purchases to deep discounts that started earlier than in 2009, when U.S. e-commerce sales rose 4 percent during the two-month holiday period.
Online sales make up approximately 7 percent of the overall retail pie, according to comScore, and brick-and-mortar retailers are expecting a far less rosy sales outlook this year.
The National Retail Federation expects 2010 holiday retail sales -- which exclude online as well as food, vehicle and gasoline sales -- to rise a mere 2.3 percent this year to $447.1 billion.
(Reporting by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
McAfee warns of Apple iPad scams this Christmas
28 November 2010 12:41
McAfee is urging computer users to be wary of offers that look too good to be true this Christmas, after noting that scammers are increasingly using the iPad as a lure to obtain credit card details.
In the spam version of the scam, victims are encouraged to first buy other products in order to get a free iPad, supplying their credit card details in the process.
"Victims never receive the iPad or the other items, just the headache of reporting a stolen credit card number," said Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs.
A variation of this attack asks victims to supply their mobile phone number, which is then subscribed to a high-cost telecoms service.
McAfee also warned of a range of other scams likely to increase in frequency over the coming month. Business travelers, for example, could be at risk if they use unsecured mobile and wireless networks such as those found in hotels, said the vendor.
"Scams continue to be big business for cyber criminals who have their sights set on capitalising on open hearts and wallets this holiday season," said Marcus.
"As people jump online to look for deals on gifts and travel, it's important to recognise the common scams to safeguard against theft during the busy season ahead."
Another attack involves bogus distress messages from friends and family who might be travelling abroad asking for money to be wired in order to help them get home.
Cyber crooks may also turn to social media to promote fake gift cards, which are nothing more than a hook for consumer information which is often sold to marketers or used for identity theft.
Another personal data harvest could be perpetrated through SMS phishing attacks which purport to come from a bank or other trusted site, and ask users to input their password and log-in information.
"Cyber crooks know that people are more vulnerable to this scam during the holiday season when they are doing more online shopping and checking bank balances frequently," said McAfee.
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Cyber Monday Deals 2010
Cyber Monday Deals 2010
28 November 2010 18:47
Amanda Lewis
Cyber Monday is the black Friday on Monday where many retailers offer discounts through their websites.
Many of the stores have already kicked started the Cyber Monday deals for 2010. There are also other retailers which are throwing perks to lure customers to make purchases online. According to Comscore, Cyber Monday is the busiest day for purchase of the year after black Friday. In 2009, Buyers spend about $890 million during the cyber Monday alone. Many of stores are offering deep discounts along with many other perks. Walmart has extended the cyber Monday deal for whole weak. The retail giant also offers free shipping for more than 150 items available on their website. The free shipping is only available until Dec 03.
Wal-Mart is offering great deals on electronics. They are offering Apple iPod Touch Bundle + Accessory Kit for $233, Xbox 360 4GB Console + Kinect + two games for $398 and most importantly Panasonic 42” Plasma TV for $478.
Amazon is rolling out great deals for Cyber Monday deals from tomorrow and the discounted prices will be offered throughout 7 days. Amazon will offer Kindle for $139 (Original price $189) . Also check out their electronics specifically on tomorrow.
Best Buy has started Cyber Monday from today. Their website features Panasonic 65” VIERA Plasma HDTV for $1,799.99 (original price $3,199), a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 for $25 and Seagate 500 GB external hard drive for $50.
Cyber Monday Deals 2010
28 November 2010 17:23
The Internet has added a new holiday shopping tradition: these days, Thanksgiving isn't just followed by Black Friday, but by Cyber Monday, too.
Cyber Monday is Black Friday online: numerous retailers offer discounts on purchases made through their websites, offering perks like free shipping and site-wide sales in an attempt to boost spending. According to Comscore, it's working: Cyber Monday was the second highest spending day of 2009, with buyers charging nearly $890 million during the special shopping event.
We've put together a guide to finding details on Cyber Monday sales. Note that some retailers are offering one-day-only discounts, while others are offering a "Cyber Week," with seven days of sales.
* From Wallet Pop, Cyber Monday 2010: Which Deals To Expect
* BestCyberMondayDeals.com, a website listing retailers' "best online deals for this day."
* Shop.org's CyberMonday.com, highlighting "the best deals from over 700 online retailers," including Avon, Sony, Toys R Us, and more.
* On Twitter, follow @CyberMonday, @CyberMondayNews, or @BestCyberMonday. Try following specific retailers--like @WalMartSpecials--for the latest on their 2010 Cyber Monday deals.
* Check retailers' websites for the full rundown on deals--Amazon.com, Target, Home Depot, and Best Buy are among the stores that have already listed their Cyber Monday sales.
Have other suggestions? Let us know your Cyber Monday shopping tricks in the comments below.
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28 November 2010 18:47
Amanda Lewis
Cyber Monday is the black Friday on Monday where many retailers offer discounts through their websites.
Many of the stores have already kicked started the Cyber Monday deals for 2010. There are also other retailers which are throwing perks to lure customers to make purchases online. According to Comscore, Cyber Monday is the busiest day for purchase of the year after black Friday. In 2009, Buyers spend about $890 million during the cyber Monday alone. Many of stores are offering deep discounts along with many other perks. Walmart has extended the cyber Monday deal for whole weak. The retail giant also offers free shipping for more than 150 items available on their website. The free shipping is only available until Dec 03.
Wal-Mart is offering great deals on electronics. They are offering Apple iPod Touch Bundle + Accessory Kit for $233, Xbox 360 4GB Console + Kinect + two games for $398 and most importantly Panasonic 42” Plasma TV for $478.
Amazon is rolling out great deals for Cyber Monday deals from tomorrow and the discounted prices will be offered throughout 7 days. Amazon will offer Kindle for $139 (Original price $189) . Also check out their electronics specifically on tomorrow.
Best Buy has started Cyber Monday from today. Their website features Panasonic 65” VIERA Plasma HDTV for $1,799.99 (original price $3,199), a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 for $25 and Seagate 500 GB external hard drive for $50.
Cyber Monday Deals 2010
28 November 2010 17:23
The Internet has added a new holiday shopping tradition: these days, Thanksgiving isn't just followed by Black Friday, but by Cyber Monday, too.
Cyber Monday is Black Friday online: numerous retailers offer discounts on purchases made through their websites, offering perks like free shipping and site-wide sales in an attempt to boost spending. According to Comscore, it's working: Cyber Monday was the second highest spending day of 2009, with buyers charging nearly $890 million during the special shopping event.
We've put together a guide to finding details on Cyber Monday sales. Note that some retailers are offering one-day-only discounts, while others are offering a "Cyber Week," with seven days of sales.
* From Wallet Pop, Cyber Monday 2010: Which Deals To Expect
* BestCyberMondayDeals.com, a website listing retailers' "best online deals for this day."
* Shop.org's CyberMonday.com, highlighting "the best deals from over 700 online retailers," including Avon, Sony, Toys R Us, and more.
* On Twitter, follow @CyberMonday, @CyberMondayNews, or @BestCyberMonday. Try following specific retailers--like @WalMartSpecials--for the latest on their 2010 Cyber Monday deals.
* Check retailers' websites for the full rundown on deals--Amazon.com, Target, Home Depot, and Best Buy are among the stores that have already listed their Cyber Monday sales.
Have other suggestions? Let us know your Cyber Monday shopping tricks in the comments below.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Scottish referees - games to go ahead despite referee strike
Scottish games to go ahead despite referee strike
25 November 2010 19:02
GLASGOW (AFP) – All Scottish Premier League matches scheduled for this weekend will go ahead despite a planned strike by leading Scottish referees after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) reached agreement with “several European national associations”, the governing body said Thursday.
“The Scottish FA can confirm agreement has been reached with several European National Associations to ensure matches in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and the Alba Cup final will be covered this weekend,” the SFA statement said.
It added: “Negotiations are continuing with other national associations to help ensure that some, if not all, matches in the Scottish Football League go ahead as normal.
“Clubs will be informed by 3pm today (1500GMT Thursday) whether their matches will go ahead or not in light of the Scottish Category One referees electing to persist with their withdrawal of labour.”
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan told BBC Reporting Scotland: “I’m delighted with the team of administrators who have worked tirelessly to speak to a number of associations across Europe.”
Regan added: “These are FIFA listed officials or category one referees from their own countries. So they are proper referees.
“Fans will have no worries that they are getting top officials to referee the games at the weekend.”
Scotland’s top or category one referees have chosen to strike in protest at what they say is the “intolerable pressure” placed on their personal and professional lives as a result of the fall-out from some of their recent on-field decisions.
A statement issued earlier Thursday by the referees said: “The incessant and adverse nature of recent comments on referees had placed intolerable pressures on personal and professional lives and that statements questioning honesty and integrity aimed across refereeing in general had led to an unprecedented level of abuse and genuine concerns for safety and for the ability to carry out normal family and business commitments.
“Last (Wednesday) night, all category one referees ratified their original decision (to strike this weekend).
However, their statement added: “After this weekend, the referees will return to the field and will continue dialogue with the governing body to develop well-thought through and meaningful measures in an environment of mutual respect.”
The season in Scotland so far has witnessed several high-profile refereeing controversies, notably involving Dougie McDonald’s handling of Celtic’s 2-1 win over Dundee United last month — during which he awarded Celtic what looked like a deserved penalty before overturning the decision after consulting a linesman.
McDonald was warned by the SFA referees’ committee over his failure to give an accurate report of the circumstances surrounding his rescinding of the Celtic penalty.
Referee Willie Collum meanwhile received threatening phone calls after awarding Rangers a dubious penalty during their 3-1 victory at Celtic Park.
Hoops chairman John Reid said last Thursday that McDonald should quit or be removed by the SFA after he admitted misleading Celtic manager Neil Lennon over that decision.
The SFA tried to avert a walkout by offering to ban all club officials from commenting on referees but, despite talks on Wednesday, this was not enough to prevent the strike going ahead.
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25 November 2010 19:02
GLASGOW (AFP) – All Scottish Premier League matches scheduled for this weekend will go ahead despite a planned strike by leading Scottish referees after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) reached agreement with “several European national associations”, the governing body said Thursday.
“The Scottish FA can confirm agreement has been reached with several European National Associations to ensure matches in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and the Alba Cup final will be covered this weekend,” the SFA statement said.
It added: “Negotiations are continuing with other national associations to help ensure that some, if not all, matches in the Scottish Football League go ahead as normal.
“Clubs will be informed by 3pm today (1500GMT Thursday) whether their matches will go ahead or not in light of the Scottish Category One referees electing to persist with their withdrawal of labour.”
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan told BBC Reporting Scotland: “I’m delighted with the team of administrators who have worked tirelessly to speak to a number of associations across Europe.”
Regan added: “These are FIFA listed officials or category one referees from their own countries. So they are proper referees.
“Fans will have no worries that they are getting top officials to referee the games at the weekend.”
Scotland’s top or category one referees have chosen to strike in protest at what they say is the “intolerable pressure” placed on their personal and professional lives as a result of the fall-out from some of their recent on-field decisions.
A statement issued earlier Thursday by the referees said: “The incessant and adverse nature of recent comments on referees had placed intolerable pressures on personal and professional lives and that statements questioning honesty and integrity aimed across refereeing in general had led to an unprecedented level of abuse and genuine concerns for safety and for the ability to carry out normal family and business commitments.
“Last (Wednesday) night, all category one referees ratified their original decision (to strike this weekend).
However, their statement added: “After this weekend, the referees will return to the field and will continue dialogue with the governing body to develop well-thought through and meaningful measures in an environment of mutual respect.”
The season in Scotland so far has witnessed several high-profile refereeing controversies, notably involving Dougie McDonald’s handling of Celtic’s 2-1 win over Dundee United last month — during which he awarded Celtic what looked like a deserved penalty before overturning the decision after consulting a linesman.
McDonald was warned by the SFA referees’ committee over his failure to give an accurate report of the circumstances surrounding his rescinding of the Celtic penalty.
Referee Willie Collum meanwhile received threatening phone calls after awarding Rangers a dubious penalty during their 3-1 victory at Celtic Park.
Hoops chairman John Reid said last Thursday that McDonald should quit or be removed by the SFA after he admitted misleading Celtic manager Neil Lennon over that decision.
The SFA tried to avert a walkout by offering to ban all club officials from commenting on referees but, despite talks on Wednesday, this was not enough to prevent the strike going ahead.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Pike River mine grief
Around the country today New Zealanders showed their support and honoured the 29 men who are presumed dead inside the Pike River mine.On a day when words were hard to find, Dunedin spoke through its Cathedral bells - one toll for every life lost.
In Christchurch, the Cathedral was also a place to express sympathy.
At parliament, MP Te Ururoa Flavell expressed his grief in song, while other politicians queued up to sign a public condolence register.
Elsewhere around the capital, the West Coast's fallen sons were remembered at government buildings and embassies, where flags were flown at half mast.
In Auckland many teachers allowed students to spend time writing emails of support which will be sent to Greymouth schools.
Hourly prayer services provided a place of quiet contemplation for many in Auckland as NZ's biggest city held out a hand to its West Coast brothers.
"We are all sons and daughters of Greymouth today, no matter where we are in the country," said Auckland Mayor Len Brown.
A man who lost six students and a teacher in the Tongariro canyoning disaster in 2008, had words of advice.
"Closure does not come for a very, very long time and if they don't effect the recovery of bodies, that closure may never come," said Elim Christian College principal Murray Burton.
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Australia vs England Cricket Live Score
Australia vs England Live Score: Australia is facing up England in the first Test of Ashes 2010. Australia vs England (Aus vs Eng) Live match was kicked-off on Thursday.
Latest Score: 245/8 (72.4 Ovs)
The first Test of Ashes 2010 was started on Thursday between Australia and England at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane. England won the toss and elected to bat. But, England lost their early wicket in the form of their captain, Andrew Strauss, who could not score even single run.
Australian bowlers succeeded in picking early wickets of England and collapsed England’s top order batsmen. Australian bowler, Peter Siddle took two wickets followed by Ben Hilfenhaus and Shane Watson took one wicket each.
England batsmen, Andrew Strauss (0), Jonathan Trott (29), Kevin Pietersen (43) and Paul Collingwood (4) have all lost their wickets. Alastair Cook (67) and Ian Bell (39) are in the crease.Article and Photo Courtesy:
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Gilliam Mckieth Faint
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Gillian McKeith fainting live on I'm a celebrity get me out of here Sunday 21st November 2010 Itv1
(FAKE FAINTING!) Gillian McKeith & Lembit Opik - Crate Bush Tucker Trial - IM A CELEBRITY 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Ireland set for nervy two weeks until budget vote
Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen reacts as he speaks to the media in Government Buildings Dublin November 21, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonBy Jodie Ginsberg and Carmel Crimmins
DUBLIN | Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:23pm EST
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland begins two nervous weeks of political maneuvering on Tuesday as the government dares the opposition to block an austerity budget on which a multi-billion euro EU/IMF bailout is riding.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen defied mounting pressure to quit on Monday, saying he would stay in office until parliament passed the budget, then call an early election.
Public anger at his handling of Ireland's economic and banking crisis has only grown since he announced the bailout, and his chances of passing the budget fell dramatically when two independent members of parliament said they were likely to withhold their support.
But Cowen said the national interest required that he press on to unveil a promised four-year austerity package on Wednesday, and a 2011 budget on December 7.
The government is expected to announce that it will cut the minimum wage, slash social welfare spending, reduce the number of public employees and add a new property tax and higher income taxes in a package intended to slash 6 billion euros off next year's budget, and 15 billion off the annual budget by 2014.
Trade unions have warned that the austerity plan could provoke civil unrest: a student demonstration over planned fee increases turned violent this month, and unions have organized a march to protest at the planned measures on November 27 in Dublin.
"DUTY TO BACK BUDGET
"We have entered into discussions with European partners on the basis that we are going to implement a budget that will have a 6 billion euro adjustment," Cowen told a news conference after emergency talks with his cabinet.
"We believe that there's a clear duty on all members of Dail Eireann (parliament) to facilitate the passage of these measures in the uniquely serious circumstances in which we find ourselves."
As EU and IMF negotiators thrash out details of the rescue package, Theresa Reidy, politics lecturer at University College Cork, said Cowen's Fianna Fail party seemed to be planning to cajole the opposition into abstaining on the budget.
"What we will see in the next fortnight is growing pressure on the opposition parties for the sake of political stability to abstain on the major votes," she said.
Both the main opposition parties, Fine Gael and Labour, who are likely to come to power in a coalition after next year's election, had demanded that an election take place before the budget, and seemed unlikely to fall in line soon, if at all.
"The taoiseach (prime minister) thinks he has a majority so let him go ahead and exercise his majority," said Fine Gael finance spokesman Michael Noonan.
"Do you seriously think he is looking for our support? I don't think so. I have no idea what's going to be in the budget ... There is a (Fine Gael) front bench meeting tomorrow and we will consider whether we will put down a vote of no confidence."
Analysts say most Irish people, who have endured two years of austerity and recession and now face four more years of cuts on foreign lenders' terms, would prefer an immediate election.
Cambodia stampede kills at least 345
PHNOM PENH |
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia's capital killed at least 345 people when thousands panicked, pinning and trampling revelers on the last day of a festival marking the end of the rainy season.
The stampede began late on Monday on a small bridge lined with lights connecting Phnom Penh to an island where a crowd of mostly young people had gathered to celebrate the water festival and watch a concert.
Survivors said panic set in when shouts went up that several people had been electrocuted. Police said some people also shouted that the bridge was about to collapse as thousands of people were heading back to the city center.
The victims suffocated or were trampled and some survivors said they were wedged into the crowd of living and dead for hours. Police sprayed water so survivors could drink, some said.
"People were shouting that someone had been electrocuted, to run back," Touch Loch, 18, told Reuters. "I fell and people stepped on me until I passed out. When I woke I was here in hospital."
"People were crying for their fathers and mothers."
State television said at least 240 of the dead were women.
Khon Sros, 19, said from her hospital bed some people had leapt off the bridge to escape but she had been pinned in the crowd from her waist down until police pulled her out.
"One man died near me. He was weak and didn't have enough air."
Touch Theara, 38, said she had been stuck in the crowd for three hours: "I thought I was dead ... Police sprayed water at us. We were just opening our mouths to drink."
Prime Minister Hun Sen apologized for the disaster in which at least 329 people were hurt. He ordered an investigation as television footage showed relatives weeping over the bodies of the dead piled one on top of the other.
"This is the biggest tragedy in more than 31 years after the Pol Pot regime," he said, referring to the Khmer Rouge, whose agrarian revolution from 1975-1979 killed an estimated 1.7 million people in Cambodia under the command of Pol Pot.
He declared Thursday a day of mourning.
ROWS OF DEAD
Emergency crews carried lifeless bodies and laid them out in rows for identification.
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North Korea artillery
(Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return of fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.
A witness said residents of the island of Yeonpyeong, off the west coast of the peninsula near a disputed maritime border, had been evacuated.
Yonhap news agency said four South Korean soldiers had been wounded in the shelling, the biggest attack in years.
YTN television quoted a witness as saying 60 to 70 houses were on fire after the shelling and TV footage showed plumes of smoke coming from the island. It said a South Korean fighter jet had been deployed to the west coast after the shelling.
"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN.
"People are frightened to death and shelling continues as we speak," the witness said.
News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down in NDF trading.
The impact was felt internationally, with U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rising and the Japanese yen falling.
South Korea's military confirmed the exchange of firing, without providing more details.
The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is traveling to the region after revelations that the North is moving ahead with uranium enrichment, a possible second path to manufacture material for atomic weapons.
(Reporting by Seoul bureau; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by John Chalmers)
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Jet Slides Off Runway in Snow-Covered Seattle
(Nov. 22) -- It's not the start to the holiday travel season that one might have hoped for.This afternoon, a 747 cargo jet operated by Dynasty Air/Ocean Freight Co. slid off the runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport during the city's first snowfall of the year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilots on Flight 5321 apparently lost control of the jet upon landing, the Seattle Times reported. So far, there are no reports of any casualties.
All incoming flights have been put on hold because of ice, KING 5 News reported.
The storm, which has already dropped more than 2 inches on Seattle and sent temperatures plummeting, comes as many residents prepared to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. But the area's major highways were turned into veritable parking lots as dozens of accidents snarled traffic on I-5 and I-405, two of the biggest highways. Factoring in the wind chill, the temperature today felt as though it was zero degrees.
Another 2 to 5 inches of snow is expected tonight, KOMO News reported.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Asiad - Track Events - India Dominate
India dominate Asiad track events 
India's Preeja Sreedharan won the 10,000m event
Technorati Tags: Asiad - Track Events - India DominateIndia's Preeja Sreedharan won the 10,000m event
India gained three gold medals on the ninth day of competition at the 2010 Asian Games in China's Guangzhou city.
Long distance runner Preeja Sreedharan and steeple chaser Sudha Singh picked up golds on a day when India dominated track events.
And shooter Ronjan Sodhi picked up the first gold for India's shooting team by winning the men's double trap event.
With 33 medals, including five golds, India stood eighth in the medals table on Sunday.
Preeja Sreedharan clinched the gold in the women's 10,000m event with a burst of pace ahead of teammate Kavita Raut and Bahrain's Shitaya Habtegebrel.
Sreedharan came home in a time of 31:50:28.
"My coach said if I ran my own pace I would definitely get gold," she said. "I ran my own style and my own pace and I won. I didn't think about the other competitors."
Sudha Singh won the steeplechase holding off China's Jin Yuan and Japan's Minori Hayakari.
"I'm very excited because in the Commonwealth Games I came fifth and my burning desire was to improve my time and do better," she said.
India won six more medals on Sunday.
Kavita Raut picked up a silver in the women's 10,000m run, while star tennis player Sania Mirza and wrestlers, Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana, claimed individual bronze medals.
Shooter Sodhi teamed up with Asher Noria and Vikram Bhatnagar to win the bronze in the double trap event, while the women's archery team comprising Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly also won a bronze.
Article Courtesy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11808363
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