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  7. Posted · Edited by tj_hawk

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- For the first time Tuesday, baseball general managers recommended instant replay be used to help umpires make difficult decisions.

     

    The recommendation, by a 25-5 vote, was limited to boundary calls -- whether potential home runs are fair or foul, whether balls go over fences or hit the top and bounce back, and whether fans interfere with possible homers.

     

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    Baseball commissioner Bud Selig opposes the use of replays but said last month he was willing to let GMs examine the issue.

     

    "I don't like instant replay because I don't like all the delays. I think it sometimes creates as many problems or more than it solves," Selig said then.

     

    But Jimmie Lee Solomon, an executive vice president in the commissioner's office, thinks Selig's stance has changed a bit recently.

     

    "He seemed to be softer, at least on the consideration of the subject," Solomon said Tuesday.

     

    He added it was unclear how the proposal will proceed and acknowledged there is "glacier-like movement in baseball" when it comes to innovation. Solomon said if Selig is willing, the commissioner probably would run the idea by owners. The plan needs approval from the players' association and umpires.

     

    Solomon said GMs favored having a Major League Baseball official in a central place with access to all camera angles. If there is a disputed call, that official would be contacted and would view the television replay to make a decision.

     

    "We have a very technologically savvy group of GMs," Solomon said. "I was surprised that we had five teams that said no."

     

    Solomon also said that to speed up games, baseball was considering limiting the number of times a hitter could step out of the batter's box during an at-bat and the number of times any player could visit the mound.

  8. Posted · Edited by tj_hawk

     

    By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer

     

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Students at Ethiopia's top religious college are protesting the close ties between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the government, alleged restrictions on their speech — and Beyonce's recent meeting with their patriarch.

     

    The 26-year-old singer met with the Ethiopian patriarch, Abune Paulos, before performing in skimpy sequined outfits as part of celebrations of the country's millennium, which fell in September, according to the church's calendar.

     

    Daniel Techale, a 28-year-old Theological College of the Holy Trinity alumnus who lives at the college, said about 30 of his friends had been hospitalized after a hunger strike they began Sunday.

     

    He said students were upset by the closeness of the church to the ruling party and restrictions on their speech, but were also upset over the Beyonce-Paulos meeting.

     

    "She provoked the whole situation," he said, accusing the patriarch of "practically a nonreligious act. It's unacceptable, or inappropriate, to say the least."

     

    Authorities were trying to persuade the students to end their hunger strike, he said.

     

    The college has 196 students training to work at the church, although not as clergymen.

     

    The Orthodox Church is Ethiopia's largest, claiming 45 million out of 77 million citizens as members. It is considered to be very close to the government.

     

    College official Bedilu Assefa confirmed that students had complained, but said: "What they have done is they have raised some administrative issues regarding food and clinical facilities. Nobody has protested against Beyonce. Never."

     

    Not all the protesters were concerned with the singer, or even politics. Student Kinetibebeu Assefa, 25, said that he had joined the protest to demand an improvement in cafeteria food and the firing of some college officials.

     

    "There is no problem with Beyonce," he said. "But the (cafeteria) food is poisoned."

     

    and you think they are starving due to famine...

  13. Posted

    im guess you plan to bring dukat back from the pah-wraiths and sisko back from the prohets aren't you? lol. not that im saying it'll be a bad idea, but you could just follow the book storylines what life was like after sisko left the station....and what a grand exciting time that was...then again sisko's replacement from starfleet was kinda boring.

  16. Posted

    you know he's that no name that stared in all these roles. (don't ask me how i typed this much.)

     

     

    Poseidon (2006) .... Dylan Johns

    Glory Road (2006) .... Don Haskins

    An Unfinished Life (2005) .... Crane Curtis

    ... aka Ungezähmtes Leben, Ein (Germany)

    Stealth (2005) .... Lt. Ben Gannon

    Empire Falls (2005) (TV) .... Max Roby (younger)

    Around the Bend (2004) .... Jason Lair

    Undertow (2004) .... Deel Munn

    Wonderland (2003) .... Ron Launius

    Secondhand Lions (2003) .... Adult Walter

    Hulk (2003) .... Talbot

    Four Reasons (2002) .... Boy

    Sweet Home Alabama (2002) .... Jake Perry

    Coastlines (2002) .... Eddie Vance

    A Beautiful Mind (2001) .... Hansen

    Session 9 (2001) .... Hank

    When Strangers Appear (2001) .... Peter

    ... aka The Shearer's Breakfast (Australia) (USA: working title)

    The Deep End (2001) .... Darby Reese

    The Weight of Water (2000) .... Rich Janes

    ... aka Poids de l'eau, Le (Canada: French title) (France)

    The Dancer (2000) .... Stephane

    Drop Back Ten (2000) .... Tom White

    You Can Count on Me (2000) .... Rudy (Kolinski) Sr.

    American Psycho (2000) .... Craig McDermott

     

     

    "Cracker" .... Lt. Macy (3 episodes, 1999)

    ... aka Cracker: Mind Over Murder (USA: new title)

    ... aka Fitz (UK)

    - First Love: Part 1 (1999) TV Episode .... Lt. Macy

    - First Love: Part 2 (1999) TV Episode .... Lt. Macy

    - Faustian Fitz (1999) TV Episode .... Lt. Macy

    Restless (1998) .... Jeff Hollingsworth

    Harvest (1998) .... Clay Upton

    ... aka A Desperate Season (Australia: cable TV title)

    ... aka Cash Crop (USA: video title)

    The Definite Maybe (1997) .... Eric Traber

    ... aka No Money Down (USA: DVD title)

    Minotaur (1997) .... G.R.

    ... aka Mossad (UK: DVD title)

    True Blue (1996) .... Dan Warren

    ... aka Miracle at Oxford (USA: DVD title)

    Thinner (1996) .... Male Nurse

    ... aka Stephen King's Thinner

    In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice (1994) (TV) (as Joshua Lucas) .... Todd Walker

    Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994) (VG) .... Maj. Jace 'Flash' Dillon

    "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga" .... Luke McGregor (1 episode, 1993)

    ... aka Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River

    - The Race (????) TV Episode (as Joshua Lucas) .... Luke McGregor

    Father Hood (1993) (as Joshua Lucas) .... Andy

    ... aka Desperado

    ... aka Honor Among Thieves

    ... aka Mike Hardy

    Class of '61 (1993) (TV) (as Joshua Lucas) .... George Armstrong Custer

    Alive (1993) (as Joshua Lucas) .... Felipe Restano

    ... aka Alive: The Miracle of the Andes

    Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991) (TV) (as Joshua Lucas) .... John L. Jordan III

    "Jake and the Fatman" (1 episode, 1991)

    - I'd Do Anything (1991) TV Episode (as Joshua Lucas)

    "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" .... Evan (1 episode, 1991)

    ... aka Parker Lewis (USA: new title)

    - Jerry's First Date (1991) TV Episode (as Joshua Lucas) .... Evan

    "Life Goes On" .... Dylan (1 episode, 1990)

    - La Dolce Becca (1990) TV Episode (as Joshua Lucas) .... Dylan

    "True Colors" .... Jonathan (1 episode, 1990)

    - Soft Shell (1990) TV Episode .... Jonathan

  24. Posted

    but she's no longer a captain, she's a admiral. then again it's better than what the others did...just stay a captain. well then again kirk was a admiral for 5 years until they decided to demote him permenatlytto captain for disobeying orders and several other charges.