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Lose Big and Go Home Smiling

I didn’t win the cooking contest. The brutal truth is I didn’t expect to and did not deserve to. I’d never entered a cooking contest before and I took it seriously, but not dead seriously. I wanted to have fun. I had a ball. I laughed like I’d rarely laughed before and just took it for what it was. That’s not sour grapes. I really had a wonderful time. Before I get into this, I want to thank my husband profusly. He was hysterically funny and had me laughing the whole time, which eased my nerves read

More Details on the Death of Madeline Kara Neumann

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A local police official said Friday that charges are possible against the parents of Madeline Kara Neumann, the 11-year-old girl who died of complications from untreated diabetes. "If we didn't believe at the end of our investigation there (would) be charges, then our investigation would have ended a lot sooner," Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said in an interview with the Journal Sentinel. He said his department will likely complete its investigation read

Cameroon inks memorandum to sell gas to Equatorial Guinea

By Tansa Musa Cameroon has signed a memorandum of understanding to supply 250 million cubic feet of gas per day to Equatorial Guinea from 2010 to feed a planned second train at a liquified natural gas plant, an executive said on Thursday. Jacques Koum, director of gas at Cameroon's National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH), said negotiations had not begun on the price of gas for the project, which will involve laying a 60-km onshore pipeline from Limbe port in southwest Cameroon to Bioko in Equa read

CNNMoney.com: Union: Shell Gabon Oil Strike To Spread Through Indus -AFP

March 28, 2008: 07:15 PM EST LIBREVILLE (AFP)–An oil workers strike which has paralyzed production at a Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) subsidiary in Gabon is set to become an industry- wide dispute, union officials warned Friday. Industrial action at Shell’s Gamba terminal has halted 60,000 barrels a day of crude production since the strike began on March 20, with another 30,000 barrels exported by France’s Total Gabon (EC.FR) and Perenco also on hold. Now unions negotiating for staff at Ameri read

NASCAR:Rd.6マーチンズビル 予選結果

Jeff Gordon　(C)Image.net 拡大します NASCARネクステルカップ第6戦マーチンズビル予選は、ジェフ・ゴードン(シボレー)がポールを獲得。2位のトヨタのデニー・ハムリン、3位にはアリック・アルミロラ(シボレー)となった。前戦まででオーナーズポイントを失ったダリオ・フランキッティも最下位ながらも予選を通過した。サム・ホーニッシュJr.は26位、ファン・モントーヤは29位グリッドとなった。 2週間ぶりのネクステルカップは今シーズン初のショートオーバルでのレース。今年いまだ勝利のないヘンドリック・モータースポーツは先週プライベートテストを実施して巻き返しを図っている。 また、引退したデール・ジャレットのNo.44 UPSトヨタは、デビット・ロイテマンが受け継ぎ15位グリッド、ロイテマンが乗っていたオーナーズポイントを持つNo.00は新人のMichael McDowellが34位と自力でグリッドを獲得した。 　デニー・ハムリン　(C)Image.net 拡大します Goody's Cool Orange 500 | Martinsville read