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Wednesday August 12, 2009 Rice Owls? Rice owls would be native to Asia, of course.
Reading further in the football playbook betus.com sent me, I see there are also the Temple Owls. Is there some link between football and owls?
***To Waite House, to pick up NAPS food. [NAPS = Nutrition Assistance for Seniors.]
***Radio news: In Rio de Janero, Brazil, the host of a true crime TV program is accused of ordering executions. I didn't catch all the details, but I found the story via Google News:
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 August 2009 21.45 BST
When Brazilian police raided the house of Wallace Souza, a popular Amazonian MP who doubles as a TV presenter, they might have expected to find scripts for the next episode of his daily crime show.
Instead they discovered more than $150,000 (£90,000) in cash, a stash of weapons and a tatty piece of paper with the names of at least four dead men whose executions, police claim, Souza might have ordered in an attempt to boost the ratings of his lunchtime TV show.
Police in Manaus were this week re-opening dozens of unsolved murder cases after a 12-month investigation which authorities said indicated that the politician was the head of a sprawling criminal organisation involved in drug trafficking, gun-running and death squad killings which got air-time on his daily crime programme Canal Livre – a move designed to bolster viewing figures....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/au
If you read Portuguese, you can probably find more on the Brazilian edition of Google News. Got to http://news.google.com. Go to the bottom of the page, where you'll find links to all editions of Google News.
Reading further in the football playbook betus.com sent me, I see there are also the Temple Owls. Is there some link between football and owls?
***To Waite House, to pick up NAPS food. [NAPS = Nutrition Assistance for Seniors.]
***Radio news: In Rio de Janero, Brazil, the host of a true crime TV program is accused of ordering executions. I didn't catch all the details, but I found the story via Google News:
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 12 August 2009 21.45 BST
When Brazilian police raided the house of Wallace Souza, a popular Amazonian MP who doubles as a TV presenter, they might have expected to find scripts for the next episode of his daily crime show.
Instead they discovered more than $150,000 (£90,000) in cash, a stash of weapons and a tatty piece of paper with the names of at least four dead men whose executions, police claim, Souza might have ordered in an attempt to boost the ratings of his lunchtime TV show.
Police in Manaus were this week re-opening dozens of unsolved murder cases after a 12-month investigation which authorities said indicated that the politician was the head of a sprawling criminal organisation involved in drug trafficking, gun-running and death squad killings which got air-time on his daily crime programme Canal Livre – a move designed to bolster viewing figures....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/au
If you read Portuguese, you can probably find more on the Brazilian edition of Google News. Got to http://news.google.com. Go to the bottom of the page, where you'll find links to all editions of Google News.