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Tattle: Oprah has a new way to channel her power
IF ONLY Oprah had more to do. Between the TV show and the magazine and the South African school and the ABC series starting in March and the XM satellite radio channel and producing movies and shows, could there possibly be any hours left for her to accomplish anything else? Turns out, yes. She's getting her own channel. Discovery Communications and Oprah announced yesterday that the Discovery Health network will become OWN - the Oprah Winfrey Network. The cash-free transaction involved Oprah turning over her Web site to Discovery and Discovery naming Oprah chairman of her new channel, currently available in 68 million homes. So said David Zaslav, Discovery Communications chief. "The focus of the channel will be the focus of Oprah's brand, which is to educate and inspire people to live the best life they can," Zaslav said.
Test Match Special
The likes of Robin Smith, Ramprakash, Hick, Caddick etc, all dropped when they were the best players around is the real issue. It's created a trend. Example..If, Ramprakash (who's a proven run getter) scores 15, the media labels him as 'past it'. If a young Bopara makes 14, he's 'yet to establish his true potential' Cricket is a statistical game. Nobody cares about comments post match, its ALL about scores. In this situation the guy who made 15 is better than 14 statistically. The selectors seem to think if a player is young and promising, he's a instant 'Tendulkar'. Little it seems do they know Tendulkar was better than the current crop of indian players which elevated him into the side. We can't play players based on promises. The side should be picked on the best players around, like the successful sides seem always to do.
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Board will learn lesson if the referendum fails
Their current plan is not very different from the similar plans announced for three previous referendums that failed.The board misrepresented the relative cost of large versus small schools by including land purchase in the small-school option while excluding the cost of land from the cost of the giant high school "because we already own it." When board members realized the community objected to double congestion at the existing high school site, they suddenly "found" money to pay a developer for the Dresser Road location. Their plan ignores a working high school that could easily be used as the first of four proposed small high schools with very little cost.The board continues to ignore the community value, and saving of bus costs, possible by moving to K-8 community schools with two classes of 25 at each grade level.
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