Canberra Stadium branding stripped for Asian Cup
The deal meant GIO Stadium has become Canberra Stadium during the three week tournament, and signs and brands usually associated with the venue have been stripped.
Asian Cup signswere installed during the week.
The same has happened throughout the country, with AAMI Park becoming Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, ANZ Stadium in Sydney to revert to Stadium Australia, and Suncorp Black Fishnet Canne A Peche 120mm to become Brisbane Stadium.
ACT government deputy director general events and sport Black Leather Brandaplato 140mm Gary Rake said providing a clean slate for sponsors was standard practice for big events worldwide.
He said the same process would take place at Manuka Oval in Fishnet Canne A Peche 120mm time for the Cricket World Cup next month.
"Our partners recognise and understand that for major events we need to remove their recognition and provide a clean venue, which means the removal of sponsors' signage normally in place so event organisers can bring in their own sponsors," Mr Rake said.
Street signs in Haydon and Ginninderra drives had also been amended to reflect the interim stadium name.
Banners promoting the Asian Cup in the city included brands of the tournament partners.
An Asian Football Confederation statement said the Gold Leather Brandaplato 140mm organisation had received no complaints about the agreement.
"It is a part of AFC Asian Cup regulations that any company, except official sponsors or suppliers, cannot be associated with this event in order to protect the benefits of competition sponsors," the statement said.
Britons 'likely' on doomed flight
"It is likely that there were some British nationals" on board the Germanwings flight that crashed today in the French Alps, with 150 people on board, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
A woman believed to be living in the north west of England and her baby son are said to be among those on board, according to officials.
There were apparently no survivors from the 144 passengers including 16 schoolchildren and two teachers and six crew after the plane went into an eight minute descent before crashing near Digne.
"I don't want to speculate on numbers of British nationals involved until we have completed our checks on all the passenger information.
"However, based on the information available to us, it is sadly Red PVC Bow 100mm likely that there were some British nationals on board the flight. We are providing consular assistance and will give further help as more information becomes available. The black box and flight data recorder crucial in piecing together what happened have both been found.
As many as 148 people are feared dead after an Airbus A320 passenger plane crashed in the French Alps (AP)
Also travelling on the plane with her baby was Marina Bandres, who came from Jaca in the Spanish Pyrenees and lived in Britain, Jaca mayor Victor Barrio said. Ms Bandres had been attending a funeral in the area for a relative.
Mr Barrio said he did not know if Ms Bandres' husband was on the flight with her and the boy, Julian, who was seven or eight months old.
Also among the passengers were two German opera singers Dusseldorf born contralto Maria Radner and bass baritone Oleg Bryjak, who was born in Kazakhstan.
The 16 pupils, from Joseph Konig school in Haltern am See in western Germany, were flying home after a week long exchange with students at a school near Barcelona. The Spanish children in the exchange are still in Germany.
Haltern's mayor Bodo Klimpel said classes at Joseph Konig were suspended when news of the disaster came through, but that the school would be open as normal tomorrow when there would be a special event at morning assembly.
German chancellor Angela Merkel and various French ministers Silver Glitter Boulimina 120mm travelled to the crash site in a remote area.
Those on board the first helicopter to land near the site confirmed there were no survivors, with witnesses describing how the plane had disintegrated with no piece of wreckage bigger than a car.
Germanwings said the captain on board was experienced and had been with the Black Glitter Boulimina 120mm airline and its parent company Lufthansa for more than 10 years and had clocked up 6,000 flying hours on this Airbus model.
Germanwings said the plane had a normal service at Dusseldorf yesterday and its last major check up had been in summer 2013.
There was confusion about whether a distress signal was sent from the aircraft, with even Germanwings unsure.
He said the plane lost radio contact at 10.30am local time but "never declared a distress alert itself".
He said it was the combination of loss of radio contact and the plane's descent that Black PVC Bow 100mm prompted the control service to declare a distress.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said their thoughts were with the families of the passengers.
Mr Cameron's official spokesman said the Prime Minister had been informed of the crash and "would wish to express how his thoughts are very much with the families and friends of all of those aboard".
He added that the Foreign Office was making inquiries about whether any British nationals were on board, but had no information at this stage.
BYU starts with small lineup
PROVO So Portland started three players that are 6 foot 11, while BYU starting lineup featured four guards, including 6 3 Anson Winder, who replaced 6 11 Isaac Neilson.
was a little weird, said Cougar guard Tyler Haws.
While the Pilots 5 11 guard Alex Wintering the smallest guy on the floor scored a game high 30 points, the Cougars dominated in the paint and earned their first West Coast Conference victory of the season, 97 88.
In his first start of the season, Winder scored 22 points on 10 of 14 shooting from the field. He was one of five Cougars to score in double figures, along with Haws (24), Kyle Collinsworth (21), Chase Fischer (16) and Skyler Halford (12).
seems like we play that lineup a lot during games, said Haws. more than capable of giving us a good start. We like having him on the floor.
Coach Dave Rose decision to go with four guards paid off.
was pretty simple, based on the way we started the last two games, Rose said of starting Winder. wanted to get off to a better start. It seems like second group in both those games came in and bailed us out. We felt comfortable with four shooters on the floor. We got off to a decent start. I liked the way we started the game.
After losing to No. 8 Gonzaga on Saturday, BYU (11 4, 1 1), which doesn practice on Sundays, didn have much time to prepare for Portland.
a day to practice in between, trying to invent something else is difficult so we went with the lineup we been playing with the most the last couple of games, Rose explained. wanted to get a better start, and we did. Mission accomplished.
What the Cougars lacked in size against the Pilots, they more than made up for with aggressiveness. BYU outscored Portland in the paint, 44 22, with many of those points coming in the form of transition baskets (the Cougars outscored the Pilots in fast break points, 16 0) and the guards scoring inside.
got a lot of those in transition, where we were able to get to the rim off a steal or a long rebound. Then we got our guards posted up, Rose said. hard for guards to defend in the post. It something they don do a lot. If we can get Ty and Kyle posted down there and get some easy baskets, that will help us. Our post points this Black Suede Boulima 160mm year are kind of few and far between. We need to score in that area.
What the mindset when playing a four guard lineup?
told us at the beginning of the game the guards need to Suede Boulima 160mm fly in there and get some rebounds, Halford said. is) big. But we were able to get around some of their bigs with quickness and get those loose balls and get out and run.
wanted to battle and get the game going up and down and try to get some clean rebounds so we can get out in transition and really play the way we want to play, Haws said. did that the majority of the night.
Portland (10 4, 1 1) also had five players score in double figures, led by Wintering, who scored 15 of his 30 Brown Suede Boulima 160mm points from the free throw line. Volodymyr Gerun (who stands 6 11) scored 14, while Bryce Pressley, Thomas Van der mars (6 11) and Riley Barker (6 11) each chipped in 10.
BYU led at halftime, 43 37, then started strong at the beginning of the second half, quickly building a 52 41 advantage.
Then the Cougars enjoyed a 13 0 run to push the lead to 67 50. BYU went up by as White Suede Boulima 160mm many as 22 76 54 with 10 minutes remaining.
defense fueled our offense (in the second half) and we got going, Halford said.
But Portland knocked down a bunch of 3 pointers, including three from Bobby Sharp (who hit eight threes in a win over BYU in Portland last season). At the two minute mark, Portland trailed by only seven, 89 82, before BYU kept the Pilots at bay.
On the night, the Cougars scored 22 points off Portland turnovers and had 12 second chance points.
But perhaps the stat Rose liked most was the 22 assists on 33 field goals.
one thing I was impressed with the entire game was how we shared the ball, he said. ball moved from one side to another. That a really good sign for this team.
Beats Electronics is being sued by Bose for 36 patent infringements
If there is some irony to this story, which broke today, of Bose suing Beats it replica christian louboutin is because it will be purchased by Apple, which has been on a rampage against other phone manufactures, specifically Samsung, for infringing its patents related to its iPhones and iPads.
In the lawsuit brought on by Bose, it claims that Beats infringed on no less than 36 of its US Patents. The bottom line for Bose is that it wants a sales injunction, and cash rewards for damages.
If this scenario sounds all too familiar, Apple lawyers used these same types of strategies to stop Samsung christian louboutin replica phones from being sold in this country. In common vernacular, some replica louboutin would say that what goes around comes around.
A sore spot that is bothering Bose is it claims that its BOSE QuietComfort noise cancelling headphone patents have been lifted and used in Beats headphone products such as the Beats Studio and Beats Pro headphones.
The reason why Bose is making so much noise about this, so to speak, is because they want to protect its intellectual property and recoup lost proceeds that are directly related to lost sales and costs regarding its research and development of its noise cancelling headphones.
In legal language by Bose, it stated in part:
"To protect christian louboutin shoes replica its investments, Bose has sought patent protection, and owns many patents and patent applications. Because Bose invests heavily in research and development, and because Bose has built its reputation on producing superior products through innovative technology, Boses continued success depends in substantial part on its ability to establish, maintain, and protect its proprietary technology through enforcement of its patent rights."
Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has men in tights and tutus
Where exactly do you find a six foot plus, hirsute male dancer Wholesale Snapbacks who is as adept at performing pas de bourr across the stage on pointe shoes as he is at pratfalls? This is the burning question as the Straight reaches Tory Dobrin, the artistic director of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, in its home of New York City (despite the precious French name), where the tutu clad, all male troupe is preparing for its first visit here in 30 years.
These days, though, it turns out recruiting men who can pirouette in the pink slippers is really no challenge at all. "We don't find them. They find us," Dobrin says matter of factly. He admits that's a huge change from the 1980s, when he danced for the troupe.
"In my day, no one had ever put on pointe shoes," he recalls, explaining Trockadero had to train the male dancers it recruited. "That continued till about 2005, when the dancers started coming in very comfortable with it. When I joined, there were only two teachers in New York City that would even allow you to take pointe shoe classes. Now it's considered a career choice. Times have changed in a lot of ways."
That's putting it mildly. The 40 year old Ballets Trockadero has lived through gay liberation, the AIDS crisis, and ever opening attitudes to the sight of men in drag. These days, Dobrin says, the level of dancing at the troupe is at its highest ever, as it parodies Paquita and satirizes Swan Lake, revelling in the exaggerated, Russian style of ballet. Word has it that the grand jets of the Trocks (as they are lovingly known) have never been higher. The New York Times recently praised their technical standards and gentle comedy, adding, "more essentially, they are aficionados of their art": "The Trockadero sensibility comes down to its witty individual dancers, who know that a ballet joke can be delivered only with actual dancing chops."
From his inside view, Dobrin also sees another reason for the high standards of the dancing: good old fashioned rivalry. "Male dancers tend to be very competitive," he says. "In the ballet class there's this sort of healthy competition going on: who can jump higher and who can get their leg higher?" Those morning classes, with a Russian teacher, are about the only serious time of the day for the Trocks, he adds; most of it is just pure fun.
As for the humour in the shows, it comes from carefully placed jabs, from the over the top, Russianized noms de ballet the guys choose to the on stage death throes of a feather moulting "Dying Swan" and the handsome young officer hurting his shoulder lifting his muscular mate in Paquita. An arabesque might take out a corps member with the force of a hit from a linebacker; a little swan in a row might become too excited to hold her perfect place in line. "The better the dancing became, the more varied the humour became it could be more extreme or more subtle, depending on the piece, which helped with the overall program, because the audience was seeing something Cheap Snapbacks Hats that had more depth," Dobrin explains of the evolution of the company. "And now we have a younger generation [of dancers] with a different kind of humour."
That comedy tends to emerge after the serious work of learning the ballet steps has chi hair straighteners finished. The best silly moments come in the studio, Dobrin says, when the guys are getting tired and punchy after working for hours and hours. "That's definitely something we want to foster," he deadpans.
What's perhaps most interesting about Les Ballets Trockadero, and has probably contributed to its amazing longevity, is that the shows can be enjoyed on so many levels. This is no one joke company. chi hair straightener There are the subtler and broader hits of comedy and the technical prowess to enjoy, but an intellectual level emerges, as well that deep knowledge and appreciation of the classic Russian style. Dobrin is set to see the Kirov Ballet in a week, and he and his team regularly check out Russian companies and pore over old film and videos of classic works. It's heavy research, but Dobrin seems loath to focus on that aspect of Les Ballets Trockadero too much. Instead, he wants to emphasize the sheer entertainment value of the tulle happy package they have put together.
"A lot of times we feel like we're not really understood," he allows. "If you go see the Russian ballets they are still very entertaining and it should be entertaining. There's big characters and over the top personalities." And in the Trocks' case, a few toes that get stepped on, too.
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