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Monday July 10, 2006 - 14:18 EST
GIBRALTAR – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Offering the largest guaranteed prize pool in the history of backgammon, PartyGammon.com today announced that it will stage the PartyGammon.com Million at the famous Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas, on January 21st-25th , 2007. Half of the field of 128 players will be filled by online qualifiers and the other half from players who directly buy-in to the tournament.The location will be familiar to long-time backgammon enthusiasts because it was the venue where the World Championships of Backgammon was at its pinnacle of popularity between 1975 and 1978, when the legendary Paul Magriel reigned as the leading champion. That event has now moved to Monte Carlo, but the US$500,000 guaranteed first prize of the PartyGammon.com Million is estimated to exceed this year's World Championship top prize five times over!
Anticipated to become the game's most glamorous event, many of the globe's top champions and international celebrities will attend the PartyGammon.com Million, designed to complement the flourishing new era of popularity in the game.
Jamaica Dogsled Team Musher to Minnesota: "Why Is the Air Conditioning Up So High?"
Oswald "Newton" Marshall thought someone put the air conditioning on too high when he arrived in Minnesota on March 25, 2006, for training as a musher on the Jamaica Dogsled Team with Rick Johnson. He quickly found out it wasn't air conditioning at all -- he was outdoors and feeling a Minnesota breeze (temps ranged from the 30s to 40s and were warm by local standards), far away from his warm Caribbean home in Richmond, Jamaica for the first time. The 23-year-old Newton is part of entrepreneur Danny Melville's venture to bring the spirit and can-do attitude of Jamaicans to the world: the Jamaica Dogsled Team. His journey to snowy Minnesota began in Jamaica's lush White River Valley where he worked with tourists participating in the Chukka Caribbean Adventures' horseback riding tour. As Newton tells the story he was asked to look after a trio of new dogs at Chukka Cove Farm, renowned for its polo and now home to the Team.
Easy-to-Use LIS Solution from Fletcher-Flora Allows Small ...
ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2006--Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems Inc. (OTC:FFLH) today announced that Southwestern Virginia Mental Health in Marion, Va., Dandridge Family Practice Center in Dandridge, Tenn. and Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon, Tenn., have signed Master License Agreements to implement its LabPak(R) laboratory information system (LIS) solution. In addition to small rural hospitals, the Windows(TM)-based, cost-effective LabPak line is suitable for physician office laboratories, group practices, clinics and small hospitals and has solved the laboratory information system needs of over 1,300 customers across the United States, Canada and the Bahamas. The LabPak suite offers proven, cost-effective solutions that are easy to use, simple to install and provide a wide range of over 400 instrument and host interfaces.
Pinder says farewell
Director of Education Iris Pinder officially relinquished her post within the ministry yesterday after serving in that position for the past nine years.Education, Science and Technology Minister Alfred Sears thanked Mrs Pinder for her years of dedicated service to the country.
"She has been at the helm of the Department during a period of tremendous transformation and has been personally involved in those reforms and in those initiatives to improve the quality of education," Minister Sears said.
The former director reflected on her years of service within the Ministry of Education, especially the years she spent among the students.
"I have enjoyed my 38 years as a classroom teacher, a school administrator, deputy director and director.
CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Kernaghan: For 42 years, it's been quite a ride
So long. After 42 years spent in press boxes, locker rooms, sidelines and anywhere else athletes gather, I've decided to quit writing a daily column while I'm ahead.But not so fast, Skippy. After a bit of a break, I'm going to sneak back in under the guise of a freelancer writing a column a week.
It's been some ride and my cups runneth over. World Cups, Stanley Cups, Grey Cups, Memorial Cups, Vanier Cups and Allan Cups weave into Olympic Games, Super Bowls, World Series and all manner of championships and trophies on grass, artificial turf, asphalt, ice, snow, water and canvas.
After thousands of competitions and millions of type-written words, one seeks a phrase, a word, to encapsule it.
The word is truth.
For all its occasional foibles, the essence of sport is truth.
Caribbean: High or low season?
It's the middle of January, and heat-seeking bikini bombshells carpet the beach, bronzing the winter pallor from their pampered flesh. There's a special buzz in the air that grows louder as the beautiful people get amped for another night of seeing and being seen in the A-list spots. You're at ground zero of the Caribbean high season, and you wouldn't have it any other way.Same beach in mid-July. You decompress on the flawless stretch of white sand, mellowing to the shoosh of the waves. Tonight you'll splurge on dinner, happily blowing some of the money you saved by taking your trip in low season -- and you won't even need a reservation. Tomorrow, it's the summer sales at the boutiques, then a free snorkel excursion. You won't find these kinds of perks in winter. What's not to love?
Two distinct vacations, same great Caribbean getaway.
Metro briefs
Hurricane specialists were keeping an eye on a disorganized low pressure system roughly 200 miles from the Bahamas Saturday. The system, which is about 300 miles across, still had the potential to become a depression, said Lixion Avila, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. But so little had happened with the system Saturday that weather watchers canceled plans for an Air Force plane to go investigate. That plane is supposed to go up today. The National Weather Service predicted a 70 percent chance of rain today for the West Palm Beach area, as well as near Stuart. JUPITER — Rescuers recovered a dead manatee from the St. Lucie River Saturday. The 10-foot female was found in the river's northwest fork and towed into Burt Reynolds Park by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, spokeswoman Dani Moschella said.
Tournament will fund beach ramps
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH - An area golf tournament is raising money this year to help the city build beach-access ramps for handicapped people.This is the second year of the S.C. Senior Open at Tidewater, which raised money last year for the city's public safety department's "Shop With Santa" program, tournament director Bill Pearson said.
Major sponsors of the four-day event in September, including Tommy Hix and Jeff Shoups of T&J Development, have joined with the tournament's committee to raise money for at least one beach-access ramp that is in compliance with American with Disability Act guidelines.
Pearson said the number of handicapped-accessible ramps built will depend on how much money the tourna- ment raises.
Estimates put the cost of a disability beach access ramp anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000.