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DA STEELERRRSSS

The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Denver Broncos (34 - 17) and will meet the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl XL (ie 40), which will be played in Detriot, on February 5th, at 6:30 pm.

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ALMATY (Reuters) - Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who uses a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh alter ego called Borat to poke fun at interviewees has responded to a legal threat from the Kazakh authorities by satirically welcoming the move. Cohen, who plays the spoof Kazakh television reporter in his "Da Ali G Show", incurred the wrath of Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry this month after appearing as Borat at the annual MTV Europe Music Awards.

He described shooting dogs for fun and said his wife could not leave Kazakhstan as she was a woman. The Foreign Ministry said his behaviour was unacceptable and that Cohen might be serving political orders to tarnish Kazakhstan's reputation.

Responding in character as Borat, Cohen, who is Jewish, said: "I like to state, I have no connection with Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew."

-Posted by Hamad

Peacock, DC

'straight ahead' - tube and berger

Khalid's balance trick in Peacock, GT

Shares in BAE Systems have risen over 6% in value after the UK government agreed to supply Saudi Arabia with the new Eurofighter.
This is the first contract for the jet outside Europe and will safeguard thousands of UK jobs.
The Eurofighter has been developed by a consortium of firms in the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy.
It is competing for market share against two rival jets, the US Joint Strike Fighter and the French Rafale.
The Royal Saudi Armed Forces are on a mission to modernise, which will see the Eurofighter Typhoon replace the Tornado in the Royal Saudi Air Force.
BAE has provided Tornado planes to Saudi Arabia since 1985. more, check out eurofighter.com

Now I've seen the BAE Systems intro movie about the typhoon, Nothing Comes Close, and if I may, this thing is spectacular. for starts, something like a huge number - can't remember- of voice commands including a 'go home' command. If you're into extreme machines such as this one, you'd really enjoy the ten minute movie i mentioned.

I Know this is a bit outdated but I was too busy to post anything, crazy busy.

Congrats to my fellow pennstaters:

-Penn State beats Florida State and wins the Orange Bowl

-Penn State's Joe Paterno was named coach of the year by the American Football Coaches Association on Tuesday, marking the record fifth time his peers have chosen him for their highest annual honor. more

Bahrain WTC

The new Bahrain World Trade Center (currently under construction) will have three wind turbines, the turbines will be mounted on 3 30-meter steel bridges connecting the two buildings, the shape of the towers and its direction facing north will channel the airflow to pass between them and through the turbines. The estimated cost of the 3 turbines is 1 Million BD, it will generate 35% of the towers electrical power requirement.

-Khalid