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The studio's confirmation came after Diesel posted a photo that showed him hugging a model of Groot, the Hollywood Reporter said Saturday. Diesel has been hinting at the role for some time, posting photos that showed him with motion-capture equipment.
The movie's director, James Gunn, reposted the photo on WhoSay with words of praise for the actor: "Vin Diesel is a super awesome dude. I can't tell you how much I like this guy."
The movie is currently scheduled for release Aug. 1, 2014, in the United States. The cast includes Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Benicio del Toro, John C. Reilly and Glenn Close.
AUSTRALIA has its first medal of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics after skier Matt Graham won silver in the moguls.
The world No.3 pumped his fist after passing the line before being awarded 82.57 points in the medal round on Monday night.
He was 4.06 off Canadian great and gold medallist Mikael Kingsbury, who was second-last to make his final run.
Matty Graham celebrates winning silver.
Top seed Daichi Hara of Japan won bronze with 82.19 in the six-man super final, while for the second Olympics in a row Canada's Marc-Antoine Gagnon was fourth. The third skier of the final six down the Bokwang Snow Park course, the 23-year- old Graham was in gold medal position before Sochi 2014 silver medallist Kingsbury weaved his magic in minus 11-degree temperatures.
Graham reacts before stepping on to the podium.
Kingsbury has been the undisputed star of the sport since the 2010 Winter Olympics, with six overall World Cup titles and 48 wins placing him as the greatest moguls skier of all time.
A rare wobble cost him in Sochi, where Graham was seventh.
Graham celebrates his silver medal.
Graham's Olympic success will come as no surprise to those who have tracked his career.
The Gosford product has had 12 World Cup podium finishes including two wins in the Olympic format, beating Kingsbury twice in World Cups to the top spot in Deer Valley 2016 and Calgary 2017.
Graham on his way to place second of the men's moguls final during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
Graham negotiated the preliminary rounds safely, gaining automatic qualification to the three-stage final on Friday before coming through in second then fourth. "Its been such a long year, I just wanted to have fun and feel loose and be able to put it down where it counts," Graham told the Seven Network. "It's a lot of hard years come to fruition.
"It's amazing. My family and my friends have been my biggest support."
Graham gestures on the podium.
His medal completes an Australian moguls campaign hit by the disappointment of rising star Jakara Anthony and world champion Britt Cox finishing fourth and fifth respectively the previous night.
(L-R) Silver medalist Matt Graham of Australia, gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada and bronze medalist Daichi Hara of Japan pose during the victory ceremony.
Australia's men's campaign received a blow soon before it even began when World Cup medallist Brodie Summers failed to recover from a knee injury. The 24-year-old lacked mobility during warm-up for the event on Monday and was deemed at risk of further injury.
Silver medalist Matt Graham of Australia.
Summers tore his ACL injury in September and was always up against it to compete at the Games, breaking down before qualifiers on Friday and failing to compete. Rohan Chapman-Davies was the first Australian eliminated after finishing 12th in repechage, followed by James Matheson in the first stage of the final. But Graham would not be denied, claiming his country's first moguls medal since Dale Begg-Smith's silver at Vancouver 2010.
It's Australia's 13th Winter Olympic medal and sees the country's run of reaching the podium in consecutive Games extend to seven.
Definition of: RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. CD and DVD platters typically rotate in the range of 2,000-5,000 RPM.
(2) (Revenue Per Thousand) The amount of advertising revenue a website receives for ads on every one thousand page views that it delivers to the public. RPM includes all the ads on the page whether paid by click-throughs or impressions paid in bulk. See pay-per-click, click-through rate, CPA, CPL, CPM and eCPM.
(3) (Remote Patient Monitoring) Analyzing a person's health in the home. It includes stand-alone devices such as blood pressure and glucose monitors, as well as wireless devices that use the patient's home network to keep physicians informed in real time. See healthcare IT.
(4) (Remote Print Manager) Software from Brooks Internet Software, Inc. (www.brooksnet.com) that prints output from IBM mainframes (IBM Z), AS/400s (System i) and Unix, Linux and OpenVMS computers on printers connected to Windows machines via the LPD protocol. It turns a Windows PC into an LPD print server and also transforms output previously destined for wide, green and white striped computer paper to page-sized documents. See LPD.
Lee Orr sets up for a volley. The senior and Northwestern performed well at the Miami Spring Invite this weekend.
Daily file photo by Brian Meng.
No. 19 Northwestern began its spring season this weekend in the Miami Spring Invite, facing off against No. 17 Miami, No. 2 Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
In their first event in over two months, the Wildcats impressed by taking nine of 12 matches in the tournament’s first day, and seven of 12 in day two. Though Sunday’s matches were cancelled due to rain, NU left the tournament with significant wins against worthy opponents and a great start to the season.
In day one of the Miami Spring Invite, the Cats had more success than anyone else in the tournament. NU took six of eight singles matches against the hosting Hurricanes and three of four doubles matches against the Commodores. Freshman Clarissa Hand — ranked No. 100 in the nation — had a standout performance in which she defeated seventh-ranked Estela Perez-Somarriba from Miami in consecutive sets.
Hand, originally from Moorestown, NJ, was a five-star recruit out of high school and is off to an impressive start to her collegiate career. Following this weekend’s performance, Hand said she is excited that both she and the team were able to begin the season on such a high note.
The first day similarly featured a noteworthy performance from junior Julie Byrne, who completed a three-set comeback victory against No. 82 Daniella Roldan. The two would later secure victories against Vanderbilt in doubles play en route to an immensely productive first day of the tournament.
Day two of the tournament featured more solid performances from an NU team coming off its first Big Ten Championship since 2012. The Cats won five of eight singles matches against the Wildcats before splitting doubles matches with Miami, including another singles victory for Byrne.
Weather played a role over much of the weekend, as NU battled both the blistering Miami heat and frequent rain. While the conditions were less than ideal to start the season, Byrne said she was pleased by the team’s response.
On the third day, further inclement weather forced matches to be postponed or delayed. As a result, NU played unofficial exhibition matches, cancelling scheduled matches in singles against Vanderbilt and doubles against Kentucky.
Following a 2018 season in which the Cats secured their first Big Ten Championship in years, Pollard said she isn’t budging her expectations after seeing the season start.
A progressive Jewish group says Donald Trump is not welcome in Pittsburgh, the US city where a deadly attack on a synagogue took place on Saturday, until the US president denounces white nationalism.
The local branch of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish advocacy group, said Trump’s words and policies “have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement” in the country.
“You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday’s violence is the direct culmination of your influence,” the group said in an open letter published on Sunday.
The group said Jews are not the only ones who have been targeted by Trump’s rhetoric; the president has “deliberately undermined the safety of people of colour, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities,” it said.
“President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities,” the letter reads.
A gunman opened fire on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, killing 11 elderly congregants and injuring many others.
The suspected gunman, Robert Bowers, was motivated by anti-Semitism, according to US media. While in police custody, he told a SWAT officer he wanted all Jews to die and said ” (Jews) were committing genocide to his people,” CNN reported.
A few hours before the shooting, Bowers also posted on social media that he blamed a Jewish refugee agency, HIAS, for bringing migrants into the United States, whom he described as “invaders,” CNN said.
After the attack, Trump questioned why the synagogue didn’t lock its doors or have armed guards stationed there.
“If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him,” he told reporters.
He skirted any responsibility for fuelling the anti-Semitism that motivated the attack, instead blaming the media for “the division and hatred” engulfing the US.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was “outrageous” that anyone besides Bowers would be blamed for what happened.
“The very first thing the president did was denounce the killings,” she told reporters.
Huckabee Sanders said Trump and his wife plan to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday to meet with the victims’ families.
However, Trump has been embraced by white nationalists and far-right activists. David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, lauded the real estate mogul in the early stages of his presidential campaign in 2015.
Last year, after a deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the US president said there were “some very fine people” amongst both the violent white nationalists and counter-protesters.
A few months after taking office, the administration also cut funding for a group that rehabilitates neo-Nazis.
On Monday morning, Trump was back to tweeting about the caravan of migrants heading toward the US, calling it an “invasion”.
“Our Military is waiting for you!” he wrote.
Trump also reiterated an earlier, unproven claim that gang members and others had embedded themselves into the caravan. Last week, he said “Middle Easterners” were among the migrants, a statement that was immediately criticised as racist and Islamophobic.
Meanwhile, US Muslim community groups had raised more than $126,500 by midday Monday in support of the survivors of the synagogue attack.
On Monday morning, $25,000 was transferred to the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh “to immediately begin disbursing help to the families,” the groups wrote on their online fundraiser page.
The money is going to help pay for funeral expenses and medical bills, among the other short-term needs of the families of the victims and those that were injured.
“No amount of money will bring back their loved ones, but we do hope to lessen their burden in some way,” the fundraiser page reads.
Late Sunday, the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre – the Canadian mosque in which six people were killed in an attack in late January 2017 – also sent a message of support to the Jewish community in Pittsburgh.
“To remove the lives of 11 Jewish people in their place of prayer and injure many others by this hateful and anti-Semitic person, is reprehensible and unacceptable in the 21st century,” the mosque’s board of directors said in a letter.
Featured image is from Salt Lake Tribune.
Miami Heat defeated the Indiana Pacers 117-92 on Friday to win the other league semi-final in six games and punch their ticket to their fourth straight finals. The Heat will be well rested for game one having had five days off.
Tim Duncan scored seven of his 19 points in overtime as San Antonio Spurs beat Oklahoma City Thunder 112-107 in game six on Saturday to set up an NBA finals rematch with the Miami Heat.
Duncan also added 15 assists and power forward Boris Diaw came off the bench to score 26 points for the Spurs, who won the Western Conference final series four games to two.
"This victory is really sweet because we know we played one helluva team," said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.
San Antonio will host the first game of the National Basketball Association finals on Thursday against the two-time defending champion Heat, who beat them in seven games last season.
Miami defeated the Indiana Pacers 117-92 Friday to win the other league semi-final in six games and punch their ticket to their fourth straight finals. The Heat will be well rested for game one having had five days off.
This is the first NBA finals rematch since the Chicago Bulls battled the Utah Jazz in 1997 and 1998.
The Spurs won Saturday despite playing the second half without star guard Tony Parker, who played just 19 minutes before leaving the game with a foot injury.
Kawhi Leonard finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds and reserve Manu Ginobili scored 15 points for the Spurs, who hope to take advantage of home court during the series with Miami.
The Heat won last year, but San Antonio is looking forward to redemption. They have won four titles since Duncan joined forces with Popovich in Texas.
"It is unbelievable to have regained our focus after that devastating loss last year," said Duncan. "We've got that bad taste in our mouth from last time."
Kevin Durant finished with 31 points and 14 rebounds for the Thunder, who had their nine-game home win streak against San Antonio snapped.
Russell Westbrook scored 34 points and had eight assists while Reggie Jackson finished with 21 points for Oklahoma City, who staved off elimination two times previously in these playoffs.
"We settled for too many jump shots and we turned the ball over," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "Defensively they had us scrambling around. And they made some big plays."
San Antonio trailed 49-42 at the half, but managed to chip away and take the lead. They then went on a 9-0 burst to end the third quarter, stretching their lead to 10 points, 79-69, heading into the fourth. And they accomplished the feat without their star guard Parker.
"It was hard when we heard Parker wasn't going to play," said Ginobili. "We knew that if we got our game together and got aggressive we will have a shot. We got over the hump in the third quarter."
With 32 seconds left in the third, Diaw finished off some nice ball movement by the Spurs to make it 75-69.
San Antonio's Danny Green then made a four-point play on the Spurs' final possession. Green drained a three-pointer from the right side but was fouled by Durant. He went to the line and calmly sank the free throw to cap the scoring in the quarter.
Both teams made superb defensive plays in the overtime. Serge Ibaka blocked Ginobili's layup with 48 seconds left and on the next possession Leonard stole the ball from Thunder guard Westbrook before taking it down the court where Duncan hit a field goal to cut the San Antonio lead to 110-107 with 19 seconds left in overtime.
Diaw made two free throws to cap the scoring for the Spurs with just five seconds on the clock.
Ginobili said they are ready for LeBron James and the Heat. "We worked eight months really hard. We had a very successful season and all it did was to get us to this point again for another shot," Ginobili said. "We are going to give everything we got to try and get the trophy again.
"We know we are facing a very talented and tough team and it is going to be rough."
The Fatima seer gives so many clear reasons for us to see why Our Lady insisted on the daily Rosary for all.
Now that we’ve celebrated 100 years of Fatima, do you want some further explanations why we should pray the Rosary daily as Our Lady directed the children and us to do?
Servant of God Sister Lucia can tell us. She gives a clear explanation in her book “Calls” From the Message of Fatima. First, she begins by again reminding that this call from Our Lady came the first time at her first apparition on May 13, 1917.
Our Lady ended her initial message with the direction, Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war.
Next, Sister Lucia mentions how essential it is to pray to receive grace and overcome temptation, and how the Rosary is an accessible prayer not only for the seers who were children then but also for most all people.
Lucia keeps everyone in the loop. Anyone can pray the Rosary anywhere, and at different times.
It always comes round to the Rosary.
Again, she believes and calls the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours marvelous, but she thinks it is not accessible to everyone.
So what can happen if we neglect this directive from our heavenly Mother at Fatima?
The SCO Group has posted a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the conviction of the author of the MyDoom worm currently sweeping the Internet. The worm has been nicknamed "SCObig" because it harbors a payload that will create a Denial of Service attack against SCO's company website next month.
SCO advises anyone who has knows about the perpetrator to contact their local FBI office.
SCO also advises anyone who notices strange executable files, possibly in their /usr/bin directory and messages bearing the text /Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA to contact SCO directly.

The studio's confirmation came after Diesel posted a photo that showed him hugging a model of Groot, the Hollywood Reporter said Saturday. Diesel has been hinting at the role for some time, posting photos that showed him with motion-capture equipment.

The movie's director, James Gunn, reposted the photo on WhoSay with words of praise for the actor: "Vin Diesel is a super awesome dude. I can't tell you how much I like this guy."

The movie is currently scheduled for release Aug. 1, 2014, in the United States. The cast includes Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Benicio del Toro, John C. Reilly and Glenn Close.

AUSTRALIA has its first medal of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics after skier Matt Graham won silver in the moguls.

The world No.3 pumped his fist after passing the line before being awarded 82.57 points in the medal round on Monday night.

He was 4.06 off Canadian great and gold medallist Mikael Kingsbury, who was second-last to make his final run.

Matty Graham celebrates winning silver.

Top seed Daichi Hara of Japan won bronze with 82.19 in the six-man super final, while for the second Olympics in a row Canada's Marc-Antoine Gagnon was fourth. The third skier of the final six down the Bokwang Snow Park course, the 23-year- old Graham was in gold medal position before Sochi 2014 silver medallist Kingsbury weaved his magic in minus 11-degree temperatures.

Graham reacts before stepping on to the podium.

Kingsbury has been the undisputed star of the sport since the 2010 Winter Olympics, with six overall World Cup titles and 48 wins placing him as the greatest moguls skier of all time.

A rare wobble cost him in Sochi, where Graham was seventh.

Graham celebrates his silver medal.

Graham's Olympic success will come as no surprise to those who have tracked his career.

The Gosford product has had 12 World Cup podium finishes including two wins in the Olympic format, beating Kingsbury twice in World Cups to the top spot in Deer Valley 2016 and Calgary 2017.

Graham on his way to place second of the men's moguls final during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

Graham negotiated the preliminary rounds safely, gaining automatic qualification to the three-stage final on Friday before coming through in second then fourth. "Its been such a long year, I just wanted to have fun and feel loose and be able to put it down where it counts," Graham told the Seven Network. "It's a lot of hard years come to fruition.

"It's amazing. My family and my friends have been my biggest support."

Graham gestures on the podium.

His medal completes an Australian moguls campaign hit by the disappointment of rising star Jakara Anthony and world champion Britt Cox finishing fourth and fifth respectively the previous night.

(L-R) Silver medalist Matt Graham of Australia, gold medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada and bronze medalist Daichi Hara of Japan pose during the victory ceremony.

Australia's men's campaign received a blow soon before it even began when World Cup medallist Brodie Summers failed to recover from a knee injury. The 24-year-old lacked mobility during warm-up for the event on Monday and was deemed at risk of further injury.

Silver medalist Matt Graham of Australia.

Summers tore his ACL injury in September and was always up against it to compete at the Games, breaking down before qualifiers on Friday and failing to compete. Rohan Chapman-Davies was the first Australian eliminated after finishing 12th in repechage, followed by James Matheson in the first stage of the final. But Graham would not be denied, claiming his country's first moguls medal since Dale Begg-Smith's silver at Vancouver 2010.

It's Australia's 13th Winter Olympic medal and sees the country's run of reaching the podium in consecutive Games extend to seven.

Definition of: RPM (1) (Revolutions Per Minute) With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate from 3,000 to 15,000 RPM. CD and DVD platters typically rotate in the range of 2,000-5,000 RPM.

(2) (Revenue Per Thousand) The amount of advertising revenue a website receives for ads on every one thousand page views that it delivers to the public. RPM includes all the ads on the page whether paid by click-throughs or impressions paid in bulk. See pay-per-click, click-through rate, CPA, CPL, CPM and eCPM.

(3) (Remote Patient Monitoring) Analyzing a person's health in the home. It includes stand-alone devices such as blood pressure and glucose monitors, as well as wireless devices that use the patient's home network to keep physicians informed in real time. See healthcare IT.

(4) (Remote Print Manager) Software from Brooks Internet Software, Inc. (www.brooksnet.com) that prints output from IBM mainframes (IBM Z), AS/400s (System i) and Unix, Linux and OpenVMS computers on printers connected to Windows machines via the LPD protocol. It turns a Windows PC into an LPD print server and also transforms output previously destined for wide, green and white striped computer paper to page-sized documents. See LPD.

Lee Orr sets up for a volley. The senior and Northwestern performed well at the Miami Spring Invite this weekend.

Daily file photo by Brian Meng.

No. 19 Northwestern began its spring season this weekend in the Miami Spring Invite, facing off against No. 17 Miami, No. 2 Vanderbilt and Kentucky.

In their first event in over two months, the Wildcats impressed by taking nine of 12 matches in the tournament’s first day, and seven of 12 in day two. Though Sunday’s matches were cancelled due to rain, NU left the tournament with significant wins against worthy opponents and a great start to the season.

In day one of the Miami Spring Invite, the Cats had more success than anyone else in the tournament. NU took six of eight singles matches against the hosting Hurricanes and three of four doubles matches against the Commodores. Freshman Clarissa Hand — ranked No. 100 in the nation — had a standout performance in which she defeated seventh-ranked Estela Perez-Somarriba from Miami in consecutive sets.

Hand, originally from Moorestown, NJ, was a five-star recruit out of high school and is off to an impressive start to her collegiate career. Following this weekend’s performance, Hand said she is excited that both she and the team were able to begin the season on such a high note.

The first day similarly featured a noteworthy performance from junior Julie Byrne, who completed a three-set comeback victory against No. 82 Daniella Roldan. The two would later secure victories against Vanderbilt in doubles play en route to an immensely productive first day of the tournament.

Day two of the tournament featured more solid performances from an NU team coming off its first Big Ten Championship since 2012. The Cats won five of eight singles matches against the Wildcats before splitting doubles matches with Miami, including another singles victory for Byrne.

Weather played a role over much of the weekend, as NU battled both the blistering Miami heat and frequent rain. While the conditions were less than ideal to start the season, Byrne said she was pleased by the team’s response.

On the third day, further inclement weather forced matches to be postponed or delayed. As a result, NU played unofficial exhibition matches, cancelling scheduled matches in singles against Vanderbilt and doubles against Kentucky.

Following a 2018 season in which the Cats secured their first Big Ten Championship in years, Pollard said she isn’t budging her expectations after seeing the season start.

A progressive Jewish group says Donald Trump is not welcome in Pittsburgh, the US city where a deadly attack on a synagogue took place on Saturday, until the US president denounces white nationalism.

The local branch of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish advocacy group, said Trump’s words and policies “have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement” in the country.

“You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday’s violence is the direct culmination of your influence,” the group said in an open letter published on Sunday.

The group said Jews are not the only ones who have been targeted by Trump’s rhetoric; the president has “deliberately undermined the safety of people of colour, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities,” it said.

“President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities,” the letter reads.

A gunman opened fire on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, killing 11 elderly congregants and injuring many others.

The suspected gunman, Robert Bowers, was motivated by anti-Semitism, according to US media. While in police custody, he told a SWAT officer he wanted all Jews to die and said ” (Jews) were committing genocide to his people,” CNN reported.

A few hours before the shooting, Bowers also posted on social media that he blamed a Jewish refugee agency, HIAS, for bringing migrants into the United States, whom he described as “invaders,” CNN said.

After the attack, Trump questioned why the synagogue didn’t lock its doors or have armed guards stationed there.

“If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him,” he told reporters.

He skirted any responsibility for fuelling the anti-Semitism that motivated the attack, instead blaming the media for “the division and hatred” engulfing the US.

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was “outrageous” that anyone besides Bowers would be blamed for what happened.

“The very first thing the president did was denounce the killings,” she told reporters.

Huckabee Sanders said Trump and his wife plan to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday to meet with the victims’ families.

However, Trump has been embraced by white nationalists and far-right activists. David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, lauded the real estate mogul in the early stages of his presidential campaign in 2015.

Last year, after a deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the US president said there were “some very fine people” amongst both the violent white nationalists and counter-protesters.

A few months after taking office, the administration also cut funding for a group that rehabilitates neo-Nazis.

On Monday morning, Trump was back to tweeting about the caravan of migrants heading toward the US, calling it an “invasion”.

“Our Military is waiting for you!” he wrote.

Trump also reiterated an earlier, unproven claim that gang members and others had embedded themselves into the caravan. Last week, he said “Middle Easterners” were among the migrants, a statement that was immediately criticised as racist and Islamophobic.

Meanwhile, US Muslim community groups had raised more than $126,500 by midday Monday in support of the survivors of the synagogue attack.

On Monday morning, $25,000 was transferred to the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh “to immediately begin disbursing help to the families,” the groups wrote on their online fundraiser page.

The money is going to help pay for funeral expenses and medical bills, among the other short-term needs of the families of the victims and those that were injured.

“No amount of money will bring back their loved ones, but we do hope to lessen their burden in some way,” the fundraiser page reads.

Late Sunday, the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre – the Canadian mosque in which six people were killed in an attack in late January 2017 – also sent a message of support to the Jewish community in Pittsburgh.

“To remove the lives of 11 Jewish people in their place of prayer and injure many others by this hateful and anti-Semitic person, is reprehensible and unacceptable in the 21st century,” the mosque’s board of directors said in a letter.

Featured image is from Salt Lake Tribune.

Miami Heat defeated the Indiana Pacers 117-92 on Friday to win the other league semi-final in six games and punch their ticket to their fourth straight finals. The Heat will be well rested for game one having had five days off.

Tim Duncan scored seven of his 19 points in overtime as San Antonio Spurs beat Oklahoma City Thunder 112-107 in game six on Saturday to set up an NBA finals rematch with the Miami Heat.

Duncan also added 15 assists and power forward Boris Diaw came off the bench to score 26 points for the Spurs, who won the Western Conference final series four games to two.

"This victory is really sweet because we know we played one helluva team," said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.

San Antonio will host the first game of the National Basketball Association finals on Thursday against the two-time defending champion Heat, who beat them in seven games last season.

Miami defeated the Indiana Pacers 117-92 Friday to win the other league semi-final in six games and punch their ticket to their fourth straight finals. The Heat will be well rested for game one having had five days off.

This is the first NBA finals rematch since the Chicago Bulls battled the Utah Jazz in 1997 and 1998.

The Spurs won Saturday despite playing the second half without star guard Tony Parker, who played just 19 minutes before leaving the game with a foot injury.

Kawhi Leonard finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds and reserve Manu Ginobili scored 15 points for the Spurs, who hope to take advantage of home court during the series with Miami.

The Heat won last year, but San Antonio is looking forward to redemption. They have won four titles since Duncan joined forces with Popovich in Texas.

"It is unbelievable to have regained our focus after that devastating loss last year," said Duncan. "We've got that bad taste in our mouth from last time."

Kevin Durant finished with 31 points and 14 rebounds for the Thunder, who had their nine-game home win streak against San Antonio snapped.

Russell Westbrook scored 34 points and had eight assists while Reggie Jackson finished with 21 points for Oklahoma City, who staved off elimination two times previously in these playoffs.

"We settled for too many jump shots and we turned the ball over," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "Defensively they had us scrambling around. And they made some big plays."

San Antonio trailed 49-42 at the half, but managed to chip away and take the lead. They then went on a 9-0 burst to end the third quarter, stretching their lead to 10 points, 79-69, heading into the fourth. And they accomplished the feat without their star guard Parker.

"It was hard when we heard Parker wasn't going to play," said Ginobili. "We knew that if we got our game together and got aggressive we will have a shot. We got over the hump in the third quarter."

With 32 seconds left in the third, Diaw finished off some nice ball movement by the Spurs to make it 75-69.

San Antonio's Danny Green then made a four-point play on the Spurs' final possession. Green drained a three-pointer from the right side but was fouled by Durant. He went to the line and calmly sank the free throw to cap the scoring in the quarter.

Both teams made superb defensive plays in the overtime. Serge Ibaka blocked Ginobili's layup with 48 seconds left and on the next possession Leonard stole the ball from Thunder guard Westbrook before taking it down the court where Duncan hit a field goal to cut the San Antonio lead to 110-107 with 19 seconds left in overtime.

Diaw made two free throws to cap the scoring for the Spurs with just five seconds on the clock.

Ginobili said they are ready for LeBron James and the Heat. "We worked eight months really hard. We had a very successful season and all it did was to get us to this point again for another shot," Ginobili said. "We are going to give everything we got to try and get the trophy again.

"We know we are facing a very talented and tough team and it is going to be rough."

The Fatima seer gives so many clear reasons for us to see why Our Lady insisted on the daily Rosary for all.

Now that we’ve celebrated 100 years of Fatima, do you want some further explanations why we should pray the Rosary daily as Our Lady directed the children and us to do?

Servant of God Sister Lucia can tell us. She gives a clear explanation in her book “Calls” From the Message of Fatima. First, she begins by again reminding that this call from Our Lady came the first time at her first apparition on May 13, 1917.

Our Lady ended her initial message with the direction, Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war.

Next, Sister Lucia mentions how essential it is to pray to receive grace and overcome temptation, and how the Rosary is an accessible prayer not only for the seers who were children then but also for most all people.

Lucia keeps everyone in the loop. Anyone can pray the Rosary anywhere, and at different times.

It always comes round to the Rosary.

Again, she believes and calls the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours marvelous, but she thinks it is not accessible to everyone.

So what can happen if we neglect this directive from our heavenly Mother at Fatima?

The SCO Group has posted a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the conviction of the author of the MyDoom worm currently sweeping the Internet. The worm has been nicknamed "SCObig" because it harbors a payload that will create a Denial of Service attack against SCO's company website next month.

SCO advises anyone who has knows about the perpetrator to contact their local FBI office.

SCO also advises anyone who notices strange executable files, possibly in their /usr/bin directory and messages bearing the text /Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA to contact SCO directly.