Mike Brown has agreed in principle to become the Lakers' next head coach, according to an NBA official who was not permitted to speak publicly on the matter.
 
Brown is expected to sign a contract later Wednesday or Thursday. The deal is worth between $4 million and $4.5 million per season, NBA officials said. Brown's contract is thought to be for three years, with a team option on the fourth season that would give him partial pay if he is not retained.
 
Phil Jackson retired as the Lakers' head coach after the team was eliminated by Dallas in the second round of the playoffs.
 
Brown, 41, was head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers for five seasons until he was fired in 2010. He had a 272-138 record.
 
He was named the NBA's coach of the year in 2009, leading the Cavaliers to a 66-16 record.
 
Brown also led the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2007, but Cleveland was swept by the San Antonio Spurs.
 
[Updated at 3:55 p.m.] The Lakers issued a statement: "we’ve met with Mike [Brown] and are very impressed with him.  In addition, we have an outline for an agreement in place and hope to sign a contract within the next few days.”
 
 -- Mike Bresnahan and Broderick Turner

"Macho Man" Randy Savage, a professional wrestler who became a fan favorite thanks to his outlandish outfits and trademark catchphrase, died Friday in a car wreck, as first reported by TMZ.
The 58-year-old Savage -- whose legal name was Randy Mario Poffo -- reportedly suffered a heart attack while driving his 2009 Jeep Wrangler in Tampa, Fla., and careened across lanes of oncoming traffic before colliding head-on with a tree. He died later at a local hospital.
Savage's wife Lynn, who was riding in the passenger seat, escaped with only minor injuries. Both passengers were wearing seatbelts and the police do not believe alcohol was a factor.
[Related: Macho Man's lasting legacy]
The World Wrestling Federation favorite from Ohio burst onto the scene in 1985 and quickly drew attention with his flamboyant outfits and "ooh yeah!" catchphrase. His marriage to Elizabeth Hulette, Ms. Elizabeth to fans, was one of the first high-profile wrestler/valet relationships. They divorced in 1992. Savage remarried last year.
He won two WWF championships in his career. His match against Ricky Steamboat in 1987's Wrestlemania III is considered one of the best WWF bouts ever. Savage won the title late that year, setting the stage for memorable battles with Hulk Hogan, who would eventually dethrone him as champion.
[Related: Randy Savage's brief pro baseball career]
World Wrestling Entertainment released an official statement on Friday afternoon.
"WWE is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the greatest Superstars of his time, Randy Poffo, aka Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
One of Macho Man's biggest rivals was Hulk Hogan. Hogan said he and Savage had just started talking again after 10 years.
"He had so much life in his eyes & in his spirit, I just pray that he's happy and in a better place and we miss him," Hogan wrote.
Savage also appeared in memorable ads for Slim Jim and played a wrestler in the 2002 hit film "Spider-Man."

2 Taj Gibson Dunks: Posterizes Wade, Putback Dunk [HD]

The second one is bloody awesome!!

Saif al-Adel, the high-ranking Egyptian commander in Al Qaeda and longtime associate of Osama bin Laden who has reportedly been appointed the organization’s “caretaker,” is a veteran of the jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, and has a reputation as a skilled operational planner and pragmatic commander.

One of the lesser-known stories about his past involves his unofficial role as “caretaker” for the Khadr family.

Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr was associated with al-Adel and many of Al Qaeda’s Egyptian commanders in the late 1980s and 1990s, when he lived with his family in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

After 9/11, the Khadr family members scattered. Pakistani forces killed the family patriarch in October 2003, during a battle that left his youngest son paralyzed.

Khadr’s wife and children have since moved back to Canada and his second youngest son, Omar, is expected to return this fall from Guantanamo. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to five war crimes in return for the deal that would allow him to serve the remainder of his sentence here.

During a series of interviews with the Toronto Star in the summer of 2007, three Khadr family members described what it was like to live among Al Qaeda’s elite in the years before 9/11.

One memorable story involving al-Adel began in early 1997, while Khadr was visiting Canada, and his wife and children were living in an Afghan compound belonging to bin Laden.

While most Egyptian leaders respected Khadr, his kids were often seen as too Western, according to those who knew the Khadrs at the time. Abdurahman, the second oldest Khadr son and so-called black sheep of his family, was of particular concern to Al Qaeda.

One day, as a convoy quickly lined up to leave the camp, Abdurahman and his older brother Abdullah got into a screaming match. They were fighting over the front seat, Abduraham said.

Shouting led to shoving, which eventually led to Abdullah running after his brother with an AK-47 pointed at his back. Their mother screamed for her boys to stop.

Bin Laden had reportedly told the family he did not want them following him to the next camp in Kandahar, but Khadr’s wife, Maha Elsamnah, begged the group to keep Abdurahman. “I couldn’t control him,” she said in an interview.

Al Qaeda managed to hang on to Abdurahman for just one night in Kabul, when the group’s members decided they couldn’t handle him, either.

It was left to al-Adel, now Al Qaeda’s new leader, to drive the teenager to the bus station.

“Do not come back until your father is with you,” Abdurahman recalled him saying. “Go to your family.” Then he bought a ticket for Abdurahman to go to Peshawar.

This wasn’t the first time the Khadr children would be in trouble. An informant who worked for the British and French intelligence services, and later wrote a book under the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, described another scene at a training camp when the Khadr boys fought.

“They had broken all the rules we had learned since our first day of training,” Nasiri wrote. “Soon, we were laughing about it, even though it wasn’t funny at all. It made us nervous.”

When the Khadr family later moved to Kabul, they lived once again near al-Adel.

Most of Al Qaeda at this time lived outside of Kandahar, but al-Adel resided in the upscale neighbourhood of Wazzer Akbar Khan, according to Elsamnah.

Many of the Egyptians in Kabul used walkie-talkies to communicate with each other. The Khadr family was given Number 15, but at some point someone said “Kareem” instead, and that name seemed to stick.

Saif al Adel was known on the radio as Number 1.

In describing Al Qaeda’s roots in his book Looming Tower, author Lawrence Wright said al-Adel travelled with bin Laden from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996. “Saif al Adel, later to become al Qaeda’s military chief, sat in the co-pilot’s seat holding a map so he could direct the Russian pilot, who didn’t speak Arabic and whom they didn’t trust,” Wright wrote.

Many Al Qaeda leaders were paranoid about spies within the group, but Wright describes al-Adel as particularly suspicious of a “traitor in his camp.”

News of al-Adel’s appointment as an interim leader was uncovered Tuesday by Noman Benotman, a former Libyan fighter aligned with Al Qaeda, now working at London’s counter-extremism think tank, the Quilliam Foundation.

After 9/11, al-Adel’s whereabouts were a mystery. It was believed he fled to Iran after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 and was put under house arrest.

Benotman was reportedly told by sources that al-Adel was released this summer in exchange for kidnapped Iranian diplomats.

His release is expected to raise questions about Tehran’s role determining in Al Qaeda’s future since the killing of bin Laden earlier this month.

Al-Adel is expected to remain in the leadership role until the organization can be taken over by Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri.

priyatam pyare ke hunda aa bhee?  :dnk:

This is so me.. : :
 

 

 

Barcelona clinched its third straight Spanish league title on Wednesday with a 1-1 draw at Levante.
Seydou Keita headed home Xavi Hernandez's pass to put Barcelona ahead in the 28th minute, only to see Levante striker Felipe Caicedo level the score in the 40th after a mistake by Gerard Pique.
"Each league title has been tough to win," Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said. "Now it is time to enjoy it."
It was Barcelona's fifth league crown in seven seasons and 21st in its 111-year history. Real Madrid will finish runner-up for the third consecutive season.
With the domestic competition wrapped up with two games remaining, Barcelona can now turn its full attention to preparing for the Champions League final against Manchester United on May 28 at London's Wembley Stadium.
"It is a very important day for all our fans," said Keita. "Now we have to think in the final of the Champions League, which is also a very important game to win for this club."
Barcelona now has doubly fond memories of the Ciutat de Valencia ground.
In 2005, a Barcelona side then managed by Frank Rijkaard drew 1-1 thanks to Samuel Eto'o's second-half equalizer to seal its first league title in five years. That championship launched a run of successes that has included two Champions League trophies, five Spanish league titles, one Club World Cup and a Copa del Rey.
Seven years later, Barcelona still maintains five players from that same squad: Lionel Messi, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Carles Puyol and Victor Valdes.Well-earned pointLevante remained undefeated in nine straight home games and the well-earned point boosted its chances of staying up.
Fullback Eric Abidal returned to the starting 11 for Barcelona for the first time since recovering from surgery to remove a liver tumour, while Keita and Dutch international Ibrahim Afellay got the nod over regular starters Andres Iniesta and Pedro Rodriguez.
As they have done against almost every opponent this season, Barcelona dominated the possession of the ball from the opening whistle.
Levante took seven minutes to cross the halfway line, but once it did the Spanish minnow dared to threaten the defending champions area with strikes by Francisco Nadal and ex-Barcelona youth product Xavi Torres.
Barcelona appeared to miss Pedro's speed and Iniesta's dribbling early on as it failed to penetrate Levante's defence. But Xavi soon picked out Keita charging forward with a perfectly placed long pass that the Mali midfielder expertly redirected into the top left corner of the net.
Barcelona had the contest under control when defender Gerard Pique completely miskicked an attempted clearance and gifted Caicedo the ball in the area for the Ecuadorean international to fire past goalkeeper Valdes for his 13th goal of the season.
Messi made a spectacular effort to wiggle through four Levante defenders in the 58th, but his stabbed shot hit the post.
Abidal was applauded by the entire stadium when he was replaced by Andreu Fontas midway through the second half.
Messi again came within inches of the winner after slaloming by a trio of defenders in the 72nd, but from then on neither team threatened as both were content to split the points.
Barcelona spent the last 10 minutes passing the ball back and forth — just like during the draw in 2005 — as its fans cheered "Champions! Champions!" in the stands.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2011/05/11/sp-barcelona.html#ixzz1M69stQ3C

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Dhanwad

Q1: Who knows about Roman Empire or Egyptian Civilization?
Q2: Who knows about First Indian Civilization?


I know more than 90% knows the answer to the first one. But it is an astonishing fact that the first civilization the world ever saw is Indian Civilization - Its called the Harapan Civilization. It was in 3500 BC, about 2500-3000 Years before the Romans became civilized. It had a reported population of about 2.5 M back in those days. Considered to be most developed and largest civilization of its time.


 But here comes my question, Then why even being brown, we are hindering from some of these facts and don't know them, even though we do know about French or Egypt


I leave you with that, we will talk more. Peace  :happy:

wARNING - SWEARING

Tommy Davidson - White Lady v. Indian Manager

This is priceless... "Ya all think that a racist joke - But eastindian managers are the only who can nuterlize the white women Bullshit"... LOL.. oh hell ya..