June 23rd 2010 Wimbledon Longest Tennis Match In History John Isner Vs. Nicolas Mahut!!
Match Started at 6:13 P.M. on 6/22
Match Suspended at 9:07 P.M. on 6/22 (darkness)
Match Resumed at 2:05 P.M. on 6/23
Match Suspended again at 9:10 P.M. on 6/23 (darkness)
Isner has already served a world record 98 aces (ongoing) in the single match alone, breaking Ivo Karlović’s record of 78. Mahut would go on to surpass it as well with 95.
Till now (2010/6/24, 14:00, GMT+8), 163 games and over 9 hours and 58 mins.
Here you can find some touching photos of this game. Undoubtedly, an ordeal for both players, audience, chair umpires and caddies, and bravo for all of them.
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P.S.
If I was the chair umpire today, I might ask both fighters “did you guys sleep well last night?” :p
Tests now indicate that the outbreak in Mexico may turn out to be far smaller than originally feared.
Of 908 suspected cases that were tested, only 397 people turned out to have the virus, officially known as influenza A(H1N1), Mexican health officials reported on Friday. Of those, 17 people have died. Initially, Mexico had reported as many as 2,500 suspected cases, but the number of actual cases could turn out to be less than half the suspected number if further testing follows the same pattern as the original round.
這大概是一個稍微可以令人放心一點的消息。
Update (2009/5/3):
Mexico 473, US 178, Canada 55。The number of deaths in Mexico that officials suspect to have been caused by the flu is 170 (confirmed is 17).
Update (2009/5/4):
Mexico 506, US 238, Canada 85。
Update (2009/5/5):
Mexico 590, US 297, Canada 129。隨著確認病例增長趨緩，墨西哥政府計畫降低豬流感的警戒程度。(新聞連結)
Update (2009/5/6):
Mexico 866, US 402, Canada 140。第一位感染豬流感的美國居民死亡，不過該名婦人染病之前身體狀況就已經不佳，所以不太能判定是否為豬流感致死，美國官方的態度是不認為豬流感為主要致死原因。
Her death was a combination of a pre-existing health condition and the flu. The flu just made things worse.
為了要幫 Air Force One (空軍一號，即總統專機)拍照，所以美國空軍在今天早上駕駛空軍一號低空略過紐約上空，同時後面跟著兩架 F16 護航。這樣的場景除了巨大的噪音之外，或許還會讓人想到不愉快的 911？
這件事情事前通報了紐約警察局及市府(Police Department and someone in his administration)，但糟糕的是紐約市長(Mr. Bloomberg)居然沒有被告知，結果今天早上市長的黑莓機跟許多機關的電話就爆炸了 XD
authorities were inundated with calls from anxious ferry passengers, office workers and residents.
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Mr. Bloomberg said he was not apprised of the flyover until his BlackBerry started buzzing this morning with messages from people asking if he knew what was going on.
Nowpublic.com is a news website, the difference from other news provider is that the news of Nowpublic.com are provided from real people all around the world. Can this model work out in Taiwan?
In response, their union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, called a five-day strike, which began Monday.
不過仔細閱讀新聞內容，覺得這樣的罷工還蠻有道理的，畢竟薪水實在太低。
Asingle parent living in Riverside County or Orange County needs to earn $24.74 an hour to make ends meet, …(skip)… In a two-parent household, each parent needs to earn at least $17.48 an hour to break even.
But after 10 months of negotiation, $11.50 an hour is the last, best offer the 10-campus University of California …
但，經費的來源也是一大問題…
It’s facing a budget shortfall. Union leaders are quick to point out that only 8% of the UC hospitals’ budgets come from the state, and the campuses, too, are not entirely funded by state money.
可是，偏偏一些正式的faculty卻領了很高的薪水啊 =____=
Few UC Irvine faculty members know that, according to union sources, the chief executives of all of the UC hospitals but Irvine’s were prepared to offer the patient-care workers $14.50 an hour, which was acceptable to the union. Maureen Zehntner, chief executive of the UC Irvine medical center (salary $555,000 a year), held out for $13.50 an hour, claiming that living costs in Orange County are lower than elsewhere in California.
