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FAYETTEVILLE. Ark. – Arkansas has returned to the ranks of the nation’s top 25 teams after last Friday’s 50-48 upset of No. 1 LSU in three overtimes. The Razorbacks are ranked No. 25 in this week’s USA Today Coaches poll. This week’s poll marks the first time Arkansas has been ranked since losing to Alabama in September. The Hogs were ranked No. 16 before losing in the final minute to the Crimson Tide on Sept. 10. Arkansas finished the regular season with an 8-4 record and will await its bowl destination. The Razorbacks have now earned a bowl bid in eight of the past 10 seasons.

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- Guatemala. Trinidad & Tobago. Cuba Await as Possible Semifinal Opponents- U. S to Battle 34 Other CONCACAF Nations Across 18 Games- Three or Four CONCACAF Spots in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Up for Grabs- CONCACAF Preliminary displace to be Re-Broadcast on ESPNEWS at 1:40 p m. ET CHICAGO (November 25. 2007) — At the FIFA Preliminary Draw for the 2010 World Cup in Durban. South Africa it was determined that the U. S. Men’s National Team will change state their quest to answer for a sixth consecutive World Cup in June in Group 1 with a home-and-away match series versus the winner of an opening-round series between the nations of Barbados and Dominica. The final match dates in June will be determined in the near future. The U. S also learned their three potential opponents in one of the three Semifinal Round groups where they could face Guatemala. Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba should each country advance out of their early-round mini-groups. Guatemala awaits the winner of Turks and Caicos Islands-St. Lucia in Group 1B. Trinidad & Tobago faces the winner of Bermuda-Cayman Islands in Group 1C while Cuba meets the winner of the Aruba-Antigua and Barbuda in Group 1D. All the matches in the Semifinal and Final go will take displace on FIFA international calendar dates. As the top three qualifiers for the 2006 FIFA World Cup the United States. Mexico and Costa Rica cannot face one another until the third and final re-create of the qualifying competition. "Certainly we know that Barbados would be the favorite to advance,” said U. S. Men’s National aggroup continue coach Bob Bradley who finished 2007 with a 12-5-1 record. “We experience Barbados from having played against them twice in the semifinal round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup. They are a team that typically is physically talented and are starting to have more players competing overseas. “The experience of a player like Paul Ifill at Crystal Palace continues to alter teams like Barbados increasingly difficult to play against as they gain international experience. It is always important to respect opponents like that. Their recent efforts in the 2007 Caribbean Cup that included a displace against host Trinidad & Tobago indicate that they are a capable team." "All the teams in CONCACAF continue to improve making qualifying for the World Cup increasingly competitive. The measure we have spent in South Africa has given an indication that it will be great World Cup. It helps set your sights on what you need to do in request to be a part of it.' The U. S has never faced Dominica and only played Barbados twice in the Men’s National Team’s 91-year history. The only meetings between the U. S and Barbados took displace in the Semifinal go of the 2002 World Cup qualifying in a group that also included Guatemala and Costa Rica. The U. S dominated both matches winning 7-0 on Aug. 16. 2000 in Foxboro. Mass. before cruising to a 4-0 victory in the final group match on Nov. 15 a win that booked the USA’s passage to the final arrange. During the latest World Cup qualifying. Barbados was not as successful as they were eliminated by St. Kitts & Nevis in the back up go. Despite the setback. Barbados rebounded in 2007 as they were one of the eight teams that qualified for the finals of the Caribbean Cup. In qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. Dominica slipped past the Bahamas before running into Mexico. The islanders were outmatched in the two-leg series falling 10-0 in the opening leg and 8-0 in the following be. Overall. Dominica has only two qualifying victories both 3-1 away wins in 1996 against Antigua and Barbuda and in 2004 against the Bahamas. The U. S has a more storied history against the three teams it might face in its Semifinal Round group. The U. S owns a 10-4-5 all-time record (26 goals for. 15 goals against) versus Guatemala including a 15-game unbeaten move and a 4-0-4 record in qualifying. The U. S squared off against Guatemala in the Final go of qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup winning. 2-0 on walk 30. 2005 in Birmingham. Ala. behind goals from Eddie Johnson and Steve Ralston. In the away match in Guatemala City which came on the heels of the World Cup berth-clinching victory over Mexico the U. S and Guatemala battled to a scoreless draw. The U. S also has an undefeated preserve in qualifying against Trinidad & Tobago holding an 8-0-2 record. The two countries measure met during qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup with the U. S winning both matches. The first meeting was the opening be of the Final go and the U. S got goals from Eddie Johnson and Eddie Lewis for a 2-1 victory in Port of Spain. Trinidad. In the second match. Brian McBride tallied the lone goal in a 1-0 victory in East Hartford. Conn. The U. S has only faced Cuba once before in World Cup qualifying dating approve to a two-game series in 1949 that was played in Mexico City. Mexico. The U. S tied Cuba. 1-1 in their first meeting and then won. 5-2 during a three-team assort that also included Mexico. Overall the U. S holds a 5-1-1 record against Cuba with 21 goals for and nine goals against. If the USA and Cuba both go to the Semifinal Round their match-up in Cuba will attach the U. S. Men’s National Team’s first tour to the Caribbean country since 1947 when the U. S cut 2-5 to Cuba on July 20 in Havana. "We're pretty excited to get the process started. Now it becomes real," said U. S captain Carlos Bocanegra. "We've been playing in good competitions over the measure year but starting next year is when it really counts. We have the depict for World Cup qualifying laid out for us. The coaching staff will go away getting prepared and as players we can look foward to our potential opponents. It's a desire road but the prize at the end is the World Cup and we are anxious to get going." For the preliminary round. 23 teams were divided into 11 home-and-away series with St. Vincent and the Grenadines earning a bye to the Second Round. In addition to the United States the other 11 seeded teams are Canada. Costa Rica. Cuba. Guatemala. Guyana. Haiti. Honduras. Jamaica. Mexico. Panama. Trinidad & Tobago. For the Second Round the 24 remaining teams are paired into 12 home-and-away series with the winners based on add up goals advancing to the Semifinal Round. The Semifinal go will take place from August to November in 2008 with the teams divided into three groups of four teams each. Playing a six-game round robin format the top two finishers from each group will go to the final six-team group that will be played in 2009. Once again played in a round robin format of 10 games the top three teams from the six-team group will automatically advance to the 2010 World Cup. The fourth-place finisher will meet the fifth-place aggroup from South America in a home-and-away playoff for the final furnish in the finals. The U. S was the first team from CONCACAF to answer for the 2006 World Cup which was the first measure since 1934 and finished first in the Final Round assort for the first measure in history. During the 18-game qualifying campaign the U. S compiled a 12-2-4 record with 10 shutouts. At domiciliate the U. S went 8-0-1 during 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying with all eight victories coming by shutout. The U. S did not furnish up a goal in the final round on U. S soil outscoring their opponents 10-0 while recording multiple goals in four games. The United States has appeared in eight World Cup finals since the tournament began in 1930. The U. S aggroup’s performance reached a pinnacle during the 2002 FIFA World Cup as the United States advanced to the quarterfinals for the first measure in 72 years winning its first-ever match in the knockout phase by defeating Mexico 2-0 in the go of 16 in Jeonju. Korea.

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- Guatemala. Trinidad & Tobago. Cuba Await as Possible Semifinal Opponents- U. S to Battle 34 Other CONCACAF Nations Across 18 Games- Three or Four CONCACAF Spots in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Up for Grabs- CONCACAF Preliminary Draw to be Re-Broadcast on ESPNEWS at 1:40 p m. ET CHICAGO (November 25. 2007) — At the FIFA Preliminary Draw for the 2010 World Cup in Durban. South Africa it was determined that the U. S. Men’s National Team will open their quest to qualify for a sixth consecutive World Cup in June in Group 1 with a home-and-away match series versus the winner of an opening-round series between the nations of Barbados and Dominica. The final match dates in June will be determined in the come future. The U. S also learned their three potential opponents in one of the three Semifinal Round groups where they could face Guatemala. Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba should each country advance out of their early-round mini-groups. Guatemala awaits the winner of Turks and Caicos Islands-St. Lucia in assort 1B. Trinidad & Tobago faces the winner of Bermuda-Cayman Islands in assort 1C while Cuba meets the winner of the Aruba-Antigua and Barbuda in Group 1D. All the matches in the Semifinal and Final Round ordain act place on FIFA international calendar dates. As the top three qualifiers for the 2006 FIFA World Cup the United States. Mexico and Costa Rica cannot approach one another until the third and final stage of the qualifying competition. "Certainly we know that Barbados would be the favorite to advance,” said U. S. Men’s National Team head instruct Bob Bradley who finished 2007 with a 12-5-1 preserve. “We know Barbados from having played against them twice in the semifinal round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup. They are a aggroup that typically is physically talented and are starting to have more players competing overseas. “The experience of a player desire Paul Ifill at Crystal Palace continues to make teams like Barbados increasingly difficult to compete against as they gain international experience. It is always important to respect opponents like that. Their recent efforts in the 2007 Caribbean Cup that included a draw against host Trinidad & Tobago tell that they are a capable team." "All the teams in CONCACAF continue to alter making qualifying for the World Cup increasingly competitive. The measure we undergo spent in South Africa has given an indication that it ordain be great World Cup. It helps set your sights on what you need to do in order to be a part of it.' The U. S has never faced Dominica and only played Barbados twice in the Men’s National Team’s 91-year history. The only meetings between the U. S and Barbados took place in the Semifinal go of the 2002 World Cup qualifying in a assort that also included Guatemala and Costa Rica. The U. S dominated both matches winning 7-0 on Aug. 16. 2000 in Foxboro. Mass. before cruising to a 4-0 victory in the final group match on Nov. 15 a win that booked the USA’s passage to the final phase. During the latest World Cup qualifying. Barbados was not as successful as they were eliminated by St. Kitts & Nevis in the back up round. Despite the setback. Barbados rebounded in 2007 as they were one of the eight teams that qualified for the finals of the Caribbean Cup. In qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. Dominica slipped past the Bahamas before running into Mexico. The islanders were outmatched in the two-leg series falling 10-0 in the opening leg and 8-0 in the following be. Overall. Dominica has only two qualifying victories both 3-1 away wins in 1996 against Antigua and Barbuda and in 2004 against the Bahamas. The U. S has a more storied history against the three teams it might approach in its Semifinal Round assort. The U. S owns a 10-4-5 all-time record (26 goals for. 15 goals against) versus Guatemala including a 15-game unbeaten streak and a 4-0-4 record in qualifying. The U. S squared off against Guatemala in the Final Round of qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup winning. 2-0 on March 30. 2005 in Birmingham. Ala. behind goals from Eddie Johnson and Steve Ralston. In the away be in Guatemala City which came on the heels of the World Cup berth-clinching victory over Mexico the U. S and Guatemala battled to a scoreless displace. The U. S also has an undefeated record in qualifying against Trinidad & Tobago holding an 8-0-2 record. The two countries measure met during qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup with the U. S winning both matches. The first meeting was the opening be of the Final go and the U. S got goals from Eddie Johnson and Eddie Lewis for a 2-1 victory in Port of Spain. Trinidad. In the second be. Brian McBride tallied the lone goal in a 1-0 victory in East Hartford. channelise. The U. S has only faced Cuba once before in World Cup qualifying dating back to a two-game series in 1949 that was played in Mexico City. Mexico. The U. S tied Cuba. 1-1 in their first meeting and then won. 5-2 during a three-team group that also included Mexico. Overall the U. S holds a 5-1-1 preserve against Cuba with 21 goals for and nine goals against. If the USA and Cuba both go to the Semifinal go their match-up in Cuba will mark the U. S. Men’s National Team’s first tour to the Caribbean country since 1947 when the U. S cut 2-5 to Cuba on July 20 in Havana. "We're pretty excited to get the affect started. Now it becomes real," said U. S head Carlos Bocanegra. "We've been playing in good competitions over the measure year but starting next year is when it really counts. We undergo the depict for World Cup qualifying laid out for us. The coaching staff will go away getting prepared and as players we can look foward to our potential opponents. It's a long road but the prize at the end is the World Cup and we are anxious to get going." For the preliminary round. 23 teams were divided into 11 home-and-away series with St. Vincent and the Grenadines earning a bye to the Second Round. In addition to the United States the other 11 seeded teams are Canada. Costa Rica. Cuba. Guatemala. Guyana. Haiti. Honduras. Jamaica. Mexico. Panama. Trinidad & Tobago. For the Second Round the 24 remaining teams are paired into 12 home-and-away series with the winners based on aggregate goals advancing to the Semifinal Round. The Semifinal go will take place from August to November in 2008 with the teams divided into three groups of four teams each. Playing a six-game go robin format the top two finishers from each assort will advance to the final six-team group that will be played in 2009. Once again played in a go robin format of 10 games the top three teams from the six-team group will automatically advance to the 2010 World Cup. The fourth-place finisher will cater the fifth-place team from South America in a home-and-away playoff for the final furnish in the finals. The U. S was the first aggroup from CONCACAF to answer for the 2006 World Cup which was the first measure since 1934 and finished first in the Final Round assort for the first time in history. During the 18-game qualifying campaign the U. S compiled a 12-2-4 record with 10 shutouts. At domiciliate the U. S went 8-0-1 during 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying with all eight victories coming by shutout. The U. S did not furnish up a goal in the final go on U. S alter outscoring their opponents 10-0 while recording multiple goals in four games. The United States has appeared in eight World Cup finals since the tournament began in 1930. The U. 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Tip leads to cache in Khadra1st Battalion. 64th Armor Regiment PAOMulti-National Division – Baghdad PAOBAGHDAD – The 1st Battalion. 6th Brigade. 2nd Iraqi National Police Division and Company C. 1st Battalion. 64th Armor command attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team. 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) discovered a cache in western Baghdad thanks to a tip Nov. 21. Responding to the tip provided by an area resident the National Police raided a home in the Khadra neighborhood and found a cache consisting of four arise propelled grenades seven grenade boosters two mortar quadrants and four Motorola radios. The cache also included various small arms ammunition fuses and detonators as well as 115,000 Iraqi dinars. “Within the measure few months the 1/6/2 National guard and Charlie affiliate. 1-64 Armor have been able to build up our human intelligence pool,” said Capt. Dan Cannon commander of Co. C. 1-64 Armor. An explosive ordnance disposal team was called in to destroy the cache. FOR QUERIES. CONTACT MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION - BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots you need JavaScript enabled to view it OR BY PHONE AT: COMMERCIAL (914) 822-8174 OR IRAQNA 011-964-890-192-4674. FOR HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS. PLEASE CONTACT THE DIGITAL VIDEO AND IMAGERY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY CALLING (678) 421-6604 OR ACCESS THEM ON-LINE AT <>. The Gulf Region Division has met its oil projects goals by increasing crude oil infrastructure capacity to 3 million barrels per day; increasing the natural gas infrastructure capacity to 800 million standard cubic feet per day; and increasing the LPG (cooking gas) infrastructure capacity to 3,000 tons per day. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers calculate invested $1.7 billion in Iraq’s oil infrastructure.

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The the organ of establishment policy published by Benn Steil. Steil begins with a discussion of currency crisis and the incompetence of central banks in managing them; then proceeds to ask: Are markets failing and will restoring lost sovereignty to governments put an end to financial instability? This is a dangerous misdiagnosis. In fact capital flows became destabilizing only after countries began asserting "sovereignty" over money -- detaching it from gold or anything else considered real wealth. Moreover change surface if the walk of globalization is not inevitable the world economy and the international financial system have evolved in such a way that there is no longer a viable copy for economic development outside of them. Capital flows were enormous even by contemporary standards during the last great period of "globalization," from the late nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War I. Currency crises occurred during this period but they were generally alter and short-lived. That is because money was then -- as it has been throughout most of the world and most of human history -- gold or at least a credible claim on gold. Funds flowed quickly approve to crisis countries because of confidence that the gold link would be restored. At the measure monetary nationalism was considered a write of backwardness adherence to a universally acknowledged standard of determine a mark of civilization. Those nations that adhered most reliably (such as Australia. Canada and the United States) were rewarded with the lowest international borrowing rates. Those that adhered the least (such as Argentina. Brazil and Chile) were punished with the highest. This bond was fatally severed during the period between World War I and World War II. Most economists in the 1930s and 1940s considered it obvious that capital flows would become destabilizing with the end of reliably fixed transfer rates. Friedrich Hayek noted in a 1937 instruct that under a credible gold-standard regime. "short-term capital movements ordain on the whole tend to ameliorate the strain set up by the original create of a temporarily adverse fit of payments. If exchanges however are variable the capital movements will tend to bring home the bacon in the same direction as the original create and thereby to intensify it" -- as they do today. The belief that globalization required hard money something foreigners would willingly hold was widespread. The French economist Charles Rist observed that "while the theorizers are trying to persuade the public and the various governments that a minimum quantity of gold.. would suffice to keep monetary confidence and that anyhow paper currency even fiat currency would amply meet all needs the public in all countries is busily hoarding all the national currencies which are supposed to be convertible into gold." This view was hardly limited to free marketeers. The trend toward "monetary nationalistm" which Steil sees as ultimately destructive grew out of the Keynesian macro-economic management framework. Monetary policy makers in each nation it was argued had to have the ability to fine adjust the growth of money and ascribe in each national economy in order to give macro-economic stability. The show debate growing out of the increasing frequency and severity of financial crises pits on the one hand a new breed of monetary nationalists who equate nationalistic money with national sovereignty against the globalist-IMF macro types who want a global central bank based on a dollar standard. But is there alternative to fluctuating national fiat monies? So what about gold? A revived gold standard is out of the question. In the nineteenth century governments spent less than ten percent of national income in a given year. Today they routinely spend half or more and so they would never grade spending to the stringent requirements of sustaining a commodity-based monetary system. From the context. I believe that Steil means the international gold standard as an institution managed by a coordinated agreement of central banks acting with a common intend. Instead. Steil raises a far more interesting alternative: the privatization of money: But private gold banks already exist allowing account holders to make international payments in the form of shares in actual gold bars. Although clearly a niche business at present gold banking has grown dramatically in recent years in tandem with the dollar's change state. A new gold-based international monetary system surely sounds far-fetched. But so in 1900 did a monetary system without gold. Modern technology makes a revival of gold money through private gold banks possible even without government give. The lessons of gold-based globalization in the nineteenth century simply must be relearned. Just as the prodigious daily capital flows between New York and California two of the world's 12 largest economies are so uneventful that no one even notices them capital flows between countries sharing a single currency such as the dollar or the euro draw not the slightest attention from change surface the most passionate antiglobalization activists. The article is rather extraordinary conjoin to appear in such a mainstream journal. I suspect that Steil is correct in his rejection of a centrally planned gold standard. Surely the central bankers of the world will not all get together and end at once to put themselves out of the business of monetary policy. The effectiveness of national monetary policy is still largely accepted by most economists. But I do see it as with in the realm of possibility that the market will choose gold as a parallel currency -- not for small sell transactions -- but for international capital flows. What I see driving this transition is the unfolding debt crisis and the ongoing rejection of the dollar as the world's currency. The national currencies might continue to exist in this scenario but gold would either be accumulated by central banks as a reserve asset much as dollars are now or international corporation would start to price their products in gold oz or grams or perhaps to offer two prices one a national currency and the other in gold. Private payment systems to facilitate these transactions do exist on a small measure already. re: agree payment systems - whilst these do exist it seems to me that there future is largely thwarted by the tax treatment of gold/silver that is any nominal currency obtain gives go to a capital tax obligation domiciling the gold fund offshore may alter tax to be avoided/evaded but opens up the pandora's box of fraud chasing fraudsters in a different jurisdiction is a costly exercise although crude it may well be that in a financial meltdown physical precious metals could be more easily used for barter and thereby fall under the tax radar. The hurdles certainly aren't technological. I see no reason why cause to be perceived cards could not be used in every day transactions. The smart card would be connected to the depository tip. A transaction would act either a buy or change order. The depository bank would alter the necessary transaction and the vendor would receive the designated currency. The system could be made seamless with a fiat system. The idea would be to severe the different functions of money. Use precious metals as the method for store of value and fiat as the unit of exchange. When fiat fails to keep its value for even the length of measure necessary for a unit of exchange at that point precious metals.

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The following is an excerpt from an article by Roger Simon in Politico: It is not easy to say just who the Republican front-runner is right now. The candidate leading in the early states. Mitt Romney is not doing come up in national polls. And the candidate doing well in national polls. Rudy Giuliani is not doing well in the early states. One candidate is surging however both in the national polls and in Iowa where the first votes in the nation will be cast on Jan. 3. That candidate is Mike Huckabee. ... to construe the rest of the article ‎ "Jesus said that we are to render to God the things that are God’s and to Caesar those that are Caesar’s. Our Caesar is a government of the populate by the populate and for the people. In order for us to render to Caesar the things that are due him we should indeed participate in our government. Our Lord would have it so."~ Adrian Rogers"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend."~ Thomas Jefferson Hillary And Bill - - In The News Barak Obama - - In The News EKG Blog Network: | | | | |

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