Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito (News & Video)
Sunday, November 14, 2010
News Around The World
- Manila Bulletin - Pacquiao's 8th world championship title is first in boxing history
- New York Times - Win by Pacquiao Pits Speed Over Size
- Washington Post - Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito results, highlights and analysis
- Dallas News - Little big man: Pacquiao throws 1,069 punches in dominating decision over Margarito
- CNN - Pacquiao wins eighth different belt after Margarito destruction
- Sydney Morning Herald - Pacquiao's mother suffers panic attack
- The Canadian Press - Pacquiao may not need Mayweather after another dominating win over Margarito
- Agence France Press - Pacquiao's trainer issues challenge to Mayweather
- JewishJournal.com - Manny Pacquiao is A Superstar, A Hero and My New Celebrity Crush
ESPN - Antonio Margarito has fracture to face
Antonio Margarito, the Mexican super welterweight beaten badly by Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, suffered a fractured orbital bone to his face and was expected to stay in the hospital for observation through at least Sunday night, an executive with Margarito's promotions company said.
Margarito, who lost in a lopsided, 12-round decision, was taken directly to the hospital via ambulance after the fight to have cuts to his face examined. That is when the injury to his eye socket was discovered, Top Rank executive Carl Moretti told ESPN.com's Dan Rafael in an e-mail Sunday.
Margarito skipped the postfight news conference at the request of the fight doctor and people in his camp, unusual for a fight of this magnitude.
Legendary Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach was critical of the late-round decision-making of Margarito's corner, saying they should have forced a stoppage.
"There was no way I was gong to quit. I'm a Mexican, we fight until the end," Margarito said.
Pacquiao, giving away both pounds and inches, won the WBC super welterweight belt to extend his record with a title in an eighth weight class -- two more than Oscar De La Hoya's six.
"He's a very tough guy," Roach said of Margarito. "I was surprised how tough he was. He has the worst corner. They probably ruined his career by not stopping the fight."
Pacquiao turned Margarito into a bloody and nearly blind fighter with a dizzying array of punches, dominating from the opening rounds on at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The beating was so thorough that the congressman from the Philippines turned to referee Laurence Cole several times in the 11th round, imploring him to stop the fight. It went on, though, even though Margarito had no chance to win.
"I can't believe that I beat someone this big and this strong," Pacquiao said. "It's hard. I really do my best to win the fight."
Pacquiao moved up in weight yet again to take on Margarito, a natural welterweight with a reputation for ruggedness in the ring. And rugged he was, though he took a beating all night long at the hands of a faster and seemingly more powerful opponent.
Pacquiao won every round on one scorecard, 120-108, and was ahead 119-109 and 118-110 on the other two. The Associated Press had it a 120-108 shutout.
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Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days
Saturday, November 13, 2010
As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has completed a 15-story hotel in just six days. If nothing else, this remarkable achievement will stoke further complaints from American economic pundits that China's economy is far more accomplished than ours in tending to such basics as construction.
Meanwhile, it's easy to imagine the disorientation of Changsha residents who'd gone away, or who just hadn't recently ventured into the downtown neighborhood of the new Ark Hotel: "Honey, I don't remember a hotel there, do you?"
The work crew erected the hotel -- a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake -- with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.
Despite the frenetic pace of construction, no workers were injured -- and thanks to the prefab nature of the process, the builders wasted very few construction materials. Below is a time-lapse video that shows the hotel being built from the ground up in less than a week:
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The iPhone “is almost contagious,” says Todd Sutton, project controls manager at Zachry Construction Corp. “One person gets it on the jobsite, and then everyone has them.”A new MoGo Talk XD case (top), which comes with a built-in headset keeper, makes them even sweeter. Infectious adoption also applies to the iPad, Sutton says. Employees see how much work colleagues get done with them and buy their own. Developers at Motion Computing, whose tablet options include bar-code and RFID readers, say the Apple device popularity is good for tablet computing, because it introduces more people to the form, and many will go on to more powerful machines. In the wings is Golden-i, a heads-up-display and voice-activated, remote-access computer controller from Kopin Corp., is expected to hit the market soon.
source: enr.com
Study: iPad Users (And Would-Be Users) More Likely to Ditch Cable TV
Friday, November 12, 2010
by Ariel Schwartz
The Internet hasn't killed cable TV (yet). Nor has Google TV. But the iPad might. A study from the Diffusion Group (TDG) claims that iPad users and intenders--that is, people who plan to buy iPads in the next few months--are more likely than regular adult broadband users to downgrade or cancel their pay TV services.
We already know cable TV is losing massive numbers of subscribers to the Internet, while the networks are fighting off an upstart rival that lets you watch live TV on your iPad. Just how bad is this for TV providers?According to the study, a third of iPad owners are "likely" to cancel their pay TV service sometime in the next six months, and 12.9% are "highly likely" to cancel their service. In comparison, 13.5% of iPad intenders and 9.6% of average adult broadband users are likely to cancel their service. It gets even worse when the possibility of downgrading comes into play: A whopping 35.5% of iPad owners and 29.5% of intenders are to varying degrees likely to downgrade their pay TV service, compared to 20.7% of regular broadband users. For some perspective, Apple sold 4.19 million iPads last quarter.
Cable TV networks are caught between a rock and an iPad, in effect. They could try to offer subscriptions on the tablet--many of us would love to see an HBO app--but that might cause a further collapse in their cable audience. Alternatively, networks and content creators might expand their online offerings (a la Lost and Heroes) in an attempt to increase viewership. It's hard to say at this point which tactic will work--but we have a sneaking suspicion that cutting iPad user access to high-quality content won't be the best tactic in the long run.
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WTC Construction Update, October 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
World Trade Center Construction Update, October 2010
New York, October 22, 2010
Memorial and Museum
-More than 40,000 cubic yards of concrete poured
-Steel erection is 99% completed
4 World Trade Center
-Concrete poured to the 4th floor
-Framed deck up to the 6th floor
-Installed steel up to the 7th floor
3 World Trade Center
-200 cubic yards of concrete to be poured in footings this month
2 World Trade Center
-1540 cubic yards of concrete to be poured in footings this month
1 World Trade Center
-Installed steel to the 38th floor
-Concrete poured up to the 32nd floor
source: wtc.com
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