2009 part 2

2009

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STATE 45 JSU 7

Chris Relf threw three touchdowns and ran for another as Mississippi State overcame a slow start in Dan Mullen's coaching debut to beat Jackson State 45-7 on Saturday. The Bulldogs shrugged off a half-hour lightning delay, 12 penalties and two turnovers to win in the first matchup between the teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference and the Southeastern Conference.

Aug. 29

Mitch & Mike Everett (my 1st cousins)

Ms Louise Lucas

Ms Louise

Ted's grandma

Planting Palm trees

Palm trees (Part II)

Palm Trees arrive (unloaded)

Gold Outlook

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Gold climbed to the highest in almost two months as a weaker dollar boosted demand for the metal as an alternative investment. Silver reached a seven-week high.

The U.S. Dollar Index, a six-currency gauge of the greenback’s strength, slid as much as 1.1 percent to a 2009 low as gains in manufacturing in the U.S., China and the U.K. reduced demand for a haven. Gold tends to rise when the dollar falls. The metal reached $1,007.70, this year’s high in New York, on Feb. 20.

Me, today

RIP

LOS ANGELES – Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15. Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday night at her trainer's home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized, said Karin McElhatton, owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic, which owned the dog.

Although she was hard of hearing, Gidget was otherwise in good health up to the day of her death, eating well and playing with her favorite squeaky toys at the home of trainer Sue Chipperton, McElhatton said.

"She was retired. She lived like a queen, very pampered," McElhatton said.

MSU

STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Mississippi State athletic ticket office will begin the sale of tickets for the Sept. 5 season-opening Jackson State game at 8 a.m. on Monday. A kickoff time is expected to be set next week.

The individual game tickets are available on the lower deck on the East Side in Section U at a cost of $54 and in the upper level on the West Side for $40.

Through the close of business Thursday, Mississippi State had sold 36,821 season tickets. That number includes 10,000 student season tickets, a number the student body could easily eclipse when those tickets go on sale in August. State’s record for season tickets sold in a season was 38,440 prior to the 2001 campaign.

4 banks shut down

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators on Friday shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, boosting to 57 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year.

Walter Cronkite dies

Cronkite died with his family by his side Friday night at his Manhattan home after a long illness, CBS vice president Linda Mason said. Marlene Adler, Cronkite's chief of staff, said Cronkite died of cerebrovascular disease. He was 92.

"It's hard to imagine a man for whom I had more admiration," Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" said on CNN. "... He was a superb reporter and honorable man."

Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.

It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of a soap opera.

"Walter was who I wanted to be when I grew up," said CBS's "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer, 72, who began working at CBS News in 1969.

"He set a standard for all of us. He made television news what it became."

It's about time

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Republican Norm Coleman conceded to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota's contested Senate race on Tuesday, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight over an election decided by only a few hundred votes.

Coleman announced his decision at a news conference in St. Paul hours after a unanimous Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and liberal commentator, should be certified the winner.

"The Supreme Court has made its decision and I will abide by the results," Coleman told reporters outside his St. Paul home.