MIAMI GARDENS - Virginia Tech brought two quarterbacks to the FedEx Orange Bowl, but neither Sean Glennon nor Tyrod Taylor was effective enough to help the Hokies avoid a 24-21 loss to Kansas.

Since the Hokies instituted the two-quarterback system against Florida State in the 10th game of the season, it was the first game where neither one could ignite the offense.

Between them, their turnovers were converted into 17 Kansas points.
Branden Ore gained 48 yards and scored a touchdown before the half to close the gap to 17-7, and Harper's 84-yard punt return pulled the Hokies within 17-14.

Glennon gave the Jayhawks the opportunity to seal the game when Justin Thornton intercepted his pass intended for Harper and returned it 30.

Todd Reesing ran 2 yards for a 24-14 with 10:57 to play.

The deficit was too big for the Hokies to overcome.



Miller Says Goodbye
James Miller, a graduate of Fort Lauderdale High, ended his playing and coaching career at Virginia Tech at a familiar place.

An offensive lineman (2002-2004), Miller has been a graduate assistant for the Hokies the past two seasons.

"I'm ecstatic that it ended before my family and friends," Miller said.

"What happened to me at Virginia Tech was a dream come true. It's sad to leave, but I'll take away some great memories."

Miller, who begins a job as an assistant at UNC-Pembroke in a couple of days, played and in the school's first BCS bowl as ACC champs, a 16-13 loss to Auburn, in the 2005 Nokia Sugar Bowl.


Rare mistake
The 60-yard interception touchdown was the first allowed by the Hokies in a bowl game since the 1968 Liberty Bowl when Miami's Bob Bailey returned one 70 yards. ...

The Hokies were the home team but chose to wear white jerseys. They were 5-0 on the road in white jerseys.

They wore maroon in a 48-7 loss at LSU. ...

LB Vince Hall, who tweaked in his left knee on a Jet Ski on Saturday, started.


Hannah, Davis Inducted
Hall of Fame offensive lineman John Hannah of Alabama and Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis were inducted into the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame.

Former Jayhawks Gale Sayers, Bobby Douglass and John Riggins were in attendance. Bruce Smith, DeAngelo Hall, Bryan Randall and David Clowney led a large contingent of former Hokie players. Sayers and Smith were honorary captains.

 

Gena and Chuck met in 1997 on a dinner date in Dallas, Texas.

At the time of their marriage, Chuck was 58 years old and Gena was 30 years old.

After receiving premarital counseling, Gena and Chuck were married on November 28, 1998 at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

The ceremony was conducted by Pastor Lawrence Kennedy.

Chuck and Gena included all their children in their wedding which was attended by nearly 60 people.

Country singer Sammy Kershaw and his band sang "You Are the Love of My Life" for Gena and Chuck. Their honeymoon had to be postponed, but they later flew to Bora-Bora.

 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Elections in Pakistan appeared set to be delayed by several weeks despite demands by the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and other politicians that they take place as scheduled on Jan. 8, officials said Monday.


The Election Commission said it had recommended an unspecified delay in the parliamentary polls following unrest triggered by Bhutto's assassination last week. It said its final decision would be made on Tuesday.

Separately, a senior government official predicted the elections would be postponed by "six weeks or so as the environment to hold free and fair elections is not conducive." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

Meanwhile, video footage of Bhutto's killing raised new questions about the government's version of how she died. On Sunday, her party named her 19-year-old son its symbolic leader, while her husband was said to take effective control.

Despite being in mourning, Bhutto's political party and that of Pakistan's other major opposition leader want the polls held on time, perhaps sensing major electoral gains are possible amid sympathy because of Bhutto's death and accusations that political allies of President Pervez Musharraf were behind the killing. The government has rejected the charges.

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, like Bhutto also a former prime minister, said Monday that the election should be held Jan. 8, while also saying Musharraf should resign and be replaced by a national unity government.

"He is a one-man calamity. He is responsible for all the trouble in Pakistan. The country is burning," Sharif said.

Western governments are also urging the government to go ahead with the polls without major delays. They see the elections as a key step in U.S.-backed plans to restore democracy to the nation as it battles Taliban and al-Qaida militants.

Bhutto was killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on Thursday, but disagreements between her supporters and the government over the precise cause of death are undermining confidence in Musharraf and adding to calls for international investigators to probe the killing.

New video footage, obtained by Britain's Channel 4, shows a man firing a handgun at Bhutto from close range as she stands up in an open-topped vehicle. Her hair and shawl then move upward, suggesting she may have been shot. She then falls into the vehicle just before an explosion rocks the car.

The government has insisted Bhutto was not hit by any of the bullets and died after the force of the blast slammed her head against the sunroof. Bhutto's family and supporters say she died from gunshot wounds to her head and neck.

Bhutto's husband said late Sunday he refused permission for doctors to perform an autopsy, meaning that short of exhuming her body — something her supporters have already ruled out — the cause of her death will be difficult to establish.

After days of rioting that left at least 44 dead, life in many Pakistani cities began returning to normal, though soldiers and police patrolled many areas. The streets were still quiet in the southern city of Karachi, the scene of some of the worst violence, witnesses said.

The country's stock markets tumbled in early trading Monday as the uncertain political outlook and violence triggered a selling spree. After opening for the first time since the killing, the benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange's 100-share index had plunged by 4.7 percent at midday — one of its biggest single-day falls.

On Sunday, Bhutto's political party named her son, Bilawal Zardari, as its symbolic leader and left day-to-day control to her husband, extending Pakistan's most enduring political dynasty.

"My mother always said democracy is the best revenge," Bilawal said late Sunday at an emotionally charged media conference at Bhutto's ancestral home. "The party's long struggle for democracy will continue with renewed vigor," he said.

Bhutto's party also appealed to Sharif's party, the country's other major opposition leader, to reverse an earlier decision to boycott the polls. Sharif's party later agreed.

Tariq Azim, a spokesman for the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, said "we are also ready for the contest on Jan. 8." Earlier, he predicted the election may be delayed up to four months.

The appointment of Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, as effective leader was not without complications. A former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations, he is known as "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly taking kickbacks and is viewed with suspicion by many Pakistanis.

Zardari said the opposition party — Pakistan's largest — had no confidence in the government's ability to bring his wife's killers to justice and urged the United Nations to establish a committee like the one investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Several leading U.S. politicians have made similar calls.

The British and U.S. governments had been pushing Bhutto, a moderate Muslim seen as friendly to the West, to form a power-sharing agreement with Musharraf after the election — a combination seen as the most effective in the fight against al-Qaida, which is believed to be regrouping in the country's lawless tribal areas.

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Close family members of U.S. troops are split on whether the Iraq invasion was a mistake, and 55% disapprove of President Bush's job performance, according to USA TODAY/Gallup Polls focusing on immediate relatives of servicemembers.

"They've maxed out on the troops. You've got guys who are over there on their fourth or fifth tours. It's ridiculous," says Jeanette Knowles, 40, of Mountain Home, Idaho, whose brother, Jeff, served a tour in Iraq with the Oregon National Guard.

Knowles, who calls herself a Democratic-leaning moderate, says her disapproval of Bush stems from his handling of the war.

Military families are more supportive of the war than Americans without immediate family members in the military, the polls show. Among Americans without military relatives, 59% say the invasion was a mistake, compared with 49% of immediate family members.

The data on close relatives of troops were gleaned from four national polls between Sept. 7 and Dec. 2. The polls identified 548 people as wives, children, parents, siblings, grandparents or a close in-law of a servicemember. Among them are 301 people whose loved ones served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Previous military family polling was largely of people who identified themselves as related in some way to a servicemember.

"I don't want to see another Korea. I don't want to see us stay there (in Iraq) forever. And you don't want to be in a country if they don't want us there," says Bruce Bartley, 65, of Fredonia, N.Y., whose son, Army Capt. Steven Bartley, is on his second tour in Iraq. The elder Bartley, who describes himself as a conservative, disapproves of Bush's job performance and says the invasion was a mistake.

Among military families, 55% disapprove of Bush's performance compared with 64% of Americans without relatives in the service in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Men in military families are more approving of Bush (47%) than female relatives (36%).

"The numbers really aren't much of a surprise," says Joyce Raezer, executive director of the National Military Family Association. "They show that the military is in many ways a reflection of the country as a whole, not an isolated subculture, as some would portray it."

Bush considers families' support important, White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore says. "But he believes that it's important to continue to base his decisions on the advice he receives from commanders on the ground," she says.

More than 1.5 million servicemembers have been sent to Iraq or Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001, and Army combat tours last up to 15 months. Bush meets in private with grieving families, visits the wounded and frequently speaks to gatherings of military families.

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By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hotel heiress Paris Hilton's potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion (1.16 billion pounds) fortune to charity.

That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp. -- started by his father Conrad in 1919 when he bought a small hotel in Cisco, Texas -- and pending sale of the world's biggest casino company, Harrah's Entertainment Inc.



That money will be placed in a charitable trust that will eventually benefit the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, raising its total value to about $4.5 billion, the foundation said in a statement.

Barron Hilton, chairman of the foundation, intends "to contribute 97 percent of his entire net worth, estimated today at $2.3 billion, including the created trusts, at whatever value it is at the time of his passing," the foundation said.

Paris Hilton was not immediately available for comment on her grandfather's plans for his fortune.

Jerry Oppenheimer, who profiled the Hilton family in his 2006 book "House of Hilton," has said Barron Hilton is embarrassed by the behaviour of his socialite granddaughter Paris and believes it has sullied the family name.

Barron Hilton, who is 80, has not commented on Oppenheimer's remarks.

The foundation supports projects that provide clean water in Africa, education for blind children, and housing for the mentally ill. Its aims, based on Conrad Hilton's will, are "to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute."
"Speaking for the family as well as the foundation, we are all exceedingly proud and grateful for this extraordinary commitment," said Steven Hilton, one of Barron's sons and president and chief executive of the foundation.

Conrad Hilton established the foundation in 1944 and when he died in 1979 left virtually all of his fortune -- including, according to media reports at the time, a 27 percent controlling stake in Hilton Hotels -- to the charity.

But Barron Hilton challenged the will and after a nearly decade-long legal struggle reached an out-of-court settlement to split ownership of the shares with the foundation in 1988, The New York Times reported.

The hotel group was sold for $20 billion in October to private equity firm Blackstone Group, while the acquisition of Harrah's -- of which Barron Hilton was a board member until 2006 -- is due to be completed by Apollo Management and TPG Capital in early 2008.

Paris, a symbol of celebrity privilege in America, gained notoriety in 2003 when a home video of her having sex with a boyfriend was posted on the Internet.

She parlayed her notoriety, fuelled by tabloid headlines about her partying lifestyle, into a celebrity career that has included a reality television show, a book, a music album, and film roles. Then this year she spent more than three weeks in jail for violating probation in a drunk-driving case.

(Editing by Daniel Trotta and Eric Walsh)

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Known for: to be the daughter of the legendary Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, singing three songs on the album Songs About Jane by Maroon 5 and being the bride of Tobey Maguire, many years ago.
Presentemment on the bill: In the series The Office, in which she embodies the character of Karen Filippelli
Soon in the film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, with Christopher Meloni (Law and Order: SUV), Timothy Hutton, John Krasinski and Julianne Nicholson.



John Krasinski and his Office co-star Rashida Jones arriving at the airport in St. Barths, sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com. Seems like they're rekindling that real-life romance!

 

Sink Positive

By MRO

A sink that mounts on top of your toilet(s), running clean water automatically as the toilet bowl fills after a flush. Ingenious way of conserving water. Website found here

 

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.

God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!

Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.

I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.

If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?

Honk if you speak Latin.
Sona si Latine loqueris.

If you can read this you're over-educated
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.

I saw, I conquered, I came
Vidi Vici Veni

Stupid cow
Vacca foeda

Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.
Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.

Royally screwed
Raptus regaliter

If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!

I hate Astroturf.
Gramen artificiosum odi.

I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

Don't call me, I'll call you.
Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.

It doesn't rhyme.
Nullo metro compositum est.

I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.

Make my day.
Fac ut gaudeam.

Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!
Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!

Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.
Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.

Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
Re vera, potas bene.

May barbarians invade your personal space!
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!

May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!

May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

Couch potato
Radix lecti

What's your sign?
Quo signo nata es?

Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!
O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!

Honey, I'm home.
Mellita, domi adsum.

I am as dead as the nehru jacket.
Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.

Go with the flow.
Ventis secundis, tene cursum.

Let it all hang out.
Totum dependeat.

Pretty please with a cherry on top!
Te precor dulcissime supplex!

I am the Master of the Universe!
Magister Mundi sum!

Gag me with a spoon!
Fac me cocleario vomere!

I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.

Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

Take my wife, please!
Prehende uxorem meam, sis!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.
Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.

Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!

Eat my shorts.
Vescere bracis meis.

Everyone is doing it.
Sic faciunt omnes.

Get a life.
Fac ut vivas.

Let's all wear mood rings!
Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!

I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

 

46 year old Fabian Hands was arrested Monday night for the murder of two women and the use of a weapon to commit a felony.

After killing two women, his 36 year old girlfriend Saundra Brown and her 48 year old sister Renota Brown, their bodies were left in the basement while he raped his girlfriend’s daughter.

Police arrive at the house Monday evening when a 20 year old woman came out claiming she had been raped. Hands then appeared and continued to assault her disregarding the officers.

The 20 year old woman was taken to the hospital, Saundra and Renota were pronounced dead at the scene.