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NEW YORK ‘ A new talent in the combined events rose to the challenge on Friday, while the winningest miler in Millrose history will have to wait a year for the chance at another win after an exciting night of competition at the 104 th Millrose Games. [1]

The Millrose Games is an annual indoor athletics meet (track and field) held in New York City’s Madison Square Garden since 1914. [2]

NEW YORK - Nyanka Moise-Joseph knew her job when she looked across from her and saw Cardozo’s Chamique Francis next to her on the starting line. [3]

They are decathletes, three of the best in the world, but they rarely feel the glow of public attention. [4]

A new event at the 104th Millrose Games will bring three generations of U.S. decathletes - all medal threats for the 2012 Olympic Games in London - to Madison Square Garden for a unique competition. [...] Reigning Olympic decathlon and World Indoor heptathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay, 2009 World decathlon champion Trey Hardee and indoor heptathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton will compete in the 60m dash, high jump and shot put in a scored competition, the Millrose Multi Challenge. [2]

“I’ve never seen officials in tuxedos,” said Ashton Eaton, 23, a gold-medal prospect for the 2012 Summer Games in London. [4]

NEW YORK - Twice Bernard Lagat tried to make a surge to extend his run at history. [3]

But decathletes have to live, too, and the operators of the venerable Millrose Games have invited three American stars to strut their stuff Friday night in Madison Square Garden. [4]

NEW YORK — When Bernard Lagat won his eighth Wanamaker Mile - the most ever - he alluded to the thought that he had finished with the Millrose Games. [3]

To view this video you will need the Flash player. [1]

Enhance your knowledge of NYC sports history or check out all of the fantastic venues that NYC has to offer. [2]

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NEW YORK - While surrounded by reporters, Bryan Clay toyed with the idea of making the decathlon a reality show. [3]

New Yankee Stadium is the working title for a new stadium for the New York Yankees, currently under construction. [2]

Sources:
[1] Millrose Games
[2] Millrose Games in New York City
[3] Millrose Games - ArmoryTrack.com
[4] Millrose Games
[5] Millrose Games

Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. [1]

A classic Hollywood screwball comedy transposed to modern-day Manhattan, Desperately Seeking Susan offered mid-’80s moviegoers a mall-friendly version of hip New York style, much like Madonna did throughout her early musical career. [2]

Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. [3]

View company contact information for Desperately Seeking Susan on IMDbPro. [4]

While Susan Seidelman was editing Desperately Seeking Susan, Warren Beatty called up the director and asked to look at the dailies (film from each days shooting). [5]

Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta ‘ a lonely Jersey housewife whose curiosity about Susan takes an unexpected twist. [6]

Her favorite classified ads trace the romance of Jim (Robert Joy), a struggling musician, and Susan (Madonna), a SoHo vamp who’s just narrowly escaped being murdered alongside one of her other boyfriends — a gangster who recently stole some Egyptian jewelry. [2]

Roberta actually goes into the city to watch an ad-inspired meeting of Susan and her lover Jimmy, but this innocently voyeuristic adventure backfires when she hits her head and loses her memory. [7]

Susan is wanted by the mob. [5]

Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Blum) grows stale. [2]

“Roberta is desperate to be Susan. [5]

Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of a New York City tabloid. [3]

Roberta is desperate to be Susan. [4]

Rosanna Arquette is Roberta Glass, a bored New Jersey yuppie housewife who finds escapism from her mundane life in the New York personal ad exploits of a flighty bohemian named Susan (Madonna). [8]

Just 578 featured ’80s movies with the best info on the web. [5]

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[1] Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) - IMDb
[2] Desperately Seeking Susan: Information from Answers.com
[3] Desperately Seeking Susan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
[5] Desperately Seeking Susan Movie - The 80s Movies Rewind
[6] EpixHD - Desperately Seeking Susan
[7] Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies
[8] Desperately Seeking Susan - - Product Reviews and Prices …

But none of them are reporting on the situation as compellingly as Al Jazeera English, which has reporters across the country. [1]

Al Jazeera English’s-only bureau in the Western Hemisphere occupies five floors of a nondescript office building on Washington, D.C.’s K Street. [...] McCullough works for Brown Lloyd James, the public relations firm that represents the Qatar-based channel in what has proven — and might have been expected — to be the hostile territory of the United States. [...] Behind the glass was a small desk where Dora, the receptionist, sat beneath two flat-screen televisions, one showing Al Jazeera English, the other showing Al Jazeera Arabic. [2]

Al Jazeera Arabic began using a chroma key studio on 13 September 2009. [3]

1:13 am - A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, our sister station, has said that Mubarak has to step down and the military should intervene. [4]

Al Jazeera, which is headquartered in Doha, Qatar, is now a media conglomerate, with a sports channel, a children’s channel, and an English channel for international audiences supplementing its original flagship news station, Al Jazeera Arabic. [5]

Regional ruling party headquarters is torched amid renewed protests, as death toll from unrest crosses 90. [6]

Initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel with the same name, Al Jazeera has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the Internet and specialty TV channels in multiple languages. [3]

If you’re watching Al Jazeera, you’re seeing uninterrupted live video of the demonstrations, along with reporting from people actually on the scene, and not “analysis” from people in a studio. [1]

From our headquarters in Doha, we’ll keep you updated on Egypt’s anti-government protests, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez. [...] Follow staff tweets on the protests from Egypt and Doha. [4]

Since its launch in 1996, the channel has pushed back against state-controlled media in the region and the governments they promote - the very governments that have lately become a focus of protesters taking to the streets. [...] On Friday evening in Egypt, as Cairo burned, the state-owned television station Channel One took to the airwaves with the news: President Hosni Mubarak and his wife would attend the opening of the annual book fair on Saturday morning. [5]

5:13 am The Egyptian army secured Cairo’s famed antiquities museum early on Saturday, protecting thousands of priceless artifacts, including the gold mask of King Tutankhamun, from looters. [4]

Sources:
[1] Al Jazeera’s Egypt coverage embarrasses U.S. cable news …
[2] Why can’t we watch Al Jazeera? - War Room - Salon.com
[3] Al Jazeera - Wikipedia
[4] Liveblog - Egypt’s protests erupt | Al Jazeera Blogs
[5] Al Jazeera creates consciousness in Arab world - The Globe …
[6] Al Jazeera.net

Mr Mubarak’s address came after a day of anti-government protests, in which thousands of Egyptians defied a curfew in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez declared earlier by the President. [1]

Police and demonstrators have fought running battles on the streets of Cairo in a fourth day of protests by tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to president Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. [2]

Emboldened by this month’s revolt that toppled the authoritarian leader of Tunisia, Egyptians have staged mass protests since Tuesday in an unprecedented outburst of anger against Mr Mubarak. [3]

We’ll be continuing our coverage tomorrow, but there’s much more on the Egypt protests at guardian.co.uk/world. [4]

Chaos engulfed Egypt Friday as protesters seized the streets of the capital, battling police with stones, bottles and firebombs and burning down the ruling party headquarters. [5]

Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak has sacked Egypt’s government and vowed to bring in democratic reforms. [1]

Egypt’s largest opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has backed the protests that have taken over the country, as reports emerge that members have been arrested overnight. [6]

The protests have led many international leaders to call on President Mubarak to loosen his hold on power. [7]

In the same way that these protests were inspired by the Tunisian revolt, the rest of the Arab world is now watching Egypt because it is the most populous and influential of the Arab nations. [3]

Barack Obama, the US president, said he had spoken to Mubarak following his televised address, and called on Egyptian authorities to refrain from using violence against peaceful protesters. [4]

The internet has been closed down in Egypt ahead of the biggest protests yet planned against president Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-rule. [3]

Egyptian demonstrators demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, wave the national flag as they greet members of his guard deploying outside the national TV building in Cairo on Friday. [5]

When I was in Cairo, after I became president, I said that all governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion, and that is how they will achieve the future. [4]

Prominent activist Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Laureate who has called for an end to Mr Mubarak’s rule, arrived in Egypt on Thursday (local time). [2]

President Hosni Mubarak appeared on TV to tell Egyptians he has asked the government to resign. [4]

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[1] Mubarak sacks government and vows reform - RT? News
[2] Violence erupts on Egypt’s ‘day of wrath’ - ABC News …
[3] Internet shut down as Egypt unrest continues - ABC News …
[4] Protests in Egypt - as they happened | News | guardian.co.uk
[5] Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew - World news …
[6] BBC News - Today - Egypt ‘rocked’ by protests
[7] BBC News - Today - Blair warns of ‘vacuum’ in Egypt

The rogue angel agrees to help, and informs Sam that the spell required needs the blood of his father… or a father figure. [1]

After the deal to save Sam, Dean was finally taken by the demon Lillith and transported to Hell. [2]

Death agrees to help Dean get Sam’s soul back, but requires Dean to serve in his place for 24 hours. [1]

Spence, 41, will appear in the Geoff Johns-penned episode, “Booster,” which will feature the genesis of Jaime Reyes’ Blue Beetle and his teaming with Booster Gold. [...] Dean and Bobby are on pins and needles as they wait, but they’ve got other things lighting a fire under them. [3]

Episode Synopsis: Sam and Dean are lured to a small town, where they learn some disturbing facts about Sam’s behavior when he previously lived there and worked on a case with his grandfather. [...] Premise: McG-produced drama about two brothers, searching for their missing dad, who chase down evil forces that claimed the life of their mother and the life of the younger brother’s girlfriend. [4]

Anna remembers her past and Sam and Dean finally understand why Castiel and Uriel want her dead. [2]

The CW is developing a script for the hour-long drama Awakening, about two sisters who face off against one another just as a zombie uprising begins. [3]

Sam and Dean are shocked to discover a series of comic books titled “Supernatural” that accurately detail their lives as demon hunters. [2]

Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way. [1]

Sam and Dean have a difference of a opinion when they discover a family man who could also become a flesh eating monster. [2]

The evil demon that has been the Winchesters’ nemesis for so long is dead, but the fight is far from over. [5]

Your abuse report has been sent to the TVGuide.com moderators. [4]

His one weekend trip to search for the missing John Winchester becomes an ongoing quest after a horrible tragedy ruins any thought of a happy life for Sam. [1]

Sources:
[1] Supernatural - TV.com
[2] Supernatural.tv: Episode Guide Season Four
[3] Supernatural - TVGuide.com
[4] Supernatural Episode Guide 2011 Season 6 - Unforgiven …
[5] Supernatural.tv ” Supernatural Episode Guide Index