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Logos: Order books at US retail (including delivery) to Nassau

Rick Lowe

Have you noticed the new link to Logos Book Store on our side bar?

Scroll down a little, below the Daily Cartoon and you'll find a link that looks like the picture shown on the left.

Click on the link in the side bar, order away and pay. Any book that is available will be delivered to Logos in the Harbour Bay Shopping Centre for you to collect at the prices listed on the web site.

It's a great arrangement. Try it out.

Anthonique Strachan Clocks World’s Best Junior Time, New Bahamian National Junior and New Pan American Jr. Championships Record

Alpheus Finlayson

Saturday evening, July 23rd was a time Bahamian Anthonique Strachan will not soon forget.

With her coach Dianne Woodside , and her High School Principal Sonia Knowles in the stands at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida, Strachan in one fell swoop set a world junior best time of 22.70sec for 2011, a new Pan American Junior Championships record, as well as a new Bahamian national Junior record in the 200m.

Strachan did all that with a strained Achilles tendon.

She seemed to be in trouble about twenty meters out but put on the after-burners and finished well ahead of her competitors Kai Selvon of Trinidad & Tobago and Jessica Davis of The United States who clocked 22.97sec each. Kelvon beat Davis by one thousandth of a second.

Prior to this race Davis, who attends the University of Southern California, had the second best time in the world, a 22.84sec. Aurieyall Scott of the USA had the best time of 22.83sec.

Three months ago Strachan was tying a record set at the Carifta Games in 2011. That record was 22.93sec, set by Veronica Campbell-Brown double Olympic Gold medalist in 2004 and 2008.

For her accomplishment then Strachan was voted the Most Outstanding Athlete of the 2011 Carifta Games and given the Austin Sealy Award.

Just last Sunday in Mayaguez, Strachan finished second to Bahamian Nivea Smith in the 200m at the Sr. Central American and Caribbean Championships.

Now there only Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (22.19sec), Pauline Davis-Thompson (22.27sec), Savatheda Fynes (22.32sec), and Chandra Sturrup (22.33sec) have better performances in the 200m.

Nivea Smith has a best of 22.80sec. Sheniqua Ferguson a best of 22.85sec.

Strachan won a bronze medal on Friday at the Pan Am Jr.  Track and Field Championships in 11.46sec and she has a best of 11.38sec done in winning the Carifta Fames in April.

Born August 22nd, 1993, she is eligible for next year’s World Junior Championships. She has qualified for next month’s World Championships in Daegu, Korea and will go into grade 12 at St. Augustine’s College in September.

24th July 2011
Alpheus Finlayson
Public Relations Officer
Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations

The Bahamas: Small Country Great Athletes, Is it Chris Brown’s Year?

Alpheus Finlayson

Chris Brown has been one of the most durable quarter milers the Bahamas has ever produced. Hailing from Wemyss Bight, Eleuthera and nicknamed “The Fireman”, Brown was born on October 15th, 1978.

After competing on the world scene since 1999, Brown was finally able to win an IAAF world event last year, the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. He ran a seasonal best of 45.96sec, becoming only the third Bahamian to win a world indoor crown.

On Friday, May 27th, Brown won the 400m at the Golden Gala in Rome with a time of 45.16sec. In that race Brown defeated Jermaine Gonzalez of Jamaica, who had the second best time worldwide in 2010 of 44.40sec, Rene Quow of Trinidad and Tobago, who won the Bronze medal at the Berlin World Championships, and David Neville, of the USA, who made that famous “dive” to snatch the Beijing Bronze in 2008.

Congrats to Green Bay. Maybe next year for my Steelers.

Rick Lowe

Well my beloved Steelers committed too many errors to win.

Looks like we won every phase of the game except where it counts.

Good job by the Green Bay Packers to capitalise.

Well there's always next year.

Congratulations to the Steelers as well. Only two teams can make the big dance.

Here we go Steelers! Here we go.

One more Super Bowl visit.

Yes!!!

Bahamas B2B launches Bahamas News site

Rick Lowe

There are a few excellent news aggregator sites around these days and Bahamas B2B has launched their a news site, Bahamas News that promises to be excellent.

Hope you can take some time to check them out.

Three more ministers get their grades

First published in The Tribune, in the column Young Man's View, on Wednesday, August 18, 2010

By ADRIAN GIBSON

TODAY I continue my annual report card giving my view of the performance of government ministers in their various ministries. In Monday's column I gave my assessment of the performances of Mrs Loretta Butler-Turner, Minister of State for Social Services, Minister of Works Neko Grant and Housing Minister Kenneth Russell. On Tuesday it was National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest and Environment Minister Earl Deveaux.

Today I shall turn to the portfolios held by Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo Laing, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Charles Maynard and Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette and give my opinion of how I believe they have handled their ministries.

Lessons in Freedom: Tiger Woods Dishonored Himself

Tibor R. Machan

So Tiger Woods apologized for his "selfish behavior."  Of course, what he did was to dishonor himself, his human self that is, not benefit it at all. Indeed, this allegedly selfish conduct of Mr. Woods has produced a few hours of sensual pleasure at the expense of his very own happiness at home, millions of dollars, a stellar reputation, etc., and so forth. Nothing really selfish about it, if you think it over responsibly.

Dr. Nathaniel Branden, the well known psychologist and reported father of the self-esteem movement in his discipline--he wrote The Psychology of Self-Esteem back in 1969 (Nash Publishing)--wrote a wonderful book in which this stuff about the alleged selfishness of cads like Woods is ably cleared up once and for all.  The very apt title of this work is Honoring the Self (Bantam 1985).  It discusses extensively and brilliantly just how the concept of the human self became debased in modern intellectual history.