Another Caltech team has snapped another epic losing streak.
The water polo team at the school that's home to the elite in science and the famously futile in sports beat the Master's College 10-9 in double overtime, breaking a losing streak of nine years and a day. The last win, in 2002, came against the same school.
But the slide snapped Thursday was meager compared to the 26-year conference losing streak Caltech's basketball team ended in February.
That leaves the Beaver baseball team with the school's longest losing streak: 203 games overall.
But the school is a huge winner in other categories.
In a British survey of 200 colleges this week, Caltech knocked off Harvard for the first time in eight years to be ranked the world's No. 1 university.
Why are more and more people starting to worry about Ashida Mana?
In Japan, there isn�ft a day you don�ft see child actress Ashida Mana (7) on TV. Whether it�fs a CM, a movie, a drama, a music or a variety show, this young girl seems to be everywhere.
Many people love her and can�ft get enough of her charming personality, which becomes evident when looking at the numbers. Tabloid �eShukan Bunshun�e wanted to get some insider information about her from within the industry and found an official from a TV network, who explained, �gEvery show that Ashida appears on experiences an increase in ratings. She is one of the biggest viewer magnets at the moment and can pull up viewer ratings by 3~4% all by herself. Everyone knows that and everyone wants to have her on their shows.�h
However, there are also a lot of people who are becoming more and more worried about Ashida�fs busy schedule.
Actress Adachi Yumi (30) is one of them and commented, �gIs it really okay for Mana-chan to be that busy?�h Adachi started out as a child actress 21 years ago herself and had her big breakthrough in 1994. She was still in junior high school around that time and already had trouble living a life between work and school, but her schedule was nothing compared to Ashida�fs, and that girl just entered primary school!
Ashida�fs duet with Suzuki Fuku (7) is still charting and already sold over 650,000 copies. This month she is even having her own solo debut. Further, she appeared in three different movies this year, has CM contracts with 10 major companies, appeared in NHK�fs taiga drama �gGou�h for two different roles, starred in her first drama and drama special, and is going to appear alongside drama legend Kimura Takuya in the upcoming drama �gNankyoku Tairiku�g. Ashida even became a regular on the show �gMeringue no Kimochi�h making her the youngest MC to host a weekly TV show in history.
However, no matter how many filming sessions for dramas or variety shows are on her schedule, she still has to go to school.
The TV official continued, �gIn spring she enrolled in a public primary school and they have been able to squeeze most of her obligations to the weekends and vacations, when she doesn�ft have to go to school, but even on school days it�fs almost impossible for her to attend all classes. At least once every week she has to leave early for one or two hours.�h
Further he added, �gEven if she gets to stay at home after school and work, she can�ft really relax and has to learn the script for the filming on the next day. She already has dark circles around her eyes and often looks exhausted when arriving to sets. Ashida is on the level of a top-class actress, always accompanied by at least 4-5 people, including the 3-4 managers from her agency and her mother. However, in the dressing room she still looks more like a normal child, taking a nap or studying for school.�h
Ashida has an innocent face and the talent of making all that stress look like it�fs nothing to her, which makes it difficult for the viewers to notice her exhaustion as they are too charmed by her smile.
Finally, the official once again explained Ashida�fs popularity stating, �gShe has such an enormous popularity that all networks actually rearrange their programs in order to avoid direct competition with her shows. Her agency is clearly aware of her popularity and already managed to negotiate fees ten times higher than her actual market price. All the networks are willing to pay such sums, because they know that her popularity ranges from children her age to the generation of her grandparents. None of the networks would want to fail a deal, get on bad terms with her agency, and eventually lose their viewers to another network.�h
One can only hope that Ashida doesn�ft lose too much of her childhood because of her work.
To me it feels like she's overworked but it seems like her mother isn't overly concerned. So how can anyone expect her agency to worry, with all that money Mana is bringing in.
Matthew Falkner, Drunk Floridian, Gives Police Taco Instead Of ID
It happens to the best of us: a few beers in, you pass out clutching a half-eaten taco, sour cream and carnitas crumbs spilling onto your shirt. Hopefully, though, the last time (don't try and pass it off like it was a one-time thing) you found yourself in this messy predicament, you were not sitting in your car in the drive-through lane of your local Taco Bell, with your brake engaged and your foot on the accelerator. Matthew Falkner, a 30-year-old from Palm City, Florida, shows just how bad such a situation can get.
First, his engine caught on fire. The police were summoned, maybe in response to a noise complaint from the Taco Bell's neighbors, who were hearing the incessant honking of the stalled cars behind Falkner in the drive-through line. The police knocked on the window of Falkner's Chevy pickup, and found him nigh-unresponsive. They pulled his foot off the accelerator, got him to nod awake and asked him for a photo ID.
Then, in a moment of high, unintentional comedy (LA Weekly called it to "Buster Keaton meets Cops"), Falkner, instead of handing over his driver's license, tried to give the police officer his taco. The police officer, assumedly less amused than the blogosphere, arrested Falkner for driving under the influence.
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Matthew Falkner, Drunk Floridian, Gives Police Taco Instead Of ID
It happens to the best of us: a few beers in, you pass out clutching a half-eaten taco, sour cream and carnitas crumbs spilling onto your shirt. Hopefully, though, the last time (don't try and pass it off like it was a one-time thing) you found yourself in this messy predicament, you were not sitting in your car in the drive-through lane of your local Taco Bell, with your brake engaged and your foot on the accelerator. Matthew Falkner, a 30-year-old from Palm City, Florida, shows just how bad such a situation can get.
First, his engine caught on fire. The police were summoned, maybe in response to a noise complaint from the Taco Bell's neighbors, who were hearing the incessant honking of the stalled cars behind Falkner in the drive-through line. The police knocked on the window of Falkner's Chevy pickup, and found him nigh-unresponsive. They pulled his foot off the accelerator, got him to nod awake and asked him for a photo ID.
Then, in a moment of high, unintentional comedy (LA Weekly called it to "Buster Keaton meets Cops"), Falkner, instead of handing over his driver's license, tried to give the police officer his taco. The police officer, assumedly less amused than the blogosphere, arrested Falkner for driving under the influence.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a videotaped skydiving sex stunt did not result in a violation of any regulations and the pilot wasn't distracted during the incident over Kern County.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said Thursday that available video evidence confirms the pilot's account that he was not distracted and the shoot didn't interfere with his duties.
The video shows part-time skydiving instructor and porn star Alex Torres having sex with the receptionist from Skydive Taft in a plane before jumping out in tandem and continuing the act midair.
Jose Canseco and Lenny Dykstra in cable grudge match
Reality television, late-night commercials and celebrity boxing are where washed up former athletes go to fade away. Sometimes, though, the impending results threaten to shake American popular culture to its core.
Enter Jose Canseco. And Lenny Dykstra. In the ring. Boxing. Each other.
Canseco, the former A�fs slugger, has long been on a roller coaster ride of absurd public embarrassments and legal woes, but he�fs got noting on Lenny.
Dykstra, who was once one of baseball�fs most prolific users of dip was �\ among a laundry list of misdeeds �\ named in the Mitchell report, indicted for fraud and charged earlier this year with grand theft auto, drug possession and indecent exposure.
The two former MLBers weren�ft even supposed to fight; Canseco was on the card to face White House crasher Tareq Salahi. But thankfully, destiny stepped in and what was to be a sad display of a lopsided bludgeoning is now just a sad display of revenge:
�gCanseco ruined my career by spreading lies. I called Tareq and begged him to let me take his place in the upcoming fight against Canseco,�h said Dykstra in a statement.
In short, this is the perfect storm of celebrity self-destruction. And it�fs coming to pay-per-view on Saturday.
While I�fll admit to having a Bash Brothers poster prominently displayed on my bedroom wall from 1988-1991, I�fve come to my senses since middle school and I don�ft think I�fll pay $19.99 to Jose kick Lenny Dykstra�fs tobacco-stained teeth in.
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