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Juanda Dale could shimmy her way up to the top of a rainbow, look down and still pick one out.

So on this St. Patrick’s Day, if you think you’re up to challenging her to a hunt for four-leaf clovers, do yourself a favor — lay off the green beer.

To run with the woman who could very well spot a few crumbles of corned beef in a leprechaun’s beard from 100 yards out, you’re going to need your eyes to be extra sharp.

“I just have an eye for picking them out,” the Pitchin resident confessed. “My grandmother and I used to have clover wars from the house to the car, just to see how many four-leaf clovers we could find in five minutes.”

She’d always find five or six.

“I don’t know how much luck is involved,” Dale said.

Then again, some people are lucky to find just one.

Rather, some people are lucky to have that much patience — four-leaf clovers aren’t all that rare, said local horticulturist Pam Bennett.

But by her own estimation, Dale has found thousands of them in her lifetime, theoretically making her the luckiest nonfictitious person in the world — and second overall only to the little dude pictured on the Lucky Charms box.

“I probably have a couple hundred of them at home,” she said.

In the mid-1990s, she got herself a cheap laminating machine and really went to town, forever sealing the lucky charms in plastic.

She gives many away.

As the receptionist at the Springfield Museum of Art, she sells others for $2, with the money going to the financially strapped Cliff Park Road institution that could use a little luck of its own about now.

Several years ago, she sent 50 of them to a friend in Las Vegas, who promptly sold 47 of them to gamblers on the Strip for as much as $10 each.

“People are always looking for something to change their luck in Vegas,” she said.

Her brother, museum facilities manager Marty Brewer, is nothing short of amazed by his sister’s keen eyesight.

“She can find lost things,” he marveled. “She found my wife’s wedding band she’d lost while helping me gut a deer.”

“My husband,” Dale added, “was sitting there with $1,500 in metal-detecting equipment.”

Luck?

“It’s a knack,” she said. Source and Thanks

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St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by the Irish and Irish at Heart in big cities and small towns alike with parades, “wearing of the green,” music and songs, Irish food and drink, and activities for kids such as crafts, coloring and games. Its a time for fun. Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers or streams green! See all the Parades & Events going on around the World to celebrate St Patricks Day 2010 here and find your nearest Irish Pub!

Happy St. Patrick s Day, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by the Irish and Irish at Heart in big cities and small towns alike with parades, “wearing of the green,” music and songs, Irish food and drink, and activities for kids such as crafts, coloring and games. Its a time for fun. Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers or streams green! See all the Parades & Events going on around the World to celebrate St Patricks Day 2010 here and find your nearest Irish Pub!

BAGHDAD: Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country’s still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people in the capital and sending down a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the day.

About 19 million Iraqis are eligible to vote in the election for who will lead the country as U.S. forces pull out and determine whether Iraq can overcome the jagged sectarian divisions that have defined it since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Insurgents who vowed to disrupt the elections launched a volley of mortar attacks just as polls opened across the city and country.

At least 12 people died in northeastern Baghdad after an explosion leveled a building, and mortar attacks in western Baghdad killed seven people in two different neighborhoods, police and hospital officials said.

In Baghdad’s northeast Hurriyah neighborhood, where mosque loudspeakers exhorted people to vote three people were killed when someone threw a hand grenade at a crowd heading to the polls, said police and hospital officials.

In the city of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, a bomb inside a polling center killed a policeman, said Iraqi Army Col. Abdul Hussein. There were also explosions elsewhere in the country, but no further reports of fatalities.

Insurgents also launched mortars toward the Green Zone — home to the U.S. Embassy and the prime minister’s office — and in the Sunni stronghold of Azamiyah police reported at least 20 mortar attacks in the neighborhood since day break.

About 6,200 candidates are competing for 325 seats in the new parliament, Iraq’s second for a full term of parliament since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion seven years ago this month.

Bangladesh Vs New Zealand
2nd ODI – 08 Feb 2010 at 23:00GMT
Series/Cup : BAN in NZ – 2010
Result : NZ won by 5 wickets

Australia Vs West Indies
1st ODI – 07 Feb 2010 at 03:25GMT
Series/Cup : WI in AUS – 2009-10
Result : Australia won by 113 runs

Pak Snubs Coach, Kamran Akmal For England T20, Pakistan has announced its squad for T20 against England today.
Shoaib Malik would lead the team during the tournament, while Abdul Razzaq also given place in the team. Kamran Akmal has been dropped. The other team members include: Imran Nazir, Fawad Alam, Shahid Afridi, Sarfraz Ahmed, Umar Gul, Syed Ajmal Yasir Arafat, Wahab Riaz and Muhammad Talha. The T20 matches would be held in Dubai on February 19 and 20;the Green Shirts would be coached by Ijaz Ahmed.

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Defiant Blair Defends Decisions Over Iraq War, Former British prime minister Tony Blair defended the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, saying the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States meant Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed or removed.
The Al-Qaeda strikes against US cities had transformed the global security picture, raising the risk that militants could kill even more people if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from a rogue state were to fall into their hands, Blair said. Facing the first official public grilling on why he sent 45,000 British troops to war in Iraq, Blair batted away questions about the legality of the invasion but admitted for the first time there had been mistakes in the post-war planning. Blair defended the war’s legality, relying on the green light the government’s top lawyer gave only days before the conflict, and saying a second UN resolution had only been desirable from a political, not legal perspective. Blair also added that they did not anticipate al Qaeda and Iran would play the role that they did which he said almost caused the mission to fail.

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Located about 20 meters west of Tut’s final resting place, KV56 is a small, unattributed shaft tomb — basically a rock-cut burial chamber at the bottom of a vertical shaft — which had originally been discovered in 1908 by American excavator Theodore M. Davis.

Badly damaged and clogged with compacted mud and debris, the tomb had nonetheless yielded a fabulous array of late Nineteenth Dynasty (c. 1200 BC) royal jewelry, prompting Davis to nickname it The Gold Tomb.