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Breaking: Braun signs eight-year deal (seven-year extension)

the same of the main brewers concerns has been addressed today. less than a week after rfb posted a rumor of an supplement, brewers outfielder ryan braun has reportedly signed a seven-year, $45mm extension with the organization. the record-environment deal in favour of a player with zero to three years experience is considered by the team to span eight years, but includes this salt. no word on whether these new terms when one pleases augment his $455,000 salary for 2008. more here and here.braun, 24, is considered to have “zero-plus” seasons of big league experience, and would not have been available for salary arbitration until the 2011 mellow and free agency until the 2014 season. the contract reportedly signed by braun will cover all of his arbitration years and forego direct agency until after the 2015 season.at an average annual earnings of less than $6mm, this is a enthusiastic see to in my opinion. in the wake of a rising trend of locking up promising youngsters (i.e. troy tulowitzki, hanley ramirez, evan longoria and yesterday’s inking of scott kazmir), a signing of either braun or - to a lesser immensity - corey hart at some point this season seemed to be a must for the club. notwithstanding the team is giving braun an astronomical call from what they could pay him until to 2011, they too are warding off was fitting to have been staggering arbitration and free agent numbers if braun was to remain even imminent his current level of direction. in short, i love this deal.i’m sure (or sincerely hope) the other guys clanging in with their thoughts of this curriculum vitae-setting contract for both the brewers format and for a participant with fewer than three season of big league navy.update: in augmentation to the terms posted above, braun will follow a $2.3mm signing bonus to be added to his compensation this seasoned. he can also earn accomplishable escalators based on service time and “super 2″ pre-eminence that could win over his salary up to $51mm. tom haudricourt’s article also indicates brauns deal carries “a chuck-full no-trade clause for four years, a limited clause (12 teams), the next two years and a further limited clause (six teams) the final two years.”

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Michelle Obama takes heat from Tennessee GOP

(CNN) — In a preview of the political onslaught Michelle Obama may face in the fall, the Tennessee Republican Party unveiled a Web video Thursday highlighting her comment that she was proud of America for the first time in my adult life.

The four-minute video coincides with a visit to the state by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s wife for a Democratic Party event Thursday evening.

It features several Tennesseans saying why they are proud of American while repeatedly cutting to Michelle Obama’s comments.

The Tennessee Republican Party has always been proud of America. To further honor the occasion of Mrs. Obama’s visit, the Tennessee Republican Party has requested the playing of patriotic music by radio stations across the state, said a statement on the party’s Web site that accompanied the video.

While Mrs. Obama has trouble being proud of the country where she earned degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and then became a multimillionaire, her husband makes statements that belittle average Americans’ response to the difficulties of life.

The Obama campaign called the attack shameful.

This is a shameful attempt to attack a woman who has repeatedly said she wouldn’t be here without the opportunities and blessings of this nation, Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said. The Republican Party’s pathetic attempts to use the same smear tactics to win elections have failed in Mississippi, failed in Louisiana and will fail in November because the American people are looking for a positive vision of real change.

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Parents hope at quake-destroyed schools

BEIJING, China (CNN) — Parents are waiting at schools destroyed by the devastating Chinese earthquake hoping their children will be pulled from the debris but hope is fading.

There are scattered success stories around Sichuan province but as time goes on they will be fewer.

The government estimated death toll rose Thursday to around 20,000 but could eventually top 50,000, Xinhua reported.

In Beichuan, parents of middle-school students waited, hoping recovery teams would pull their children alive from the rubble of a middle school but search teams Thursday could only recover bodies.

There are teenagers wearing jeans and gym shoes and their bodies are twisted, CNN’s John Vause said, reporting from just outside the school. The expression on one girl’s face was just pain — she was dead.

Similar scenes were unfolding across a vast expanse of southwestern China. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Monday afternoon, when thousands of children were in class.

Chinese authorities have confirmed that at least several hundred children died in schools in one town alone — and an untold number have perished in schools elsewhere. Watch as families face heartbreak

Anyone buried in an earthquake can survive without water and food for three days, said Gu Linsheng, a researcher with Tsinghua University’s Emergency Management Research Center told The Associated Press. After that, it’s usually a miracle for anyone to survive.

At Beichuan Middle School, the recovery effort was a delicate paradox. Some of 200 rescue workers clawed at the rubble with bare hands, while others manned giant cranes to move tons of debris that used to make up the school.

A three-year-old girl was rescued from beneath a toppled building in Sichuan’s Beichuan County on Thursday, Xinhua said. Photos of the rescue showed the girl had sustained a leg injury, but was otherwise alert.

And a frightened seventh-grade girl was pulled safely from the rubble of a school dormitory Wednesday evening — 50 hours after she was buried by the earthquake, state-run media said.

In other areas, mudslides, debris and fallen rocks continued to stall rescue efforts.

Premier Wen Jiabao has ordered extra soldiers and medics and 90 more helicopters for rescue missions in Sichuan province. Watch Chinese parachutists drop into the disaster zone

Some international assistance is being allowed in the quake’s aftermath.

China’s Foreign Ministry has given the go ahead for Japan to dispatch a professional rescue team to the earthquake zone, the agency’s Web site said. Japan has extensive earthquake-rescue expertise, suffering through a number of large temblors over its history.

The Red Cross for the island of Taiwan, which China has been in dispute with since 1949 and which it regards as a renegade province, said it is being allowed to send a 20-man team, AP reported.

Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Vietnam and Poland are among the countries providing assistance, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The government also appealed to the Chinese public to donate rescue equipment including hammers, shovels, demolition tools and rubber boats. The plea on the Ministry of Information Industry’s Web Site said 100 cranes were also needed.

Along Sichuan roads, piles of supplies, especially blankets and clothes, sprung up. In Mianyang, there was enough in one pile to distribute to the 10,000 people camping out at the nearby stadium. Others swarmed trucks delivering food and water.

A few roads to Wenchuan county — the epicenter of the quake — started to open, allowing military trucks to begin their haul to affected sites. State media has reported a lack of drinking water in the town of Yingxiu, adding that many people have not had water since Wednesday.

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Bush: Talking to Hamas like talking to Nazis before WWII

JERUSALEM (CNN) — In his first address to Israel’s parliament Thursday, President Bush reiterated the United States’ unbreakable alliance with the Jewish state and denounced calls to negotiate with terrorists and radicals.

In a speech before the Knesset, Bush compared calls to talk with unnamed terrorist groups as a foolish delusion that was suggested before World War II.

As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided,’ Bush said. We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Former President Jimmy Carter recently wrapped up a trip to the Middle East, which included talks with leaders of Hamas — an Islamic militant group that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Carter hoped to persuade Hamas to negotiate with Israel in an attempt to reach a broader Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Hamas has not been included in peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, under President Mahmoud Abbas, who control the West Bank. Israel and the United States refuse to negotiate with Hamas until it renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel’s right to exist.

The Mideast peace talks, which Bush lauds as the path to an independent Palestinian state, are largely secret, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters Wednesday en route to the Middle East, but negotiations are moving forward.

There is less known about them publicly than is going on, Hadley said. The issues are hard.

One of the things he [Bush] needs to do is rally the support of the Arab world behind both Israeli and the Palestinian leadership so that they will support whatever is negotiated between the two sides, he added. Key players

In an interview with al-Arabiya television before he left for the Mideast, Bush said a peace deal by year’s end was still possible, and that observers should not be discouraged that he was meeting separately with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. It was more about logistics than discord, he said.

It’s a very complicated process, and I don’t think necessarily not having a trilateral meeting should be read as anything other than that it just didn’t work out, he told the TV station Monday. It’s not a sign that the talks aren’t going forward. Watch how the trip combines business, pleasure

During his Mideast tour, Bush also is scheduled to visit oil-rich Saudi Arabia, where he will meet King Abdullah amid increasing American frustration at gas prices.

Congress on Monday directed Bush to stop filling the government’s emergency oil supply for six months to try to bring prices down, a move Bush has argued would have little effect.

His visit to Saudi Arabia will also commemorate the 75th anniversary of the formal establishment of U.S.-Saudi relations, the White House said.

Bush will then head to Egypt, where he will meet with another U.S. ally, President Hosni Mubarak. He will also meet with Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. advertisement

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