Andy Svoboda is one of 77 players who made it to the U.S. Open via qualifying. He was one of 18 to qualify at the sectional in Summit, N.J., the same place where Michelle Wie missed out. While most ...of those qualifiers will come and go quietly, Svoboda will certainly draw his share of support this week. The 26- year-old estimates he's played 150 rounds a year at Winged Foot since he was 12. He has won the club championship four times. Among those who failed to qualify are: John Daly, Joe Ogilvie, Jeff Maggert, Justin Rose, Kirk Triplett, Jonathan Kaye, Craig Parry, Joe Durant, Jesper Parnevik, Kevin Sutherland and Jason Gore.
--Blake Svoboda, 24, who came to The Log from Southern Escrow & Title in Freeport, started in January as an account executive. Svoboda has filled Mike Cahall's position at The Log. Cahall worked for ...The Log for more than 15 years and now resides in Birmingham, where he has friends and family. Svoboda graduated in 2004 from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He and his family have regularly vacationed in Destin since Svoboda was in the sixth grade. "In both Keri and Blake we believe we have found two new associates who can make an immediate, positive difference at The Destin Log," Publisher Rick Thomason said. "In her new reporting position, Keri brings experience that will be evident to our readers. Blake, though new to selling advertising, has already shown he is capable of meeting the needs of his clients. We are proud to have them both on board."
He achieved international acclaim at the 1958 Expo in Brussels, where he collaborated with renowned Czech director Alfred Radok on the debut of the Laterna Magika style, combining film, legit and ...dance. Technique has become one of Prague's most famous attractions and exports. The birth of Laterna Magika also marked the beginning of the flowering of Czech theater in the 1960s and a new openness to the West, culminating with the Prague Spring of 1968.
The Czech Republic has pledged relief assistance of 4.5m US dollars for earthquake victims at donors' conference held in Geneva in October, out of which Pakistan has already received relief goods ...worth 1m US dollars. Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri applauded the prompt assistance Pakistan received from the Czech Republic for the people in the earthquake affected areas. He thanked the Czech Republic, EU, the NATO and international community for the timely relief assistance to Pakistan and their desire to remain engage in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the affected areas.
Dana Drabova, head of the Czech State Authority for Nuclear Safety (SUJB), said that the awarding of the IAEA and its head Al-Baradi'i is just with regards to the hard conditions in which the agency ...inspectors must work, for instance in Iraq and North Korea. "It appreciates the work which the agency has been doing for 50 years. It was established to prevent the abuse of nuclear energy, and its importance has been rising with regard to the international situation," Drabova told CTK.