Vettel seals historic world title defence

Germany's Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest back-to-back world champion on Sunday when he finished third in the Japanese Grand Prix behind Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

The Red Bull driver, 24, who needed just one point to clinch the title, joins Juan Manuel Fangio, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher as one of only nine drivers to successfully defend the world title.

He ran down the pit lane to celebrate with his mechanics after the race, which sealed the championship with four grands prix remaining following a dominant season with nine wins in 15 outings.

"There are so many things you want to say, but it's hard to remember all of them," Vettel said.

"I'm so thankful to everyone in the team, pushing hard to build those two cars. It's great to achieve the goal we set ourselves this year already.

"Today's race we weren't as quick on the soft tyres and we lost two positions, and it was difficult to get past Fernando."

At just 24 years and 98 days, Vettel outstrips fellow consecutive winners Alberto Ascari, Fangio, Jack Brabham, Alain Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen and Fernando Alonso as the youngest driver to achieve the feat.

Button's victory, which came after he passed Vettel in the second round of pit stops on lap 21, was his third of the season and the 12th of his career.

The McLaren driver finished 1.1 seconds ahead of Spain's Alonso of Ferrari, with Vettel's third place easily enough to secure the world title.

Australian Mark Webber was fourth for Red Bull, eight seconds adrift of Button, while Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren had another controversial race, clashing again with Felipe Massa of Ferrari en route to finishing fifth.

Schumacher was sixth for Mercedes, briefly leading the race after the final round of pit stops, while Massa was seventh.

Mexican Sergio Perez came through from 17th on the grid to take eighth for Sauber with a two-stop strategy, while German Nico Rosberg drove his Mercedes from second-last on the grid to finish 10th.

Vettel didn't lead last year's world championship until after the final race in Abu Dhabi, but this season he has never been headed in the standings.

Demi Moore seeking divorce

Demi Moore has consulted a divorce lawyer after the failure of a last-ditch bid to save her marriage to Ashton Kutcher.

The 48-year-old actress’s marriage hit the rocks after allegations that Kutcher cheated on her.

Kutcher, 33, is alleged to have had sex with 23-year-old Texan Sara Leal in a hotel at the end of September – at a time when the actor should have been preparing to celebrate his sixth wedding anniversary with Miss Moore.

Last night an entertainment industry insider said: ‘Miss Moore has been totally humiliated. On Friday, therefore, she consulted a lawyer about getting a divorce.

'The discussion included her living arrangements and how a divorce would impact her assets. She is worth about £97 million and Kutcher is also worth close to that.

‘This is a huge and very tough decision for Miss Moore to take. But her trust has been shattered.’

Miss Moore already had two broken marriages behind her – to songwriter Freddy Moore and actor Bruce Willis – when she wed Kutcher in 2005.

Pakistan players' participation in IPL to be discussed - Shukla

The participation of Pakistan players in next year's IPL will come up for discussion during the next IPL governing council meeting on October 14, Rajiv Shukla, the league's chairman, has said. Pakistan players have not taken part in the IPL following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, and even though 11 of them featured in the auction list for the third edition of the tournament in 2010, none were picked up by the franchises. Some of the franchises put it down to the uncertainty over their availability following a breakdown in diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan.

"This decision has to be taken by the Governing Council. It is not that Pakistan as a country has been banned in IPL," Shukla told PTI. "Their (Pakistani) referees' services have been utilised. Some franchises have taken Pakistani former players as coaches also and supporting staff as well. So it is not that Pakistan as a whole has been banned or something. There is no question of banning anyone."

The final call, however, rested with the franchises, Shukla said. "About Pakistani players, it is purely up to the franchises to decide whether they want to take Pakistani players or not. And we have to keep certain considerations in mind before deciding about it."

With regards to the resumption of cricketing ties with Pakistan, Shukla said matters of security and scheduling needed to be resolved before going ahead. He was also not too keen on the idea of playing at a neutral venue. "We have worked together. The question is about the circumstances and certain issues ... in terms of security. Those issues are to be sorted out. Then only, we can think of it.

"At the same time, there is no slot available. If there is slot available, then all these things can be discussed. Everybody wants cricket ties to be revived, to be resumed but slot has to be there to resume the ties.

"Secondly the atmosphere should be congenial because I am of the view that we should play on each others' soil instead of playing at a third venue. There is no point on playing at a third venue."

The termination of the Kochi franchise and the number of teams for the next IPL will also be discussed at the meeting.

Protest in New York

Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unlikely sympathy from a top official of one of main targets of scorn -- the Federal Reserve.

The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month with a few people has expanded to protests in more than a dozen cities.

They included Tampa, Florida; Trenton and Jersey City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Norfolk, Virginia in the East; to Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest; Houston, San Antonio and Austin in Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon, Seattle and Los Angeles in the West.

Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher surprised a business group in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday when he said: "I am somewhat sympathetic -- that will shock you.

The Fed played a key role in one of the protest targets, the 2008 Wall Street bailout that critics say let banks enjoy huge profits while average Americans suffered high unemployment and job insecurity.

"We have too many people out of work," Fisher said. "We have a very uneven distribution of income. ... We have a very frustrated people, and I can understand their frustration."

In addition to the bailout, protesters have raged against corporate greed and influence over American life, the gap between rich and poor, and hapless, corrupt politicians.

"I'm fed up with the government, I'm fed up with the bailouts. If I fail at my job, I don't get a bonus -- I get fired," said Tim Lucas, 49, vice president of a software company, who was protesting in Austin.

Hundreds of people have been arrested in New York since the protests began last month. On Wednesday, the biggest crowd so far of about 5,000 people marched on New York's financial district, and police used pepper spray on some protesters. But protests for the most part have been nonviolent.

Pakistan says Obama pressure on militants hurts Afghanistan

President Barack Obama's warning to Islamabad over suspected ties to militants will only fuel anti-Americanism and make it harder for Pakistan to support U.S. efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, a senior senator said on Friday.

Pakistan is seen as critical to bringing peace to neighbouring Afghanistan, but the United States has failed to persuade it to go after militant groups it says cross the border to attack Western forces in Afghanistan.

"This is not helping either the United States, Afghanistan or Pakistan," Salim Saifullah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, told Reuters.

"There will be pressure on the (Pakistan) government to get out of this war," he said, referring to the U.S. war on militancy.

Obama warned Pakistan on Thursday that its ties with "unsavory characters" had put relations with the United States at risk, as he ratcheted up pressure on Islamabad to cut links with militants mounting attacks in Afghanistan.

His comments are likely to deepen a crisis in the strategic alliance between the United States and Pakistan.

Obama accused Pakistan's leaders of "hedging their bets" on Afghanistan's future, but stopped short of threatening to cut off U.S. aid, despite calls from lawmakers for a tougher line over accusations that Pakistani intelligence supported strikes on U.S. targets in Afghanistan.

Pakistan says it has sacrificed more than any other nation that joined America's global "war on terror" after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, losing 10,000 soldiers and security forces, and 30,000 civilians.

Pakistan is often accused of playing a double game, vowing to help the United States fight some militant groups while using others as proxies in Afghanistan.

Ties were heavily damaged after U.S. special forces launched a secret raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May, which Islamabad saw as a violation of its sovereignty.

Protest in Syria

Syrian forces killed at least eight people when they opened fire to disperse protests against President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers (October 7) in Damascus and Homs, activists said, as Russia's president urged him to undertake reforms or step down.

The head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said three died in the Damascus suburb of Douma, one in Zabadani near the Lebanese border and four in Bab Sbaa, a district in the central city of Homs.

At least 25 people were wounded, he said, in the latest round in almost seven months of demonstrations seeking more political freedoms. Assad has held autocratic power for 11 years and his late father for three decades before that.

Video footage posted online in social media websites showed several people bleeding seriously as they are evacuated away from streets echoing with the sound of gunfire.

Reuters cannot independently verify content uploaded to social media websites.

An activist told Al Jazeera television that protesters had burned the flags of Russia and China for blocking a European-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution urging Syria to end its six-month crackdown on protesters.

In the east of the country, four gunmen shot dead prominent Kurdish opposition figure Mishaal al-Tammo and wounded his son.

It was not clear who was behind the attack. Tammo, a charismatic figure who was released from jail earlier this year, was a critic of Assad who had also angered powerful Kurdish parties because of his criticism of Kurdish rivals.

There were reports that at least another two died at the Tammo's protest in Qamishli.

Reuters

wikileaks website

wikileaks website

WikiLeaks claims its website being hacked

LONDON: Hours ahead of an expected leak of millions of classified US documents, WikiLeaks today claimed it was under a cyber attack but said the documents would be made public through several leading newspapers.

In a Twitter message, the whistleblower website said: "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."

It added that even if its website goes down a number of newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them.

Ahead of the release of the potentially embarrassing documents, which the US fears could harm its relations with several countries, the American administration asked the website to refrain from making the classified documents public.

It has asked it to return the "illegally obtained" papers, insisting that their leak would "endanger the lives of countless individuals."

The Twitter message from the website said El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian and New York Times newspapers will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down.

The website has already released thousands of documents on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In October WikiLeaks released four lakh secret US files on Iraq war detailing abuse of Iraqi prisoners in US custody, rights violations and civilian deaths.

Earlier in July, the website had published tens of thousands of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today said the soon-to-be released classified US documents will cover "every major issue" in the world.

Assange put the number of documents to be released at more than a quarter of a million.

Late yesterday Washington rejected talks with WikiLeaks, saying the website was holding the cables in violation of US law.

Assange has however rejected the claim that the release would put to harm many lives

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WikiLeaks under attack, it says, as new leak looms

CNN) -- The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack, but even if it goes down, a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published Sunday night, it said via Twitter Sunday.The announcements come shortly after the United States warned WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange that publishing the papers would be illegal and endanger peoples' lives. The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in England, and newspapers and magazines in three other European nations are planning to publish new classified material on Sunday, WikiLeaks said on Twitter.

The site is experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, it said. That's an effort to make a website unavailable to users, normally by flooding it with requests for data. The U.S. State Department's legal adviser said Saturday that if any materials in the posting of documents by the site were provided by government officials without proper authorization, "they were provided in violation of U.S. law and without regard for the grave consequences of this action." WikiLeaks indicated last week that it was preparing to release a new batch of previously classified U.S. military documents.

"Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs," the group stated via Twitter Monday. "Intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong." State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh told Assange he was responding to a letter about the newest leak. Koh wrote that the department had spoken with representatives from The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers, and the German magazine Der Spiegel about 250,000 documents the whistleblower organization provided to them for publication. WikiLeaks said Sunday it had also given documents to El Pais in Spain and Le Monde in France.

Koh described the distribution as the "illegal dissemination of classified documents" and said it would "place at risk the lives of countless individuals" -- criticisms that have been repeated by U.S. officials after past postings on the site. The information blitz from WikiLeaks is expected to offer a glimpse into the worldwide communications of the State Department and its 297 embassies, consulates and missions through what are commonly referred to as "cables." Koh wrote that releasing such documents could jeopardize relationships with allies, military actions and anti-terrorism operations. CNN has not had advanced access to the documents, unlike some media organizations, because the company declined to sign a confidentiality agreement with WikiLeaks.

In October, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 U.S. military reports about operations in Iraq. In July, it released more than 70,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan.

US steps up pressure on WikiLeaks, warns against leak

US steps up pressure on WikiLeaks, warns against leak

The United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistle-blower website was holding them in violation of US law. The US State Department late Saturday set out its position in a letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney that was released to the media.

"We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained US government classified materials," State Department legal adviser Harold Koh wrote.

"As you know, if any of the materials you intend to publish were provided by any government officials, or any intermediary without proper authorization, they were provided in violation of US law and without regard for the grave consequences of this action," Koh continued.

"As long as WikiLeaks holds such material, the violation of the law is ongoing."

WikiLeaks was reportedly hours away from releasing millions of confidential US diplomatic cables on Sunday as governments braced for the potential fallout. /P>

Top US officials have raced to contain the damage in recent days by warning foreign ministries in more than a dozen countries, including key allies Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel and Turkey.

An independent French website reported that the leaks would be published simultaneously at 2130 GMT Sunday by several Western newspapers.

Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme

Embassy cables reveal the US, Israel and Arab states suspect Iran is close to acquiring nuclear weapons despite Tehran's insistence that its programme is designed to supply energy. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to leaked US diplomatic cables that describe how other Arab allies have secretly agitated for military action against Tehran.

The revelations, in secret memos from US embassies across the Middle East, expose behind-the-scenes pressures in the scramble to contain the Islamic Republic, which the US, Arab states and Israel suspect is close to acquiring nuclear weapons. Bombing Iranian nuclear facilities has hitherto been viewed as a desperate last resort that could ignite a far wider war.

The Saudi king was recorded as having "frequently exhorted the US to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons programme", one cable stated. "He told you [Americans] to cut off the head of the snake," the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir said, according to a report on Abdullah's meeting with the US general David Petraeus in April 2008.

The cables also highlight Israel's anxiety to preserve its regional nuclear monopoly, its readiness to go it alone against Iran – and its unstinting attempts to influence American policy. The defence minister, Ehud Barak, estimated in June 2009 that there was a window of "between six and 18 months from now in which stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons might still be viable". After that, Barak said, "any military solution would result in unacceptable collateral damage."

The leaked US cables also reveal that:

• Officials in Jordan and Bahrain have openly called for Iran's nuclear programme to be stopped by any means, including military.

• Leaders in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt referred to Iran as "evil", an "existential threat" and a power that "is going to take us to war".

• Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, warned in February that if diplomatic efforts failed, "we risk nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, war prompted by an Israeli strike, or both".

• Major General Amos Yadlin, Israeli's military intelligence chief, warned last year: "Israel is not in a position to underestimate Iran and be surprised like the US was on 11 September 2001."

Asked for a response to the statements, state department spokesman PJ Crowley said today it was US policy not to comment on materials, including classified documents, which may have been leaked.

Iran maintains that its atomic programme is designed to supply power stations, not nuclear warheads. After more than a year of deadlock and stalling, a fresh round of talks with the five permanent members of the UN security council plus Germany is due to begin on 5 December.

google homepage today

google homepage today


Google Home Page,Google Homepage Today:Doodle points today Home Google – If you would like scribbles Pac Man on the home page of Google, and you’ll be just delighted with the new ball is elastic, that have made search engine late in the evening.

This morning, the Internet giant, introduced its latest scribblings that a lot of colorful point of desperation jump when all the mouse cursor next to them.

Nobody knows for sure, but fun and exciting game could be put into place to mark the birthday of Google and drive you crazy as you try to run after the fellows.

Regardless of how you say it’s way more fun than scribbles Buckyball.
And what is the meaning of this latter figure, but guess is as good as ours.

We say, Google is going to launch a new Web site, where they will sell interactive balls or maybe to celebrate a birthday Kiyoshi Ito, who came into this world in 1915 and was a brilliant mathematician who came up with a model of random motion.

dove world outreach center

dove world outreach center

Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who is planning a Koran-burning rally to protest the 9/11 terrorist attacks, plans to go through with the event despite a warning from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan that the protest could harm American soldiers.

"We have firmly made up our mind, but at the same time, we are definitely praying about it," said Jones, who heads the Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville, Fla., told CNN

Jones said his group is "weighing the situation."

However, the pastor said his fight against radical Islam won't be stopped.

"Once in awhile, you see that in the Bible, there are instances where enough is enough and you stand up," Jones said.

U.S. officials and Muslims across the world have expressed outrage over the event.

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said Monday that burning Korans could put U.S. troops in danger.

"It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort in Afghanistan," Petraeus said. "Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult," he said.

Muslims in Afghanistan protested outside a mosque in Kabul Monday, chanting "Death to America" a day after thousands of Indonesians demonstrated outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta.

Jones said his rally is aimed at the "radical" Muslims, not moderate Muslims.

"Our message is a message of warning to the radical element of Islam."

bob schimmel

bob schimmel
To honor Bob Schimmel’s passing, Howard Stern announced this morning that there will be a special in Bob’s memory tonight, September 7, Howard 101 (at 7 p.m.).

Bob Schimmel was a frequent guest on Howard Stern and a good friend to all on the show, so his death last Friday hit Stern and his fans pretty hard.

Robert Schimmel was involved in a car crash and suffered serious injuries after the car, driven by his 19-year-old daughter, rolled to the side of the freeway when she attempted to avoid another car. He died Friday at age 60.

Howard Stern talked about Schimmel during his radio show this morning and made mention of the Bob Schimmel special on Howard 101 tonight.

Stern noted that Schimmel is a “hard guy to forget.” Based on the outpouring of fan love, I’d say that’s about right.

Will you be tuning in to Howard 101 tonight to hear the Robert Schimmel special?

college football rankings

college football rankings
After Boise State's convincing win over the Virginia Tech Hokies, the voters need to make sure to take notice.

The Broncos of Boise State showed off every facet of their game. They dominated the opening quarter with a suffocating defense, they showed off their special teams prowess, and they put their explosive offense on display in the final two minutes. The team was brilliant at various points throughout the game, and dare I say, BCS worthy.

It's time for the voters to throw out their preseason ballots and pretend they know nothing about college football history. The days of Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are behind us and it's time for the rankings to reflect that.

The AP Top 25's preseason poll had the top five teams in the country as follows: Alabama, Ohio State, Boise State, Florida, and Texas.

Although they maintained the same top five in their preseason poll, the USA Today Poll's was slightly shuffled. The coaches who voted in this poll moved both Florida and Texas ahead of Boise State, leaving the Broncos to drop down to the No. 5 spot in the rankings.

It's time for one of the two to reconsider and Boise State did their best to make the coaches and not the Associated Press be the ones to do so.

regency san marino

regency san marino
The Regents cover the positions of President of the State Congress of the Grand and General Council and of the Council of XII moreover they have the power to legislate by Presidential Decree in case of emergency this type of law making has a validity of 3 months and to maintain validity must be rectified by the Grand and General Council.In lieu of this rectification the decree will be declared invalid.
Regency collaborated with the Italian Authorities in 1987 in order to establish the exact procedures and paperwork necessary for foreigners to marry in Italy.It was the first wedding planning agency to work with the City Hall of Florence Palazzo Vecchio making it possible for foreigners to marry legally in Italy.

For Regency it is also possible to arrange weddings according to Protestant Jewish or Orthodox rites in these cases you can get married in a sacred location church or synagogue or in a villa castle or garden.

operation beautiful

operation beautiful

Tired of watching women pick themselves apart in front of the mirror, 24-year-old blogger Caitlin Boyle scribbled a note on a Post-it — “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!” — and slapped it on the mirror of a public bathroom. With this one small act, a movement was born. Women of different ages, races, lifestyles and geographic locations began posting encouraging notes of their own. The messages are chronicled in Boyle’s new book, “Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself One Post-it Note at a Time.”

This excerpt from “Operation Beautiful” highlights the damaging effects of “Fat Talk” and explains how to break free from it.

The real deal with Fat Talk
Fat Talk isn’t about being overweight. In fact, Fat Talk has nothing to do with your size at all.

Women engage in Fat Talk for a variety of reasons, as it allows them to “express emotions, seek social reassurance, create an in-group with friends, excuse certain eating behaviors, and manage impressions,” according to Dr. Denise Martz, a clinical psychologist who has spent more than 20 years studying body image, eating disorders and Fat Talk.

Fat Talk is habitual, meaning that women often don’t realize they’re doing it. Fat Talk has become a knee-jerk reaction to eating an overindulgent meal, trying on bathing suits, or even getting dressed in the morning.

Fat Talk triggers unhealthy behaviors, whether the comments are consciously processed or not, putting yourself down verbally creates reverse inertia in all aspects of your life. Instead of inspiring you to get healthier, Fat Talk will motivate you to overeat, skip your workouts and stay involved in toxic relationships. Additionally, even if you don’t hear your own Fat Talk, your friends and family will, and it harms them emotionally, spiritually and physically as well.

Women use Fat Talk to bond socially. Women Fat Talk with their friends, and mothers Fat Talk with their daughters. Fat Talk is contagious, and if one woman does it, the next may feel compelled to engage in their behavior, too. “Fat Talk has become a form of chitchat,” says Dr. Susan Albers, a psychologist who specializes in relationship and weight issues. Dr. Albers has observed that women will often mirror a friend’s Fat Talk. “We tend to follow other people’s leads, particularly those who are close to us.”

taskrabbit

taskrabbit

Taskrabbit is a new service out there that serves for people who have errands and people who need some extra income. This way if you need something done you can pay someone who is willing to do so. “Rabbits” as they are called are paid $15 per errand.

The Taskrabbit service is currently available in San Francisco and Boston, but the company is working now in expanding the service to other cities across the United States.

Taskrabbit has a nice video explaining how the service work, and how you can take advantage of it to make life easier. Check it out below:

taskrabbit

taskrabbit

Taskrabbit is a new service out there that serves for people who have errands and people who need some extra income. This way if you need something done you can pay someone who is willing to do so. “Rabbits” as they are called are paid $15 per errand.

The Taskrabbit service is currently available in San Francisco and Boston, but the company is working now in expanding the service to other cities across the United States.

Taskrabbit has a nice video explaining how the service work, and how you can take advantage of it to make life easier. Check it out below:

spain wins world cup

spain wins world cup

Congratulations to Spain on winning the 2010 World Cup after beating Netherlands 1-0 in extra time after a goal by Andres Iniesta.

Here are photographs from this historic day in World Cup history where Spain has won the World Cup for their first time and where they are current holders on both the World Cup and European Championship.

The goal made in extra time by Andrés Iniesta brought in the win for Spain who became the first team to win the world championship after losing the opening game of the tournament.

Paul the Octopus? If you've been following his predictions, he was right again!

"It was a very difficult game but we have some fantastic players who knew how to respond to the problems," Spain coach Vicente del Bosque told the AP. "They had a few chances but we had clear ones. We owe this to a great group of players."

Nelson Mandela greets fans prior to the start of the World Cup Final game.

The World Cup has been a top Google trend since the event watched around the world started in June. Here's the buzz on the Web today after the big win by Spain:

Associated Press: At the final whistle, the Spanish players hurried to swap their blue shirts for their more familiar red colors in time to collect the trophy. They donned shirts decorated with a single gold star to mark their triumph, becoming the eighth nation to receive the honor in the tournament's 80-year history.

New York Times: And what a classy move by the Dutch. They line up at the foot of the stairs and clap the Spaniards through as they come back down to the field. They’re pretty grim-faced, but remember, a lot of these guys are teammates and friends, and you’ve got to get choked up a bit at their sportsmanship.