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Afghanistan's first-ever one-day international against Pakistan achieved what no other sport had managed -- support from the once cricket-hating Taliban, according to an official.

"Friday's match was a big milestone for Afghanistan, so much so that the Taliban sent a message of support, saying they are praying for the success of the team," Omar Zakhilwal, president Afghanistan Cricket Board told reporters on Saturday.

Although Afghanistan lost by seven wickets in the first-ever one-dayer against Pakistan on Friday, they gave a good account of themselves, scoring 195 and then capturing three early wickets before succumbing.

Cricket has become the top sport in the war-ravaged country in the last three years after it was introduced by youths who learnt the game in refugee camps in Pakistan following the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979.

Under the Taliban regime no outdoor sport was allowed and grounds were primarily used for executing political opponents who defied the hardliners.

But since the ouster of the Taliban, following the war on terror led by the United States in 2001, cricket has taken root with Afghanistan winning one-day status in 2009.

Zakhilwal, also the finance minister in the Hamid Karzai-led government, said cricket is uniting the nation.

"Even president Karzai was watching the match and wished the team well," said Zakhilwal.

"Across the country 80-90 percent of the kids were watching the game as this was a big occasion for our cricket."

Zakhilwal said no other thing unites Afghanistan like cricket.

"On streets you can see kids playing, there is no other sport which mobilises the people, neither politics nor any other event, neither the reconstruction, there is nothing which can match cricket.

"This (cricket) becomes an example of progress in other areas as well. Even with little peace in our country we have achieved this much in cricket. We can achieve more -- when there is a will, there is a way, with the support of the people."

Zakhilwal said his board will push other nations to play his team.

"We are pushing the top teams," said Zakhilwal, praising Pakistan for giving them the opportunity.

"It was great support from Pakistan. We are pushing India, Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and with this kind of performance and following I see no reason why they don't play us."

Zakhilwal urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) for more help.

"They have done their part but they should help us get more chances against top teams," said Zakhilwal, hoping countries would not shy away from facing his team.

"My personal opinion is that top teams shy away from playing us because winning against Afghanistan is not huge but losing against them would be big for them.

"I think we are a team and have broken the ice by playing Pakistan and the team has shown maturity and strength," said Zakhilwal, predicting the day when his country would host international matches was not far ahead.

"We now have two international stadiums -- in Kabul and Jalalabad -- and we are open to all teams. If they can't come, they can play us anywhere in the world," said Zakhilwal.

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LAS VEGAS -- Whitney Houston's death has had a deep impact on some in the Las Vegas entertainment community. One local singer received her personal inspiration from Houston.

Cheaza Figueroa is a rising star, singing at Planet Hollywood. She comes from a family of singers, but she can trace her creative roots back to an early conversation she had with Whitney Houston.

Cheaza, as she goes by on stage, is a lead singer at Holly Madison's Peepshow in Planet Hollywood. She traces her creative growth to the songs she heard Houston sing. She never knew Houston well, but a meeting Cheaza had with the singer in Hawaii inspired the local performer.

"She said, 'You know what, keep going. You've got a career ahead of you. Never stop dreaming,'" she said. "How many of us really get to get that close to our idols? She was truly an idol for me."

Cheaza and Houston met once again at the Grammy Awards. She credits Houston's genuine emotion during performances as her most important professional lesson.

Despite Houston's personal troubles, it's not hard to see just what legacy she leaves behind for local singers when it simply comes to vocal range and stage presence.

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Here are 14 tips that helped me greatly in my blogging and personal life. I share them with you in the hope that they’ll help you as well. Let me know if anything jumps out at you.

Blog consistently. This is a marathon, not a 100-meter dash. Pick a posting frequency and stick to it.
 Know the difference between accounting and finance. Keeping track of the past is accounting. Planning for the future is finance. Separate your business from your personal stuff. Set up a new bank account just for your blog. Don’t mix the personal and blog accounts together. Understand the difference between good debt and bad debt. Good debt makes you money, bad debt cost you money. Use credit cards to your advantage. Earn air miles or get cash back, but NEVER carry a balance. Surround yourself with success. Find the most successful people in your field and get on their radar. Don’t be afraid of rejections. Many will agree to mentor you if you respect their time. If you’re going to hang with success, then it also means you need to stop hanging with failures. Don’t let well-meaning friends or family member bring you down with bad advice. Take your advice from people who are where you want to be. Treat your business partners well. Never try to screw them over. What goes around comes around and payback is a bitch. Think positive. You attract to you what you are, and you are what you think. Negative thinkers attract negative people. Positive thinkers attract positive.
 Live below your means. While I do live in a nice house, I don’t drive a $250,000 sport car or have any flashy cloths. In fact, I get most of my cloth by taking all the free T-shirts at various trade shows. Always keep working on your brand. It’s what separate you from the other 120 million+ blogs
. Don’t take things too seriously. Have fun at this. It’s not the final destination that matter, it’s the journey along the way that’s important. Enjoy it. It’s not how much you make, it’s how much you give. Most people equate success with how much money you make. However, I think the true measure of success is not how much you make, it’s how much you give. While it’s great to have a bunch of fancy toys, you have to keep in mind that you can’t take it with you when your time comes and God isn’t going to judge you based on how many fancy cars you drove. If you want to live with masses, serve the classes. If you want to live with the classes, serve the masses. If you look at any successful businesses, you’ll see that they serve a lot of people. The more they serve, the richer they get. Google serves millions of web surfers everyday. Walmart serves more customers than any store in the world. They’re among the richest companies in the world. The rich got rich because they serve the masses. The masses being their customers, employees, shareholders, etc. The poor are poor because they serve the classes (their boss). The more you serve, the richer you become.
 You attract what you give out. If you give out negative vibes, you’ll get negative vibes back. If you want people to smile at you, just smile at them. If you want love, give your love. If you want money, give your money. It will all come back to you in greater amounts than you gave.

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Stonie Fitzgerald is a graduate of the LifeLine to Success program. LifeLine offers ex-offenders counseling, education on re-assimilating into society after being incarcerated and work opportunities around Memphis.

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LifeLine to Success founder DeAndre Brown (left) talks with one of the program's participants, Mario Shaw, during a break in the group's class. LifeLine offers ex-offenders counseling, education on re-assimilating into society after being incarcerated and work opportunities clearing and cleaning blight around Memphis.

Stonie Fitzgerald takes notes alongside fellow participants in the LifeLine program during class at the group's facility in Frayser.

Webster's dictionary defines stony as "manifesting no movement or action." Residents of the North Memphis neighborhood of Frayser define Stonie as the total opposite -- a manifestation of movement and action.

This Stonie is Stonie Fitzgerald of Frayser, ex-offender and graduate of the LifeLine to Success program.

Lifeline to Success, run and directed by DeAndre and Vinessa Brown, would be just another faith-based reintegration program if it weren't for people like Fitzgerald, who grabbed that lifeline and ran with it. Not every program reaches every person, but this program reached Fitzgerald, and he is reaching back to offer lifelines of his own.

He works with LifeLine to Success and the Frayser Community Development Center, but his real goal is to meet at-risk individuals on their own turf.

Fitzgerald recites his personal mission as, "Hopefully, doing things like going to the parks and playing basketball with the kids and recruiting them for good, like the gangs do for bad, I can make a difference, be an example. I know what it's like. I've been there."

He admits that as a teen, in his search for something in which to be involved, he stole a skateboard and became so good at the sport he was represented by a skateboard company in competitions.

Still in the gang scene, however, he went on to commit other crimes and finally served six years in a correctional facility. It was when he went from being incarcerated to living in a halfway house that his life really changed. That was where he met the Browns and began the LifeLine to Success program.

Fitzgerald has repaid his debt to society and now he is "paying it forward" through community service work over the last two years.

The next step he hopes to take is to get children involved in music and theater.

He wants to audition teens and cast them for the play he has written.

He said his goal has never veered from hoping that he can help others get off their own personal stony paths, smoothing out the way for them to also contribute to a better Memphis.

Julie Ray is a resident of Uptown.

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