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Female goalie powers Massapequa HS hockey team
The first thing you notice is the voice. The goalie of Massapequa's high school hockey team loves to talk, barking out directions to defensemen as the play unfolds around them. The voice is loud, authoritative and, well, surprisingly high-pitched.
"That's the only thing that gives it away," team captain Brett Ansbacher said. "There's no way you would know our goalie is a girl until you hear her on the ice."
That's right, the goalie is a girl. One of the top goalies in the Nassau County league is a ponytailed, pearl-earring-wearing dynamo of athleticism named Dana DeMartino.
Over the years, a half-dozen or so females have played boys high school hockey on Long Island, but no girl has played as significant a role as the 5-2 DeMartino.
Last season, her first as a starter, DeMartino helped lead Massapequa to a New York AAU Large School state title. This season, the 17-year-old compiled a 12-5-1 record as her team reached the title series but fell to East Williston-Jericho.
But Long Island took notice, including a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
"Dana is a fierce competitor," said former Islander Pat LaFontaine, who coached DeMartino on the Long Island Royals youth team. "She has never been afraid to go in there with the boys. She looked at it as a challenge. She loves to play."
DeMartino said she has loved to play since she was 4 years old when her father, John, who briefly played minor league hockey and now works as an engineer and private goaltending coach, brought her on the ice and started firing pucks at her.
"My dad is my inspiration," she said. "I wanted to be like him. So I got him to buy me some pads, and that was it. "
Though DeMartino has played on girls teams -- she also plays for a girls youth hockey team in New Jersey -- she has spent most of her career playing with boys. What she lacks in size -- she is often a full foot shorter than the opposing male goalie -- she makes up for in technique, Massapequa assistant coach Tom Kiernan said.
"She's almost always in the right place," Kiernan said. "When you're smaller and you don't take up a lot of space, you have to do things to make up for it. She's very agile, very competitive and very technically strong."
DeMartino has caught the eye of several college women's hockey coaches, though she might take a postgraduate year at a prep school with a strong girls program. Her goal is to play for a Division I women's team.
Coach Tony DeMayo says he has never seen a girl play a more important role on a boys team in his 31 years of coaching. Still, he admits he was "a little nervous" when he first named DeMartino the team's starter.
"She proved herself, especially at the end of last year," DeMayo said. "Last year there were a couple of the kids on the team when we were struggling who decided maybe they just didn't like the idea of playing with a girl . . . I just told them to shut up. We can't win without her."
DeMartino's biggest challenges are the logistics off the ice. At Bethpage Community Park ice rink, where her team plays most of its games, she has a separate locker room where she can get dressed before joining the team in its locker room for the pregame talk. On the road, however, she sometimes has to dress in the public restroom or a closet-sized office.
She also has to meticulously remove any makeup before the game, because she likes to take off her helmet and squirt water over her head between periods and "eyeliner tastes terrible."
For the most part this season, no one on the ice thinks twice about playing against a girl.
Said Nicholas Boesenberg, whose Bellmore/Merrick team was defeated by Massapequa on Feb. 5: "It doesn't matter if she's a boy or a girl. She's just a really good goalie."
Dana DeMartino
Age: 17
Class: Senior
School: Massapequa
Record: 12-5-1
Goals-allowed average: 1.43
Elsewhere: The other female goalie in the league is Rachel Havrylkoff, 15, a sophomore who plays for Great Neck-Sewanhaka and attends New Hyde Park HS.


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In the latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, master video game console modder Benjamin J. Heckendorn creates an Xbox 360 controller for folks that can't bring their hands together in front of their bodies. How does he do it?
Well I figured he would split the damn thing in half, but I guess there are limits to even the mighty Ben Heck's powers. He can't cut the 360 controller circuit board in two, so he uses one full controller and half another controller's shell to make an ugly contraption strung together with a ribbon cable. Still, it gets the job done, so folks with afflictions that give them tiny Tyrannosaurus Rex arms can now play Call of Duty.
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(Pocket-lint) - The Asphalt driving game franchise has been extremely successful for Gameloft, but Pocket-lint can safely say that iPhone and iPad owners haven't seen anything yet.
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline has been completely rebuilt from the ground up (no pun intended). It has a brand new graphics engine, and there are several modes and styles of play that haven't appeared in any of its prequels.
For starters, the garage, which can contain up to 42 cars from the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin and more, can be wandered through as a 3D environment. Then there's new crash physics and graphics that make you wince everytime you hit oncoming traffic.
However, the most satisfying change implemented for Adrenaline, is in its speed. The game zips along a fair old pace and, considering that Asphalt 5 was already super speedy, you can only imagine the effect that ramping it up has on the action. Certainly, when you eliminate rivals in Burnout style (by ramming them off the road), there's a sense of white knuckled aggression about it that only comes with pure acceleration.
Improvement to the nitro system is another example of how the game has quickened. Rather than give you a brief shot of nitro for each canister you pick up, you now get a nitro bar, allowing you to hit the button in regular bursts. Then there's the eponymous Adrenaline mode which freaks the whole screen out with super speed lines and different shades.
Nitro also marks the only onscreen control (unless you opt for a different set-up in the menu). One solitary button is presented, allowing you to see the whole action; vital for the small screen of an iPhone. Acceleration is automatic, and steering is performed by physically tilting the device. For once our big thumbs don't get in the way.
Other bonuses this time around include the ability to customise cars with decals, and a new Beat 'em All game mode, where the only task is to knock your opponents off the track.
Multiplayer allows for up to six racers at a time, across Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and the game will be on the App Store before Christmas for both iPhone and iPad. Both versions will cost the same as other Gameloft titles (around £3.99).
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John Abel "Jack" Wight was born on the 1st of March 1889 in the Township of Alabama,
Genesee County, New York, the first son and first child of Noah Wight
and Ida May Ackerson. Noah was an apple farmer and worked 50 acres of
land that he leased from Ida's father.
Jack's life as a
young boy was probably like many other boys in the farming country of
western New York. He would have needed to help his father on the farm
and yet would likely have had ample opportunity to be a boy. There is no
indication in any of the local papers that Jack was a troubled youth.
1910, Jack was living at home, but working as a fireman for the
railroad and by 1915, at the age of 26 years, he had left his family
farm in Alabama Townsip and was living in the big city of Buffalo. He
registered there for the draft during WWI, but Buffalo couldn't hold
him. We don't know for sure, maybe it was the sudden death of his
father, or perhaps he could not find the kind of work he wanted there,
or perhaps it was still too close for comfort to the family farm. For
whatever reason, Jack moved on and found a young Scottish immigrant,
named Anna with whom he fell in love. Anna was a couple of years older
than Jack, born about 1887. They were married sometime before 1920 and
moved to Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio where he found employment as a
garage mechanic. For whatever reason children did not come to the young
couple. Still, I imagine that they were mostly happy with no more than the usual problems that arise in a marriage.
But life moves on. Ohio was not the final stop on Jack's road. Sometime in the early 1920's, he and Anna moved to Flint, Genesee County, Michigan.
It was here in Michigan where life began to really take its toll.
First, in 1927, Jack's mother, Ida May, died on the 18th of February. He
traveled back home for the funeral, but his ties to family were now
weakened. Then in October of 1929 the world economy collapsed. Jobs were
so hard to find. Jack was one of the millions out of work. He may have
always had a drinking problem, we don't know, but during this period of
his life, there is little question that he began to drink more, and
drinking did not make him a happy man.
At home, Anna must have tried to hold things together. Somehow they eked by until Jack was given work with the WPA, the government's answer to the rampant unemployment of the Great Depression.
But employment through the WPA, although a godsend for many, was also
hard on a man. He was a second class citizen, a government supported
drone who couldn't make it on his own.
Still, no
matter what the problems, they did not merit the events that followed.
On the 10th of January in 1939, Jack came home drunk. Anna was
understandably upset and would not talk to him. Here he was spending the
few dollars they had on liquor. Jack berated her and undoubtedly placed
much of the blame for their troubles onto her. She still refused to
talk. In his drunken state, probably not realizing exactly what he was
doing, Jack proceeded to pour kerosene over Anna. He then threw a
lighted match into her lap setting her on fire. It appears at this point
that Jack realized what he had done and called for help to put her out.
Anna, however, was severely burned and died one or two days later.
was arrested and convicted of second-degree murder and then sentenced
in April 1939 for a term of 25 to 40 years in the Southern Michigan
State Prison in Blackman Township, Jackson County, Michigan. "Michigan
State Prison or Jackson State Prison, which opened in 1839, was the
first prison in Michigan. The first permanent structure was constructed
there in 1842. In 1926, the prison was relocated to new building, and
soon became the largest walled prison in the world with nearly 6,000
inmates. The prison was renamed the State Prison of Southern Michigan in
Life in prison is tough. But life after
prison can be even tougher. Jack was released from prison in the
mid-1950s and moved to Texas where he found work as a dishwasher at a
cafe. He had been in Texas for only about a year, however, when he died
at his home on 2518 Seevers Street on 26 March 1956 in Dallas of
asphyxiation due to an open burning stove in his apartment; the death
was officially determined to be an accident, but the circumstances
suggest that it was more likely suicide.
I recount this
story here because John Abel Wight is my cousin, my 4th cousin 2 times
removed to be exact. We both descend from the same man, David Dewers (or
Duers), a ship master who lived in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. I hope
that somewhere David is putting his arm around his
great-great-great-great grandson and that, even for Jack, there will be


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Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University.
The Harvard Foundation, the university's center for intercultural arts and science initiatives, gave Shakira its 2011 Artist of the Year award on Saturday.
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Foundation director S. Allen Counter says the Latin music artist, who has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, was honored for her "distinguished history of creativity" as well as for her charitable contributions
After accepting the award, Shakira challenged Harvard students to do more to improve education in developing countries.
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Shakira founded the Barefoot Foundation to provide education and nutrition to children in impoverished areas of her native Colombia. She is also a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador.
Previous winners of the Harvard award include Sharon Stone, Will Smith, Jackie Chan and Herbie Hancock.
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We've been home for 3 days.
3 whole days.
And William, Alexander and Benjamin are just in LOVE with their brother. In LOVE! As a parent, this is the most beautiful sight to see. Your children loving each other. Especially the newest sibling!
But it must be said… it has been absolutely hilarious listening to the things the boys have been asking us and telling us about Henry – or as he has been tagged by the boys, "Henge."
And the boys are so innocent with their comments and remarks.
My favorite was when William walked in to see me for the first time after having Henry, and there I was with tears in my eyes as the boys greeted their brother… and the hugs and kisses… and the "can I hold him?" asked a hundred times in a row by William and Alexander.
But then William turned to me and said, "Mommy, I thought you said your stomach would be gone after Henry was born?"
Ahh… the innocence (honesty?) of a child.
And something only my son could get away with saying to me! 🙂
I will say that all went well with the c-section. It was a much different experience than my 3 previous births. Going into the hospital to deliver on a specific date, at a certain time, has its advantages when you have 3 little ones at home! And even though I'm somewhat confined to the living room and kitchen for the next 2 weeks, having Henry here is absolutely wonderful. Each time I look into beautiful eyes, I ask him, "How have I gone this long in life without you?"
So here we are. 4 boys under 4.
We're back to 3 cribs. 3 boys in diapers (we're still working on the potty training with Alexander!). And 2 boys with bottles!
Ah, life is perfect.
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I have recently been trying out the Philips Voice Tracer 7880 mp3 recorder and am very impressed with it.
It could be an alternative to the iRiver recorders that were so popular with podcasters before, but now do not feature line ins or work well with Macs.
It has a built-in mic and speaker (good enough for playback in class) and 2 different sensitities of microphone. You can also select super-high quality, high quality, or 3 other lower audio qualities.
It records directly to mp3 and functions as a flash drive without any need to install any additional software (although it does come with this software if you want it). It also works just as well on a Mac as it does on a PC, and has a line in.
What more can you ask for?


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I lied.
See, back last week when I posted about my most recent podcast interview (My Podcast Interview at Paleo Weekly: My Evil Plot, Revealed), I didn't really reveal the whole Evil Plot in that podcast. That was just to make you think I did so you'd consider listening.
Sure, I spent a lot of time explaining the evils of letting comments post unmoderated and why I'd do such a thing, when so many out there do moderate comments before they post. I spoke of my debauchery and laziness in letting bullshit, stupidity and false information remain in the comments for all to see, including newbies. Like a cheap whore, I reveled in the self-depricating glory of receiving comments critical of me and my style. And like some sociopath, I patted myself on the back for treating some select commenters like shit, for all to see: my wild-eyed immaturity.
But I stopped short of fully laying out why, exactly, I go to such lengths to make myself look bad, out of control, a loose cannon and, as some claim, to make the paleo / primal community look bad by extension, given the high popularity of my blog.
So, now, finally I shall reveal the end game of what it's all about. Perhaps the best way to explain it is via one of the many emails I get each week. This one, from Teresa:
Dear Mr. Nikoley,
After reading your latest and very inspiring blog post about your MovNat experience, I had to write to thank you for all the good you have done for me and my family. I am a 33 year old mother of two young sons, and I found your site some time last year when I was doing a search for Soft Star Shoes for my then 4 year old. It was serendipity, a chance hit on Google after you reviewed the Soft Star RunAmocs. But what else I read on your site intrigued me. Over the next several months, I came back a few times, confounded by the eating and exercise routine that seemed so darn sensible, so intuitive and natural that I couldn't accept it outright at first. (I'm not suspicious by nature, but I guess lifelong habits sometimes hold fast, even in the face of good sense that says otherwise. But finally, there was no arguing with your results.)
In January, I made it my goal to learn how to cook meat. When the last of the flours in the house were used up, I didn't replace them. Same with the beans and rice. I've had a few stutter steps, but I'm confident now in my paleo meal planning, and I've read a few books to get really solid on the whys. It's amazing. The immediate perceptible benefits have been listed all over the web, so I won't repeat them, but suffice to say that I can live the rest of my life like this and be really, really satisfied with it.
I'm so grateful that you put so much good information out there for others to stumble upon. I look at my 5 year old and my 2 year old, and I'm glad that their bodies will be growing to their full human potential. I'm grateful for the humility and humor that makes your site so accessible, and for the depth of thought and research that makes your posts such treasures.
I didn't intend to gush, but I did intend to thank you profusely.
So again, thanks.
So there you have it. Pretty sad, isn't it? Now I suppose I could have written posts about the 7, 8, 9, or 10 Things You Can Do For X, and she'd have probably blown right on by. Instead of the anarchist disaster area that are many of my posts and comment threads, I could have posted uplifting drivel and shut down comments altogether — or moderated with a heavy hand — so that I and all my readers could attend The Church of paleo with each post; cloistered, reveling in ignorant bliss — with never a discouraging or challenging word.
And I certainly wouldn't write posts about Paleo Pussies or Panties in a Bunch Paleos.
Of course, by consequential extension, I would never, ever get a comment like this:
…Or one like this from the same "Primal Professor," in reference to a live debate with a vegan.
But not getting comments like that would be far too big of a price to pay. And if you want to know what I think of comments like that, beyond my pure and primal love of getting them, It's that I wonder who this anonymous "Professor" is, and what he or she is doing that might result in him or her getting such a letter from someone, anyone, ever in his or her life? Or does his or her eminent, ivrory-towerness have any Real Results of others to show?
…One writer, columnist and blogger I follow on Twtitter — and who follows me as well — is Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess. She had a post up this morning that while from a political angle, has broader implications.
I often suspect that the people who complain the most bitterly about [cuts in social services] do only that — do nothing to try to help people themselves.
I added those brackets and you can pretty much insert anything you want. See? Broader implications.
It reminded me of back when I used to debate on the old USENET in the mid-90s, often about politics, culture, social policy and whatnot. One day, some guy blew through there and dropped a question I have never forgotten:
Is your desire to help people so great as to actually help them, or only so great as to force others to do so?
But what do I know? He's the "paleo Professor."
Tired of do-nothing paleo Complainers? Then shout it out to your friends and followers. Buttons up top.


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Changes to the documentation can be requested to the issue tracker, or added to a page as a comment. To add comments, create an account on the Struts 2 Documentation Confluence space at cwiki.apache.org. A volunteer with page editing privileges can then make the change by referring to the comment. (Confluence sends to the developers mailing list a daily summary of changes, including new comments.)
To request page editing privileges, first file a Contributor's License Agreement with the ASF. After CLA is submitted (fax is still best), you can request a karma upgrade on the dev list. After the CLA is submitted, it make take several days for it to be processed by the ASF Secretary (who is a part time volunteer, like everyone else around here). The roster of CLAs is available to ASF members, as well as at the bottom of this page, so we will know when it is processed.
The Struts 2 Documentation space is bundled with the Struts distribution, and, eventually, the content may be checked into an ASF repository. Accordingly, all volunteers working to this space must have a CLA on file.
The project also hosts a second Confluence space, the Struts 2 wiki, which can be edited by anyone who creates a n account.
See also: How to Help FAQ.
Documentation Workflow
Since projects like Struts wear our code "on our sleeve", there's always a discussion over whether the website should represent the latest documentation or the documentation for the "best available" release. Over the years, we've done it one way and the another, and now we do it both ways
The latest documentation for Struts 2.0.x is at
You can get here by following the home link to the "2.x draft docs".
The documentation for (say) the Struts 2.0.9 release is archived at
You can get here by following the link to the Struts 2.0.9 documentation.
The draft documentation is saved first to the Confluence wiki software at
It's then immediately converted to HTML, on an edit-by-edit basis, and kept at
Then every hour or so, the cwiki site is synchronized with the the main site at
When we vote a test build to a release (of any flavor: alpha, beta, GA), we archive the HTML version of the documentation for future reference. When a release is designated GA, we update the appropriate links on the main site to point to the archival copy.
Now, all this applies to the "documentation wiki". Since we bundle the HTML version of the documentation wiki with the release, we require authors to file a CLA, to ensure that we actually have distribution rights.
To cover all the bases, we also maintain a "community wiki", that is not bundled with the distribution.
It's open to anyone who signs up for an account on Confluence. Sometimes, we do move documentation from the community wiki to the documentation wiki, if the author can a CLA.
Sadly, not everyone can file a CLA. Many organizations still use aggressive IP agreement that assign rights to our every stray thought to the company, 24/7. In fact, some organizations grant a special dispensation for the ASF so that their employees can file CLAs.


text: Share: April 2, 2013 | Science World Report | by Catherine Griffin Pharmaceutical Pollution There has been a lot of concern over the possibility of pharmaceuticals ending up in freshwater and disrupting populations of wildlife. Now, new research shows that these concerns may be completely legitimate. A study has found that pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality.In order to come to these conclusions, researchers examined how six common pharmaceuticals influenced similar-sized streams in New York, Maryland and Indiana. In particular, they looked at caffeine, the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, the antidiabetic metformin, two antihistamines used to treat heartburn (cimetidine and ranitidine) and one antihistamine used to treat allergies (diphenhydramine). They made sure to investigate these drugs both alone and in combinations, using pharmaceutical-diffusing substrates.In order to determine the healthiness of a stream, the researchers focused on the response of biofilms to these drugs. Biofilms are the slippery coating on stream rocks that are vital to stream health. They're composed of complex communities of algae, fungi and bacteria that all live and work together. They're a major food source for invertebrates that eventually feed larger animals such as fish.The researchers found that the pharmaceuticals did more than what they say on the bottle. Diphenhydramine in particular caused biofilms to experience up to a 99 percent decrease in photosynthesis and a drop in respiration. It also caused a change in the bacterial species present in biofilms, including an increase in the bacterial group known to degrade toxic compounds and a reduction in a group that digests compounds produced by plants and algae. In the end, the researchers were able to show that these pharmaceuticals drastically affected the small communities present on river rocks.Yet this isn't the only study that has shown that excess chemicals could be affecting freshwater ecosystems. Another study revealed that the reproductive organs of river otters may be shrinking due to the persistence of contaminants in the water."Pharmaceutical pollution is now detected in waters throughout the world," said lead author Emma Rosi-Marshall, in a press release. "Causes include aging infrastructure, sewage overflows and agricultural runoff. Even when waste water makes it to sewage treatment facilities, they aren't equipped to remove pharmaceuticals."The new study highlights a growing problem in freshwater streams. Without finding an effective way to clean up our water, freshwater communities and our own drinking water is likely to continue to be affected.The research was published in a paper in Ecological Applications. Share:


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[This is a re-post of my interview from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. While I rarely re-post interviews, this was one of my favorite interviews of 2012 and with the movie now playing in limited release, I decided it was worth another post.]
Every once in awhile you land an interview that you can't wait to share. The one you're about to watch with Chris Evans is one of those. At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I got to sit down with Evans for over twenty minutes (we were scheduled for a lot less) to talk about his great work in director Ariel Vromen's The Iceman. As you can see in the trailer, Evans plays a killer and is nearly unrecognizable in dirty long hair as Richard Kuklinski's (Michael Shannon) friend and partner.
I've spoken to Evans a lot over the years, and one of the things I love about him is his honesty and willingness to talk about everything. If you ask him a question about his career, or even his contract with Marvel, he'll talk about it. Most actors will try and deflect the question, or give a politician's answer. That's not how Evans operates and it's very refreshing. So besides talking about The Iceman and working with Michael Shannon, Evans talked about how his career has blown up, the intricacies of his Marvel contract, the business of Hollywood, playing a critical character of the Marvel universe, Captain America 2 (Captain America: The Winter Solider), whether he knows anything about Captain America 3, the success of The Avengers, Joss Whedon, Thor 2, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, the greatness of Hayley Atwell, his upcoming anti-romantic comedy A Many Splintered Thing with Michelle Monaghan, and so much more. Hit the jump for more.
Before going any further, if you'd like to watch the interview, below is the time index followed by the video. However, for those that want to read it, the full transcript is further down the page.
Chris Evans Time Index:
- 0:22 – Chris Evans reflects on his career, starting with his arrival in L.A. and his goals at the time, through his movie-making evolution and up to his current day perspective. He talks at length about the price of stardom and compares his own experiences to other actors, such as Sam Rockwell.
- 2:30 – When signing on for the Marvel movies, Evans reveals his contract was for six films.
- 3:00 – Evans candidly talks about being able to land roles, like the one in Iceman, thanks to his exposure in films like Captain America and The Avengers. He goes on to talk about the business of Hollywood.
- 3:45 – Evans admits to being a "whiny bitch," because he is in the process of deciding whether he wants to do true indie films or continue to star in blockbuster projects.
- 4:30 – Evans continues to reflect on his changing career goals over the years and where he finds himself now.
- 5:50 – Playing a critical character of the Marvel universe, Evans talks about how lucky he feels to be a part of a fantastic franchise who works together like a team and a family.
- 6:25 – Evans talks about how his contract affects his appearances in multiple films other than the Captain America and The Avengers features, such as the extra scenes he appears in at the end of other Marvel films.
- 7:00 – Evans reveals that he and Hemsworth have expressed interest in Evans appearing in Thor 2 as a cameo, if they can make the plot work in a way that makes sense.
- 7:30 – Evans continues to applaud Marvel's work ethic and progressive attitude towards making quality films for their dedicated fan base.
- 7:50 – Evans is relatively new to Twitter so he confesses that he hasn't tweeted all that often as of late.
- 8:35 – Which was more uncomfortable: the wig in The Iceman or the suit in the Marvel films? Evans answers.
- 8:55 – Evans talks about working with Michael Shannon and his on-set commitment and dedication versus his more laid-back off-screen persona. He goes on to say that Shannon acts as an anchor for himself and other actors, comparing him to Michael Jordan.
- 10:00 – With regard to his character in the film, Evans talks about the freedom of interpreting the look and demeanor of Robert Pronge, since there's little direct evidence available for inspiration. He also mentioned that Richard Kuklinski (Shannon) had remarked that Pronge was "sick," which gave them a jumping off point.
- 10:45 – Evans talks about the process of getting into the head of a sociopath, saying that, "No villain thinks he's a villain."
- 12:05 – Evans talks at length about Snowpiercer, a film which finds the future world frozen over with all of society existing aboard a train. He calls it an allegory for social class warfare, since the train cars are separated by class. He describes a revolution that takes place from the lowest classes in the back of the train that progresses towards the front.
- 12:35 – For Snowpiercer, Evans compliments the stellar cast along with their "borderline-genius" director, Joon-ho Bong. He goes on to describe director Bong's unique style of pre-conceptualizing his desired editorial cut so that he shoots only what he wants to see in the final film.
- 14:20 – Evans says that Captain America: Winter Soldier will start filming around March, so he plans on sitting down with the creative team later this year.
- 14:35 – Evans talks about A Many Splintered Thing, an anti-romantic comedy that he starts filming in October with Michelle Monaghan.
- 15:15 – Evans is fully up to date with the Winter Solider storyline and reveals that Kevin Feige was already talking about the sequel's plot foundation even before The Avengers.
- 15:35 – Does Evans know where the third Captain America is headed? Find out here!
- 15:40 – Evans comments on how tough it is to keep all of these Marvel storylines secret and under the wraps. He says that Feige is a genius because he's also the audience and he knows what comic fans are expecting to see and what excites them.
- 16:35 – Since Evans has to be in heroic shape for the Marvel films, he talks about the physical demands of Captain America and The Avengers films.
- 17:25 – Evans talks more about his process of getting back in shape and staying healthy, commenting on Robert Downey Jr.'s injury on Iron Man 3.
- 18:15 – Evans comments on the screentime commitment and workload of carrying a film like Captain America: Winter Soldier versus sharing the load with an ensemble cast such as in The Avengers.
- 19:15 – Evans is looking forward to exploring more of Steve Rogers' story in the Captain America features. He also comments on the Captain America scenes that were filmed for The Avengers but were cut from the film.
- 20:35 – Reflecting on the first Captain America film, Evans talks about co-star Hayley Atwell's performance and how she landed every single direction that Joe Johnston gave her.
Here's the full transcript:
Collider: When you were making Not Another Teen Movie…
Chris Evans: Some of my finest work.
Can you remember the dream of getting to where you are? Do you know what I mean?
Evans: Yeah. It's so funny how it evolved. That was part of the whole…when the Captain America stuff came around you kind of take a little bit of a gut check. When you first get to L.A. you are so excited to be there and there is this competitive fire. There is this desire to get to a certain place, but it is all brand new and there is no downside. You really don't understand anything. So you kind of want to fight and get there. Then as you kind of continue and you make movies and you realize…you start to see some of the pros and cons of the situation. Then you think, "Well, maybe what I wanted isn't exactly what I wanted? Maybe I kind of want to find…" I think that in the beginning you think, "I want to be the biggest movie star in the world." And then with the more movies you make you are like, "I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different." I like acting but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached. Then you look at other careers and there are just other careers out there and you look at someone like a Sam Rockwell or someone like that. He has done so many great movies, he has so much respect from his peers, he is a fantastic actor, but I am sure that he can walk down the street without any bother. That is when you start to think, "God, maybe there is a happy medium." Then as you go on your career you start to think that you have to tailor some choices. So when the Captain America came along you think, "Well, alright. If I do this, which direction am I going in? Is this the direction that I thought I wanted when I was 18? Is this the direction that I tailored my goals to at 28, 29, and 30?" So it is a little more apprehensive. I don't even know what the question was anymore. I am rambling.
I know exactly what you are saying. A lot of people don't realize that you were very apprehensive about signing on for that role.
Evans: Yeah.
What is funny is that later in the interview I was going to say to you that I believe most of the Marvel people had to sign 8 or 9 picture deals. I heard that with you it was more like a 5 picture deal.
Evans: We got 6, which was good because initially it was 9. I was like, "I can't do 9." But even 6 – you can do 6 over 10 years. It is a big commitment.
But isn't there something to be said…like I think one of the reasons why it is great seeing you in this movie is that you disappear in the role. You don't even realize it is you. But don't you also think though that being a part of the Marvel Universe, and especially with The Avengers making so much money, that it has to be a little bit rewarding, though? Your work is being seen and it is being appreciated by millions around this planet. There has to be something to that.
Evans: Without question. Not only that – it is work. I got this movie because of that. If I hadn't done that…you know, James Franco had this role and he fell out. When he fell out…I know Ariel [Vromen] as a friend but he called and basically said, "Listen…" I know how independent films work. They obviously crunched the numbers and putting me in the role worked for the numbers. I mean foreign sales, or whatever you want to call it. That would not have happened without Captain America and that would not have happened without The Avengers. So I owe a lot to that. And it is nice to have your work seen. It really is.
Perhaps there is also going to be an audience out there that seeks this out like your Marvel fans that are going to say, "Oh, I want to see him in this now."
Evans: Yeah. See, I guess you know what it comes to down to? I'm such a little bitch. I don't know what my issue is. I really am.
No, I actually know what you are saying.
Evans: I'm such a fucking whiny bitch, man.
I know what you are saying. To be clear and maybe I am picking up on it – you are trying to weigh "Do I want to be on the star path or do I want to make movies that are true indies? How do I do both?"?
Evans: Do I even want to…see, this is the issue. I wish my agent was here because we have had this conversation a lot lately. What is the goal? Is my goal to be a giant movie star? You start to realize, or at least I have in the past couple of years, that is not my goal. It is a very strange thing to realize. It is a very strange thing because when I moved to L.A. at 18, that was the goal. The goal was to get to a point in your career where you can make the movies that you want to make, do what you want to do, and have access and freedom. You want to climb the ladder. Even just the competitor in you wants to earn it. But then these things start happening.
We are on a real tangent here and I want to bring this back and ask about this, Snowpiercer, and all of this other stuff. But I think the most important thing, and I say this as a friend/journalist/whatever, I think the most important thing is that, the Marvel movies are fucking awesome. I am so happy that Joss Whedon signed on to be a part of the universe.
Evans: Aren't they good, man? And it is so crazy because they don't make those big studio movies. Let's be honest, how many times have you gone to movies, you see a giant studio movie, and walk away happy? It is not often.
With Joss now signing on to Avengers 2 and with him being part of the Marvel Universe and I'm sure you got him to tweak the Captain America 2 script no matter what, get him to work on it. The fact of the matter is that if I am you, and I say this as an outsider, you make sure that when you are not making the Marvel movies, you are picking the best scripts you can that give you the most diverse range to show your talent.
Evans: That is why I do things like this. That is the goal, you know? I will do the Marvel and that is a studio thing. That is my obligation and they are great. I'm very lucky that I happen to be under a contract with a fantastic family, a fantastic franchise.
Yeah, they are not going to make bad movies.
Evans: They are not going to do bad movies. I love being the character, I love being a part of the team, and it is the best. If you have to be under a 6 picture contract, you can't find a better one.
I have always wanted to know this: If you do a cameo as Captain America in say at the end of Thor 2 …
Evans: That counts to the contract.
Does it?
Evans: Yeah. Maybe we will talk when this is off about how that has already affected…that has happened.
That is what I mean.
Evans: You can go through the Marvel movies and you can see where that has happened and where that has affected contracts. [laughs]
I love those buttons in the credits. I love that interconnected tissue. I love you as Captain America, and I am talking to as a fan as well as representing fandom, but you are real good at it. I really hope that when the 6 pictures are up that you have had such a good time that you would maybe want to do more.
Evans: [Chris] Hemsworth and I even talked about that. I would love to do a little thing in Thor 2. It is obviously going to be tricky trying to work out the plot, the reason why I am not there to help him, and why he is not there to help me. But the best thing about Marvel is that, like I said, the movies were so good and we had such a good time making them. Marvel is such a great company to work for. It feels like everyone just wants to pitch in. It feels like everyone…why would I not want to help? I'm not going to hold them over the coals and be like, "Well, it's my contract and guess what? I'm screwing you!" Let's just make this great. If I can help that – great – and make it better? Let's do it!
I hope that all works out. One of the questions that someone asked me was…first of all, you mentioned to me that you are on Twitter. Are you really on twitter?
Evans: Yeah, I got on Twitter like two months ago.
What is your @ address? Do you know?
Evans: @chrisevans
So is that really what it is?
Evans: I think that is what it is. I don't even know if that is right.
I know of a lot of actors have people helping them with Twitter. Are you getting help?
Evans: No. Nobody helps me. It is just me. But when I first got on it I was like, "This is great!" and for the first month I was like "Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!" I haven't tweeted in like a month and a half or something. I don't know.
Some of the questions that I got off of Twitter: what was more uncomfortable? The wig in this or the suit?
Evans: The suit. The wig you forget is on. It is a bitch getting it on but after 10 minutes you forget that it is even there. The suit you are fully aware, constantly.
You got to work with Michael Shannon, who is a very gifted actor.
Evans: He sure is.
Can you talk about getting to work with him and walking away from that experience?
Evans: He is just fantastic. He is so committed. You get him off set and he is a happy guy and he is a cupcake. He is the nicest guy on the planet. He is joking, laughing, having a bottle of wine, and having a good time. But then on set the guy has a focus and a commitment and a dedication. That type of intensity…it breeds allegiance. When you are around a guy who is so in the zone it is infectious. His acting style is so grounded. With this character….my character is pretty out there. So you try different levels, you know what I mean? You might try the first take here, the next take here, and the next take here. As you rise up, Michael stays steady and almost acts as an anchor. You try things kind of further and further off the wall and you kind of feed off of him, and it brings it back down to a mutual place or a realistic place. It is like playing basketball with Michael Jordan – he is just going to make you better.
How did you prepare specifically for this role?
Evans: We tried to…he is a real character. So you go on the internet and there is really not that much about the guy as far as who he is, what he looked like, where he is from, his family; all of that stuff is not there. So there was a lot of freedom as far as the look and the demeanor. But there was a lot of stuff on the books that Kuklinski would say about him. Kuklinski would say that he was sick. You have a mass murderer saying that another man was sick. He made him uneasy. So you say, "So, okay, we obviously have to make this guy…that's our starting point. If this guy says that this guy had a problem, we have to make him there." You kind of start to think about what makes…no villain thinks they are a villain. No bad guy says, "I'm a bad guy." You have to start thinking about what makes a sociopath. I mean, this is like a hundred times a day. I would just be driving my car and I would be like, "What if I just jerk the wheel?" You see someone who is carrying a bunch of trays and I'm like, "What if I just knock those trays down?" But you don't because you are handcuffed by social expectations and restraint. But a sociopath, I think, starts out small. I don't think that a sociopath wakes up and starts murdering. I think they do small things that bust the social barriers and chains. It becomes an addiction and like a drug, and it snowballs. Slowly they keep pushing the limits and they like it more and more. Before you know it, they are committing pretty heinous acts. So you kind of get in a mind frame of doing whatever comes into your brain and saying whatever you think. There is a real liberation and a real freedom to it. I am lucky that I only worked about 7 days on this movie because I think if I was in that headspace for 3 months I would probably be in jail.
I definitely want to ask you about Snowpiercer, which is something that I am fucking amped for…
Evans: Me too! Me too!
I'm sorry for cursing , but I am.
Evans: Right. Watch your fucking mouth, bro.
Can you talk about getting to be a part of that film? Who do you play? Everything.
Evans: I will tell you the whole deal, dude.
I don't want you to spoil it.
Evans: No, it is okay. It takes place in the future. The whole world was frozen over and all of society lives on a train. It is kind of like an allegory for social classes and class warfare. The poorest people are in the back of the train and as you move forward in the train the classes rise. And there is a revolt, a revolution from the people in the back to the front of the train. We have such a good cast: Tidla Swinton, Ed Harris, Octavia Spencer, and John Hurt. It was just a great experience. Director, Bong [Joon-ho], is just so good. He is so good. The way we shot the movie is so unique. Most times when you are doing a movie…like if you and I were doing a scene, we would start out doing the wide shot, do the whole scene, then we would do your coverage, the whole scene, then my coverage, and then the whole scene. And then the editor would find the cut and would spoon feed the rhythm and the pace to the audience. Director Bong has storyboards laid out so that…he has already edited it in his brain. For example, we will shoot the first line on you. We will shoot the second line on me. We will shoot the third line over here and you say, "Wait a minute. Don't you want the whole scene here?" and he is like. "No. Don't need it." He has already committed to an edit. It is brilliant. It is borderline genius. It's like building a house and instead of needing a bag of nails, it is like saying, "I need 53 nails." It is literally committing to a vision ahead of time. The trust that you feel is like, "God, this guy is operating on another plane." And I completely surrendered to it. You just completely commit to his vision and trust that he knows exactly what he is doing because he does.
For fans of Captain America, I believe that you have directors on Captain 2?
Evans: Yeah.
When do you actually film? What is your schedule?
Evans: I think we start at the beginning of March. So I start another movie in October and I think probably around December I am going to try and sit down with them and start trying to talk about direction and tone.
What are you filming in October?
Evans: This movie called A Many Splintered Thing. It is going to be classified as a romantic comedy but it is not a romantic comedy. It is a really unique script. It is a really different approach to that genre. It is like the anti-romantic comedy. It is really clever and really well done. We have Michelle Monaghan, who I think is just unfairly talented.
It has come out that you guys are going to do Captain America: The Winter Soldier. How early on did you know that was going to be that? Have you read the comics? Are you familiar with that whole storyline?
Evans: Oh, I am fully up to date with my comics. I know all about it. Kevin Feige was talking about that when we were filming the first Captain America and well before The Avengers. During the first Captain America we were talking about potential futures and, you know, I don't want to give too much way.
So you basically know hypothetically where even the third movie might go?
Evans: Maybe.
Is it tough not being able to say anything?
Evans: Kind of. Sometimes I will let it slip to like my brother-in-law, who is a huge comic book geek. I will be like, "Oh, yeah, that is what we are doing," and he is like, "What?!" I'm like, "Don't tell! I never said that! Shut up." He is all fired up. But that is the best thing about Marvel. That is why Kevin Feige is a fucking genius. He knows what the audience wants because he is the audience. He is that comic book fan. So he is not like some money man twisting his moustache while being like, "I think they will like…" He knows and he is a comic book fan. So anything that he gets excited about, the fans get excited about.
Can you talk about the demand on you for working out and to be in shape? Do you know what I am talking about it?
Evans: I know exactly what you are talking about and it is bullshit. [laughs] I've completely let everything go. The movie I am going to do in October – my character wouldn't make sense if he had muscle mass. So I am not working out. I'll be honest, I am 31 and even when I do work out now, things are like clicking. I'm just kind of like, "Oh, my god. I have four more movies where I have to get huge. Damn it."
Is it sort of easier to maintain? In this, you were a little bit muscular.
Evans: That is what people are saying. I think I was just wearing tight shirts probably.
I don't know. I was like, "Well, maybe he just filmed something with Avengers…"
Evans: No. I am telling you, I was just wearing s-mediums. That is it. I really wasn't that big. It is in my brain and thinking about "Man, we start in Captain in March so I am going to have to start training in January" And it is brutal. We are doing 2 hours every day for 2-3 months and it is food, sleep, and training. It is a full commitment. I just keep thinking, "Man, I just need to stay healthy." I can't afford to have a bum knee or something.
Or you can't hurt your ankle like how Robert did on Iron Man 3.
Evans: I know. I heard about that!
I think they shut down for a little bit.
Evans: Did they?
At least his stuff did. The Avengers had to be a blast because you are not in every scene. You get to work a little bit, you got to enjoy Albuquerque and the bbq, go to the theater, and all of that stuff. But with Captain, as you were saying, you are going to be in everything.
Evans: Well, it is a much bigger commitment. The good thing is that we did it once. Gearing up for Captain 2 you think, "Alright, there was obviously a difference in the workload from Captain America to The Avengers." And you have to get back in the mindset. You have to remember "Alright, this is on you, man. You have to take this seriously." The fact that The Avengers did so well….you have an obligation. There is a serious obligation to fans who are expecting a great movie. A lot of that starts with making sure that you are physically ready to play the role and look the role. So a lot of that is in my head. Come January that is my life.
From what you know about the sequel, what are you most looking forward to? Without ruining anything because I don't want to get you in trouble.
Evans: The most I am looking forward to is exploring a little bit of Steve's…they had all those deleted scenes with The Avengers because a lot of those scenes are for Captain 2, you know what I mean? It is Steve's story about…
Is that why they took it out?
Evans: I don't know. Maybe. I mean, The Avengers was a long movie.
Because on set I saw those pictures of Cap's apartment, which I think you filmed. There was more of showing him out of place in the world and all of that stuff.
Evans: It was good stuff, but it all felt like that was his story. It is a different movie. With The Avengers there was so much to cram in. Like I said, it was a long movie anyway. So I think making it any longer would have just been exhausting. But a lot of that stuff is for Captain America 2. That is his story. It is him trying to on a personal level adjust to the fact that everyone he knows is gone and the whole Peggy Carter of it all. There is a lot of things that he kind of has to come to terms with. So I don't know. I am excited to kind of see flashes of the first Captain, if you know what I mean, and to see his memory of what we now know as an audience of who he was.
I have to tell you, and I mean this as a fan of all of the Marvel movies, the love story in Captain America was my favorite of all of the love stories.
Evans: Oh, dude. It is Hayley Atwell, man. Isn't she great? She is so good.
She was fantastic. But I have to be honest, it was also the performances and the script. It was everything. They just nailed it.
Evans: There was a scene in Captain America where she comes into the bar in the red dress. We did this scene and we must have done this scene….the coverage on Hayley. She came in the red dress and she tells me a little about dancing or whatever. We must have done that – I'm not joking – about 15 times. The only reason is because [director] Joe [Johnston] would come in and give Hayley a new direction every time and every time she crushed it. The things she was doing…every take I was like, "How is this girl doing something new, different, and great in every single time?" I think Joe was just having fun watching an amazing actress be great. She is phenomenal.
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Installing 1) If you haven't already, perform a Full Install of BG1. This could mean BG1, BG1 plus TotSC, or BG: The Original Saga, depending on what you've bought. If you have the 6 CD set of BG1 (or 5, without the expansion), this means you should choose "custom install" and select everything. Even movies.2) Apply the BG1 patch from Bioware only if you do not have BG: The Original Saga.3) If you haven't already, perform a Recommended or Full install of BG2. Throne of Bhaal is supported but not required.4) Depending on what you have installed, apply the BG2 patch or ToB Patch from Bioware.5) Extract bg1tutu_v(x).exe to your BGII directory. (Where x is the version number you've downloaded.)6) Using a text editor like wordpad (don't use notepad, it's very confusing), PFE, ConTEXT, etc., go to your bg1tutu folder and open up the file named "configuration". You need to edit the two lines named ~source~ and ~target~. If you installation of BG1 was at C:gamesBG1 and your BG2 installation was in C:gamesBGII, your configuration file should wind up looking like this:
~source~ [ ~C:gamesBG1 ~] ~source.variant~ [ ~BG1~ ] ~target~ [ ~C:gamesBGII~ ] ~target.variant~ [ ~BG2~ ]
*Note that the path is case sensitive. Capital and lower-case letters matter.7) If you haven't installed TotSC, download the file http://home.arcor.de/varana/RNDEQUIP.2DA into your bg1tutubg1-override folder.8) Install any BG1 mods/upgrades that you will want to use in your BG1 directory.Note: Most minor BG1 mods should convert correctly. DSotSC does not.9) Run both BG1 and BG2 once, if you've just installed them. This will populate their configuration (baldur.ini) files, which Tutu requires.10) Double-click bg1tutu.exe (it will be in your BGII directory) and let it run.11) Just follow along after this and make whichever choices you wish.12) Once BG1Tutu has finished installing, you should download and run Tutufix. It is absolutely requiredthat you install at least the Core Bugfixes component.13) After Tutufix has been installed, you should install any mods specifically tailored for Tutu. See theBG1Tutu Enhancements page for a list.14) If you want BG music, copy BG's music folder into your BGII directory. (Make sure to rename BGII's music folder to something else first so that you don't overwrite BGII's music.)15) If you want to retain BG1's stone interface, check out LadeJarl's Tutu GUI mod on the Tutu Enhancements Page. 16) Play BG1Tutu by running "bgmain.exe" in your BG2 folder. It may prompt you for your BG2 CD.17) Have fun, you made it!Uninstalling (Reverting back to BGII)1) Run bg1tutu_restore.exe, which is located in your BGII directory.2) Delete bg1tutu_restore.log.3) Play BGII normally.4) Optional: If you want to *completely* get rid of everything, then also delete the following files after running bg1tutu_restore.exe:
Want to see some screenshots of BG1Tutu? Click here. If you're interested on how BG1Tutu was created, click here to download the source.Don't forget to check out the Tutu Mods section!Special thanks to Bardan, Eclipsael and HomerJ for providing mirrors for BG1Tutu.Support forum for Tutu is here.
The Tutu Fixpack is designed to remedy issues with BG1tutu which remained unresolved in the latest core release. It is ESSENTIAL that at least the core fixes be installed over Tutu v4. Please download it and examine the readme.
* BG1Tutu DL EasyTutu - Page (recommended for most users)
BG1Tutu v4 - Mirror 1BG1Tutu v4 Mac - Mirror 1 (recommended for foreign language users only)
* BG1Tutu FixpackBG1Tutufix v19 - Mirror 1 BG1Tutufix v15 Mac - Mirror 1
* BG1Tutu SourcecodeBG1Tutu v5 - Mirror 1
* Restored BG1 Casting SoundsCasting Sounds v4 - Mirror 1
* Spanish translation and guideTutu Espanol - Click here
* BG1Tutu Readme Click here
* ForumClick here
* Bug/Support ForumClick here
* Tutu AddonsTutu Enhancements Page
It is functionally equivalent to Tutufix v15, but will improve performance with current and future versions of EasyTutu.
BG1Tutu Homepage
BG1Tutu page
And of course, don't forget that the mod isn't just limited to use with BG1Tutu. You can just as easily use the BG1 sounds with a regular BG2 install.
Get 'em over at http://www.pocketplane.net/tutu.
With few surviving bugs to deal with, the Tutu folks are getting quite bored. In this version the squished bugs include:
The Tutu page, as always, is here.
The forum is thisaway.


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Megan Robinson batted 1-for-2 on Friday against Coastal Carolina.
Coastal Carolina posted a 9-0, six-inning victory over Liberty on Friday, striking for seven runs over the final two innings to secure the doubleheader sweep. Coastal Carolina (33-20, 18-5 Big South) had won the opening game of the series, 5-1, earlier in the day. The Lady Flames (19-32, 8-15) will enter Saturday's series finale looking to end an 11-game winless streak. Ashley Bagwell (11-8) pitched a complete-game, two-hit shutout, fanning nine Lady Flames while walking none. Kory Hayden and Brooke Donovan both hit 3-for-4, with Hayden homering and driving in four runs. Jessie Winans batted 2-for-2 with a round tripper and two runs scored. Jill Stephens and Megan Robinson recorded Liberty's two hits during game two. Annah Jo Brittingham (8-11) drew the loss after allowing five runs (four earned) on six hits in 4 1/3 innings pitched. Kenzie Friesen yielded four runs on three hits, before Alyssa DiMartino gave up just one hit during one inning of relief. Brittingham and the Lady Flames held the Chanticleers scoreless during the first two innings. Winans then broke the scoreless tie with a homer to open the third frame. Brittingham then retired Coastal in order. Robinson broke up Bagwell's no-hit bid when she singled after one out in the bottom of the third. The Coastal right-hander then recorded the final two outs of the inning. The visitors added a run to their total during the fourth, when Brooke Donovan lined a double to left center that plated Morgan Noad. Stephens singled as Liberty's fourth-inning leadoff batter, and went to second on a groundout. Amber Donovan then reached on a fielder's choice, leaving runners on first and second. Bagwell then fanned Kelby Allen, before a groundout by Hanna Nichols ended the scoring chance. Bri Chiusano reached on an error in the fifth frame, and scored when Quolas doubled to the gap. Hayden followed with a two-run blast, pushing Coastal's advantage to 5-0. Friesen then entered the circle for Liberty, and worked in and out of a bases-loaded jam. The Chanticleers registered four tallies in the sixth, putting the game out of reach. Kory Hayden hit a two-run single with the bases loaded, and Quolas later scored on a wild pitch. DiMartino then came on in relief of Friesen. After giving up an RBI single to Brooke Donovan, DiMartino got out of the inning with a fielder's choice and a double play. The Lady Flames went in order during the home half of the sixth, and the game ended via run rule, 9-0. The Lady Flames and Chanticleers will close out their respective Big South schedules tomorrow, when the two teams meet at 1 p.m. at Liberty Softball Field. Liberty will celebrate Senior Day tomorrow, honoring outfielder Jill Stephens and manager Abbie Seale prior to the game.


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LOS ANGELES --The members of the LA Galaxy are excited to face Spanish giants Real Madrid this Thursday at The Home Depot Center and according to Madrid's star defender Pepe, the excitement goes both ways.
Thursday's match will be the third consecutive year that Los Blancos have faced the Galaxy in Southern California and according to the Portuguese International, the Spanish giants are increasingly impressed with the rising level of MLS. During Tuesday's press conference on the campus of UCLA, Pepe told reporters that he is excited about the chance to face the Galaxy.
Pepe's quotes below...
PEPE: "It's the third year that I've come here [for preseason] to the United States and the truth is that every year that goes by, the players here have more quality and are much more competitive. Soccer is a universal sport and with certainty, this [match against the Galaxy] will be a difficult game for us."
(On an apparent injury to Xabi Alonso in a Tuesday morning training session...)
PEPE: "It is normal that these things happen in a training session. There has been a test and he is already with the doctor, but I believe he will be in the afternoon session."


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|Step 7: What tests might be ordered?
Your doctor can use a number of helpful imaging studies to examine the structures of your back, including your spine, if needed. Other tests assess the electrical activity of your muscles and nerves. These tests are used to try to identify the exact location and source of your pain.
An x-ray of your back may show a sign of an injury, infection, fracture, osteopenia (loss of bone density), or tumor. However, most people with low back pain due to strain or spinal problems have normal x-rays. If the results of an x-ray are not definitive, your doctor may order a CT or MRI scan.
CT and MRI scans
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify disk abnormalities and any other problems in the back. MRIs are more accurate for soft tissue, but CTs are better for bones and small joints. MRIs provide very clear pictures of all parts of the back, including muscles, ligaments, and the vertebrae. These tests can also identify infections and tumors if present.
Your doctor may order a lumbar MRI if you have signs or symptoms of:
- Low back or leg pain that is severe or does not get better after treatment by your doctor
- Low back pain and weakness, numbness, or other unusual findings on physical exam
- Fever or other signs of infection
- Injury or trauma to the lower spine
- Problems with bowel or bladder function
CT scanMRI
Nerve and muscle studies
Based on your description of back pain, your physical exam, or any imaging studies performed, your doctor may order studies to test the activity of your back muscles and spinal nerves. Nerve conduction studies are done more often than muscle testing. (Muscle testing can be quite painful.) Nerve conduction tests involve placing electrodes on your skin and applying small electrical signals. With these shocks, the speed with which your nerves conduct the signal is measured.
Other tests
Blood and urine samples may be used to test for infection, arthritis, or other conditions.
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Reviewed By: Andrew W. Piasecki, MD, Camden Bone and Joint, LLC, Orthopaedic Surgery/Sports Medicine, Camden, SC. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Florida. (Oct. 11, 2013) – Expanding the sports car calendar to encompass more road racing circuits and serve more fans throughout the United States, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) today announced a 12-event schedule for its premier development series, the production-based Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge.
The 12-event lineup will be an increase of two events from this season. The 2014 season will begin with the annual opening race at Daytona International Speedway on Jan. 24, running as a companion event to the 52nd Rolex 24 At Daytona set for Jan. 25-26. The Rolex 24 will be the first race for the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.
The Continental Tire Challenge will join the TUDOR Championship at 10 events in 2014. The Continental Tire Challenge will be featured at two other events – Lime Rock Park on May 24 and Kansas Speedway on June 7.
New to the series' schedule in 2014 is an event at Sebring International Raceway on March 14. The Continental Tire Challenge will return to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for the first time since 2008 on July 12, and to Virginia International Raceway after a two-year absence on Aug. 23.
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (May 3), Watkins Glen International (June 28), Indianapolis Motor Speedway (July 25), Road America (Aug. 9), Circuit of The Americas (Sept. 20) and Road Atlanta (Oct. 3), join Daytona, Lime Rock and Kansas as venues that hosted the series in 2013.
"The Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge delivers some of the best racing you can find anywhere, any season," said IMSA CEO Ed Bennett. "Combined with IMSA's other development series, we are able to expand our scope, in some cases providing circuits and fans outstanding competition at special events. On other weekends, the Continental Tire Challenge serves as a premium production-based complement to the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship."
Official preseason test sessions for the Continental Tire Challenge will be held at Daytona International Speedway as part of the annual Roar Before The Rolex 24 on Jan. 3-5.
In addition to unveiling the 2014 schedule, IMSA also introduced a new logo for the long-running series. The logo incorporates new branding from Continental Tire and the addition of the IMSA logo in deference to the new organization taking over sanctioning for the series.
"The new, modernized Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge logo brings an exciting new look to this tremendous series," said IMSA Vice President, Marketing, David Pettit. "We placed considerable focus on updating the identity of the Continental Tire Challenge and believe we have something that is attractive and fits well within the brand guidelines we've established for all IMSA-sanctioned series."
The Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge is a door-to-door showcase for the latest in international and American-made high performance sports cars, coupes and sedans straight from the dealer showroom floor, with major modifications permitted only in the areas of safety and competition. The Continental Tire Challenge consists of two classes – Grand Sport and the smaller Street Tuner class. All classes run on Continental Tires, with large fields the norm.
2014 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Schedule
Date Venue
Jan 24 Daytona International Speedway
Mar 14 Sebring International Raceway
May 3 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
May 24 Lime Rock Park
Jun 7 Kansas Speedway
Jun 28 Watkins Glen International
Jul 12 Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
Jul 25 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Aug 9 Road America
Aug 23 Virginia International Raceway
Sep 20 Circuit of The Americas
Oct 3 Road Atlanta
About IMSA
Beginning in 2014, and headquartered at the International Motorsports Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, the new International Motor Sports Association, LLC (IMSA) will be the sanctioning body of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship – the highly anticipated road-racing series resulting from the merger of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón and the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series – as well as two development series: the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites powered by Mazda. In addition, IMSA also plans to continue sanctioning the following single-make series: Ferrari Challenge, Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama, Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Michelin and Lamborghini Super Trofeo. IMSA is the exclusive strategic partner in North America with the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) which operates the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a part of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The partnership enables selected TUDOR United SportsCar Championship competitors to earn automatic entries into the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans.
About Continental Tire the Americas
Based in Fort Mill, S.C., Continental Tire the Americas, LLC manufactures and distributes a complete premium line of passenger, light truck and commercial tires for original equipment and replacement markets. Our ultra-high performance tires include award-winning technologies that focus on safety, help save money and reduce CO2 emissions. The ProContact EcoPlus and CrossContact LX20 were also awarded a Consumer's Digest Best Buy award in 2012. Continental's premium products are available at leading independent tire dealers, car dealers, and mass retail companies across North America. Continental Tire is a proud supporter of the GRAND-AM Road Racing Series, ALMS, Major League Soccer (MLS), West Coast Customs, the Las Vegas Invitational and Las Vegas Classic, Wendy's 3 Tour Challenge, Chris Rado, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, NSCAA, Petty's Garage, UNC Athletics, and Duke Athletics.
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No. 23 Wisconsin stifles UMass 45-0 in opener
Andersen wins Wisconsin debut
New coach, same ol' Badgers.
Melvin Gordon ran for 144 yards and a 70-yard touchdown, James White added 143 and a 51-yard score, and No. 23 Wisconsin's revamped defense throttled Massachusetts in a 45-0 victory Saturday over Massachusetts in coach Gary Andersen's debut.
Newly-minted starting quarterback Joel Stave overcame a slow start to connect with receiver with Jared Abbrederis for two long touchdowns in the second half.
It was 31-0 with 10:31 to go in the third quarter by the time White sauntered through the line untouched and into the end zone for a 51-yard score.
The only tradition left to put this Badgers opener in the books was for the Camp Randall Stadium public address system to blare House of Pain's "Jump Around" to get the fans in the stands hopping for the fourth quarter. Many in the student section scattered soon afterward with the game well in hand.
UMass was simply overmatched against the Big Ten's three-time defending champion. The Minutemen are only in their second year as a major college program, and they had to play Saturday with two of their top offensive players in running back Jordan Broadnax and tight end Rob Blanchflower out with injuries.
Stacey Bedell finished with 70 yards on 19 carries for UMass.
Otherwise, Wisconsin couldn't have scheduled a better opponent for Andersen to make his debut in Madison. He sported a black visor and a white pullover on a warm, sticky afternoon, conferring with his Badgers on the field while Camp Randall rocked during "Jump Around" before the fourth quarter.
Andersen replaced Bret Bielema, who left in December to take the Arkansas job. Andersen arrived from Utah State, where he led the Aggies to a school-record 11 wins in 2012.
Andersen promised the running game would remain a big part of the Badgers attack, even with standout Montee Ball now gone. But new regimes always bring questions as to how a team might look, at least until actual games are played.
Well, the running game remains alive and well at Wisconsin. Even backup Corey Clement ran for 101 yards on 16 carries, mainly in the second half.
Gordon got 13 carries while White had 11.
The Minutemen didn't actually flaunt a sturdy defense to begin with. UMass gave up more than 40 points a game last season.
At Wisconsin, Andersen switched the base defense to a 3-4 scheme, and the Badgers showed now problems picking it up Saturday.
After Stave's 4-yard touchdown run gave Wisconsin a 7-0 lead, Brendan Kelly forced a fumble that was recovered by Ethan Armstrong. He finished with five tackles, while fellow senior linebacker Chris Borland had nine stops.
Stave was intercepted on a deep pass down the middle by Devin Brown on the next play. He was 4 of 11 at the half with 36 yards.
But he recovered in the second half, helped by adjustments by Abbrederis on both of his long touchdown catches that were slightly off target. Burning his defender each time in man coverage, Abbrederis' scores came from 65 and 57 yards.
Stave finished 9 of 17 for the game for 197 yards.


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Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare themselves before to carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia
By Isla Binnie and Emma Farge
ROME/DAKAR (Reuters) - The world's worst Ebola epidemic has endangered harvests and sent food prices soaring in West Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday, warning the problem would intensify in coming months.
The FAO issued a special alert for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries most affected by the outbreak, which has killed at least 1,550 people since the virus was detected in the remote jungles of southeastern Guinea in March.
Restrictions on people's movements and the establishment of quarantine zones to contain the spread of the hemorrhagic fever have led to panic buying, food shortages and price hikes in countries ill-prepared to absorb the shock.
"In the three countries severely affected by Ebola, the agriculture and food security situation is really deteriorating," said Vincent Martin, head of an FAO unit in Dakar that is coordinating the agency's response.
"People either cannot afford to buy food or it is not accessible anymore," he said in an interview, adding that the food crisis could hinder containment of the disease, which is typically spread via the bodily fluids of the sick.
Rice and maize production will be scaled back during the fast-approaching main harvest season as migration and movement restrictions cause labor shortages on farms, the FAO said.
Cash crops like palm oil, cocoa and rubber will be seriously affected, squeezing the purchasing power of many families, who will also lose income and nutrition due to the ban on bush meat.
The price of cassava at a market in the Liberian capital Monrovia rose 150 percent in the first weeks of August, the FAO said, adding that currency depreciation in Sierra Leone and Liberia was likely to force prices up further.
Border crossing closures and the reduction of trade through seaports have tightened food supplies in the three countries, which are all net cereal importers, and propelled prices upwards, exacerbated by higher transport costs.
The U.N. World Food Programme and the FAO have approved an emergency program to deliver 65,000 tonnes of food to 1.3 million people affected by Ebola over a three-month period.
Food is to be shipped to Ebola patients, suspected cases living in isolation and to communities within the badly-affected border zone of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone that has been surrounded by a "cordon sanitaire" to prevent the further spread of the disease.
In a sign of the lack of provisions within treatment centers, a man escaped from an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia this week and walked through a market in search of food.
"Sometimes you have an area right next to a quarantined area where there is food but you can't get it there," Martin said.
Liberia, where cases are increasing fastest, said in August that it has only enough rice stocks to last for about a month.
The WFP says it needs to raise $70 million to pay for its emergency program.
In addition to this sum, the FAO is seeking to raise $20 million to help isolated populations grow their own crops and support themselves, Martin said.
"Delivering food directly to the population is not sufficient. What the FAO is proposing is to see how we can help restore their livelihoods and help them cope by providing tools to produce good and nutritious food," he said, and raising chickens or short-cycle crops could form part of the solution.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)


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Nick's Best Chicago Bites of 2013
2013 was all about the surprise. For the most part, my favorite dishes were the ones I randomly tried: a steak at an English pub, an Italian beef special at a deli known for Italian subs, a Hot Brown at a cocktail bar. Sure, I walked into David Burke's and Honey Butter Fried Chicken with a specific plan, but just as often I was impressed by something not in the game plan. Isn't that exciting? No matter how much I think I have the dining scene figured out, there is always more to find. I can't wait to get back to work in 2014, but here are the dishes that genuinely excited me in 2013.
Check them all out in the slideshow.
- 40 Day Dry-Aged Ribeye at David Burke's Primehouse
- Dry Aged Ribeye Steak at Owen & Engine
- Italian Beef at Bari
- Bibimbap at En Hakkore
- Beef Tsukune Slider at Sumi Robata Bar
- Carne Asada Taco at L' Patron
- Polish Sausage at Parse's Red Hots
- Mini Housemade Chili Hot Dog at Old Town Social
- Hot Brown at Billy Sunday
- Fire Chicken at Dancen
- Sliders with Cheese at State Fair
- Grilled Fish Hot Pot at Ma Gong La Po
- Fried Chicken at Honey Butter Fried Chicken
- Gobi Manchurian at Rangoli
- Crispy Redfish Tacos at Takito Kitchen
- Tacos de Canasta at La Chilangueada
- Matzo Ball Soup at Dillman's
- Wedge Salad at Bavette's
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