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The Filipino Cultural Association at University of Maryland is proud to present Philippine Culture Night 2012: "Bitaw: Letting Go" on Saturday April 14, 7PM at the Grand Ballroom. The night will be complete with a play, music, dance performances, and food!
This gripping production about sacrifice…, faith, loyalty, ambition, and success tells two stories: one of a young man struggling with his parent's expectations; the other of two brothers, caught in a love triangle.
PCN is an unique art form specific to Filipino-American student organizations that began in the colleges and universities of California. This year will be the 30th PCN showcase that FCA-UMCP has produced. Every Spring, PCN is the culminating event that brings together the FCA family and community in order to celebrate all of our achievements, growth, and pride in the Filipino American culture.
We can't wait to see you there!
Peace, Love, and FCA.
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It's great to see a number of teams still considering signing Greg Oden for next season, already, the Cavaliers and Miami Heat have expressed interest, and now comes reports that the Boston Celtics are talking to the former No.1 overall draft pick. Oden's career has been derailed by injury - the 7-footer has become the butt of many jokes, despite entering the 2007 Draft as a potential franchise changer - but he is looking to resume playing once again. The Celtics are hoping to move up the list of teams that interests former No. 1 overall pick Greg Oden after the two parties met Saturday afternoon in Boston. Oden, a former prodigy who was supposed to change the Portland Trail Blazers franchise, has had microfracture surgeries on both knees and decided to take this season off to get those knees healthy as he attempts another return. The Celtics have an interesting tie to Oden. They finished the 2006-07 season with the league's worst record and were planning to take Oden if they received the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft Lottery. Boston received the fifth pick and drafted Jeff Green to include in a deal with the Seattle SuperSonics for Ray Allen. If the Celtics had received the top two picks, they would have likely stuck with their rebuilding plan and taken Oden or Kevin Durant, and the Big Three Era may have never occurred. While some member of the Celtics' organization said they would have taken Durant, now one of the league's top superstars, with the top pick, coach Doc Rivers maintains they would selected Oden, then a franchise-caliber center drawing comparisons to David Robinson.
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Chess Giants is a chess software for Windows that enables you to play chess either against a friend, or alone against the computer, or else against real opponents on the Internet in a virtual chess club.
Contrarily to the other chess softwares which are generally targeted for the experienced chess fans, Chess Giants tries to be the most intuitive, the most aesthetic, and the most pleasant to use of the chess softwares, whatever the skills at chess of the user are.
Some may notice that Chess Giants to large extents look like Windows® Vista's Chess Titans software, at least for the aesthetics part (actually, it's a rewrite from scratch). This software does provide the exact same look and feel. But in addition to the standard features, it has many other flavors:
It runs on any version of Windows published after 2000.
It doesn't need a fast machine.
It plays at the International Great Master level (2700 ELO).
It reads and saves games in the PGN and FEN formats.
It has additional options, such as displaying the game history or a game clock.
It can change its appearance thanks to user-creatable visual themes.
It can be interfaced with other chess engines that comply to the Chess Engine Communication Protocol.
It enables you to play online in the FICS virtual chess club (http://www.freechess.org).
It comes in two languages, French and English, and is very easily translatable into another one.
It is an open specifications project, meaning you can still contact the author to request to add such or such feature.
All this for less than € 10!
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Chess Giants was initially distributed as a donateware (the software was given away against donations of any amount). Unfortunately, a too large number of people have been unfair with this principle and just pillaged the software without any counterpart - which is why this distribution mode has been stopped.
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- Corrected the upscaling blocky display problem during the resizing of the game window.
- Automatic setting of the number of CPU cores to use when playing versus the computer.
- Improved chess parts definition when the "best possible quality" option is selected.
- Fixed a bug responsible of game freeze against the computer when an ambiguous burden is committed by the chess engine.
- PGN and FEN files are now associated with Chess Giants in Windows Explorer.
- Added a checkbox in the message of the day display window.
- Online play!
- Rewrote the 3D engine for better performance.
- Added a (long) help file in HTML format.
- Reorganized the options menu with tabs.
- Reorganized the change appearance dialog box.
- The symbols are automatically displayed in top view.
- The new translations can now be added "on the fly".
- Added a materials configuration file, that can be used with the visual themes.
- Added the possibility to use new 3D models in the visual themes.
- Added the possibility to customize the smileys used in the private discussions online.
- Various corrections & enhancements.
- No more .NET Framework dependency.
- Chess Giants works with Windows 2000 again.
- No more requirement for admin rights in order to play against the computer.
- Chess Giants now works with non-privileged Windows user accounts.
- Added an intuitive parts placement mode, upon request of J. and N. Hemez (enables to specify a start position).
- Fixed a mouse pointing bug on the game interface icons when the game window is resized.
- New: realistic part animations!
- Visual themes (user-creatable) support
- Added the Madera and Marmol Negro themes (author: E. Stigliano)
- Lighting parameters entirely customizable on a per-theme basis
- Better support for games written in Forsyth-Edwards notation
- Added the possibility to browse directly to a particular move inside a game
- Rewrite of the chess engine communication protocol to better comply with the CECP standards.
- Fixed a display bug that occured when displaying very long games history.
- IMPORTANT: fixed a bug related to the chess engine that could cause a game to freeze.
- Added the possibility to switch sides in a game versus the computer, so as to play black.
- You may now display the game moves listing in real time.
- You can now change the color of the game clock and the game moves text for a better contrast.
- Changed the transparency of the black pieces in the glass theme for a better contrast.
- Fixed a bug where the castling possibilities were sometimes not correctly evaluated.
- IMPORTANT: fixed a bug in version 1.5 related to the chess engine that could cause a game to freeze.
- The Forsyth-Edwards notation is now supported for loading/saving game positions.
- Possibility to continue a saved game against the chess engine.
- Chess board can now be rotated with a mouse right click only (often requested).
- Fixed a small bug where the suggestion of a kingside castle was not correctly interpreted.
- Added the possibility for the chess engine to commit blunders from time to time.
- Parts can be displayed as symbols for 2D view (often requested).
- Possibility to choose a personal picture as the background display.
- MUCH improved graphic quality in fullscreen mode (no more pixellization).
- Support for screens of any size, including the small netbook screens.
- The "Undo" command should now work as expected on any computer.
- Added the possibility to switch part selection in one click.
- Thanks to the new setting possibilities, the game is much funnier to play for beginners and players of average skill!
- Added the possibility to save one's games in the PGN format (standard abbreviated algebraic notation used by the FIDE).
- Added a game playback mode that can read the PGN format.
- Possibility to choose one specific game in a multiple games PGN file.
- Added the possibility to comment a move or to modify an existing comment.
- Intuitive browsing of the game history using the arrow buttons and the arrow keys.
- Graphics engine improvement.
- MUCH better chess engine (2700 ELO, Chess Giants now plays at IGM level).
- Added the possibility to switch to top view, default view or custom view with just one key press.
- Possibility to cancel a move in human vs. computer and human vs. human play.
- Unlimited undo levels, all moves are cancellable up to the beginning of the game.
- Added the possibility to ask the chess engine what it thinks is the best move in human vs. computer play.
- Added a desktop shortcut during setup.
- Added a single-click uninstaller.
- Much better resource compression resulting in a dramatic reduction of the installer's size (20 Mb -> 9 Mb).
- Automatic language detection.
- Fixed a bug where taking a pawn en passant would not trigger the right sound.
- Fixed a bug where the quit message box would sometimes be ignored.
- Initial release.
- Has human vs human and human vs computer play.
- Uses GNUChess as a chess engine.
- Online play code not finished yet (I'm working on it).
- PLEASE send me a mail for any bug you find, so that I can fix it right away.
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Chess Giants works with all Windows versions since year 2000, namely: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Yes it does. Chess Giants runs similarly on 32 and 64-bit systems.
Most certainly it's not. If the game clock still ticks then you can tell it's not. But the computer may be pondering, especially if you've set the engine difficulty level very high. In this case, either wait for it to finish, or start a new game with a lower difficulty level.
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These aren't happy times for the ethanol industry.
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Corn-based ethanol has become the favorite whipping boy for people concerned about global food shortages and soaring costs for wheat, beans, rice and other food products.
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All in all, things could be better for those who believed in an industry that they thought would boom over the next several years.
"While it may not be the immediate death of ethanol, certainly it's been handed its hat," says Kevin Kerr, editor of online commodity newsletter Resource Trader Alert. "I would say that this is probably the peak for corn-based ethanol politically and financially."
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VeraSun Energy has seen its stock tumble 56 percent in 2008. BioFuel Energy is off 41 percent. And Pacific Ethanol, in which Microsoft founder Bill Gates holds a 25 percent stake, has plummeted nearly 60 percent.
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Neil Kohler, CEO of Pacific Ethanol, which needed a $40 million cash infusion to shore up its balance sheet earlier this year, said the industry is being victimized by misinformation.
"I'm an optimist and I believe that over time, truth prevails," Kohler says. "The increased price of fuel has had more than twice the impact on the rising price of food than has the raw materials, the cereal grains. Whether it be the loaf of bread or gallon of milk, the oil price has been driving the price of food."
Yet the companies that have kept their heads above water have done so because the cost of ethanol has risen right along with the cost of gasoline, and sales have sustained profitability.
"The raw materials cost certainly has risen. Fortunately, the price of ethanol has moved right along with it," Kohler says. "It's all related to oil. The high price of corn is all about oil, the higher value of ethanol in the marketplace is all about oil—all of these things are interconnected. They've all been sort of keeping pace with one another in a rapidly upward trend."
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But as things stand now, 134 ethanol plants are producing 7.2 billion gallons a year, just a shade below the 7.5 billion gallons the federal government's target for 2012.
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Black September (group)
The Black September Organization (BSO) (Arabic: منظمة أيلول الأسود, Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-aswad) was a Palestinian terrorist organization, founded in 1970. It was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of eleven Israeli athletes and officials, and the fatal shooting of a West German policeman, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event. These events lead to the creation of permanent, professional, and military-trained counter-terrorism forces of major European countries, like GSG9 or GIGN, or the reorganization and specialization of already standing units to such a group, like the Special Air Service of the UK.
The group's name is derived from the Black September conflict which began on 16 September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to a fedayeen coup d'état to seize his kingdom — resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from Jordan. The BSO began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian army. Recruits from the PFLP, as-Sa'iqa, and other groups also joined.
Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew. He was killed, allegedly through execution, by Jordanian forces on 23 July 1971.[1] It was alleged by them that the Jordanian prime minister at the time, Wasfi al-Tal, was personally responsible for his torture and death.[2]
Structure of the group[edit]
There is disagreement among historians, journalists, and primary sources about the nature of the BSO and the extent to which it was controlled by Fatah, the PLO faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat.
In his book Stateless, Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), Arafat's chief of security and a founding member of Fatah, wrote that: "Black September was not a terrorist organization, but was rather an auxiliary unit of the resistance movement, at a time when the latter was unable to fully realize its military and political potential. The members of the organization always denied any ties between their organization and Fatah or the PLO."
The denial described in Abu Iyad's claim was mutual: according to a 1972 article in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustur, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, also known as Abu Daoud, a BSO operative and former senior PLO member, told Jordanian police: "There is no such organization as Black September. Fatah announces its own operations under this name so that Fatah will not appear as the direct executor of the operation." A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U.S. State Department seemed to confirm that Fatah was Black September's parent organization.[3]
According to American journalist Charlie Cranston John K. Cooley, the BSO represented a "total break with the old operational and organizational methods of the fedayeen. Its members operated in air-tight cells of four or more men and women. Each cell's members were kept purposely ignorant of other cells. Leadership was exercised from outside by intermediaries and 'cut-offs' [sic]", though there was no centralized leadership.[4]
Cooley writes that many of the cells in Europe and around the world were made up of Palestinians and other Arabs who had lived in their countries of residence as students, teachers, businessmen, and diplomats for many years. Operating without a central leadership (see Leaderless resistance), it was a "true collegial direction".[4] The cell structure and the need-to-know operational philosophy protected the operatives by ensuring that the apprehension or surveillance of one cell would not affect the others. The structure offered plausible deniability to the Fatah leadership, which was careful to distance itself from Black September operations.
Fatah needed Black September, according to Benny Morris, who was at the time a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University. He writes that there was a "problem of internal PLO or Fatah cohesion, with extremists constantly demanding greater militancy. The moderates apparently acquiesced in the creation of Black September in order to survive".[5] As a result of pressure from militants, writes Morris, a Fatah congress in Damascus in August–September 1971 agreed to establish Black September. The new organization was based on Fatah's existing special intelligence and security apparatus, and on the PLO offices and representatives in various European capitals, and from very early on, there was cooperation between Black September and the PFLP.[5]
The PLO closed Black September down on September 1973, on the anniversary it was created by the "political calculation that no more good would come of terrorism abroad" according to Morris.[6] In 1974 Arafat ordered the PLO to withdraw from acts of violence outside the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Munich massacre[edit]
The group's most infamous operation was the killing of 11 Israeli athletes, nine of whom were first taken hostage, and the killing of a German police officer, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Black September's official name for the operation was "Ikrit and Biram", after the names of two Palestinian Christian villages whose residents had been killed or expelled by the Israeli military Haganah in 1948.[7][8]
Following the attack, the Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister Golda Meir, ordered Mossad to assassinate those known to have been involved.[9] What was then known as Operation Bayonet had begun. By 1979, during what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members. Among them was the leading figure of Ali Hassan Salameh, nicknamed the "Red Prince," the wealthy, flamboyant son of an upper-class family, and commander of Force 17, Yasser Arafat's personal security squad. Salameh was behind the 1972 hijacking of Sabena Flight 572 from Vienna to Lod. He was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on 22 January 1979. In Operation Spring of Youth, in April 1973, Israeli commandos killed three senior members of Black September in Beirut. In July 1973, in what became known as the Lillehammer affair, six Israeli operatives were arrested for the murder of Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent Moroccan waiter who was mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh.
Recent remarks by Abu Daoud, the alleged mastermind of the Munich kidnappings, deny that any of the Palestinians assassinated by Mossad had any relation to the Munich operation,[10] this despite the fact that the list includes two of the three surviving members of the kidnap squad arrested at the airport.[citation needed]
Other attacks[edit]
Other actions attributed to Black September include:
- 28 November 1971: the assassination of Jordan's prime minister, Wasfi Tel, in retaliation for the expulsion of the PLO from Jordan in 1970-71;
- December 1971: attempted assassination of Zeid al Rifai, Jordan's ambassador to London and former chief of the Jordanian royal court;
- 6 February 1972: sabotage of a West German electrical installation and gas plants in Ravenstein and Ommen in the Netherlands and in Hamburg in West Germany;
- 8 May 1972: hijacking of a Belgian aircraft, Sabena Flight 572, flying from Vienna to Lod.
- September and October 1972: dozens of letter bombs were sent from Amsterdam to Israeli diplomatic posts around the world, killing Israeli Agricultural Counselor Ami Shachori in Britain.[11]
- 1 March 1973: attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, killing Cleo Noel, United States Chief of Mission to Sudan, George Curtis Moore, the US Deputy Chief of Mission to Sudan, and Guy Eid, the Belgian chargé d'affaires to Sudan
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- 2 March 1973 1973 New York bomb plot
- 5 August 1973: two Palestinian militants claiming affiliation with Black September open fire on a passenger lounge in an Athens airport, killing 3 and wounding 55. A Lufthansa Boeing 737 is hijacked in December to demand that the gunmen be freed from Greek custody.
Letter bomb attacks and assassination of Ami Shachori[edit]
Dr. Ami Shachori was the agricultural counselor in the Israeli Embassy to the United Kingdom in the London district of Kensington. At the age of 44 he was assassinated in a letter bomb attack on 19 September 1972, perpetrated by Black September.
Eight bombs were addressed to embassy staffers. Four were intercepted at a post office sorting room in Earls Court,[12] but the other four letters made it to the embassy. Three of the letters were detected in the consulate post room [12] but Ami Shachori opened his, believing it contained Dutch flower seeds he had ordered. The resulting blast tore a hole in the desk and fatally wounded Shachori in the stomach and chest.[13]
In Shachori's memory an annual memorial lecture on agriculture in London was established.[14]
See also[edit]
- Black Sunday - 1977 John Frankenheimer film about a fictional Black September plot against the United States using the Goodyear Blimp fitted with a bomb to kill 80,000 people during the Super Bowl, based off the Thomas Harris novel of the same name.
- Fedayeen
- List of terrorist organizations
- List of terrorist incidents
- Munich (film)
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Political terrorism
- Palestinian political violence
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Yasser Arafat
- Hamas
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- ^ Quandt, Jabber and Lesch, p.141.
- ^ Amos, 1980, p.222.
- ^ Jewish Virtual Library: State Department Documents PLO-Black September Link
- ^ a b Cooley 1973[page needed]
- ^ a b Morris 2001, p. 379
- ^ Morris 2001, p. 383
- ^ Elias Chacour: "Blood Brothers. A Palestinian Struggles for Reconciliation in the Middle East" ISBN 0-8007-9321-8 with Hazard, David, and Baker III, James A., Secretary (Foreword by) 2nd Expanded ed. 2003. pp. 44-61
- ^ Sylas, Eluma Ikemefuma (2007). Terrorism: A Global Scourge. United States: Author House. ISBN 978-1-4259-0530-9.
- ^ BBC thisworld: The hunt for Black September
- ^ "الموساد قلعة التجسس الإسرائيلية" [Mossad the israeli spying citadel] (in Arabic). Aljazeera. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
- ^ And Now, Mail-a-Death, Time, 2 October 1972. Accessed 5 September 2006.
- ^ a b BBC On this day 19 September: 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy
- ^ Time: And now, Mail-a-Death
- ^ TropHort: Agricultural research in Israel - achievements and trends. The eleventh Ami Shachori memorial lecture delivered in London, 19 October 1983
- Cooley, J.K.: "Green March, Black September" : The Story of the Palestinian Arabs. Frank Cass and Company Ltd., 1973, ISBN 0-7146-2987-1
- Bar Zohar, M., Haber E. The Quest for the Red Prince: Israel's Relentless Manhunt for One of the World's Deadliest and Most Wanted Arab Terrorists. The Lyons Press, 2002, ISBN 1-58574-739-4
- Morris, B.: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. Vintage Books, 2001.
- Jonas, G. Vengeance. Bantam Books, 1985.
- Khalaf, S. (Abu Iyad) Stateless.
- Oudeh, M.D. (Abu Daoud) Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist.
Further reading[edit]
- Amos, John (1980). Palestinian resistance: organization of a nationalist movement. Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-025094-7.
- Reeve, Simon. One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Faber & Faber, 2000, ISBN 1-55970-603-1.
- One day in September, Sony Pictures
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European Insights Manager, FMCG, Switzerland, £competitive plus relocation support
Would you consider relocation to Switzerland in order to develop your career in Brand and Consumer Insights by moving in a European role within a blue chip environment? Then read on to find out more.
This is an amazing opportunity to become part of a truly successful global FMCG company who offer an attractive and dynamic work environment with a huge focus on developing people. If you have extensive FMCG market research experience and you're willing to relocate to Switzerland, or already live there, then this is the job you've been waiting for.
Based in Lausanne at the company headquarters, your role as European Insights Manager will see you supporting the brand teams and other functions by managing and optimising the use of all relevant brand strategies. Responsibilities will include:
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I am sure when we are finished it will be well worth it but my husband and I realized upon opening the first box that we may have underestimated the skill and time necessary to fully complete the task. We purchased this in plenty of time for Christmas and expected to put in a few hours several nights a week for several weeks.The details on the web are a bit misleading in that it sounds like it is just a bit more complex that some of the other childrens toys we have put together in the past (including a 5ft x 7 ft wood kitchen with sink, fridge, ect- so we are not a novice at building) but it is much more involved from a construction stance. This is not about putting screws and nails in the appropriate places- this is about skilled construction. I was in tears after opening realizing that getting this done for Christmas was not going to happen, and I quickly began looking for someone skilled enough to put the house together even if it cost me several hundred dollars.It would have been helpful to me to see options offered to buy the house with just the basic construction done- leaving the roofing, decorating and painting for me to do- I would gladly have paid $250 more for that option.I realize some houses have this option - but I needed one to be a playscale size for 11 1/2 inch dolls.I would love to see an easier construction option like when you purchase an executive desk for example- everything is labled and detailed so you just follow directions- the holes are made, you just screw everything in and then line it up and drop a bit of glue and put it together.None of the wood is labeled and you just have to use common sense to determine what goes where.Then there is the sanding- have to do it outside or in your garage- no matter the temperature- and there are a LOT of pieces to sand.There is no question that this dollhouse will last a lifetime and that the quality is 10 fold over the barbie houses offered in stores, but this is not a task for an individual with basic construction skills.
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girl, eating 0% fat yogurt in the lunch room: mmm I love this stuff, Greek yogurt is so good
me, eating 10% mf yogurt in the lunch room: I agree! this kind is my favourite!
girl: ohhhh... but doesn't it taste gross with all the fat in it?
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it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live
at just the right time, we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
Not sure if this is a CW moment but didn't want to make a new thread
Was in the supermarket today and saw 'bacon pieces'. They basically looked like crispy bits of bacon. Looked at the ingredients, NO BACON IN IT AT ALL. It was made from Soy and vegetable gum with 'flavouring'. What??! It wasn't even in the vegetarian section where all that weird fake food is.
If people want bacon flavoured food, BUY BACON
Ok so I have a funny CW moment. I'm a nanny, and my boss was asking about my diet and how I lost the weight. She is a very intelligent woman and we had a really lengthy convo about primal and how bad grains and sugar and legumes are. And also about gluten and stuff. She mentioned she would like to lose a few lbs herself. She isn't overweight, but just average. So the kids tell me a few days later "mommy went on a diet" and I'm like oh yeah? And they are like "yeah she is only eating arugula for lunch and snacks and a lean cuisine for dinner. But she is throwing away half of the lean cuisine and filling it with arugula." Wtf?!?!?!;!;! My mind was boggled at this point but of course I just said oh ok cuz I'm not gonna freak out the kids. And then a few days later I notice she had some gluten free granola bars and gluten free cookies in the cabinet and I asked the girls why they had gluten free food and they said "mommy is gluten free now too just like you! " I'm like "oh no does mommy have celiac too?" And they said " no. She saw an accupuncture guy and he told her to stay away from wheat sugar and soy and legumes." I'm like "oh wow I coulda told her that for free!" They were like "we know chels, you have said that for a long time" haha. Kids are so cute. I felt like telling her that gluten free junk food is still junk food but its not my place and none of my business really. But dang people are so blind sometimes!!!!
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I told my dad I've been having super bad sugar cravings lately and he suggested I check out Breyers CarbSmart ice cream because that's what he eats.
"Ingredients: Milk, Skim Milk, Cream, Sorbitol, Polydextrose, Whey, Glycerine, Natural Flavor, Cellulose Gel, Propylene Glycol Monoesters, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Sucralose (Splenda ® Brand), Acesulfame Potassium, Carrageenan."
Uh yeah. No. Thanks, but..... No.
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Lol I know I wanted some ice cream and I looked at the "no sugar added" stuff. I didn't know that meant "a bunch of alcohols and sugar substitutes added" why can't they just make a less sweet ice cream?!?!?!
I'm so with you. I guess it's the old adage, though: If you want something done right you have to do it yourself. I'm sure once some company wises up that we want a less carby ice cream that still only has 5 ingredients, someone will produce it. But I guarantee it'll only be in specialty grocery stores. Stupid CW.
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Yeah and it will be 20$ a gallon lol. I will have to invest in an ice cream machine or something haha. But Grrr ice cream is seriously my vice!
Back to my boss though, I was just thinking, isn't it messed up that even if she was doing that stupid arugula diet, that she was teaching her kids that its ok to basically starve yourself and throw away half of your food!!!!?????!!!!! Wtf is that?!?!?!?!?! It makes me mad now that I think about it like that. Way to prime your pre-pubescent girls on healthy eating.
Me tooooo.
Yeah, that's really fucked up. What about that even sounds healthy? Like, even to a CW person. Maybe you can ask if she wants some meal plans/recipes since she's doing what you're doing now? Like, nice and easy, no guilt. Just "Here! Have some easy and tasty recipes that'll make it easier to meet your weight loss goal! Smiley face!" I mean, she would be dumb not to use your expertise.Back to my boss though, I was just thinking, isn't it messed up that even if she was doing that stupid arugula diet, that she was teaching her kids that its ok to basically starve yourself and throw away half of your food!!!!?????!!!!! Wtf is that?!?!?!?!?! It makes me mad now that I think about it like that. Way to prime your pre-pubescent girls on healthy eating.
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Former Lugnut no-hits Tigers
Despite having one of the worse records in the Midwest League this season, the Lansing Lugnuts fared very well against their in-state rival West Michigan Whitecaps, affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. Some of that magic must have sprinkled onto Lugnut alumni Henderson Alvarez, who, as a member of the Miami Marlins, through a no-hitter against the Tigers yesterday. Detroit had no answer for Alvarez, who needed on 99 pitches to shut down mighty Motor City team in a 1-0 victory. For Alvarez, the season ended much better than it began. He started the season on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation, and missed the first three months of the season. Pitching for Lansing in 2009, he went 9-6 with a 3.47 ERA with 92 strike outs. Coincidentally, he faced five former Whitecaps in yesterday's game: Don Kelly (0-4), Andy Dirks (0-3), Omar Infante (0-2), Nick Castellanos (0-1), and Roman Santiago (0-3). Former 'Cap Luke Putkonen took the loss for Detroit, after giving up two hits, walking a batter, and throwing a wild pitch. A former West Michigan catching combo was left on the bench, however, as Alex Avila for Detroit, and Rob Brantly for the Marlins did not play. If the Tigers don't break out of this offensive slump, it could be a short run in the play-offs this season.
Photo courtesy of the Lansing Lugnuts
Parrish takes over Mud Hens
For the second season in a row, the West Michigan Whitecaps are left without a manager. Unlike last season, however, this change comes with a promotion. Larry Parrish (pictured), who led the 'Caps to a 69-70 finish in the Midwest League, has been promoted to helm the Toledo Mud Hens in 2014. This isn't his first experience with Detroit's Triple-A affiliate, as he managed Toledo in 1994 and from 2003-2010. Under Parrish, the Mud Hens won back to back Governor's Cup (International League) championships in 2005 and 2006. Parrish has won more games for Toledo than any other manager at 569. It looks like three times a charm for him, as he has some great support from the parent club Tigers, as well as the Hens.
"As a manager, he's a great teacher, and I know we'll see improvement in player development," said Toledo's general manager and team president Joe Napoli in a press release. "For our fans, he's always been a favorite, they will be glad to welcome him back."
"He's going to be missed," stated Whitecaps vice president Jim Jarecki to MLive.com. "Having LP on board, he was a great guy on and off the field. He was great to work with and the guys really liked and respected him. Even though the record didn't reflect it, the players gravitated to him and he was a great leader."
This is a good move by the Tigers' organization, and a deserved promotion for Parrish, as he's already in the International League Hall of Fame. We already have a couple of dates circled on the calendar for season to watch the Mud Hens, so we'll be seeing him again soon. Now…what about the Whitecaps? The Single-A affiliate is once again in need of a skipper, and it will be interesting to see who the Tigers will assign. I've written in the past how I think that Brandon Inge would be a good fit in West Michigan. The Tigers' have basically stated that they'd like him back in the organization once his playing days are done, and Inge always said positive things about the 'Caps. We'll see if he retires at the end of the season, though, and if he shows interest in coaching. Jarecki aslo stated the Tigers should name the 'Caps new manager sometime in early October, so the safer bet may be seeing the promotion of Connecticut Tigers manager Andrew Graham. He has been at the helm of the C-Tigers for the last three seasons, and before that coached the Gulf Coast League Tigers from 2009-2010. He also served as the Tigers minor league catching coordinator during the 2010 season. This season, Graham led Connecticut to a 33-42 finish, good for third place in the New York-Penn League's Stedler Division. He is also a Tigers product, getting drafted by Detroit in 2003, and was a catcher in the organization from 2003-2008. A native of Sydney, Australia, Graham also played in the World Baseball Classic in 2006 and 2009. I'll be keeping a close eye on who gets the West Michigan job. The Whitecaps have missed the playoffs the last three season, so whoever is chosen I hope they can break that streak in 2014.
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Season ends for Whitecaps and Lugnuts
West Michigan Whitecaps vs. Lansing Lugnuts (Midwest League)Cooley Law School Stadium-Lansing, MI: Both the West Michigan Whitecaps and the Lansing Lugnuts missed the playoffs this season, but ended 2013 with their in-state rivalry. Despite the 'Caps having a better record this season, the Lugnuts have had their number, and that includes taking 2/3 in the final series. In the first game, the Whitecaps made a gallant come-back attempt, only to lose in a walk-off in the ninth. Jake Stewart and Bennett Pickar hit back-to-back singles, when the Lugnuts brought in Arik Sikula to close the game. Sikula threw a wild pitch and had a passed ball, though, that scored Stewart. Then David Gonzalez hit a triple, scoring the pinch-runner Harold Castro to tie the game. The 'Caps celebration was short-lived, however, as a walk and two singles gave Lansing the win, and Corey Knebel his only loss of the season. Kevin Patterson hit the winning RBI in the 5-4 win for the Lugnuts. The second game of the series was a complete rout for the Whitecaps, winning the game 13-1. The 'Caps scored five runs in both the third and fourth innings, one in the sixth, and two in the eighth with 19 total hits. Jared Reaves led the way going 4-6 with an RBI and two runs scored. Raph Rhymes went 3-4 with a double and two runs scored. Connor Harrell and Jake Stewart each contributed with three RBI's each. On the mound, West Michigan was just as dominant. Calvin Drummond earned the win, going five innings, giving up only three hits, and striking out four. Kramer Chaplin took the loss for Lansing. The final game of the series, and of the season, went to the hometown Lugnuts by the score of 9-4. The Whitecaps had a 4-0 lead at one point, but surrendered nine streight to the 'Nuts. Jeff Holm, Pickar, Castro, and Jason King each had two hits in the loss. Daniel Klein led the way for Lansing, going 3-4 with two doubles, two RBI's, and a run scored. Relief pitcher Yorfrank Lopez took the loss, giving up six hits and five runs in just over an inning of work, while Ian Kadish earned the win for Lansing.
Lucky for me, I had a buddy from work attend one of the games and get this photo for me. It will be a long nine or so months before seeing baseball again for sure. We'll try to get to Lansing next season of the weather cooperates, and we'll hit a few Whitecaps games for sure, including the Midwest League All-Star game hopefully.
Photo courtesy of B. Faulkner
More heroics in West Michigan
West Michigan Whitecaps vs. Lake County Captains (Midwest League)
Fifth Third Ballpark-Comstock Park, MI: Back, again, just north of Grand Rapids for our last Whitecaps game of the season. A very bitter-sweet moment, but so much going on at this game, I'm not sure where to start. First, Brian was happy they had a 'bounce castle' set up in the parking lot. We didn't have much time for him to play, but he still was able to bounce around for a little while before we made our way into the stadium. Upon entry, each of us received a free mini-bat, to commemorate the 'Caps 20th season of play. Brian has been collecting the bats lately, so more for him. It was super hero night at the ballpark, just like in Battle Creek last month, but the only ones dressed up were the Whitecaps' on-field staff. Still, some of them has some cool outfits. We were at the ballpark early, so we saw the Captains take some batting practice, and waited for the home team to hit the field for their warm-ups. We went down to field level, where we met former Tigers' relief pitcher, and current 'Caps pitching coach, Mike Henneman. He was nice enough to sign a baseball card for Brian (a future hurler, himself!). Before the game got underway, we were also entertained by team Ghostrider: basically monkeys riding around on dogs. They would appear a few time throughout the game, herding goats and riding away. When monkeys act like cowboys, everybody wins! It didn't take the kids long to get hungry, and Lily, Brian, and their Papa stuck with traditional hot dogs. Trevor and I, however, wanted to try the Baco! We made our way through the concourse, and with a sold-out crowd we were moving slowly. We took a break, though, to check out the Whitecaps 2007 Midwest League Championship trophy that was on display. The team was also celebrating the championship during this game, too. We finally made it to the other side of the ballpark to get our Bacos. Trevor didn't care for it too much, but I thought it was pretty good. Not worth $6 each, but had to do it. Unfortunately the Whitecaps has some of the slowest concessions ever, so we missed a good chunk of the game waiting in line. We decided to head back to our seats through the lower bowl, which was a good idea because Trevor got a foul ball that bounced our way. We were finally able to sit down and enjoy the rest of the game, which was a good one. The 'Caps also provided post-game fireworks that the kids really love, too. It was a hectic night all around, and sold-out crowds will do that, but still hard to wrap my head around the fact it will be a minimum of nine months before I'm enjoying baseball at Fifth-Third Ballpark again!
Like I stated, the game between the 'Caps and the Captains was a good one. West Michigan was down 2-0 in the third, but busted out for three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. Connor Harrell and David Gonzales started it off with a pair of singles, then Lake County started walking some batters. The Whitecaps scored two runs on walks, then Jason King hit a sac fly for the third run. In the fourth inning, Jeff Holm hit a solo shot to put the 'Caps up 4-2. West Michigan concluded the scoring in the eighth inning, when Lance Durham hit his team leading 14th home run, after King singled. On the hill for West Michigan, Edgar De La Rosa pitched a solid game, only giving up the two runs in six innings of work. He struck out four and didn't walk any of the Lake County hitters. The bullpen finished the job, throwing four shutout innings, with Corey Knebel closing the door in the ninth. Holm lead the offense going 2-4, and Gonzalez went 2-3. Final Score: Whitecaps 6, Captains 2.
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West Michigan to host 2014 MWL All-Star Game
Next season, Fifth Third Ballpark, home to the West Michigan Whitecaps, will be hosting the Midwest League All-Star Game. The announcement was actually made during the seventh inning stretch at last Saturday night's game that we attended. Next season's classic will also be the 50th All-Star Game for the MWL, and will take place on Tuesday, June 17. This will be the third time West Michigan has hosted the event, with the first time being in 1995, and again in 2003.
"This is a bid deal for us", Whitecaps President Scott Lane stated to MLive.com. "Not only are we hosting the Midwest League's premier event, but we're hosting it in it's 50th year. We intend to put on a grand show for the fans, executives and players of the 16 teams in the league. We will showcase not only Fifth Third Ballpark during the two-day event, but West Michigan as well."
All I can say, is that I have to make this game. I'll be waiting to jump on some tickets when they go on sale for sure. Attending an All-Star Game is definitely on my baseball bucket list, and where better than at my home-team Whitecaps!
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Slipping Away
There's still a few weeks left in the minor league season, but already the West Michigan Whitecaps maybe be seeing their playoffs hopes slipping away. They currently are 6.5 games out of first place, and sixth in the Midwest League West, and very much in danger of not making the playoffs for the third year in a row. They just completed a home stand where they went 1-5, including a three game sweep by in-state rival the Lansing Lugnuts. The first two games of the series were some what competitive, losing 6-2 and a close 2-1, but it's the series finales' 14-5 shallacking that has Whitecaps' fans concerned. The Lugnuts scored nine runs in the third inning alone, and led the game 12-0, and had 16 hits. One of the reasons was the play of Lansings' Emilio Guerrero, who went 6-6 on the night, with five RBI's and three runs scored. His 6-6 night ties a Midwest League record. The Whitecaps are just under .500 for the second half at 25-27 (including last night's win in Dayton), and 58-64 overall, but will have to find a way to win on the road to gain some ground in the five teams in front of them.
"We had a long home stand and this was time to get back in it," West Michigan manager Larry Parrish told the Grand Rapids Press. "Instead we go 1-5 and we're going on a long road trip. So now we have to do something we haven't been able to do all season-put together a long winning streak. That's tough."
In the 14-5 loss, Endrys Briceno took the loss, after giving up 10 earned runs in 2 1/3 innings. The Whitecaps scored their share of the runs in the fourth inning, when Jake Stewart hit a two-run home run, Dean Green (who went 4-5 on the night) had a two-run single, and Connor Harrell added a RBI double. I hope things look much brighter for the 'Caps when we see them next weekend. Stranger things have happened in baseball, and I'm hoping the 'Caps will put together the wins they need for the post season.
Current and former Whitecaps dealt
It's the trade deadline, and the Detroit Tigers decided to make some moves to improve the teams chances at making the post season. Unfortunately, the moves included trading away two West Michigan Whitecaps alumni, and one of their current players. The Tigers' first move took West Michigan's starting left fielder Danry Vasquez and sent him to the Houston Astros organization. In return, Detroit acquired relief pitcher Jose Veras. Vasquez struggled last season with the Whitecaps, but went down to Connecticut and ended up leading the NY-Penn League in hits. This season he's been hitting .281 with five home runs and 39 RBI's. He started the season hitting in the number three slot, but moved to lead-off hitter in June. He will be staying in the Midwest League, however, suiting up for the Quad Cities River Bandits.
"It made me sad that I will be leaving the Detroit Tigers organization but it made me excited that Houston made a trade for me," Vasquez stated to Ben Chiswick, the Whitecaps' radio announcer (and courtesy of MLive.com).
The Tigers next dealt outfielder Avisail Garcia and relief pitcher Brayan Villarreal to the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox in a three-way deal. The full deal sends Garcia to the ChiSox, Jake Peavy from Chicago to the BoSox, Villarreal to Boston, and the Tigers get short stop Jose Iglesias from the Red Sox. Iglesias is said to be one of the best young middle infielders in the game today, so it will be excited watching him in Detroit. Villarreal has been sidelined in Toledo due to a thumb injury, but has been up with Detroit part-time for the last three seasons. He is 4-8 with a 4.56 ERA with the Tigers. During the 2008 season he split between the GCL Tigers and the Whitecaps, he was 1-6 with a 4.69 ERA and 37 strikeouts. He spent the entire 2009 season in West Michigan, going 5-5 with a 2.87 ERA and 118 strikeouts. As for Garcia, he was one of the top prospects in the Tigers organization, hitting .241 with two home runs and 10 RBI's with the big club this season. He also played in West Michigan in 2009, splitting the season with the Lakeland Flying Tigers. He hit .264 with 31 RBI's that year. Spending the entire 2010 season with the Whitecaps, he hit .281 with 17 doubles and 63 RBI's. Good luck to all three players with their new clubs. We'll still be keeping track of these guys.
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Infante not clowning around in West Michigan
It's always exciting to see a member of the big club rehabbing in the minors, especially for the home-town fans. The Detroit Tigers second baseman Omar Infante, though, is a player just trying to get better and back to helping his team defend its American League Championship. And, despite the Whitecaps wearing special Ronald McDonald jerseys (to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House for children), he's all business. Unfortunately the 'Caps lost their first game with Infante in the lineup, but he was 1-3 with a single, and was hit by a pitch. He acted like his ankle was a little tender, however, rounding first after his base hit. He seems to be confident he'll work through it, though.
"I have to continue to making my ankle strong", Infante told MLive.com. "I have to continue trying on my rehab. I will play tomorrow at second base and we'll see what happens. I have to see a lot of pitches and that's why I need to play three game, four games. "
West Michigan ended up losing to the Fort Wayne TinCaps 9-2 that first game, but bounced back last night with Infante at second, and the Tigers' Darin Down pitching an inning. The 4-2 victory over Fort Wayne was also the first win for 19-year-old prospect Jake Thompson with the 'Caps. Infante only had two at-bats in the game, though, going 1-2 with a single and a strike-out. He left the game in the fourth innings, and reports state he will make his way back to Detroit to be re-evaluated. Downs came into the game to pitch the sixth inning. He pitched a scoreless inning with one strike-out. Offensively, Connor Harrell tied the game with a two-run jack in the fourth, while Danry Vasquez and Jared Reaves each recorded an RBI in the fifth. Closer Corey Knebel earned the save the hard way, pitching out of a one-out jam with two runners in scoring position. Omar last played for the Whitecaps back in 2000 where he split the season between West Michigan and Lakeland, hitting .267.