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Four months after JR's suspension, problems with racism persist at KPFA
by The People's Minister of Information JR
On June 23, the Block Report Radio crew presented a proposal to the management of KPFA for a three-hour special highlighting the historical and political context of the upcoming California prison hunger strike to be broadcast on the airwaves of the only station on the dial that can be heard throughout two-thirds of the state.
As of press time, the proposal for the special, which we requested to air on Sunday, July 7, 3-6 p.m., the day before the strike is set to begin, has not been approved by new Interim General Manager Richard Pirodsky, who seems to be behaving very similarly to the old Interim General Manager Andrew Phillips, who was recently demoted because of his inability to resolve racial issues at the station.
According to the KPFA Mission Statement, that KPFA should "contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors." KPFA is not living up to its own creed when it ignores the fact that there are more Black people in prison now than were in slavery in 1850, yet KPFA is refusing to grant a substantial amount of time to the on-going human rights struggle of prisoners, who are mostly Black and Latino.
To date, I have been suspended from my Wednesday morning 8 a.m. drive time show for an unprecedented four months and counting, because KPFA's CWA union aka the White Citizens Council has a number of bogus grievances against me, and they claim, according to Andrew Phillips, that I create "a hostile work environment." When Local Station Board member Frank Sterling asked Phillips during a staff meeting what is the definition of a "hostile work environment," he started stuttering and fumbling over his words before he admitted that "he has to find the definition."
Currently KPFA and the five-station nationwide Pacifica network it founded 64 years ago is undertaking an investigation into the entire work environment at KPFA, including all aspects of the station and station management. The investigation is being run by Robert McCree. According to Summer Reece, the executive director of Pacifica, my suspension will be lifted only after this investigation is finished.
According to the KPFA Mission Statement, KPFA should "contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors."
I have been suspended since March 6 and never told why. How long do workplace investigations take? Or is the indefinite nature of my suspension something that is reserved for Black programmers? No one in management at the station or the network has claimed that I have committed any Federal Communications Commission (FCC) violations, but there's a white programmer who did. Sasha Lilley, on her show Against the Grain, committed two FCC violations on Jan. 8 when she allowed the word "fuck" to be aired twice. Each time "fuck" was said it could have cost the station a $350,000 fine.
Since her FCC violations were committed, she was scheduled to do a book signing event and she is back on the air during her regular time. (Interestingly, Lilley, a member of KPFA's paid staff, was the station's program director when a weekly Saturday morning show produced by Youth Radio, led by youth of color, accidentally aired that same word. Though the show was popular, Lilley took it off the air permanently as punishment, even though, as with her own indiscretion, no FCC fine had been imposed. – ed.)
In about three weeks, KPFA will be begging for money again during its Summer Fund Drive running July 22 through Aug. 2. The Spring Drive reportedly fell short of its goal by over $50,000, which is understandable considering how the Black listening and broadcasting community have been jerked around over the last few months with my indefinite suspension, Black members of management getting their hours significantly cut, and white broadcasters organizing events for white broadcasters on Huey Newton's birthday during Black History Month.
KPFA is not living up to its own creed when it ignores the fact that there are more Black people in prison now than were in slavery in 1850, yet KPFA is refusing to grant a substantial amount of time to the on-going human rights struggle of prisoners, who are mostly Black and Latino.
And now the station is vacillating on whether or not to grant three hours of special coverage to the California prison hunger strike. Pacifica and KPFA are definitely ruining their brand of "progressive" radio with all of this racist activity. Carrie Core, who was program director of KPFA until last year, said in her departing speech in April of 2012, "KPFA is the most racist, sexist, classist place in which I have ever worked."
We must continue to fight for our voices to be heard because there is not another working radio antenna in the state that broadcasts with a signal as strong as KPFA's 59,000 watts and that can talk to two-thirds of the prison state of California. Block Report Radio and the SF Bay View support the California prison hunger strike and we are urging all of our listeners and readers to do the same.
Pacifica Executive Director Summer Reece can be reached at email@example.com or (510) 849-2590. I want to thank all of you who signed the petition (see "Bring back JR to KPFA now") to restore me to the airwaves and contacted management at the station and the network on my behalf. But we can't stop. We must loosen the grip of racism that is killing KPFA.
The People's Minister of Information JR can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ann Garrison
The idea that KPFA is NOT a hostile work environment is laughable, but it's equally so to blame it all on JR.↓
I hope the show about the prison hunger strike is approved, but don't like to see the push to get it on the air described as competition with radical queer programming.
Queer is a matter of life and death; the transgendered community suffers murder rates way out of proportion to its numbers in the population, and gay teenagers are still disproportionately prone to suicide.
I'd like to see KPFA devote a whole weekly show to prisons. The U.S.A.'s savagely racist, world record breaking incarceration rate is one of the greatest ongoing mass atrocities in the world today, and last time I checked California's incarceration rate was second only to that of Texas.↓
John Mulligan
"The U.S.A.'s savagely racist, world record breaking incarceration rate is one of the greatest ongoing mass atrocities in the world today." Please explain this comment.
From 1976 to 2005, blacks committed more than 52% of all murders in America. In 2006, the black arrest rate for most crimes was two to nearly three times blacks' representation in the population. Blacks constituted 39.3% of all violent-crime arrests, including 56.3% of all robbery and 34.5% of all aggravated-assault arrests, and 29.4% of all property-crime arrests. Violent crime has always been the leading driver of prison growth, especially since the 1990s. In state prisons, where 88% of the nation's inmates are housed, violent and property offenders make up over 3 1/2 times the number of state drug offenders.↓
Source please?↓
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I cannot speak I totally have the same opinion a props a few points, but you completely have a unique outlook. Anyhow, I like the word used in these sentences…↓


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As I look ahead to a new school year in a new country with new responsibilities and extraordinarily few resources, I cannot help but reflect on the past year's travels.
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I have been on a spiritual quest of sorts for some time now, and decided to read Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch at the recommendation of a student. I was admittedly skeptical upon hearing about the book, the first in a series by Walsch, which is exactly how it sounds. The author sat down one day with some tough and heavy questions in his heart – questions for God – and so he began writing. What happened next became his first book.
As "crazy" as it may seem that God decided to speak to this one man, and would provoke anyone to ask, "Why?" I suppose anything could be possible, and the answer could also be, "Why not?" The feedback God provides in this book are what some readers might find more unbelievable, as Walsch's God is not necessarily the embodiment of what maybe the average person conceives Him to be. God in this book has a strong sense of humor, even an acerbic wit. His comebacks are honest and raw. This is actually what I like about the book, as this is how I've always thought of God. He has to have a sense of humor if he made me, right?
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[See Journal, Newsletter articles, Leaflet, Personal View and Media items by Masha Bell.]
Masha Bell on The Learning Curve,
BBC radio 4 on Tuesday 18 May 2004.[The pressure which Libby Purves put me under affects my speech and coherence towards the end of the programme. She was not friendly.]
Intro by Libby Purves: Now, welcome to the first Learning Curve of the summer term. Today we are looking at adult education. [and something else] ...
...and give space to a revolutionary demand for spelling reform, to tidy up the mangy, beloved old mongrel that is the English language, because it does muddle children...
(You hear a child spelling out): F L E A S E
(Another child): F L A E C E
Teacher: That's interesting A E instead of E A.
(Another child): F L E E C E
Teacher: Hands up who thinks that Kate is right there...
L Purves: She should have put a U in it somewhere .... All of that later.
(12 mins into programme.)
L Purves: Now we are staying, sort of, with adult literacy, or an aspect of it, because we lie very close to the bottom of European league tables, and one voice at least is suggesting that this is not entirely our fault. You can blame the English language itself. Masha Bell - the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee born in Germany and educated between both countries - is the author of a book called Understanding English Spelling, which is a long and detailed tome about all its irregularities. Masha, we were counting before the programme, but lost count. Its about six languages you speak, including Russian.
M: That's right. Yes.
L Purves: And you learned English starting at 14. Is it really harder than most languages?
M: It is far harder than most languages. It's harder to learn to read because so many words have identical letters that have to be pronounced in different ways. For example, you start with 'the', then come across 'he', 'go' - 'do', 'so' - 'who'. The same with ....
L Purves: We keep breaking the rules.
M: Yes. You can't learn a pattern. When my grandmother taught me to read Lithuanian because I started school two months after everybody else and I needed to catch up quickly, she taught me the alphabet in a couple of afternoons and by the end of the week she was showing me words in the newspaper...
L Purves: The phonic teacher's dream!
M: Exactly!
L Purves: Stay with us a moment because we have an illustration of the treacheries of English spelling straight from the horse's mouth. Caroline Swinburne has been to Petersfield primary school in Orwell near Cambridge to see 9-year-olds and their teacher Nick Murphy...
Teacher: Slipped.
Helen: S L I P P E D
Teacher: Why?... Will!
Will: Because you have slip and because it's another word, you have to put another P in there.
Teacher: The problem is related to exceptions to the rule. At the moment we are looking at the rule that a letter sound will always be short before a doubled consonant, but realising that there are going to be exceptions to the rule. ...Literal!
Girl: L I T T E R A L.
Teacher: There is the short letter sound, so it must be double T, but unfortunately, the spelling is L I T E R A L - just one T. Oh dear ....
Child: I find some words really difficult to spell. Things which have an EE-sound in them.
Teacher: Leisure!
Boy: L E I S U R E
Teacher: Hm..
Other child: I thought it was L E A S U R E...
Teacher: Quite tricky? Is he right though? Hands up who is not sure! It is L E I S U R E. How did you learn to spell that?
Boy: I always used to go to (inaudible) and ...
Teacher: You see it and just remember it? - Last one. Tricky one: friend. Not tricky really, is it? You are gonna tell me what it is.
Child: F R I E N D.
Teacher: In 'friend' I E makes the sound of E like 'leisure', except the other way round.
Another child speaking to reporter: There are lots of words you just have to remember. One that really surprises me is 'because'.
Reporter: Why? How did you think it was spelt?
Girl: I thought it was B E C U S.
Rep: That's quite logical.
Girl: Yes!
Rep: When you were told, what did you think?
Girl: I was quite surprised!
Rep: How does a spelling lesson compare, let's say, with a maths lesson?
Girl: Maths is quite easy, because once you know how to add, that's all you really have to know.
Rep: So the rules work?
Girl: Yes. In spelling they don't work.
Teacher: Children are comfortable with maths because there is a rule, and that's the end of story. With spelling there is a rule, but right at the end of the lesson, always highlighting the exception to the rule brings out a sigh. Because, yet again, they have to learn the exception to the rule which makes life a little more complicated for them.
L Purves: Petersfield primary school and Caroline Swinburne's report more or less making Masha Bell's case for her with all these problems. But people like me say, "Look. It's a really fun mongrel language. You have Latin and Greek roots, Norman, Saxon, Celtic...All the history of the language is contained in the odd spelling of the words.
Masha: No! Not in the spelling. Not in the spelling. The history of the language is beautiful, and it is a mongrel from different sources, but nevertheless, it's grammatically amazingly simple and quite easy to learn, and the spellings weren't always in the mess that they are now. They were introduced by people who couldn't speak English. That's something most ....
L Purves: When?!
Masha: It all happened when the printing press first came to England, in 1476. When Caxton came back from the Continent, where he had lived for 30 years and learned to print, he brought with him assistants who none of them spoke English. So they were type-setting English books and making a right hash of it. And it got far worse when the Bible was first translated into English, because bible-printing wasn't even allowed in England, so all the different editions of the New Testament of 1525, the 40 different editions, were all printed on the Continent, and that made it worse. That put the spelling in a mess.
L Purves: Whenever there is a spelling reform movement, and there have been several, and you are a spelling reformer ....
Masha: No! No! I will stop you there! I am not really. I want people to understand the problem. I want people to understand that what you were talking about at the beginning of the programme - about basic skills and the money that is needed to rectify this later - it all starts at primary level, and the government has not done anything to change it; because 25% of 11-year-olds, for the past four years, started secondary school unable to read ...
L Purves: Yes, yes! I can see the difficulty. For instance, the difficulty these children had just now with 'because'. They said that 'because' should be spelt 'becus'. But if you have 'be cause' it contains its own meaning. It is 'by the cause' that it happened...
Masha: Which would you rather ... Which would you rather have: a more literate population, a better educated population....
L Purves: But...
Masha: Because currently we have a functional illiteracy rate of 20% among adults. In other words, seven million adults cannot read to save their lives, basically. And spelling is far worse, because there are only 2000 words which are difficult to read, that you cannot predict like 'count - country - group', if you get my idea...
L Purves: Yes.
Masha: ...or 'fruit - build - fluid'. UI spelt [A mistake by me here under pressure - should be 'pronounced'] differently, but when you come to spelling, it's far worse. You have to memorise nearly 4000 words. That's something people can't cope with.
L Purves: We are going to get a mass of correspondence about this. I greatly look forward to this. Thank you very much Masha Bell. This one is going to run and run. Please get in touch with us.
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The first Japanese astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station is preparing for a return flight, this time to serve as commander, officials said on Wednesday.
Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is due to leave in November with a pair of veteran astronauts from the United States and Russia.
Wakata, 50, is expected to take command of the orbital research outpost in March, marking the first time a Japanese astronaut will lead a human space mission.
"It means a lot to Japan to have its own representative to command the International Space Station," Wakata told a news conference broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"It's a big milestone for Japan … to have this experience," he said.
In 2009, Wakata became the first astronaut from Japan to live aboard the $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles above Earth.
Japan, one of 15 nations participating in the project, provided the station's largest and most elaborate laboratory, named Kibo, as well as cargo resupply ships.
Wakata, who was part of two missions on NASA's now-retired space shuttles, is training for his fourth flight along with NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, both 53.
Mastracchio, a veteran of three shuttle missions and one of NASA's most experienced spacewalkers, will be making his first long-duration flight. Tyurin will be living aboard the station for a third time.
Command of the station typically rotates between a U.S. astronaut and Russian cosmonaut. In 2009, Belgium astronaut Frank De Winne became the first European to command the station. Canada's first commander, Chris Hadfield, was in charge from March until May.
Wakata, a native of Saitama, Japan, holds a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering, a master's in applied mechanics and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from Kyushu University. Before being selected as an astronaut in 1992, he worked as an aircraft structural engineer for Japan Airlines.
Wakata's first two spaceflights, in January 1996 and October 2000, were aboard NASA space shuttles. He was Japan's first live-aboard space station resident from March to July 2009. Upon returning to the station in November, Wakata will serve as a flight engineer before taking over command in March.


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Question about H hydraulics to run loader
I have found an old trip-bucket loader for the H, thanks Pony Master . There are long cylinders on each side, each with its own hose. Pony said that a single line with a Tee came off the hydraulic outlet on the right side of the H it was on previously. My question is, can I run the right cylinder off the outlet on the right side, and the left cylider off the front outlet on the left side? (The rear one is delay, right?) That will make hooking it up very simple if that's the case.
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Yes you can.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
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Depending on what model you have, you may need return lines to shod extra oil in the top of cylinder and allow it to be pushed into top of reservoir when they extend. do the cylinders have 2 hoses each, or just one? The retunr system is a T that goes into the top of the Liftall reservoir.
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There is just one hose for each cylinder. Pony Master didn't say anything about a return to the top of reservior.
Trent McPeak
Cub Database
On some of the smaller loaders they are not needed, but on the model 30 and 31 which fit both H and M, the resorvoir does not hold enough fluid to fully extend the cylinders.
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The cylinders on the #30 and the #31 have a built in reservoir in the top of the cylinder. This reservoir holds the extra hydraulic oil needed to fully extend the cylinders. The port in the top of the cylinder needs to have a hydraulic hose attached to it, and then that needs to be "teed" to the hose from the top of the opposite cylinder, and then both hoses need to be attached with a union to the belly pump fill pipe. This is the recommended installation procedure directly from the #31 operators manual.
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Dunnaville accounted for 44 touchdowns rushing and passing as he helped lead the Vikings to this past year's state championship. Also cornerback Eric Johnson is heading to Division Two Shepherd in West Virginia.


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After a fourth place finish in NL Rookie of the Year balloting in 2012, Wilin Rosario had a strong sophomore season, producing the following numbers.
Now, the Colorado catcher won't turn 25 until February, and he certainly plays very raw. But what does that mean when taking an early shot at forecasting 2014?
What I like:
Well, I'll keep this simple and give you two words: COORS FIELD.
Okay, I'll give you more than that, but it the same huge edge that any Rockies hitter has and has had since they became a franchise. Although the NL West has a string of good pitchers, and playing 27-30 combined road games in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego can be rough on a hitter, getting to play half of your games at the ultimate hitter's paradise is a huge advantage.
But while Coors is an advantage, it's not as though Rosario is terrible away from Denver. Quite the opposite.
What does that mean for fantasy? Well, in a roto league, not much. There, the stats all add up and go the same final pool. But let's say you're in a head-to-head league. We'll just use batting average for the sake of this example.
- Week 1 (Home): 7/21 – .333 average
- Week 2 (Away): 5/21 – .238 average
In a roto league, that's a .286 average over a two-week window, which is roughly the kind of hitter that Rosario was in 2013. But in a h2h league, you have to find a way to overcome a sub .240 average from one of your players, which is a little tougher. We're talking about two hits, which doesn't seem like that much in a given week, but it makes a tremendous difference.
Now, I won't sit here and tell you that I can guarantee this will happen again. What I can tell you is that it's good to see.
Rosario passes the eye test, which is admittedly going the way of the dinosaur in the era of advanced metrics, hot/cold sheets, and all that other stuff. But basically what it means is that when I look at this guy's swing, I come to a realization: This dude can hit.
I have a distinct memory of watching him last season. A 90-plus MPH fastball was about eye-height. He not only swung at it and got a hit, but he hit the ball over the fence, to deep right-center field. You may be thinking that the altitude had something to do with it. Nope, it was in San Francisco, probably the best pitcher's park in the league.
It's just something you look at and say wow. That if he can play anything close to a full slate of games, you can never imagine Rosario not topping 20 homers in a bad year. The fact that he put it together with a fine average in 2013 and hit away from Coors gives me plenty of reason to be hopeful.
What I don't like:
While I do like seeing guys make some of the modern stat-crunchers shake their collective heads, Rosario doesn't exactly excel in a lot of advanced stats, and you can't ignore that. Especially since you don't need to go all that advanced to see where Rosario needs work. I'm sure just about all of you guys know what OBP is. If you don't, read Clave's explanation and the rest of his Simple Sabermetrics series.
Back to Rosario.
- In 2012, he hit .270 with a .312 OBP.
- In 2013, he hit .292 with a .315 OBP.
I will say that if I was Walt Weiss, I'd want a guy like Rosario up there swinging the bat, especially in Colorado. Like any catcher, he's not a base stealer, and it's not that easy to move him around the bases. I want him up there trying to drive the ball into the gaps or over the fence.
But the fact remains: If you're not getting on base, you're not scoring runs. Now, if he had an OBP at around .340 or above, this wouldn't concern me so much. But the fact that he's below .320 tells me that he's swinging at bad pitches (109 strikeouts in 121 games tells me something similar) which will hinder his ability to drive the ball. Yes, he hits with a lot of power and can hit a bad pitch out, but it's generally not sustainable, especially for a catcher in the late season as the bat speed slows.
Something else bothers me, although it's not exactly in Rosario's control. If you get 140 games out of Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki, and Michael Cuddyer, consider it a victory. Actually, getting 130 games from them is no small deal. Catchers generally miss a lot of games as it is, but it's hard to expect big RBI numbers from a guy who will frequently be missing some of his best ducks on the pond.
Something else that I can't help but notice from the above home/road splits is that his runs and RBI totals were much better at Coors Field. So, while he may not struggle that much away from Coors, those around him certainly do.
Now, the only catchers to drive in more than Rosario's 79 were Mike Napoli (92), Victor Martinez (83), and Jonathan Lucroy (82). Napoli and Martinez will lose catcher eligibility in 2014, so even if a few other guys (Buster Posey, Yadier Molina) join the RBI party again in 2014, you're still looking at a Top-5 power catcher, like with room to spare. But the threat of lost RBI looms large when looking at his overall value.
The (Early) Final Verdict for 2014:
On the ESPN player rater for standard leagues, Rosario was the second-highest ranked catcher in 2013, and the sixth-highest in 2012. He was 102nd on the overall list, which would have him somewhere around the 8th round in a 12-team league, which is high.
In reality, I can't rank him ahead of Posey or Molina heading into 2014. Their track record is just too extensive to ignore. But outside of them and possibly Carlos Santana and Joe Mauer, who's better? Right now, I put Rosario as the third ranked catcher heading in to 2014. Eventually, his free-swinging nature will catch up to him, but that usually comes with a slowed down bat speed, which isn't generally a huge concern for someone at 25.


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Patriots-Bears Week 14 game time changed
The NFL has flexed the kickoff time for the Patriots-Bears game at Soldier Field on Dec. 12 from 1 p.m. ET to 4:15 p.m. ET. CBS will air the game.
Lovie Smith hot-seat meter: Freezing
As it stands today, Lovie Smith has a better chance of getting a contract extension after the season than he does of losing his job.
Bears MVP Meter: Week 12
Julius Peppers and Brian Urlacher are battling for the top spot on the MVP Meter, and Jay Cutler could be making a late-season surge.
Bears players of the week
Jay Cutler's four-touchdown performance against the Eagles earned him Offensive Player of the Week honors in Week 12.
Fan falls to death at Soldier Field
A 27-year-old man died after falling at Soldier Field during the Bears-Eagles game on Sunday.
Bears alone in first after win over Eagles
Jay Cutler tied a career high with four touchdown passes and the Bears beat Michael Vick and the Eagles 31-26 to take sole possession of the NFC North lead on Sunday.
Eagles-Bears prediction
Dan Parr says the Bears' defense isn't going to let Michael Vick dominate the game, but he'll be able to make a couple big plays, and that could be all it takes for the Eagles to win.
Peppers, L.T. top free-agent pickups
For this week's NFList, we polled the PFW staff to determine who were the best free-agent acquisitions of 2010. Topping the list is Bears DE Julius Peppers, the highest-priced signee of all.
Eagles CB Samuel out for Sunday
The Eagles have ruled CB Asante Samuel out with a sprained MCL, and he will not make the trip to Chicago. CB Joselio Hanson will start in Samuel's place.
Eagles-Bears matchup of the day: Saturday
The Bears match up against Eagles QB Michael Vick about as well as any defense in the league.
Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman's wife gave birth to the couple's fourth child. They were expecting a girl. Tillman thanked his Twitter followers for their "thoughts and prayers" and added "Wife and baby are doing great" in a post Tuesday.||||||| Tillman's status for Sunday's game against Houston was in question after he told a Chicago radio station he might have to miss it. He later said he expected to be available and wound up playing in a loss to Houston.
Bears star cornerback Charles Tillman is active for Sunday's game against Houston.||||||| There was some question about Tillman's status after he told a Chicago radio station he might not be available because his wife, Jackie, is due to give birth to a girl - the couple's fourth child. He later posted on Twitter that the baby was expected to be born on Monday and that he planned to play.
Tillman says on Twitter that he will play Sunday against the Houston Texans, after all.||||||| Tillman's status had been up in the air after he told Chicago radio station WSCR-AM that he might not be available because his wife, Jackie, is due to give birth. He recorded four of his seven forced fumbles during Sunday's rout of Tennessee.
Tillman might miss Sunday's game against the Houston Texans because of the birth of his daughter.||||||| Tillman tells Chicago radio station WSCR-AM that he might not be available because his wife, Jackie, is due to give birth to a girl. She will be the couple's fourth child. Their daughter, Tiana, needed a heart transplant after she was born in 2008.Tillman is making a case for defensive player of the year, and he forced four fumbles last Sunday at Tennessee
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|One Hit Wonder
|Corey Miller
|Felix Enríquez Alcalá
|Original Airdate
|February 6, 2003
One Hit Wonder is the fourteenth episode of season three of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Grissom, Catherine, Warrick and Nick investigate a 'peeping Tom' who escalated into breaking into women's apartments and terrorizing them. Meanwhile, Sara reopens the murder case of a colleague's husband. The bullet that is still inside her friend's body can help Sara find the killer, but her friend may not survive the operation to remove it.
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Main Cast
(Credit order)
- William Petersen as Gil Grissom
- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows
- Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
Recurring Roles
- Romy Rosemont as Jacqui Franco
- Gerald McCullouch as Bobby Dawson
Guest Stars
- Elizabeth Mitchell as Melissa Winters
- Devon Gummersall as Taylor Reed
- Leslie Grossman as Wendy Orr
- Joseph Mazzello as Justin Lamond
- Jeff Kober as Roger Wilder
- Rick Worthy as Dr. Stewart
- Chad Morgan as Joanne Crooks
- Joe Michael Burke as Carl Kelly
- Hallie Lambert as Susie Spiegel
- Frank Novak as Judge
- Ingrid Raines as Doreen Bainbridge
- Heather Charles as Last Vicitim (uncredited)
- Barry Sigismondi as Cruiser Cop (uncredited)
- When Sara is narrating her reconstruction of the shooting to Melissa, she says that her husband "...leaned up from a prone position..." to shoot her. However, in the visually reconstructed scene, the husband is lying on his back - that's supine, not prone. Prone is lying on one's stomach.
Featured Music
- 7am by Dirty Vegas.
See Also
- List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes
- CSI:Crime Scene Investigation Season 3
- Category:Images from One Hit Wonder
|CSI:Las Vegas Season 3
|Revenge is Best Served Cold • The Accused is Entitled • Let the Seller Beware • A Little Murder • Abra-Cadaver • The Execution of Catherine Willows • Fight Night • Snuff • Blood Lust • High and Low • Recipe for Murder • Got Murder? • Random Acts of Violence • One Hit Wonder • Lady Heather's Box • Lucky Strike • Crash & Burn • Precious Metal • A Night at the Movies • Last Laugh • Forever • Play with Fire • Inside the Box


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Happiness on Hartwell (Canoe Available!) in Lake Hartwell
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 8
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
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rates (USD)
/ night
$ 600 - $ 1,000 / week
$ 1,400 - $ 2,000 / month
vacation rental description
Beautiful 6-year old rustic lake home get-away (hard-wood floors, fireplace) on Lake Hartwell . This house has a private covered boat slip / dock and is located directly on the lakeshore, 50 feet from our back deck! Large screened-in porch overlooking lake. Beautiful sunsets! Peaceful Cove! Boating! Skiing! Canoeing! Excellent fishing!
Three-day minimum required.
Three bedrooms (two on main; one (loft) upstairs with full bath & walk-in closet).
Canoe available for rent! (3-passenger)
Need to book on short notice? No problem! We are set up for PayPal or Credit Card. We can book for same-day arrival in most cases!
Three-day minimum required. Strictly enforced during holiday periods (July 4th, etc.).
Easy to get to! Just a short 4-mile drive off of Exit 173 on I-85. Exit has several convenient options for dining, grocery, etc. Whether you are seeking a quiet, romantic get-away or a weekend of family fun, this is a GREAT way to go!
Reference quote from Larry P.: "We had a really good time and enjoyed your home. The dock was great for our 19ft boat and lots of water sports. The house was fine, decks very enjoyable to just chill out on. I really like the screen, no screen porch combination you have. Everything was in order and really I do not have any improvement comments."
Larry has to agreed to be a reference & discuss his absolute satisfaction with his vacation experience at this property. For contact info, call or send an inquiry to the owner on this listing.
house rental amenities
- Fully furnished
- Covered slip dock
- Fire place
- Central heat and AC
- Cable TV
- Cookware & Utensils
- Charcoal grill
- Full kitchen with bar
- Washer/dryer
- Clean linens and towels
- Internet and canoe with life jackets available upon request for small fee
- Excellent high-top patio furniture, great for meals or cocktails out on the screened-in porch overlooking the lake
- Two old-fashioned rocking chairs on back porch - also overlooking lake.
- Awesome hiking and biking in low traffic roads or trails. Incredibly scenic!
activities and attractions in Lake Hartwell Georgia
Football Fans! This property is about 40 miles from Clemson University and about 45 minutes from University of Georgia. Make it a lake / football weekend! Clemson by car is a 45 minute drive; or take a day cruise by boat (90+ minutes).
Boating, fishing, swimming, biking, hiking, sailing, wind surfing, sun bathing, relaxing, lake-island beaches, and canoeing!
Lake Hartwell Islands! - Pull your boat right up onto the lake shore on one of over a dozen islands scattered throughout Lake Hartwell, where you can pitch canopies, sun bathe, play volleyball, grill out, picnic, camp out, or just stay cool floating around the island on on a raft. Because several of the islands have sandy beaches, the islands have particular appeal. Some of the islands have very little traffic & offer a peaceful retreat. On the larger islands boats line up by the dozens for all-day beach & boat parties. Hours of fun for the cost of the gas it takes you to get there.
Tugaloo State Park
Situated on a wooded peninsula, Tugaloo offers spectacular views of 55,590-acre Lake Hartwell in every direction. Fishing is excellent year-round, and large-mouth bass are plentiful. During summer, the lake is a popular destination for swimming, water skiing, sailing and boating. Both the Sassafras and Muscadine trails wind through oak, walnut, mulberry and cherry trees. The name "Tugaloo" comes from an Indian name for the river which once flowed freely prior to the construction of Hartwell Dam.
Ladies: Want a break from "the boys" for the day?
Nearby shopping is exceptional. In addition to Downtown Hartwell, a large discount shopping complex in Commerce, Georgia, is only thirty minutes away, and many shopping centers and malls can be reached in less than a half-hour in Anderson, SC. Community theaters are nearby; Hartwell has it own, and there are others nearby in Toccoa, Georgia, and Abbeville and Seneca in South Carolina.
The recreational opportunities in Hart County are outstanding. Lake Hartwell with its many parks, camp sites, marinas and boat ramps can be reached in minutes from virtually any home in Hart County and offers swimming, fishing, camping, cabins, water skiing, and motor boating. Annual events include: Hartwell Antique Boat Festival. Challenge of the Centuries Bicycle Ride. Pre-4th of July Extravaganza. Lake Hartwell Dam Run. Corps of Engineers Interpretive Programs. Hart County Theatrical Productions. Cateechee Golf Course, located on Highway 77 south of Hartwell, is an Audubon Signature Course: only 2 in Georgia; only 15 in U.S and offers gourmet dining at their Waterfall Grille.
vacation rental rates
Rates will vary depending on the following criteria: holidays, peak vs. non-peak season, and length of stay. Three day minimum preferred.
Call for specials - (as low as $50 per night for stays of three weeks or longer)offered during off season (October 1st - March 15th).
Add $100 for one-time cleaning fee after check out. Security deposit of $300 required. Add 12% tax to rate total.
Canoe & life jacket rental = $20 per night or $80 per week (5 nights or more). Extra deposit of $200 required for canoe rental.
Please note: Reservation is NOT guaranteed until payment is received.
See rate details under "Quick Facts" above.
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West Adams Living History TourAngelus Rosedale Cemetery (1831 W. Washingont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90007) Map it $35
The West Adams district, one of Los Angeles' oldest neighborhoods, boasts an intriguing history (and a proud heritage association that loves to promote the glories of the district). Its Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, dating back to 1884, is the final resting place for an eclectic assortment of Angelenos, including war heroes, writers, and entertainers. Watch history comes to life at WAHA's Living History Tour. This year's tour, "Civil Wars, Civil Liberties," enlivens the past with gravesite portrayals of notables including a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, USC's first female professor, a jazz singer who performed with Duke Ellington's orchestra, a Confederate cadet who helped found Pasadena, a Union Army bugler, a doctor who testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee during the Red Scare, and more.


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Due to poor weather conditions on Wednesday, February 5, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) will close its two walk-in customer service locations:
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Keeping you up to date of the latest happenings in your community.
Patrick and Veronica Edwards have kindly donated and installed a new bench at the bus stop opposite the church last week.
The previous bench was demolished by a collision, fortunately the site was cleared and the replacement installed quickly.
West Mercia Police have issued another warning for all residents,especially the vunerable and elderly, to be aware of telephone and courier scams currently being operated in our areas.
Please read the attached report for details.
The houses at Fishpools are nearing completion. The adverts are out this week at Homepoint. You will need to be registered with them and have a local connection to Lyonshall. The closing date to get in your bid is Tuesday 12th August so act now if you are hoping for one of these houses for local people.
Homepoint Links
24 hour automated bidding line – 0845 270 2550
Text Bidding Service - 0778 148 2313
Online – www.home-point.info
Visit – Franklin House, 4 Commercial Road, Hereford HR1 2BB
News alert this week from the Project Manager at Fishpools.
The opening of the new affordable houses at Fishpools, Lyonshall is experiencing unexpected delays.
The Project Manager has advised they are waiting for a foul drainage connection date from Welsh Water.
There will be an amended date for advertising these properties, so do keep looking on the Homepoint website over the next few weeks.
The Royal British Legion will be commemorating the start of WWI in a national campaign called Lights - Out
They are asking you to turn lights out between 10pm - 11pm on Monday 4th August and leave a just a single candle burning.
This moment will bring together the community in a time of reflection and remembrance.
Please join in if you can.
Website: www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/ww1-centenary/lights-out
Everyone welcome to join us for Afternoon tea and cakes this Friday 25th July between 2-4pm in the Memorial Hall.
Have a chat with friends and enjoy a nice cup of tea and home-made cakes.
See you there!
Please be aware!
The main A44 road will be closed this Sunday between 8.00am and 6.00pm for tree works near the Old Vicarage.
In practice it is likely that the closure will last from about 8.30am through to about 4pm, depending upon the progress of works which are aimed at taking a substantial tree down close to the highway. There will also be no electricity for around 14 local properties in the vicinity, and these power-outages have been separately notified to affected residents.
It is likely that the road closure might cause some inconvenience to the Family Service at St Michael & All Angels on Sunday morning,as well as to routine traffic. Please find alternate routes.
Yes, Judging on Thursday 24th July!
Last chance to pretty up those borders, mow the lawn and generally tidy up. Take a walk around the village, take in the hard work of all involved. It looks really good.
Thanks and good luck!!!
Last week South Shropshire Housing held a housing fayre in the village hall to publicise our new affordable properties at Fishpools, which are due for completion soon. Staff from South Shropshire Housing, Herefordshire Council and Parish Councillors were on hand to help and support potential buyers and tenants.
Many people attended and took time to chat and view the show house which had been made available. All the properties are built to a high standard and offer many features. Overall, there was a positive atmosphere and the event gave members of the public another opportunity to find out more information about the homes, how to make their applications and a chance to ask questions of their own.
There has been a lot of interest in these new properties and Homepoint will be advertising the 4 rental homes next week W/C 21st July, so if you are considering a move into Fishpools, you must place your interest by bidding through the Homepoint website before the closing date.
If you are interested in the shared ownership properties you should initially contact Parish Clerk Kate Lomax on 01544 340092 or Maggie Davies at South Shropshire Housing 0300 303 1190.
If you are thinking of filling up your oil tank for the winter, you may want to consider joining and ordering your oil through Community First's bulk buying scheme.
Prices for July have been announced at 50.45p + VAT per litre, available to book until 27th July 2014.
Take a look at the website for more information.
This year's Lyonshall in Bloom campaign is coming close to a climax, with judging on 24th July.
A huge effort goes into making our village beautiful for this competition, It is obvious you are all enhancing your gardens that little bit extra, thanks and well done. However without the support of Patrick and Veronica and the in Bloom team, sponsorship of local business, especially Lyonshall Nurseries, who have provided many of the plants around the village, I'm sure our chances would be slim.
Let's keep the momentum going, fill up our watering cans, pull out the weeds, deadhead and mow over the next 3 weeks to ensure we all get the result we deserve. Good Luck everyone!
Just Published - July News Bulletin.
Keep uo to date with matters in the Kington and Weobley areas.
Local contact details:
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Kington & Weobley safer neighbourhood officer.
Telephone number: 101 Ext:4535
There is an open evening organised by South Shropshire Housing on Wednesday 9th July 4pm - 7pm at the Memorial Hall.
Come along to find out more about the new affordable homes at Fishpools, Lyonshall. Properties are available to rent or through the shared ownership scheme.
You will also be able to view a property on the site, which is nearing completion and fill in an application for these homes.
Fishpools Housing Fayre poster
West Mercia police have released an update for members of the public regarding Cyber fraud,reminding people to be as careful with data on their computers as their home possessions.
Basic security measures for all computer users include:
• Download latest software and anti-virus updates.
• Use complex passwords.
• Never download something if you don't know its origin.
• Delete suspicious emails before opening.
• When buying online, check for the padlock to know it's secure.
Victims of fraud or anyone suspecting they may have fallen victim, should contact Action Fraud on www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud or call 0300 123 2040.
The Home Office's Streetwise campaign provides safety tips for businesses and home computer users, including 10 steps to cyber security, www.cyberstreetwise.com
Website: www.westmercia.police.uk/news/news-articles/police-urge-people-in-warwickshire-and-west-mercia-to-be-cyber-smart.html
Everyone welcome to join us for afternoon tea on Friday 27th June in the Memorial Hall.
Tea and homemade cakes are served in a relaxed atmosphere for everyone to chat and catch up with the village news.
Please mention to your friends and neighbours, and if you know anyone who needs transport please contact Becky 01544340747.
As many of our residents will already know, Herefordshire Council will only be cutting our grass around the village three times this year. The Parish Council have stepped in and started to cut the very long grass that has been neglected by the Council. Unfortunately, it will take some time for the grass to look tidy again and may take several cuts.
We must thank all our local residents around the village for their support, those who have cut, raked and piled the long grass into hay heaps and helped clear away, also to our residents who tend and care for their lawns on a regular basis, well done everyone the village looks so much better.
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Keeping you up to date of the latest happenings in your community.
The new Fishpools homes will soon be ready for sale and rent.
If you or someone you know are interested and want one of these houses; It is important you contact Parish Clerk Kate Lomax on 01544 340092 as soon as possible, to ensure you have completed the correct application forms.
You must be properly registered to have a chance to secure a new home.
Important: Do not rely on any previous applications to Homepoint as they may be incorrect, it is possible you may have completed the wrong form due a mistake by Homepoint.
Take a look at this new bulletin from West Mercia Police covering Weobley and Kington areas.
Full of useful information and alerts, it will keep you up to date.
Bakers Meadow playground now has a lovely new See Saw.
Thanks to all your efforts and support at the Kington Community shop, the funds raised have provided exciting brand new equipment.
A new See Saw has been installed and is ready for full on action; take the children and have a go!
Many thanks to Dee Wetherill and her team for all their hard work in raising funds and also for organising the see saw installation. It's a great job!


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Sure, hooking up with a new IT service provider is all cigars and handshakes at first. Promises are made and stars glimmer in your eyes as you sign the contract. The future looks bright.
Then things start to go south. Carefully negotiated deadlines are ignored. Expensive custom apps you paid dearly to be developed suddenly don't work, and your cloud vendor comes down with a case of the vapors. The thrill is gone and it ain't coming back.
[ Also on InfoWorld.com: Learn how to avoid IT's biggest money wasters -- and how to assemble your crackerjack A-Team for IT special ops. | Get sage advice on IT careers and management from Bob Lewis in InfoWorld's Advice Line newsletter. ]
Before you make a clean break and start fresh with someone new, consider this cautionary tale of a small biotech firm in the Rocky Mountains that decided to dump its IT consultant. When the consultant got wind he was about to be canned, he installed a script that automatically blind-copied him on all emails to and from the company's top executives. He quickly discovered that the firm's lead scientist was having an affair. On the day the consultant was to be fired, he zipped up 500 racy emails and, using another executive's account, forwarded them to the scientist's wife.
"It was worse than a soap opera and very tragic for the client," says Patty Laushman, CEO of the Uptime Group, an IT shop asked to perform computer forensics to prove that the firm's IT vendor was behind the scheme. "Had we known how unhappy they were with their current vendor, we would have coached them on how to safely make the switch."
Of course, not all jilted vendors turn into Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction." Most vendors who feel wronged just sue you. But with easy access to your confidential information and core business systems, the risks from a bad breakup with IT service providers are especially high. As more services move into the cloud, relationships become increasingly short term and impersonal -- which can lead to problems when critical systems and data are no longer under your roof and the vendor isn't returning your calls.
The industry is rife with horror stories of companies that terminated relationships only to find themselves locked out of their own networks or their ERP systems suddenly stopped working. Some even discover that they don't actually own the code they use to run their business and have to go crawling back to the developer to get it.
Fortunately, you don't have to suffer through an ugly divorce -- provided you go about it the right way. Here's some sage advice from people who've been there.
IT divorce tip No. 1: Cooler heads prevail
If you decide to separate from a vendor, avoid doing it in the heat of anger, says Jeff Huckaby, CEO of RackAid, a provider of server management services. If your service provider has just made a major mistake, wait to see how it responds before you get medieval on them. Whether the provider sincerely tries to fix the problem or merely placates you may play a major part in deciding whether to pull the plug. Even then, the decision should be well planned and deliberate.


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Art Sandy Springs is about to kick off a 30-day celebration of art, music, theater and food.
The fun starts Friday evening with Bows ArtSS Bash at Motorcars of Georgia. The deadline to RSVP has been extended to Tuesday. The party, which takes place in in the midst of Lamborghinis and Astin Martins, includes food and wine, a musical performance, and a silent auction. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $65; corporate tickets are $100.
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- Learn to make a spring container composition at . 11 a.m.-noon, Saturday. Free.
- Joe Gransden and his 16-piece big band at . 8:30 and 10 p.m. April 15 and May 7. [And remember you never know who you will see at Cafe 290. Last month stopped in to see Gransden's show.]
- Show Stoppers presented by showcases young performers in a talent show. 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. shows. $10-$25 at Church of the Redeemer. For information visit www.act3productions.org
- Franklin Pond Chamber Music features four members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Jun-Ching Lin on the violin, Carolyn Hancock on the violin, Paul Murphy on the viola and Daniel Laufer on the cello. 7:30-8:30 p.m., April 22. Free. For information call 404-252-3479, or e-mail email@example.com
- Art in the Park. Children can make flowers from recycled soda cans, paint banners, decorate rain barrels and more at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. 1-4 p.m., April 22. Hosted by Sandy Springs Beautiful, Sandy Springs Conservancy and Leadership Sandy Springs. For ages 5-12. Free. Reservations required. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Theatre To Go presents "Schemers." Two one act comedies featuring guys misbehaving. Mischief brews in the first play as the fellows get together for their mahjong game. In the other, a golfer is found dead on the golf course of a prestigious country club. 7:30-8:30 p.m., April 24. Free, but contributions requested Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church. For information call 404-256-3310, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
- "Steel Magnolias" at Act 3 Productions. The acclaimed story is centered on women in a small Louisiana town. April 27-May 6. Visit www.act3productions.org for showtimes. $10-$18.
- . Artists from the Atlanta Jewish community will be featured exhibiting and selling multi-media paintings, pottery, jewelry, fabric art, upscale crafts and Judaic. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., April 29. Free. B'nai Torah Synagogue. For information call 404-257-0537, or visit www.bnaitorah.org
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On the face of it that shouldn't be a problem. SMU has allowed 21 sacks on the year, but there is more too it than that. The volume with which they throw the football means that they will give up some sacks. But the percentage of sacks that they allow is actually pretty good, just 5 percent of passing attempts result in sacks, which is actually a pretty good figure. So the offensive line is at least decent.
But the bigger concern for the Bearcats pass rush has to be containing Garrett Gilbert, who is by far the biggest running threat for the Mustangs. If you back out the sacks and the sack yardage Gilbert has run the ball 47 times for 345 yards and 5 TD's. He is, by far the biggest threat for the Mustangs on the ground, and he does his biggest damage by breaking the pocket. The best possible outcome for the Bearcats pass rush is for the defensive tackles to cut off escape routes up the middle and force Gilbert to hold onto the ball long enough for Silverberry Mouhon and Co. to get home.
Keep Brendon Kay Clean
This was a key for the Memphis game, it remains so for this game as well. Like Memphis SMU will play large stretches of this game in a three man front, the Mustangs base being a 3-4 defense. Picking up stunts from odd man fronts has been a problem all year long for the Bearcats. Memphis picked up two sacks, but they had constant pressure all night long.
The Mustangs defense depends on generating negative plays to work. If they can't generate sacks and tackles for loss en mass it puts them in a very bad spot. They simply don't have the depth or talent to hold up without those plays, and that is particularly true against the pass.
Forget About Balance
It might be anathema to Eddie Gran, but if ever there was a game where you pass to win this is it. SMU has precisely one competent player in the back end, and that is Kenneth Acker. The Bearcats have a never ending stable of receivers and a quarterback who has gone 75 for his last 96 passes for 891 yards with 7 touchdowns and 1 interceptions. Kay now gets to face the 113th ranked pass defense on 10 days rest and as close to 100 percent health as he has been all year. Throw it until they stop, and if they don't stop it then keep on throwing.
Don't Let Bad Plays Snowball
In the Bearcats two losses this year the team has not responded well at all to adversity. Against Illinois the team imploded in the first quarter before regaining some composure before storming back to tie on a Munchie Legaux TD run that was incorrectly overturned. Nick Temple forced a fumble that was also incorrectly overturned and Illinois drove 99 yards to score a TD. UC responded, but when Munchie went down the bottom dropped out once again.
Against USF the Bearcats played the worst first quarter since the opening frame against Fresno State in 2010, because they let one big play become several. The Bearcats found themselves in a hole they couldn't dig out of. The team can't go into a funk when SMU makes plays. They have to be able to respond when that happens today.
More from Down The Drive:
- Bearcats Top North Carolina Central 74-61, Move To 1-0
- Cincinnati Bearcats vs Southern Methodist Mustangs; Depth Charts
- Bearcats Basketball Week 1: Global Sports Shootout, Its a Real Thing
- Cincinnati Bearcats Vs. SMU; Kickoff Time TV, Radio and Streaming Information
- Can the Bearcats still get the AAC's BCS bid?


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Continuing on with the previews, we move on to Group C's Croatia!
23-man Croatia Euro 2012 Squad:
Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (FC Rostov), Danijel Subasic (AS Monaco), Ivan Kelava (Dinamo Zagreb).
Defenders: Vedran Corluka (Tottenham Hotspur), Josip Simunic (Dinamo Zagreb), Ivan Strinic (Dnipro), Gordon Schildenfeld (Eintracht Frankfurt), Domagoj Vida (Dinamo Zagreb), Jurica Buljat (Maccabi Haifa).
Midfielders: Danijel Pranjic (Bayern Munich), Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk), Ognjen Vukojevic (Dynamo Kiev), Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla), Tomislav Dujmovic (Zaragoza), Luka Modric (Tottenham), Milan Badelj (Dinamo Zagreb), Niko Kranjcar (Tottenham), Ivan Perisic (Borussia Dortmund), Ivo Ilicevic (Hamburg SV).
Forwards: Mario Mandzukic (Wolfsburg), Eduardo Da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk), Nikica Jelavic (Everton), Ivica Olic (Bayern Munich).
Group C
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Croatia is a relatively new player in the International level. Croatia only joined FIFA in 1993. Previously, Croatia had been apart of Yugoslavia, a country that enjoyed some success in their history. 2 out of the 4 appearances in the Euros for Yugoslavia ended in defeat in the final. The final appearances were in 1960 and 1968. Yugoslavia made it to the World Cup 8 times, with 4th their best result in both 1930 and 1962. Yugoslavia qualified for Euro 1992 but then fell into civil war. Denmark took their place, instead.
The civil war tore Yugoslavia apart into several smaller, more ethnically homogenous nations: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia Herzegovina, along with Kosovo who do not have a team yet. Croatia have made it to the Euros 4 times, finishing in the quarter finals twice in 1996 and 2008. 1996 was, of course, their first international tournament. They followed that up by finishing 3rd in the 1998 World Cup. The next two world cups would finish in group stage exits while missing out on 2010 all together. Croatia is the only member of the former Yugoslavia to make it to the Euros this year. They made it to the Euros this year by finishing second with 22 points in 10 games in a group with Greece (winners), Israel, Latvia, Georgia, and Malta. They then went through a qualifier through two legs with Turkey. They comfortably won 3-0 in the first leg before grinding out a 0-0 game at home to win 3-0 on aggregate.
The Team
Croatia will likely play a 4-4-2. They used that line up against Turkey in their playoff matches as well as in a 3-1 loss to Sweden. The manager is Slaven Bilić, a Croatian who used to play for Yugoslavia. He once played for Everton and West Ham. He has had a relatively short managerial career, only managing his first team in 2001. In 2006, he became the coach for the national team.
Croatia are known as The Blazers. They wear their iconic red and white checkered jerseys at home and a blue away. Croatia are ranked number 8 in the world, and 6th in Europe. I personally don't agree with those rankings. A team in the top ten will not be missing the World Cup or have to go through a qualifier for the Euros with Greece topping them.
Players of Mention
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Key Players
Luka Modric
The man who pulls the strings over at Tottenham. Expect him to do the same with Croatia. At the international level, he has 8 goals in 54 appearances. Tottenham finished 4th in the English Premier League, which would normally be good enough to qualify for a playoff for Champion's League. However, they will be heading to the Europa League instead because Chelsea won the final but failed to finish 4th. If Modric is insistent on playing in Champion's League, he may move on, though I rather doubt it. For Tottenham, Modric had an impressive 41 appearances with only 1 of those as a substitute. Also, the previous season, he had 43 appearances with 2 appearances as a sub. Clearly, Modric is very important to Spurs. For his work in the midfield with the international team, Modric has been nicknamed "the Croatian Cruyff".
Darijo Srna
For clarification, that is spelled SRNA. This man, who plays with Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, is tied for the most caps on the team with 90. Srna is the captain for both his club and his nation and is tied with Stipe Pletikosa (GK) for the 3rd most caps for Croatia. Srna has 18 goals to his name. It looks like he plays as a center defensive midfielder with the capability of filling in as center back. It appears that Srna is a very nice guy, giving away tickets to hundreds of orphans to see club games and dedicating every goal to his brother with Down Syndrome.
Ivica Olic
With 15 goals in 77 caps, Olic is the 8th most capped Croatian ever. He plays for Bayern Munich, though he will be heading to Wolfsburg next season. Olic will be very important in getting goals for Croatia.
Chances in Euro 2012
Croatia has some talent on their team. However, it seems unlikely that they will be able to top Spain. Italy may also be a problem, though they seem to be a bit more beatable. Ireland should be a cakewalk for the Croats. If Croatia can get through the group, be it through an upset or a collapse, they can expect to find either France or England waiting for them in the first knockout round. Sweden and Ukraine are their other two opponents. A match between any of them (except Ukraine) would be something of a toss up, giving the Croats a chance to make it at least to the semifinals.
Matches to Watch
Croatia vs. Italy
I think this one will be interesting because it should dictate how the group finishes.
I don't think Croatia will get far. Even though they are ranked number 8 in the world, I don't think they are particularly good, mostly because they lost to Sweden (who are ranked lower than they are) in a friendly and finished second to Greece in qualifying. I think they will get stuck behind the Italians and brushed aside by the Spanish. Group Stage exit for me.
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A lady in Tranquility can now consider her neighbors, her heroes.
Just before 3:30 a.m. Sandra Littlefield says she stepped out of her home—and spotted flames down the street.
"I knew the lady that lived there. I came running from three blocks away and she was asleep," says Littlefield.
Other neighbors also saw the flames across the rooftop, and came to help.
Some called 911. Others banged on windows and doors, but couldn't break their way in.
"She had everything barricaded," Littlefield says.
Within three minutes, Fresno County Firefighters arrived.
Neighbors told them the lady was trapped.
Immediately, crews went into rescue mode and were able to break in.
"The smoke had filled the house to just above their knees," says Fresno County Fire Spokesman Ryan Michaels. "Our Engineer could hear the cries for help. He found her disoriented and crying out for help within her room. He took control of her and guided her out of the house to safety."
The lady was okay.
However, one of her pet birds did not survive.
Firefighters say the lady did not have a working smoke detector.
Once the flames were out, her neighbors watched as different items were pulled out of the home.
"Lucky we got her out," said Littlefield.
Firefighters said electrical problem started the fire.


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LAS VEGAS - As Sharron Angle greeted supporters at Stoney's Restaurant in Las Vegas, 8 News NOW Reporter Nathan Baca approached her to ask about her Social Security plan.
Her website calls for "transitioning out" Social Security and Medicare.
"Why do you want to eliminate (Social Security) for younger folks, because your plan calls for transitioning out," Baca asked.
"You believe the Harry Reid lie," Angle replied.
When asked to define "transitioning out", Angle said, "Transition into a personalized account… personalized Social Security accounts that they can't raid."
The stock market, Baca countered, almost crashed in 2008, meaning millions of seniors would have had their savings accounts wiped out.
Angle replied, "Now, you're putting words into my mouth from Harry Reid. I want you to be very clear on this. I'm here to save Social Security… Harry Reid is here to bankrupt Social Security."
Baca then asked Angle about her quote calling for the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency. "Why do you want to eliminate the EPA when we're in our worst environmental disaster in this country," Baca asked.
Angle replied, "Where are you getting these questions? The issues are not about the EPA… The issues are homes here in Nevada… He is trying to make this a campaign about me. But, where's Harry? Go ask him… Please go ask Harry about the EPA, and why they have failed."
"And why you want to eliminate it," Baca asked.
"Why they have failed to do what they needed to do in the Gulf," Angle answered.
Angle walked away when asked about her website once advocating the United States' withdrawal from the United Nations. She then gave a 20 minute interview to conservative radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock.
She told the assembled media she'd answer four questions, but refused to answer Baca's question about a previous Angle statement in which she said, "If this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking towards those Second Amendment remedies." Baca kept asking into the parking lot, but received no answer.
The reaction from the Angle campaign was swift. A campaign spokesperson called Nathan Baca "an idiot" and another term that can't be repeated. The campaign spokesman did say he would detail Angle's positions, but he refused to answer on camera.
In a statement released Friday, the Angle campaign says "A news account has reported that someone "from the Angle campaign" described as "a campaign spokesperson" for the Sharron Angle U.S. senatorial campaign had used abusive language with a reporter yesterday evening during an event in Las Vegas. This is not correct. The official in-state spokesman was not at the event. The person who spoke to the reporter is unknown and is not an employee of the Angle campaign and was in no way authorized to speak on behalf of the Angle campaign."
Some medical providers say they often deal with Hispanic patients who are afraid to seek medical care. It's hoped the opening of a new medical clinic will change that.


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Palace boss Pulis wants all the points off Manchester United
8:09am Wednesday 19th February 2014 in Sport By Tim Ashton, Sports Editor
Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis has just one thing on his mind ahead of the visit of Manchester United this weekend – three points.
The Red Devils come to Selhurst Park without an away win in 2014, and with no Premier League win in three games.
Meanwhile, the Eagles, boasting a fully fit squad, are unbeaten at home in four matches, including three consecutive wins.
United have the added distraction of a trip to Greece on Tuesday night to face Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League.
However, Pulis is expecting nothing but a tough afternoon come Saturday.
He said: "With the players Manchester United have, they can beat anyone in Europe on any given day.
"We have to be on it 110 per cent, we have to make sure everyone is going into the game with the right attitude, and hope that the atmosphere on the day will take us up to the level where we can compete with them."
He added: "It is always a special atmosphere when you play the top four or five teams, and obviously United are one of the greatest clubs in world football.
"Everyone looks forward to it, not just the players, but the supporters as well.
"Personally, it does not matter who we are playing, I am only worried about getting the three points."
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