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Thanks guys .
I've emailed asking for the rules . Hopefully it's not sport as I've just read those and if it is it could not be a worse ruleset to match my current skill set unless they included "chubbier guy has to start with his hands behind his back " but regardless ill learn enough from it that the next time ill be prepared.
What does "knot" mean in relation to ankle subs?
Is that no ankle subs at all in sport rules?King without a crown
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Throws can score 4pts, 2pts and 1pt
Hold down (Pin) 10 seconds 2pts 20 seconds 4pts. Unlimited Pins.
Matches will be 5 minutes
On entering groundwork competitors have 30 seconds to reach a pin position or be in a submission position. Once the painful hold signal is given they have 1 minute to gain the submission.
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I got bronze, had to fight 6 times.
Everybody was very friendly and welcoming and I met some very good grapplers.
Really enjoyed it but it was a little confusing.
One match I thought I was 8-0 up after reversing 2 throws and ending up with the guys back but in fact I was 0-8 he scored for the throw but I scored nothing and anther time I did what I believed was the same thing and scored 2 points and lost 4-2 and another time I won 12-0.
Im sure it was all done fairly and that I just didnt really understand what was going on.
Didnt manage to sub anybody either as I couldnt quite work out what I was allowed to do or when.
Chokes were not allowed.
They mentioned entering the British Open a couple of times so im going to check my schedule and if I can get a good amount of Judo in between now and then ill give that a go but I found that because I havent trained that area I was just countering as best I could when I should have been more aggressive.
I did manage to pull off a Tomonagi (excuse spelling) which basically made the whole thing worth while because IMO that is the most awesome move ever developed because James Bond used it too.
I also found out that the reason they call it SOMBO in the UK and not SAMBO is due to the word SAMBO being a racist slur here.King without a crown


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Joined: 10/28/11
Let me ask this. Where does a rookie start? Is there a site that offers all of the information I will ever need or does that not exist? When I start the game, am I turly aone? Like me against the world until I ally with someone? Just want to know if there is somewhere I can go to learn before actully embarking aimlessly. Thanks.
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Hard Core Member
Joined: 11/15/09
The only luck I had today was to have you as my opponent.
well quite the contrary. you'll be in a fairly high-population system. At least i was as Amarr.
you're dead-center in the middle of the safest highest-security system that your faction owns. Like the ...'emperor's throne homeworld'.
exactly where you start...randomly in space in that system. due to how warping vs flying works, it can be just about anywhere.
Eve's map is basically highest security in middle, surrounded by a strip of low-security systems, and the edges of the universe on all sides are the no-security zones.
so you start very centrally, and often the starting systems are very close - if not themselves - big trading hubs.
why is Jita a system with 2000 players in it at any time? at one point many years ago a bunch of players decied that's the system they want to conduct business in. Any other system worked fine, this one was jsut very close to their interests as well as to Caldari starting zone.
you start by default in a NPC corp with other players who arent in a player corp. But I, and probably all of us here, reccomend finding a player corp early. the ammount of information that you can absorb just by listening to them chat is endless. Things you'd never think about searching on your own. There's various nebie-training corps in EVE, and high-end pvp alliances like to have their own newbie-training corps too. Everyone needs +1 pilots in his fleet. :D
Novice Member
Joined: 9/07/06
In the Begining We Lived Like The Animals and For Some nothing Has Changed
Having played EVE for more than 6 years I think EVE has become very stagnent & lacking in new content for players that have played for more than a few months.
Why do I keep playing? Well I play now mainly for the social interaction & the great fights we still have once or twice a week. If not for these 2 things I would of already done what many have & are still doing. Leave the game for better cheaper pastures.
Personally at this time I wouldn't recommend EVE to even my worst enemies, the gameplay has become boring & any new content that is being brought into the game is more often than not aimed at New Players rather than the older Vets etc.
As for the skills, There was an article a few years back where one of the developers said it would take in excess of 25 years to train ALL the available skills to level 5 on a single character. Luckily there is no single character that would need or want to have all the available skills trained to level 5 on the one character. This is because some of the skills would be of no use at all to some players that are not using the aspects of the game that require those skills. (eg. Industry based gameplay character has little use for being able to fly & use all the ships in the game, where a PVP based character would)
A new players character starting from scratch will take at least a few months before they can effectively fly a lot of the bigger ships as flying to the ship requires the use of weapons & other modules that are installed onto the ship to help it work & do the things you want it to do. When people I talk to ask I often tell them it wil take about 6 months before they will be able to use the better modules & ships etc.
Penalties for dying in EVE can be very harsh, as any ship that is destroyed is gone forever & anything that was in or installed on the ship also has a high chance of being destroyed or if not destroyed taken by other players from the ships wreck (Looting & salvaging). If a player has failed to keep their Medical Clone up to date for the amount of skillpoints the character has & the character is POD Killed also the character WILL lose a certain amount of SkillPoints from the highest level skill the player has trained. To get them back the player has to re-train the skill which can take more than a month to do depending on the skill. It's easy to avoid having this happen by just keeping a Med Clone up to date which can cost anything from just under 1 million ISK to over 120 million ISK.
There are a whole heap of other issues within the game as well that range from groups of players using illegal code to bypass other players security at things like POS's etc. (POS = Player Owned Structure, looks like a stick in space with a bubble around it) to the same groups of players doing other crap like DDOS attacks on TeamSpeak servers etc
The multiple account part is because in EVE it can be very hard to move certain ships without 2nd characters, a lot of people also have their accounts setup where they have one account for their industrial stuff, another one or 5 for their PVP stuff & others for things like Planetary Interaction etc.
As for being stuck in a space ship, well in a lot of MMO's where your not just a walking character your stuck inside something. eg. Need For Speed World = stuck in a car, World of Tanks = Stuck in Tank, World of WarPlanes = Stuck in Plane etc etc etc.
If your thinking of trying the game make use of the FREE Trial, but understand that the system requirements for EVE are quite high when compared to most other MMO's, & although slower systems will run the game you will always be at a disadvantage if it takes too long to load solar system etc when your moving around in space.
NEW PLAYERS please check your system requirements are right & remember that EVE is very resource intensive at times.
Bitter Vet™
Joined: 9/13/06
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Originally posted by Loktofeit
Without moving through lowsec?
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 11/15/09
The only luck I had today was to have you as my opponent.
Originally posted by Kyleran
it's possible, but systems that jump straight from high-sec to null-sec are the most violent systems imaginable.
HED and EC- are two I know of.
the 'stuck in ship' comment...my wow character is stuck in his armor. what's the difference? I can fly without a ship in my pod, I can run around without armor in my undies. /shrug.
one more thing before I stop hugging this topic:
here's a very oldl video of pvp...newbie pvp. less-than-one-week players basically. sounds and graphics may be very different now but the general idea is clear.
he engaged 1 v 3, wasn't pointed, he could've ran out, chose to turn off his armor rep and ... that many bad decisions can only lead one way.
more realistically a fight will look more like this - at semi-newbie level. except without the horrible UI all over the screen.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 4/19/08
Originally posted by haplo602
And what EXACTLY are - name at least few of them - this "endless" options.. Tried I think 3 times for few days each time (having nothing else to do or because of fans, just to try) but all was just boring mining and traveling. Actually leveling have been occuring when offline.
Novice Member
Joined: 8/17/09
"A very special kind of stupidity"
Originally posted by daltanious
Several large but non comprehensive lists have been produced, including in this very thread.
EVE's basic problem (as far as many people seem to be concerned) is that if a player wants to be told that's he's an awesomesauce famous $PROFESSION, he'll have to actually be an awesomesauce at whatever it is. NPCs won't suck up to you just for logging in, and no-one would care if they did. You have to make it happen.
In short, what did you try to be? Sounds like you just tried to mine in hi-sec and wait for someone to tell you to collect 10 rat tails in order to level up towards being awesomesauce.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Advanced Member
Joined: 8/11/08
All it takes for evil to succeed is for the good to stand by and do nothing
Originally posted by johnjec
I would suggest trying the free trial. Do the career agent missions and then do the sisters of eve arc(in arnon) to get you going then look up guides/info depending on what you want to do ingame.
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Joined: 8/19/07
The reason I keep going back is the community of friends I've built up over the years, and the fact that I can leave for 6 months come back and things be different.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 7/13/05
Ganking and griefing \m/
Novice Member
Joined: 4/15/06
You need to understand that "80%" of the population also has multiple accounts. Their pvp accounts/characters are basically in null-sec, low-sec or wormhole space. So while there are many characters in Empire space most of them are alt accounts generating "safe" income and gathering supplies form the market place, etc.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
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GW2 (+LoL and BF3)
Novice Member
Joined: 4/15/06
Bigger ships do not always equal better ships in pvp. In most cases it just means a bigger replacement bill and more grinding for ISK to replace said larger ship compared to a smaller ship.
Frankly you can easily pvp in a small ship and cost people millions if not billions of ISK and only spend at least 2 weeks gaining the skills needed to fly something as trivial as a rifter which gets a tackle on some idiot's prized ratting ship worth billions of isk which your gang then promptly helps destroy.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
Game(s) I Am Currently Playing:
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Novice Member
Joined: 8/17/12
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Originally posted by Gaoxin
Ruh roh. Someone lost a ship.
Optional PvP = No PvP
Novice Member
Joined: 6/11/12
Mostly the fact that Eve is a pyramid scheme where the player with the longest active account wins an advantage over the others and gets to bully them.
Or maybe Eve players just wanted to feel like they belong to a group, can't get it anywhere else and thus spend 8 to 22 hours per day in a videogame.
No idea, I just know that in my 2 years (?) of Eve I've never met anyone in game who said that the game was fun. Maybe "it can be fun at times" was heard occasionally.
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Joined: 7/29/11
To err is human, but to really f*ck things up you need a computer.
Originally posted by FastSloth
"Pyramid scheme"...erm, what?
8-22 hours a day in a videogame...I have never met anyone in Eve other than one person recovering from heart surgery who couldn't work that plays Eve 8 hours a day, and never anyone who plays as high as 22. That isn't even feasible. Stop talking out of your ass.
As for the statement of never meeting anyone in game who said it was fun, I Kiljaedenas hereby state that Eve Online is more fun than any game I have ever played or heard of in my entire life, and throughout my life I have probably played over 2000 different games. Now you can no longer make that statement :).
Where's the any key?
Novice Member
Joined: 6/11/12
Originally posted by Kiljaedenas
Sir, we obviously live in different worlds!
Made History
Joined: 7/11/11
Pink, it's like red but not quite.
Same as every other game, the right to look down upon the players of (something else)?
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Novice Member
Joined: 7/07/08
Skipping the sidetracks, back to the original topic: What is about EVE that keeps people playing?
6th year going, still haven't even tested everything, or perfected more than two of the paths I've tested.
This game is about you deciding what to become, and it will always reward you for sticking with your decission. No other game has yet rewarded me for sticking to my decission so that it has changed my approach to real life, and sticking to decissions in there too.
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Joined: 9/08/11
I think the one of the main reason would be the same why people refuse to leave WoW. You spent days and days of playtime and possibly some money on your account... Are you strong enough to throw it away, because game is not so interesting anymore?
With Eve especially, where learning curve is super steep and you get your skills over time, you can't escape this notion of "throwing away your years of life".
Apprentice Member
Joined: 7/31/06
Originally posted by Eluwien
If there was a path to choose, I couldn't find it within 2 weeks. Did missions, got a 5 million ship, got bored in high sec. Went to low sec, got ganked by a very powerful ship. Full EVE experience from the perspective of most people who don't wish to invest a lot of time mining and just want to fly a ship and have some fun I'd imagine.
Why are people playing? Don't know, don't care. I notice the concurrency goes down during US primetime, and it's common to multibox in this game, those two things tell me all I really need to know. There's also a lot of mining bots.


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Retina iPad mini called 'Constrained!', 'Delayed!', just like clockwork
Pretty much on schedule, a major publication has claimed an unannounced Apple product to be 'constrained' and 'delayed'. This time it's the rumored Retina iPad mini, which Apple has been working on for some time, and which may or may not be released this October. Retina screens on new devices have always been challenging in terms of supply, but also in terms of powering the sheer number of pixels without destroying battery life. But these stories never seem grounded in reality as they do creating a stir in media and market. Reuters:
The reason behind the delays in manufacturing the retina display screens for the iPad Mini were unclear. One source at a supplier said there were delays in Apple's certification of panel producers, which were given strict power-saving requirements.
LG Display Co Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's display unit and Sharp Corp all vied to manufacture the panels, supply chain sources said.
The three display makers declined to comment.
Getting Retina display in the iPad mini is non-trivial. 2048x1536 at 7.9-inches is a lot of pixels, and getting it powered and lasting for 10-hours on a charge in a device that thin and light is non-trivial. Apple has been working on it for a long time. When they nail it, they'll announce it, and then they'll ship it precisely when they mean to. Just like always.
And then we can brace for iPhone 6 "constrained!", "delayed!" stories, right?
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Retina iPad mini called 'Constrained!', 'Delayed!', just like clockwork
I think is more of an "I want it now" issue for me, than attacking Apple for supposed delays, at least that's my case.
^this...I skipped the 1st mini for myself but bought 2 for my boys. Now I'm dying to unload my iPad 3 for a mini but I want the updated version!!!
Come on Apple...VÁMONOS!!! Lol
Something can't be delayed if it was never announced to ship in the first place!
I think that's the point of the article, but I also think that's probably not true. If such a device is planned (and I'm sure it is) then most likely there are internal deadlines that may or may not get met.
I'm ecstatic at the idea of an iPad Mini with an A6X (hopefully) and retina display (almost assuredly).
weren't the publications right about the gold iPhone 5 supply (or lack of)? i think most people understand the concept that you guys wrote about before; "something that hasn't been announced can't be delayed". that's splitting hairs though, because we all know full well that any company has deadlines for product launches. the publications are clearly speculating based on internal goals. my 2 cents.
Such media reports are based on the gross assumption that Apple lost the ability to plan ahead. Likely the same media that has previously reported how Tim Cook is a master at Operations, that the precision with which he built the manufacturing machine under Steve Jobs was a pristine model of efficiency and effectiveness. Yet, now he supposedly has no clue how to do the same?!?!?! Media sensationalism...that's all it is.
Apple likely has their product release timeline planned out for at least 3 years, if not 5 or more, and has backed into all the requirements that must be met between now and the many launch dates to be ready. They are surely not perfect, but I bet very little happens by accident or comes with surprise to the execs at Apple.
You don't get to the world's most valuable company, the best brand, and holding 10% of all corporate cash any other way.
With the release of the competitions small HD tablets, I'm having a harder time with the "non trivial" part.
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The new Nexus 7 is slightly lower res but with similar PPI densities as a retina iPad Mini would have, and it can do 10 hours. Since the bigger display necessitates a bigger device, there's more room for a bigger battery. I agree with you - it's getting to be old hat for everyone else.
Rene answered this hypothetical a couple of months ago:
"...the Nexus 7 is a little thicker (though still light thanks to the plastic back), but more importantly, has only 3/4 of the amount of pixels an iPad mini Retina would need, and even then at only a fraction (who knows how much?) of the battery life. In other words, the Nexus 7 is thicker, has less pixels, and less battery life than a theoretical iPad mini Retina."
BTW, also from the above article: "...The Nexus 7 ...gets 9-hours of battery life - in airplane mode."
Recent reviews of the newest Kindles reveal similarly unacceptable (to iPad users) battery life if used normally as a tablet rather than just an e-reader.
I'm aware, and it's pseudoscience. The new Nexus 7 is thinner than the old Nexus 7 which had half as many pixels and yet the battery life is largely the same. It's buried in here, but the 2013 Nexus 7 is 2mm thinner than the older one.
So let's take a look at batteries:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+mini+Wi-Fi+Teardown/11423/2 - Apple's 16.5Wh battery
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+7+2nd+Generation+Teardown/16072/1 - Google's battery is 91% - 15Wh.
Add in that the 5.45Wh battery in the iPhone 5 gets similar battery life to the 7.65Wh battery of the Droid Razr M (similar screen sizes, the Droid has a slightly lower resolution) and I just don't buy this argument.
Apple has been doing this for a long time, backlighting high density displays with LED matrices. They did it in the iPhone for not just with no noticeable loss in battery life, but actually the iPhone 4 had considerably better battery life compared to the 3GS. It doesn't matter how many pixels you're lighting. Read a little bit about LED backlight matrices and come back. It won't take 4x the power to light the screen. Marginal change at worst.
And just like clockwork we see iMores defensive and dismissive response, which just empowers the original article anyway. Reuters talked to sources in the supply chain, that's why they published the piece. Did iMore contacted someone to get an opposing view or did you just get upset because it mentions Apple in a non-ass kissing way?
BTW, I don't think designing and including anything on portable electronic device is trivial. We have never seen any Apple engineer saying that this is a particularly difficult problem, the posed extra difficulty is solely based on the assumption that Apple and its suppliers could not solve this problem last year and thus used a lower resolution screen, and not that it was a purely marketing decision.
Reuters also talked to "sources in the supply chain" when they started reporting way back in April 2013 that the rumored iPhone 5s would be delayed due to problems with manufacturing the rumored fingerprint sensor. They pushed that "report" for months until Apple sold 9 million iPhones (most of them the 5s) in 3 days.
Tim Cook recently chided a reporter about reading too much into alleged supply chain data leaks. Apple uses multiple sources for many components and can adjust quantities ordered from each supplier. Just because source A is not supplying the parts does not mean that source B has not been asked to supply those parts.
How many times does Reuters (or any other news outlet) have to get these predictions wrong before the blogosphere figures out that they're unreliable? Do you think Reuters will acknowledge their sources were wrong if Apple sells 5 million new iPads in the launch weekend later this month? Yeah, right.
I only really know of 1.
9 million in 3 days is not a "proper launch"?! In any case, the Reuters story did not claim Apple would not have enough phones for launch weekend, it claimed that the launch would be delayed. Even if Apple had 10-15 million iPhones for launch weekend, it still would not have been enough to meet initial demand...and folks would have claimed that they failed to provide enough phones for a "proper launch". Basically, Apple fails regardless of how successful they are.
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Some might say that even after 6 years of retail data of iPhone sales, Apple would have figured out how much they need to make to satisfy demand. No one made them release an iPhone on the 20th so why couldn't they have waited another week or two so as to make sure they had enough to stock their stores? It seems to me that they knew what they were doing and almost purposely released it knowing there would not be enough to satisfy demand. They had to know how many they would sell because if they didn't, they're horrible at reading their historical retail data. One to four gold iPhones at major stores? That either on purpose or they're just incompetent.
Sure, you could just order it online and get it in two weeks so why didn't Apple just either wait two more weeks or allow pre-orders so they could gauge demand.
If that were true, all the analysts would have been bang on with their estimates... funny how that didn't happen.
I'm curious how you manage to make a record-breaking weekend sound like a failure to plan.
I'm in the group that skipped mini 1 for a retina mini 2 to replace my iPad 3. Updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 7 and the battery drain was very significant. Just upgraded to the 5s and it's better but still a seeming drop off from iOS 6 battery consumption. I would like apple to actually go a lil thicker and increase battery size in these devices as they're plenty thin. Would also love a 5c plastic color option for the mini 2.
If we learned anything from the iPad 3, is that if the first iteration of the iPad Mini 2 follows suit, I'll wait for them to work out the Retina bugs in the iPad Mini 3, just like they did in the iPad 4.
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Passion and commitment push Trident Breast Care Center to excellence
Ann Anderson-Witte understands that no one looks forward to a mammogram.
Youre so anxious and nervous about it any time you come for a test like that, she says. Theres a fear of the unknown.
Part of her work as a mammogram technologist at Trident Breast Care Center is to put women at ease, so her people skills and empathetic nature are a plus. At the same time, she has the benefit of specialized training in digital mammography and assisting with stereotactic breast biopsy, which uses mammography as a guide in locating tumors.
In fact, the team of technologists, radiologists and others at the Breast Care Center has achieved high standards in personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, quality assurance programs and image quality. As a result of this overall commitment, Trident Breast Care Center has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
This significant accomplishment demonstrates our continuous goal of providing every patient with the best care possible, says Jodi Barteet, medical imaging director at Trident Medical Center (TMC). Everyone at the Breast Care Center shares a common passion in the fight against cancer, and thats what drives our team.
Located on the TMC campus in North Charleston, Trident Breast Care Center recently finished extensive renovations this summer, growing by 75 percent to almost 9,000-square feet. Changes include a second waiting area that is for patients only, as well as a soothing color palette and other comforting features such as aromatherapy.
The aesthetic reflects the centers greater commitment to the women it serves through mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy and breast ultrasound, including ultrasound-guided breast biopsy.
Anderson-Witte has worked in medical imaging for 28 years, with half of her career at the Trident Breast Care Center. Her decision to specialize in mammography in the late 90s was personal. A favorite aunt had died from breast cancer, and a close friend had been diagnosed. It was just real emotional for me, and it was a good opportunity for me to learn about breast disease and try to help as many women as possible.
And, as a young survivor of ovarian cancer, Anderson-Witte could clearly understand the perspective of patients who received news of a malignancy. Having had The Big C the cancer word thrown at me, I know what thats like.
The message she wants women to remember: Breast cancer is no longer a death sentence, and thats especially true when it is caught in the diseases preliminary stages. Thats what I try to stress to my ladies. You can get rid of breast cancer and live a long healthy life, but early detection is key. You have to get in for your mammogram.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The Cooper River Challenge was held Saturday, Aug. 31 at the Mount Pleasant Pier.
The event was sponsored by the Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission.
Logan Gaddy was nominated as an "outstanding youth angler" at the Cooper River Challenge at the Mount Pleasant Pier.
Gaddy received this nomination for catching (and releasing) a 25-inch Red Drum and a 1 pound, 8 ounce Spotted Sea Trout.
Gaddy caught two-thirds of a "Lowcountry Inshore Slam" during a tournament which was very impressive.
The reason he did not win the youth division outright is because his red drum was too big to count.
Savannah Coburn of Summerville won the youth division of the Cooper River Challenge at the Mount Pleasant Pier on Aug. 31, with a 2 pound, 1 ounce flounder.
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I know there is a thread from 2009-2012 about this - but didn't want to revive one so old. :)
First off - I am not a gamer by any title when it comes to the PC other than the occasional dab in Battlefield 1942 or Rollercoaster Tycoon. My gaming has mostly been on the Xbox 360, Xbox or Wii. When I ran across the f2p version of Star Trek in Steam (Oh yeah, Portal as well - completed that masterpiece), I was a bit skeptical in watching the video gameplay. I told my wife that if the actual in play was anything like what they showed, then I would play it. So, I downloaded it and was instantly transported into what I now call my full time game I play exclusively when I have the chance. :)
I started playing it and like most people advanced pretty fast to Lieutenant Commander, and then Commander. It was then, that things became pretty more interesting and more fun to play, from being part of Q's winter wonderland this last Christmas and being turned into things to actually falling into some of the story lines in this game.
I should clarify one thing - I am not a full time player in that I sit and play for hours on end, It is more my exclusive game I play usually 2 hours or so in a day at the most. More often an hour. Having played since around November, I've advanced to my current rank of Captain (34). During this time, I have conqured enough ships to hone my skills as a soldier and more or less very strong in the tactical department. It wasn't until I started dabbling around in some of the other areas of the game which I think people overlook like Diplomatic missions and exploration where I realized the depth of this game. It isn't just another space shooter.
As a f2p Player, I've learned a few things as well that have helped me along the way to build up energy credits pretty quickly, dilithium ore and even GPL (Gold Pressed Latinum). Then, as slow of a process this is, have recently discovered I can turn the refined dilithium into Zen Credits (85-90 Ore units per Zen usually). Thus allowing me to build up a bank of Zen credits later on to build my dream ship. :)
I often see forum posts (elsewhere) that this game is pretty boring and there is not much to do, I can kind of see that, but have also seen where Cryptic is actively developing new Seasons to this game much like the TV series. It has been fun to read some of the trivia that flashes on the screen (usually can't see much as it loads quickly), updating where some of my favorite show characters have moved on to, their children introduced in the series set and more. As a Star Trek Fan myself, it has been fun to see something happen to my favorite characters long after the shows have ended.
For anyone who hasn't played this in a while, pop in and see what has happened. Lots to be seen and done!
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WATERTOWN, Mass. — A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured hiding in a boat parked in a backyard Friday night and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area.
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"CAPTURED!!!" the Boston police tweeted in news that set off celebrations across the metropolitan area and finally broke the tension. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing.
Early Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car, authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape.
During the getaway attempt, the brothers killed an MIT policeman and severely wounded another officer, authorities said.
After a tense, all-day manhunt and house-to-house search by thousands of SWAT team officers with rifles and armored vehicles, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was cornered in a homeowner's yard, where he exchanged gunfire with police while holed up in a boat, authorities said.
He was seized around 9 p.m. and hospitalized in serious condition with unspecified injuries, police said.
A cheer went up from a crowd of bystanders in Watertown.
"Everyone wants him alive," said Kathleen Paolillo, a teacher.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted, "We got him," along with a photo of himself talking to the police commissioner.
"Tonight, our family applauds the entire law enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job," said the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the bombing.
Police said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived.
Up until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt and lifting the stay-indoors order across Boston and some of its suburbs because they had come up empty-handed.
But then a break came in a Watertown neighborhood when a homeowner saw blood on his boat, pulled back the tarp and saw the bloody suspect hiding inside, police said.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."
Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, and nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official did not identify the foreign country or say why it made the request.
The FBI was swamped with tips after the release of the surveillance-camera photos — 300,000 per minute — but what role those played in the capture was unclear. State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their long night of crime.
The search for the younger brother all but paralyzed the Boston area. Officials shut down all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open, and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay inside and unlock their doors only for uniformed police.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
Around midday, the suspects' uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."
Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 — the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures — was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother.
Exactly how the long night of crime began was unclear. But police said the brothers carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, then released him unharmed at a gas station.
They also shot to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, while he was responding to a report of a disturbance, investigators said.
The search for the Mercedes led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer, 33-year-old Richard Donohue, was shot and critically wounded, authorities said.
Some 200 spent shells were found afterward.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev somehow slipped away. He ran over his already wounded brother as he fled, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. At some point, he abandoned his car and ran away.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died at a Boston hospital after suffering what doctors said were multiple gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury.
The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Watertown resident Kayla Dipaolo said she was woken up overnight by gunfire and a large explosion that sounded "like it was right next to my head ... and shook the whole house."
She said she was looking at the front door when a bullet came through the side paneling. SWAT team officers were running all over her yard, she said.
"It was very scary," she said. "There are two bullet holes in the side of my house, and by the front door there is another."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was on campus this week after the Boston Marathon bombing. The campus closed down Friday along with colleges around the Boston area.
The men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel." He said his son was studying medicine.
"He is such an intelligent boy," the father said. "We expected him to come on holidays here."
The city of Cambridge announced two years ago that it had awarded a $2,500 scholarship to him. At the time, he was a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.
Tsarni, the men's uncle, said the brothers traveled here together from Russia. He called his nephews "losers" and said they had struggled to settle in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone."
Sullivan and Associated Press writers Stephen Braun and Jack Gillum reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Mike Hill, Katie Zezima, Pat Eaton-Robb and Steve LeBlanc in Boston and Jeff Donn in Cambridge, Mass., contributed to this report.
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Police have detained an Aiken woman an her husband for prescription drug fraud after they allegedly used her employer's DEA number to obtain prescription drugs, according to the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
Tammy Rose Williams, 33, of Cumbee Trail Road, and 27-year-old Shawn Alexander Williams, also of Cumbee Trail Road, were each charged with obtaining prescription drugs by fraud. They were placed in the Aiken County detention center, where they remained on Thursday afternoon.
Tammy Williams told police she was contacted by a pharmacy on Richland Avenue about prescription fraud in which the DEA number of her employer was used to obtain drugs, according to the report. Williams said she learned her husband was the suspect obtaining the fraudulent prescriptions.
Between April and July, Shawn Williams reportedly obtained fraudulent prescriptions for Lortab, a Schedule III controlled substance. Tammy Williams said her husband admitted to obtaining the prescriptions when she confronted him.
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Shawn Williams told investigators he is addicted to prescription medication but hasn't used any in a month. He added that he's asked his wife to "have her employers prescribe him medication because he needed it."
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text: With the start of a brand new semester, obviously begin some new and challenging classes and endeavors for we students. Last semester, my dance training consisted of ballet boot camp, ballet class, and tap class. Ballet was a breeze and I learned to love tap, but these two classes never really left me feeling sore. HOWEVER, the first week of this semester brought about jazz and modern, which are two dance forms I adore. My "summer camp" days, as we students call them, are Tuesdays and Thursdays, because on these days the only classes we have are dance classes and the MT workshop class, where we sing. Jazz with, Greg Daniels , is first, and kicked my behind. Next comes workshop and then modern, with Sara Whale, which was so "out there" and so fun. After these classes (which also included a few hundred sit-ups), I was feeling fit and fine, until I awoke on Wednesday! I walked into class to see all of my classmates with the same grimace of pain caused by dancing the day before. I haven't felt so sore since my days of dancing twelve performances of "The Nutcracker Ballet", and I have not yet recovered! Needless to say, the sculpting of our "Broadway Bodies" will shortly ensue.


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I am smiling. For two very good reasons.
1. My littlest Little Man has just received his very first award for swimming. 5 whole metres. Get in there, son!
2. As I collected his award I had one of those moments of sweet recollection from my own childhood that I was unable to pronounce the word 'certificate' and so the term 'sustificate' was born.
suscertificate comes with a badge and we could not be more proud if it were Olympic Gold.
The mispronunciation is one of many 'isms' in my family, borne out of childhood naïveté, which has endured for two generations and counting, and of which I am equally proud.
In littlest Little Man's short 4-and-3-quarter years, he has so far accumulated this impressive list of Awards:-
- a Kung Fu white belt
- a Special Mention in school assembly
- bringing home the special Teddy Bear for the weekend from dance class
- a variety of stickers for being a good boy – dentist, nursery etc.
He is a big achiever and awesome to boot.
The family mispronunciations also come in multiples…
- Father Christmas is now referred to as Farmer Christmas – much better, don't you think?
- 'University' sounded much more intellectual when it was mistakenly referred to as 'Usiversity', so we stuck with it
- A game of marbles was always 'Marleys' when my brother and I could still spend an hour on our knees without sever pain
- The best pirates always say "Shiver my Timbles" (Who are we to argue? No-one knows what shiver me timbers means anyway)
The awards, stickers and sustificates are all safely logged and preserved in the family archives, so little man can look back and smile wistfully at his recollections one day, just as I did today.
The 'isms' will be passed on to another generation, like the family treasure which they are. Rich in memories, if not in value.
I just know that you have your own, so tell me about them, I do love a participator!


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Olympic Games (2016)
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News about Olympic Games (2016), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Aug. 4, 2015
Rio de Janeiro Gov Luiz Fernando Pezao signs deal with several Brazilian universities and research institutions to form plan for cleaning up polluted waters of Guanabara Bay ahead of 2016 Summer Olympics. MORE
Jul. 31, 2015
Investigation conducted by Associated Press finds dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from sewage in venues in Rio de Janeiro where athletes will compete in 2016 Olympic water events. MORE
Jul. 7, 2015
Jere Longman On Soccer column holds that United States women's national soccer team coach Jill Ellis will have tough decisions to make when selecting lineup for 2016 Olympics, where national team will have 18 players compared with 23 at World Cup. MORE
Apr. 25, 2015
International Sailing Federation threatens to move 2016 Olympic events out of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay unless floating debris and sewage are removed from water. MORE
Apr. 23, 2015
Ultimate Fighting Championship star Anderson Silva says he will compete for spot on 2016 Olympic Brazilian taekondo team. MORE
Apr. 16, 2015
Champion swimmer Michael Phelps confirms his intention to participate in 2016 Olympics. MORE
Apr. 16, 2015
Five tons of dead fish are cleared from shores of Rio de Janeiro lagoon where 2016 Olympic rowing and canoeing events are scheduled to take place. MORE
Apr. 2, 2015
America's Cup teams, looking to cut costs, vote to reduce the size of boats in 2017 regatta; other sailing news noted. MORE
Mar. 1, 2015
International Olympic Committee will create mourning area to remember those who have lost their lives during Olympics at 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. MORE
Feb. 27, 2015
International Olympic Committee Vice Pres John Coates expresses greater confidence in Rio de Janeiro's preparations for 2016 Olympics; other Olympics news noted. MORE
Feb. 13, 2015
United States will host qualifying soccer match for 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. MORE
Jan. 28, 2015
Brazilian Olympic organizers concede that they have no alternative plan for sailing competitions, despite warning from top environmental official that nation will not be able to clean up Guanabara Bay in time for 2016 events. MORE
Jan. 26, 2015
Karen Crouse On Golf column notes that professional golfers will face less predictable and more stringent doping enforcement as their sport returns to the Olympics in 2016; observes that golfers will now be under the purview of the World Anti-Doping Agency. MORE
Jan. 24, 2015
Rio de Janeiro is set to break pledge of cutting by 80 percent the flow of sewage and garbage into Guanabara Bay, where 2016 Olympics sailing and wind surfing competitions are to be held. MORE
Dec. 16, 2014
International Olympic Committee's vote to admit Kosovo as full member will allow its athletes to finally compete under their country's flag; eight of Kosovo's 13 Olympic sports federations are full members of their respective international federations; among the federations not recognizing Kosovo are those for basketball, swimming and track and field. MORE
Dec. 16, 2014
Drug-resistant superbacteria that is notoriously difficult to treat is discovered in the waters where the sailing events for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are set to be held. MORE
Dec. 10, 2014
International Olympic Committee grants full recognition to Kosovo, allowing its athletes to compete at the 2016 Summer Games. MORE
Dec. 9, 2014
Rugby has spread worldwide in recent years, in large part due to particular form of game; rugby sevens is streamlined and faster-paced version of traditional style known as rugby union, and will make its Olympic debut at 2016 Rio Games. MORE
Dec. 5, 2014
Gymnastic trials for 2016 Olympics will be held separately for first time in 40 years, with men's taking place in St Louis and women's in San Jose, Calif. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Mascots for 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are officially revealed as a bright yellow feline and a mop-headed doll, respectively. MORE
Nov. 20, 2014
Ruling body of world track and field athletics says it will stage finals during the morning sessions of its program at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. MORE
Oct. 23, 2014
International Olympic Committee accepts Kosovo into Olympic fold, clearing the way for it to send a team to the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. MORE
Aug. 10, 2014
Organizers of 2016 Olympics call sailing test in Rio de Janeiro a success. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach warns that time is of the essence as Brazilian Olympic organizers continue to prepare for the 2016 Olympics. MORE
Jun. 8, 2014
Mayor Eduardo Paes of Rio de Janeiro says the city will fail to keep the promise of cleaning the polluted Guanabara Bay for the 2016 Olympics, where sailing events are to be held; Olympic sailors have described venue as a 'sewer.' MORE
Jun. 5, 2014
Contract is finally awarded for construction on the long-delayed second major venue complex for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. MORE
May. 27, 2014
Vanessa Barbara Op-Ed article challenges notion that Brazil is too far behind in its preparations for the World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games; says country has grown sick of foreign micromanagement; argues that delays are part of nation's bureaucracy and culture, and that if FIFA and the Olympic committee had wanted punctuality, they should have looked elsewhere. MORE
May. 19, 2014
Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay has become focal point for criticism as Brazil struggles to prepare for 2016 Olympic Games; waters, infamous for their sewage, trash and even animal carcasses, will nonetheless be site of all sailing and windsurfing events at the games; well-financed efforts to clean up the bay have fallen short for decades. MORE
May. 18, 2014
Brazil will not fulfill its commitment to clean up Rio de Janeiro's sewage-filled Guanabara Bay, where the Olympic sailing events are to be held, by the 2016 Olympics. MORE
Apr. 30, 2014
Doubts are growing about ability of Rio de Janeiro to get ready for the 2016 Olympics without international help, and officials say there is no Plan B; preparations have been plagued with delays, rising costs, street demonstrations, workers' strikes and deaths in stadium construction. MORE
Apr. 18, 2014
Court of Arbitration for Sport exonerates six officials who were implicated in a judging scandal, annulling a decision by the governing body for rhythmic gymnastics; cheating was said to have occurred in 2012 in testing rooms across Europe, where judges were seeking to qualify to officiate at elite competitions like 2016 Summer Olympics. MORE
Apr. 12, 2014
Christopher Clarey On The Olympics column notes that Rio de Janeiro is lagging dangerously far behind in its preparations for the 2016 Olympics, and that officials have begun sounding alarm bells. MORE
Apr. 10, 2014
International Olympic Committee says it was 'premature' to speculate about taking the 2016 Olympics away from Rio de Janerio, but IOC president Thomas Bach says construction holdups and political paralysis have reached a critical point for a decision to be made. MORE
Mar. 1, 2014
Saturday Profile of Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, who is in the middle of the most far-reaching overhaul of the city in decades in advance of the World Cup and the Olympic Games. MORE
Sep. 27, 2013
Los Angeles is one of three finalists to host the 2016 United States Olympic marathon trials, along with Cincinnati and Houston. MORE
Sep. 7, 2013
Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma will return for a second term as coach of the United States women's Olympic basketball team; other women's basketball news noted. MORE
Aug. 27, 2013
International Gymnastics Federation dismisses case against 16 judges who were suspected of cheating on qualifying tests in 2012 for elite competitions like the 2016 Olympics. MORE
Aug. 3, 2013
Olympic organizers say they might have to use $700 million in government money to meet operating budget for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. MORE
Jul. 17, 2013
As many as 60 experts of rhythmic gymnastics who were looking to qualify as official judges for 2016 Olympics are suspected of cheating on tests; fallout has been swift, with one top Olympic official already expelled and six others suspended, including Caroline Hunt of the United States, along with several officials from Egypt, Japan and Russia. MORE
May. 23, 2013
Mike Krzyzewski will remain coach of USA Basketball men's national team through the 2016 Summer Olympics. MORE
Sep. 12, 2012
Karch Kiraly, one of the most decorated volleyball players ever, is chosen as the coach of the American women's volleyball team in preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. MORE
Aug. 19, 2012
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column on golf's long-awaited return to the Olympics in 2016; says not to expect all the top names to participate, since there is no prize or appearance money. MORE
Aug. 13, 2012
Op-Ed article by advocacy group founder Theresa Williamson and photographer Mauricio Hora criticizes planned Olympic construction projects in Rio de Janeiro, which are threatening to dismantle and disfigure the city's most historic favela; argues that if Rio succeeds in its plan, the path will be open to further destruction throughout the city's other poor neighborhoods. MORE
Aug. 11, 2012
Maris Strombergs of Latvia picks up his second consecutive gold medal in the men's BMX supercross and Mariana Pajon of Colombia wins gold for the women; American riders are shutout at the London Games. MORE
Apr. 15, 2012
DeVry University will offer Olympic athletes full or partial scholarships, with sticker prices of up to $60,000, through 2016. MORE
Mar. 5, 2012
Ambitious development plans for the 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2014 soccer World Cup, to be held in Rio De Janeiro, involve large-scale evictions from numerous slums, whose residents are refusing to leave; squatters have been a thorn in the side of the government for months, taking their fight to the courts and the streets. MORE
Nov. 14, 2011
Brazilian security forces move into Racinha, one of the largest slums in Rio de Janeiro, in government effort to assert control over the lawless parts of city ahead of 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. MORE
May. 6, 2011
Renovations to Brazil's Estadio Jornalista Mario Filho soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro, popularly known as Maracana, in preparation for 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics may squeeze out poorest fans. MORE
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Rio's Governor Pursues Cleaner Water
The governor signed a deal with Brazilian institutions to develop a plan for cleaning up the the city's sewage-strewn Guanabara Bay.
August 4, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Olympic Games (2016) , Water Pollution , Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) , Brazil , Pezao, Luiz Fernando , Sailboats and Sailing , Olympic Games , Watergate Affair
A Fencer Strives to Crack a Saber Ceiling
Daryl Homer, 25, ranked sixth in the world in saber fencing, is a favorite to become the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport.
August 4, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Homer, Daryl (1990- ) , Fencing (Sport) , Olympic Games (2016) , Peter Westbrook Foundation , Manhattan Fencing Center
Filthy Rio de Janeiro Water a Threat at 2016 Olympics
An investigation found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from sewage in venues where athletes will compete in the 2016 water events.
July 31, 2015, Friday
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Gabby Douglas Seeks to Rekindle the Olympic Fire
Douglas, who won the all-around gold medal in 2012, has a new coach, a new physique and a new determination.
July 26, 2015, Sunday
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Projects Are Delayed in Rio de Janeiro
A subway extension to the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro may not be ready before the Games start next August.
July 8, 2015, Wednesday
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Next Up for the Women's World Cup Champions: Some Tough Choices
United States Coach Jill Ellis will have to refine the lineup for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where the national team will have 18 players compared with 23 at the World Cup.
July 7, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Soccer , Olympic Games (2016) , Ellis, Jillian (1966- ) , United States Women's National Soccer Team , Brian, Morgan (1993- ) , Lloyd, Carli , Wambach, Abby , Rampone, Christie , Rapinoe, Megan , Women's World Cup (Soccer)
My Choice for President? None of the Above
So many presidential candidates. So few daring ideas or trade-offs.
June 17, 2015, Wednesday
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Families of 1972 Munich Victims Find New Hope for Remembrance
A memorial for the 1972 attack will be built in Munich this year, and Olympic officials have shown support for recognition at the Rio Games.
June 1, 2015, Monday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Olympic Games (1972) , Monuments and Memorials (Structures) , Palestinians , Israel , Germany , Olympic Games (2016) , International Olympic Committee
Olympian Natalie Coughlin Prefers Rio Over Retirement
Natalie Coughlin sets her sights on the Rio de Janeiro Games with nothing to prove, but a chance to make history.
May 31, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Coughlin, Natalie , Olympic Games (2016) , Swimming
Brazil Seeks Elusive Prize: Soccer Gold
Brazil, which will host the Olympic Games in 2016, has won all the major trophies in soccer, except the Olympic gold medal.
May 17, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND: Soccer , Olympic Games (2016) , Brazil
Sailing Rio's Spoiled Bay
Two years ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, sailors on Rio's Guanabara Bay train in water tainted by sewage runoff and garbage from poor neighborhoods.
Official Slams Brazil's Olympic Planning
The International Olympic Committee's vice president, John D. Coates, said Brazil's preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games were "the worst" he has ever experienced.
Reinventing Rio de Janeiro
With the World Cup and the Olympics bearing down on Rio within the next three years, officials here are struggling to reinvent this onetime third-world city with a first-world economy.
Brazilian Slum Dwellers Push Back Against Olympic Development
Residents in some favelas, or slums, who are facing eviction ahead of the 2016 Olympics are pulling together and standing their ground.
One City Celebrates, Another Gasps
Rio de Janeiro and Chicago were considered the front-runners to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, but it was Rio's bid that won.
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April 8, 2009
IRVINE, Calif. - Sophomore Reindell Cole earned his second consecutive Big West Field Athlete of the Week award after posting a season-best long jump at the Texas Relays last weekend.
Cole, who came in with a season-best of 25-1.75 (7.66) which he posted in winning the Cal-Nevada Championship, bettered that mark with a distance of 25-9.50 (7.86) to win his section of the long jump at the prestigious Texas Relays in Austin. Cole's long jump is currently the second-best in the nation behind Jeremy Hicks of LSU who jumped 26-1.50 (7.96) on Mar. 28.
Complete Release Courtesy of the Big West Conference
The Big West weekly field honors had a familiar feel to them this week as Cal State Northridge's Reindell Cole and UC Irvine's Alisha Misiaita won their second straight weekly league award. UC Davis was also a big winner as the school nabbed both track awards following the weekend action.
Cole, a sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev., claimed his second straight Men's Field Athlete of the Week honor after a stellar performance at the Texas Relays. Cole jumped a season-best 25-9.50 (7.86m) on his third attempt to win Section A of the men's long jump, the top mark in the Big West and the second best showing in the country.
Misiaita, a junior from San Diego, Calif., also competed at the Texas Relays and came through with an outstanding performance in the shot put. She recorded a mark of 51-08 (15.76m) at the Relays, good for third in the event. Misiaita has thrown at least 49-11 in the event in each of the last three weeks, including her school record 51-09 two weeks ago.
The Aggie honors on the track side went to Polly Gnepa on the men's side and Kim Conley on the women's end.
Gnepa, a senior from Turlock, Calif., came through with a pair of third place finishes in the 100 (10.89) and 110 high hurdles (14.10) at the Mondo Invitational hosted by Sacramento State. His high hurdles time was his fastest of the season, while the 100 mark qualified him for the Big West Championships.
Conley, a senior from Santa Rosa, Calif., came through with a first place finish in the 1500-meter run (4:22.17) at the Mondo Invitational. Conley's time topped her previous PR of 4:24.30 and moved her to second place all-time on the UCD career 1500 list. The result also qualified her for NCAA Regionals.


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Our ceaseless circusMay 15,2013Four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya: people with unrealized hopes, unfinished plans, relatives who loved them and friends who will miss them.
But lets focus on what really matters about the attack and its aftermath: Did Hillary Clintons presumed 2016 presidential campaign take a hit?
We live in a country lousy with guns and bloody with gun-related violence, manifest two weeks ago in a Kentucky 5-year-olds fatal shooting of his 2-year-old sister, evident over the weekend in a hail of bullets at a Mothers Day parade in New Orleans.
But lets cut to the chase: Did Kelly Ayotte, the New Hampshire senator, safeguard or endanger her political future by casting one of the votes that doomed gun-control legislation in the Senate? And does the laws failure mean that its time to write the obituary for Barack Obamas presidency, which has more than 1,300 days to go, or can we wait I dont know a week or maybe even two to do that?
Now we have a scandal at the Internal Revenue Service to factor in. And a scandal it is, in urgent need of a thorough investigation, which Obama pledged at his news conference Monday and which were very much owed.
But before we get a full account, lets by all means pivot to the possible political fallout, politics being all that seems to matter these days. Will Republicans ever trust and be able to work with the administration again? (This is being asked as if there were all that much trust and cooperation in the first place.) Have they finally been handed the cudgel that can whack Obama and his crew into oblivion? Assess, discuss and please dont forget to make predictions about the 2014 midterms.
It never gets better and may in fact be getting worse: the translation of all of the news and of all of Washingtons responses into a ledger of electoral pluses and minuses, a graph of rising and falling political fortunes, a narrative of competition between not just the parties but the would-be potentates within a party.
On issue after issue, the sideshow swallows the substance, as politicians and the seemingly infinite ranks of political handlers join us journalists in gaming everything out, ad infinitum.
To follow the debate over immigration reform is to lose sight at times of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in limbo and the challenge of finding the most economically fruitful and morally sound way to deal with them and their successors. No, the real stakes are U.S. Sen. Marco Rubios presidential aspirations. Will he pay a high price with the Republican base for pushing a path to citizenship? Or will he earn necessary centrist credentials?
And where does it leave him vis-a-vis Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who are fellow Republican senators itching for prominence and are also hypothetical primary rivals? The next presidential election is three and a half years away an eternity, really but instead of putting a damper on speculation, that time span has encouraged it, letting a thousand theories and nearly as many contenders bloom.
We can wonder: If Clinton decided not to run, would a door open for another woman, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York? Just how well has Gillibrand positioned herself for such a turn? That story is already out there, and in it her record is framed largely in terms of her prospects for national office, as if one exists in the service of the other, as if the point of a congressional seat is leveraging it into an even better, more regal throne.
What about the actual business of governing? Between all the preening, partisan crossfire and of course fundraising that consumes members of Congress, is there any space and energy for that?
Not much, to judge from either the sclerosis that now defines the institution or the obsessions of those of us in the media. Our quickness to publicize skirmishes and divine political jockeying abet both. Actors tend to do whatever keeps the audience rapt.
At Obamas news conference, he breezed past the IRS debacle too quickly, and Im not sure why he had stayed mum until then. He flashed too much self-righteous anger about the scrutiny of the Benghazi talking points, which strike to important matters of accountability and credibility.
But however self-servingly, Obama got one thing about Benghazi exactly right: Whats most vital, and whats being obscured, is how we improve diplomatic security.
After all, the fates altered most profoundly by the attack werent his or Clintons or any other pols, but rather those of the four lost Americans: J. Christopher Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith.
We dishonor them, Obama said, when we turn things like this into a political circus. Indeed. But its what we turn almost everything into.
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