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Yesterday (Wednesday, October 24), leaders of the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces held a press conference in honor of this week's beginning of Austere Challenge 12 (AC 12), the largest combined exercise held between the two militaries to date. U.S. Third Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin and IAF Air Defense Head Brig. Gen. Shachar Shochat addressed the press conference, discussing the aerial defense drill and the mutually beneficial relationship between the militaries.
Lt. Gen. Franklin discussed the components and progress of AC 12. "More than 1,000 U.S. troops, including a Patriot missile battery and an Aegis missile defense ship, are integrated with other U.S. and Israeli assets as part of an overall comprehensive missile defense network for this exercise," he explained. "AC 12 is promising to be a great success. I expect that we will meet all of the training objectives for everyone involved. The command post exercise will begin this week and will be followed by a series of smaller cooperative drills that will conclude approximately three weeks from now."
Lt. Gen. Franklin also explained that the purpose of the drill "is to test and hone our combined abilities to defend against missile attacks, as we seek to maintain peace through preparedness."
Brig. Gen. Shochat likewise focused on the importance of the relationship between the two militaries. "The cooperation and professionalism displayed by the officers and enlisted personnel on both sides proved just how much we have to learn from each other," he noted. "Together with the United States, we have the world's best, most state-of-the-art air defense system."
"lt is the obligation of any country to protect its homes and residents from assault – this is what we are practicing, side by side with our American colleagues," he continued. "This exercise aims to improve the interactions between the IDF and the US military, enhance inter-operability, and strengthen the strong relationship we already share."
During a question-and-answer session following the initial speeches, Brig. Gen. Shochat discussed the deterrent value of the drill, saying that "when you see two professional armed forces such as the U.S. and IAF air defense forces working together, practicing together, of course it is also a message of deterrence, and I hope the other side also understands it like that."
Brig. Gen. Shochat also discussed the IDF's commitment to aerial defense in an exclusive interview to the IDF Website earlier this week. "The State of Israel, the Ministry of Defense, the IDF, the Israel Air Force, and the Air Defense Command have the most advanced capabilities in the world in defense against missiles and rockets," he explained. "We have thousands of soldiers working 24/7, 365 days a year, with anticipation and focus, in the central mission of the Air Force, which is protecting the skies of the country."
Cpt. Marie Thornton of the U.S. Army and Cpt. Shlomit Rodnitsky of the IDF
Two Patriot anti-missile defense batteries – one belonging to the IDF, the other to the U.S. Armed Forces – were recently deployed on the beaches of Tel Baruch, which sit within sight of Tel Aviv's skyscrapers, for the exercise. During yesterday's press conference, the commanders of each military's Patriot batteries took time to compare and contrast their respective rigs.
Cpt. Shlomit Rodnitsky, commander of the IDF's patriot battery, reflected, "There are both differences and similarities between our two batteries, and that is part of what is fun for us during the exercise – discovering the subtle differences and learning from each other."
Her American counterpart noted that the atmosphere is one of cooperation, as American and Israeli soldiers work side-by-side, overcoming communication and logistical barriers. "The cooperation is significant. We share the same attitude of wanting to take care of our soldiers. We both have that bond," said Cpt. Marie Thornton, the commander of the American Patriot battery. "I would love for my soldiers to interact with as many counterparts and partners as possible, because it's a priceless experience.


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Dreading not having a Valentine's Day date? Stop. Valentine's Day doesn't have to be a drag. Think of it as a day you don't have to stress about gifts or a new dress-a day when you can have some fun with your girlfriends or spend some quality time with yourself. There are perks to not being tied down by the same boring traditions that all your coupled friends will be tied down to. This year make February 14th about you, and smile about these perks:
1. You don't have to find a Valentine's gift for your boyfriend. Ok, seriously, how hard is it to find something for him anyway? Not having to buy a gift for him will give you extra money to buy yourself some chocolates. Yum!
2. You can hang out with your single girlfriends. Get your girls together and go to the bar. The night will be filled with kissing couples and cheesy red and pink dresses, but there will also be other singles there, too. You can flirt all night without feeling guilty. Or you can…
3. Host a Valentine's Day party for singles. Invite all your girlfriends and their girlfriends over to watch chick flicks with wine and cheese. Your girlfriends will love you for it because they weren't going to do anything anyway. You can also get to…
4. Watch the Beyonce video "Put a ring on it" and learn the dance. Beyonce's right, if he wanted it then he should've put a ring on it. His loss. (Look over the fact that Beyonce's married to Jay-Z and sporting a fat ring).
5. Take yourself to a spa. Just because you don't have a date for Valentine's Day doesn't mean you can't indulge in a spa or salon. Take some time out for you. You work hard during the week, so love you.
Think of it this way: Saint Valentine was beaten with clubs and stones for playing "Cupid" and marrying people. When that didn't kill him, he was beheaded. Who wants to spend money on that? Just sayin...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
What Guys Want On Valentines Day And Parental Valentine Preschool Pressure
What do the women want today? $80 Flowers (that normally go for $12 any other day, like tomorrow, but we buy anyway), romantic poems (thank God for the internet), expensive jewelry (that doesn't have 'cubic' in the name), flat-screen plasma TV in the bathroom (well, not really, that's just a really cool idea...)
Men are easy. We just want the women to show up naked with food – preferably a bucket of KFC (the 'spicy' kind.)
I actually created something sentimental for my wife today, which took some time to make and I can't reveal just in case she reads this.
Today a co-worker came into work a few hours late looking like her car exploded with her in it. She's a fellow parent with 2 kids, one about the same age as my daughter and a son who is 3 or 4.
When she took her son to preschool this morning one of the teachers had asked, "Where are his Valentines? All of the kids NEED to bring Valentines for everybody…"
Nobody said anything, no warning note, nothing (she skipped that chapter in the handbook, the one on "Valentines for preschoolers".) She then grabbed her son, got into the car and headed to the local Walgreens where the only Valentines left were Care-Bears and Dora (her son wanted Spider-Man and cried because they were out or they don't exist.) She then spent some time writing all the kids names on the cards (all 40-something) in the parking lot of the preschool. When she showed up with her crying son there were other parents walking in with fancy little hand-tied bags of candies and cookies with little homemade cards, along with fancy gifts (flowers, baskets, Versace bags, etc.) for the teachers and assistants.
When she was finished I said:
"When your kid is in prison at 17, it's because of this."
And then handed her a handmade goodie bag of truffles and filet mignon (...I wish.) I am not looking forward to 'the school' years.
27 comments:
- Phil said...
My 5-year-old daughter spent hours carefully writing each of her fellow kindergartener's names on a card, along with a special message for most of them, like "You are my best friend" and "Have a fun day!"
Turns out all the other kids (or moms, most likely) taped little candies, or big candy bars in one case, to the cards. So my daughter's handiwork wasn't met with much enthusiasm because there wasn't something sugary attached.
- Maria said...
Oh...good hell...that was such a great blog today. I sat there smiling and I can't tell you how much I needed to do that.
And I hate the whole Valentine's day dance at schools. My kid is in second grade and they were supposed to bring in a decorated shoe box and a valentine for all the kids. Fine...until I read the teacher's handwritten note on the notice:
Handmade goodies are BEST!!! :)
For who? Her? Personally, I could go for kit kats any day...or hey, yeah...KFC.
- radioactive girl said...
I have three school aged kids. Can you guess what I have been working on all week...only to have a snow day today! They better have that party tomorrow, because I sure didn't make these treat bags for my sanity!
Tomorrow you will have to tell us what you made/got for your wife!
- Em said...
You had me going there for a moment. A wife who wants a plasma screen TV in the bathroom...that is truly a gift from the gods. Alas, you made that part up.
But there is no faking the preschool Valentine's Day Exchange. There are many rules and expectations. And it doesn't end with preschool. Be prepared to endure this annual ritual for many years to come!
- Pageant Mom said...
I got accused of trying to send hints to my husband for Valentines to buy me a diamond something or other by having my ringtone set to the Four Seasons (allegretto by Bond) call me clueless, but I just liked the ringtone ;o)
fortunately today is over and all the festivities for the kids are behind us now...
- Mrs. Chicky said...
This post made me shudder. Hand made designer Valentine's for the preschool set? That's it, I'm moving to an isolated cabin in Montana for the duration of my kid's childhood.
- MamaLee said...
Well that is the teacher's fault. Geez, is that teacher NOT a parent? I would guess not.
My son got a memo from school about 2 weeks prior to the big day. I had to send in a shoebox so that Pumpkin could decorate it, making it into a valentine mailbox. She also told us of the valentine exchange, and suggested that the kids write as much of them as possible. Nothing about what to buy, specifically.
Pumpkin was very excited about the whole deal, including buying chocolates for his teachers.
Again, I blame the teacher for this goof. But now you know what to expect EVERY BLASTED YEAR for a while...
- Diana said...
I take it my kid's school was the only one who didn't ask us to do anything?
I asked THEM about two weeks ago if they were planning anything, just so I could be prepared and they said they were just having a little something, but since most of the kids are two and three they weren't doing much.
My son did come home with a beautifully scribbled Valentine for my husband and me, which I actually liked more than anything my hubby could have given me. (Except for a flat-screen plasma of course. Because yes, I want one of those!)
- creative-type dad said...
radioactive girl - I made the wife a memory book/valentine (on Shutterfly) with pictures of us and our daughter. I wrote some funny stories in there and did design/illustration work so it looked unique. She liked it a lot.
And the flowers too...
Diana - I'm actually looking forward to the kid-made valentines. I thought that's all they did.
- MetroDad said...
Fancy little hand-tied bags of candies and cookies with little homemade cards? Holy crap! Insanity run amok!
Love your V-Day present to the wife. Very romantic. And with your artistic talents, I'm sure it was awesome.
- Becky said...
I dig nudity and food. I also like the handmade cards. But you gave me something new to think about ... that plasma TV sounds nifty.
- Darren a/k/a Clare's Dad said...
Don't jump on that plasma TV for the bathroom too quick. Have you seen television mirrors? Google seura and tv. It's really cool.
- jen said...
waitwaitwait.. we can't celebrate christmas in the schools anymore, but valentine's day cards are mandatory???? I thought you just had to have all or non, not required handmade treats! Ugh.
I'd send my kid naked with food... but that's just... wrong.
- The Real Mother Hen said...
Holy Cow! Gee I know that V-Day is overrated, but never know it's to that crazy extent here! (I only went to collegue in America... thank goodness!) Someone was telling me that the #1 recipient of the Valentine's Day card is actually TEACHERS! That's so absurd!!! Why do teachers want to teach the kids about Valentine's Day at such an early age btw?
- creative-type dad said...
The Real Mother Hen - Teachers? After hearing/speaking with other parents I wouldn't doubt it.
Maybe the Valentine's are stuffed with cash so the kids can get better grades? That's my only explanation
Darren a/k/a Clare's Dad - dude, I WANT one. I think my wife wants one too (or at least that's what I'm thinking...)
Pageant Mom - Bond? Aren't those the classical Spice Girls...?
- JayMonster said...
I know this started out with one over-acheiving MOM (yes, it had to be a woman that started this insanity) that decided to do something a little "extra" and of course, then somebody else needed to top it, and so on and so it. It is just out of control!
- wayabetty said...
Can we just stop the madness right now!! This is insane! I'm one of those moms who didn't figure out why the teacher sent home the class roster, but it finally dawned on me and the kids will get a V-day card and that's it. Nothing fancy smansy. that's just crazy!!
- Sarah O. said...
Preschool Valentines truly separate the Perfect Parents from the Duds.
Dud parents do the Care Bear Valentines in the parking lot.
I am a Dud Parent.
Perfect parents do the lovely goodie bags. Most amazing is that their kids hand make and sign each and every Valentine themselves, even in preschool.
These kids also have perfect handwriting at age three. Seriously.
Eventually I did the lovely goodie bag thing and forged kid-like handwriting on the homemade (by me) Valentines.
Which made me a Slightly Below Average Parent.
Remember this before you have a Suburban full of kids. You'll be doing the Valentine thing annually for decades.
- creative-type dad said...
Sarah O. - it's funny how we parents end up doing the work when its suppose to be the kids. When did this change...
JayMonster - I don't know if this is just moms. I know of a few dads around here who go crazy building fancy things for their kids science projects..
- T. said...
I was that mom. The mom who forgot to pick up valentines for her 9 and 10 yr old kids. The mom who then remembered at 8 pm the night before and rushed to SIX different stores to find some damn cards.
Not a card to be found except for Caillou. I couldn't go there. I mean, it's one thing to be that MOM, but I couldn't be THAT MOM!
So instead, I bought a couple of bags of suckers and spent the night pasting kiddy names on them to appease my children. Who were royally pissed I didn't remember to buy cards so they could fill them out.
And yes, my kids did the walk of shame, being the only kids in class that didn't have real valentines to hand out.
Just add it to the list of why they will be on a therapist's couch one day. At least I didn't make them hand out the damn Caillou cards!
Valentine's for preschoolers who can't even read the darn things!
The parents at my son's first preschool went way overboard -- one even buying cute little bags that had each child's name embroidered on them. I asked if her daughter had helped in making the bags and she said "I bought them and ordered the personalization!".
His new schools is much more low-key and so are the parents and that's what I love. Valentines were allowed, but no child's name was to be written for fear someone would be left out. Not all the kids gave out valentines and that was just fine. Come on, in preschool we know the valentines are coming from the parents, not the kids themselves.
- creative-type dad said...
Maureen - ordered the personalized? That's crazy. When that happens, it's all about the parents and not the kids.
T. - Hmm, if the kids are acting up, you should tell them if they don't behave, you'll send them to school with Caillou valentines (and black licorice)
- Mama's Moon said...
Awww, poor womanan! I lucked out (despite melting crayons into heart shapes the week before). No obligatory school valentines for us - just yet, anyway. Just you wait, my friend, it's gonna happen soon; and when it does it's gonna happen BIG!
Thanks for the laugh. It was so good I had to link it to my Monday Morning Munchies!
- Oh, The Joys said...
Those pre-school teachers got me last year with the plastic candy filled eggs at Easter. Grrrrrrrr.
- kittenpie said...
We actually get a nice little monthly calendar with days marked out for bringing in a book, etc., and Valentine's party was on there, along with a list of the names of all the kids in the class - nice! So we made valentines, but no little goodie bags for 16 kids!
- junebee said...
What Jen said - fear is struck in the hearts of those who would celebrate a major holiday like Christmas in a public school, and Valentines Day at the preschool level? Actually in FL homemade treats are forbidden. Any food brought to school has to be store-bought.
- Beta Mum said...
How bloody stupid - Valentine's Day isn't for little kids... unless they're so demented by the mini-adult clothes on offer that they think they're already teenagers.
It's the people who run the pre-schools who are duds, not the parents who fail to bring in cards and sweets.
My eight year old received his first ever Valentine card from a girl at school this year and was bemused by it.
He hadn't sent any, he's too busy playing at being a spy and climbing trees.
Long may it continue.


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Columbus, Ga. - Cal State Fullerton scored two runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back as the Titans cruised their way to a 6-0 romp over No. 25 University of Massachusetts at the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga.
The Titans added another run in the third and three more in the fourth off of UMass hurler Kaila Holtz (North Vancouver, British Columbia) as she gave up six runs on eight hits, while striking out two in the loss. The UMass defense struggled behind her, committing three errors in the game.
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AKRON, Ohio - Follow all the action of the Northern Illinois University softball team's run through the 2009 Mid-American Conference Tournament with assistant director of media relations Joe Summins.
Game 4
The Huskies' run in the 2009 MAC Softball Tournament has come to an end with a 3-0 loss to Miami (OH).
6:50 p.m.
The Huskies will need another comeback like the one they executed against Kent State. Andrea Colosimo, Michelle Williams and Carly Norton are the scheduled batters due up for NIU. The Huskies trail, 3-0.
6:31 p.m.
Morgan Bittner has now surpassed the 100-pitch mark in the top of the sixth.
The rain delay has ended and we're just minutes away from restarting the game.
6:07 p.m.
We are now is a rain delay. It's the first for the tournament.
6:05 p.m.
Surprise, surprise, it's raining again in Akron.
Morgan Bittner has just throw her 200th pitch of the day.
5:11 p.m.
It's deja vu all over again. Zoe Sinner was just hit by a pitch by Miami's Jessica Simpson. She led off game one with a hit by pitch.
5:04 p.m.
Miami has seen three pitches and has two runs. The lead off hitter flied out to Jenna Roberts, the second batter singled to center and the third batter hit a home run over the left field fence.
Game 3
The Huskies win 4-3 with a three-run seventh to eliminating Kent State. The Huskies will face Miami at 4:45 p.m. CST later today
2:12 p.m.
The sun is starting to peak out. The Huskies have a runner on second with no outs. Could be an omen.
1:48 p.m.
The Huskies' defense flashed some more leather when Andrea Colosimo fielding a ball hit by Leah Archual and dove head first, tagging the bag with her mit to get Archual. Leather larceny at its best.
1:37 p.m.
Carly Norton just make an incredible catch, falling into the dugout just as she made the grab. Unfortunately, that was just after Chelsey Jones hit a base clearing triple. Kent leads 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth.
1:18 p.m.
Jenna Roberts who reached on a well-placed bunt, just swiped her 26th base of the season, tying Angela Porcelli who set the mark in 1995. Congratulations Jenna!
1:15 p.m.
There is definitely a different feel from the last two days. No kick ball games to watch. Every team here has a chance to win the MAC Championship.
Inside the numbers: The Huskies are 14-4 when scoring first.
12:39 p.m.
We're underway here at the MAC Tournament. It's another overcast day here in Akron. It sprinkled a little bit during the Akron-Ohio game, but didn't last long. There is a chance of showers later this afternoon.
Another update from Akron, NIU-Kent State will be starting at 12:30 p.m.
Just wanted to give everyone an update from the MAC Tournament. NIU's game with Kent State will not be starting at 12 p.m. Akron and Ohio are in extra innings with the Zips leading 2-1 with two out in the bottom of the eighth.
Game 2
4:12 p.m.
It's a final, the Huskies win, 9-4. NIU will face the loser of W. Michigan and Kent State tomorrow at 10 a.m. CST.
NIU's hit tally is not up to 14.
3:50 p.m.
The Huskies have pounded out a season-high 13 hits today.
3:45 p.m.
I'm just sitting here in the press box and all of the sudden I hear "Hey Joe!" I look and there's Robert Collins waving at me with a big smile on his face. A four-run sixth will make any Huskie fan grin. NIU leads 9-3 in the top of the sxith.
After a bit of a rough start, Morgan Bittner has settled in nicely and hasn't allowed a run in two innings.
3:31 p.m.
Now it's sprinkling a bit. How's that for instant updates from the MAC Softball Tournament!?
3:30 p.m.
Just took a look at the radar and it looks like rain is on the way. Hopefully it's a passing shower and the rest of the games aren't interrupted.
3:10 p.m.
The Huskies have been very aggressive on the base paths swiping three bases already.
2:50 p.m.
The Miami University softball team is sitting just past the portable fence in right field. Ball State has chosen a more traditional locale to watch the game, sitting in the bleachers just to the right of right field. Both teams appear anxious, but well behaved. They play after the Huskies and Falcons.
2:40 p.m.
Got to give props to Deputy Athletics Director Robert Collins. Last night at dinner we were discussing the unannounced All-MAC Team. As the media relations director I was privy to all the award winners well in advance. However, I am sworn to secrecy until the conference office allows me to release it. Let me tell you all something knowledge is power! I enjoyed knowing something he didn't.
Mr. Collins did his best to get the information out of me, but I wouldn't give. So he wrote down who he thought were going to be on the team and gave me the piece of paper this morning. Wouldn't you know it, when the team was revealled he got all three correct. However, he did have another listed that he thought could have made the team but didn't. You've got to give him credit, he knows his team.
2:20 p.m.
Carly Norton just hit her team-leading sixth home run over the left field fence.
Top of the second
Those blue skies that were here an hour ago have just given way to mostly cloudy skies.
2:11 p.m.
We're underway here at the 2009 MAC Softball Tournament. Zoe Sinner leads things off for the Huskies.
This is Joe Summins live from the 2009 MAC Softball Tournament. Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. The game between Western Michigan and Ohio is running a bit long and it doesn't look like the Huskies and Bowling Green will be starting a 1 p.m. as originally scheduled. The Broncos lead the Bobcats 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning.
The awards ceremony recognizing the All-MAC honorees will begin 15 minutes after the WMU-OU contest. The estimated start time for the Huskies and Falcons is 2 p.m. CST. Check back then for any further updates. Just an FYI, Kent State beat Akron 3-1 in the first game of the day.
On a side note, the weather is much improved, with the clouds and rain of yesterday being replaced with bright sunny skies,. However, there is a storm system moving our way. Keep your fingers crossed.
Game 1
NIU vs. Miami (OH)
The line-up cards are in for the Huskies game with Miami. Leading off for the Huskies and playing right field is Zoe Sinner. Center fielder Jenna Roberts is batting second and designated player Andrea Colosimo is batting third. Catcher Michelle Williams is batting clean up, while Carly Norton is in the five spot and is playing third base. Batting sixth and playing left field is Katie Colby, while Bailey Ouellette is hitting seventh and playing first base. Krista Matsui is playing short stop and batting eighth, with Dani Thompson bats ninth and is playing second base. MAC West Pitcher of the Week Morgan Bittner is in the pitcher's circle for the Huskies. She is 12-18 with a 4.22 ERA.
First pitch is about 10 minutes away...
1st Inning
Zoe Sinner was plunked in the left leg leading off the inning. To add insult to injury, she got hit in the ribs on a pick-off attempt by the catcher. The RedHawk catcher was more accurate on her second pick-off attempt, throwing out Sinner. Jenna Roberts reached coaxed a one out walk. Andrea Colosimo just got hit as well. Miami (OH) pitcher Jessica Simpson, no not that one, seems a little wild early. Michelle Williams gives NIU the early lead with a single to center field giving the Huskies its first hit of the day. Carly Norton fouled out and Katie Colby grounded out to the first baseman, ending the inning for the Huskies. So that was one run on one hit and two hit batters.
Bittner pitched out of trouble with the help of her defense in Miami's (OH) half of the first. Jordan McElroy led off with a double to left center. The second batter flied out to left and Sarah Billstrom reached on a fielder's choice as Norton tried to throw out McElroy at second. McElroy was erased at the third on the next play. With runners at first and second with two out Bittner got Hogl to ground out to third base.
Second Inning
The Huskies went 1-2-3 in the top of the second.
Miami took the lead in the bottom of the second. Lauren Odom led off the inning with a single to left field. Bittner then recorded her strike out of the game getting Kat Russette looking. Odom steals second to move herself into scoring position. Kelly Cabana reached on a hit. It was a very weird play. The ball was hit right at Bittner but it was hit so softly that she had a hard time reacting to it. Alexis Javier doubled to left center driving in Odom and Cabana. McElroy then grounded out and Megan Mawn grounded out to Ouellette.
Third Inning
Sinner led off the inning with a single to left field and Roberts sacrificed her over to second on a bunt. Sinner advanced to third on a ground out by Colosimo. The Huskies are doing a good job of moving runners into scoring position. However, Williams struck out.
Off beyond the right field fence there's another game going on. The Bowling Green softball team is engaged in a spirited game of kick ball, while Ball State is just relaxing in the right field stands taking in the game.
Bittner's showing a little wildness in the third. She's given up two walks and hit a batter, but got out of a two on, two out jam keeping the RedHawks off the scoreboard. The defense has played very well for the Huskies.
Bowling Green's kick ball game is over and the Falcons are now taking BP. I'll try and find out a score for all you Falcon fans.
Fourth Inning
The Huskies went down in order in their half of the fourth inning.
Bittner records her first 1-2-3 inning.
Fifth Inning
Colosimo just got hit by a pitch. That makes three hit batters for the Huskies. One more and they will have as many hit batters as hits.
Miami's lead off hitter just got plunked. That puts the total of hit batters at five. NIU 3 - MU 2.
The Huskies just turned in a terrific double play with Dani Thompson tagging out the runner trying to advance to second then nailing the batter at first base. Nothing across for the RedHawks.
Sixth Inning
Both teams were unable to scratch any runs across. Bittner got out of a two-out bases loaded jam with a strike out.
Seventh Inning
The Huskies are unable to scratch across a run and fall 2-1.


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For a game that's still relatively unknown for many of its specific features, No Man's Sky is remarkably interesting and popular among gamers. Coming to the PlayStation 4 sometime next year, No Man's Sky will focus on discovery and a unique game experience like never before.
Being able to discover and experience a planet that has never been seen by other players is profound. It also goes without saying that it's the definition of innovative, if this turns out to be true. Hello Games' Managing Director Sean Murray spoke about one of his favorite moments he experienced while playing No Man's Sky.
"My favorite moment so far from making No Man's Sky happened a few months back. David was adding four-legged creatures to the game (he insists on calling them ungulates), Hazel was adding a weather system, and Ryan was adding collision to all the trees (which is really hard when you have a whole forest full of them).
"I hadn't seen any of this, and I was flying around the universe, trying to take some screenshots. I neared the surface of a planet and suddenly it started to rain. As I was touching down I scared some deer who broke through the woods, dodging in and out of trees.
"Now this was jaw-dropping to me, because I've never seen any of these systems before, but also it felt like this was a real place I'd discovered. No one had been there before, and I didn't know whether to shout excitedly, or just keep it to myself," Murray said.
What seems awesome about No Man's Sky is different people will find different aspects of the game intriguing or special. While Murray might find the discovery element of the game fantastic, another person might find the combat to be thrilling and the best part of No Man's Sky. That's one of the great things about games in general, really. One person's discovery is another person's highlight of the game. Murray really does seem to do a great job of capturing the spirit of the game.
No Man's Sky still has a lot of the game that needs to be explained to people, but with what has been shown off so far, there's as much hype surrounding it as any other game out there today. Murray said the discovering he described above, is why No Man's Sky is special to him.
"In a nutshell, moments like that are No Man's Sky for me. Sure there is trading, combat, weapons, ships, and a core game, but really for me the quiet moments of discovery are what it's all about," Murray said.
We do not have a release date for No Man's Sky quite yet, but we'll find out soon enough. It should be dropping on the PS4 sometime next year.
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"Once Upon a Time" is about to introduce two new characters: the Snowing baby and Dorothy Gale. But are these characters one and the same?
According to a May 4 report by Bustle, Dorothy is played by actress Matreya Scarrwener ("The Killing"). The young star definitely looks like she could be the daughter of Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Charming (Josh Dallas). The promo for tonight's episode shows Dorothy throwing water on Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and making her face partly melt off, so Dorothy might take down the Wicked Witch just like she did in "The Wizard of Oz."
Taking down a formidable foe like Zelena does seem like something that a Snowing child would be capable of, but you might be wondering now Dorothy could possibly be Snow and Charming's baby. For one thing, her last name is Gale. She's also not a baby when she faces off against Zelena, so this would mean that "Once Upon a Time" is doing something different and showing a flash forward instead of one of its signature flashbacks.
In the promo, it looks like Zelena manages to get her hands on the Snowing baby. However, maybe someone manages to protect the child by zapping her off to another land (obviously this would be Kansas). This means that the girl would end up being raised by a foster family just like Emma (Jennifer Morrison).
Meanwhile, perhaps Zelena's time curse doesn't go exactly as planned. It could freeze time in Storybrooke instead of rewinding it. While time is frozen, Dorothy would age and eventually find her way to Oz. If this is the case, the Wicked Witch's curse was a major bust – she's still green in the promo, and she's back in Oz instead of living Regina's royal life.
Ginnifer Goodwin said that the Snowing baby's name is going to be very significant, so this is why many fans are theorizing that she's going to be dubbed Dorothy. However, others think that Charming and Snow will simply honor Henry's father by naming their baby boy after Neal. Another interesting theory is that the baby will be named Elsa after the "Frozen" character.
It's very possible that those who disagree with the Dorothy baby name theory are right. The promo scene could be a flashback since we don't see Zelena actually melt into a puddle – perhaps Dorothy just wounded the Wicked Witch before managing to get the hell out of Oz, and maybe Zelena found a way to better protect herself after her close call. This flashback might explain where Zelena got her magic emerald pendant.
What do you think: Is Dorothy the Snowing baby, or is she just a one-off character who will be used to flesh out Zelena's backstory?


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Audrey Boone Tillman manages most of the noncore business functions for Aflac Inc. As executive vice president for corporate services, she oversees operations for the divisions of Facilities and Health Services; strategic sourcing and procurement; corporate learning; the company's print business; and human resources. But for this former professor and practicing attorney, employees are at the core of her work for the insurance company, which is recognized as one of Black Enterprise's Best Companies for Diversity.
Tillman has spearheaded several creative and progressive programs to improve not only the quality of Aflac's work environment, but also its employees' personal lives, particularly in the area of finance. "If [employees] are focused on financial stresses, it will absolutely transfer to their roles as Aflac team members," she says. As a result, Aflac has offered classes ranging from how college graduates should manage their finances to how to recover financially after a divorce. Through a partnership with NeighborWorks America, a nonprofit homeownership organization, 43 employees were enrolled in Aflac's custom homebuyer program in 2011.
In 2010 Aflac initiated Just Stop It, an employee competition judged by senior-level staff that presents outdated or inefficient work processes and systems that employees think should be eliminated. Team members submitted more than 1,000 ideas. Two top prizes of $5,000 were awarded—one to Nick Demko, a technology analyst whose suggestion of eliminating postage-paid reply envelopes would save the company $186,474 a year in mailing costs. Twenty runner-up prizes of $1,000 each were also awarded.
Tillman has restructured the healthcare coverage at Aflac from two categories to three: Individual, Family, and Employee with Children, reducing the price of healthcare for single-parent households. Savings range from $145.25 per month on a basic plan to $329.19 per month for a deluxe plan. "A lot of business leaders do things through their own eyes," Tillman says. "I like to see things from the employees' perspective."
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Race: Criterion riders will find the inaugural Castle Rock Twilight Criterium very exciting with its tight turns and long fast straight aways. This soon to be classic race will take racers up and down the streets of Castle Rock over a .9 mile figure 8 with 8 turns that will provide excitement for the participants and fans alike. ROL will provide neutral support but feel free to supply your own wheels to the wheels in/wheels out pit. Free lap rule for mishaps in effect until 6 laps to go.
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The panel had been charged with reviewing the adequacy of planned ground procedures for the January 27 spacecraft 012 manned test, as well as determining whether emergency procedures existed for all appropriate activities. The review was to concentrate on activity at the launch site and to include recommendations for changes or new emergency procedures if deemed necessary.
The panel approached its task in two phases. First, it reviewed the emergency provisions at the time of the CM 012 accident, investigating
- the procedures in published documents,
- the emergency equipment inside and outside the spacecraft, and
- the emergency training of the flight crew and checkout test team.
Second, the panel reviewed the methods used to identify hazards and ensure adequate documentation of safety procedures and applicable emergency instructions in the operational test procedures.
Findings and determinations included:
The applicable test documents and flight crew procedures for the AS- 204 Space Vehicle Plugs-Out Integrated Test did not include safety considerations, emergency procedures, or emergency equipment requirements relative to the possibility of an internal spacecraft fire during the operation.
The absence of any significant emergency preplanning indicated that the test configuration (pressurized 100-percent-oxygen cabin atmosphere) was not classified as potentially hazardous.
The propagation rate of the fire in the accident was extremely rapid. Removal of the three spacecraft hatches, from either the inside or the outside, for emergency exit required a minimum of 40 to 70 seconds, respectively, under ideal conditions.
Considering the rapid propagation of the fire and the time constraints imposed by the spacecraft hatch configuration, it is doubtful that any amount of emergency preparation would have precluded injury to the crew before egress.
Procedures for unaided egress from the spacecraft were documented and available. The AS-204 flight crew had participated in a total of eight egress exercises employing those procedures.
The 204 flight crew was familiar with and well trained in the documented emergency crew procedures for effecting unaided egress.
The spacecraft pad work team on duty at the time of the accident had not been given emergency training drills for combating fires in or around the spacecraft or for emergency crew egress. They were trained and equipped only for a normal hatch removal operation.
The spacecraft pad work team was not properly trained or equipped to effect an efficient rescue operation under the conditions resulting from the fire.
Frequent interruptions and failures had been experienced in the overall communications system during the operations preceding the accident. At the time the accident occurred, the status of the system was still under assessment.
The status of the overall communications was marginal for the support of a normal operation. It could not be assessed as adequate in the presence of an emergency condition.
Emergency equipment provided at the spacecraft work levels consisted of portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, rocket-propellant-fuel-handler's gas masks, and 4.4-centimeter-diameter fire hoses.
The existing emergency equipment was not adequate to cope with the conditions of the fire. Suitable breathing apparatus, additional portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, direct personnel evacuation routes, and smoke removal ventilation were significant items that would have improved the reaction capability of the personnel.
Under the existing method of test procedure processing at KSC, the safety offices reviewed only the procedures noted in the operational checkout procedure outline as involving hazards. Official approval by KSC and Air Force Eastern Test Range Safety was given after the procedure was published and released.
The scope of contractor and KSC Safety Office participation in test procedure development was loosely defined and poorly documented. Post-procedure-release approval by the KSC Safety Office did not ensure positive and timely coordination of all safety considerations.


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february looms like a tidal wave, just out of sight.
i can feel him swell and roll, closer now still,
a fighter held back in his corner, waiting for the bell.
with the calendar flip, he'll be released at last,
to charge and roll and come at me hard
with all he's got.
and all i've got,
are 9 home days, the rest away,
washed out to sea with the suit-clad crowd,
a seatbelt sign, fluorescent lights.
with every checked bag,
another big picture view
of the rockies, mystery cities, your neighbor's pool.
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?TUCSON, Ariz. ?C A pair of Arizona soccer players, sophomore Samantha Drees and incoming freshman Jackie Zinke, will head to campus in the next few weeks riding high after helping to guide their youth teams to championship runs in Texas.
?Drees, who appeared in five games at UA as a true freshman last season, helped lead the Under-19 PWSI Cardinals of Woodbridge, Va., to the championship game of the 2007 U.S. Youth Soccer Championships in Dallas, Texas, last week. The Cardinals played their way through to the final match of the tournament before falling to the Carmel (Ind.) Cyclones, 2-0.
Drees had propelled her club to the national championships by scoring the game-winning goal in penalty kicks earlier in July in the Region I championship in Portland, Maine.
Zinke, a member of the Slammers Futbol Club from Newport Beach, Calif., also came up just shy of a national championship bid as her team dropped the final game of the Under-18 age group in penalty kicks after battling to a 1-1 tie against the Bloomfield (Mich.) Force.
The Arizona soccer program will kickoff its 2007 campaign when it opens fall camp on August 13 in Tucson. The Wildcats open the regular season by hosting Utah on August 31.


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That Bear Has My Underwear!
Written by Randy Whitney Illustrated by Melissa Whitney
A scary bear tries to get me. However, I outwit the bear by using a wide variety of food-based weaponry. I ultimately scare the bear off, and he is never to be seen again.
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May 20, 2004
Despite growing concerns about childhood obesity, some Democrats and most Republicans in Congress support selling junk food in school vending machines. Four Democrats on the Senate Agriculture Committee joined eight of the panels Republicans in defeating a proposal by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) which merely would have let the federal government develop model nutrition guidelines for foods sold in vending machines and elsewhere on school grounds.
Some politicians give lip service to the issue of childhood obesity, yet vote to keep junk food in schools, said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan. Junk-food lobbyists like the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the National Soft Drink Association wield tremendous influence in Congress and few legislators are willing to defy them.
According to CSPI, several senators who voted against the Harkin amendment said that school food policy should be a matter of local control, even though school food has historically been a federal issue. The federal government invests $8.8 billion in school meal programsan investment that CSPI says is undercut by the sale of candy, soft drinks, and chips in school vending machines and cafeteria snack lines.
Saying local control essentially means do nothing, since soda companies have had great success taking advantage of cash-strapped school systems, said Wootan. This is really about parental control, and parents cant have any control over their kids health if junk-food marketers have the key to the school-house door.
Child nutrition legislation will soon go to the full Senate floor. Senator Harkin plans to offer an amendment that would encourage local school districts to develop nutrition and physical activity policies, provide incentive grants to schools to adopt those policies, and ask the Institute of Medicine to develop model nutrition standards that communities could use for school foods. The amendment will be similar to the one defeated in committee. The full House of Representatives has already passed child nutrition legislation that does little about junk food in schools.
We know that soda and junk food marketers do not really support local control, because they fight like heck when we try to get junk food out of schools at the local level, said Duane Perry, executive director of The Food Trust, the organization that led the fight to get sodas and other unhealthy beverages out of Philadelphia School District vending machines. Parents and local communities desperately need more federal action and guidance on promoting better nutrition in schools.
Earlier this month, CSPI released a nationwide study showing that 75 percent of drink choices and 85 percent of snack choices in school vending machines are of poor nutritional value.


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Two articles showed up recently among postings by Facebook friends. One linked from the Sun Sentinel theorized that there should be a means to convert to Jewish culture without converting to the religion. The other article, from Ynews, noted that Israel's chief rabbinate was planning to invalidate conversions by Avi Weiss, the noted, liberal, Orthodox rabbi. The appearance of these two articles within so short a time demands reexamining the conversion process and rethinking what it means today to be a Jew.
Describing Judaism as a culture is interesting. Cultures are characterized by several components. These include a common heritage, a language, and a body of folk practices. Certainly Judaism does all that, but culture alone cannot be the definition of Judaism. Other facets are equally essential. These include adherence to a set of common beliefs and a devotion to common values. There are aspects that are uniquely Jewish and beyond the matter of culture. Zionist Jews, for example, stress a relationship with the Land of Israel, the traditional homeland of the people. Indeed that facet informs Jewish culture extensively with a wide appearance in the belles' letters of the people as well as its liturgy. Unique among Jews is the matter of peoplehood. DNA evidence and other medical records have proven that there truly is a common genealogy to the Jewish people. For generations there has been an ongoing argument as to whether Judaism is more a matter of religion or peoplehood. In both debates, whether casting Jews as a people or members of a religious group, or whether describing Jews as activists in a religion or part of a religious corpus, the argument is artificial. Since when must there be an either or choice in determining how a Jew identifies with his/her roots?
If the matter is of how one becomes a Jew, as is true for any other group, that decision is generally determined by rules and precedents that are enacted by its leadership. In the case of the Jewish people, those rules are called Halacha. While today those standards are generally described as religious, there was a time that those rules were just accepted as the guiding norms of the Jews. One must understand that the term religion is one external to Judaism and is used today to fit Judaism into the vast set of practices that exist around the world. Traditionally Jews saw their Judaism as their way of life. Halacha is and was the term traditionally used to describe that way of life. More than considering it as a set of laws, it is a set of normative practices.
In the era when those rules were established, and for generations that followed, the communal leaders who set and maintained those standards were a scholocracy. They led their people not because of their higher sanctity, but because of their deeper understanding of the intricacies and complexities by which the halachic practices developed. Throughout time there have been debates among scholars, at one time known as rabbis but today perhaps by other titles as well, as how Judaism evolved and was to be lived. In the rabbinic era and shortly thereafter there were Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, Karaites and others. Today we use different terms to describe approaches to Judaism. Several years ago an advertisement described 57 varieties of Judaism. Perhaps today there are even more.
Common among all these groups is that members of the group, its recognized leadership, determine what is demanded to be adopted into the Jewish people; to convert. Jews could define how they identify their Judaism, and no one else can impose that. Who is a Jew, though, perforce remains a decision by the existing Jewish leadership, and must follow a set of prescribed rules that informed Jews accept. It is recognized that different groups among the Jewish universe may apply those rules differently. This does not impinge on any individual's ability to adhere to the Jewish culture or to identify with the Jewish people. That individual decision, though, has never been sufficient to define him or her as a Jew.
This in turn leads to the issue of Rabbi Weiss. If who is and who is not a Jew is a matter of the application of Halacha, then whether a rabbi is the most stringent or the most liberal rabbi is irrelevant. It reveals a sad reality among the officers of Israel's chief rabbinate. The decision as to who may be in a religious court, the body that decides whether a candidate for conversion is or not accepted into the Jewish people, is a political determination. That is sad. It contravenes centuries of precedent in which it was a set of rules, Halacha that established how the Jewish people should act.
In Israel today, Reform and Masorti (Israeli Conservative) movements are attempting to persuade the government to accept the pluralism of the modern People of Israel. It is an argument long debated in the Diaspora. To this writer's way of thinking it is the wrong argument. For Chareidim who control the Chief Rabbinate and for liberal movements there should be a negotiation. It should not be based on pluralism but on readiness to define for all a set of guiding policies and procedures that all groups will accept to determine which aspirants will be accepted as converts.
Without such a common set of rules, Rabbi Weiss' case may be followed by many others. Moreover, It could lead to dividing Jews into a network of castes. Weiss' case will not be the last until common rules are accepted. Until then the Chief Rabbinate can continue to act capriciously, and that would be a travesty.


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NCAA Softball Tuscaloosa Regional
Jackson State at #3 Alabama
May 20, 2011 at TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Rhoads Stadium)
Score by Innings R H E
Jackson State....... 000 00 - 0 0 3
Alabama............. 230 21 - 8 6 1
Note: 1 out, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.
Umpires - HP: Ron Alexander 1B: Tanya Garig 3B: David Erwin
Start: 6:10 pm Time: 1:22 Attendance: 1917
Weather: Sunny, 84, Wind: From SSE at 3
NCAA Softball Tuscaloosa Regional
Jackson State at #3 Alabama
May 20, 2011 at TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Rhoads Stadium)
Jackson State starters: 12/2b Reed, W; 11/1b Plaza, J; 2/3b Wright, F; 14/dp
McClendon,A; 8/p Sims, T.; 21/c Smith,A; 20/ss Aikens,L; 3/lf Guillory, L;
18/cf Jamerson,B; 4/rf Palmer, R;
Alabama starters: 1/lf Braud; 7/cf Fenton; 20/ss Larsen; 22/1b Locke; 2/rf
Lunceford; 33/p Traina; 10/2b Hunt; 12/c Dawson; 9/3b Conley; 11/dp Sewell;
Jackson State 1st - Reed, W popped up to 3b (1-0).
Plaza, J struck out swinging (0-2). Wright, F grounded out to 2b (0-2). 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Alabama 1st - Braud singled to third base (3-2).
Braud stole second. Fenton singled through the left side (0-2); Braud advanced
to third. Fenton stole second. Larsen reached on a fielder's choice to
shortstop, out at second c to 2b, RBI (2-2); Fenton advanced to third, scored
on the throw; Braud scored. Locke walked (3-2). Lunceford flied out to lf
(0-0). Traina walked (3-1); Locke advanced to second. Hunt reached on a
fielder's choice to third base (2-2); Traina advanced to second; Locke out at
third 3b unassisted. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Jackson State 2nd - McClendon,A popped up to ss
(1-1). Sims, T. struck out looking (1-2). Smith,A struck out swinging (1-2).
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Alabama 2nd - McClendon,A to rf. Sims, T. to lf.
Guillory, L to cf. Jamerson,B to p. Palmer, R to dp. Dawson flied out to lf
(0-0). Conley walked (3-1). Braud struck out looking (1-2). Conley stole
second. Fenton reached on a fielding error by 2b (3-1); Conley scored,
unearned. Fenton stole second. Larsen reached on a fielding error by ss (1-0);
Fenton advanced to third. Locke hit by pitch (1-0); Larsen advanced to second.
Locke advanced to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on the error;
Larsen advanced to third on a wild pitch, scored on a throwing error by c,
unearned; Fenton scored on a wild pitch, unearned. Lunceford grounded out to 2b
(3-2). 3 runs, 0 hits, 3 errors, 1 LOB.
Jackson State 3rd - Aikens,L struck out swinging
(2-2). Guillory, L reached on a fielding error by 3b (0-0). Jamerson,B struck
out swinging (1-2). Reed, W struck out looking (2-2). 0 runs, 0 hits, 1
error, 1 LOB.
Alabama 3rd - Traina walked (3-1). Davis pinch ran
for Traina. Iamurri pinch hit for Hunt. Davis stole second. Iamurri out at
first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt (1-0); Davis advanced to third. Dawson popped up to p
(0-2). Conley lined out to ss (1-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1
Jackson State 4th - Traina to p for Davis. Hunt to
2b for Iamurri. Plaza, J struck out swinging (1-2). Wright, F popped up to 1b
(0-1). McClendon,A popped up to 1b (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
Alabama 4th - Braud singled to catcher, bunt (2-1).
Braud stole second. Fenton fouled out to 3b (3-2). Larsen tripled to right
field, RBI (0-0); Braud scored. Locke grounded out to ss (0-1). Lunceford
singled to left field, RBI (0-0); Larsen scored. Lunceford stole second. Traina
fouled out to 1b (2-1). 2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Jackson State 5th - Boccia to 1b for Locke. Sims, T.
struck out looking (2-2). Smith,A struck out swinging (1-2). Aikens,L grounded
out to p (0-1). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Alabama 5th - McClendon,A to dp. Palmer, R to rf.
Hunt walked (3-2). Dawson grounded out to ss (1-1); Hunt advanced to second.
Conley tripled to center field, RBI (0-0); Hunt scored. 1 run, 1 hit, 0
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Ana has started asking me EVERY morning "how many days until Christmas NOW???" We've actually started counting down "sleeps". So… as of right now… it's the 13th of December and we have 12 sleeps until we will wake up on that magical morning.
12 sleeps 'til Christmas!
I still have so many little things to do. Nieces and nephew to buy gifts for. Packages to ship. Christmas dinner to plan. Christmas cards to mail. Oh. My. Goodness. CHRISTMAS CARDS TO MAIL!
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This Solr package has been orphaned, but someone intends to maintain it. Please see bug number #652729 for more information.
The latest version of Solr is 3.5.0, Fortunately, I published solr packages for Ubuntu Oneiric to my own PPA repository last week, You can easily add source repository and install package as following instructions:
then open your browser go to 'http://localhost:8080/solr', you will see what you want.


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Ever since he burst onto the scene with his brilliantly bizarre film Rubber, Quentin Dupieux he has been bringing films like nothing else around. His latest, Wrong Cops doesn't quite go in the weird direction that Rubber did, but is still far from the norm. Featuring an interesting cast of relative unknowns and appearances from Eric Roberts, Jennifer Blanc, Ray Wise and Marilyn Manson it looks like it could be another interesting piece of cinema, but does it work or is it finally just too far out there?
Wrong Cops follows a group of officers who really couldn't care less about solving crimes and are much more interested in committing petty theft, blackmailing colleagues, soliciting prostitutes, sexually harassing the community and pursuing careers in electronic music. When one of them accidentally shots a man while holding a teenager hostage he stores the body in the trunk, but what should be an issue might not matter since the rest of the force is out committing their own crimes. Going into this film you have to understand that you are stepping into something a bit out there. This film sticks somewhat in a more normal world than Rubber but still brings a flare for the bizarre to the forefront. The cast of characters are all more strange than the next but that is part of the fun to this strange film. The most entertaining of the bunch has to be Marilyn Manson playing a teenager who is toned down in relation to his stage persona, but somehow still manages to bring an uncomfortable strangeness to it that is hilarious to watch. With every turn this film seems to step further outside of the realm of the norm taking each character deeper into a more seedy world, yet somehow making them all strangely likeable and disgusting at the same time.
The story to this film is a bit all over the place and doesn't really go anywhere but that is part of makes it so unique. Dupieux has a unique brilliant style to filmmaking that won't resonate with everyone, but those that get it are sure to love the strangely absurd worlds that he brings to life. Wrong Cops isn't quite as strange as Rubber, but just as unique so take a chance and give the film a chance.


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Rogers "The Tiger" Mtagwa (26-13-2, 18 KOs) will challenge Cuban sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa (16-0, 14 KOs) for Gamboa's WBA featherweight title this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Mtagwa, who was born in Dodima, Tanzania and moved to Philadelphia in 2000, earned this shot with game performance against WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez, of Puerto Rico on October 10. He rocked Lopez repeatedly throughout the fight, and nearly had him out in the final round, but dropped a unanimous decision.
"Gamboa has power and his speed is very good," said Mtagwa. "This is going to be a good fight for me. Training is good, and I am ready to go the distance."
Mtagwa is a throwback fighter who would have thrived in any era. Wearing trademark white trunks with black stripes, there are no frills to his appearance in the ring, or his style. He seeks out his opponent's chin from the opening bell to the last, and as a result, his fights are exciting and often dramatic.
In 2003, there was a brutal, dramatic, one-punch knockout of Corey Alarcon at the Tropicana in Atlantic City. Then there was an exciting 2005 bout with Fernando Trejo, where Mtagwa dropped Trejo twice in the final round to eke out a split decision victory.
Two fights before his bout with Lopez, Mtagwa fought Tomas Villa in Tuscon, Arizona. Down in the third round, Mtagwa battled back to floor Villa three times in the tenth and final round and got the stoppage win in what was a fight of the year candidate for 2008. Mtagwa stood with and traded with Villa, which delighted to fans, but didn't please his manager and cut man, Joe Parella.
"He stood in front of Villa," stated Parella, "which is something we didn't want him to do. We want to take this fight with Gamboa into the later rounds. We don't want him to stand and trade. I hope that he will listen and fight a smart fight. We are ready to go twelve rounds and let the cards fall where they may.
"I don't make excuses for my fighter. I tell it like it is. He stunk the place out against Billy Dib, and I was worried in the fight with Aldo Valtierra for the NABF title. I wasn't happy with Roger. I was disappointed. I was happy with getting the decision, but I knew it was close."
The decision was later changed to a "no contest" after Mtagwa tested positive for ephedrine. He won a decision over Valtierra in the rematch eight months later.
Mtagwa has a solid team behind him. His longtime promoter is hall of fame member Russell Peltz, and his trainer is Bobby "Boogaloo" Watts, the famous Philadelphia middleweight who happens to own a win over the great Marvin Hagler. Mtagwa does not limit his training to a single gym, either.
"I train at Joe Hand's Gym, Shuler's Gym, Front Street, and Marion Anderson, wherever I can get work. I don't like to stay at one gym," said Mtagwa.
In a fight town like Philadelphia, he has that luxury.
On June 16, 2006, Rogers won the USBA featherweight title with a spectacular fourth round knockout over highly touted Armenian Artyom Simonyan at the New Alhambra in Philadelphia. After a successful defense against Alvin Brown, Mtagwa lost the title to world-ranked Martin Honorio, in a razor-thin split decision at Cicero Stadium in Illinois.
Manager Joe Parella remembers:
"We fought a Golden Boy fighter in his own town. There was no doubt we were the opponent in that fight. We were given a closet for a dressing room, with a few folding chairs and a table with a light bulb hanging from the ceiling. Those were the accommodations we got with Honorio in Chicago. Still, I thought we beat Honorio."
Parella then repeated what many boxing experts said bout Rogers' bout with Juan Manuel Lopez. "It could have been a draw. That wasn't a knockdown (of Mtagwa) in the fifth round; it was more of a push. In that last round, Lopez held on to the ropes for dear life. I give the kid credit for surviving, but I wasn't happy at all with the refereeing. No way was that last round a ten – nine round either."
Mtagwa has his own take on that final round when he had Lopez badly hurt. "The referee was supposed to stop the fight when a fighter is hurt that bad. That's how fighters get killed. That's not right. He is the champion so they let it go. The guy was very hurt."
Team Mtagwa petitioned for a rematch with Lopez, and got the title bout with Gamboa instead. Lopez will face Steven Luevano in Saturday's main event.
"The training is good. This time I am ready. Last time (for Lopez) I only had two or three weeks to train because I hurt my ankle. I didn't run as much. This time, I run every day. I am ready for this one," said Mtagwa.
By now, the talk is over and all that's left is the fight. It is imperative for Rogers to alter his style for the wunderkind Gamboa. He would benefit from throwing his combinations, and then move out of harm's way. Doing that may be easier said than done.
Perhaps his best chance of winning would be to counter Gamboa on those occasions when he recklessly charges in with his bombs, and consequently leaves his chin exposed for a brief instant. Gamboa has been down several times in his young career.
Mtagwa closed with some words for his fans:
"I want my fans to pray for me that I don't get hurt. Please cheer for me to give me the energy to bring the title back to Philly. And I want to thank you for your support."
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General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote those words to mark the end of the Atlanta Campaign in the USA's Civil War on September 2, 1864. A delegation of city leaders rode out to meet the Union army and formally surrendered the city.
Here's why it matters.
Following Union victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee in November 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant assigned to Sherman the task of capturing Atlanta, a major rail transportation hub for the Confederacy. Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston defended the path to the city.
Sherman only launched a direct assault against Johnston once-- at Kennesaw Mountain. Instead, his army marched south beyond Confederate lines. The outflanking strategy forced Johnston to follow and set up defensive positions closer to Atlanta. Those continual "retreats" so frustrated Confederate President Jefferson Davis that he relieved Johnston of command.
General John Bell Hood attacked more aggressively, but also failed to counter Sherman's flanking strategy. As a result, Atlanta's last defense actually took place south of the city. On August 31, the Confederates were forced out of Jonesboro. On September 1, Hood's troops evacuated from the city.
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In the letter of surrender, Atlanta Mayor James Calhoun stated: "The fortune of war has placed Atlanta in your hands. As mayor of the city I ask protection of non-combatants and private property." But that night, as he looked out the windows of his new headquarters, Sherman observed that Hood's troops had burned everything they could not take with them.


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There was a lot to be said the past year about changing the name and mascot of the Washington Redskins. That team has been a franchise since 1932. In 1932, my father was six years old. His father owned a pool room and beer joint in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Grandpa Oscar Taylor George said that Jim Thorpe had a tab at the Pabst Blue Ribbon Grill, his bar, and that Thorpe shot craps at the pool room. Shooting craps was corroborated by another story shared by lawyer, John A Boyd about his grandfather Orba Mosher. That would have happened about 1923 when Jim Thorpe was managing a football team in La Rue, Ohio, not far from Mt.Gilead.
"(Grandpa Mosher) He did tell me though that he had 'shot craps with Jim Thorpe.' He pronounced his name "Thrope", which brings to mind another characteristic of Grandpa, his unique pronunciation of some words. He said atom boom for bomb, penjun for penguin, and others.
His story about shooting craps with Jim Thorpe would usually lead into the story about going to see his first football game, because he knew Thorpe when he was playing pro football. A friend took him to a professional football game, and after the game was over, he asked Grandpa what he thought. He said he reckoned it was OK except that all they did was fight."
The timeline is important to establish credibility around the stories that were passed on to me from my dad, grandad and family friends. Jim Thorpe of Native American and European descent played football until he was 41 years old which with his last year being 1928. He was more than a football player of course. He was described as the world's best athlete, and won Olympic medals, and played professional baseball, basketball, and coached professional football too.
While investigating more about Jim Thorpe and his being in Ohio, I discovered much about his coaching an all-American Indian NFL team called the Oorang Indians. Imagine the day when an entire team in the NFL was staffed with Native Americans and led by a world-class coach and athlete also a Native American. What was their team logo? It was an Airedale Terrier. Why?
A man named Walter Lingo from La Rue, Ohio, a farm town outside of Marion, Ohio raised dogs. He used the football team to promote his dog kennels. He hired Jim Thorpe to be the player coach and had Thorpe recruit all "Indian" players. That was 1922-23 and included 20 games.
Well Grandpa was 22 in 1923 and he didn't own the poolroom and beer joint until 1930. That means Jim Thorpe must have been in the neighborhood during the Depression. That was when he was drinking heavily. One story told by my dad is that Thorpe once kicked a football over one goal post and it landed over the other at the end of the field. The goal post to goal post kick sounds sensational, but a bunch of oldtimers repeated the story as I heard it many times. My dad claims that this happened in 1937 when grandpa was Morrow County sheriff. Dad would have been an 8 year old witness to the fete.
What actually happened is that "during halftimes he sometimes entertained crowds by drop-kicking a football 50 yards over one goal post, then turning around and drop-kicking another 50 yards over the opposite goal post." (Credit the Washington Post)
That's plausible. Now, the person who truly witnessed Thorpe playing near Mt. Gilead was my Great Grandpa, James A. George, who told the story to his son and grandson.
Anyway, check out the names of some of the Oorang Indians team members:
Arrowhead, from the Chippewas tribe. Laughing Gas (Reginald Edward Attache) of the Mission Indian tribe, Temecula, California. Chim Lingrel (Paul Chalmer Lingrel) from Ridgeway, Ohio (not far from Indian Lake).
In conclusion, to what name should the Redskins be name changed? I recommend, the Washington Airedales. That preserves the historical connection and is only offensive to the kennel club.
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Personal information
Date of birth: May 28, 1888
Place of birth: Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Date of death: March 28, 1953 (aged 64)
Place of death: Lomita, California
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight: 202 lb (92 kg)
Career information
College: Carlisle
Debuted in 1920 for the Canton Bulldogs
Last played in 1928 for the Chicago Cardinals
Coaching debut in 1921 for the Cleveland Indians
Last coached in 1923 for the Oorang Indians
Career history
As player:
Canton Bulldogs (1915–1917)
Canton Bulldogs (1919–1920)
Cleveland Indians (1921)
Oorang Indians (1922–1923)
Rock Island Independents (1924)
New York Giants (1925)
Rock Island Independents (1925)
Tampa Cardinals (1926)
Canton Bulldogs (1926)
Chicago Cardinals (1928)
As coach:
Indiana (1915)
Canton Bulldogs (1915–1920)
Cleveland Indians (1921)
Oorang Indians (1922–1923)
Tampa Cardinals (1926)
Career highlights and awards
2× Consensus All-American (1911, 1912)
GB Press-Gazette First-Team All-Pro (1923)
NFL 1920s All-Decade Team
NFL 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
College Football Hall of Fame inductee (1951)
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee (1963)
Career NFL statistics
Stats at NFL.com
Head coaching record
Career record
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame"


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Moody McCarthy and Bil Dwyer, who will bring their observations to the Egyptian Theatre stage on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, had their own reasons for making people laugh.
While Moody believed he was funny, Dwyer wanted a job in the entertainment world. The comedians talked with The Park Record in separate interviews a few days ago about their careers.
Moody McCarthy
Moody McCarthy said his interest in comedy started with the late Johnny Carson.
"Growing up I watched 'The Tonight Show' and that was one of my favorite shows," McCarthy said during a phone call from New York. "When the comic came out, I though it was the funniest thing I ever saw."
McCarthy memorized the jokes and would tell them to his friends, but never thought about doing an actual stand-up routine until he was 25.
"I started with an open mic and had the same aspirations as other comics," he said. "I thought that maybe I could go someplace with comedy."
His first try went pretty well and he got a lot of response.
"I figured I had the hang of it, but for three months straight after that, I couldn't get one dependable laugh," McCarthy said.
Luckily, there were many opportunities to practice the craft, he said.
"Slowly, I was able build up to being as funny as I first thought I was," he said.
Throughout the nearly two decades of making people laugh, McCarthy learned to love the challenge of gathering new material.
"I like working with a strong premise or figuring out a take on something that hasn't been said before," he explained. "I also like old-fashioned word play or misdirection. So, in a nutshell, you could say I like poking at a hard-hitting concept or just delivering a clever knock-knock joke."
The first place he goes for material is his personal life.
"However, I think the stuff I tell on stage is six months behind the actual events," McCarthy said with a laugh. "I mean, something will happen in my life and I will work on a joke about it, and once it's ready for the stage, a half a year has gone by."
Other times, McCarthy will begin creating a joke about something he thinks is funny, but the delivery will get lost in translation.
"Sometimes it just doesn't work out," he said. "For example, I'm a huge sports fan and I love golf. I know I like it more than the average person does, and it's hard to do a joke about it, because there are people who don't golf and don't care about what I'm saying."
In writing a joke, McCarthy has been known to take artistic license on minor details.
"I'll talk about my father and say he's farsighted, but in reality it's my mother who's farsighted, but I use my father because in some cases it works better."
While McCarthy isn't as brash as other comics in the field, he does like the different types of delivery.
"I like the ones who are pretty edgy and I like those people who are sort of the observers," he said. "I fall into the latter category."
Still, being a comedian has opened McCarthy's eyes to people's misconceptions about his livelihood.
"The major one is that people think comedians are always on and are working whatever room they're in," he said. "I hear, 'You're a comic, so tell us a joke' all the time. I don't mind telling someone a joke, but once in a while someone will come up to me and say, 'You should perform here' and I'll say, 'Um, we're in a Starbucks with 30 people checking emails. They won't be as enthusiastic as you would think they would be about hearing jokes about my wife.'
"There are comics who will drop everything and perform on the spot, but I think most comedians are quieter than people think," McCarthy said.
A few months ago, McCarthy was able to work a room that he had on his list ever since he started making people laugh.
"I did 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' which was my ultimate goal," he said. "What made it better was the fact that I was happy with the set. So, if I get to write my own gravestone, I'll make sure it says I was good on Letterman."
With that accomplishment under his belt, McCarthy is always looking to the future.
"I would like to do some international travel Australia, New Zealand," he said. "I'd like to do Letterman again, because that would validate my first time. Even if I don't do well the second time, I can always say that I did great the first.
"Oh, and I want to do Park City, Utah, because I haven't been to Utah before," McCarthy said. "If I can ski and tell jokes and come out ahead, then that's the ultimate for me."
For more information, visit www.moodymccarthy.com
Bil Dwyer
Bil Dwyer, , who has appeared on "The Larry Sanders Show" and "Ally McBeal," said he wanted a job in the entertainment business, and thought being a disc jockey was this ticket to fame.
"I went to school to be a disc jockey, not realizing you didn't need a degree to be a disc jockey," Dwyer said during a phone call from Los Angeles, Calif. "All you had to do to was hang out at a radio station and when someone got sick, you lolly-pipped your way into it all."
Once he became a disc jockey, Dwyer knew it wasn't for him.
"I would say something on the air, but wouldn't hear any reaction," he said with a laugh. "I kept saying to myself, 'This isn't working for me. I'm more needy than this. I need people.'"
So, the future funnyman moved to California to be a tour guide at Universal Studios.
"I thought that would propel me into my show-business career, and I was correct, in a weird sort of way," he said. "I went from tour guide to various sales jobs to somewhat of a career in show business as a stand-up comedian."
Even before he moved to California, Dwyer dabbled in stand up.
"My first time performing stand up was at a 'Catch a Rising Star' competition in college, and I came in third," he remembered. "The first-place finisher was Joey Gutierrez, who went on to write for 'Seinfeld' and create the sitcom 'Still Standing.' Second place went to Peggy Kusinski, who eventually became the sports anchor for NBC in Chicago. So, I can say that the three of us are doing pretty well these days."
When Dwyer was a kid he loved the stand-up work of Steve Martin.
"I also liked David Letterman as a comic," he said. "In fact, I remember seeing him on 'The Tonight Show.' That was the only time I saw him in that capacity and thought, 'Oh, man. This guy is it.'
"I thought David was the greatest at that time," Dwyer said. " I was way above the curve with that one it was just me and Johnny Carson."
When the stand-up opportunity circled around again, Dwyer decided to take a more academic approach to cultivating his jokes.
"Some people will tell you that I stole my entire act from a guy in Maryland and that's why I don't play Maryland," he said. "But the truth is, that when making a joke, I look for something, like a grand theme and break it down."
One of the themes Dwyer uses is the holidays.
"There is always something to draw from, because people are so touchy around the holidays," he said. "I mean, I'll go up to someone and say, 'Happy Holidays' and they come back with 'Oh, my father died last Christmas.'
"It's like 'How was I suppose to know that?'" he said. "So, I'll say, 'Oh, well, this one will be happier' or 'All of a sudden that sweater you're wearing doesn't look so bad, now, does it?'"
When reflecting on his profession, Dwyer doesn't like to think about the challenges.
"If I thought about them, I would go out of my head worse than I already am," Dwyer said "If I think about what I can or can't do or what I should or shouldn't be doing, it would make me crazy. So, I look at everything in the sense of what is open and available to me and what is working and how the good things are going."
That's the secret of stand up, he said.
"You always have to make things work," he said. "If a joke doesn't go over one night, you make it work the next night, and that, to me, is ridiculously thrilling."
For more information about Bil Dwyer, visit www.therangeshow.com.
The Egyptian Theatre will present stand-up comedians Bil Dwyer and Moody McCarthy on Friday, Jan. 4, and Saturday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $30 and are available at www.parkcityshows.com.


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Are there any mobile battery packs that exist that can be used to power phones and other mobile devices?
Is there anything specific I should look for or know before buying and using one
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Yes, there are many different manufacturers of lithium-ion battery packs. You'll need to be aware of the power drain of your device. Most modern smartphones that charge via USB (which is pretty much all of them now) pull about 1 amp of power from the power source when charging. (This is why they usually charge more slowly when connected to a computer -- computer USB ports usually only supply 500mA.)
iPads pull 2.1 amps when charging, and they can charge and be operated at the same time. I suspect most other tablets are somewhere in that vicinity. So, if you'll need to charge AND use an iPad or other tablet, you'll need to make sure your battery pack supplies enough amperage.
Obviously something else to be aware of is the actual capacity (mAH, or milliamp-hours) of the battery, as this will tell you how long it will charge/power the device. Usually the packaging will tell you something like "Power your iPhone for up to 4 hours!" or something similar.
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Certainly. There are lots of portable USB chargers out there. Product recommendation questions are off topic for most Stack Exchange sites and you haven't specified any particular requirements, so I'm giving general guidance on how to choose a portable USB charger rather than giving a specific recommendation.
I personally use a Sony CP-ELS (2000 mAh), but there are loads of choices, from compact low-power units (like mine) to expensive, high-performance power supplies with capacities upwards of 10,000 mAh and capable of fully charging a smartphone several times.
Whatever your choice, make sure it has enough capacity to meet your requirements and can supply enough current for the devices you want to connect to it. Some of them can be unreliable, so you'll want to pay attention to the customer reviews before you buy.


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Some poses are just too challenging to dive right in without preparing for them first. Monkey God Pose (forward split) is no exception, and so several poses can prepare the body for this muscle defying pose. Most yogis will agree this pose requires intense dedication. In fact, the pose itself mirrors the monkey Hanuman's leap across an ocean in attempt to reunite two lovers. It's no wonder this pose is usually only achieved after deep dedication. This pose requires openness, and the ability to transcend physical limitations.
Standing Forward Bend is the perfect pose to begin preparing for Monkey God Pose. It will open the muscles in the legs, engaging the hamstrings and calves. It will also stretch the lower back. The next pose is Low Lunge Twist. Step the left leg back, and bend the right knee, coming into lunge. Then twist with the hands in prayer position. This will widen the hips and thighs.
Half Monkey God Pose means the body is getting closer to a full split. From the lunge position, straighten the front leg and flex the foot. Place the same hand beneath the thigh, and touch the fingertips of the other hand to the floor for balance. Bring the face as close to the leg as possible.
Pigeon Pose and Low Lunge are two additional poses to prepare for the full split. When it's time to give it a try, use blocks under the fingers if possible. Press the hands down and extend the torso and open the heart. This pose will engage the muscles on all sides of the legs. Lengthen the tailbone while extending the legs to lower the body to the floor.