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We're heartbroken about Erik Petersen's death earlier this week. After knowing him & Denise for years, I was super proud that we added Mischief Brew to our roster 2 years ago (following fellow Philly punx Witch Hunt). My deepest condolences and love and support go out to my fellow Philadelphians and friends elsewhere who are grappling with this truly awful news. I wish I was out there with you to grieve. Let's celebrate his life and art and dance on the ruins! -Jesse Luscious, AT GM
12/01/15: bATcast #125: THE BANDS OF KRAMPUS NIGHT!
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11/16/15: bATcast #124: Part 2 with Dick Lucas of Culture Shock/Citizen Fish/Subhumans UK!
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Legendary Shack Shakers have posted their first music video from their upcoming album, "The Southern Surreal" on Noisey: Music by Vice! "Mud" is the first track to be released from the album, and vocalist JD Wilkes had this to say:
"Mud" is an anthem for good ole "Whiskey Dick", the train that once served as the drunkard's shuttle to the "wet" counties of Kentucky.
Characters abound along the way; from a clown named "Spoons" to a "Dixie Witch with a mud yurt in a ditch." (I always wanted to sneak the word "yurt" into a song.)
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http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/0...157-withdrawalAfter breaking his thumb during sparring, a trip [to hospital] was unavoidable. It was then Gamburyan learned he also had a fractured elbow.
Although he knew immediately when he broke his thumb, Gamburyan was unaware of the extent of the damage to his elbow. He trained through the injury for three months.
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Wonderful, wonder news Sue. I swear I have been waiting to hear your report and I have been checking back so many times, I swear it was almost like stalking!!! Your doctor sounds wonderful and I am so glad she took the time to explain things to you. I am sure it made you feel so much better to have a deeper understanding.
I see you are from Indiana. I was born in Bloomington and was raised on Bobby Knight basketball--even after we moved away when I was 5. My grandparents are actually from Nebraska and so I havent been back to Bloomington in about 15 years. Though I have vague memories of it from childhood particularly about getting ice cream from the Penguin(?).
I am just smiling right now. I hope that our present good luck rubs off on some of the others. Take care.
Sounds good Sue! What a dream to have a great Doc!
By the way, my Mum also suffered pain around the ribs, where she'd had the op. Seems normal. She just took paracetomol to help.
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I used ettercap alone to crack my ssl pass on wellsfargo a while ago. I entered the pass with ie6 though! It just sent a fake security cert and then voila... I am guessing the new browsers require the use of sslstrip then? At what point in the browser upgrades did ettercap alone stop working?
Awesome Tutorial
However there has been a few times where I had two different problems (on different trys):
One of them being that the victim connection just died. I forgot the check if it was only the HTTP traffic or the entire connection
The other problem was that I got the "This connection is unsecure bla bla bla" SSL warning thing on the victim computer.
Great tutorial!! Worked a charm.
Only thing is, when I go back after having logged in, it comes up with the unsecure certificate malarky.
awesome tut but i tried it with ubuntu and what happened it was realy strange when i started to sniff with ettercap i checked my other pc went to paypal and it was giving me the message it works! from the php thing:S i tried all the sites but i got always the same:S.
and now i cant see any site:S please help
hey everyone if looking for a tutorial check out bt France community the guy named benjy did up a nice on on sslstrip
Ive been testing ettercap at work and I will agree that it wasnt very "seamless". Only 20% of the computers had to accept the fake SSL cert before ettercap would grab the passwords.
Not sure if there is any way around this.
Great vid tho!
nice tutorial, keep up the good work
good God! works great..
how to tweak arp so the connection will not slow while MITM attack is enable?
is anybody know?


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The new political party is specifically targeting English-speaking olim in the Israeli capital.
On the evening of July 11, nearly 400 Anglo immigrants to Tel Aviv, hailing from countries including the United States, Britain, Australia and South Africa, trudged through the city's thick humidity and into the Barbara Frye pub on Frishman Street, a classed-up sort of dive bar just off of the famous shopping drag of Dizengoff.
They weren't there to drink, although beer and cocktails were flowing from the big, friendly bar. They were there for the launch of Kol Oleh, a grassroots political movement devoted to putting political power into the hands of Israeli immigrants.
Call it the "teach a man to fish" syndrome. With more than 15,000 English-speaking immigrants now living in Tel Aviv — a city that, despite its big name, is really just a tiny, skyscraper-studded beach town of just over 400,000 residents and 20 square miles — Kol Oleh founder Guy Seemann decided it was time that newcomers to Tel Aviv took ownership of their stake in the city, rather than relying on others to do it for them.
"The city needs to be shown that olim bring a lot to the table," Seemann, using the Hebrew term for immigrants to Israel, told The Times of Israel just before the launch. "Kol Oleh wants to make Tel Aviv an example for the rest of the country when it comes to successful klita," or immigrant absorption.
Statistics vary on Israel's retention rate of its English-speaking immigrant population, which it woos to the country with attractive benefit packages, free Hebrew lessons, housing and job-search assistance, and a variety of tax write-offs. After a few years, however, those benefits wane or cease altogether, and many English-speaking olim — especially the younger, college-educated types who flock to the major cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and then often find themselves unable to compete in a job market that doesn't value their skills — end up throwing in the proverbial towel and heading back home. Some experts put the numbers of young olim who give up within three years of their aliyah date — instead making yeridah, or leaving Israel — to be as high as 50 percent.
Such statistics are totally unacceptable, says Seemann, who thinks that the best way to keep olim in the country is to help empower them to change things. And he appears to have struck a nerve: After his first jam-packed event this past summer, Kol Oleh hosted several more events, including the first-ever English-language candidates' debate in advance of Tel Aviv's mayoral and city council elections on Oct. 22. That debate turned into a series, with immigrants from across the city snapping up tickets for the chance to speak out and ask their politicians policy questions — in their native languages.
Seemann, it seems, was not alone in deciding that 2013 is the year of the empowered oleh in Tel Aviv. One immigrant embraced that initiative so strongly that he didn't just learn about the election; he ran in it.
Jonathan Javor's chances of securing a spot on the Tel Aviv City Council were slim at best. He held the No. 8 spot on the party list of Tel Aviv 1, also known as the mayor's party. Javor knew that it would take a landslide for his party to win enough seats on Oct. 22 for there to be room for him to join them in the municipal government. (The Israeli electoral system, notoriously multiparty and complex, awards party leaders with a number of seats based on their tallied votes, and candidates for each party's council are allotted numbers in their order for those seats). But Javor, who was born in London and immigrated to Israel with his parents at the age of 11, says his goal was not so much to win this electoral round as it was to secure Anglos a voice and a platform in the Israeli government.
Javor's parents settled on a kibbutz in the north of Israel when they first arrived in the country, and Jonathan, who didn't speak Hebrew, says he was basically left to flounder until he figured out how to integrate into the culture.
"There was nothing for us," he says of the kibbutz environment, which didn't have any programs set up to help immigrants. "It was grunt and bear it. It was, throw Jonathan in the deep end and watch him sink or swim. And a lot of times, I would come into class, put my bag down and just leave because there was no point in being there."
Javor did ultimately catch on. He learned Hebrew and managed, with some difficulty, to finish high school and graduate. But he knew that his chances for a solid college education would be limited in his adopted country, so he returned to England for several years, completing both a bachelor's and a master's degree before returning to Israel. When he did come back, he headed straight to Tel Aviv, the city that he now never plans to leave.
Here in the White City, he struck up a friendship with Jay Shultz, a New Jersey native who fervently believes that every Jew should live in Israel, and that Tel Aviv is Israel's greatest asset. Build up Israel's cultural capital into a thriving, affordable and manageable city for Westerners, Shultz says, and they will come.
In 2006, Shultz founded TLV Internationals, a nonprofit umbrella organization offering a plethora of events and classes designed to do just that.
Javor began working with him, forging a truly grassroots movement that resonated with the dissatisfied olim who had come to Tel Aviv with stars in their eyes and now found themselves disillusioned by the bureaucratic and economic hurdles that can represent modern Israeli life.
Under the banner of TLV Internationals, Shultz, working with a small support staff and using funds from his own private business ventures, created English-speaking Friday night dinners for hundreds of people ("White City Shabbat"); hosted outings to art galas, theater and dance (The Tel Aviv Arts Council); and started a program similar to Big Brothers/Big Sisters, where young Anglo professionals are paired with lonely Holocaust survivors for an exchange of friendship and empathy (Adopt-a-Safta). TLV Internationals also hosts the incredibly popular Tel Aviv International Salon events, which include sponsored wine tastings from a Golan Heights winery and sold-out lectures with visiting celebrities and high-ranking Israeli politicians. Recent events included a sidesplitting evening with celebrity sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer; a talk with Kadima leader Tzipi Livni; and a reading by author and political wife-of-the-moment, Lihi Lapid (she is married to Yesh Atid founder Yair Lapid).
"I believe in this community. I believe in what it's capable of, in giving people the tools to go succeed," Javor, who is fresh-faced and affable, says over coffee at Café Xoho, a hallmark of Tel Aviv Anglo life just off of Ben Yehuda Street near Gordon Beach. "You know, when Jay started with TLV Internationals, there really wasn't anything going on in English. And we took those ideals, and now we're doing dinners for 200 people."
Javor, who spent several years working in the Knesset as an aide to former MK Otniel Schneller, had been stumping for several weeks when we spoke in October, so it was hard to separate the genuine passion from the campaign slogans in his speech. Nevertheless, his platform — he was handpicked by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai to serve as the token "Anglo" in a broader re-election campaign that sought to play upon Huldai's strengths in revitalizing the city — resonated with those English speakers, this reporter included, who believe life could be better here.
"I can't run away from the fact that I am an Anglo candidate," he says when asked if he thought he could garner votes from the average Israeli. "But just the fact that we have an Anglo candidate, a Western oleh candidate — it's the first time that this young oleh community is getting recognition. We are being recognized as a valued community."
He takes a sip of his coffee and gives one of his megawatt grins. "We are small, it's peanuts. We haven't even scratched the surface yet. But we're being valued because we're seen as wanting to contribute. We want to contribute — and we want to do more."
Postscript: Tel Aviv elections, despite the rallying of Anglo troops, were an embarrassment in terms of voter turnout. Poll numbers were sluggish across the nation, with national voter turnout around 30 percent, but Tel Avivians trailed even those dismal numbers with a turnout of around 21 percent. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, backed by the Tel Aviv 1 party, did win re-election, and he secured five city council seats. That means Javor did not make it into the government this time, but he did manage to align himself with a winner — a good sign for the next round of elections in five years.
Debra Kamin is the Israel correspondent for Inside. This article originally appeared in Inside Magazine, a Jewish Exponent publication.


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With this in mind, Sonos is entering the world of home cinema with its Playbar – a gorgeous swan of multiroom wonder designed to sit either in front of your TV or mount on the wall. Whichever you opt for, it'll tune the output from its nine drivers to the optimum settings for that orientation – and it's some output: this is the most powerful system Sonos has made to date.
Should you want to beef up your home cinema set-up at a later date, Sonos suggests you add its Sub and/or a pair of stereo twinned Play:3 units for extra depth and rumble. Well, it would, wouldn't it? That ends up looking like a pretty pricey home theatre arrangement – though it does have the benefit of being wireless and flexible… and really quite wantable.
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I find it disturbing that WE didn't go after a FA during the bye. Didn't we work out Montrae Holland? Wasn't he among the better OLINEMEN last year? We instead chose Dockery? And now we keep Beannie?
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Yea, I don't like this at all. Those two guys are the scum of one of the 3 worst OLs in the NFL. There is absolutely no reason to be laughing like that at that point in the game. Granted, this was high school, but when we were getting blown out and playing like poppycock, I wanted to deck any and all of my teammates who were laughing and joking around. These guys should despise losing to the point it makes them sick. Pitiful in my eyes.
Maybe Bernadeau told Free he's a good player?
Could be. More than likely though, they were discussing the most recent episode of Honey Boo Boo.
I think we've found Bournadouche's replacement. I don't know though, do all of you calling for them to be made an example of think Spencer should still be on this team? What if they are laughing about someone crapping their pants. You don't know what's going on.
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We need to figure out our Oline by December. Not that I have any hope left in the team just want to see anything magical happens. /facepalm
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We need to figure out our Oline by December. Not that I have any hope left in the team just want to see anything magical happens. /facepalm
We needed to figure out our o-line before the season started. Now its past due, and we're being docked points. Unless something magical happens, we're gonna have a hard time passing. Crazier things have happened, but still, we're down a couple letter grades already.
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I watch other teams and I'm always amazed at how they protect their QB and how they run the ball. Why is the line so bad every year? The Giants plug in backups and still have much better protection. I just don't get it.
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Cutting Bernadeau would be good but Free also? Do you want to tank the season with Dockery AND Parnell starting?
I say in the offseason we consider moving Free to RG and draft a C first and OT for the future. The only way I would want Free to stay at RT is if a talented OG fell to us in the second round (like Cooper for example).
I honestly believe that Parnell could perform better than Free has been and Dockery could probably do better than BurningDuece. So why not cut them? I do agree though that Free could make a pretty good guard. He has just lost his footwork to block these guys on the outside. Its really not a matter of ability, its just a matter of him not putting the work in to use proper technique. Id rather have a less talented person out there trying their butt off.
I may be the only person on this forum that believes in Parnell, but i know a lot of the coaching staff does too. Id like to see him get some real playing time. At least bench Free for awhile. It cant get much worse on the right side.
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I think they should run more screens. It would entirely fool the defense because they wouldn't know if they are just busting through the line like a general pass play for the Cowboys or if it's because of a screen.
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Ask yourself these questions, for those of you who are old enough to remember.
What was this team like before Jimmy Johnson arrived?
What type of coach was Jimmy Johnson?
Did players react to his style of coaching?
What did that team do again?
This is a prime example of bums feasting on a dead carcus. They are like hyenas scrounging a meal off of a dead wilderbeast. The Cowboys franchise being the wilderbeast.
This team sucks! And sucks really bad. And everyone on the team knows it, they are just trying to get through the season with as little effort and pain as possible and collect big, laughing all the way to the bank.
You see, being a teacher, I have noticed something about this generation coming up and the one before it. They are spoiled rotten! Rotten to the core! They are born with a sense of entitlement. They think everything is theirs or should be given to them as a birth right. No one wants to earn the best, they just want to be the best. And what constitutues best in this society? M-O-N-E-Y!!!! And lotsssssss of it!
If you have a lot of money, you can buy things. You can become that model American that you see advertised on television and in movies. And these "ah-hem" musicians that are spoiling what real music is.
Yes sir, if you have the Bennies, what the hell does a plastic trophy mean? Who cares????? I'm rich. I'm earning millions of dollars. Hey, if we happen to win it, great. If not, I'm going to the Bahamas a few weeks earlier this year, that's all.
The Cowboys teams of the early 90's personified what it means to be dedicated, passionate, smart, unrelenting and above all, champions. They went from 1-15 to 3 time super bowl champs in a matter of 5 years.
These types of players today feel like they have already won because of the money they are already collecting. In their minds, they've arrived! Pop the champaigne!
Does anyone remember when Emmitt Smith, THEE E-M-M-I-T-T S-M-I-T-H got his big contract? Do you? Yeah, AFTER (Let me say that again) After they won their first superbowl. Not before, not when he signed, not after he already won his 2nd rushing title. AFTER his first superbowl.
I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone with my rant, I know it does not encompass everyone. But I see this type of behaviour day in and day out while teaching in the school districts. And I'm here to tell you, many of these kids either drop out or end up getting pushed through the system and end up dead or in jail because reality smacks them in the face once they are through the system.
It is EXACTLY this type of player that needs to GO! They need to be sent out on a rail! Made a gross public spectical to send a message. YOUR KIND ARE NOT WELCOMED HERE! GO PLAY FOR THE CANADIAN LEAGUE!
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I think there is reason to believe that this will happen. As we all know, the rotation had unprecedented failure last year because of Wilson's injury, Milton's ineffectiveness, Ortiz's mediocrity, and the growing pains of any number of young replacements. The lone bright spots were Harang (good pretty much all year) and Claussen (good after a rough spell in the first half). With Harang and Claussen returning with more experience, Milton unlikely to under-perform his '05 season, and the addition of underrated Dave Williams (who is at the same career plateau as Harang and Claussen... right around 90 starts when things start going better for most young pitchers), I see a front four with the following stats:
Harang 200+ IP, 13 W, 4.10 ERA
Claussen 180+ IP, 11 W, 3.90 ERA
Williams 150+ IP, 11 W, 4.50 ERA
Milton 200+ IP, 10 W, 4.90 ERA
If Wilson returns to form (a big if, I admit), then we're likely to get at least three (if not four) major league average starters out of this group. That combined with the offense on this team should produce a better outcome in the standings. I also think these pitchers are starting to learn how to pitch in GABP by keeping pitches down in the zone to coax groundouts. Ruhle seems to understand something that Gullett didn't, and it showed in the second half of '05. All of this has me feeling, well, okay about our starters.
The bullpen is like a brigade of human batting tees. It may actually keep my conservative starter W projections from hitting the mark. Long gone are the days of Jim Bowden bullpens with endless depth and replaceable parts.
Here is who we seem to have back there right now:
Mercker (our one solid option at this point)
Standridge (I was pleased with his performance last year in places)
Belisle (Best chance to be the closer I think)
White (mediocre innings eater)
Weathers (an injurty question)
Wagner (erratic at best, may be in AAA)
Coffey (not convinced about him either)
Even if Mercker, Standridge, Belisle and Weathers all show up, there are stil a few places left to be filled, and I just don't see the other players providing the starters with any kind of consistent support.
Yes, I'm not afraid to say that I think Harang and co. may be a bit better than advertised... but I don't think they'll get the bullpen back-up needed to provide them with W's.


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Remarks by Former Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould
Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs National Training Conference
Atlanta, GA
August 11, 2010
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for inviting me to speak with you today because, quite simply, you are the face of our department. You bring VA to life in the public's eyes. You deliver the message that shapes how Veterans, the American people, and our Nation's decision-makers see and understand our department.
Equally important, you prepare yourselves—through conferences like this—to take the offense, not just the defense in communicating VA's cause … in explaining what we do … and reporting on how well we do it. Yours is not an easy task, considering that VA's size, scope, and revenues give us parity with the top 10 corporations in America.
From the perspective of 17 months on the job, I've gained a solid respect for the challenges you face. Whether talking about new PTSD regulations and advances in mental health care … the claims backlog … or expanding and improving our cemeteries, I think it's fair to say that VA's program challenges are public affairs challenges—each and every one, each and every time. Your sphere of influence is VA-wide, internal and external.
Our founding visionary, President Lincoln, understood the power of public opinion. He believed that education and persuasion were the two critical elements in molding it. That's your stock-in-trade—you educate Veterans and the public about VA. The good and great things we do and have available … and the remedial actions we take to fix the not so great things that can happen in an organization the size of our department. I know it's a point of pride for you to correct the mis-truths and half-truths that sometimes surface. And that speaks to your professionalism.
You're all probably familiar with Lincoln's belief that,"Whoever can change public opinion can change the government."In our case, whoever gets the word out to the public—with no mistake about itsclarity and accuracy—can change how VA is perceived. Change the way we are portrayed on-line, in newspapers and on TV, and in social media. Change the way we are viewed by Congress and valued by the American people. The way we are seen through the eyes of our clients—Veterans and their families. And, very importantly, the way we are—or are not—seen as living up to our 19th century heritage in serving 21st century Veterans.
Today, I want to talk about that 21st century VA. I want to talk about transformation.
Under President Obama and Secretary Shinseki's leadership, it's VA's operative word. I'm not overstating the case when I say, as public affairs officers, your skill sets … expertise … and professional acumen are essential to our transformation efforts.
It comes down to that old saying, What the public thinks depends on what the public hears. We want them to hear—loud and clear—about the proactive initiatives taking place all across our department. We want them to hear our message of change.
Let me give you an example. Probably the most high-profile issue facing our department is the claims backlog. In attempting to fix this problem once and for all, we've dozens of pilot programs in operation. Two of our Regional Offices are testing walk-in, 'on-the-spot' review of claims for comp and pen benefits; the Wichita RO is one of them. Its director, Antoine Waller, forwarded this account of the pilot as seen through the eyes of the on-the-ground Service Center Manager who wrote—
"I worked with a man and his son who walked into the office after lunch. The veteran had lung cancer. He had his private medical records, DD 214, and Bronze Star award with him. I reviewed the records and explained the process to him. Before the end of the day I was shaking his hand and providing him an award letter granting him $3,327.00 dollars per month. Amazing.
The veteran had tears in his eyes. He had no idea he would get this type of service or benefit. He had never used VA before. While we were waiting for the award letter [to be delivered], we also got him enrolled for care at the VA hospital."
What a great story! What an opportunity to educate the American people about a changing VA.
It's good news stories like this one that we want the public to know about. Not only in disability claims, but across-the-board. Not just once in a while, but consistently.
On another level, that story illustrates the fact our services ultimately come down to the one-on-one human interactions that bring about a solution … an answer … or a positive outcome for a Veteran. It speaks to a new service orientation that can be framed by the following questions:
"How can we help you?" "How can we make a positive difference in your life?" "How can we make your experience with VA user-friendly, outcome-oriented, and hassle-free?"
In short, we want to be a Veteran's advocate, not adversary.
By now, you're all familiar with the words Veteran-centric, results-driven, and forward-looking. They are more than just a catchy slogan; they are operating principles that help VA employees decide what to do in a turbulent, fast-moving environment:
- Shifting demographics.
- Rapidly-emerging technologies.
- Instant, evolving communications.
- Economic realities forcing more and more Veterans to turn to VA; Veterans who have changing expectations and demands driven by consumer-obsessed corporations.
- And, most important, our obligations—across the board—to the men and women engaged in an extended, multi-front war.
This afternoon, I want to talk about three things: Why we are transforming. Where we are in the process itself. And, most importantly, your part in it.
Transformation can be defined in three sentences. Change VA's culture, adversary to advocate. Deliver improved services and benefits in a tough operating environment to achieve high standards of quality. And build strong and flexible management systems to help us achieve optimal results for Veterans.
Within that context, VA is morphing into a high-powered, innovative organization—Why? Because the old way of doing things will not deal with the growth in volume and complexity of our work. Veterans rightfully expect us to meet their needs in increasingly efficient, convenient, and customer-friendly ways. "Business as usual" will no longer do. The business of government must change with the times. We're changing to better serve the evolving needs of America's Veterans whether he or she is the 20-year old Veteran of Afghanistan; 40-year old Veteran of Kuwait; 60-something Veteran of Vietnam; or the 90-year old Veteran of Normandy.
We want to take advantage of new technologies, and new ways of serving Veterans. And rid ourselves of lingering systemic problems that hobble our operations and prevent our employees from giving the optimal levels of service that they want to render.
How do we do that? Well, by a number of things. By changing our approach to serving Veterans. There are lessons to be learned about customer service and public affairs from the pros: Amazon, Zappos, Southwest Airlines, ACE Hardware, and Nordstrom. Lessons about doing business in the 21st century—with speed, agility, high levels of customer service, and a parsimonious use of resources. And lessons about using the force of an organization's public affairs office to the best advantage. Through branding; by forging strong, collaborative relationships with all stakeholders; and leveraging coordinated, creative, and consistent messaging.
Like Lincoln, we need to take the offensive and educate people using the facts.
Exactly how is VA changing? By developing our presence on the World Wide Web. By maximizing our ability to access and deliver services online. By using best practices from the private sector. By keeping an external perspective, because in the 21st century collaborations matter.
The days of the insular, monolithic organization are long gone. Alliances rule: Public-private; local-state-national; academic; not-for-profits; small business; multi-nationals.
We're changing by leveraging technology across all our programs. The future is bound to technology—and our human reaction to it.
We're retooling our governance structure to advance transparency in operations.
We're ramping up investment in our employees—$350 million this year. In my view, people rank as Government's most important resource. I'm convinced we need to treat that national resource better than we would any other—as the vital factor worthy of our ongoing development.
Some examples are this OPIA training conference. Another is our Advance initiative, where we're transforming potential into performance through professional growth. And still another is in instituting government-wide hiring and personnel reforms.
We're changing by ushering in a new era in energy efficiency, with an eye toward greening our department—a $400 million investment.
We're fostering changes in attitude, a cultural shift in how we define ourselves as a department.
How are we turning the strategy into reality?
First, we've taken a hard look at our organization—from top to bottom—to identify areas for improvement in quality, access and value. We've questioned our assumptions at every juncture. We've listened to the concerns of Veterans. We've conducted internal surveys and interviews. We've engaged in fact-gathering and sought advice from the front lines to capture the best thinking and ideas.
We've had multiple meetings with key internal and external audiences and stakeholders at all levels to accelerate sourcing for transformation ideas. The first two rounds of our department-wide VA Innovation Initiative, VAi2, have generated over 10,000 ideas from 45,000 employees.
Second, we've strengthened accountability agency-wide. Take our Performance Review Board process, for example. It's no secret that measurable performance goes hand-in-hand with a results-oriented culture. High individual performance supports a high-performing organization.
Third, we've secured the resources needed to drive change. We have a rising budget baseline. This year's budget represents the largest increase in 30 years.
And last, we've fielded wide-ranging initiatives to dramatically improve our programs and services—each relating to one or more of our four strategic goals.
What are VA's strategic goals?
- Improve quality and accessibility of health care, benefits, memorial services while optimizing value.
- Increase Veteran-client satisfaction with health, education, training, counseling, financial, and burial benefits and services.
- Raise readiness to provide services and protect people and assets continuously and in time of crisis.
- Improve internal customer satisfaction—your satisfaction—with management and support services to achieve mission performance. In other words, make VA an employer of choice by investing in its people.
I've been using high-action words like ramp up … improve … increase … raise …develop … maximize … and others. Those calls to action not only speak to transformation, but are in response to VA's challenges—big challenges. Here are a few:
- The volume of Comp & Pen rating-related claims is steadily increasing. In 2009, we received over one million claims during a single year. Between FY 2000 and FY 2009, incoming disability claims grew by a staggering 75%.
- The number of aging Veterans who may need extended care is growing. The number of enrolled Veterans 85 or older is projected to increase 32% between 2009 and 2018.
- The population of women Veterans is increasing rapidly. Last year, VA experienced a 20% jump in the number of women using our health care compared to a 17% increase over the previous six years.
These increases are good news—that's what we are here to do. But they are challenges we can't address in the same way as before. New challenges demand new responses.
What have we accomplished so far? Through our targeted initiatives—we've reset VA's axis of advance and dramatically changed our organizational posture. Here are a few specifics.
We've launched an aggressive campaign to attack the claims backlog. We expect to have a fully-automated, online system prototype by November of this year. We've expanded the VBA workforce by over 3,500, and opened up on-line applications for initial disability benefits. We've initiated an innovation competition, as I've mentioned, and launched over 30 pilot programs and initiatives to identify best practices. And we've invested $138 million in a paperless system to be deployed in 2012.
In health care, we are adopting a patient-centered, team-based system, using evidence-based approaches to health promotion, disease prevention, and population health. We're working to improve access with new and upgraded facilities at Denver; Palo Alto and Alameda, California; Omaha and New Orleans. We're providing health care eligibility for more Priority Group 8 Veterans. We're making big investments in big issues: $250 million for rural health care access and $217.6 million in women's health, for example. And we're continuing to develop our Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record with our VA-Kaiser Permanente pilot program.
In our National Cemetery System, we are expanding and improving cemeteries at Indiantown Gap; Los Angeles; and Tahoma, Washington. In addition, we have authorization for five new national cemeteries.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill is yet another success story. As of last month, VA has issued over $4 billion in tuition, housing, and stipends for 300,000 Veteran-students or family members. That's been driven, in part, by our nationwide advertising campaign. Very important, we expect to have an automated processing system on line by the end of this year.
We've conducted an intense campaign to end Veteran homelessness within five years. How have we done? Well, in 2008, there were an estimated 131,000 homeless Veterans on the streets; last year, in 2009, there were 107,000. Also last year, we held the National Summit on Veterans Homeless to collaborate with our public-private partners in reaching our goal of ending Veteran homelessness within five years. Toward that goal, we've instituted a National Homeless Hotline and have resourcing in the pipeline; our 2011 budget request contains a 23% funding increase for our homeless programs—up from $3.4 billion in 2010, to $4.2 billion next year.
Thanks to OPIA, VA has dramatically expanded its communications profile. We have a new, user-friendly web site and a presence on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. In fact, VA has more Facebook subscribers than any other Cabinet department—We're #1! It's all part of open government. Congratulations OPIA!
Job One for OPIA is to tell the transformationstory.Your success depends on your efforts to learn everything you can about the many changes that are taking place within our organization.
You have a clear mandate to educate and empower Veterans and their families through outreach, advocacy, and information.But it doesn't end there, does it? There are other stakeholders. What about the media;VA employees;Veterans service organizations; state and local governments;neighborhood groups;the executive and legislative branches; our Armed Forces;business and industry;and the general public.
The fact is your reach is open-ended. Your message echoes all the way from Maine to Manila … and everywhere in between.As communicators, your role in transformation is crucial. It's more than public affairs, it's relationship-building. Building rapport with Veterans and, indeed, with all VA stakeholders.Reaching out to grassroots and rural media.Building stronger relations with cultural, special, and social media. Helping our own employees understand transformation. Helping Veterans understand what they are entitled to. And relying on Aristotle's famous dictum, know your audience, if we are to be effective.Think about the generational sensitivities, of say, communicating with our Greatest Generation versus our latest generation. Big difference, right?
Your mandate includes building relationships within your own chain-of-command and the communities you serve. Your job is more than putting the good word out there. It's about proactive, positive VA exposure. Developing and managing the message—and then, staying on-message. Leveraging technology and new modes of communication. Looking for opportunities for innovation; if you have a good idea, Secretary Duckworth wants to hear about it … I want to hear about it.
As I say that, let me congratulate Secretary Duckworth and OPIA for inaugurating a formal relationship with the Public Relations Society of America and all that that entails—credentialing VA employees, and partnering to exchange ideas, network, and capture emerging trends, best practices, and the latest research.
It's forward-thinking innovations like this that define our transformation.
The Department of Veterans is operating under a new construct—a paradigm for high-performing systems, meaningful, consistent metrics, and for measurable progress. Whether you work in Alaska or Alabama … North Dakota or New York … Secretary Shinseki and I look to you to tell VA's transformation story to America's Veterans and to America-at-large. The fact is we depend on you.
In just over a year, thanks to you, VA has been able to promote and publicize its drive to help Veterans to better health and better lives. But there's a lot more to do, and I look to each of you as my "partner for progress." I ask you to be an involved part of the transformation process. Make the most of your passion for what you do. Care enough not to "settle"—care enough to learn what you need to know about VA policy and operations. Communicate with your co-workers and colleagues. Network and share lessons learned and best practices. Take the initiative. Talk up your forward-thinking ideas or your answer to a particular OPIA issue or problem. Above all, strive to be agents of change, not just caretakers of the status quo.
In closing, I'd like to turn again to President Lincoln and call to mind his great respect for public opinion, for language, and for people themselves. He once said that, "With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." This concept cuts to the very heart of your profession … and to VA's transformation.
As you can probably tell, I have high regard for what you bring to the VA table. Each of you is highly-skilled and highly-competent. I know many of you, through your years with VA, have broad and deep institutional knowledge and know-how. As I do, I know Tammy, Nathan, and Katie have the greatest respect your experience. And most of you will be working to the benefit of this wonderful agency long after our non-career leadership has departed.
I know your commitment to, and respect for Veterans is without question. And I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you for what you do every day for our department, and for your contributions to positive change at VA.
Thank you.


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Texas seniors get over OU, win 36-20
STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer
DALLAS (AP) — Case McCoy threw two touchdowns, defensive tackle Chris Whaley returned an interception 31 yards for a score and Texas beat 12th-ranked Oklahoma 36-20 Saturday.
It was the first win for McCoy and these Texas seniors over the Sooners. And it provides a reprieve, if only temporarily, for Longhorns coach Mack Brown from all the speculation about his future.
It was Brown's 154th victory in his 16 seasons at Texas. That matches coach Bob Stoops' win total in 15 seasons with the Sooners.
Texas (4-2, 3-0 Big 12) never trailed after Whaley's impressive touchdown play in the first quarter.
Oklahoma (5-1, 2-1) had won three in a row in the series, the last two by at least 38 points.
Daje Johnson had an 85-yard punt return for a TD for Texas. Jonathan Gray had 123 yards rushing and Malcolm Brown had 120.
UT has a bye week coming up and will visit TCU on October 26. Thatgame will be heard on 1200 WOAI.
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|Dog Eat Dog
|Allen MacDonald & Dustin Lee Abraham
|Duane Clark
|Original Airdate
|November 24, 2005
|Previous Episode: A Bullet Runs Through It, Part 2
|Next Episode: Still Life
Dog Eat Dog is the ninth episode of the sixth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
When a man is found dead in a dumpster having literally eaten himself to death, the CSIs retrace his steps to find out how it could have happened. Meanwhile, a divorcing couple are found dead together on the floor of their house, where their dog becomes the first suspect.
- While Hodges is sorting out the stomach contents he labels all the containers with the different types of food: one says "mac & cheese" another "bacon"; etc. And on the last container, the one with the newspaper ad for the buffet (which the victim had swallowed), there's a label that says "WEIRD."
- During this episode, when they "fade to black" for the commercial breaks, the first time you hear a chomping sound and the second time a dog barking.
- The Prader-Willi syndrome's characteristics are hypotonia, hypogonadism, hyperphagia, cognitive impairment and difficult behaviors.
- In this episode, we learn that Brass is cleared by the review board for the shooting of Officer Bell.
- Hodges can't stand the smell of hot dogs especially hot-dog-breath.
- This is the last episode where Nick has his mustache.
- The "Aunt Jackpot's Pretzels" napkin has the logo superimposed on a blank napkin. The logo seamlessly covers the bottom part of the stack of napkins where several napkin layers overlap. The logo is also very bright and reflective.
- Sara: Beat-up car in a Lexus neighborhood.
- Sofia: We ran the plates. RO doesn't live here. We're tracking her down.
- Nick (reads the bumper sticker as they walk pass the car): "Bitch on wheels." Can't wait to meet her.
- Hodges: I heard your case is going to the dogs.
- Nick: Oh, Hodges, heel or better yet play dead.
- Hodges: Play nice. I'm throwing you a bone.
- Sara (to Nick about dead victims' record collection): There's something missing between The Beach Boys and Billy Joel.
- Nick & Sara: The Beatles.
- Catherine: Do you think we may be able to ID the hotdogs through the ingredients?
- Hodges: No. Believe it or not most hotdog companies are very proprietary over their recipes.
- Catherine: How about though griddle marks?
- Hodges: Oh, yeah, I'll run it through the hot dog appliances database.
- Grissom: A hotdog at the ballpark tastes better than steak at the Ritz.
- Greg: Well, I can tell when you're quoting something. (he sits) Who said it?
- Grissom: Humphrey Bogart. Did you know that the term "hotdog" was actually coined at a baseball game? (Greg shakes his head) New York polo grounds somewhere around 1867. A German butcher was selling something that he called "Dachshund Sausages" out of his pie wagon. He put 'em on a roll so that his customers wouldn't burn their fingers. He'd yell out, "get your Dachshund Sausages, they're red hot." (Greg looks like he wants to get up and leave) Soon, all the vendors at the polo grounds were sellin' 'em too, but they were too lazy to say "Dachshund Sausages." So they just called 'em "hotdogs."
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UIW Medical School Poised to Get the Green Light This Week
San Antonio City Council on Thursday will approve the years-old dream of the University of the Incarnate Word, and will open the way for UIV to build a medical school on the now unused practice fields at Fox Tech High School downtown, 1200 WOAI news reports.
"This is basically going to create a second Medical Center for the city of San Antonio," veteran UIW President Dr. Lou Agnese told 1200 WOAI news.
The University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine will be built on the 3 acres of fields northwest of Fox Tech High School, which no longer has athletic programs.
According to an agreement approved by the San Antonio ISD Board last month, the agreement includes a cash payment of $1.5 million to SAISD over a two year period, to enhance the expansion of SAISD's health careers programs at Fox Tech and Edison High Schools, as well as annual scholarships to SAISD students to attend UTW, and an endowment of $100,000 annually for SAISD students.
A 25 year lease for the property has been approved by the school board.
Agnese said the medical school will be a major economic generator for downtown.
"You are bringing 500 medical students downtown, you are bringing fifty full time faculty members downtown, another 20 professional staff, you have 200 part time faculty members, they have to live somewhere, they have to eat somewhere," he said.
Plans are for the medical school building to be constructed and the first class enrolled by the fall of 2016.
"Texas has 159 counties that have limited primary care doctors," Agnese said. "The reason why it is an osteopathic school is we want to focus on primary and family care."
He says the medical students will also work at the six hospitals downtown, improving the health care and access to physicians available downtown, and to residents of the west and south sides of the city.
"It is ideal for everyone, especially for downtown development, which is what we are looking for," Agnese said. "We need not just more hotels, but more resident capabilities downtown."
He says a 120,000 square foot building as well as a parking garage for 600 cars will be located on the property, which he says will also sprout medical offices and other support activities in the area.


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Amanda Berry escaped her captor's home Monday and called 9-1-1. She told the operator she was being held on Cleveland's west side by 52-year-old Ariel Castro.
The Cleveland law Department released recordings of the call.
A frantic Berry tells the dispatcher who she is and that she's been in the news the last ten years. When asked what her captor was wearing when he left, Berry says, "I don't know 'cause he's not here right now. It's how I got away!"
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25 Things About Mia Wasikowska
Here's everything you need to know about up-and-coming star Mia Wasikowska!
-Lucia Peters
She may only be 21, but Mia Wasikowska has already established herself as one of the most promising young actors of her generation. She first came to America's attention in last year's crazy Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland; since then, she's landed roles in such acclaimed films as Jane Eyre and The Kids Are All Right, and from all appearances, she has big, bright future ahead of her. Be sure to catch her new film Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant, out this Friday– but first, here's a crash course in everything you need to know about Mia Wasikowska!
1) Mia is Australian by birth. She was born and raised in Canberra, one Australia's eight capital cities.
2) She's a middle child. Her younger brother is named Kai and her older sister is named Jess.
3) Art is in her blood. Her mother, Marzena, is a photographer, and her father, John, is a visual artist.
4) She goes by her mother's last name. Mia's mother was born in Poland and emigrated to Australia at the age of 12; Wasikowska is her name. Her father's surname is Reid.
5) The name, by the way, is pronounced "Vash-i-kov-ska."
6) She and her family lived in Poland for a year. When Mia was 8, her mother received a grant to produce a collection of photographs based on her experience as an émigré; the family moved to Sczecin, Poland while Marzena worked on her project. Sometimes, Mia and her siblings were even Marzena's subjects.
Mia in Alice in Wonderland
7) Once upon a time, Mia dreamed of being a ballerina. She began training at the age of nine, hoping one day to go pro. By 13, she was dancing en pointe and training 35 hours a week, but at 14, an injury forced her to quit.
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8) It wasn't all for nothing, though; she credits her dance training with toughening her up. And besides, if she hadn't quit ballet, she never would have discovered her talent as an actor!
9) She's quick to pick up accents. Mia has said that she often mimicked and imitated the people around her when she was a child, so she finds it easy to adopt different accents when she needs to.
10) She Googled her first agent: "When I decided to pursue acting at 15, I heard that you had to have an agent to do film and television, so I did a Google search for acting agencies in Sydney. I hounded one to take me on and started auditioning," she's said. Now that's dedication!
11) She's done her time on the Australian soaps. Every Australian actor has to have at least one on their resume! Mia's first professional job was as part of a two-episode story on the television program All Saints.
12) Mia started young. She landed the All Saints job when she was 15; this was quickly followed up by her feature film debut in the Australian film Suburban Mayhem.
13) She has some serious follow-through. In her 2005 year book at school, Mia, aged 16, answered the question "Where do you see yourself in five years?" with, "A famous actor, making lots of money. Two years later, she and her mother had relocated to LA and Mia had landed a role on the HBO drama In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne.


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A child's daily journey to school: The face of reality in the Philippines
At the age of 9, Miljhon has already seen some of life's harsh realities. Growing up in poverty, this young boy, his sister, and his classmates face significant hardships just to get to school every day. Despite their circumstances, Miljhon and the other children have such pure hearts that they share with their schoolmates -- even though they too have almost nothing.
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On school mornings, Miljhon and his eldest sister, Meltchie, 10, wake up at 5. "We need to leave early, as we still have to climb the mountains for school. We don't want to be late," Miljhon says, speaking in Cebuano, their native language. The children's flag ceremony starts at 7:30 a.m., and class follows shortly thereafter. Miljhon, Meltchie, and their schoolmates walk over a stream and through the woods to get to school, which is located on top of the mountain. While walking through the woods, they share laughter so they do not have a tiring walk to school.
Every day, they cross six mountains by foot. They are uncertain about what they'll meet along the way, such as snakes, which they often see, especially during rainy seasons. "We are more afraid of destroying our slippers than seeing snakes," Miljhon shares. For these children and their parents, buying a pair of slippers is expensive. When asked about the most challenging part of going to school, Miljhon says, "When heavy rains come, we can't go home. We need to wait for the floodwaters to subside, and the mountains are very slippery." On the way to school, most of the children stop at the stream for a quick shower. They leave their change of clothes hanging to dry while they study, then pick up their dried clothes on their way back home. All of the children stop at the spring for a drink and to refill the empty containers they bring every day, since they don't have access to clean water in school. "If me or my classmates didn't bring water containers, we just share the water and help each other bring it to school," Miljhon says. "In school, the only water we have is the water from the rain. It is only good to water the plants and for cleaning the classrooms," he adds. The school has two classrooms for almost 100 children: Preschoolers and grades 1, 2, and 3 share one classroom, while grades 4, 5, and 6 share the other. The children sit at old wooden desks -- each shared by three students in the same grade, and each row a different grade level. "Our teacher starts teaching the preschoolers, then leaves them with exercises, and after a few minute, proceeds to teach grade 2, and we [grade 3] are next," Miljhon explains. His school doesn't have a canteen where they can eat their lunch. "We just eat in a shaded area, which is normally under the tree or here," Miljhon shares while he and his sister eat their lunch under a shed. The shed is dilapidated, made of old wood with a rusty galvanized iron roof. Parents have put rocks on top of the shed, afraid that strong winds will blow the roof away.
Along with his schoolmates, Miljhon and Meltchie eat their packed lunch together. "My Ate (older sister) and I share the food we have, and we also share it with others who don't have food to eat aside from rice," Miljhon says. Most of children's lunches are wrapped in banana leaves. When asked what they have for lunch, Miljhon proudly says, "As always, rice and dried fish." Miljhon and Meltchie's perseverance inspires their mother, 33-year-old Cheryl, to work hard for her children. "I sometimes pity my children for the challenges they have. Sometimes I even tell them to stop going to school, but they are very persistent," she says. Cheryl admits that she is having difficulty sending her children to school. She works as a tenant farmer while her husband, who is not Miljhon and Meltchie's biological father, works construction in a neighboring town. Meltchie and Miljhon were 8 and 7 when their biological father died. "Whenever school days start, I am always worried about where to get school supplies, as my work can't provide them for my children," Miljhon's mother shares. Miljhon's parents earn less than 1,000 Philippine pesos (U.S. $23) for the entire month of hard work.
To help with Miljhon's education, Meltchie -- who is a World Vision sponsored child -- shares her school supplies with Miljhon. "My Ate (older sister) usually shares her notebook with me. We are so fortunate that we still have our bags given to us last November by World Vision," Miljhon recalls, referring to the bags that Heartstrings, a bag manufacturer in the Philippines, gave through World Vision.
Aside from his bag and school supplies, Miljhon wears a school uniform, which a generous neighbor he calls lola (grandmother) gave him. "My lola gave it to me when I was in grade 1. This is the only school uniform I have," he adds. "The school uniform is six years old now," Cheryl says. "He inherited it from lola's grandchild right after her grandson finished high school." Despite the challenges that Miljhon faces, he is determined to finish his studies. "I am just so glad that there are a lot of people helping us, who share what they have. They inspire me to go to school every day," Miljhon says. "Someday when I finish my studies, I promise to share what I have with my sister, my family, and others, because I know how it feels to have nothing," Miljhon adds.
The story of Miljhon and others in his school illustrates the hardship poverty can cause -- even at a young young age. By coming alongside children like these through child sponsorship, you bring them closer to a brighter future. Sponsor a child today.


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It was a long process for many Twins fans to wait until the 30th pick in the first round to hear who the Twins would select. The Twins would also make two other picks on the opening night of the draft. The 50th and 55th picks in the Comp Round of the draft were for losing type-A free agents, Jesse Crain and Orlando Hudson.
The Twins needs entering the draft were to add:
1. Pitching depth
2. Middle infield depth
3. Power bats
The Twins were able to address all of these needs in the first night of the draft. They picked a middle infielder, a corner infielder that can hit for power, and power throwing high school pitcher. There are still many picks left over the next two days so the Twins still have plenty of time to continue to address their needs
Pick #30: Levi Michael - Shortstop - University of North Carolina
|Michael as a second baseman for UNC (Photo: AP)
Fast Facts: The last two shortstops the Twins took in the first round were Trevor Plouffe in 2004 and Michael Cuddyer in 1997.
Pick #50: Travis Harrison - Third Baseman - Tustin High School (California)He even hit a HR 504 feet in high school. In his younger playing career, he was compared to last year's first pick in the draft, Bryce Harper. Like Harper, Harrison will most likely be asked to make the transition to another position (either OF or 1B). The Twins would be more than happy to have Harrison develop into the kind of talent that Harper has shown in his first minor league season. Harrison is committed to USC so it will be imperative for the Twins to strike a deal in the coming weeks.
Fast Facts: The Twins last 3B picked in the first round was Matt Moses in 2003. Moses never made it higher than AA and left the Twins organization in 2009.
Pick #55: Hudson Boyd - Pitcher - Bishop Verot High School (Florida)
Fast Facts: Boyd is the third pitcher the Twins have taken in the first round since 2009, but he is the first high school pitcher in that group.


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Welterweight champion Jorge "Macaco" Patino (27-13-1) has injured his knee, and Lucas Pimenta (8-0) has taken his spot in next week's Legacy Fighting Championship 14 headliner.
He now meets Jeff Rexroad (5-1) for an interim title.
Legacy FC promoter Mick Maynard confirmed the news with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) overnight. According to Maynard, Patino tore his torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). A time table for his return isn't known.
Legacy FC 14 takes place Sept. 14 at Houston's Arena Theater, and the main card airs on AXS TV (formerly HDNet).
Pimenta, a recent Bellator and UWF competitor, has won eight straight fights since his pro debut. Six of the wins have come via stoppage, including five via knockout. The Brazilian's recent victories have come over former UFC fighter Shamar Bailey, longtime fighter Mitch Whitesel, and Legacy FC vet John Malbrough.
Rexroad, meanwhile, has fought exclusively for Legacy FC during his two-year pro campaign. He's currently riding a four-fight win streak. Most recently, the Texan submitted Larry Crowe at an event this past December.
The latest Legacy FC 14 card includes:
- Lucas Pimenta vs. Jeff Rexroad (for interim welterweight title)
- Antonio Banuelos vs. Josh Sampo
- Steven Peterson vs. Cody Williams
- Brandon Farran vs. Derrick Krantz
- Lester Batres vs. Jon Harris
- Ryan Hollis vs. Matt Schnell
- David Armas vs. Darrion Caldwell
PRELIMINARY CARD (Untelevised)
- Charlie Ontiveros vs. Ryan Spann
- Yunny Osuna vs. Chris Reed
- Terrance Ferguson vs. Patrick Hutton
- Kaileb Cummins vs. Patrick Greene
- Jermaine Anugwom vs. Chris Reed
For more on Legacy Fighting Championships 14, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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I'm having file sharing issues between Windows 7 and Back|Track. My primary O.S. is Back|Track pf4 dual boot with W7 also; but im trying share some files between my wife's W7 pc.
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that's my case im trying to boot into W7 to snapshot from there
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There's also a way of mounting an MS-Windows file share into the Linux filesystem. You use the "mount" program to achieve this. For details, type the following at the command line "man mount".
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If its sharing between network, cant you get a Lan Messenger and use it to send files between you two ?
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