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Giants CB Valentino Blake received a roster exemption on Wednesday and is listed as "exempt/left" squad.
"We had a couple of guys we had to leave inside today, and we'll leave it at that," Giants coach Ben McAdoo said on Wednesday.
Blake played in the Giants' preseason game against the Browns on Monday.
The 27-year-old signed with the Giants in March. He previously played for the Jaguars, Steelers, and Titans. He played in 16 games for the Titans last season, tallying 42 tackles with five passes defended
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - For two brief series on Monday night, Giants cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie played safety for the first time in his 10 NFL seasons. It was an eye-opening experience for him, but one he doesn't expect to repeat any time soon.
Tags: Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Odell Beckham stayed inside, away from the prying eyes of the media, as the Giants practiced on Monday afternoon. But his teammate, Olivier Vernon, said Beckham was "in high spirits" and he was apparently walking around the locker room as if his ankle was fine.
Tags: Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Odell Beckham Jr., Olivier Vernon, Weston Richburg, Ralph Vacchiano
Giants head coach Ben McAdoo continues to give little detail on the status of WR Odell Beckham Jr. as he says the wideout is day-to-day.
Beckham, who sustained an ankle sprain during the Giants' preseason game against the Browns Monday, wasn't seen on the practice field Wednesday as he remained inside.
According to ESPN's Jordan Raanan, DE Olivier Vernon said Beckham is in high spirits and will be ready for the Giants' opener against the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 10.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr.
The Giants have announced they waived OL Michael Bowie following his domestic assault charge that the team became aware of Saturday.
Bowie turned himself into Tulsa County Courthouse on Monday as there was a warrant out for his arrest for three charges involving domestic assault and battery. He paid his bail set at $17,000, and has an arraignment set for Aug. 29.
"We have waived Michael Bowie," GM Jerry Reese said in a statement Wednesday. "As we have already stated, we were made aware of this situation on Saturday. The league has started to gather more information. That process will continue. The outcome of that process will determine whether there is another opportunity here for Michael."
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Odell Beckham, Jr. and the Giants clearly avoided a disaster on Monday night in Cleveland, but that doesn't mean the news was all good.
Even though it doesn't appear that Beckham's sprained ankle is serious, there is some concern that he won't be available for Opening Day in Dallas, a source familiar with his injury confirmed. It's "too early to tell" for sure, the source said, but generally the recovery time for a sprained ankle is 1-3 weeks depending on the severity.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr., Ralph Vacchiano
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is reportedly considering a $100 million insurance policy that includes injury protection if he doesn't receive a contract extension prior to the regular season, according to Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson.
Beckham, who suffered a sprained ankle in Monday's preseason game against the Cleveland Browns and was scheduled to undergo an MRI on Tuesday after Browns cornerback Briean Boddy-Calhoun hit Beckham low, was considering the insurance policy before this week's game.
The 24-year-old receiver has said earlier this offseason he believes he will become the highest-paid player in the NFL, a sentiment Jets defensive end Sheldon Richardson agrees with, however Beckham said he doesn't want a contract war with the team and said his focus is on winning a Super Bowl.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr.
The New York Giants signed offensive lineman Matt Rotheram on Tuesday, according to NJ.com's Dan Duggan.
Rotheram played one game for the Detroit Lions last season after spending several weeks on their practice squad. Before that, he was with the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2015.
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One of the Giants' two biggest nightmares occurred on Monday night when Odell Beckham, Jr. got hurt in a meaningless preseason game.
But it looks like they can breathe easy … at least for the moment.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr., Ralph Vacchiano
The Giants scheduled former Missouri LB Michael Scherer to work out for the team on Monday, per Big Blue View's Chris Pflum.
With injuries to linebackers Mark Herzlich and Keenan Robinson, the Giants need to fill some the void.
The 6-foot, 230 pound Scherer went undrafted this year after playing four seasons at Missouri. He amassed 207 tackles, half a sack, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries in his college career.
Giants S Landon Collins and DT Damon "Snacks" Harrison weren't pleased by a dangerous hit that sent WR Odell Beckham Jr. to the locker room in the team's 10-6 loss to the Cleveland Browns Monday night.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Beckham took a low hit from Browns CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun that sprained the wideout's ankle. Though it wasn't deemed an illegal hit, Collins and Snacks both took to Twitter to voice their opinions on the matter.
Collins not only believes the hit was dirty, but he couldn't play next to someone that would that...
Click below to see the tweet
Tags: Damon Harrison, Landon Collins, Odell Beckham Jr.
The Giants were unable to find the endzone for a second game to open the preseason, but Eli Manning completed 10 of 14 passes and Jason Pierre-Paul intercepted a pass from Brock Osweiler in a 10-6 loss to the Browns on Monday night.
The Giants played their starters early on, but kept losing wide receivers to injury as the game progessed. Odell Beckham left in the second quarter with an ankle injury, Brandon Marshall was sidelined with a shoulder injury, and Tavarres King suffered a sprained ankle in the fourth quarter. On the defensive side, CB Michael Hunter left the game with a concussion.
Manning threw for 80 yards, while Geno Smith entered in relief and went 11-for-17 with an interception. The Giants went 3-for-12 on third down and struggled to hold onto the football as RB Wayne Gallman and WR Sterling Shepard both fumbled.
Tags: Brandon Marshall, Eli Manning, Jason Pierre-Paul, Odell Beckham Jr.
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The Giants didn't look good in their preseason opener, but they were missing so many players it was unfair to judge. Eli Manning, Odell Beckham and Sterling Shepard didn't play and Brandon Marshall only took a handful of snaps. On defense, the starters only played sparingly, too.
Things should be different against the Browns on Monday night in Cleveland, though. Manning will get a "big chunk" of playing time, according to Giants coach Ben McAdoo, and it's a good bet most of the healthy starters will last into the second quarter.
Tags: Cleveland Browns, Eli Manning, Ereck Flowers, Orleans Darkwa, Ralph Vacchiano
Giants WR Odell Beckham, Jr. posted videos of himself watching Monday's solar eclipse without protective glasses.
Click below for Beckham's Instagram post
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is close to getting a five-year contract extension to remain in his position atop the league, according to multiple reports.
According to the Sports Business Journal, Goodell will earn close to what he is during his current contract, which is set to end in 2019. Goodell has presided over the NFL since 2006 since he took over for Paul Tagliabue. The extension would keep him on as commissioner until 2024.
Giants TE Evan Engram is officially a professional after playing in the preseason opener against the Steelers last week. However, those first-game nerves will still be there when the Giants take on the Browns Monday night.
"It's still going to be kind of nerve-wracking and exciting," he told Giants.com's Michael Eisen. "I'm really pumped about it. It was a really cool feeling out there, getting out there and having your uniform on and being out there warming up. It kind of really hit me in that moment, and I don't think it's ever going to go away. I'm really excited, I can't wait for Monday night. I think it adds to my game, the eagerness to do well and get out there and run around to make plays. I think all that adds into my performance."
It is hard for rookies not to be shocked during their first taste of NFL action, and Engram learned that against the Steelers as he needed to come back down to Earth.
"I had to lock in," the 22-year-old. "Just being out there, I was kind of wide-eyed and a little nervous. So, being in the huddle, I kind of had to slow down, lock in, hear the play call, get to the line. Just kind of slow everythingn down. in practice, we go through reads and just do all my stuff I usually do. But in the game, sometimes those nerves will build up, especially being a rookie and your first time out there, definitely stuff flies over your head. So, just kind of slowing everything down, locking in, get back to what you've been doing. That's probably the biggest thing I've taken away."
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Giants offensive tackle Michael Bowie has been charged on one count of domestic assault and battery and two counts of malicious injury to property under $1,000, according to multiple reports.
There is a warrant for his arrest after he reportedly grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and threw her to the ground before punching a hole in the wall and breaking two television, according to News on 6. Bowie reportedly responded to the news on Friday by saying "this is false," according to Tulsa World.
The Giants' first-team offense is primed to play into the second quarter of their preseason matchup against the Cleveland Browns Monday night, per ESPN's Jordan Raanan.
Starters like QB Eli Manning and WR Odell Beckham Jr. were in full pads on the sideline in the Giants' opener against the Steelers, but they didn't see any reps on the field. Monday night should be the exact opposite as the offense looks to get their first plays in of the season.
"We'd like to give [Manning] a good chunk of playing time, into the second quarter," head coach Ben McAdoo said. "We'll take a look at it as it goes."
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Giants offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan knows that his unit's success this year is all on the offensive line.
"We know we're going to go as far as our offensive line goes," Sullivan said Friday.
An obvious area of emphasis this offseason, the Giants didn't do much to their line as they have confidence their current group can get the job done. Sullivan backs these claims, saying he has seen improvement from the line through training camp so far.
Tags: Ereck Flowers
In the latest installment of JRSportBrief on SNY.tv, JR talks about the idea of an NFL work stoppage in a few years.
New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo showed the movie "Detroit," a film that is based on Detroit's 12th Street race riots in 1967, to his team on Tuesday as a lesson in empathy, the New York Daily News' Pat Leonard writes.
The film, which premiered worldwide on Aug. 4, is based off the riots in Detroit that took place 50 years ago when 43 people died, 342 people were injured and approximately 1,400 buildings were burned as racial tensions grew.
While McAdoo, according to Leonard, intended to show the players the movie more than a week ago, he did so in the days following the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead and nearly 20 others injured.
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The New York Giants signed wide receivers Canaan Severin and Ed Eagan to replace Keeon Johnson and Kevin Snead due to injuries, the team announced.
Severin, 24, recorded two catches for 24 yards for Pittsburgh in last week's preseason game against New York. The 24-year-old receiver is in his second year out of Virginia.
Eagan was an undrafted free agent out of Northwestern State who spent time with the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns since last May.
Johnson, an undrafted free agent from Virginia, broke his foot, while Snead suffered a hamstring injury. Both were waived/injured.
Giants G Justin Pugh believes the team's offensive line is "heading in the right direction" as the regular season approaches.
Pugh highlighted the success the team has had in practice and in the preseason opener while stressing the importance of carrying it over to games. The Steelers recorded three sacks against the Giants offense in the preseason opener on Friday.
Giants head coach Ben McAdoo has left the door open for rookie Davis Webb to be the team's No. 2 quarterback entering the season.
"I think we all have to be careful making assumptions," McAdoo said on Thursday. "Josh (Johnson) and Geno (Smith) are competing right now for the number two spot, and if that doesn't look the way we want it to look, Davis will get a crack."
Webb, a third-round pick out of the University of California, completed 8 of 16 passes with no touchdowns or interceptions during the Giants' preseason opener last Friday against the Steelers.
Tags: Davis Webb, Geno Smith
Giants QB Eli Manning is slated to play during the Giants' second and third preseason games (on Aug. 21 and Aug. 26) head coach Ben McAdoo told reporters on Thursday.
Other notes from Giants camp...
- CB Eli Apple sat out practice due to a sore ankle, and he's unsure whether he'll be ready to play this Monday against the Browns.
- WR Dwayne Harris missed practice due to upper body soreness.
- McAdoo said T Ereck Flowers was a "bright spot" during Friday's preseason opener.
- LB B.J. Goodson (back) returned to practice.
Tags: B.J. Goodson, Dwayne Harris, Eli Apple, Eli Manning, Ereck Flowers
Giants linebacker J.T. Thomas has taken a $2.2 million pay cut for this season and will be paid $775,000, according to Field Yates of ESPN.
With the move, the Giants have freed over $2 million in cap space for this season.
Yates reports that Thomas, who was supposed to earn $2.975 million for 2017, will earn a roster bonus of $20,000 and a $400,000 incentive if he takes 70 percent of the snaps this year.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Throughout camp last year, Damon "Snacks" Harrison was used to seeing Johnathan Hankins lining up next to him for each rep. This year, though, he has seen multiple jerseys swap in and out as the Giants try to figure out who will start next to him Week 1.
Who is the leading candidate? There hasn't been one player in particular who has stood out. But, according to the Giants' depth chart, Jay Bromley is ahead of the pack.
The fourth-year veteran has only four starts so far in his career, but his work ethic this offseason is one that is reminiscent of a seasoned starter like Harrison.
Tags: Damon Harrison, Jay Bromley
Giants head coach Ben McAdoo spoke with reporters after practice on Tuesday. Here's what we learned...
- McAdoo made players run to allow them to "gain their composure" because there were too many balls on the ground during practice.
- He said his will be the most challenging week as the team prepares for three games in 11 days. "We're going to be a little heavy-legged and we're going to be sore, but we're going to build calluses," he said.
- LB B.J. Goodson left practice with a sore back after jamming a receiver on a crossing route.
- LB Devon Kennard is sore but will return on Thursday.
- DT Corbin Bryant is dealing with an elbow injury and it is not clear how much time he will miss.
- LB Calvin Munson, S Andrew Adams and LB Stansly Maponga received first team reps. McAdoo said they had "a great opportunity" but he will evaluate the practice to see how they performed.
- LB Mark Herzlich, LB Keenan Robinson, and LB J.T. Thomas will need to compete and stay available in order to secure a role on the team.
- Munson and Curtis Grant have "the best ability there is out there at this point in the linebacker group and that's availability." McAdoo praised their physicality and said they're improving because of all the snaps they are getting.
- WR Brandon Marshall and and TE Evan Engram are still mastering the system and building chemistry with QB Eli Manning.
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Brandon Marshall made a spectacular, one-handed catch in practice on Tuesday with a defensive back pulling at his other arm. He's made a bunch of outstanding plays in training this summer, actually.
Tags: Brandon Marshall, Odell Beckham Jr., Ralph Vacchiano
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- More than a week after being ripped by ex-teammate Sheldon Richardson for being "drama-queenish" and quitting on the Jets last season, Brandon Marshall took the high road on Tuesday and pronounced his feud with Richardson "dead."
"I wasn't surprised," Marshall said when asked for the first time about Richardson's shots. "But there's so much good energy here and the environment is amazing, I don't really have time to go back to that. That's dead. It's dead."
Tags: Brandon Marshall, Ralph Vacchiano
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Odell Beckham Jr. has put up crazy numbers in his first three NFL seasons, but he won't mind at all if those numbers suddenly go down. Because there's only one number -- and one thing -- that the New York Giants star receiver really cares about.
And he made that clear as he stood in the fieldhouse on Monday and stared at the five Super Bowl championship banners hanging on the walls, and told the Giants to clear room for No. 5.
"See that banner? That's all I care about," Beckham said as he looked around the building. "Honestly, there's one, two, three, four in here. I don't where they'd put the fifth one, but they're going to have to make room because we need it."
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The Giants have activated RB Shaun Draughn and LB J.T. Thomas off the physically unable to perform (PUP) list, the team announced Tuesday.
S Landon Collins was held out of practice due to illness.
The Giants also signed LB Steven Daniels.
Daniels, 24, has also spent time with the Redskins and Eagles. He was selected in the seventh round in the 2016 NFL Draft.
Tags: J.T. Thomas, Landon Collins
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The spectacular, one-handed catch that put Odell Beckham Jr. on the map as a rookie is now commonplace -- and really, just as spectacular as ever. During training camp practices, he warms up by catching passes one-handed; he fields punts one-handed; and occasionally he makes ridiculous, incredible, one-handed catches in team drills, too.
He did it again on Monday, making a leaping, one-handed, backhanded grab over Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins -- very similar to one he made on Sunday, too. The crowd roared as it does with just about everything Beckham does.
Tags: Eli Manning, Janoris Jenkins, Odell Beckham Jr., Ralph Vacchiano
Giants star WR Odell Beckham Jr. continues to make highlight-reel plays at training camp as he hauled in a one-handed touchdown grab on Monday.
With CB Janoris Jenkins draped all over him, Beckham went up to snatch an Eli Manning fade with his fingertips.
Beckham has been making his signature one-handed grabs since training camp began. However, according to SNY's Ralph Vacchiano, head coach Ben McAdoo said, "I like two hands on the ball better than one," when asked about the catch.
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Kerry Wynn knows he has plenty of work to do if he wants to compete for a spot at defensive end on the Giants this season, he told Newsday.
Wynn recorded three tackles, including a sack, in the team's preseason opener against the Steelers on Friday. However, Wynn is battling with Romeo Okwara, Devin Taylor and rookie Avery Moss for time at the position behind starter Jason Pierre-Paul.
"I'm an undrafted guy," he said. "I'm going to ride with that until my days in the league are done. I come in every day trying to prove something, trying to continue to get better. ... I couldn't take that chip off my shoulder. There are so many that if you take a few off, I'd still have tons of them on there. That's the way it is. Even if I took the one on the left off, I got three of them on the right."
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The Giants have signed WR Andrew Turzilli and LB Chris Casher, and waived WR Kevin Norwood and TE Colin Thompson, per NY Post's Paul Schwartz.
Turzilli, a Rutgers University product, was an undrafted free agent that found his way on the 49ers' practice squad in 2015. He eventually made his way to the Titans that year where he totaled two catches for 25 yards in three games.
In April 2016, he was suspended four games for violating the league's performance-enhancing substance policy. This year, he signed to the Lions practice squad, but was waived on May 11.
While Giants head coach Ben McAdoo has stated that Paul Perkins has a chance to grab hold of starter's spot, Orleans Darkwa is looking to push for his own starting reps at running back.
"I think any running back, if you don't have the mentality that you want to be the guy, then what are you doing?" Darkwa said. "Obviously, he said [Perkins] is the starter, but I try to go in with the mentality that I want to be the starter and take his job. I think that pushes everybody."
Tags: Orleans Darkwa, Paul Perkins
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Sterling Shepard ankle scare is officially over.
Just 11 days after he was carted off the practice field with an ankle injury fearing the worst, Shepard practiced fully with his teammates on Sunday. There appeared to be very few restrictions on the second-year receiver, who also didn't seem to be favoring his injured ankle at all.
"They cut me loose today, so I am back to doing what I do," Shepard said in a statement released through the team. "I have been doing stuff leading up to this, so I felt like I was ready for a full practice."
Tags: J.T. Thomas, Keenan Robinson, Mark Herzlich, Sterling Shepard, Ralph Vacchiano
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Even by Odell Beckham Jr.'s standards, this was a spectacular play: a leaping, one-handed, almost-backhanded catch at the 5-yard line, followed by enough body control to hang on, switch hands and scamper untouched into the end zone. There was a gasp from the crowd, followed by the loudest cheers of the day.
There was only one problem: about 35 yards behind him, the play had already blown up.
Tags: Bobby Hart, Eli Manning, Ereck Flowers, Olivier Vernon, Pittsburgh Steelers, Weston Richburg, Ralph Vacchiano
Giants LB B.J. Goodson and DT Jay Bromley both showed they can make an impact on the defense this season in the preseason opener against the Steelers.
Goodson has been aggressive and vocal since the start of camp, and that is something the Giants' coaches like to see from someone who could potentially be the starting middle linebacker this season. Leading is an area Goodson has been accustomed to.
"I'm a middle linebacker, I have no worries about taking control and being the leader of a huddle, that's what I've always done," Goodson told NorthJersey.com's Art Stapleton. "I was ready to go. It was just another chance to continue building what we're building, and I'm confident I can do the job, do what I need to do for us to be great."
Tags: B.J. Goodson, Devon Kennard, Jay Bromley
The Giants dropped their first preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, 20-12, at MetLife Stadium on Friday night.
Here is what head coach Ben McAdoo said about his players following the matchup...
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The news that Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has been suspended for the first six games of the NFL season has the potential to cause a seismic shift in the NFC East. But it didn't cause many waves in the Giants locker room.
As far as the Giants are concerned, the Cowboys will be tough to beat in the regular season opener with or without the NFL's best young running back. So the news didn't change their outlook on the season one bit.
I don't care," said Giants linebacker Jonathan Casillas. "We get them how we get them. But they're still Dallas now. They still have a very good young quarterback who had a good, strong rookie year. They've got a strong receiver on the outside, one of the better slot receivers in the game, one of the greatest tight ends I ever played against. Those guys are still there. Their O-line is still intact."
Tags: Jonathan Casillas, Landon Collins, Olivier Vernon, Ralph Vacchiano
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - It's too early to make sweeping judgements, but the first impressions of the Giants offensive line on Saturday night were that they looked a lot like last year's offensive line.
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Gyorko smacks sixth homer of May to back Volquez
Right-hander works 7 2/3 innings for win; Grandal singles in return
SEATTLE -- At some point following Sunday's loss to the D-backs, Padres manager Bud Black pulled aside Jedd Gyorko to tell him he wouldn't be starting Monday against the Mariners.
Gyorko's response?
"He shot me a look," Black said. "I told him that he wasn't going to start and he looked at me funny. I liked it."
Back in the lineup on Tuesday, Gyorko continued his torrid month of May, hitting a two-run home run to get the Padres on their way to a 6-1 victory over the Mariners before a crowd of 11,911 at Safeco Field.
Gyorko's home run in the third inning was his sixth of the season, all coming in the month of May. Better still, he tied the club rookie record for most home runs in any month.
"I want to be out there," Gyorko said.
Gyorko and Alexi Amarista hit home runs and Mark Kotsay delivered a two-run single in the sixth inning off Mariners pitcher Brandon Maurer (2-7) as the Padres (23-28) earned a split of this two-game series.
San Diego pitcher Edinson Volquez (4-5) did his part, winning for the first time since May 5. Volquez got plenty of mileage out of his curveball as he worked deeper into a game (7 2/3 innings) than he had this season. He allowed four hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
"Tonight, the efficiency stood out," Black said. "I thought the breaking ball came into play today. It was as good of a hook as he's had."
Volquez was reunited with catcher Yasmani Grandal, who appeared in his first game of the season. The two worked together when they were in the Reds' organization and again last season after both were a part of the five-player trade that saw the Padres send pitcher Mat Latos to Cincinnati in December 2011.
Grandal, who was suspended for the first 50 games of the season, mentioned before the game that he was looking forward to catching Volquez and how he wanted to help him after what has been a mostly uneven start to the season.
"He's a very smart guy," Volquez said of Grandal. "He called the game like he'd been here forever."
Grandal went 1-for-4 in his first game and scored a run. He was also on the receiving end of a big play early in the game, one that allowed the Padres to maintain a one-run lead over the Mariners (22-30).
With the Padres leading 2-1 in the fourth inning, Michael Morse singled and Michael Saunders drove a ball to deep center field. Amarista grabbed the ball and hit the cutoff man, shortstop Everth Cabrera, with a strike before Cabrera threw home. The ball was just up the first-base line but Grandal lunged to get Morse out at the plate. Morse later left the game with a right quad strain.
"That was a big momentum swing for us," Black said.
The same could be said for a different swing earlier in the game, the one Gyorko took against Maurer on a 2-1 slider up in the strike zone.
That swing and that home run came a day after Gyorko didn't play a single inning in a 9-0 loss to Seattle on Monday, as Black gave him a rare day off. And as Black has come to expect from his players, he heard about it -- or in Gyorko's case, he saw the look that he wanted to see: that Gyorko would rather undergo a root canal than take a day off.
"That's why managers and teams do it to players," Black said. "Not that they [players] want it. But it's such a grind on players, both mentally and physically, especially on rookies."
Even though he didn't play Monday, Gyorko found a way to pass the time smartly.
"You sit back and watch it ... there's so much you can learn and you can pick up on things," Gyorko said.
Still, he said, nothing beats or even comes close to being in the lineup, on the field, getting your at-bats.
"It's going to be hard to help the team when you're on the bench," he said.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Today I am privileged to be one of the genealogy bloggers featured in the Geneabloggers "May I Introduce To You" series. Thomas MacEntee who runs Geneabloggers is a well known American genealogists who does great work in promoting family history through his blog posts and talks throughout the USA.
The "May I Introduce To You" series is compiled by Gini Webb who runs her own blog Ginisology and is an expert in German genealogy. Both Thomas & Gini's blogs are well worth putting on your favourites list.


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Core library
- Supports major browsers (Firefox/Gecko, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Konqueror, and Opera) but also plain HTML browsers and web crawlers.
- Develop and deploy on Unix/GNU Linux or Microsoft Windows (Visual Studio) environments.
- Equal behavior with or without support for JavaScript or Ajax, as far as possible, by using graceful degradation or progressive enhancement.
- Efficient rendering and (sub-) millisecond latency.
- Integrated Unicode support and pervasive localization.
- Support for browser history navigation (back/forward buttons and bookmarks), clean URLs with HTML5 History if available, and search engine optimization with a unified behavior for plain HTML or Ajax sessions.
- High performance, suitable for embedded (Linux) devices, or energy-, space- and budget-friendly (virtual private) server deployments.
- Based on event-driven async I/O: sessions are not tied to threads, and neither do open connections block threads. Instead, threads are used only to improve concurrent request handling (or for reentrant event loops).
Event handling
- Typesafe signal/slot API for responding to events.
- Listen for keyboard, mouse, focus, scroll or drag&drop events, and get event details (such as mouse position, modifier buttons, or keyboard key).
- Automatic synchronization Automatically synchronizes form field data from browser to server and tracks server-side changes to be rendered in browser.
- Integrate with JavaScript libraries
- Timed events and server-initiated updates ("server push")
- Uses plain HTML CGI, Ajax or WebSockets
Native painting system
- Unified 2D painting API which uses the browsers native (vector) graphics support (inline VML, inline SVG, or HTML5 canvas), or renders to common image formats (PNG, GIF, ...) or vector formats (SVG, PDF).
- Unified GL-based 3D painting API which leverages WebGL in the browser or server-side OpenGL (fallback).
Built-in security
- Kernel-level memory protection protects against privacy issues arising from programming bugs, since sessions can be completely isolated from each other (in dedicated-process mode).
- Supports encryption and server authentication using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) through HTTPS.
- Enables continuous use of HTTPS through low bandwidth requirements (fine-grained Ajax).
- Built-in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) prevention. Rendered text is always filtered against potentially malicious code, making XSS attacks against Wt applications (close to) impossible.
- Not vulnerable to Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) because cookies for session tracking are optional, and even when used, they are never solely relied on for requests that trigger event handling code.
- Not vulnerable to breaking the application logic by skipping to a particular URL, since only those events exposed in the interface can be triggered.
- Session hijacking mitigation and risk prevention
- DoS mitigation
- A built-in authentication module implements best practices for authentication, and supports third party identity providers using OAuth 2.0, and (later) OpenID Connect
Object Relational Mapping libraryWt comes with Wt::Dbo, a self-contained library which implements Object-Relational mapping, and thus a convenient way to interact with SQL databases from C++. Although features like optimistic concurrency control make this an ideal technology for a database driven web application (and it provides good integration with Wt's MVC classes), the library can also be used for other applications, and does not depend on Wt. The ORM library (see also this tutorial) has the following features:
- No code generation, no macro hacks, no XML configuration, just modern C++!
- Uses a templated visitor pattern which requires a single template method to provide the mapping: DRY and as efficient as conceivable!
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Not to discount his work in screwball comedy, which makes up most of his oeuvre, but the Beck we'll be revisiting for the ages is the somber and stone-faced variation — the sad one found on his 2002 album Sea Change. This mellotron-driven take on the late British singer-songwriter John Martyn's signature song could have come from that era. Shadowy, mournful, gorgeous.
You may have heard the "Forget You" — style edit on the radio, but the uncut version of this funk anthem delivers unadulterated filth. Antecedents: Led Zeppelin's "Custard Pie," the Chris Rock "reupholstered" bit on Kanye West's "Blame Game."
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South African police have charged Olympic amputee sprint star Oscar Pistorius with the Valentine's Day murder of his glamorous model girlfriend, but played down reports she was mistaken for a burglar.
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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, will appear in court on Friday, after being charged with murdering his girlfriend, prosecutors say.
"I can confirm that a suspect has been charged, he has been charged with murder," Lieutenant Colonel Katlego Mogale said.
Twenty-six-year-old Pistorius - known globally as "Blade Runner" because of his carbon fibre prostheses - will spend the night in jail before appearing in court on Friday.
He will appear at Pretoria Magistrate's Court to answer charges of killing 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp at his upscale Pretoria home.
She was shot four times in the early hours of Thursday morning and died on the scene. A nine-millimetre pistol was found at the scene.
Police have opposed bail for Pistorius, who is the only suspect in the case.
The sprinter became an international celebrity during last year's London Olympics, where he became the first double-amputee to compete in a Summer Games.
His arrest has rocked South Africa, where he had been considered a national hero.
"Obviously we are shocked," his father Henke Pistorius said. "He is with the police and the matter is in the hands of the authorities."
"Our thoughts are with the family of the woman involved in this tragedy," he said.
Steenkamp, once a FHM magazine cover girl, was described as "the kindest, sweetest human being; an angel on earth" by Sarit Tomlins of her management agency.
There's previously been incidents of allegations of domestic disputes at the home of the accused.
Meanwhile police poured cold water on media reports that she had been mistaken as an intruder.
"We were surprised by allegations that the deceased had been perceived to be a burglar," said police spokeswoman Denise Beukes.
She said there was no sign of forced entry at Pistorius's home. "The premises are fairly secure ... This is a fairly secure estate."
"There's previously been incidents of allegations of domestic disputes at the home of the accused."
Beukes said the police were talking to neighbours who heard disturbances earlier in the evening and around the time of the shooting.
Those revelations raised questions about a figure who was publicly adored, but led a colourful private life full of model girlfriends, guns and fast cars.
"There were always rumours attracted to Oscar Pistorius, but most of them I just put down to him being a celebrity," said Kyle Wood, a 25-year-old fellow resident of Silverlakes.
Pistorius has previously spoken of carrying a firearm when faced with a potential threat at home and of visiting a shooting range.
Crime is a major problem in South Africa and many people keep weapons at home.
Pistorius is also known as an adrenalin junkie, with a love of speed reflected in a passion for motorbikes.
Four years ago he crashed his boat in a river south of Johannesburg, breaking two ribs, an eye socket and his jaw.
He also once owned two white tigers but sold them to a zoo in Canada when they became too big.
The Johannesburg-born athlete won gold in the 4x100m relay and the 400m individual at the Paralympic Games in London.
He was triple gold medallist in the Beijing games in 2008 in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
Pistorius was named by Time magazine last year as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
"You're not disabled by your disabilities but abled by your abilities," he told Athlete magazine in a 2011 interview.
He had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old after being born without lower leg bones. But he played sports unhindered while growing up, switching to running after fracturing a knee playing rugby.
At high school, he was so good that his personal fitness coach said she was unaware for six months that he ran on prosthetic legs.
But he was initially banned from competing in the Olympics in Beijing by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on the grounds that his blades gave him an unfair advantage.
That decision was later overturned on appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), although he ultimately failed to meet the Olympic qualifying standard time.
His first race for 2013 was due to take place in Australia. He was scheduled to arrive in Sydney on March 6 and compete in able-bodied 400m events in Sydney on March 9 and Perth on March 16.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A local Korean restaurant that prides itself in authenticity was shut down for two days last week after inspectors found roaches in the ceiling, the floor and on shelves near the rice cooker.
Bryan Stewart, owner of Hon Korean Restaurant on Beach Boulevard, says his restaurant was getting exterminated once a month. But last week, inspectors found live roaches in the restaurant.
State of Florida restaurant inspections
Inspectors closed him down for one day, but Stewart made the choice to shut down a second day. He told Channel 4's Melanie Lawson he asked for an extra day to exterminate and clean.
Stewart says he wants his customers to know, "We apologize that this had to happen and we don't want them to be afraid."
Restaurants with a clean slate
State inspectors last week recognized two restaurants in Northeast Florida with zero violations:
- Clay County: Papa Murphy's Take 'n Bake Pizza on Flemming Island
- Duval County: Dickert House on Copeland Street
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POWICK Community Choir will be performing at Worcester Cathedral's College Hall this Saturday (May 24) with a concert to commemorate World War One.
The event begins at 8pm in the Cathedral venue and organisers are hoping the people of Worcestershire will come out to support them.
Tom Wells, musical director and founder of the choir, said the concert would be an enjoyable night for all.
"The first half of the concert is a commemoration of the outset of the first world war," he said. "We are looking at some of the poignant poetry from the war poets.
"That will be mixed with emotional music, also from the time, including Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance.
"The second half is a mix of more up lifting pieces, a wide variety of music including Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer.
"The choir will be accompanied by a string orchestra. It should be a wonderful evening for everybody."
Tickets cost £10 and can be bought on the door or in advance from the Tourist Information Centre in Worcester's Guildhall.
All money raised will be used towards a new bursary scheme being considered by the choir to assist students studying music at school or at university.
Mr Wells added: "We really hope the people of Worcestershire will come out and support us."


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Before I buy one of the new Pokemon games, I just wanted to make sure that Pokemon X is the one you can catch Xerneas in. Is that correct?
Yeah, it should be. Energy X 23:59, October 19, 2013 (UTC)
This would be correct, and you catch it at level 50. As I have X and I've already obtained Xerneas. It's majestic and well worth it, but some advice; don't waste your Master Ball on him. —snoωed ℓightning 04:39, 10/20/2013


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Shooting Now….by Operation Foodie in View All Posts, April 28th, 2009
Things are busy buzzing in our studios!
We are using all areas of Food Network (Studio A, Studio B, and green rooms) for the preparation of The Next Food Network Star FINALE shoot, happening tomorrow (sorry, I can't give you ANYmore information than that)… Well, if you're interested, I am waiting to hear if the director needs two more cameras and extra drapes (exciting, right?!).
The picture above shows you a peek at the finale set construction – I can tell you that the finale will be, by far, the most shimmering, dazzling finale of Next Food Network Star yet! Let's just say, I keep waiting for Fosse to stroll on stage.
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HOUSTON - Residents in a neighborhood in northwest Harris County say they have been living without water since Thursday.
Residents said they were unable to wash their dishes or drink water from their faucets, and are now under a boil water notice due to a water main break.
"You can't wash dishes. It's hard to stay even clean, you know, sanitary wise," said Karen Valenzuela, a resident. "You know, you can't do anything."
Even businesses like a nearby commercial plumbing company said they have been impacted. They not only need water for the basics, they use it to test their products.
"We pressure test those things," said Scott Hubert, a company controller. "We use water to do that, and so it's slowed us down quite a bit the last few days."
Customers said they have also been frustrated because instead of receiving prompt service to repair the problem, they were told by the water company to exercise patience.
They told Local 2 their patience wore out after days of broken promises.
"When we called Thursday at noon, they told us two hours and we would have water back, for scheduled maintenance is what they told us," said Valenzuela. "Then, we called at two, we called at four, we called at five. No water. No water Friday."
In a statement to Local 2, Aqua Texas blamed the water main break on a contractor it hired to move its waterline, "to accommodate a storm sewer line. The contractor temporarily repaired the initial damage, then another related leak occurred."
People said over the past few days the water pressure has returned sporadically, but most of the time, it hasn't stayed on consistently for more than ten minutes.
Aqua Texas said the water was completely restored to the area 5:30 p.m. Monday night.
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Consider the carrot, because it may just be the most versatile vegetable out there. This root vegetable is not only subtly sweet and delicious on its own, but it is also essential to the classic mirepoix and can add a savory earthiness to melt-in-your-mouth stews. But I'm not going to talk about that. I'm turning my attention to the way carrots release their natural sweetness in baked goods, while also offering vibrant color and moistness.
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In this rendition of the classic carrot cake, fresh carrots marry well with crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, dried fruit and warm spices.
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Carrots and yogurt add moistness to these mini muffins spiced with garam masala.
Get the Recipe: Carrot Cake
This Carrot Cake demands some attention with its intricate combination of warm spices, orange zest and the heaping topping of maple glazed walnuts.
Get the Recipe: Carrot Cake Pancakes with Maple-Cream Cheese Drizzle and Toasted Pecans
Here's a carrot cake that's socially acceptable to eat for breakfast. These buttermilk pancakes have everything we love about carrot cake, from the freshly grated carrots to the cream cheese topping.
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Fest touts benefits of solar energy
Updated 10:18 am, Sunday, October 7, 2012
Two events will shine a spotlight on all things solar this weekend. Solar Fest, featuring everything from green building to green dog food, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Lions Field Park, 2809 Broadway. Tours of solar-powered residences and businesses are set for Sunday.
More information is available at www.SolarSanAntonio.org and www.SolarTourSA.com.
The festival, powered by solar energy and biodiesel fuel, will feature more than 50 vendors, including 20 solar companies, said Andrew Wood, research associate for event sponsor Solar San Antonio.
Tour participants can choose from 27 projects that range from a 3-kilowatt residential system to a 400-kilowatt roof-mounted system that generates roughly $60,000 worth of electricity a year for the St. Philip's College Southwest Campus. They also can see installations of standard PV panels and thin-film panels. Owners and installers will be onsite to answer questions.
Participants can choose from all the locations on the free self-guided tour, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Edited tours are available by bus for $15. They will run from 10 a.m. to noon or noon to 2 p.m., and tickets will be available at Solar Fest.
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Over the past three years, Wood said, the city has seen a boom in the use of solar energy. Wood found 36 solar projects when he did an inventory in 2009. The list now includes more than 700 sites.


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Woods junior elected state president of Indiana chapter of Phi Beta Lambda
April 23rd, 2012 | SMWC
When Katelyn Duke graduates in 2013, she will be a triple threat to her peers. Majoring in three programs, art, graphic design and advertising at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Duke already has a resume drenched in leadership and creativity. As the newly elected 2012-2013 state president of Indiana's Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) chapter, Duke is strengthening these skills by aiming creative ideas toward new challenges.
"Katelyn is a superb choice and we are proud that the rest of the state can also benefit from her work," said Jim Tanoos, Ph.D., associate professor of business and faculty sponsor for SMWC's PBL club. "PBL has given her a venue to find her voice and she has demonstrated quite often that she is the type of person that you should listen to."
Duke, currently the vice president of SMWC's PBL club, is no stranger to leadership, responsibility and stewardship. She competed in the 2011 National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., regularly designs promotions for student events and volunteers throughout the community. As the president-elect for the state's PBL, she is looking forward to tackling her new herculean to-do list.
"I am a person of many goals and I have high expectations in completing them," Duke said. "As state president of PBL, I will be responsible for recruiting colleges, leading meetings, helping to choose keynote speakers and planning events at conferences. My main goal is to recruit more colleges and to be there for our members as a strong, positive leader."
Many distinguished leaders step out into the world from the doors of SMWC. Ethics, critical thinking and responsible communication, all qualities of great leaders, are dispersed throughout the College's academics and activities. Duke, a Marshall, Ill., native, will rely on these qualities as she embarks on her 2012-2013 presidency for the state PBL, while simultaneously serving as president for SMWC's club.
"Juggling both will be a challenge, but I have always done well with time management," Duke explained. "I will take one day at a time, and do all that I can in assisting both."
PBL, a national student organization, prepares the next generation of business leaders for the challenges ahead. They deepen their commitment to leadership through national conferences, workshops, competitions and seminars. One of the newest clubs at The Woods, both campus and online students are encouraged to join PBL, where they work collaboratively on activities and projects.
"PBL lets our students step in and take on leadership roles that prepare them for similar challenges in the real-world," Tanoos said. "We provide numerous ways for students to take the initiative to display their talents, such as Katelyn and her rise to president of Indiana's chapter."
- For more information visit SMWC's PBL club online!
- Check out our coverage in the Terre Haute Tribune Star!
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There's something about fall that re-energizes our sense of style.You don't have to completely re-vamp your wardrobe, as beauty routines are ripe for change, and it's amazing what a big difference a little lipstick in a bold new hue can make. A change of texture for the hair can also make a fresh statement. Metallic… Read More →


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"Applications are now being accepted for the Dr. Alma S. Adams Scholarship for Outreach and Health Communications to reduce tobacco use among what the American Legacy Foundation calls Priority Populations*. Priority populations are those populations who are disproportionately targeted by the tobacco industry, or who often lack the tools and resources to combat smoking in their communities.
The scholarship, named for founding Legacy board member, Dr. Alma S. Adams will award two $5,000 scholarships to pursue undergraduate or graduate studies at an accredited institution of higher education in the United States. The awards will be granted on a competitive basis for the following: a) a record of commitment to community service on behalf of an underserved community, preferably related to tobacco prevention and/or control and b) the best use of the visual arts, media, creative writing or other creative endeavor to convey culturally appropriate health messages aimed at raising awareness of tobacco's harmful impact.
Applications will be accepted from January 1, 2011 until April 30, 2011. Awardees will be notified by June 30, 2011."
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Vladimir Putin has finished the year in style, consolidating Russian control in Ukraine and winning easy brownie points for the release of controversial prisoners including the oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and two female members of the punk band Pussy Riot. The Russian president has also, in a move easily missed in the middle of Christmas, extended Russia's position in one of the world's most interesting new oil and gas regions – the Levant basin in the eastern Mediterranean. Read more
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IDOL Hopeful Slays Carrie Underwood Song [Video]
There's been a lot of talk this season about American Idol and how the show isn't the ratings juggernaut it used to be. However, as a fan who has truly never missed an episode, I feel I must tell you that this year's Top 13 is the strongest in years. And, last Thursday's "Wild Card" episode was absolutely riveting television. The judges chose six contestants to "sing for their lives" and each one laid it all on the line. My absolute favorite was Jeremy Rosado, who walked to the microphone and blasted his way through Carrie Underwood's "I Know You Won't." WATCH THIS!


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Weigh in on the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court
Now that the Supreme Court has weighed in on the Affordable Care Act, it's your turn. Do you agree with the court? Who benefits? We've posted those questions and more on LoHud.com. Cast your vote, comment and vote for the best comments from others. Above: Supporters of President Barack Obama's… Read More →


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I was experimenting with xpath expression and found that the 'and' and 'or' works perfectly as the logical operators.
I'm perosnally so happy to see them working. In few cases it was too hard to configure the conditional routes with just OR/AND joint.
I've attached an example to demonstrate a simple usage of 'and'-'or' logical operators. This is the condition that I've put in the example.
(normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value1)='555′ or normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value1)='666′) and (normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value2)='777′)
I believe that this is going to make workflow design so much cleaner. Instead of nested conditional routes and 4-5 decision points or set value steps we would be able to do lot more things in few steps now.
I think this is an XPath Explorer feature so is not limited to just route conditions. All of the places where XPath expression is evaluated should be able use these.
Hope this helps to you too!!!
Original article at http://blog.pandyaparth.com/2009/07/introducing-lc-keywords-logical-operators-andor/.


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PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Junior men's golfer Nick Brothers, qualified for the United States Amateur Championship as he finished as the individual medalist, last Tuesday afternoon at the par-72, Cypress Run Golf Course in Palm Harbor, Fla.
Brothers, a two-year member of the Lions' men's golf squad, fired a one-under 143 over the two round tournament to clinch one of the two qualifying spots.
The Amateur Championship is set for next month in Erin Hills, Wis.
Taking on what was described as a 'superb course with tree-lined fairways' and 44 opponents, Brothers got off to a shaky start as he bogeyed his first hole. He responded nicely, however, by sinking a birdie at 11, and capping his back nine with a 15-foot birdie putt at 15. Still, his most telling moment of the round came at 17 and 18 as he took on the two toughest holes in impressive fashion. Brothers used a brilliant shot out of the rough on 17 to eventually save par while his eight-foot put on the 450-yard, par-four 18, gave Brothers momentum heading to the back nine.
An excited Brothers drained another birdie at three and proceeded to par five of the next six holes. After all scorecards were signed, a stunned Brothers realized that he held the clubhouse lead at two-under going into the second round of action.
In total, he hit 12 greens and used clutch putting to put himself in contention for the qualifying spot. Teeing-off at 9:00 a.m., Brothers went off from number one. Despite being loose and confident, Brothers bogeyed his first attempt to drop back to even-par.
Playing with a pair of tough competitors, Brothers fed off the others shots, leading to birdies at five and six to get to two-under.
A clutch par shot at seven saved the round for Brothers, and propelled him to consecutive pars through 13. At 14, Brothers faced a setback as his nine-iron found the bunker. His bogey, coupled with his playing partner's birdie, saw the Lion drop back two shots. Still, he continued to fire away as he collected a par on 15 to gain back one shot.
Another miscue by his playing partner resulted in a bogey and Brothers pulling even for the lead again. Both pared the tough 17th, before turning their attention to the mighty 18th tied at one-under.
The pressure did not get to Brothers, however, as he used a long drive, a fantastic six-iron, and two putts to par the final hole. His opponent could not hold up to the stress as he missed the green and eventually two-putted for bogey.
Brothers knew the bogey put him in front on the final hole, and as her signed his card and peaked at the scoreboard, he knew he had medaled and clinched his spot to Washington.
"All I kept thinking about was that all the hard work and time I spent on my game was finally paying off, I look forward to playing in Wisconsin," Brothers stated. He continued, "I owe a lot to my dad, my caddie Mike Pecylak, my step mom, my mom, and my sisters for their words of encouragement and support."
In total, Brothers connected on 20-of-28 fairway s and combined to stroke 59 putts.
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We came across this comical article the other day about the ten most annoying driving habits. Especially if you use your RV a lot to go RVing or camping, it is more than likely that you have seen these bad drivers out on the road. Keep yourself off of camping bloopers by driving mindfully and not making these driving mistakes. Be careful with your new RV by watching out for these annoying driving habits on the road. Here are the first five annoying RV driving habits:
1. Merging – Drivers that go slowly down the on-ramp blocking traffic and heading into traffic that is going really fast, that's just not a good idea.
2. Stopping to stare at a car crash– Blocking traffic that is starting to pile up behind your RV for miles and miles, just so that you can see all of the details of a fender bender as you pass by – not the best manners.
3. Using high beams improperly – The offenders in this case can be city or rural drivers. City motorhome drivers who never get to use their high beams, so thus forget that they have them and never use them, causing them to creep along at slow night speeds because they cannot see. This high beam user can also be a rural RV driver that doesn't meet another car or motorhome very often, so thus, they forget that they have their high beams on and constantly blind people.
4. Avoiding jackrabbit starts – Most new and used RV's are not fuel-efficient RVs, so many RV owners try to avoid fast starts thinking that it will save gas. So, these are the travel trailer drivers that creep away from the stop sign, holding up traffic behind them as they "snail" away. It is actually more efficient to power up to speed relatively quickly, then back off the throttle and cruise at a steady speed.
5. Braking for no reason – We really couldn't find a more comical way to say this than how this article put it, so we are just going to quote the article here: "Just asking, but what's up with these inexplicable brake applications in the middle of straightaways? Did you just remember the cat is still in the dryer? See your high school flame pass in the opposite direction? Wake up and realize you were driving? The mystery is baffling. All I know is that it seems people aren't paying attention and then get startled back into focus, so they apply the brakes. Focus on driving when you're behind the wheel, not the other things that are happening in your life. You might live longer and worry less."
Next post, the rest of the top ten annoying driving habits.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fashion and portrait photographer Irving Penn died on Wednesday in New York at the age of 92, a spokesman for his studio said.
Penn's work has been shown in galleries around the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several books of his works have been published.
"He was probably most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world's great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads," The New York Times obituary said.
Penn had a long association with Vogue, photographing countless covers for the magazine.
The Los Angeles Times described him as "a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic combined with a startling sensuality defined a visual style that he applied to designer dresses or fleshy nudes, famous artists or tribal chiefs, cigarette butts or cosmetics jars."
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User:SysRq/World's Best Friend Award
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Welcome to yet another pointless and totally unofficial award! The World's Best Friend Award goes to the user who has best served as a friend to Uncyclopedia, Uncyclopedians, and the world over the past month. They may exhibit qualities of reliability and trustworthiness, make for a great designated driver, and know when to leave you alone with your lady friend. This award is for that individual who is always ready to step up and "take one for the team."
edit Since SysRq is currently AWOL...
Luvvy started it up again in October of 2010.
edit Nominators
Nominating is easy. Just ask yourself the following questions about the user you plan to nominate:
Is this person...
- ...not me? (No self noms. Whore)
- ...always there for me?
- ...a registered user? (IPs are not people and are therefore ineligible.)
- ...not currently banned?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then go ahead and put that user down for a nomination.
Oh, and be sure to add {{User:SysRq/VoteBFF}} to their userpage.
edit Voters
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Is this person...
- ...me? (Voting for yourself is encouraged.)
- ...the only person I'm voting for this month? (Only vote for one user per month.)
- ...always there for me?
- ...Patient, helpful and nice, despite me acting a dick/jerk/idiot from time to time...
- ...a person? (Remember that some Uncyclopedians may not necessarily be people. Beware.)
- ...not a previous winner?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then this is probably a good candidate for your vote.
edit Winners
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- A handy template for your userpage.
- Adding BFF to your sig.
- Adding your name to the list.
- A steak dinner, on us.
edit Past Winners
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edit Official Nominations for August 2012
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- Nom and for He's friendly and all. Mattsnow 04:12, January 2, 2012 (UTC)
- For. ~Sir Frosty (Talk to me!) 04:13, January 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, he is, in a decrepit melon sort of way. ~ 05:56, 2 January 2012
- For -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 06:05, January 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Thankyou for being a friend! la la la la la and back again, your heart is true youre a pall and a confident, and if you threw a party, and invited everyone you knew...you would la la la la la la la me and the la attached would say, thank you for being a friend. --ShabiDOO 03:53, January 8, 2012 (UTC)
- For I've essentially explained my vote in ever other contest BF is in. Why can't we just skip the awards and start an uncyclopedia fan club to him already? --Sir Oliphaunte (განხილვა) 08:21, January 8, 2012 (UTC)
- For He's my best friend in the whole wide world. I have a wall in my basement with all his articles cut out and hung randomly along with hundreds of stalker pictures (I can't get enough stalker pictures, every little thing is important). I have a blow up doll with his face on it which I sit at the table and eat lunch and dinner with. For breakfast we bath and eat oranges and grapes off a floating dish. Just proves that life is the best lived to the fullest. Aleister 12:01 8-1-'12


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Biology 262. Plant Biology
An introduction to the biology of plants, including mosses, club mosses, ferns, horsetails, cycads, conifers and flowering plants. Morphology, ecology and evolution will be addressed for each group. Laboratories will include examination of live specimens from all major plant taxa, student-devised experiments and field trips. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory per week.


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The end of chief induction, at least as many sailors have come to know it, was previewed in a stern message early this year from Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (AW/NAC) Mike Stevens.
And now, as 17,465 first classes wait for the selection announcement, commands are ready to implement big changes to the annual initiation.
The word "induction" has been stricken from the record for its association with hazing-like behavior. Stevens has eliminated alcohol from the process and made it clear that profanity has no place, either. And when it comes to the final day and hours leading up to the pinning of the new chiefs, he's not going to tolerate shenanigans and sophomoric pranks.
Stevens' new rules have caused quite a stir in the chief community, both past and present. Many accuse Stevens of watering down the training — and the tradition. In his own message, Stevens said he wants selects to face a gentler, more professional transition.
When selectees are announced this cycle, Stevens stated, "we will NOT abruptly start using a different tone or harsh style of training (as was customarily practiced at some locations in the past.) We will respect and treat those that have been selected to become chief petty officers in the same way we treat each other and that is NOT open to interpretation."
So does that mean the practice — formerly known as induction — is going to be easier? Stevens said that shouldn't be the case.
"I believe we can conduct tough, challenging and meaningful CPO training and keep it in alignment with our core values," he said in a July 10 interview with Navy Times. "We can abide by existing regulations and policies while still creating a challenging environment where our first class petty officers can develop their leadership skills and become great chief petty officers."
With the term "induction" gone, Stevens said the selectee process will roll into the existing CPO 365 program — the yearlong training for petty officers founded under Stevens' predecessor, MCPON (SS/SW) Rick West.
In a new twist, petty officers who aren't selected to become chiefs will remain part of the process, even after names are announced.
Stevens has faith his orders will be carried out in the coming weeks.
"I have an extraordinary amount of trust and confidence in our chief's mess that they will embrace this CPO 365 training process and be successful at it."
Facing a backlash
MCPON's office was inundated with emails and phone calls after Stevens announced the changes to chief induction. Navy Times also received numerous letters criticizing the decision.
Stevens says he understands the reaction and initial backlash.
What caught everyone's ear, he said, was that he eliminated the word "induction" from the process.
"If we didn't change the name, I'd argue we wouldn't be having this discussion," Stevens said — a point he has made over and again in the past half-year to chiefs and messes around the Navy.
Many have equated the name change with removing an important tradition.
"The whole idea behind the old chief's initiation is testing a first class before letting him become a chief," wrote retired Chief Machinist's Mate (SW) Jim Yancy in a letter to Navy Times. "The initiation's 'secrets' and the chiefs' fraternal brotherhood were strengths of limitless value," he said. "I knew every single CPO on planet Earth by his first name, and he knew mine: It was 'Chief.' "
The problem is that in the Old Navy, and in some commands in recent years, this initiation included cross-dressing and diaper-wearing, consuming foul foodstuffs, and being pushed past the point of exhaustion.
Stevens told Navy Times, in a March interview, that he had faced a number of challenges as a chief select, including eating some mysterious items covered in whipped cream "that would exercise your gag reflexes."
"They were edible. They did not kill me. That was one of the things that we did back then to earn the rite of passage," he said. "It was probably not unlike what some college fraternities did."
Stevens said times have changed, and that is unacceptable in today's Navy. Plenty of readers have accused Stevens of bowing to pressure and being politically correct.
"I wonder if the Naval War College tossed out teaching Halsey, Farragut or other great naval war fighters because they were not politically correct?" wrote retired Senior Chief Electrician's Mate (SW/AW) Charles March. "Sorry, but serving with a kinder/gentler military costs lives and makes us a sham. I'm so relieved I retired before this hit."
Stevens said he expected emotions to run high.
"Any time you make a change as significant as this, some people will take it good and others won't take it so well," he said. "But what I've been pleased with is many of those who originally were not in favor of the changes when we rolled this out, they've had time to think about it and let their emotions subside a bit and have thrown themselves in planning with their messes."
And this is only the latest step of an evolution as the Navy becomes increasingly more professional.
"With every CPO season that's gone by, we've learned and then taken those lessons learned and applied them in the right way, and the training has evolved and gotten better and will continue to get better," he said.
Executing new orders
You can read Stevens' 13-page guidance at www.navytimes.com/mcpon/cpo365. In it, he spells out a list of unacceptable behavior. There is to be no:
■ Alcohol during any interactions between chiefs and first classes.
■ Inappropriate props.
■ Forced consumption of foods or liquids.
■ Physical abuse.
■ Profanity.
■ Cross-dressing or any other sexually explicit behavior.
■ And anything during selects' "final test" that would be "contrary to good order and discipline."
The final test is limited to a max of 18 hours, from 6 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., and will take place the day before the pinning ceremony. Past events have been known to go much longer.
Stevens is intentionally vague about what this final test should entail. He wants it to be a capstone event similar to the Battle Stations event that recruits go through in boot camp.
Though command master chiefs have asked him for more specifics, Stevens refused to mandate how they get that done, so long as they don't violate any rules or regulations. He said he wants to empower them to make decisions.
"I tell them that I have to leave room for them to interpret how to conduct this training," Stevens said. "If I try to tell them exactly the what, where, hows and whys of CPO 365, what I'd be doing is stifling their ability to provide the best quality of training they can.
"What I've done is establish a fence line, the boundaries they must stay within," Stevens said. "That fence line is in the guidance and it's non-negotiable."
What will work for the chief's mess onboard the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, he said, may not work for a Seabee battalion that's forward-deployed in a war zone.
"There is no one-size-fits-all here as we have commands who are operating in different geographic locations, with different resources at their disposal," Stevens said. "They're limited only by the imagination. ... The individual messes work within those rules and provide a meaningful, tough and challenging but professional rite of passage."
And if commands step over the line, there will be accountability, Stevens said.
"Remove members from the events who are not following established guidelines and when necessary, hold them accountable," he wrote in his guidance. "It must be understood by all participants that the Final Test is strictly a professional training event. There is no room for conduct or actions contrary to good order and discipline."
After this year's pinning ceremonies, if he hears of any problems, he'll have the appropriate fleet master chief investigate and make any necessary "course corrections."
Nonselects included
In previous years, those petty officers first class who didn't select for chief were left out of the training during the final weeks leading up to the pinning ceremonies.
"I didn't think that was the right thing to do, and I've said that when and where practical, all first classes should be included in the training," he said.
This, he said, is to keep the momentum of the year-round CPO 365 training.
"For some, making chief is all about timing," Stevens said. "If that timing is off and their rating is too heavily manned at E-7 and above, it can severely limit their ability to make chief."
But for others, it's simply a matter of the board making the decision that this person isn't ready yet to wear chief's anchors.
Regardless of the reason, Stevens said many first classes never make chief, and there's no shame in retiring as an E-6.
"We forget that our goal is really to make those first classes the best leading petty officers and work center supervisors we can," he said. "Those are very important positions in our Navy. If we do that well, a byproduct is these petty officers become chief petty officers, as well."
By maintaining the year-round training, these first classes would be better prepared when the chief cycle begins anew.
Not everyone agrees with this approach, however. There are a lot of sailors complaining that CPO 365 puts too much stress on already overworked sailors. Adding nonselects to the final weeks of training could complicate this further.
The Navy recently launched a website called Reducing Administrative Distractions, or RAD, in which sailors can submit ideas for trimming unnecessary tasks and vote on the best ideas. Out of 707 ideas, reducing the CPO 365 workload was ranked 24th as of July 12.
"CPO 365 has placed an enormous amount of administrative distractions from E-6 to E-9s," wrote the author of the RAD idea. "Although the program is designed to continue to grow and mature those petty officers first class to become chief petty officers, the additional administrative actions are a distraction and the time away from various training is not practical — especially when it is for training that should be practiced daily."
You can read additional comments and ideas at www.navyrad.ideascale.com.
Another sailor who wished to be kept anonymous said he believes MCPON's "intentions are good" with CPO 365, but that he feels the Navy's top enlisted sailor doesn't understand "what this is doing to [first class petty officers]."
"Now that CPO 365 has rolled out to the fleet, [first classes] are on edge year round due to CPO messes instituting their own interpretation of how CPO 365 should be facilitated," the sailor wrote. "I have found the so-called training is at times berating the [first classes], which I find unsat.
"Instead of your first classes being on edge for a month or so, and if selected, being overwhelmed during initiation for a few months, this apprehension is now 365 days a year."
Stevens said he's heard none of these complaints directly, and most of the comments he hears in the fleet are positive.
"If a sailor feels CPO 365 is causing them undue distraction or any other problems, that's not the design of the program, and I would encourage them to engage with their command and particularly their command master chief to resolve that problem," he said.
"Commands need to keep this training fresh and keep their first classes interested in the training because it's productive and they get something out of it. If anyone is simply repeating the same training they did last year over again the next year, no one benefits from that. It needs to be fresh and relevant to what the commands and individuals need to grow."
Not done yet
Stevens believes his adjustments to the chief-making process and CPO 365 were a "necessary rudder correction."
"They were changes we needed to make to ensure we were keeping in line with all applicable regulations and policies," he said. "I felt there was too much ambiguity."
Stevens said he believes this process won't ever be "done" and that it will continue to evolve with subsequent MCPONs.
"There will always be a need for us to grow and continue to evolve and make changes to our CPO training as our nation and Navy are in continuous change," he said. "I'll have my time on watch and, as the current MCPON, it's my job to ensure this training is in keeping with our core values and policies. And the next MCPON will have to do the same thing because they either have to get on this bus or get run over by it."


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App of the Week - The Washingtonian
Digital Publishing Suite is not just for big publishers. The Washingtonian is a monthly magazine that serves the Washington D.C. area. This magazine covers arts & culture, entertainment, business and politics for the D.C. area. According to an interview with David Van Voorhees, Digital Development Manager, DPS allowed the small publishing company to go digital in a short amount of time, provide fun content for its readership, and drive new revenue.


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No matter how good Total's preparations, the death of its chief executive Christophe de Margerie in a plane crash late on Monday will have plunged the senior ranks of the French oil group into an emotional, logistical and governance nightmare.
When boards discuss succession planning, they often talk about it in jocular-morbid terms, typically debating "what happens if the CEO is run over by a bus?". But when such sudden deaths occur, it often exposes just how poorly they have prepared for this type of emergency.
The US-based Conference Board, in a useful note for directors issued last year, pointed out that while three-quarters of S&P 500 companies surveyed in 2011 had succession plans in place, only 83 per cent of those had put in place an emergency succession component. Given that between 7 and 15 US public companies are hit by the sudden death of their chief executive in any given year, the group suggested the fact that a third of large companies had not considered emergency succession was simply not good enough. Read more


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View these resources.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 29/11/2010 (2456 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I always cringe when I hear Winnipeg called the "Murder Capital Of Canada" – if for no other reason than it's an inaccurate reflection of how our justice system usually deals with homicides.
If recent history is any indication, we actually have very few murders in this city. But we sure have a ton of manslaughters, which might actually make us the "Sorry I didn't really mean to/couldn't for the necessary intent to murder you" capital of the country.
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
Take the past week, in which we've seen three local murder cases wiped off the books and reduced to manslaughter:
1) A young mother with a history of neglecting her children gets another chance to parent her two-year-old daughter under the supervision of Child and Family Services. While living in a women's shelter, the woman spends several days severely abusing the little girl. She inflicts more than 30 separate injuries, including bite marks to her legs and kicks to the child's vagina which leave a permanent foot impression behind. With the child crying and in obvious distress, the woman places her hand over the girl's mouth and holds it there for nearly two minutes until her body goes limp. She then places the girl in her crib, covers her with a blanket, turns off the light and shuts the door, spending the next few hours alone in the quiet of her home. Police and paramedics only learn about the incident later that night when the woman's boyfriend – who is in prison – calls them for help after speaking with the woman and finding out what happened.
The Crown has accepted a plea to manslaughter, providing no explanation for the reduced charge. Sentencing has been adjourned until a later date. Hopefully we will find out a lot more about the rational for what appears to be a pretty puzzling decision.
2) Angry after a fight with his girlfriend, Jason McDowell grabs a shotgun, loads it and fires a single blast at the woman, striking her in the face. Samantha Zeemel is still alive. He then reload, fires a second shot in the back of her head, killing her. McDowell then flees the house and spends a couple days on the run before turning himself in.
The Crown accepted a plea to manslaughter, telling court McDowell was too impaired by a four-day cocaine binge to really know what he was doing when he brutally killed the woman he supposedly loved and planned to spend the rest of his life with. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison under a joint-recommendation from lawyers.
3) Thanks to alcohol, Michael Kerr apparently has no clue what prompted him to repeatedly stick a knife into a stranger's chest. Kerr was living inside the Garrick Hotel in downtown Winnipeg in early 2008 when he met Leonard Delorme, shared a few drinks...and then killed him. Delorme's body was later found on a fifth-floor fire escape, having bled out hours earlier. Kerr was arrested after forensic evidence tied him to the slaying, including a garbage bag he was seen throwing out which contained the knife and a blood-soaked piece of carpet from his room.
The Crown accepted a plea to manslaughter, telling court that Kerr would have been too blitzed to really know what he was doing. They even cite the evidence of a hotel employee who saw him staggering down the hallway around the time of the killing, his jeans soaked with his own urine. His lawyer told court there is "no greater indicator" of how drunk his client was than the fact he had soiled himself. The Crown is seeking 15 years for Kerr, while his lawyers have asked for nine years. The judge will give her decision later this week.
Throw in the jury's decision last week to acquit Shaun Nodrick of any wrongdoing in the death of an elderly man he admits to robbing and leaving alone in a field, and you have four very recent examples of murder cases which really weren't, at least in the true legal sense of the word.
Is it justice? I suspect the families of all these victims, and likely a large degree of the public, will say it's not. But it is certainly reality, especially in a very crowded legal system in which the daily dockets seem to be filled with violent crimes often triggered by drugs and alcohol.
So get used to seeing plenty more of these type of plea bargains – and maybe it's time to find a new slogan for the city.