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It's the perfect sports event as national holiday. Everyone has a party, and it's always BYODAS: Bring you own deer antler spray. (Or, if you prefer, barbecued meatballs.)
Millions of people love the Super Bowl, and some of them are even sports fans.
March Madness has its moments, with the filling out of brackets and first-weekend buzzer beaters. But if your team is not playing in the national title game, you aren't throwing a party. The NCAA title game starts so late on a Monday nights, the youngest kids have to be in bed by halftime. The exception being last year, when Kentucky's kids were allowed to stay up and win the game.
When was the last time you went to a World Series party? Bob Gibson was pitching, you say, and you brought a case of Stroh's?
NBA Finals party? Maybe in Miami.
I once went to a World Cup party and it was kind of fun, although the 6 a.m. starting time was definitely a minus.
We love the Super Bowl because it's an event that provides the perfect balance of sports and entertainment, fortified with sex, violence and rock 'n' roll in a PG format.
Sex appeal arrives with the cheerleaders and GoDaddy.com commercials. Violence walks in when Bernard Pollard (or similar player, depending on the matchup) blasts the tar out of an opposing player. Rock 'n' roll comes in either the halftime show (although Beyonce might fall in the sex-appeal category) or the "rock star" like persona of the game's leading characters.
For instance, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis are the rock stars this time around, with Kaepernick the young, fresh face on the scene and Lewis the classic rocker with the questionable past behavior.
The two-week buildup also allows those who aren't sports fans to gain at least a casual knowledge of the players. We meet the coaches – in this case the brothers Harbaugh – and the top players and everyone is brought up to reasonable speed. No one's outside of baseball fanatics know the San Francisco Giants best middle relief pitcher. Nor do they care. People know the 49ers backup quarterback is Alex Smith.
Those who really don't care about football can find something to enjoy about the Super Bowl's periphery. They can judge Alicia Keys' national anthem. They can pick out their favorite offbeat commercial. They can wait to see what Beyonce wears at halftime. Few remember the teams who played in the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction Super Bowl. But they know her what she brought to the halftime (peep) show.
The NFL and its cozy relationship with the entertainment and commercial industries prompts many to watch so they can join the next-day conversation about Super Sunday.
Unlike the World Series or NCAA title games, kickoff is early enough for everyone to watch the game. The 6:30 tonight starting time is perfect. Confetti drops by 10 p.m., although the postgame chatter goes on all night.
This game does have some unique aspects to it, particularly the brother vs. brother coaching storyline. I've grown a bit tired of the buildup, but I can't help but feel some sense of empathy for both brothers.
The winning Harbaugh will be thrilled. He's won a Super Bowl. Yet he'll have to feel a bit bittersweet about his brother losing. I can't imagine being the Harbaugh bothers' parents. They'll win and lose. Talk about emotional conflict.
For most us, emotion won't be tied to this Super Bowl, absent its local flavor of Colts, Bears or Browns. (That last one's for my friend Murray, who still believes the Browns will make the Super Bowl in his lifetime. I love blind optimists.)
For most of us, the Super Bowl is a one-day respite from the real world. It's an unofficial holiday of mindless eating and watching. Is this a great country or what?
Now let's go watch Pollard light up a receiver. Please excuse me, I have to load up on some nachos.
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Michigan Tech Collaborates on $4 Million Department of Energy Project
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Michigan Tech is working with LanzaTech to develop new technology to produce low-carbon biofuel from waste methane gas.
September 24, 2013—
Michigan Technological University is one of three colleges and universities that will collaborate with the biotech-based alternative fuels and chemical company LanzaTech on a $4 million research project. They will work to find ways to convert waste methane into low carbon fuels and chemicals.
Funding for the 3-year research project comes from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Chemical Engineering Professor David Shonnard will lead the research at Michigan Tech, with Robert Handler providing technical and program management support. Shonnard is director of the University's Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI) and holds the Richard and Bonnie Robbins Chair in Sustainable Materials. Handler is SFI operations manager.
Louisiana State University (LSU) and City College of New York (CUNY) are the other schools collaborating on the research.
LanzaTech's goal is to extend its core fermentation technology and produce fuels and chemicals more efficiently, economically and at a smaller scale. Michigan Tech's role is to work with LanzaTech engineers and scientists to determine the environmental impacts of a novel pathway for producing ethanol from stranded methane emissions.
"The Sustainable Futures Institute at Michigan Tech has worked with LanzaTech and many other innovative alternative-biofuels companies to assist in their research and development efforts, their pilot projects and commercial developments by providing a comprehensive understanding of their product systems from an environmental viewpoint," Shonnard said. "We look forward to this new project as one more in a long line of collaborations with LanzaTech."
LanzaTech will provide expertise in gas fermentation; the CUNY Energy Institute will offer reactor design with experimental reactor design expertise; and LSU will render reactor modeling capabilities.
The new design will enable the technology to be used with other carbon-rich waste resources, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. It should enhance emission reduction capabilities across various industries.
The $4 million grant is part of ARPA-E's $34 million REMOTE (Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy) program, aimed at upgrading transformational bioconversion technologies to produce transportation fuels cost effectively.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.

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DEC lacks legal authority to roll-back environmental regulations; plan does not balance costs to environment, smaller dairy farms, or communities
A coalition of environmental groups expressed their disapproval of Governor Andrew Cuomo's announcement yesterday that the state will roll-back environmental regulations, which for years have protected the state's waterways from the polluting effects of industrial-sized dairy operations, based on the claim that it would increase yogurt production in New York:
"Our organizations have a shared goal of protecting and promoting dairy farming in New York. We are proud that New York has grown to be the largest yogurt producer in the United States, and it has done so with proper environmental protections in place for our waters. However, by gutting the law that ensures that medium size dairy CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) are run in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner, more than three million pounds of cow manure produced each day in New York are at risk of being improperly handled, resulting in contamination of adjacent waters that can expose local communities to disease-causing bacteria and threaten fish habitat.
Just last year, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) asserted in a filing with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that a non-regulatory approach to medium-sized CAFOs, which the state has just announced it intends to pursue, is neither credible nor effective' to protect the health and environment of New Yorkers.
By rushing this regulatory revision through the approval process, New York has denied the public the opportunity to help the the state find a way to support dairy operators in complying with the law that insures clean water for all New Yorkers. In addition, DEC has ignored the federal government's responsibility to review the state's regulatory change prior to implementation, calling into serious question the legal validity of the new regulations. Finally, DEC has not adequately examined all impacts the deregulation will have, nor fully considered alternative strategies that could provide both an economic and environmental benefit to the state and its dairy farmers.
In pursuing these rollbacks, Governor Cuomo is ignoring the true problem-the need for critical investments to operate industrial-sized dairy operations safely. Our coalition will continue to pursue a solution that would promote dairy farming in New York without putting the health and environment of New Yorkers in jeopardy, and are prepared to take legal action to protect the waters that all New Yorkers use for fishing, swimming, drinking and farming."


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Preps basketball: Ladies looking sharp as season approaches
December 13, 2012
A second-half surge was all the lady Vikings needed to rewrite a Wooster matchup with a winning ending.
The South Tahoe girls evened the score Wednesday in their non-league home opener when they faced Wooster for the second time in two weeks. Last time the teams met, the Vikings dropped the 65-63 overtime matchup. This time the Vikings came out on top, grabbing a 53-51 overtime thriller.
South Tahoe jumped out to an early six-point lead, but fell behind 13-7 by the end of the first period.
"We couldn't find the hoop for a long stretch and went into halftime down 27-17," head coach Mike Neiger said in an email.
The girls gained a bit of momentum in the third quarter, but still trailed 40-30 entering the final period.
It was the fourth period, however, when the lady Vikings would shine. The girls surged back to come up with key steals they converted into points. They scratched their way back to within two points in the final minute of regulation.
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Then it was junior Grace Bronken's turn to shine.
With less than 20 seconds to play, the Vikings grabbed a rebound off a missed Wooster free throw. Bailey David pushed the ball up the floor and found Bronken near the top of the key. Bronken connected on an 18-footer to tie the game 46-46 and force overtime.
The Vikings outscored the Colts 7-5 in the extra period to notch their first win of the season.
Hannah Neiger led the way with a game-high 19 points and 12 rebounds. Bailey David had 12 and Brooke King had eight. Mel Grady had five, including a three-pointer. Junior Riley Chapman chipped in four to go with an impressive six assists, and sophomore Ally King connected on a three-pointer to complement her 10 rebounds.
"Our girls showed a lot of character tonight, battling back from a 10-point, fourth quarter deficit. We turned up the defensive pressure and got some key steals in that period," Mike Neiger said. "It was truly a team effort. We have played four Division I opponents and one Division 1A foe. Playing up is making us stronger and showing where we need to improve."
Next up is a road trip to Elko Friday and Spring Creek Saturday.


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The Hostel is 35 Km from the Colombo International Airport. 10 kilometers away from the Colombo City.
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MARTINEZ — A San Francisco man will be sentenced to more than 43 years in state prison for killing a romantic rival outside a Pittsburg restaurant in 2006, a failed jail break and other crimes, according to the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office.
Jury selection in the trial of 32-year-old Erik Yashiro Smith was nearing an end Tuesday when Smith pleaded guilty to eight felonies, including voluntary manslaughter with use of a gun for the Sept. 26, 2006, slaying of 29-year-old Pittsburg electrician Luis Perez.
Smith also pleaded guilty to attempted arson, arson of property, two counts of intimidating a witness with use of a gun, two counts of shooting into an unoccupied vehicle, and escaping from jail, deputy district attorney Dominique Yancey said.
Perez was gunned down in the parking lot of Nation's Giant Hamburgers on Railroad Avenue after a meal during the dinnertime rush. At a 2009 trial for Smith's former co-defendant Marcell Thatcher, a prosecutor told jurors that Smith killed Perez because he believed Perez was romantically involved with his wife, Perez's ex-girlfriend.
Two days before the killing, Smith set fire to an SUV belonging to Perez's sister, and shot up two vehicles in the sister's neighborhood.
Smith was being held in County Jail in Martinez on murder charges when, on Nov. 18, 2006, he jumped a fence in an attempt to escape. Authorities captured Smith before he could make it over a secondary fence, Yancey said.
A Contra Costa County jury convicted Thatcher, 33, of first-degree murder for driving the getaway car for Smith. Thatcher was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in June 2009.
Smith's trial was delayed for years because of complexities inherent to the case, Yancey said. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 18 to 43 years and four months in prison.
Contact Malaika Fraley at 925-234-1684. Follow her at Twitter.com/malaikafraley.


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Is it just silly stuff, one-sided blather before the nationally televised storm? Do a few comments by Michigan State's Derrick Nix, which mix chip-on-the-shoulder truth with perceived dissing, constitute fighting words?
IU coach Tom Crean downplayed it. At least, he did publicly. In the privacy of the locker room, he might have used Nix's comments as former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes once, so the Urban Meyer story goes, tried to demonstrate toughness by using a turtle to bite his … well … let's not go there.
Anyway, according to Yahoo! Sports, the 6-9, 270-pound Nix told reporters in East Lansing that IU's Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo are overrated.
Well, that's not EXACTLY what Nix said, but you can bet it's been turned into that for Cream 'n Crimson motivational purposes.
Basically Nix said he thinks he and teammate Adreian Payne are "underrated," while there are a "lot of overrated players out there."
Nix said that "Oladipo is no different than (Michigan State's Branden) Dawson. Dawson's not on the draft board; Oladipo is in the top-15." He added that "Payne is 6-10 and can do everything that Zeller can do. He's not on the draft board. Zeller is in the top-5."
Nix added that the Spartans, as a group, are "underdogs."
Crean was asked about the comments before the Hoosiers left Cook Hall for Michigan State late Monday afternoon.
"They see that," he said about his players. "They're all on Twitter and Facebook. They read. There aren't secrets there.
"We spent time getting ready for a good team (in Michigan State). If I didn't have a mature team … they don't need any more of an edge going into this game."
IU and Michigan State are tied for the Big Ten lead with 11-2 records. The winner will have a conference-winning advantage entering the final four games of the regular season, although given the Big Ten's brutal competition (three teams are in the top 10, five in the top 20), that advantage might not last beyond a week.
Nix's words, Crean said, won't change that. He said the Hoosiers, "Know who they are. They're starting to realize what they're capable of. They know the (Breslin Center) environment. They're extremely locked it.
"(Nix's comments) don't have anything to do with the drive in this game, because that would be short lived."
Indiana can't beat Michigan State on just emotion. Not for 40 minutes. It has to execute. It has to defend, rebound, move the ball, make baskets and limit turnovers. It's all the simple stuff every team does to win games.
"We have to get back in transition and find the shooters," guard Jordan Hulls said. "In half-court, execute the defensive game plan."
Basically, that means don't let Michigan freshman guard Gary Harris get open three-point looks (he's shooting better than 50 percent from behind the arc the last five games), don't let Nix and Payne post up deep near the basket, and defend point guard Keith Appling well without fouling him.
As for the hype generated by a game that also has NCAA tourney No. 1 seed implications, Zeller kept it simple.
"It is a big game. We're both at the top of the Big Ten, but every game in the conference is big. There is hardly any room for error."
One thing is certain. Oladipo will play tonight. The slight ankle sprain he suffered Saturday against Purdue is no factor. Crean said Oladipo practiced on Sunday and again on Monday.
"He was good. We didn't push anything to an extreme level. He's excited. He passed the point where he's hurting, although I don't think he's going to tell anybody, anyways."
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo wasn't trying to stir up things with his pregame comments, and not just because Crean is a good friend who once coached for him.
"I think they've been the premier team in the league all season," Izzo said about the Hoosiers (23-3).
Izzo also was high on Oladipo and Zeller. He said Oladipo reminds him of former Michigan State player Morris Peterson, who arrived in East Lansing unheralded and developed into an NBA player.
"I don't think there's a coach in the country that doesn't love Victor Oladipo," Izzo said.
As for Zeller, Izzo called him a "stud inside."
As for the game, he said, "It's kind of an amazing match-up."
Michigan State (22-4) has won five straight games since last month's 75-70 loss at Indiana. It is 11-1 since Jan. 1.
"They're playing with tremendous confidence," Crean said. "They had balance when they played us — inside and outside. They keep getting better. No question they're one of the best teams in the country. They're very good. There's nothing you can look at and say you can play off this. There's no place to catch a breath."
And then there's the Breslin Center advantage.
The Spartans are 15-0 at home this season. They have beaten IU 17 straight times in East Lansing. The Hoosiers' last victory there was in 1991, although that didn't seem to bother them.
"It is my last time there," Hulls said, "and I just want to win. We have a good game plan. It will be a hyped-up game. It will be exciting to play in that environment. It's loud with all the students surrounding the court. It's a cool atmosphere to play in."
Cool is certain to turn heated tonight, with or without Nix-fueled drama.
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I totally agree, I'd like to see some comparisons between how much in-ring action there was on the 2 hour raws and the 3 hour ones...Im sure there isn't much of a difference
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Recovery of lost and found pets.
Rescue from an endangering situation--such as last day adoption directly from the pound when a viable animal is up for destruction or experimentation. We do observation, rehabilitation, evaluation, and sometimes retraining long before the animal again becomes available, if necessary.
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AD: UTSA basketball needs change in venue situation
Updated 10:50 pm, Saturday, March 16, 2013
UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey on Saturday discussed the possibility of moving forward on a "face-lift" for the Convocation Center, the home of the Roadrunners' basketball teams since 1981.
Hickey made her remarks a day after the end of a disappointing season for the UTSA men.
"We've got to try to plan for the future a little bit," Hickey said. "If we don't think we're going to be able to move forward on the new building, then we've got to continually look at what can we do to give a face-lift to the Convo."
At one time, UTSA officials talked about the possibility of a new arena as part of a joint venture with the Northside ISD.
But nothing came of the discussions.
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On Thursday night, during a broadcast of UTSA's game against Louisiana Tech in Las Vegas at the Western Athletic Conference tournament semifinals, Hickey broached the subject again.
She said "we've got to do something about the building," referring to the Convocation Center, leading into the school's entry into Conference USA next season.
Clarifying her comments Saturday, Hickey said it's important to continue to explore ways to improve facilities for all of the department's sports teams.
But, she added, "we have no specific plans either way at this point in time" in terms of a plan for UTSA's basketball venue.
"Just know that it's an issue that we need to address because we want our students to have the very best experience possible," Hickey said. "And we need to continue to try to enhance our recruiting opportunities."
Recruiting will be key in the next few months for men's coach Brooks Thompson, whose Roadrunners finished 10-22 in their one and only season in the WAC.
"Obviously (things) didn't go as well as we wanted," Thompson said. "But as I've always said, our guys kept bringing it every day. I think the difference in the Southland Conference and the WAC was a big difference. It was a major step up, and something we've got to keep working toward."
Ninth-seeded UTSA upset top seed Louisiana Tech in the tournament quarterfinals Thursday night, only to fall a day later to UT Arlington.
Thompson said it's not going to be easy to find players who can step into the leadership void left by the departure of seniors Larry Wilkins, Michael Hale III and Kannon Burrage.
Thompson also said redshirt freshman guard A.J. Price is no longer with the team. He described it as a "mutual" parting of ways, with Price expected to try to play elsewhere.


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Japanese METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE fans now have more to look forward to then just an awesome looking new game. Releasing February 21, 2013 in Japan for the PS3 only, the METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE PREMIUM PACKAGE is the game bundle that keeps on giving. Priced at 12,980 yen (163.126 USD), this special edition package includes a copy of the game, custom "Cyborg Ninja" skin download code, official soundtrack (w/ steel book case), Yoji Shinkawa Art Book, a three-armed villain figure with magnetic split in half action (pictured below), AND, best of all, a variant RAIDEN Play Arts Kai from Square Enix. Where the normal release of this figure will depict the warriror in black armor, this variant figure will feature Raiden in white armor!
And what will those in the U.S. receive? The Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Limited Edition ($149.00) will include a copy of the game, official soundtrack (w/ steel book case), and an exclusive high-frequency katana blade plasma lamp (photo not available yet). It better be a VERY cool lamp...
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LEE BRICE RELEASES 'PARKING LOT PARTY' EXCLUSIVELY ON iTUNES TODAY
Lee Brice to Make National Late Night Debut with
May 1st Performance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"
Nashville, TN – April 10, 2012 – Everything Lee Brice touches career-wise is proving the truth in the old industry adage and country music hit – "when you're hot, you're hot."
With his current single "A Woman Like You" hitting the top of the Billboard chart, Curb Records is releasing today a second iTunes exclusive download from Brice's forthcoming album project, Hard 2 Love. The highly-touted new album will street April 24 with a strong lead-in at retail already established.
iTunes will offer a second exclusive download, "Parking Lot Party," from the new album package as a "sneak preview" offered by Curb Records followed by a third download to follow on April 17.


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JKhedrup wrote:This is a far cry from the opinion of the lamas and monks I have spoken to at Sera Jey and Mey monasteries, but I guess it all depends on where you get your information, and who you decide to trust.
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What the Soupy one wants, the Soupy one gets.
I was thinking the other day, and I'm not sure I've ever been more excited to see a movie. I mean I ordered my tickets on June 22nd, and I'm glad I did now that midnight showings are filling up all over the place.


text: "30 for 30: Benji" is on ESPN tonight. About the #1 high school player that was shot and killed back in 1984. I was a student at IU back then and unless my memory is failing (possible) Bobby Knight was recruiting him. So there might be some IU stuff in the show. Just fyi. He was supposed to be a very good player.


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Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f2.8 Macro review: For super-sharp outdoor close-ups and videoBy Janice Chen - Wednesday January 30 2013 Lens Review
A sharp macro lens.
In comparison with other Micro Four Thirds prime lenses (mounted on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2), the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f2.8 Macro scored quite well with a DxOMark score of 17—though, as expected, high-end lenses with shorter focal lengths and wider apertures were able to score slightly better.
Given that sharpness is a critical quality for macro shooting, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f2.8 Macro's Sharpness score of 9P-Mpix was particularly welcome, making the Olympus lens one of the sharpest Micro Four Thirds prime lenses that we've tested.
The lens was able to achieve its maximum sharpness of 9P-Mpix at f/4, with just a slight softening toward the edges of the frame, but at an acceptable level, as shown in the field map below:
The 60mm macro lens exhibited very little vignetting, with a Vignetting Score of -0.7EV, giving it the best score among Micro Four Thirds prime lenses. You can see from the field map below, that at its maximum aperture of f/2.8, it exhibits minimal lens shading across the field.
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Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm f/2.8 on a OM-D EM-5
First let me say that I always read your reviews prior to getting new equipment. Thank you for these excellent reviews! As for this lens, I am contemplating the purchase of the Olympus OM-D EM-5 as my "travel" kit, and am most interested in image sharpness and detail in prints up to about 16x20. So far I've read that the Oly 75mm is among the sharpest optics for m4/3. I wonder how this Oly macro stands up in terms of sharpness. As a "Macro" lens, one would think that sharpness and resolution is a primary characteristic.


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SPOKANE, CARNAGE et al. to Play The Alley Theatre in '10-'11
The Alley Theatre was founded over sixty years ago as Houston's theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works - to provide the inspirational and the provocative - to make our audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is committed to moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. The Alley Theatre is in the heart of Houston's downtown Theatre District located at 615 Texas Avenue; bordered east by Louisiana, north by Prairie, west by Smith, south by Texas. For more information call 713-220-5700.
2010-11 Season
A Behanding in Spokane - 9/1 - 9/26/2010
New York Times calls the play "perfect, demented, ecstatic, sadistic and imaginative." The Wall Street Journal promises that "You'll spend 90 minutes laughing nonstop." Martin McDonagh returns to the Alley with his first play set in America, the outrageously funny A Behanding in Spokane, recently on Broadway. The mysterious, gun-toting Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for decades. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we're set for an uproarious ride of love, hate, desperation and hope. "Wildly entertaining...truly explosive," says The Daily News. The Wall Street Journal calls McDonagh "one of the finest playwrights in the English-speaking world." Martin McDonagh's plays include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Alley production, January 1999), The Pillowman (Alley production, February 2006) and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Alley production, January 2008). McDonagh won an Academy Award for Best Short Film for Six Shooter as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for In Bruges.
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up - 10/6 - 10/31/2010
"All children grow up, except one." Peter's sudden arrival into the lives of Wendy, John and Michael is the beginning of a thrilling adventure. Together they embark on a fantastical flight to the Never Land, a magical place of vivid dangers and unsettling beauty. There they meet the Lost Boys, a horde of pirates, and the wickedest villain of all time. This is J. M. Barrie's rarely produced original fantasy - the inspiration for all other versions - and still, by far, the strangest and best.
A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas - 11/20 - 12/27/2010
Houston's seasonal favorite that the Houston Press described as having "Spectacular London sets ...the inimitable Dickens' tale - spiced with the usual fog and an unusual twist on the ghosts past, present and future." A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas returns this year with a re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic story, that follows Ebenezer Scrooge's journey with the three ghostly spirits that visit him on Christmas Eve. A Christmas Carol instills a powerful message about redemption and the spirit of the holiday season, through a dazzling production created by Tony Award-winning scenic designer Tony Straiges (Alley's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), with costumes by Alejo Vietti (Alley's Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Our Town, Rock 'n' Roll, Mauritius), lighting by Rui Rita (Alley's Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood, Eurydice, Cyrano de Bergerac), and original music by John Gromada (Alley's Our Town, Subject to Fits, Treasure Island, The Pillowman).
The Santaland Diaries - 11/23 - 12/31/2010
Company Actor Todd Waite will reprise his role as "Crumpet the Elf" in the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' experience as a worker in Macy's SantaLand display. This compact, one-character comedy has been described as "a dream rendition at the Alley Theatre, courtesy of the ideally cast Todd Waite" by the Houston Chronicle. The Santaland Diaries is an hilarious cult classic, featuring comic encounters during the height of the holiday crunch. NPR humorist and best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers.
God of Carnage - 1/12 - 1/30/2011
Grown-ups behaving badly. That's what happens when a schoolyard scuffle leads four civilized adults to congregate in an affluent New York City home. But civilization quickly crumbles as verbal sticks and stones begin to fly. God of Carnage, a new savage comedy, took New York by storm winning the 2009 Tony award for Best Play and its Alley premiere promises to be equally delicious devastation. New York Times calls the play "First Class! A four way prize fight. Catnip for audiences." New York Post describes it as "Gleefully nasty fun."
A Weekend With Pablo Picasso - 2/2 - 2/27/2011
Acclaimed actor-writer Herbert Siguenza (¡Cantinflas! and Culture Clash in America) returns to the Alley with a new play. Siguenza brings his virtuosic writing, acting and design skills into Picasso's private studio, "Le Californie" on the coast of France, for an intimate and revealing weekend. Picasso's controversial and flamboyant opinions and creations gripped the public imagination and forever changed 20th century art. Delving into the creative mind and work of one of the most inspiring artists of modern history, this play explores Picasso's proclamations about ambition, destruction, creativity and art as an agent of social change.
August: Osage County - 2/23 - 3/13/2011
Variety describes this play as a "very juicy...epic evening...( a) richly entertaining dysfunctional-family juggles the hilarious, the poignant and the appalling on a scale seldom seen." Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is a grand, gripping new play that tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their Oklahoma home when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with Violet, a pill-popping, deeply unsettled woman at the center of this storm. Los Angeles Times says it is "sensationally entertaining...a feast for actors and audiences alike." Time Magazine named it the "#1 Show of the Year!" Don't miss this powerful production, a tale filled with unforgettable characters and told with unflinching honesty.
Amadeus - 4/6 - 5/1/2011
Peter Shaffer's Tony award-winning play is a riveting tale of obsession and vengeance. Loosely based on the lives of Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri and his young rival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus follows a murder plot that shocks and fascinates. After committing his life to God in order to be blessed with the ability to create the world's most sublime music, Salieri believes that God graced the rebellious Mozart with greater inspired creativity. Envious Salieri schemes to destroy Mozart and, in so doing, rebukes God. The film version of Amadeus won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1985.
The Medusa Body - 5/4 - 5/29/2011
Alley Company Artist and Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph (Gruesome Playground Injuries, World Premiere at the Alley October 2009) returns with a psychological thriller that pits the corporate world against a 21st century artist in a violent and wickedly funny play about a woman with a paintbrush and a man with a spreadsheet. World-renowned artist Maya Akhet is commissioned by a global securities firm to create a painting for the lobby of their world headquarters. She loses her head, stops taking her medication, outwits the corporation's lawyers and begins to wreak havoc in her studio with a sawed-off shotgun. Unfortunately for her, removing the beast's head doesn't always kill the body.
Pygmalion - 5/25 - 6/12/2011
A unique masterpiece, Pygmalion is one of George Bernard Shaw's most popular plays. It is the story of phonetics professor Henry Higgins who bets that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lovely lady and pass her off in high society. Pygmalion is a modern myth and also a strikingly contemporary view of sexual politics and the science of romance. The screenplay of Pygmalion won the Academy Award in Gabriel Pascal's 1938 motion picture and inspired the well-known Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady (1956).


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Rockford, Mich. -- Wolverine Worldwide said Tuesday it will make several organizational moves to drive future growth and global brand building in the wake of its October 2012 acquisition of the Performance & Lifestyle Group.
"The acquisition of the Performance & Lifestyle Group has been transformational for our company and has created many new opportunities for global growth, brand building, and operational excellence," said Blake W. Krueger, Wolverine Worldwide chairman and CEO. "Today, we are taking important steps to better align the team and realize our vision of having the best brands, products, operating platform, and consumer experiences in the industry."
The parent of Stride-Rite and Keds brands, among others, said Tuesday that CEO and president of PLG Gregg Ribatt has resigned to pursue other opportunities, following a transition period to aid the company in organizing the new structure.
Under the new structure, the company will migrate from four to three brand operating groups, each led by a group president. The Heritage Group, and comprising the Wolverine, Caterpillar Footwear, Bates, Sebago, Harley-Davidson Footwear, and HyTest brands, will be led by Ted Gedra, a 27-year Wolverine Worldwide veteran.
The Lifestyle Group, comprising the Sperry Top-Sider, Stride Rite Children's Group, Hush Puppies, Keds, and Soft Style brands, will be led Mark Neal, an 18-year Wolverine veteran.
The Performance Group, comprising the Merrell, Saucony, Chaco, Patagonia Footwear, and Cushe brands, will be led by led by group president Jim Zwiers, a 15-year Wolverine veteran.


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A day after being blanked for just the third time in franchise history in a season opener, the sour taste was still there for the Detroit Red Wings.
"We were terrible," Niklas Kronwall told reporters after practice in Columbus Sunday afternoon. "A lot of things were really bad. Doesn't matter what you do structurally when you're not there. We were a step behind all game."
"You have to work, it's as simple as that," said goalie Jimmy Howard, who was pulled after allowing five goals on 28 shots in a little over two periods of work. "We got out-worked in every aspect of the game."
Three of the Blues' six goals were scored on breakaways.
"Well, I guess what I would say is we weren't very good," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "So you can go through it and pick on all the individuals that we want. I felt that we gifted them four goals, and absolutely gifted them. I'm not saying that they didn't forecheck hard and do good things, but you can't give away freebies.
"I've said it many times, you can't outscore your defensive mistakes," Babcock continued. "We had way too many. The tempo off our bench was too slow, especially for our first game, our shifts were too long. We got caught out there. When we were playing defense it took too long to get out of our zone, so we want to stay longer on offense. I mean, we were no good."
Detroit allowed four power play goals on five chances. The Wings were 0-for-4 with the man advantage.
"If I go through PK goals, rush goal, long pass, no two long passes, no one long pass," Babcock said. "What were the PK goals? I should remember I only saw them nine times. Three of them were freebies."
St. Louis also scored short-handed.
"That's not penalty killing," Babcock said. "It's crazy. How do they make that play past you? That's the hard part for me. Even the first goal of the game. The same thing. Even the short-handed goal. I mean the guys skates by two of our guys watching the puck. Those are bad goals."
Defenseman Kyle Quincey got burned by St. Louis rookie Vladimir Tarasenko for two of the breakaway goals.
"We have to find a way to play a lot better than that," Kronwall said. "Compete harder. Just play harder. I think everyone in here is pretty ashamed of their effort. We have to be a lot better than that."
Along with being shutout Saturday, the Wings were also blanked in season openers Nov. 15, 1928 (New York Rangers at Olympia Stadium) and Nov. 18, 1926 (Boston Bruins at Windsor Arena).
Injuries piling up
Three more players can be added the Wings' list of walking wounded, but one will return to the lineup after being sidelined for over a year.
-- Defenseman Jonathan Ericsson is questionable for Monday's game in Columbus with a shoulder injury.
-- Forward Jan Mursak will miss a few weeks with a collar bone/SC join injury.
-- Goalie Jonas Gustavsson will be out the next couple of games with a tender groin.
-- Forward Patrick Eaves will play his first game since suffering a broken jaw and concussion on Nov. 26, 2011.
Ericsson stepped on a puck on the last drill of practice Sunday and went shoulder first into the boards.
"I went in pretty hard," Ericsson said. "I'm just feeling a little banged up. I just feel like I've been hit by a train right now, but other than that it's good. It should hopefully be fine."
Mursak's injury occurred on a hit by the Blues' David Backes on his first shift of the game.
"Backes just lost the puck a little bit, so I turned around and didn't want to go back in our zone, so I cleared it out and right when I cleared it out he pushed me, he hit me from the side and I kind of awkwardly fell into the boards with the shoulder down," Mursak told reporters in Columbus. "I still finished the period, took an X-ray, got ready and played the second period and once they got the results of an X-ray, they said I can't play.
"It's not fun but trying to stay positive," added Mursak, who's likely heading to the injured reserve list.
For Mursak it's just another setback as he continues to try and find regular playing time.
He broke his left ankle in a preseason game last season and was sidelined for close to two months.
Gustavsson's groin injury is annual thing according to the Wings' backup goalie. He began feeling soreness during camp, but it went away.
"I don't know exactly why, but usually when camp starts I can feel it a little bit," Gustavsson said. "Doesn't really matter how much I've been practicing and working out before, it seems to happen early in the early in the year and then usually it's been fine. In the past, it hasn't been that I've been out a few weeks, it's been a couple of days. Hopefully, this will pass quick, too."
Gustavsson relieved Jimmy Howard in the 6-0 loss to the Blues, allowing one goal on eight shots.
The Wings recalled Tomas McCollum to backup Howard the next two games.
Eaves was cleared to return Thursday, but was a healthy scratch in the opener.
Todd Bertuzzi (mono), Darren Helm (back) and Jakub Kindl (groin) are also sidelined.
Kindl and Helm look as if they'll be ready to play Friday against the Minnesota Wild at Joe Louis Arena. Bertuzzi will see doctors Tuesday to have tests done.
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The New York Rangers got their No. 1 center back, and it only cost them $150,000 more than they anticipated.
Derek Stepan and the Rangers agreed on a two-year contract worth $6.15 million, according to the New York Post. The deal comes less than a week before the start of the regular season.
Stepan, 23 and New York's leading scorer last season, was reportedly looking for something close to $3.5 million annually, with the Rangers offering around $3 million. That's essentially what the final product pays him.
Three days ago, GM Glen Sather went on the team-owned MSG network and said that it was "unfortunate" that Stepan was listening to his agent, and that he wasn't "big enough of a fool" to sit out the season.
Sather's negotiation tactic was silly, but it was also correct. Fairly or unfairly, Stepan's only leverage point would've hurt him as much as the Rangers.
The end result, predictably, is a team-friendly deal for a player who has already emerged as New York's best center and a key presence on the penalty kill and power play. If he keeps it up, he won't be underpaid much longer.
In fact, it could easily be argued that the Rangers should've locked up Stepan, much like the Oilers with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, long-term. Now, he's more than capable of costing New York more in the long run. If they'd have just bought out Brad Richards, and as a result had more cap space to devote to Stepan, none of this would've happened. Instead, Richards is back for a guaranteed last year with the Rangers, and the team is faced with doing it all again in two years.
Now, Stepan has to learn coach Alain Vigneault's system in a few days. He's likely to center a line with Rick Nash on his right side, considering that Carl Hagelin and Ryan Callahan are both out with injuries.


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White Sox AFL players officially assigned
CHICAGO -- The White Sox will be represented by seven players as part of the Glendale Desert Dogs during the 2014 Arizona Fall League season. Those players are infielder Tim Anderson (No. 2 White Sox prospect per MLB.com), infielder Rangel Ravelo, catcher Kevan Smith, left-handed pitchers Scott Snodgress and Jefferson Olacio and right-handed pitchers Frank Montas and Chris Bassitt.
Anderson and Montas have battled through injuries this season, with Montas having trouble with both knees and Anderson on an 8-for-17 run with Double-A Birmingham after dealing with a fractured right wrist.
"They both missed time, so it's good to get them additional reps, especially Montas, who had two setbacks, one with each knee but is now knock-on-wood healthy," said White Sox general manager Rick Hahn of Anderson and Montas. "But it's also about challenging them with a little bit of a higher level.
"Obviously the level of play in the Fall League over the years has been really prospect-laden and we feel that both those guys are ready for it from a performance standpoint. They also happen to have missed a little developmental time, so they're a perfect fit for that."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cover crops have to be the fast growing phenomenon in crop production. While no-till producers were first to the party, the practice is spreading beyond that group. If a dealership isn't in the game, it may be missing out on a business opportunity, suggests Hans Kok, coordinator, Indiana Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative.
Although grower purchases of seed, fertilizer and services have a direct impact on a retailer's business, purchases of tillage equipment has none. And claims of cover crops reducing fertilizer needs raises red flags for some retailers.
"We had some retailers in Indiana who were worried that cover crops would cut into their fertilizer business," recalled Kok. "We do have some growers who have dramatically cut back on fertilizer in corn and are still beating county averages. However, the market for cover crop seed and service has put their input providers in a better market than simply selling low-margin fertilizer. Plus, it shores up the retailer/customer relationship."
It is that existing relationship that puts retailers in such a good position to fulfill customers' needs and interests when it comes to cover crops, suggests Scott Wohltman, cover crop lead, La Crosse Forage & Turf. "The retailer owns the relationship, has the grower information and knows what is needed on the acres," he said. "Still, there are problems with retailers who don't feel comfortable with cover crops and farmers who may not feel comfortable bringing it up in conversation. Yet at the end of the day, growers will buy cover crop seed from someone. It might as well be the local retailer."
Steve Groff, Cover Crop Solutions founder, pointed to a strong correlation between adoption of no-till and adoption of cover crops in terms of how people think. "Each takes time and education, and each has a learning curve," he said.
Kok pointed to parallels in introduction of the two practices. "When we first promoted no-till, there was a lot of talk about weeds and insect problems that never happened," he recalled. "Ditto with cover crops. In both cases, growers need to see to believe."
In the case of cover crop introduction, Groff advised starting with easy to handle options, such as oats and the trademarked tillage radish he co-developed. "Every farm has its unique challenges, but tillage radish is like a cover crop on training wheels," he said. "It is easy to see the difference it makes in a field. It leaves virtually no residue in the spring.
You can mix oats with it in the North or triticale and cereal or annual rye with it in the South. In the spring, the grains keep growing, protect the soil from erosion and slowly release nutrients, while the radish dies back and releases its nutrients early."
Knowing which cover crop to recommend is getting increasingly complicated as more species and varieties of a species become part of the mix. Wohltman spent 10 years in ag retail and now works with retailers throughout the Midwest. He argues that it is the responsibility of the cover crop seed industry to educate retailers on how to work with cover crops.
"We need to make sure we have trained retailers on what the product does, and not just to take an order," said Wohltman. "Retailers who integrate cover crops into the conversation sell 100 to 150 percent more seed than those who wait for the farmer to bring it up."
Retailer Ceres Solutions understands how important the "conversation" is and how important it is to have it early. "We look at cover crops as an opportunity and take a proactive approach," said Betsy Bower, Ceres Solutions. "We want to help our customers have a plan in place for cover crops just as they do for their cash crops."
The plan, she explained, is important for grower and retailer. Depending on the grower goals, the cover crop mix may need to be changed or the cash-cropping plan may need to be changed.
"If the grower is intent on planting cover crops early, we may need to recommend a shorter season soybean or, depending on the desired mix, a more careful choice of residual herbicide," suggested Bower.
For Ceres, a well laid out plan allows the retail outlet to have the desired seed on hand and have the right equipment in place if application service is requested, whether aerial, spinner spreader or airflow. Matching equipment to the particular seed is vital, suggested Kim Wampler, branch manager, Frichton Branch, Ceres Solutions. With three years of fast growing cover crop business under his belt, he has a good feel for assigning equipment. Triticale and wheat can go out on a spinner, but fluff y seed like annual rye and oats need to be spread with airflow. Small seed like radish and clover work well with fertilizer. How the resulting crop is handled prior to planting also needs to be part of the plan.
"One customer prefers annual rye grass, and that concerns us as it is a bugger to kill in the spring," said Wampler. "It is amazing how deeply rooted it is and what it does for the soil, but you have to hit it hard with Roundup and hit it early."
Wampler said he and his crew have learned the hard way how meticulous equipment cleanout has to be. When some rye showed up in wheat fields spread by his crews, it was noticeable, though not the concern it would have been in seed wheat.
"We were probably trying to move too fast and didn't pay enough attention," he recalled.
Learning to handle the added pressure of one more service demanded in the fall is the price of added business. Having that early conversation with the grower over what goes where reduces that pressure. However, there will still be the grower who calls the night before he wants seed spread, noted Bower.
"You have to be flexible," she said. "It has added to the fall workload, but most of our people say it has been a positive change. We need to work through what species or mix is desired and how we need to do it. If we can use fertilizer as a carrier that lets us put on more fertility. The challenge is getting the seed from suppliers when you need it."
"It all goes back to asking the right questions," suggested Wohltman. "In recent years, demand has pushed ahead of supply in part because we haven't had the conversation early enough. Retailers and their customers need to plan ahead with their wholesaler, otherwise we'll run into problems with supply and quality. Ultimately, we need to provide the seed producer with the right information so they know how many acres to plant."
Skyrocketing demand combined with a sharp learning curve has created problems with seed origin, cleanliness and even proper labeling. There is a big difference between cereal rye and annual rye, as some have learned the hard way.
Wohltman argued that quality and service expectations for cover crop seed suppliers should be no different than what a retailer expects from a corn or soybean seed supplier.
"They should have guys in the field with you, willing to train, but also to make farm calls with confidence about what a particular cover crop species will do and what it won't," he said. "There is risk in bringing in seed and not knowing how much you will move, so you need inventory protection at some level. Your supplier should provide grower training, marketing support and solution-based selling. As a wholesaler, our job isn't done until the retailer has sold his seed to his customer."


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How cool is this? A high-altitude spyplane that can stay airborne for four days, driven by a liquid hydrogen power system, was unveiled last Monday at the Boeing Phantom Works in St. Louis, Missouri. Darryl Davis, the president of this advanced technology development shop, is here at the Farnborough show to describe rapid progress with the Phantom Eye program. A scale model is in the Boeing Pavilion here this week.
Davis will likely also report here the first engine runs and taxi trials of the Phantom Ray, an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator that Boeing has salvaged from the Pentagon's J-UCAS (joint unmanned combat air system) program.
The Phantom Eye is designed to fly at 65,000 feet on the power of two 2.3-liter truck engines, modified to run on LH2 fuel. The dumpy-looking fuselage design is driven by the need to accommodate two eight-foot diameter tanks in line, each holding 1,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen. Between these two storage tanks is placed a large accumulator tank into which the LH2 flows in a gaseous state after boil-off. From there it is fed to the two turbo-charged engines, mounted on a high wing with a 150-foot span. They drive eight-foot diameter, four-bladed propellers.
Payloads of up to 450 pounds can be carried in the Phantom Eye's nose and on external mountings. The empty weight is 7,500 pounds.
Multi-mission Platform
"This air vehicle could be a platform for a variety of missions, ranging from military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance [ISR] through communications relay to border patrol," said Davis. "For a small country, it could be an alternative to expensive satellites." He explained that the version that is scheduled to fly early next year is only a 60-percent scale demonstrator. The ultimate goal of the Phantom Works is to produce a UAV that can fly a 2,000-pound payload for up to seven days or a 1,000-pound payload for 10 days.
"We aim to beat the Condor!" he added. Enthusiasts for high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) vehicles will remember the Condor, a 200-foot wingspan all-composite UAV that Boeing designed in the 1980s. It claimed a world record 67,028-foot altitude for a piston-engine-powered machine in February 1989, and stayed airborne for 58 hours 11 minutes the following November.
Davis is tapping some of that old expertise with the Phantom Eye. And he has an experienced partner: Aurora Flight Sciences has built the wing, which like the composite structure for the fuselage is cured at room temperature without recourse to an autoclave.
Like the Condor, the Phantom Eye will take off from a dolly and land on a skid to save the weight of an undercarriage. HALE aficionados may recall that the U-2 spyplane was designed with a similar arrangement–until Kelly Johnson of the Lockheed Skunk Works was persuaded otherwise by the U.S. Air Force.
The very name of the Phantom Works suggests an outfit that embraces similar blue-sky aeronautical thinking. Indeed, the Boeing division is engaged in
a wide variety of leading-edge projects (see box above right). Davis and his colleagues are presumably also hard at work in the classified domain.
Partly Classified
The Phantom Ray seems to occupy a space in the defense sector that is partly a classified "black" program and partly unclassified. Davis confirmed to AIN last month that this low-observable UCAV design is the same X-45C vehicle that Boeing nearly completed for the J-UCAS program, which was mysteriously cancelled in early 2006.
Funding from the U.S. Navy subsequently allowed Northrop Grumman to proceed with its J-UCAS contender–the carrier-capable X-47B. Since then, Lockheed Martin has emerged as a black-world provider of at least one stealthy UAV to the U.S. Air Force, in the shape of the RQ-170, also known as the Desert Prowler. The RQ-170 is yet to be fully revealed, but was deployed in secret to Afghanistan last year.
Meanwhile, Boeing–the company that pioneered the development of UCAVs for the U.S. Air Force in the original X-45A program–was seemingly left out in the cold. Davis said that the Phantom Ray is being completed and test-flown entirely with Boeing's own money. "At some point, the [U.S. military] services are going to require it," he added.
The Phantom Ray was unveiled last May and is due to fly next December. It is 36 feet long with a wingspan of 50 feet, and is powered by a General Electric F404-GE-102D engine. A full-scale model of this UCAV is on display here at Farnborough. It has a strike radius of 1,200 nm with a payload of 4,500 pounds, such as two internally carried JDAM bombs.
According to Davis, the Phantom Ray could serve as a testbed for demonstrating autonomous aerial boom-and-receptacle refueling. Potential missions could include ISR, suppression of enemy air defenses and electronic attack.
The Phantom Works is developing an "open-mission management system" that could work with either the Phantom Eye or the Phantom Ray, or both. Boeing first started this work as a part of J-UCAS, where it was known as the common operating system. It has an open, service-oriented architecture; uses a high-order language; has nonproprietary interfaces; and is NATO STANAG-compliant, according to Davis.
This Boeing system is PC- and Linux-based, and is designed so that a single operator can control multiple, different types of UAVs. It has already been tested by flying three Scan Eagles. "We believe that the DOD [U.S. Department of Defense] will one day have a competition for UAV control stations," Davis said.
Despite recent cutbacks in U.S. government budgets for science and technology research, the Phantom Works is apparently still advancing along multiple paths. "Within Boeing, we're not throttling back on research. It's the future," declared Davis.


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Ambition is the key ingredient to all successful Lowriders. In order to drive the ride, you have to have the drive to build the ride in the first place. Setting a lofty goal and being willing to sacrifice a ton of time and finances to accomplish that goal is par for the course; and it is this determination to stand out that makes us a whole different breed of auto enthusiasts. Luis "Speedy" Rodriguez, of Long Beach, California, is one of these ambitious builders, and he followed these guidelines to greatness. At 21, he bought himself a '54 Chevy while working at a polishing shop. This was in 1992, and that same year, thanks to the influence of one of his good friends, Speedy joined High Class Car Club. Work on his '54 began immediately, and it only took the young Speedy two years to turn his classic Chevy into a true Lowrider! "Every year I kept adding something to the car," recalls an exuberant Speedy. After working at the polishing shop for five years, he decided to open up his own plating shop, which he called "Speedy's Polishing." "I always liked working with cars, and especially with chrome and polishing," says Speedy. In order to get in where he fit in, this took all of Speedy's efforts, and he once again accomplished his goal.
After almost twenty years of owning his '54, he sold it to fund the build of his '94 Cadillac, a process which began a few years ago. "I got the Cadillac from one of my fellow High Class club members," explains Speedy, who purchased the Cadillac in bone stock condition. Seeing a blank canvas before him, Speedy's initial intentions were to make the luxury ride a practical street ride. "I was just going to add rims and hydraulics to cruise around in the streets," says Speedy with a sheepish grin. Of course, this is pretty much the blueprint for all initial builds, until the competition bug bites the builder and pushes them to the max. Speedy was no exception, and it was indeed the competition at the shows that ended up being Speedy's main motivation to go all out and redo the entire car. "I would go to the shows and would see everyone placing at the shows except for me; so I started dropping more and more money into the car," he says. The funds were certainly money well spent, as this Cadillac currently has no competition at the shows, and Speedy's only concern is where to put all of the "First Place, Full Custom" trophies once he gets home. "Before, everyone would beat me," says Speedy with a sense of accomplishment in knowing that he has given his all to earn these accolades.
The build of the Cadillac began without a hitch, as Speedy decided to pull the engine out and paint the block before adding everything else. He was aware that the aesthetics of the engine compartment would be severely improved, but he was concerned about reinstalling the engine itself. After chroming and engraving the entire engine, he faced his worst fears. "I thought the engine wasn't going to start, but it did and without any leaks," Speedy says with a sigh of relief. This detailed approach would also apply to the next key part of Speedy's build; the undercarriage.
Given the Caddy's extremely high lock up, one would immediately assume that this Caddy was built to be a hopper. Instead, the 22-inch cylinders work more to showcase the flawless chromed and engraved undercarriage, which is a real attention-getter among show judges. "The only way that I'll hop it, is if the other hopper is at the same level as mine," says Speedy.
Extremely proud of the undercarriage, Speedy insists that after all he's done to this award-winning Caddy; the only unfinished aspects of the build revolve around adding a bit more custom engraving. With one of the cleanest Caddys in the streets, it's common to catch Speedy cruising his '94 down Crenshaw almost every weekend.
While he is very proud of his Fleetwood, Speedy insists that respects and gratitude must be extended to everybody who played a part in his dream build. He would like to thank his engraver, Miguel Chavez, who lent his skills to the project, as well as the crew at Krazy Kutting, who performed all of the sheet metal work. He also thanks his pinstripe master, Manny, Louie and Carlos of CLG, who added fiberglass and upholstery, Wiro the muralist, George of the Stylistics, his High Class club members and of course, his family.
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Owner: Luis "Speedy" Rodriguez
Vehicle: '94 Cadillac Fleetwood
City/State: Long Beach, CA
Car Club: High Class
Engine: Jose Gonzalez helped Speedy pull out the stock engine to dress it up. They started off by painting the engine block and then chromed and engraved every single piece of the engine itself.
Body/Paint: Krazy Kutting took care of all the sheet metal fabrication found on the car before Jose, of Gonzalez Body in Los Angeles, took care of the bodywork. Once the car was ready for paint, Jose painted the Organic Candy Green on the big body. George, of GM Customs, handled all of the patterns, while Manny of Los Angeles added the fine pinstripe work. Wiro, of Compton, took care of the murals found in the trunk and rear panels.
Interior: Luis and Carlos at CLG Customs in Carson masterfully put together the interior by adding bucket seats and custom fiberglass work to the center console, dash, and door panels.
Sound System: Juan, at LA Customs, installed the Alpine head unit to control the Alpine amps, which push the 12-inch Kicker speakers.
Tires: Touring Radials.
Wheels: 13-inch, chrome, engraved and anodized by G Boy's.


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I really hope so Lita was and is my favorite female wrestler, I will NEVER call her a diva, and I think if she's not inducted this year then she should be first ballet for next year
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When the Devil is to busy
And Death's a bit to much
They call on me by name you see, for my special touch
To the gentleman I'm Ms. Forture
To the ladies I'm Sir Prize
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CHICAGO >> Alex Rodriguez stepped up to the plate greeted by a standing boo-vation and blooped a single in his first at-bat of the season.
Hours after Major League Baseball suspended the New York Yankees star through the 2014 season in the Biogenesis drug case, Chicago White Sox fans got their say Monday night.
And, boy, did they let him hear it.
They jeered him during pregame warmups and introductions, and they really tore into him when he walked to the batter's box leading off the second inning.
On the third pitch, Rodriguez dunked a hit into shallow left field. He made it to third base with no outs, but was stranded.
Rodriguez flied out in his next two at-bats and then took a called third strike in the eighth inning while fans chanted "Steroids! Steroids!" He also handled a few grounders at third base as Chicago snapped a 10-game losing streak with an 8-1 win over the struggling Yankees.
He did not deny using performance-enhancing drugs in a news conference at U.S. Cellular Field after the punishment came down, and he said he will talk about whether he used PEDs at another time. He did say no one else will defend him unless he stands up for himself. Then, he took to the field.
"There's nothing about it that's been easy," Rodriguez said. "All of it has been challenging. I'm sure there's been mistakes made along the way. We're here now. I'm a human being. I've had two hip surgeries. I've had two knee surgeries. I'm fighting for my life. I have to defend myself.
"If I don't defend myself, no one else will. There's a process. I'm happy with the process. In due time, hopefully whatever happens, happens."


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Dear Mods - could we please keep the status of the season series out of the title of the threads?
As a basketball follower from Europe I generally watch the games the next day - and when there isn't a Pacers match going on i like to come to PD to see what the latest Pacers news is - I manage to stay spoiler free with regards to the games in general but having the thread titles of the playoff series showing the status of the series is making life difficult.
I'd appreciate your understanding and your consideration for those who are in similar situation as I am in.
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Usually when a team takes out my team, I immediately hate them.
See; Patriots
See; Knicks
See; IU
But really, I don't have much of anything but respect for the Steelers. Class organization, have had 2 coaches in the LONG history of their franchise (I'm pretty sure that's right), and as far as I know have never ever had what you'd call a horrible season. Which also means they never got that high of draft picks, making it that much harder to stay good for as long as they have.
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SAN BERNARDINO — The group attempting to recall city elected officials filed a writ of mandate on Monday asking the San Bernardino Superior Court to force City Clerk Gigi Hanna to count signatures against James F. Penman that Hanna has rejected as improperly collected.
The lawsuit says Hanna's reason is a "false pretext" and her actions "are not supported by the facts or the language of Charter Section 122."
It also asks the court to find that an "anti-recall petition" stating opposition to the sale of the city's water system and a desire for anyone who signs the anti-recall petition to have their name removed from any recall petitions does not qualify as a withdrawal petition and that Hanna acted unlawfully by not invalidating it.
"We believe that Ms. Hanna has repeatedly violated provisions of the Charter and State Elections Law concerning the recall," said Michael L. Allan, the recall committee's attorney, in a prepared statement.
When the lawsuit is heard is up to the court, but campaign manager Michael McKinney said he fully expected legal issues to be resolved on a timeline that holds the recall election during the regularly scheduled citywide election on Nov. 5.
Hanna said she had not received a copy of the writ by close of business and so could not comment.
When she rejected the petitions to recall Penman, Hanna said the charter allows petitions to be circulated only after the simultaneous publication of a notice of intention to circulate a petition, reasons for that petition and the targeted official's response, if the official requests it. Penman has a copy of his request with a time stamp indicating the request was made by the deadline and at the same minute that he submitted his response to the notice of intent to circulate a petition.
But the recall group points to statements they say Hanna made May 14 and in writing May 30 that "none of (the office holders) indicated at the time they filed response that they wanted to publish."
"Penman's answer was included on the Petition for Recall affording voters the opportunity to read his answer as information," McKinney said. "His failure to timely file a declaration of intent to publish does not affect the validity of the election process."
Penman says that's just one of many misstatements he found in a quick scan of the 160-page filing, beginning nearly on the first line. On the first page and throughout the filing, the writ lists as defendants Hanna and "Joseph E. Canciamilla, in his official capacity as the Registrar of Voters of the County of San Bernardino."
Canciamilla is registrar of voters and county clerk in Contra Costa County, while San Bernardino's registrar is Michael Scarpello.
"I think it's significant because it's not just a clerical error," Penman said, saying the filing is done under oath. "These people don't know our city, they don't know our county, and they continue to misrepresent the truth to our voters."
McKinney said the misidentification would be corrected and would have no effect on the lawsuit. Additionally, it would be amended to include petitions for other officials that Hanna has said she plans to reject based on the same reasoning but that have not yet been submitted.
The form of the anti-recall petitions — "apparently a Petition in which signers are sending a message to the Council opposing (non-existent) water rate increases and a (non-existent) privatization of the municipal water district" — means it must meet certain requirements that were not met, the lawsuit alleges.
Penman, who according to the lawsuit is "rumored" to have turned in about 1,200 anti-recall signatures as of June 3, stood by what recall opponents insist is a false charge that the recall is an attempt by organizer Scott Beard and others to sell the city's water system and profit from that.
"I wrote an op-ed that ran in The Sun on Sunday that I think fully answers that fallacious argument," Penman said. "It is about water, and Mr. Beard knows that."


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Willoughby-Eastlake School District has requested several levies this year, the special election May 7 renewal will cost $144 per $100,000 evaluation. The special election on Aug. 6 is for a bond issue for 37 years costing $122 per year per $100,000 evaluation. Another renewal is up for vote in November. In the last two years that is five (count them, five) levies.
I have lived in a modest home in Eastlake since 1963, four children have graduated from the schools. I am urging you to vote no on all levy requests. Last year, we voted yes on two levies for the schools, the first impacted my taxes by $104, the second was yet again a renewal. As of the last tax bill, the schools receive 36 percent of my taxes, while city of Eastlake receives 4 percent to run the entire city.
Every homeowner knows that you must constantly update and take care of repairs. You don't wait, then decide to tear down your home and rebuild a new one because it is in disrepair. Several of the buildings to be replaced are younger than my house. The state of Ohio is increasing funding to Willoughby-Eastlake schools by 21 percent for 2014. The website for the school's five-year plan shows nothing but replace lights at 12 schools in summer of 2012. Why can't the public see the five-year plan the superintendent is planning? What has the school system been doing with the money allocated for repairs?
South High has 1,369 students; Willoughby Middle has 899. That's only 66 percent capacity. What happens to all the wasted space (heating, electric, etc.) if the middle school is moved to the high school and this plan is put into place? There are many reasons not to vote for this levy and the upcoming bond issue. I do not think the school board is being fiscally responsible to the voters.
LaVerne Rubus
Editor's note: Willoughby-Eastlake Superintendent Steve Thompson told The News-Herald the district has plans to seek renewal for a levy that expires in November 2014. The earliest it can go before voters is November 2013. The School Board has taken no action to place it on the November ballot.


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NAPA - A Napa area man was in critical condition after being shot by a law enforcement officer Tuesday night, a Napa County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The episode happened just after 8 p.m., as Napa Special Investigation Bureau agents were surveiling a vehicle in a Napa parking lot near the Home Depot off Gasser Drive east of Soscol Ave. The vehicle contained three men, one of whom agents believed was wanted on a no-bail warrant for assault with a deadly weapon, according to a police report.
"Agents approached the car and held the occupants at gunpoint," the report notes. "As one of the occupants exited the car, an altercation ensued between him and one of the agents. During the course of this altercation, the agent fired one shot, striking the subject in the upper chest."
The man was unarmed, Napa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Tracy Stuart said. The reason for the shooting or if the gun accidentally discharged, won't be known until the final interview with the officer is completed, she said. This is expected to be within the next couple of days. His name will be released at that time, as well, Stuart added.
Medical personnel were called and the man, later identified as Pablo Ramirez, 37, formerly and possibly still of Napa, was transported by ambulance to Queen of the Valley Medical Center, where he was in critical condition Wednesday, she said. Ramirez was the subject of the outstanding warrant, she said.
"The warrant he was wanted on stemmed from his taking a six or seven-inch knife and trying to kill his wife in 2012," Stuart said.
The NSIB Agent involved in the shooting is a Napa Police Department Officer who has been placed on administrative leave as called for by Napa Police Department protocol, she said.
The case is being investigated by the Napa County Sheriff's Office, Stuart said.
Tuesday's was the second officer-involved shooting in Napa County in about three weeks. On March 15, Angelo Moreno, 27, of Martinez was shot and killed by American Canyon police officers after failing to yield, and leading them on a short pursuit that ended at about 10 p.m. on Newell Drive. Moreno had been driving a white Mazda reported stolen that day out of the city of Rodeo.
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It was in school where senior Stephen Roach learned what it takes to claim a job flipping pizzas and how to throw a pageant to fete schoolmates with developmental disabilities.
He'll be holding his senior project, Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Beach Special Needs, in May. It will be his last grade for the Center for International Business and Communication Studies program, Edison High School's business-prep curriculum that has produced some real-life businesses of its own.
"They taught you how to be a part of the workplace," Roach said. "I got a job at a pizza parlor because I was the only one who brought a resume and the only one who could talk at an interview."
Since 1995, CIBACS has helped students like Roach develop products, hone all kinds of interviewing skills and get a head start in business education. The alternative humanities track adds a layer of business schooling that others envy on top of English and social studies work.
"I went to business school, and I wish I went to CIBACS," said Hamboards shop manager Jeff Kadau on his way out of a CIBACS event recently.
That day, groups of four and five sophomores stepped in front of local businesspeople to make product pitches. They brought charts, surveys, iPads, business cards and novel ideas into short meetings with skate-fashion line Volcom, Blue Sky day planners, Primal Elements soaps or Hamboards, which makes street surfboards.
"They can come up with some really brilliant ideas," CIBACS teacher and faculty coordinator Lori Chlarson said.
They pitched svelte shin-padded socks, a skateable Hamboard/stereo, male-targeted soap and more. The business reps gave pointers on their projects, which will be pitched again in March. More importantly, there was feedback on their professional demeanor and communications skills.
The fidgets and stray "likes" should be cleared up by junior year, when students pick a local businessperson to shadow. As seniors, they spend the year working on a project of their choosing that builds on their previous work. One senior is modeling a taxi service for Edison students; an alumna got her pilot's license.
All this is done on top of the standard college-prep-level curricula, with a research paper or two replaced by an impact analysis or the like.
"It prepares for college, but more importantly they have an awareness of the working world too," Chlarson said.
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Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is known for featuring expensive and often outrageous "fantasy gifts" in its Christmas Book. The 86th edition also includes a red special-edition McLaren 12C Spider for $354,000, a henhouse inspired by France's Versailles palace for $100,000 and a walk-on role in Broadway's "Annie: The Musical" for $30,000.
Those with smaller budgets can take heart, though – almost 40 percent of the items offered in the catalog cost less than $250. The cheapest item is a $10 monogrammed mug.
The "his and hers" watches each show a scene from the love story. One depicts a scene of a woman on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower, gazing toward Notre Dame. The other watch features a man on top of Notre Dame looking toward the Eiffel Tower.
"It's a classic love story. Boy meets girl, a romance is sparked, but fate has intervened and they are separated, but both are left longing to find one another," said Marisa Neira, watch product manager for Van Cleef & Arpels.
The watches and the trip cost $1.09 million. While in Geneva, buyers receive a tour that includes the Van Cleef & Arpels watchmaking workshops.
Other offerings include a $90,000 gaming machine, a $150,000 woody tailgate trailer complete with a sound system and stocked bar, a $99,500 water-propelled jetpack, a $250,000 private dinner for 10 featuring four famous chefs and a $70,000 piece of art by Robert Wilson that features a video portrait of a snow owl.
All nine of the fantasy gifts are paired with a charity that will benefit from their sale.


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Sean is the co-owner of Cascade Insights. Cascade Insights is a competitive intelligence firm that helps organizations grow during market changes, take share from their competitors, and protect the share they already have. Prior to co-founding Cascade Insights, Sean co-founded and eventually sold 3 Leaf, a technical consultancy that consistently worked for some of the largest companies in the software and hardware industries, such as Microsoft and Intel. Prior to this Sean worked for a number of years as a technical instructor.
Sean regularly is asked to present at conferences and he has delivered workshops and seminars hosted by organizations such as SoftwareCEO, the Silicon Valley AMA, the Silicon Valley Product Management Association, the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, the AIPMM, MarketingProfs, the Marketing Research Association's, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association of Canada, the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals conference and other organizations. Sean has also authored articles on competitive intelligence techniques for various market research and competitive intelligence magazines and web sites.
Sean is also a co-author of Going Beyond Google: Gathering Internet Intelligence, now in its 2nd edition. The book was listed as a must read by the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals society for 2009 and 2010. Sean was also co-author of three other books focused on technology topics. The first two were published by Microsoft Press and the third by Intel Press.
Sean also actively participates on a number of different leadership committees for non-profits and business associations.
- M.A., Purdue University
- B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
Areas of Instruction
Industry analysis.
Selected Presentations
The Market Research Association's West Region Conference: "When World's Collide: Market Research meets Competitive Intelligence"
The National Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference: "Open Source Intelligence Collection Techniques"
Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals Conference: "Going Beyond Google: Gathering Internet Intelligence"
SoftwareCEO: "Accelerating Sales with Competitive Intelligence Techniques"
Symantec Vision 2011 Conference: Panelist - "Competitive Testing Reports"
Silicon Valley AMA: "They've done what? Tools and Techniques to Beat the Competition"
The Market Research Association's First Outlook Conference: "LinkedIn is Dead, Long Live LinkedIn"