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The San Jose Earthquakes will host a meet-and-greet event with Ronald Cerritos prior to his induction into the San Jose Earthquakes Hall of Fame. The event will take place at Salvadoran restaurant, Sabor Salvadoreño, on Park Avenue in San Jose on Tuesday, September 28 at 5:30 pm.
Cerritos, who played in San Jose from 1997-2001 and then returned to the club in 2005 for one season, will sign autographs, pose for photos and interact with fans. He will also be available for interviews.
Earthquakes radio broadcaster Carlos Cesar Rivera will broadcast his daily sports program, Deportes con Carlos Cesar Rivera, from the restaurant from 5-7 p.m. and interview Cerritos live from the event.
The Earthquakes announced on August 10 that the team will induct the club's all-time leader in goals scored and assists into the San Jose Earthquakes Hall of Fame on Wednesday, September 29th during a halftime ceremony at the Earthquakes game against the Chicago Fire at Buck Shaw Stadium. The game kicks off at 8 p.m. PT.
During his tenure with the San Jose, Cerritos scored 61 goals and notched 47 assists to lead the club all-time in both categories. Additionally, the Salvadoran international ranks 4th all-time in appearances (148), minutes played (12,382) and games started (142). He also helped lead the team to its first ever MLS Cup Championship in 2001.
Cerritos also spent time with the El Salvador National Team, earning 66 caps and scoring eight goals from 1995-2008.
WHO: Former Earthquakes Star Ronald Cerritos
WHAT: Meet and Greet Event
WHERE: Sabor Salvadoreño, 1460 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA
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Allen soaks in Opening Day ceremonies in Toronto
TORONTO -- Things have changed drastically for Indians reliever Cody Allen in the past year.
Allen earned a spot in Cleveland's bullpen this spring and was on hand at Rogers Centre for the club's Opening Day tilt with the Blue Jays. Toronto's cavernous domed ballpark was expecting a sellout crowd, providing quite a contrast to Allen's Opening Day experience last season.
Allen was with Class A Carolina for Opening Day in 2012.
"I think there were a few fireworks or something like that," Allen said with a laugh.
Needless to say, the 24-year-old pitcher planned on soaking in every moment of Tuesday's season opener.
"I'm super excited," Allen said. "It'd be nice if it was at home, but being here in Toronto, there's a lot of buzz with them with their offseason acquisition, and with us with our offseason acquisitions. It's here in the dome. It's going to be loud. It's going to be fun."
Allen is one of three Cleveland players experiencing Opening Day in the Major Leagues for the first time. Third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall and right-handed starter Zach McAllister were also on a big league roster to start a season for the first time in their careers.
"It's definitely another thing that I've always wanted to be able to do," McAllister said with a smile. "To be able to check that one off the list is pretty exciting. We're ready. I think everyone is ready to get out of Arizona and get the season started. Spring Training was longer this year, and I think everyone is anxious and excited to see what can happen."
Allen agreed that it was great to finally start the season.
"Anywhere you're at," Allen said, "whether it's college, high school, you've been waiting the whole offseason, the whole spring, you've been waiting for Opening Day. You're waiting for the season to start. That's today. We're excited to get it under way."

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Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men said Thursday, accusing authorities of tampering with evidence in the case that has transfixed India..
"They are innocent," Manohar Lal Sharma said of the five suspects ahead of a court hearing, which ended quickly after it turned out some of the official court paperwork listing the charges was illegible. He said police have beaten the men and placed other prisoners into the suspects' cells to threaten them with knives, adding, "You can't believe the reality of Indian prisons."
Five men have been charged with attacking the 23-year-old woman and a male friend on a bus as it was driven through the streets of India's capital. The woman was raped and assaulted with a metal bar on Dec. 16 and eventually died of her injuries. Rape victims are not identified in India, even if they die, and rape trials are closed to the media.
Sharma, who has made a series of inflammatory and often-contradictory statements over the past two days, at one point Thursday said the dead woman's male companion, who boarded the bus with her after the pair saw a movie together, was "responsible for the whole thing." He gave no details, though, and a few hours later said the man's responsibility "was only my opinion."
The BBC also reported that Sharma is alleging that the accused were "coerced into admitting the crime." The BBC cited comments made by Sharma as he made his way into court on Thursday morning. "All these men have been tortured badly. It's under pressure that they have made statements in court," Sharma reportedly said, according to the BBC.
While Sharma had said he represented three of the suspects — bus driver Ram Singh, Singh's brother Mukesh, and another man, Akshay Thakur — the court eventually approved him to serve as the lawyer only for Mukesh Singh. Other lawyers were assigned to three other suspects, and it was not immediately clear why the fifth had no assigned lawyer.
Thursday's hearing had been expected to result in the case being sent to a special "fast-track" court. India's legal system is painfully slow, corrupt and inefficient, with many cases lasting years, even decades.
But much of the work of the hearing had to be postponed until Monday, after lawyers found that some of the official paperwork was not legible.


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The pontiff used his sermon to speak about his coming resignation and thanked the Catholic faithful.
"As I am about to leave the ministry of Peter, and to ask for a special thought in your prayers," he said.
During the service, a cardinal placed ash on the Pope's head in the shape of a cross, a traditional Catholic ritual on Ash Wednesday.
He, in turn, placed ash on the heads of cardinals.
Towards the end of the service, the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone spoke of a "veil of sadness" at the Pope's decision to stand down.
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|Release: November 13, 2012
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|Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs
Also, if you want to show off your team's prowess, you can stream the match using BO2's Live Streaming function. Or you can recruit a mouthy teenager to commentate using the CoDCasting feature.
Hardcore Call of Duty enthusiasts will undoubtedly be hitting BO2's level 55 prestige cap numerous times. But this time they won't have to reset all of their features. (Weapon XP, for example, is held over after the reset.) Instead, players will have access to a variety of Prestige Rewards, which will undoubtedly give players with no job a slight advantage.
Now, in some players' minds, I've left off the most important part: Zombies.
Don't worry, though. Treyarch has also included three zombie-survival maps that will probably keep zombie lovers busy for quite some time. Two of them are reminiscent of the previous survival-style Zombies mode that we've all grown to love. However, they've also added a level called "Transit," which is essentially made up of three separate maps that are connected via a trolley system. Players will have to fight their way through waves of zombies in order to find the trolley, hop on board, and hope the zombies don't overtake them as they travel.
Black Ops 2 also features a new zombie mode called "Grief." Grief mode allows two teams of four players play against each other in a survival mode competition. Whichever team lasts the longest takes the crown.
I'm not sure how they got away with it, but Treyarch has essentially created three separate games and rolled them into one convenient package. Don't tell them I said this, but I would have been willing to pay for the single-player, multiplayer, and Zombies modes separately. So, I almost feel like I'm stealing a little.
In a lot of ways, it feels like Treyarch is giving a gigantic middle finger to Infinity Ward, the Modern Warfare developer that always seems to dominate the spotlight. Black Ops 2 isn't just the culmination of the Black Ops series, it might become the most-loved title in the Call of Duty franchise. Either way, fans won't be disappointed this year.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Canadian firms will be able to export uranium and nuclear reactors to India for the first time in almost four decades under an agreement between the two nations, their prime ministers said, but more work is needed to implement the deal.
Once implemented, the agreement will end a ban on nuclear cooperation Canada imposed in 1976 after India secretly exploded its first nuclear bomb in 1974, commonly called the "Smiling Buddha", using material from a Canadian-built reactor in India.
"Being able to resolve these issues and move forward is, we believe, a really important economic opportunity for an important Canadian industry, part of the energy industry, that should pay dividends in terms of jobs and growth for Canadians down the road," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday on a visit to New Delhi.
A negotiator with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the talks, said that what remained was a careful legal review of the language; translation into French and Hindi; and then a signing.
This is not expected to take very long, he said. The two sides have set up a joint committee to liaise on nuclear issues, but he said it would not be negotiating.
India aims to lift its nuclear capacity to 63,000 MW in the next 20 years by adding nearly 30 reactors. The country currently operates 20 mostly small reactors at six sites with a capacity of 4,780 MW, or 2 percent of its total power capacity, according to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.
Canada's ambassador to India, Stewart Beck, said on Monday his country wanted to be able to track all nuclear material, but that India felt it only needed to report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
It was not clear who made concessions in the talks and how effective the safeguards would be to ensure that Canadian material did not get used again for making nuclear weapons.
However, the CNSC official said India would now be required to notify Canada of any transfers to a third country and trade could only go to facilities that are safeguarded by the IAEA.
Harper said the CNSC had worked to "achieve all of our objectives in terms of non-proliferation".
Canada is in a race against Australia, its strategic ally but a commercial rival in the uranium business. Australia is also trying to nail down safeguards under which it too could sell uranium to India.
"We are effectively ahead of the Australians," the CNSC official said, noting however that Russia and Kazakhstan were already supplying into India.
Opening up the Indian market would be a big help to Canada's Cameco Corp, which is the world's largest publicly traded uranium producer but which recently cut its long-term output targets due to the Fukushima disaster.
"Anytime we can reduce the roadblocks to selling our product around the world is always helpful," Cameco chief executive Tim Gitzel told Reuters in Canada. "It opens a new market for us with the appropriate safeguards in place. So this is good news."
Another potential beneficiary is Canadian engineering firm SNC Lavalin Group Inc, which bought the government's commercial nuclear division, which designed the Candu reactor that is in use in numerous countries.
"As far as the sales of reactors goes, we would normally now request that Canada be accorded the same treatment as the Russians, the French and the Americans and that a site be designated in India for the implementation of at least a twin- unit Candu nuclear power station," SNC Lavalin International President Ronald Denom, part of Harper's delegation in India, told Reuters.
He also said it should open up the market to service the existing reactors in India.
Harper also said Canada welcomed foreign investment, after the country temporarily blocked Malaysian state oil firm Petronas' C$5.17 billion ($5.19 billion) bid for gas producer Progress Energy Resources on October 20.
Late on Friday, Canada extended to December 10 its review of a $15.1 billion bid made in July by China's CNOOC Ltd for Canadian energy producer Nexen Inc.
"Those decisions have to be taken looking at the global evolving economy in which we operate," Harper said.
Additional reporting by Julie Gordon in Toronto; Additional writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and Michael Roddy


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A total of 122 ladies and three men, all expatriates from the Philippines, converted to Islam in Dubai, after a lecture by popular Muslim Filipino orator and preacher Omar Penalbar.
Penalbar was lecturing on tolerance in Islam and the message of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him).
The lecture was organised in the Al Twar area in Dubai by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM).
The preacher said the previous largest number of people to convert to Islam in the Philippines in one night with his help was 99. A new record has been set today when 125 individuals declared their conversion to Islam, he added.
Emirati families played a role in this when they accompanied the Filipino individuals to the forum, according to Mohammed Al Hashimi, who oversees the forum, organised during Ramadan.


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A high efficiency excavator, one of four test beds being developed through the research program of the National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), will be among the highlights at the Center's IFPE Booth, S-13004.
The excavator is being developed at Purdue University under the direction of Professor Monika Ivantysynova.
The stock load sensing hydraulic system on a five-ton Bobcat 435 excavator was replaced with a displacement controlled hydraulic system. The new hydraulic system shows a 40% fuel savings, on average, in side-by-side testing with a standard machine of the same model.
With the new system architecture, all functions are controlled electronically, thereby allowing the use of advanced control strategies. A machine power management control strategy has been implemented in addition to the displacement control platform to minimize the fuel consumption of the machine according to the working cycle performed. The improved efficiency offered by displacement controlled technology has led to lower working temperatures for the hydraulic fluid which should lead to longer fluid life and less maintenance.
IFPE attendees can learn more at the booth and during presentations in the 52nd National Conference on Fluid Power (NCFP) on March 24.
Other CCEFP research will be featured at the booth and as a part of the Technical Conference, where more than forty of the Center's faculty and students will present. The Center will also hold its 5th Annual Meeting in conjunction at IFPE on March 22.
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Florida weather and a brand new steel body bring enthusiasts out in force
It is pretty hard to argue with winter weather in Florida, so when the chance to go down to Sanford, Florida for a few days came up we jumped at the chance. The main reason for the journey was to follow along as Real Deal Steel bodies assembled one of their new steel '57 bodies and to see it resting on the new gasser chassis by Woody's Hot Rodz. The two companies have teamed up to provide hot rodders with everything you need to build a Tri-five Chevrolet, you can see all the details of this build in the September issue of Street Rodder.
After watching brand new '57 Chevy bodies being built for a few days we stayed around for the Real Deal Steel open house on Sunday. Once again the weather was fantastic and a few hundred cars rolled in, surrounding the shop. Cool handmade trophies were fabricated of real steel and a DJ provided tunes while all the attendees were able to go inside and get up close to both finished bodies and the assembly process. It was a fun and informative day for everyone, here's some of our favorite cars that made it to the show.


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The football players at Driscoll Middle School in Corpus Christi, Texas, are getting national attention after losing their city's championship.
It is not the game, but one single play that has become a huge hit online. Driscoll trailed by a touchdown in the second half and resorted to the "penalty play".
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Quarterback Jason Garza drew the defense off sides using a long snap count. Referees walked off the five yards for the penalty, that's when the trick kicked into high gear.
Assistant coach John De Los Santos began yelling from the sidelines that it should have been a ten yard penalty. He told his quarterback to mark off another five yards.
QB Jason got behind the center who then casually, but legally snapped the ball by handing it to his quarterback over his shoulder.
"That's when I acted like I was marking off the penalty, I was counting my steps out loud like it was the yardage," Jason told the Corpus Christi Caller Times. "My linemen played it up asking me what I was doing, too. When I got to the middle linebacker, he asked what I was doing. I told him I was marking off the penalty yardage. He said, 'Isn't the ref supposed to do that?' I told him I was doing it and kept on walking. When I got to the fourth step, I heard a Wynn Seale coach yelling 'Tackle him!' so that's when I took off running."
Jason Garza scored, tying the game with the touchdown, but it was not enough to win. Driscoll's opponent Wynn Seale won the game that ended in a 6-6 tie because of a tiebreaker.
Assistant coach De Los Santos told the Times, "I knew the play because I ran it in seventh grade, and coincidentally it was against Wynn Seale then, also," De Los Santos said. "But when I tried it, the safety hit me nine yards down field and knocked the wind out of me. That's why I told the guys that this was either going to be a real big play or Jason was going to get hit hard. Thank goodness it worked out a lot better this time."


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For diminished Yankees, goals remain lofty
Girardi maintains belief in veteran club despite key season-opening injuries
NEW YORK -- Looking on the bright side for the New York Yankees, at least there shouldn't be much of that "Evil Empire" stuff going around.
Not that anyone from any of the other 29 franchises is going to feel particularly sorry for the New York Yankees. Nobody else has 27 World Series championships. Nobody else has qualified for the postseason 17 times in the last 18 years.
The Yankees have set a standard of excellence in North American professional sports. The competition rarely says "thank you" for that sort of thing.
No, the Yankees will receive neither sympathy nor empathy from their Major League peers when they hit a rough patch. And a rough patch is what they have hit, beginning a season with four mainstays of their lineup -- and their identity, for that matter -- on the disabled list.
But doesn't it become just a bit more difficult to paint the Yankees as the all-purpose baseball baddies when they are banged up like this? It is one thing to see them typically as the richest, most privileged family in the neighborhood. But doesn't that perspective lose some bite when they are more readily identified as hurt and aging?
The problems officially began on Monday at Yankee Stadium with an 8-2 Opening Day loss to the Boston Red Sox. There are people in the world of baseball who are saying that the real argument in 2013 for these two antediluvian rivals will be over fourth place in the AL East. But Opening Day is no time to resort to worst-case scenarios.
Even Monday's loss, though it came at the hands of Boston, should not have represented a major change of direction. CC Sabathia's performance has typically been that of a true ace for the Yankees, but not on Opening Days. Including Monday, Sabathia has started five straight Opening Days for the Yankees. He is 0-2 with a 7.42 ERA over those five starts.
Sabathia's top velocity on Monday was just 91 mph. But both he and Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that the velocity would return to its mid-90s level as Sabathia built up arm strength.
"I feel good," Sabathia said. "The arm strength will be building up as the season goes on. I'm sure the velocity will come back ... the more I throw."
Beyond this one area of difficulty in Sabathia's otherwise admirable career, the rest of the problems might have more staying power. The Yankees have just 11 players who were on their 2012 Opening Day roster. On Monday, there were just two starting position players who had started for the Yankees at the beginning of 2012.
Still, Girardi insists that the team's standards and the expectations haven't changed. And that had better be the case, because if the standards and the expectations vanish, the Yankees stop being the Yankees and become somebody less.
"I know there are some different faces in the clubhouse," Girardi said on Monday. "But the expectation is the same.
"Our belief is to go out and win every day. It's an opportunity for a lot of guys to get some more playing time and to show us what they can do, but I don't think you ever think about that. I think that's a negative thought. Go out and win every series."
The opener was attended by 49,514, a record for a home opener at the new Yankee Stadium. Late in the game, the wind came up, the rain came down and the place emptied out, while the game continued. By the end, the ballpark scene was equal parts desolate and bleak.
The Yankees, however, should not be written off, because they still have the kind of pitching -- barring an epidemic of injuries on that half of the roster -- that will keep them in games and competitive.
What you can say about the Yankees right now is that without Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira, et al, they no longer summon up images of the big Bronx Bombers.
But once we have acknowledged that fact of life, even non-Yankees fans can move farther from the notion of this operation as the big, bad bully on the baseball block.
Tears aren't going to be shed over the Yankees' difficulties by anybody other than Yankees fans. But in their current circumstances, it becomes increasingly difficult to look at the Yankees as convenient villains for any baseball story. To be an "Evil Empire," you really need to appear to the rest of the world as somebody who is still favored to win it all.


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SEOUL, April 29 (UPI) -- The office of South Korea's president reaffirmed Sunday imports of U.S. beef would not be halted, despite a case of mad cow disease in California.
Senior Press Secretary Choe Geum-nak said stronger quarantine inspections would be enforced instead, with inspections increased from 3 percent of U.S. beef shipments to 50 percent.
"Judging from the information we have collected so far [we] believe stricter quarantine inspections are sufficient," he said.
Yonhap News Agency reported U.S. beef shipments cannot receive customs clearance unless they pass quarantine inspections. South Korea only imports beef from cattle younger than 30 months with all "specified risk materials removed," meaning parts of the animal capable of transmitting mad cow, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, to humans.
The disease is so far responsible for about 200 deaths of humans worldwide, mostly in Britain. In the United States, where there have only been four cases in cattle since 2003. South Korean government officials say the case discovered in California would not directly affect South Korea's supply, because the cow in question did not fall under import regulations.


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HZDR Research Sites
In addition to its headquarters in Dresden (link to the directions page), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has four other research sites. Researchers of the HZDR Institute of Radiooncology also work at the OncoRay Center, a site at the University Hospital Dresden.
The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology was founded in 2011, belongs to Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and is cooperating closely with TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
Directors: Dr. Jens Gutzmer (PhD ZA) | Prof. Markus Reuter
Scientists in Freiberg and Dresden carry out research on new technologies for exploration, extraction and exploitation of mineral and metal-containing raw materials.
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The Research Site Leipzig is operated by scientists working at the Institutes of Resource Ecology and Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research.
Contact: Prof. Peter Brust | PD Dr. Cornelius Fischer
The HZDR scientists in Leipzig investigate the transport of (toxic) substances in geological systems and also neurotracers for diagnosing and treating cancer-related cognitive defects.
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The HZDR is currently installing the extreme lab HIBEF at the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg.
Contact: PD Dr. Toma Toncian
The goal is that, starting in 2019, the HIBEF infrastructures at the High-Energy Density Science Instrument (HED) will be used to conduct experiments under extreme conditions of high pressures, temperatures, or electromagnetic fields. Head of the international user consortia is Prof. Thomas Cowan, Director at the HZDR Institute of Radiation Physics.
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Rossendorf Beamline at ESRF
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Head: Dr. habil Andreas Scheinost
Operation of the Rossendorf Beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. Two measurement facilities for radiochemical experiments are available.
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FRIDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Graphic warning labels on cigarette packages boost the likelihood that people will think about the health risks associated with smoking, a new study has found.
The study included 200 current smokers who were randomly selected to view either a text-only warning label such as those used in the United States since 1985, or a graphic warning label that included an image of a hospitalized patient on a ventilator and a written warning with larger text. The graphic label was similar to what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing be adopted in the United States.
After viewing the warning labels, the participants were asked to rewrite the text from memory in order to see how well they recalled the information. There was a significant difference between the two groups in their levels of correct recall -- 83 percent for the graphic-label group and 50 percent for the text-only group.
The study also found that the quicker a smoker looked at the large text in the graphic warning, and the longer they viewed the graphic image, the more likely they were to recall the information correctly, said the researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
The study was released online June 15, in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The findings suggest that drawing attention to the warning label can improve the recall of information and increase the chances that smokers will think about the risks of smoking, the researchers said.
"In addition to showing the value of adding a graphic warning label, this research also provides valuable insight into how the warning labels may be effective, which may serve to create more-effective warning labels in the future," study lead author Andrew Strasser, an associate professor in the psychiatry department, said in a Penn Medicine news release.
"We're hopeful that once the graphic warning labels are implemented, we will be able to make great strides in helping people to be better informed about their risks, and to convince them to quit smoking," he added.
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I always laugh when people say to me: I wouldn't know what to blog about!
When you work in pre-sales support, you constantly get asked questions and each one of them could be the subject of a new blog post. Right now the most common question I am getting is:
I am implementing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). One of the components I need are vendor specific Site Recovery Agents (SRA). I have searched IBM's website but cannot find them. Where are they?
So the short answer is: you get them from the VMware SRM download site.
However before downloading, there is a key task that absolutely needs to be performed:
- Visit the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Storage Partner Compatibility Matrix. This site will confirm what products are supported by each version of SRM. You can find it here, but clearly you need to check back regularly to ensure you have the latest information.
- Now find your storage device in the matrix and confirm what firmware levels are supported. This is really important. For example, the Feb 27, 2012 edition of the matrix tells me that the Storwize V7000 is supported for SRM version 5.0, but only when running Storwize V7000 firmware version 6.1 or 6.2. This is significant because if you upgrade to version 6.3 you are not supported. In fact that combination doesn't actually work yet, as detailed here. Clearly something you need to be aware of when planning firmware updates.
So where are the SRAs? On each of the pages below use the Show Details button to see what version SRAs are being shipped with that SRM (although sometimes the pages take a few days between an SRA being added and the page being updated):
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.1.2
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
There are a few more questions I routinely get asked:
Does IBM actually have an SRA download site?
The answer is yes, but it is an FTP site only for SRAs written by IBM. It is principally a repository for older SRAs and beta SRAs but you can also find the current SRAs on it. You can find the site here. Note however that it is NOT the official source. For that you need to use the VMware site.
What about the SRA for LSI/Engenio based products like the DS4800?
These used to also be found on the LSI site, but since LSI sold Engenio to NetApp, it is no longer available from the LSI or NetApp websites. You need to download the current version from the VMware sites listed above. There is a version for SRM 5 on the VMware download site.
What about nSeries SRAs?
If you need an nSeries SRA, again you should go to the VMware download pages. There are separate SRAs listed and available for IBM nSeries (as opposed to an SRA for NetApp branded filers).
What about an SRA for XIV with SRM version 5?
The answer: The SRA for XIV with SRM 5 (and 5.0.1) is now available from VMware. If you have access to download SRM, you will be able to download SRA version 2.1.0. It is the same SRA for both XIV Generation2 and Gen3.
What about an SRA for Storwize V7000 and SVC version 6.3 code?
The answer: It is coming. We are working to make it available as soon as possible. I will update this post as soon as I have a date for you (we are talking weeks, not months).


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Optimising the Sales Force Australia
Optimising the Sales Force Australia is an Australian company who along with running our annual sales conference, provide a range of sales professional related services. We primarily work with large corporates and well established brands who are looking to optimise their sales methods and teams.
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Please find attached a document which provides the site structure and an idea of the content / layout we are interested in for the home page and menu.
For this project, we require:
- The design of the home page to be completed
- A blank template (with design but no content) for additional pages
- Within the attached document you will find the site structure. We would like the menu created in line with this (with drop downs) and for each menu item to link to a unique blank page (which we can later populate ourselves)
Please feel free to ask any questions.


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Modular metering devices for progressive automatic lubrication systems
The PSG3 is a progressive metering device made of a baseplate and metering sections. These can be removed without loosening the tubing as all inlets and outlets are positioned in the common baseplate. By unscrewing the internal setscrew two opposite outlets can be consolidated internally. Externally a maximum of three outlets can be consolidated via a crossporting bridge. A minimum of three metering sections need to be used.Technical features:
- Easy to service as outlets are located in the baseplate
- Flexible with exchangeable metering segments
- Visual or electrical monitoring available
- Increased corrosion resistance material available
- Dummy segments without output available
- Adjustable output by consolidating outlets internally or externally
- Main metering device in oil circulation systems
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Primer: Federated Identity ManagementBy David F. Carr | Posted 2003-11-03 Print
Federated identity management allows companies with different technologies to share applications.
How is it used? Partners in a Federated Identity Management (FIM) system depend on each other to authenticate their respective users and vouch for their access to services. That allows, for example, a sales representative to update an internal forecast by pulling information from a supplier's database, hosted on the supplier's network.
Why is it necessary? So that companies can share applications without needing to adopt the same technologies for directory services, security and authentication. Within companies, directory services such as Microsoft's Active Directory or products using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol have allowed companies to recognize their users through a single identity. But asking multiple companies to match up technologies or maintain full user accounts for their partners' employees is unwieldy. FIM allows companies to keep their own directories and securely exchange information from them.
How does it work? A company must trust its partners to vouch for their users. Each participant must rely on each partner to say, in effect, "This user is OK; let them access this application." Partners also need a standard way to send that message, such as one that uses the conventions of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). SAML allows instant recognition of whether the prospective user is a person or a machine, and what that person or machine can access. SAML documents can be wrapped in a Simple Object Access Protocol message for the computer-to-computer communications needed for Web services. Or they may be passed between Web servers of federated organizations that share live services.
Who is using it? Early adopters include American Express, Boeing, General Motors and Nokia. Another, Proctor & Gamble, had improvised its own federated-identity system using the more generic eXtensible Markup Language but is now moving to adopt SAML.
Are the standards solid? They're getting there. SAML is backed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The Liberty Alliance, an industry group formed to promote federated-identity standards, has adopted SAML 1.1 as part of its application framework. Microsoft and IBM have proposed an alternative specification called WS-Security. But Dan Blum, a technology analyst with the Burton Group of Midvale, Utah, believes that OASIS may try to make these two approaches converge in SAML 2.0.
What are the challenges? Trusting a partner to authenticate its own users is a good thing only if that partner has solid security and user-management practices. Also, while some Web access-management products now support SAML, implementing the technology still commonly requires customization to integrate applications and develop user interfaces.
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by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The No. 26 Georgia College women's tennis team's (16-9) season came to a halt at the hands of No. 10 Flagler College (12-6) in round one action of the NCAA Southeast Regional Tournament Monday afternoon at the Bacon Park Tennis Facility, 5-3.
The Bobcats fell behind the Saints after doubles, 2-1. Out of the No. 1 spot, Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) got the first win of the day in the second finish, toppling Rachel Gould and Lauren Pfeiffer, 8-4. Georgia College's No. 1 doubles squad finished the season 15-7.
May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) dropped their decision to Veronica Figueroa and Jennifer Saviano, 8-6. Lisa Setyon (Paris, France) and Kelly Edwards (Roswell, Ga.) played out of the No. 3 spot falling to Deon Miller and Gabby Scammacca, 8-3.
Lingner finished the first match in the singles section out of the sixth spot, evening the score for GC by shutting out Scammacca. Lingner improved her record to 13-5. Kim Lochner (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) fell next in the four slot to Miller, 6-2, 6-2. In third singles, Barksdale then dropped her match to Saviano, 6-1, 6-4.
Setyon got the score back to 4-3 by downing Gould, 6-3, 6-2 in fifth singles, the freshman owns the team lead in victories with 18. Unfortunately it would not be enough as Lion dropped the clinching match to Pfeiffer in a hard-fought, 6-4, 7-5 bout.
This brings an end to the GC women's tennis season, after finishing 16-9 and fifth in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC). The season saw the Bobcats improve during the year to a No. 26 ranking. Lion earned a pair of All-PBC honors, both in singles and in doubles with Barksdale.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Now for something completely different... well, sorta
Going back to my roots and made Chinese steamed buns (mantou).
APF 250g, water 80g, milk 50g, sugar 15g, oil 5g, yeast 3g
Knead together by hand, first rise is optional. The dough should feel fairly dry. Roll dough out to a rectangular sheet, then roll up tightly into a cylinder. Cut into 8 pieces and proof for about 45 minutes. Steam with medium heat for about 15 min.
My daughter said, "Daddy, next time can you make them with taste?" Little did she know that these are magical buns. The more you chew, the sweeter it gets. It's an enzyme thing.


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Frequent Links
Features of the Marvel Universe
The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. The following lists detail many of them.
- 1 Places
- 2 Artifacts
- 3 Vehicles
- 4 Criminal organizations
- 5 Weapons
- 6 Drugs
- 7 See also
- 8 References
Certain places, some of which exist in real-life and some of which are fictional and in reality are used to figure prominently in the Marvel Universe injunction with the real world. A majority of dystopian cities have been used for their characters since the creation of Marvel Comics in the Marvel Universe.
New York City
Most of the action of Marvel Comics takes place in New York City.
New York is the site of many places important to superheroes:
- Avengers Mansion – currently in ruin, but long the home of the Avengers
- Baxter Building and Four Freedoms Plaza – fictional buildings that have, at one time or another, been the home of the Fantastic Four
- Daily Bugle – fictional newspaper building where Peter Parker (Spider-Man) works as a photographer for J. Jonah Jameson
- Fisk Towers – is a fictional skyscraper owned by Kingpin Wilson Fisk, and base of operations for his criminal activities.
- Hell's Kitchen – Home and protectorate of Daredevil
- The Raft, a fictional prison for superpowered villains, located on Ryker's Island (modeled after the real-life Riker's Island; note the different spelling); the Raft is the successor to the earlier superhuman prison called the Vault, located in Colorado.
- Sanctum Sanctorum – fictional abode of Doctor Strange located in Greenwich Village
- Stark Tower – fictional skyscraper of the Avengers
- Oscorp Tower – fictional skyscraper owned by Norman Osborn. Now the headquarters for Alchemax.
- Mutant Town – a ghetto-like neighbourhood of New York primarily populated by Mutants. Since the Decimation, its mutant population has largely disappeared.
New York is a center of industry, serving as the headquarters of:
- Fisk Industries, is a legitimate business on the surface and founded and owned by Wilson Fisk.
- Hammer Industries, founded and owned by Justin Hammer.
- Oscorp, formerly owned and founded by Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin.
- Roxxon Energy Corporation, is a corporation owned by Aleksander Lukin.
- Stark Industries, owned by Tony Stark, Iron Man.
- Trask Industries, is a weapons and technology company founded and owned by Bolivar Trask.
Two universities are also especially prominent in the Marvel Universe:
- Columbia University – real university whose alumni include Matt Murdock (Daredevil), Elektra Natchios, and Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)
- Empire State University (ESU)– fictional university whose alumni include Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Emma Frost, and Johnny Storm (the Human Torch)[1]
Other locations
- Avengers Compound
- Citrusville, Cypress County,[2] Florida is an Everglades that appears most frequently in stories related to Man-Thing. Much of its importance lies in that it is physically near what is termed as the Nexus of All Realities. The town is depicted as very traditional and conservative[3] But it is also home to the Cult of Zhered-Na, its leader, Joshua Kale, and his grandchildren, Jennifer and Andy. The high school newspaper is called the Quill.
- Department H
- Avengers Hydro-Base - Hydro-Base is a floating seacraft disguised as a natural island floating off the coast of North America outside US territorial waters. Its first known user was the mad ecologist Dr. Herman Frayne (aka Doctor Hydro) who used it both as a laboratory and an airbase on which to land hijacked planes. Doctor Hydro planned to turn the planes' passengers into amphibious people, using Terrigen Mist he acquired from the renegade Inhuman Maelstrom.[4]
- Caldecott- Fictional western Mississippi county and town where the X-Men's Rogue was born.
- The Massachusetts Academy is a prep school founded in the 18th century in Snow Valley, in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. The Academy is one of the oldest and most respected college preparatory schools in the United States. Administered by Emma Frost for most of its modern history, the Massachusetts Academy also had a long-standing alliance with the Hellfire Club. In addition to a large student body, the Academy also houses a clandestine school for young mutants. During her time as the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Frost trained a group known as the Hellions; the Hellions would become long-standing rivals with the New Mutants.
- Salem Center – a hamlet in the town of North Salem, Westchester County, New York
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
- X-Mansion – home of the X-Men, located in Salem Center
- Danger Room – training center for the X-Men
- X-Mansion – home of the X-Men, located in Salem Center
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
- Ravencroft Institute
- Graymalkin Industries is the undercover name for X-Men new headquarters in San Francisco following their departure from their former X-Mansion, destroyed during Messiah Complex. It is the base of operations and training site of the X-Men. It is located on the Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco, being built into the long-abandoned military bunkers that line the cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
- Grand Nixon Island is an island owned by disgraced ex-U.S. Army General Kreigkopf. The island itself contains Kreigkopf's military base surrounded by a vast jungle environment. The island features in The Punisher comic book series in issue #3 (American Ugly) to issue #5 (No Limits). American Ugly introduces General Kreigkopf and Grand Nixon Island.
- Darkmoor is the location of both the Darkmoor Energy Research Centre (a high-tech, top secret government facility at which University student Brian Braddock is doing work experience) and a stone circle which was a centre of great mystical power, but as the Captain Britain mythos expanded it lso played host to Darkmoor Prison and to the sinister Darkmoor Castle, home of the Black Baron.
- "The Fridge" - S.H.I.E.L.D's most secure base. Home of the Sling Shot Program and storage of most of S.H.I.E.L.D prisoners. Contains the unstable element Gravitonium on a top secret level at the bottom. The Fridge was raided and takeover by HYDRA (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
- "HUB" - S.H.I.E.L.D's main HQ. The HUB was taken over by HYDRA, S.H.I.E.L.D retook the HUB with Agent Phil Coulson's team (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
Regions and countries
- Atlantis – Atlantis was a small continent with many human settlements. Over 21,000 years ago, an event called the "Great Cataclysm" caused it to be submerged into the sea. The inhabitants of ancient Atlantis built an enormous glass-like dome over the capital city, also known as Atlantis. When barbarians sent by the Deviant Lemuria empire attacked Atlantis, King Kamuu opened the magma-pits which were the city's means of heating. This caused the continent to sink.[5] Kamuu was warned of the Great Cataclysm by the seer, Zhered-Na. When she refused to recant, he had her exiled to the mainland, where she was later stabbed to death by survivors of the submersion.[6][7]
- Attilan (also called The Hidden Land) – Home of the Inhumans. Originally an island in the North Atlantic ocean, it has moved several times, including to the Andes, Himalayas, to the Blue Area on the Moon, the homeworld of the alien Kree, Hala. More recently Attilan was destroyed during the events of Infinity by Black Bolt when he detonates the Terrigen Bomb, the remains of Attilan now reside within New York, in the Hudson Estuary.
- Deviant Lemuria– Undersea home of the Deviants located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
- Dynamo City – An interstellar city and space port for dynamism controlled by a Municipal government.
- Genosha – Island dwarf-nation off the coast of Africa, north of Madagascar; an apartheid-like state where mutants were once enslaved
- Imaya – Fictional country located in North Africa.
- Kamar-Taj – A small kingdom in the Himalayas.
- Krakoa – Living island off the coast of Africa.
- K'un-L'un - K'un-L'un is the stronghold of a colony of humanoid aliens whose spaceship crashed in a pocket dimension that intersects with Earth. Daniel Rand, the boy who would become Iron Fist discovered K'un-L'un. It was there that he gained his powers and became the Iron Fist.[8] The dominant lifeform of this dimension is the H'ylthri. Its most prominent inhabitants are Master Khan, Yu-Ti, and Lei Kung. The usual means of access to this dimension is through magic.
- Latveria – Country in Europe ruled by Doctor Doom.
- Lemuria - Lemuria had been a small continent and group of islands in the Pacific Ocean 21,000 years ago, which was ruled by the Deviants. Lemuria became the center of the Deviant Empire, and the only remaining free land was Atlantis, the continent that held its greatest enemy, the Atlantean Empire. When the Deviants attacked Atlantis, the Atlantean King Kamuu opened the magma-pits which were the city's means of heating. This caused a chain reaction which collapsed and sank the continent. At that same time, when the Second Host of the Celestials came to Earth, the Deviants attacked them. In retaliation, the Celestials sank Lemuria in what is now known as the "Great Cataclysm."[volume & issue needed] The Eternal Ikaris guided a ship of humans to safety. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, S.H.I.E.L.D. owns the Lemurian Star which is a reference to the country.
- Madripoor – City, modeled after Singapore, to which Wolverine has connections.
- Monster Isle – Island where Monsters rule.
- Muir Island – Island off the north west coast of Scotland, containing Moira MacTaggert's mutant research lab. Muir Island's significance stems from the fact that it is the home of Earth's largest and most comprehensive mutant research complex, located to the north of Scotland, founded by Dr. Moira MacTaggert. Originally, she created the facility to help her son, Kevin (a.k.a. Proteus), an extremely powerful and destructive mutant.
- Nova Roma – Home of Magma in Brazil. Ancient Rome-like city.
- Olympia – Mountain city of the Eternals, located on Mount Olympus in Greece.
- Project: PEGASUS – Project Pegasus (Potential Energy Group/Alternate Sources/United States) is both a scientific base which has been the location of a variety of stories for superheroes and supervillains, most notably in the title Marvel Two-in-One. Created in Marvel Two-in-One #42 (August 1978) by writer Ralph Macchio, Project: Pegasus was originally intended to research alternative (and unusual) forms of energy, but has also been used as a prison for super-powered individuals. The location of this facility is described as being in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.
- Providence is an artificial island made of parts from Cable's old space station, Graymalkin, located in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Hawaii. Providence was intended to be a place where the best minds on Earth could gather, live, and find new ways of doing everything in hopes of giving the world a peaceful future. Providence is open to all who wish to immigrate there, though all residents must undergo various psychological and skills tests.
- Savage Land – Place with tropical climates and prehistoric animals located in the heart of Antarctica.
- Subterranea
- Slorenia – An eastern Slavic nation.
- Symkaria – Country in Europe adjoining Latveria, home of Silver Sable
- Transia – Birthplace of Spider-Woman, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch. One location is Mount Wundagore, a mountain with strong ties to the history of Chthon and the Darkhold In the Sixth Century, a cult of Darkholders led by the sorceress Morgan le Fey attempted to summon Chthon but found him to be uncontrollable. While the Darkholders were incapable of banishing him altogether, they bound him to Mount Wundagore, in what would one day become Transia.[9]
- Vorozheika – A country to the northeast of Chechnya, formerly part of the USSR and now ruled by the Eternal Druig.
- Wakanda – An African nation ruled by Shuri, the current Black Panther.
Outer space
(List of alien races in Marvel Comics)
Satellites and planetoids
- Asteroid M – secret base of Magneto
- Blue Area of the Moon – An artificial, self-sustaining, Earth-like environment on the far side of the Moon, the Blue Area was created roughly one million years ago as part of a competition between two alien races, the Kree and the Cotati. The Skrulls, then a benevolent race, moderated this contest, whose goal was to determine the worthiness of both races by discovering which could achieve more within a set period of time. After being taken to the area of Earth's Moon where the Skrulls had created the artificial atmosphere, the Kree used their strength and rudimentary Skrull technology to create a giant city while the Cotati were taken to another barren world in a different solar system where they created a long-term sustainable ecosystem. Learning that the Cotati were going to win the contest, the enraged Kree first slaughtered the Cotati and then attacked and killed the Skrull delegation, stole their starship, and initiated the millennia-long conflict now known as the Kree-Skrull War, which would force the Skrulls to become a society of warriors.[10]
- Birj – sixth moon of Marman (see above) and where Terrax is from.
- Taa II - a space station of Galactus.
- Titan – main moon of Saturn and technologically advanced home to the Titan Eternals.
Extradimensional places
- Asgard – home plane of superhuman beings analogous to the Norse gods
- Hyboria – a southern region of Asgard
- Avalon – Also known as Otherworld. Home of Merlyn, Roma and the Captain Britain Corps and location of Camelot, the Green Chapel and the Starlight Citadel. Based on the mythical "Avalon".
- Beyond-Realm
- Heliopolis is a celestial city in a dimension adjacent to Earth's, founded by the gods who were once worshipped in Egypt. This godly realm appears to be built upon a small planetary object much like the realm of Asgard, and its passage to earth is a golden bridge through space called the Path of the Gods.[11]
- Limbo – Associated with Immortus and Rom the Spaceknight, not to be confused with Otherplace.
- Microverse - Microverses are dimensions formerly defined as any universe only accessible through vibrational attunement (shrinking).[citation needed] The belief that these worlds exist "within" atoms may have given rise to the stock phrase "There are worlds within worlds". It is not actually the microverses that are microscopic in size but rather the nexuses which make them accessible. It is thus theoretically possible to enter the same microverse from different points on Earth. The volume of these microverses are contained within spacewalls which can only be breached at certain points. It is these breaches that create accessible portals.
- Micronaut homeworld – a chain of connected worldlets, resembling a ball-and-stick molecular model.
- Mojoverse – dimension of spineless aliens
- Subatomic universe
- Negative Zone
- Nexus of All Realities - located in the Florida Everglades (name also refers to a Cosmic Artifact, M'Kraan Crystal)
- Olympus – home plane of superhuman beings analogous to the Greek gods
- Otherplace, also called the Demonic Limbo, is home to demons of various sizes, strengths, and intellects.
- Therea is a mystic extra-dimensional realm where benevolent gods dwell who appear in the form of dogs to human eyes. It is an earth-like land of peace and tranquility, and is the counterpart to Thog's realm of Sominus. Therea is ruled by twin gods, Zokk and Maftra. Zokk and Maftra are worshipped by the barbarian Korrek and his people, and even revered by Dakimh the Enchanter.
- Crossmore, originally known as Crossmoor, is a British prison/psychiatric facility for super-human criminals. It is Her (Britannic) Majesty's Ultimate Security Prison.
- The Cube - A prison specifically designed for irradiated supervillains.
- Kyln - A series of spherical containment units located by the universal barrier and maintained by interstellar races and various degrees of mechanical automation, its primary architect is unknown.
- Lang Memorial Penitentiary, also known as the Big House - A prison where inmates are shrunken for easy storage, using technology developed by Henry Pym.
- Negative Zone Prison Alpha, also known as Prison 42 - A prison specifically designed for supervillains.
- Vault – A prison for superhumans in Colorado.
- "The Raft", a prison disguised as a floating trash barge off the New York coastline.
Government agencies
- Aladdin - In the Ultraverse setting, Aladdin was a U.S. government agency apparently founded sometime in the 1960s to deal with the growing number of Ultras (super-powered beings) in their world. In 1970, their scientific division, using a synthesis of organic brain tissue and computer systems called G.E.N.I.E. (Genetically Engineered Neural Intelligence Experiment) were examining alien technology and corpses discovered by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, when some unknown event caused the corpses to release a cloud of material which caused G.E.N.I.E. to develop sentience and grow into a true fusion of organic and mechanical technology.
- Aladdin Assault Squad - In the Malibu Ultraverse, the Aladdin Assault Squad was a special department within the government agency known as Aladdin. The Aladdin Assault Squad was created in response to the growing number of Ultras (superhumans). The A.A.S. operated out of Aladdin's Groom Lake facility, and functioned as an independent internal security force. They also assisted ongoing Ultra research. Known members of the Aladdin Assault Squad are: Dirt Devil, Foxfire, the Grip, Hardwire, Headknocker, and War Eagle.[12]
- Black Air
- The Commission on Superhuman Activities (also known as the Commission on Superhuman Affairs or CSA for short) is a government agency created by the President of the United States of America. It is a very special appointed task force, which has been requested to supervise the American citizens possessing superhuman powers and coordinate government projects aimed at creating government controlled superhumans. They have an office in Washington, D.C. A number of members of the Commission when created were involved with various government projects regarding superhumans: Project Wideawake, former and current Avengers liaisons, Freedom Force liaison and super soldier projects.
- Department H - A fictitious branch of Canada's Department of National Defence that deals with super-powered persons. Department H was responsible for bringing together and managing the Marvel Comics team known as Alpha Flight and its related teams Beta Flight, Gamma Flight, and Omega Flight.[13] It was mentioned in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "End of the Beginning" and the films X2: X-Men United and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Department K - The Canadian Government group which secretly operated the Weapon X Project.[14]
- Euromind - Another European subdivision of S.H.I.E.L.D., called Euromind, was introduced in the Marvel Italia series Europa.[15]
- F.I.6 - British Intelligence agency, former employers of Micromax. Led by Brigadier Theodore 'Inky' Blott. Employed psychics. Disbanded after most agents, including Blott, were killed by Necrom. Introduced in Excalibur and created by Alan Davis.[16]
- G.R.A.M.P.A. - The covert organization known as G.R.A.M.P.A., the Global Reaction Agency for Mysterious Paranormal Activity, debuted in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15. G.R.A.M.P.A.'s most prominent field operatives are Ace and One-Eyed Jacquie; the two agents refer to themselves collectively as "Blackjack". G.R.A.M.P.A. is tasked with protecting the world from paranormal threats.[17]
- H.A.T.E. - H.A.T.E., the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, better known by its acronym, is one of two antagonistic organizations in Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. H.A.T.E. and its leader, Dirk Anger, are parodies of Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury. H.A.T.E. is a government agency that is funded by the Beyond Corporation©, a company that was formerly a terrorist cell called S.I.L.E.N.T. (the acronym has not been explained yet).
- The Lodge - Created by Basil Wentworth towards the end of World War II, the Lodge's purpose was to prepare for the Cold War that was destined to come about. The Lodge started covert operations in China, the Soviet Union, and East Germany, and has continued its "dirty tricks" into the present day.
- Mutant Response Division - The Mutant Response Division is a mutant-hunting group that is also called the M.R.D. for short. Seen in the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon.
- Office of National Emergency - The Office of National Emergency, commonly referred to as O*N*E, is known as the originator of the Sentinel squads that were assigned to protect/observe the X-Men and the remaining mutants after the event known as M-Day, which reduced the number of mutants on Earth to only a few hundred.[18]
- Project Pegasus - Project Pegasus is an organization that was originally intended to research alternative (and unusual) forms of energy. It has also been used as a prison for super-powered individuals, prior to the creation of The Vault.[19]
- Project: WIDEAWAKE - Project: Wideawake is a government program with the purpose of detecting and capturing mutants, which employs the robots known as Sentinels.[volume & issue needed]
- R.C.X. - The Resources Control Executive is a British intelligence agency, introduced in Captain Britain as a replacement to S.T.R.I.K.E. and created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis. The British intelligence agency for the investigation of paranormal and superhuman activity, known as S.T.R.I.K.E., is infiltrated by a criminal organisation and nearly all of its members are killed. A weakened S.T.R.I.K.E. is unable to deal with the consequences of the Jaspers' Warp and is disbanded. The Resources Control Executive (R.C.X.) is created to take its place. The members of the R.C.X. use codenames based on biblical figures to hide their true identity.[20]
- S.A.F.E. - Introduced in Marvel's line of novels in the mid-1990s, S.A.F.E. (Strategic Action For Emergencies) is the United States' answer to S.H.I.E.L.D. They first appeared in Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk: Rampage (Doom's Day Book 1), and may not be part of comics canon. Whereas S.H.I.E.L.D. is a UN-funded and run organization dealing with international incidents, S.A.F.E. is tasked with similar duties inside of America's borders. It is run by Colonel Sean Morgan and a prominently featured agent is Joshua Ballard, who, among other things, survived an encounter with Doctor Doom and later Baron Zemo.[21]
- S.T.A.R.S. - The Commission on Superhuman Activities, created a special division of the federal government's U.S. Marshals called S.T.A.R.S., the Superhuman Tactical Activities Response Squad. A federal organization authorized to monitor and manage all activities regarding the supervision, apprehension, and detention of superhuman criminals in the United States. The group's leader was John Walker the U.S. Agent. S.T.A.R.S. uncovered a Ruul plot to use Earth as a penal colony for alien criminals. U.S. Agent and S.T.A.R.S. were ultimately responsible for exposing and defeating the Ruul.[22]
- Superhuman Restraint Unit
- Ultimate S.H.I.E.L.D.
- W.A.N.D. - The magical division of S.H.I.E.L.D. Introduced in the Marvel NOW! relaunch of Thunderbolts.[23]
- Weapon X
- W.H.O. - The Weird Happenings Organization was mandated by the UK government with the investigation into and research of supernatural and paranormal phenomena until it was replaced by Black Air. It was featured in Excalibur.
Some items have been created specifically for the Marvel Universe and carry immense powers:
Mystical artifacts
- Book of the Vishanti is a grimoire most closely associated with Doctor Strange.[1] It is the greatest known source of "white" magical knowledge on the Earth of the Marvel Universe dimension.
- The Casket of Ancient Winters – An Asgardian relic and the greatest weapon of Malekith the Accursed. When opened, it can reproduce the infinite icy cold of Niflheim. Later entrusted to the care of Edwin Jarvis, butler to the Avengers, by Thor. Causes its holder to grow younger gradually.
- The Cloak of Levitation is a potent mystical item worn by Doctor Strange. It has the primary purpose of granting its wearer levitation. The greatest advantage of this is that its wearer need know little about the mystic arts in order to operate it, nor must the wearer use any of his "mystical strength" in order to operate it.
- The Darkhold - A collection of iron-bound scrolls containing the collected magical knowledge of Chthon, the first practitioner of dark magics
- Dragonfang – an enchanted sword said to be carved by the wizard Kahji-Da from a tooth of an extra-dimensional dragon.
- The Evil Eye of Avalon – a power object that was intended to be a weapon against the Fomor. It can manipulate and disintegrate matter, project blasts of concussive force, laser-like and disintegrating rays, and create or destroy force fields. It also possesses dimensional- and time- travel powers. The Evil Eye first appeared in Fantastic Four #54 (Sep 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
- The Eye of Agamotto, worn by Doctor Strange.
- The Orb of Agamotto
- Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor.
- The Serpent Crown - Created by the demon Set, it links the wearer to its creator, providing various physical and mental powers
- The Wand of Watoomb is an artifact controlled by the thoughts of the wielder, and can used to project and absorb mystical energy; create forcefields; control weather; open dimensional portals; observe events in other locations and heal wounds. Used thousands of years before the modern era by priestess of the god Yog against the barbarian Conan, it is sought out by Xandu in modern times to destroy Doctor Strange. The Wand first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 (December 1965) and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Cosmic artifacts
- The Cosmic Cube
- The Cosmic Egg
- Infinity Gems/Infinity Gauntlet – Six gems that grant their owner supreme power over six different aspects of existence: Mind, Power, Soul, Time, Space, and Reality. They can be combined in the Gauntlet. A seventh gem was discovered in another dimension. This gem, called the Ego gem, contained the essence of the entity Nemesis, whose self-destruction created the gems.
- M'Kraan Crystal – The "nexus of realities" (unknown if it is connected to the "Nexus of Realities" located in the Florida Everglades). By entering the crystal, the user can enter any universe they wish. The protector of the crystal is singular in all universes, with the same memories in each, which suggests that the reality immediately surrounding the crystal is anchored in place.
- Quantum bands, used by Quasar and temporarily used by Silver Surfer to wield cosmic energy.
- The Siege Perilous - is the name of two fictional devices appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. The first appeared in books starring Captain Britain, and the second in books featuring the X-Men. Both devices were created by writer Chris Claremont, who named it after the Siege Perilous, the empty chair at the round table of King Arthur.
- The Silver Surfer's surfboard, his source of power (in the movie) which he is mentally linked to. When destroyed, the Surfer can recreate another at will.
- The Ultimate Nullifier
Other artifacts
- The Legacy Virus, a devastating plague that tore through the Mutant population.
- The Mandarin's Ten Rings
- The Tallus
- Terrigen Mist, a mutagen which can alter Inhuman physiology.
Elemental substances and minerals
- Adamantium – a virtually indestructible metal alloy which is best known for being integrated into the skeleton and claws of Wolverine and was created in an attempt to duplicate the Vibranium-steel alloy of Captain America's shield.
- Carbonadium
- Promethium, a magical metal found only in Belasco's dimension, known as Otherplace.
- Tritonium, an unstable radioactive mineral
- Vibranium – a metal which comes in two forms; one variety (Wakandan) absorbs vibratory and kinetic energy, while the other (Antarctic) causes all nearby metals to melt, Vibranium is a component of Captain America's shield alloy.
- Uru, the Asgardian metal of which Thor's hammer is made.
- Scabrite, a god-like metal which can only be found in the mines of Surtur's realm. Surtur possesses the giant sword Twilight, also known as the Sword of Doom, composed of Scabrite. The sword is magical, capable of manipulating vast amounts of mystical energy.
- Gravitonium - Fictitious periodic table element. Substance can control gravity fields (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series)
- Black Knight's Atomic Steed - The Black Knight sometimes employs one of the "Atomic Steeds" built by the Knights of Wundagore, engineered by the High Evolutionary.
- Blackbird - The Blackbird is the X-Men's primary aircraft.
- Fantastic Four's Pogo Plane - The Pogo-Plane, so-called because of its tail-down landing/take-off attitude, was the first significant air-breathing engine design of Reed Richards. Employing new turbine blade configurations and a new titanium-alloy process, Richards increased overall engine performance to a very high thrust-to-weight ratio.
- Fantasti-Car
- Freedom's Lady - The Guardians of the Galaxy operate from the Starship Freedom's Lady, a medium-weight, Script error: No such module "convert". Annihilator-class battleship of 30th century Earth design. Trans-light power is furnished by inter-reacting tachyon and anti-tachyon beams. Fully equipped for deep-space and inter-galactic excursion, it carried a full complement of offensive weapons as well as an impenetrable energy barrier, divided into 14 overlapping segments.
- Green Goblin's Gobin Glider - a metal bat-shaped glider that Green Goblin uses to travel around the skies.
- Kang's Time-Ship - Kang the Conqueror's time-ship is a Script error: No such module "convert". long, non-aerodynamic, space-worthy vehicle, and is mostly a housing for the large energy-generating devices that power the time machine. The time machine itself is a device whose major timestream-bridging components are the size of a two-drawer file cabinet. It utilizes energy to generate a chronal-displacement internal field, enabling a being or object to break through the "reality walls" of the timestream into the trans-temporal realm of Limbo, from which all time eras and alternate worlds are accessible.
- The Leapfrog - The Leapfrog is the method of transportation for the Runaways.
- Quinjet - Used primarily by the Avengers, the quinjet first appeared in The Avengers #61 (February 1969) and was designed by the Wakanda Design Group, headed by the Black Panther, T'Challa. Each one is equipped with VTOL capability and five turbojet engines. A quinjet can reach Mach 2.1.[volume & issue needed] Two highly specialized ultra-large Quinjets were used to transport various superheroes through space in the Infinity Crusade mini-series. It made a couple of appearances in film and TV in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Assemble as the team's vehicle and in The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as an aircraft carrier-compatible VTOL utility aircraft used primarily by S.H.I.E.L.D.. A larger version appears in Avengers: Age of Ultron as an aircraft vehicle for The Avengers.
- Hawkeye's Sky Bike - Hawkeye sometimes travels about in a custom-built sky bike (also called a sky-cycle or skymobile), designed and built at Cross Technological Enterprises. It is voice-operated and requires no hands to steer. The sky bike first appeared in Hawkeye #1 (September 1983). It was also featured in the Iron Man animated series. Hawkeye also uses the bike in the animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
- Hellcycle - Ghost Rider's flaming motorcycle. The vehicle is created by the Ghost Rider's own mystical hellfire being imbued in an otherwise normal motorcycle, usually the property of the Ghost Rider's host at the time.
- Moon Knight's Helicopter - Moon Knight's copter is a VTOL vehicle capable of precision, computer-assisted maneuvering for air-land-and-sea rescues, tracking automobiles through traffic, and many other purposes. Moon Knight is in constant contact with the copter, piloted by Frenchie (but also with a sophisticated, computer-aided auto-pilot), at all times via a miniature transceiver with a microphone in his cowl. The on-board computer performs navigation functions, remote sensor image-enhancement, and radar interpretation. Moon Knight has had at least two different designs of copter. One resembled a conventional helicopter with a crescent moon tail. The second actually resembled an airship more than a helicopter, but was also crescent shaped.
- Punisher's Battle Van - The Battle Van was used by the Punisher as his the primary mode of transportation. It is customized with a various array of weaponry and armor, and serves as a mobile armory.
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car - The flying car is a S.H.I.E.L.D. personal vehicle that looks like a car but can fly. It made appearances in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and Spider-Man: The Animated Series. In Captain America: The First Avenger, Howard Stark unveils a flying car at Stark Expo. A flying car appears in the possession of Phil Coulson in the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
- Shockwave Rider - The superhero team Nextwave steals the Shockwave Rider, its base of operations, from H.A.T.E., a compromised anti-terrorist organization. The Shockwave Rider is powered by a Zero-Point Squirt Drive, giving it a nearly unlimited fuel supply. The Rider contains 5 tesseract zones, allowing it to be spacious on the inside while keeping it compact on the outside. To deploy in the field, the team dives through a pool of an orange membrane to exit via the underside of the ship. It was destroyed in Nextwave's final battle with the Beyond Corporation©.
- Ship - Apocalypse's gigantic, self-aware AI ship which was simply known as "Ship". It made several appearances in the comics as well as the 1990s X-Men cartoon series.
- Skuttlebutt - Korbinite-designed sentient starship, vehicle of and companion to Beta Ray Bill[24]
- Spider-Mobile
Criminal organizations
- Advanced Idea Mechanics - Advanced Idea Mechanics first appeared in Strange Tales #146. A.I.M. is a conglomeration of brilliant scientists and their hirelings dedicated to the acquisition of power and the overthrow of all governments by technological means. A.I.M. was organized late in World War II by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker to develop advanced weaponry for his subversive organization HYDRA. They were close to developing and attaining nuclear weapons when HYDRA Island was invaded by American and Japanese troops. Although HYDRA suffered a major setback, it survived and grew in secret over the following decades.[25]
- Beyond Corporation© - What is now the Beyond Corporation© was once a high-tech terrorist cell known as S.I.L.E.N.T. which legitimized itself as the Beyond Corporation©, yet did not abandon their ulterior motive—the location, activation, distribution, and testing of various Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction at various points throughout the United States of America. Also, through "faith-based bidding," the Beyond Corporation© became the sole financial backer of the H.A.T.E. (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort), providing them with extremely advanced technology.[26]
- Black Spectre - Jerome Beechman the Mandrill created Black Spectre by organizing his female followers, who disguised themselves as men using bulky armor. Beecham planned to use Black Spectre to confuse America through terrorism and racism, instilling chaos in the world and intending to rule it after anarchy ensued.[27]
- Brotherhood of Mutants - The Brotherhood of Mutants, originally known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and briefly as the Brotherhood, is a Marvel Comics supervillain team devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans. They are adversaries of the X-Men. The original Brotherhood was created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby and first appeared in X-Men #4 (March 1964).
- Friends of Humanity - The Friends of Humanity is a hate group started by Graydon Creed, a man infamous for his bigotry against mutants. Groups inspired by or splintered from the Friends of Humanity include the survivalist Humanity's Last Stand and the religious fundamentalist Church of Humanity.[28]
- Gene Nation - On the anniversary of the Mutant Massacre, a horrific event in which Mr. Sinister's henchmen the Marauders killed many Morlocks, the members of the terrorist group known as Gene Nation reappeared in the main universe (Earth-616). Their mission was to destroy one human for every Morlock life that was lost.
- The Hand - The Hand is a cult of evil mystical ninjas who are heavily involved in organized crime and mercenary activities such as assassination plots. The Hand covets power above all other objectives. They are primarily based in Japan, but operate internationally. They were founded in the 16th century, and soon became servants of the primordial demon known only as the Beast.
- Hellfire Club - Although the club appears to merely be an international social club for wealthy elites, its Inner Circle consists of mutants who try to influence world events for the accumulation of power. They dress in 18th century garb and rank themselves in a system of chess pieces (Black Rook, White Queen, etc.). The group first battled the X-Men in the classic "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and the club, or branches of it, have since appeared periodically in various X-Men series. The club is based on the actual Hellfire Club, a secret society of 18th century England.
- Humanity's Last Stand - Humanity's Last Stand is a radical anti-mutant hate group and enemies of the X-Men. In the group's first appearance they were behind the creation of a false Mutant Liberation Front, formed by human members of H.L.S. posing as mutants through the use of mutagenic drugs and or technologically enhanced suits, in order to mimic mutant powers.[29]
- HYDRA - The fictional terrorist organization first appeared in Strange Tales #135. In its original continuity, it was headed by nondescript businessman Arnold Brown, who was killed as S.H.I.E.L.D. apparently crushed the organization. It soon returned, however, headed by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, under the aegis of the Nazi Red Skull; HYDRA's changing origin was one of the earliest Marvel retcons. After its initial defeat, several of its branches surfaced, appearing to be unrelated and independent. HYDRA's scientific branch was initially A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics), which later split off into its own organization. Other factions included THEM and the Secret Empire.
- Maggia - The Maggia is an international crime syndicate, somewhat similar to the Mafia, but the Maggia differs in that it frequently hires supervillains and mad scientists to work for them. Count Nefaria and his daughter Madame Masque have both been leaders of an important Maggia family.[30]
- Maelstrom's Minions - Maelstrom's Minions are a trio of supervillains that work for Maelstrom. They are Gronk, Helio, and Phobius.[31]
- Mys-Tech - The board of Mys-Tech, a multinational corporation, were originally seven mages who in 987 sold their souls to the demon Mephisto in exchange for immortality. The Mys-Tech board members must provide a steady stream of souls to the demon otherwise they will breech their contract and forfeit their own souls. Over the years the board accumulated power and wealth and in the modern age this power and wealth became a business empire.[32]
- National Force - The National Force is a neo-fascist organization founded by Doctor Faustus. Faustus had recently captured William Burnside the fourth Captain America and his partner Jack Monroe, both heroes from the 1950s frozen in suspended animation. Faustus took control of the mind of the replacement Captain America in an attempt to use him against Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, and later turned him into the Grand Director.[33]
- Purifiers - The Purifiers, also known as the "Stryker Crusade", are a paramilitary group of Christian terrorists led by Reverend William Stryker. The group debuted in the X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills graphic novel. The Purifiers see themselves in a holy war against mutants, believing them to be the children of the Devil and thus deserving of extermination.[34]
- Roxxon - Roxxon Oil is a massive petroleum corporation notorious for its determination to make massive profits regardless of any laws or moral principles, often employing superhuman criminals in order to achieve their goals.[35]
- Secret Empire - The subversive organization known as the Secret Empire has followed a number of different leaders, always known as "Number One". The Secret Empire began as a subsidiary of HYDRA, which provided it with financial support. The Secret Empire served to distract the attention of authorities such as S.H.I.E.L.D. from HYDRA's activities, although the original Number One sought to break away from HYDRA.[36]
- Serpent Society - The Serpent Society an organization of snake-themed terrorists in the Marvel Comics universe. The group was initially formed from the membership of a previous supervillain team, the Serpent Squad. The group, like its predecessor, has been made up of longtime antagonists of Captain America and his fellow Avengers. The Serpent Society was the brainchild of Seth Voelker (Sidewinder), and is a descendant of sorts from the original Serpent Squads.
- Sons of the Serpent - The Sons of the Serpent are a subversive organization of costumed American racist super-patriots who oppose all racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. They sought to subvert America through hate crimes and organized protests, and were opposed by the Avengers and the Defenders.[37]
- THEM - THEM through its founder Baron Strucker is the managing power of a supraorganization which includes HYDRA, A.I.M., and the Secret Empire. THEM was founded by Nazi war criminal Baron Strucker after World War II. Later Strucker appointed a businessman named Arnold Brown to the position of Supreme Hydra; Hydra's highly visible operations served as a front for THEM.[38][39]
- U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. - The Underground Liberated Totally Integrated Mobile Army To Unite Mankind is a fictional terrorist organization in the Marvel Comics universe. It was founded by the Flag-Smasher in his attempts to destroy nationalism.[40] Most notably, they've been engaged in a feud with Deadpool ever since he slaughtered many of them aboard their own helicarrier, and downed it (dooming the remaining),[41] and confronted him in a final revenge showdown on a Kansas farm, led by a new Flag-Smasher, where Deadpool slaughtered every single one of them and Flag-Smasher, presumably ending them for good.[42]
- Zodiac Cartel - The original Zodiac group debuted in the title the Avengers[43] and is established as a criminal organization founded and funded by member Cornelius Van Lunt (who adopts the identity of Taurus). The group's identity is based on the zodiac from the discipline astrology, with each member adopting the persona of a sign of the zodiac, being twelve in all. The group members share leadership of the organization, with the position rotating just as the astrological zodiac changes.
- Spider-Man's web-shooters
- Captain America's shield
- Gamma Bomb
- Iron Man's armors
- Mjolnir the hammer of Thor
- Stormbreaker, the hammer of Beta Ray Bill
- Hawkeye's bow and trick arrows
- Black Widow's stingers
- Cyclops' visor
- Wolverine's adamantium claws
- Daredevil's billy club
- Elektra's sais
- Doctor Strange's amulet - the Eye of Agamotto
- Blade's sword
- The Black Knight's Ebony Blade
- Ghost Rider's chain and hellfire shotgun
- Goblin Serum (Oz Formula) - The chemical formula that gave Green Goblin his powers.
- Growth Pills - Capsules containing the size altering Pym Particles that allow Giant Man, Ant-Man, and the Wasp to change their size.
- Extremis - A techno-organic virus created in an attempt to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum that gave Captain America his powers.
- Red Skull's Dust of Death - A red powder which kills a victim within seconds of skin contact. The powder causes the skin of the victim's head to shrivel, tighten, and take on a red discoloration, while causing the hair to fall out. Hence the victim's head resembles a "red skull".
- Super Soldier Serum - An experimental military drug that enhances physical abilities and gave several superheroes their powers, most notably Captain America.
- Terrigen Mists - A mutagenic catalyst discovered and used by the Inhumans that can grant superpowers, but leaves many subjects with deformities and amnesia.
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- ^ Avengers #72 (January 1970)


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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two of the greatest players to ever don VCU basketball uniforms were honored this week with the Atlantic 10 Conference announcing its Inaugural Men's and Women's Basketball Legends.
Longtime NBA Pro Gerald Henderson will be VCU's honoree on the men's side, while one of the players that helped usher in a new era of VCU women's hoops, Cyndy Wilks, will be the Rams' honoree on the women's side.
Henderson is the 11th-leading scorer in VCU history, scoring 1,542 points during his four-year career. A 6-2 guard, he helped the Rams post a 70-35 record including a 24-5 mark in his fi nal season, the highest win percentage in school history. During his career at VCU, he scored 30 points on two occasions and he still ranks eighth in career scoring average at VCU. His 245 fi eld goals made in a career is still the fifth-highest by a Rams player. Henderson went on to play 13 years in the NBA winning four NBA titles.
The Men's Basketball Legends will be honored on March 16 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. prior to the 2013 Men's Basketball Championship semifinals. The women's class will be announced Wednesday. Each honoree will be saluted during a celebration awards brunch in the 40/40 Club, beginning at 11 am prior to the A-10 men's semifinal games.
The group includes 11 former players, three head coaches and two individuals that were both a player and a coach for their respective institutions. The impressive list includes several nationally recognized names and four members of the Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame (Tony Hinkle, Red Auerbach, Tom Gola, John Chaney).
"The considerable contributions each of these gentlemen made to their institution and its basketball program played an important role in shaping the foundation of men's basketball in the Atlantic 10," stated A-10 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade. "Whether it was building a program that eventually became a founding member or furthering the conference as it grew into a basketball power, each of the honorees is a part of the fabric of A-10 history and we're thrilled to be able to honor them."
Cyndy Wilks is the seventh-leading scorer in VCU history, scoring 1,451 points in a four-year career. During her career at VCU, she scored 30 points on three occasions. Wilks led the team in scoring her senior year averaging 22.1 points per game, which at the time was the highest average in school history. She ranks second at VCU in 3-pointers made with 181. Wilks was rewarded for her play during her senior season earning conference player of the year.
The Women's Basketball Legends will be honored on March 16 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the morning of the 2013 A-10 Women's Basketball Championship finals. Each honoree will be recognized during an awards brunch in the 40/40 Club, beginning at 11 am.
Each institution selected its Legend. The group is made up entirely of former players, all of which began their careers in 1976 or later. They represent 10 states and one foreign country and there are six All-Americans and three Academic All-Americans among the honorees.
"I congratulate our inaugural class of Atlantic 10 Legends. These women have been instrumental in establishing the outstanding history of the A-10 women's basketball programs," McGlade said. "Individually each legend has become a role model for others as they competed and benefited from Title IX to elevate women's basketball within the A-10 and nationally. They are a credit to their institutions, the league and are deserving of this honor on behalf of the Atlantic 10 Conference. "


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Holderness Folk Dance Club
Dance run by Holderness Folk Dance Club
Monday 16 December 2019 Running Today
Club night dancing
Dance Styles: Barn Dance, Country Dance, English Ceilidh
Price: First visit free then £1
Time: 7:45 to 9:45 pm
Ticket Options: Pay on door
Dancing to our Holderness Folk Band. Beginners and visitors welcome, bring a partner and/or dance with us.
Coniston Village Hall venue
Club night dancing to live music. beginners and visitors welcome.
6 miles north-east of Hull on A165 to Bridlington. Turn left into village.
Address: Swine Lane Coniston Humberside HU11 4JS
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Friendly dancing in a relaxed atmosphere.
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