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The Cougars improved to 5-0 last week beating Roosevelt and Ypsilanti.
On Wednesday Truman rallied to beat the Bears 4-3 after trailing 3-1 late.
Roosevelt led 3-1 until the bottom of the sixth inning when the Cougars roared back.
Alex Setser’s sacrifice fly brought in the winning run.
Winning pitcher Karyn McCarty allowed four hits with eight strikeouts.
“We were hitting the ball hard, but not getting it through the infield,” Coach Jeana Turchek said. “It was a good confidence builder for them. They didn’t give up on themselves.”
On April 21, Truman mercied Ypsilanti 11-0 in five innings on the road.
McCarty pitched a two-hitter with 10 strikeouts and one walk.
Chelsea Laster hit 3-for-4 with three triples and both Jessica LaBedz and McCarty hit 2-for-4.
Jessica Harris hit 2-for-3 and Kelsey Ellis added a double.
McCarty got the win, allowing two hits and striking out 10 with one walk.
In non-league play Truman beat Melvindale 12-1 in six innings.
Winning pitcher Amanda Daughtery went the first four innings allowing two hits with four strikeouts.
McCarty got the save, while providing much of the offense.
She hit 4-for-5 with three RBIs and Justina Silcock (two RBIs) and Laster both had two hits.
On Saturday the Cougars
hosted their first Truman Classic tournament.
The Cougars went 2-2, opening with a 3-1 loss to Pontiac Notre Dame Prep.
A 1-1 tie was broken in the seventh inning when the Fighting Irish strung together a single and triple.
Laster had an RBI single.
In the next game Truman beat Ypsilanti Lincoln 16-2 in four innings.
Turcheck credited the pitching of junior varsity call up Ashley Nester who struck out four and allowed four hits.
Ellis hit 2-for-4 with two triples and four RBIs. Other offensive stars were Laster (3-for-4) and Silcock (2-for-5, two RBI).

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Three local teams garnered spots among the top 10 seeds as the Louisiana High School Athletic Association announced its Class 5A baseball playoff pairings Tuesday.
West Monroe grabbed the No. 1 seed with Acadiana, a team coached by Baton Rouge native Scott McCullough, seeded second by the coaches of playoff teams who met locally at the LHSAA office to do the seeding.
District 5-5A champion Catholic followed as the No. 3 seed, while 6-5A champion East Ascension took the No. 4 seed.
Two other local teams, No. 11 Dutchtown of 6-5A and No. 24 Denham Springs of 5-5A, also made the 32-team playoff bracket.
All five teams are set to play first-round playoff games Thursday.
“I thought it was a lot of fun,” East Ascension coach Wayne Grenfell said. “This might be the first time we’ve gotten all the coaches in 5A together in one place like this.
“I applaud the commissioner (Kenny Henderson) and the LHSAA for doing this. Overall, we got pretty much what I expected.
“I thought we’d be seeded three or four. And John Ehret was one of the two teams I figured we’d play and that’s who we got.”
The Spartans host John Ehret at 6 p.m. Thursday. Three other local teams will play at 4 p.m.
Catholic hosts Pineville at 4 p.m. Lafayette at Dutchtown and Ruston at Central also are set for 4 p.m.. Denham Springs travels to Airline of Bossier City for a 5 p.m. game.
“I thought it worked well,” Catholic coach Kyle Achord said. “We’re just excited to be part of this.”
Central coach Mitch Covington added, “I don’t think anybody knew exactly what to expect.

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LONG BEACH - Boeing Co.’s latest military airlifter will fly the coop Thursday morning when Boeing officials deliver their fourth C-17 to the commander of the 1 Canadian Air Division.
Thursday’s delivery will fulfill Boeing’s February 2007 contract with the Canadian government, which signed with Boeing to buy four C-17 Globemaster IIIs for an undisclosed amount.
The airlifter will go to San Antonio before heading to its home base - Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario.
Boeing’s contract with Canada will benefit the citizenry there. Under the country’s Industrial Benefits program, Boeing must match the cost of four C-17s to re-invest into the Canadian economy.
Boeing, which has already pinpointed more than 66 percent of its total C-17 IB program obligations, announced in January that it has provided more than $166 million in contracts to Ontario companies such as Goodrich, Honeywell Aerospace Canada, MICAN and L-3 Communications Electronic Systems.
“This will result in long-term, high-value jobs for Canadians and will further embed Boeing as a long-term partner with Canadian industry, particularly with our partners here in the Ontario,” Pete Peterson, vice president for Ottawa-based Boeing Aerospace Operations, Inc., said in a January statement.
Meanwhile, Boeing officials are pursuing all contract leads in an effort to stretch the Long Beach production line beyond mid-2009, including international markets.
The United Kingdom has signed a contract for a sixth C-17 and Boeing continues to negotiate with NATO to supply up to three C-17s. Several countries such as India and the Netherlands have shown interest in the C-17 program.
“A number of other countries have expressed interest, but at this time we have nothing to announce,” said Jerry Drelling, a Boeing spokesman.
On the domestic front, Boeing has been commissioned to build 190 C-17s for the Air Force, which is looking to Congress to help pay for the remaining contract.

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Beef: Cultural rivalries and confrontations.
The Industry: The morning trade news roundup.
Kudos: Awards news, buzz, and predictions.
Overnights: Recaps of TV shows.
Right-Click: The hottest new MP3s.
Tube Junkie: Nuggets from the online video archives.

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Uniting your pool with the natural landscape and features of your home takes careful planning. In addition to building traditional pools, many designers like to create what’s known as a ‘negative edge effect’.
When the weather heats up, homeowners often consider the advantage of owning a pool. Inground pools tend to be somewhat expensive to install but can be made in nearly any size and shape.
Some items, such as antiques and fine furnishings, require special care during a move. A moving company can take care of packing such items for you, or they can offer suggestions to help you pack them safely yourself.
The steam that builds up in bathrooms can take its toll on paint and wallpaper. Left unchecked, it can cause peeling, and encourage mold. A good bathroom fan will remove excess moisture, and send it outside, protecting your walls and cabinets.

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Russia is warming up to open source, as evidenced by a new government policy document that Roberto Galoppini analyzes, and something I experienced firsthand today during my trip to Moscow to keynote Interop Moscow.
I met with a range of people including systems integrators, government employees, open-source vendors and, of course, Microsoft (Yes, they’re always at these events, and the Russian country manager turned out to be a bit of a Putin-bulldog type). Despite the Microsoftie’s attempt to discredit open source as a terrible strategy for Russia - perhaps he worries about a second Bolshevik Revolution, this time in IT? - it was a pleasant, informative day.
In my keynote (available to download here), I argued that Russia should develop its own IT economy, rather than shipping rubles back to Redmond (or anywhere else, for that matter). For any developing country (which is pretty much everyone), why would you ever want to try to build an IT economy on imports?
The people are proprietary in open source. Russia needs to develop its people.
That said, some interesting factoids emerged:
Russia is in a bit of a chicken-and-egg dilemma vis-a-vis open source. On the one hand, there is significant interest in open source within the private and public sectors. However, many larger organizations won’t buy open-source solutions because of a shortage of qualified companies that provide open-source support/software. As such, they keep defaulting to Microsoft and a few other proprietary vendors.
Russia won’t allow open source for mission-critical government applications because it still believes in security through obscurity. Apparently the Kremlin didn’t get the memo from the US Defense Department. “Da, Boris. They say it’s actually more secure, not less! Crazy Americans.”
Russia is big on local offices. I must have been asked 50 times if Alfresco were planning on opening an office in Moscow to serve the market. I told them we already had one. It’s called “Sourceforge.net.” Once that office gets full, then we’ll consider opening a physical office.

cnet.com

If it hadn’t been for the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, it’s a good bet that most Americans - certainly most white Americans - never would have heard of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. They’re now wondering if they will ever stop hearing from him. And Obama is probably afraid they won’t.
A well-known figure in Chicago, where he spent 36 years building tiny Trinity United Church of Christ into an 8,000-member congregation, Wright burst onto the national scene in March as something of a caricature. Controversial sound bites from a handful of the thousands of sermons Wright has delivered began popping up on the Internet and television news shows. They depicted a sometimes angry, profane preacher given to bombast, paranoia and even anti-Americanism.
After weeks of silence, during which Obama gently tried to distance himself from the pastor’s more outrageous statements, but not from the man himself, Wright decided it was time to go public. Between Friday evening and Monday morning, he was interviewed on PBS by Bill Moyers, addressed the Detroit NAACP and appeared at the National Press Club in Washington. Much of what he said was thoughtful, if provocative. But some of it confirmed the worst fears of his - and Obama’s - critics and suggested that Wright has come to see himself as far more significant than he really is.
It all came to a head in Washington, where Wright asserted that the attacks on him were actually “an attack on the black church.” In the same appearance, he again suggested that the AIDS epidemic was a government conspiracy to kill black Americans and that the 9/11 attacks were a justifiable response to U.S. actions. For good measure, he dismissed Obama as just “a politician,” who may have missed his messages over the years because he wasn’t paying attention or wasn’t in church at all.

cleveland.com

Morning Edition, April 7, 2008 · With a backside kick, Diana Lopez qualified for the U.S. tae kwon do Olympic team during the weekend. Spinning cartwheels helped her brother Mark qualify. Now, they’ll join their brother Steven in Beijing.
It’s the first time in more than a century that three siblings have qualified together for the games. The Lopezes hold three of the four spots on the team.
Even before competition has begun, Mark Lopez told the Des Moines Register, “We’re in the history books.”

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That’s probably the first — and last — time you will ever hear a singing performance on TV likened to a hamburger. But then, it was Simon Cowell doing the comparing, and the man is nothing if not creative when it comes to milking mic time for memorable sound bites.
It was Brooke White, and her solo piano act, on Mariah Carey’s Hero that drew the unfortunate food comparison. Cowell’s point — and he did have one — was that her performance was a little like getting the hamburger bun, but with nothing inside. No beef, no mustard — and not much relish from the judges, it would appear, except for Paula Abdul’s broken-needle routine, “You are who you are, and that’s what I love about you.”
By the time the last high note was sung on Mariah Carey night, there were some genuine surprises — for one, it was a night for the guys, not the gals, despite Carey’s gal-centric songlist — and some  of the same old same-old: Strong performances from the two Davids, and can-we-please-stop-this-nonsense-and-end-it-now performances from White and — again — Kristy Lee Cook.
That said, it will likely be Syesha Mercado and Carly Smithson who again land in the bottom two, in part because they’ve been there so often, and in part because they have truly beautiful voices, and vocal ability — David Cook and David Archuleta aside — don’t seem to carry much weight with the viewers who’ve been doing the voting this time around.
I suppose we could always be in for another shock. David Cook, now the elder statesman in the group at age 25, may yet prove to be this year’s Chris Daughtry —  i.e. the talented rocker who goes home before his time but goes on to have a credible singing career — but the odds of two shocks in a row seem slim, even in this year’s American Idol.

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Pairing artists from disciplines as various as music and hairstyling, with often surprising (and well-coiffed) results, Brief Encounters is one of the city’s more fascinating arts series. For BE 9, organizer the Tomorrow Collective has assembled duos such as a painter and filmmaker, a dancer and chef, a storyteller and an electric percussionist, and a textile artist and a keyboardist. Did we mention those involved have only two weeks to collaborate? See the results at the ANZA Club April 22-24. For more info visit www.tomorrowcollective.com.
brING ME SOME WATER
Thicker Than Water: My Sisters and I tells the story of Rosario Ancer and her seven sisters growing up in Mexico. Through narrative, dance, sound effects, stills and video projections, the Flamenco Rosario production takes the audience on a journey from Mexico to Spain to Canada. Thicker Than Water runs at the Roundhouse April 29-May 3. Call 604-631-2872 or visit www.ticketstonight.ca for tickets.
JOY OF JUGGLING
When not sword swallowing or spinning our poi, we hard-working Seven Days Ahead scribes like to juggle. And that’s why we’re totally psyched for a couple of upcoming Thomas Arthur shows at the Cultch. On April 24-26 this so-called “lyrical juggler” performs a family show called Luminous Edge, which tells the story of a wizard’s apprentice. AirPlay, April 26 & 27, also at the Cultch, is a more kid-oriented act in which Arthur juggles hoops, spheres, spirals, sticks, stones and cones synced to original compositions for guitar and fiddle. We bet even as we write this he’s out there somewhere juggling. Call 604-251-3311 for tickets.
Anyone remember the Del Fuegos? The Boston rock band put out a few albums in the ’80s, including the acclaimed Boston, Mass. Well, now lead singer Dan Zanes performs kid-friendly music for children and parents. He and his band perform at the Chan Centre April 27 at 3 p.m. Call 604-280-4444 for tickets.

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