Get fit and team build with intramural sports

ROBERT HUSKEY/ Daily Titan

Intramural Sports might seem like a normal sports organization on campus, which could lead to the misconception of a rigid period of try-outs and a brutal amount of practice with swearing coaches. However, Intramural Sports are more about camaraderie than competition.

What else could one expect from an organization that offers zombie dodgeball as a team sport?

While the idea of a sport called zombie dodgeball is strange, it and the other items that the Intramural Sports organization has to offer all hinge on one idea: Teamwork.

The point of Intramural Sports is not to become professional athletes; instead it pushes students on campus to either form a team with a group of friends or branch out and meet new people. Intramural Sports are a way to not only enjoy playing various sports with old and new friends, but also to have a non-stressful environment in which to do so.

Farron Fowler has been the coordinator for Intramural Sports for the Student Recreation Center since the spring 2012 semester. His job is to oversee all the facets of Intramural Sports. His job includes leading free agents? and coaches? meetings and training officials on the rules of the sports.

?Intramural offers you the opportunity to meet new people; that?s the number one thing,? said Fowler. ?Usually (students) come with a friend and then you are added to a team of people you don?t know. So you meet new people and you?re inside the (Student Recreation Center) which is a phenomenal place of energy and excitement of the program. You get to experience a part of college that a lot of people don?t.?

Fowler also said new sports have been added this semester, with indoor soccer and zombie dodgeball being new additions to the Intramural Sports organization as well as certain sports being available for single day tournaments.

Lawrence Martinez, 18, a pre-business major, has taken part in intramural basketball since the spring 2012 semester and enjoys the competitive nature mixed with the ability to create a team full of his friends.

?You get to bond with your friends since you pick your own teams,? said Martinez. ?You feel that chemistry with your friends throughout the season? It?s really just about getting along and knowing how everyone plays together.?

Even with a heavy enrollment and positive feedback from participants, some students are still unaware that Intramural Sports are available on campus. One such student was Eduardo Miranda, 26, a broadcast journalism major. This semester is Miranda?s first semester being involved in Intramural Sports, but he has hit the ground running by joining the basketball league and soccer league this semester.

?This is my first time playing intramural (sports),? said Miranda. ?I didn?t even know about it. I transferred and I live in LA so I travel a lot. I really don?t know everything this school has to offer.?

This semester Intramural Sports offers basketball, softball, indoor and outdoor soccer, zombie dodgeball and flag football. There are options for coed teams as well as single gender. Tennis, racquetball, table tennis and badminton are also being offered as one-day tournaments.

Source: http://www.dailytitan.com/2012/09/get-fit-and-team-build-with-intramural-sports/

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Gilbert Melendez injury causes Strikeforce to cancel Saturday?s card

Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez was hit with an injury just a week before he was scheduled to fight Pat Healy. He had to withdraw from the fight. Without Healy-Melendez, Showtime decided not to air the card. Without Showtime, Strikeforce canceled the event.

"When Showtime informed us that it would not be airing the event, we made the difficult decision to cancel Saturday's card in Sacramento," Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said via press release. "Without a television partner, we simply could not move forward with this event. We wish Gilbert a speedy recovery and will work diligently and quickly to reschedule the fighters affected by this news on upcoming cards."

This is the second major injury to hit Strikeforce recently. UFC heavyweight Frank Mir pulled out of his Nov. 3 bout with Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix champ Daniel Cormier with an injury.

Healy told Bloody Elbow Radio that he was told he would not be fighting again until Melendez is healthy, and that he wasn't given the option to fight someone else.

"I'm like in a daze, still. I have to think about, if Gil's going to be out six months and I have to wait the whole time, I have to start making some plans to make money right now so I'm not in a situation where I have to make money right before training for a fight," Healy said.

Outside of Melendez Healy, Saturday's card featured:

? Guto Inocente vs. Gian Villante
? Caros Fodor vs. Josh Thomson
? Adriano Martins vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg
? Quinn Mulhern vs. Jorge Santiago
? Jorge Gurgel vs. Mizuto Hirota
? Amanda Nunes vs. Cat Zingano
? Mike Kyle vs. Dion Staring
? Nah-Shon Burrell vs. Yuri Villefort
? Michael Bravo vs. Estevan Payan

Those fighters didn't create enough firepower for Showtime. Perhaps a re-airing of the "Weeds" season finale will be enough for the network instead of a live sporting event.

This creates a problem for the Strikeforce fighters on the card. One of the complaints heard most often from Strikeforce fighters is that they don't fight enough. In 2012, Strikeforce has held just five fight events. With such infrequency, fighters have few chances to fight and make money from their fight purse and sponsors.

Outside the main event, Strikeforce has nine fights place. Though there is room on the Nov. 3 card, it won't be enough to accommodate every fighter. Plus, the fighters thought they were getting paid on Sept. 29, and best case scenario has them getting paid a month from now. Fighting is never an easy way to make a living, but cancelling cards in the last minute makes the job much harder.

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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/gilbert-melendez-injury-causes-strikeforce-cancel-saturday-card-123304008--mma.html

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Bonnie Franklin fighting pancreatic cancer

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2008 file photo, Bonnie Franklin, of the 1970's sitcom "One Day at a Time, " appears with the reunited cast on the the NBC "Today" television program in New York. Franklin has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her family said in a statement released by CBS on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2008 file photo, Bonnie Franklin, of the 1970's sitcom "One Day at a Time, " appears with the reunited cast on the the NBC "Today" television program in New York. Franklin has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her family said in a statement released by CBS on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Bonnie Franklin, who starred in the sitcom "One Day At a Time," has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her family said Monday.

In a statement released by CBS, the family said the 68-year-old actress is undergoing treatment and continuing her normal schedule.

Franklin, who lives in Los Angeles, and her family "remain extremely positive" and asked that her privacy be respected.

The petite, red-headed actress starred as single mom Ann Romano in the hit CBS comedy "One Day At a Time," which aired from 1975 to 1984. Her co-stars included Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli.

On her Twitter account, Phillips sent "out love and sweet prayers" to the "incomparable Bonnie Franklin."

Franklin's recent credits include appearances on "The Young and the Restless" and "Hot in Cleveland," which reunited her with Bertinelli.

On stage, Franklin was in the original Broadway production of "Applause," for which she received a 1970 Tony Award nomination, and other plays including "Dames at Sea" and "A Thousand Clowns."

Her family said Franklin is grateful for people's support and concern as she fights cancer.

Associated Press

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Weed at work > Ngaio explains California's pot-and-labor rules and answers ?What's a terpene??

I?m searching for a job and want to work for a company that is ?pot friendly.? For me, this would be an employer that does not drug test and would not fire me for having a medical-cannabis recommendation. I have a friend who suffered a work accident and a drug test showed THC; she was fired. So, how do I find a job where I can use my medicine and not fear discipline or dismissal?

?Matt in Davis

You just made it that much harder for other guys in Davis named Matt to get jobs. (I?m just busting your chops.)

You have no legal right in California to use marijuana and keep a job. A letter of recommendation does not stop you from being fired (or not hired). The case of Ross v. RagingWire Telecommunications in 2008 gives employers the right to fire you for cannabis use.

However, there are ways. I spoke with Rick Pfrommer, one of the people in charge of hiring at Harborside Health Center dispensary in Oakland, about how cannabis patients can discuss pot use with their employers.

?If you really must use cannabis medicinally,? he said, ?get as much documentation as you can. Not just a note from a doctor that mostly writes letters of recommendation, but one from your primary-care physician. Get two letters if you can. Have all of your medical records ready to go.?

He even advises you to talk to human resources about it, if you?re comfortable doing that. ?Tell them you don?t do it at work, that it doesn?t affect your performance and that you have your medical records,? Pfrommer said, adding that it might not work, so you may just have to abstain for a month, if it?s just a pre-employment screening.

But Joe Elford, lawyer with Americans for Safe Access and attorney on the Ross case, says help may be on the way. Senate Bill 129, introduced by Sen. Mark Leno in 2008 but vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is set to be reintroduced next year. It would prevent employers for firing medical-cannabis users for failing drug tests, although they could still be fired for being impaired on the job.

What is a ?terpene profile,? and why should I care about this as a medical-cannabis patient?

?Weed Science

Quickly: Open up a bag of weed. Take a deep breath. Smell that delicious odor? Those are terpenes. Terpenes, sometimes called terpenoids, are bio-organic chemicals found mostly in the resin of plants. Pine-tree resin contains terpenes. The hop plant gets most of its flavor from terpenes. Terpenes are used in the perfume industry and to make turpentine. Generally, terpenes give marijuana its flavors. The pine scent of Trainwreck, the oily dankness of Sour Diesel?these smells come from the different terpenes in each plant. So far, scientists are unsure of the medicinal effects different terpenes have, but beta-caryophyllene (or BCP), a terpene found in significant amounts in most cannabis strains, has shown promise as an anti-inflammatory.

I am sure that if you were to find Ed Rosenthal at a Hempfest somewhere, he would be glad to break down all the different terpenes (citral, myrcene, menthol, yada-yadatol, etc.) and how they smell. But I am out of space, and so we?re going to leave it there.

Source: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=7736229

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Iran threatens attacks on US bases in event of war

FILE - This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, left, listening to an unidentified colonel pointing to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed. Hajizadeh warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would force other countries to get involved, Iranian state television reported Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Sepahnews, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE

FILE - This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, left, listening to an unidentified colonel pointing to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed. Hajizadeh warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would force other countries to get involved, Iranian state television reported Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Sepahnews, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would force other countries to get involved, Iranian state television reported Sunday.

The comments by Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard's aerospace division, came amid tension over Iran's nuclear program and Israel's suggestion that it might unilaterally strike Iranian nuclear facilities to scuttle what the United States and its allies believe are efforts to build a bomb. Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Hajizadeh said no Israeli attack can happen without the support of its most important ally, the United States, making all U.S. military bases a legitimate target.

"For this reason, we will enter a confrontation with both parties and will definitely be at war with American bases should a war break out," Hajizadeh said in remarks that were posted on the website of Iran's state Al-Alam TV. U.S. facilities in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan would be targeted, he said.

"There will be no neutral country in the region," Hajizadeh said. "To us, these bases are equal to U.S. soil."

The U.S. Fifth fleet is based in Bahrain and the U.S. has a heavy military presence in Afghanistan.

The Iranian warning appears an attempt to reinforce the potential wider consequences of an attack by Israel. The message is not only intended for Washington, but to its Gulf Arab allies that are fearful of a regional conflict that could disrupt oil shipment and cripple business hubs in places such as Dubai and Qatar's capital Doha.

It also comes during a major show of naval power in the Gulf by U.S.-led forces taking part in military exercises, including mine-sweeping drills. The U.S. Navy claims the maneuvers are not directly aimed at Iran, but the West and its regional allies have made clear they would react against attempts by Tehran to carry out threats to try to close critical Gulf oil shipping lanes in retaliation for tighter sanctions.

Despite Israeli hints of a military strike, Iran's military commanders believe Israel is unlikely to take unilateral action against Iran. The Guard's top commander, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, said last week that Iran believes the United States won't attack Iran because its military bases in the Middle East are within the range of Iran's missiles.

Iran has also warned that oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be in jeopardy if a war breaks out between Iran and the United States. Iranian officials had previously threatened to close the waterway, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, if there is war.

Israel believes that any attack on Iran would likely unleash retaliation in the form of Iranian missiles as well as rocket attacks by Iranian proxies Hezbollah and Hamas on its northern and southern borders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says international diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions against Iran have failed to deter its nuclear ambitions, and he has urged President Barack Obama to declare "red lines" that would trigger an American attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, coupling his appeals with veiled threats of an Israeli attack.

Obama has rejected these calls, saying diplomacy and U.S.-led sanctions must be given more time and that Iran will never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. American officials have pressed Israel not to attack Iran unilaterally, a move that could set off regional mayhem just ahead of the November election.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently in New York to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly and could seek to use his speech and meetings later this week to highlight the possible risks ? including sharply higher oil prices ? if military action is taken.

Associated Press

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