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Eric Martin: a Marine Corp Pfc's Mother's Day Video
Today's Edition of Eric Martin: The Google Alerts:
Marine Corp Pfc. Eric Martin stationed at Miramar records a video message to his mom for Mother's Day.
DVIDS - Holiday Greetings - Pfc. Eric Martin
Video is taken from:
Through a network of portable Ku-band satellite transmitters located in-theater and a distribution hub in Atlanta, Georgia, DVIDS makes available real-time broadcast-quality video, still images and print products as well as immediate interview opportunities with service members, commanders and subject matter experts.
DVIDS...
The DVIDS mission is to serve as a turnkey operation that facilitates requests for Public Affairs video, audio, still imagery and print products; coordinates interviews with soldiers and commanders in a combat zone and provides an archive for ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.
Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/about#.T52hAat8BV4#ixzz1tSjBCFJS
Marine Corp Pfc. Eric Martin stationed at Miramar records a video message to his mom for Mother's Day.
DVIDS - Holiday Greetings - Pfc. Eric Martin
Video is taken from:
DVIDS
is a state-of-the-art, 24/7 operation that provides a timely, accurate and reliable connection between the media around the world and the military serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.
Through a network of portable Ku-band satellite transmitters located in-theater and a distribution hub in Atlanta, Georgia, DVIDS makes available real-time broadcast-quality video, still images and print products as well as immediate interview opportunities with service members, commanders and subject matter experts.
DVIDS...
- Facilitates remote interviews with commanders and subject matter experts engaged in fast-breaking news.
- Links media to deployed military units.
- Enables embedded journalists to transmit broadcast quality video from the field.
- Fulfills requests for products quickly via satellite, fiber and the Internet.
- Submits daily bulletins detailing archive additions and email alerts about breaking news.
- Coordinates holiday greetings, “shout-outs” and special events programming involving soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines deployed to Operations New Dawn and Enduring Freedom.
- Maintains a searchable archive of video, photo and print products.
Mission
Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/about#.T52hAat8BV4#ixzz1tSjBCFJS
Eric Martin: University of Tennessee Relief Pitcher
From VolunteerTV.com: Vols Fall to Auburn, 12-3
“This team
is struggling right now in all phases,” UT head coach Dave Serrano said. “It’s
hard to pinpoint what we can do right now, but as coaches we have to stick with
the processes that we believe in and these guys have to fight their way out of
this.
“If we want to have a chance of reaching our
long-range goals we have to come out and fight because to me the season is on
the line tomorrow even with three more weekend series to go. We have to get a
win on the road and prove some character. I told the team that tough times
don’t last, tough people do.”
The Volunteers managed just five hits in the
contest with Davis Morgan collecting the team’s only extra-base hit on the day.
Freshman Robbie Kidd (2-2) suffered the loss after allowing seven runs on six
hits and four walks over the first 3.1 innings.
Fellow first-year Vol Eric Martin did
yeoman’s work out of the bullpen for Tennessee, firing a career-high 4.2
innings and striking out two. He entered the contest with just four total
innings pitched in his brief collegiate career.
“Eric came in when it could have really
gotten ugly,” Serrano said. “It was ugly enough for me but it could have really
gotten bad and Eric kind of calmed it down a little bit and allowed us not to
go down to the bullpen where we are really light right now in arms. Hopefully that
is a shot in the arm for tomorrow.”
After a scoreless first inning, Auburn struck
the first blow of the contest as Jay Gonzalez stroked an RBI single in the
bottom of the second to put the Tigers up 1-0.
The Vols had a chance to tie the game up in
the next frame, putting runners on the corners with just one out after Chris
Pierce was hit by a pitch and Nick Powell delivered a one-out single.
Will Maddox then laid down a safety squeeze
bunt just out in front of the plate, but Pierce had to hold until the Tigers
threw down to first before taking off for home. A perfect throw back to the
plate by the first baseman then cut Pierce down for the third out.
The floodgates opened for Auburn after that,
as it tacked on two runs in the third and scored six times in the fourth to
jump out to a commanding 9-0 lead.
Tennessee finally got on the board in the top
of the fifth, scoring a pair of unearned runs. After a leadoff single by Chris
Fritts, Jared Allen roped a line drive to center that was misplayed by Ryan
Tella for a three-base error that allowed Fritts to score from first. Pierce
followed with an RBI groundout on the next pitch to bring in UT’s second run
and put the tally on the scoreboard at 9-2.
The Vols had another chance to cut into the
Auburn lead in the sixth, loading the bases with two outs. Tiger relief pitcher
Cory Luckie came on to strike out Allen to end the threat, however.
AU responded with three more runs in the
bottom of the frame on a two-run single by Blake Austin and a solo home run by
Zach Alvord to push its lead to double digits at 12-2.
Tennessee got back-to-back singles from
Maddox and Zach Osborne to start the eighth inning before scoring their final
run of the contest on a 5-4-3 double play.
The Vols will go back to Friday night starter
Nick Williams again on Sunday afternoon after he threw just 56 pitches in the
series opener. The series finale is set for a 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET start.
For the most up-to-date information about the
Tennessee baseball program, visit UTSports.com/baseball and follow
@Vol_Baseball on Twitter. To purchase tickets, visit UTTix.com.
Friday, April 27, 2012
New Addition to Blog: 'Eric Martin: The Google Alerts'
I really can't explain why but these Google Alerts have me anxiously awaiting there arrival. There must be something innate in the human psyche that makes me want to learn about the guys that I share my name with me.
It has been a pretty interesting week for guys named Eric Martin.
Just in the past few days I've been:
- a bank robber that tried to flee the police after he had been arrested causing school lockdown in Iowa
- a high school junior who captained his team to a State Championship in Danvers, MA
- a Congressman that lost an election in York, PA
- a Director of Public Works in Chesapeake, Va that rejected city employees pay increases
- a Twitter account for @RonnieRust whose child had three back to back seizures
- a Rock Star (Formerly of Mr. Big) who is going to sing on a Rick Springfield Tribute Album
So I will continue to watch out for my namesakes and see what kind of moments in their life Google captures for Forever in the supposed Black Hole of the GooglePlex.
In the next day or so I am going to add a new section to A Long Island Nerfherder's Blog called 'Eric Martin: The Google Alerts' in the column on the right.
Come back and check out the alerts if you have time. Or create a Google Alert for your name.
And no, that's not me in the pic. That's the Rock Star who is singing on the Rick Springfield Album.
I actually went out with girl a few times that dated him. He was from Long Island too.
Always Remember...
"Don't Take Any Shit from Anybody!"
-William Martin Joel
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Filip Bondy of the NY Daily News Needs to Grow A Penis
Dear Mr. Bondy,
I just finished reading your article on the NHL hockey game last night between Rangers of New York and the Devils of New Jersey.
With just the opening sentence you have managed to show how narrow minded and ethically shallow you are in regards to your profession. That sentence is also the only sentence that you injected an opinion in the entire article. After the first sentence its really just boiler plate play by play.
Yet in just that one sentence you have basically brushed the NHL as this league that moonlights as the old Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWF).
You called it a niche league. The only thing niche is your readership.
Ritual violence? Morally wrong? We live in a world where MMA Fighting is growing in leaps and bounds. Where is your article lambasting that? In my opinion that is one of the things that is patently and morally wrong with America. But the only thing I hear you calling for an end of is The Lambeau Leap.
In that one sentence you just nonchalantly paint the NHL as a boorish and thuggish league. You do not go into much detail about the history of Devil/Ranger games, especially the recent series. You really do not provide the reader with any information about how and why everything transpired last night at puck drop.
You also do not provide the reader with any in depth thought process as to why you think it is a "niche league" or why it is "morally wong." In your profession sir, you have an obligation to the reader to provide useful information on the material you are covering. Not recklessly throwing out very generic and very narrow minded lines without backing up your thought process.
By doing so you show me your just like me. An average blogger who can be dangerous because he has a platform. Not a journalist.
Click these links to see how you should of reported on last nights game.
Blue Shirts Blog
Ranger Rants
Sincerely,
A Nerfherder from Long Island
I just finished reading your article on the NHL hockey game last night between Rangers of New York and the Devils of New Jersey.
With just the opening sentence you have managed to show how narrow minded and ethically shallow you are in regards to your profession. That sentence is also the only sentence that you injected an opinion in the entire article. After the first sentence its really just boiler plate play by play.
Yet in just that one sentence you have basically brushed the NHL as this league that moonlights as the old Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWF).
You called it a niche league. The only thing niche is your readership.
Ritual violence? Morally wrong? We live in a world where MMA Fighting is growing in leaps and bounds. Where is your article lambasting that? In my opinion that is one of the things that is patently and morally wrong with America. But the only thing I hear you calling for an end of is The Lambeau Leap.
In that one sentence you just nonchalantly paint the NHL as a boorish and thuggish league. You do not go into much detail about the history of Devil/Ranger games, especially the recent series. You really do not provide the reader with any information about how and why everything transpired last night at puck drop.
You also do not provide the reader with any in depth thought process as to why you think it is a "niche league" or why it is "morally wong." In your profession sir, you have an obligation to the reader to provide useful information on the material you are covering. Not recklessly throwing out very generic and very narrow minded lines without backing up your thought process.
By doing so you show me your just like me. An average blogger who can be dangerous because he has a platform. Not a journalist.
Click these links to see how you should of reported on last nights game.
Blue Shirts Blog
Ranger Rants
Sincerely,
A Nerfherder from Long Island
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