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Wait. Regarding to wtt,I thought 4cc and euro has a higher priority than jw. Will the rule change next season?
Wait. Regarding to wtt,I thought 4cc and euro has a higher priority than jw. Will the rule change next season?
Maybe they want to see how Nan Song will do. But I agree than Han Yan should go senior especially with his upgrades. After all, he's already won junior worlds, so he won't improve as much as he would with different competition.
In any event, at least he will still be challenged on the JGP with the likes of Farris, Brown, Tanaka, etc sticking around another season as well. Honestly though I wish they had all moved up...
I'm looking forward to seeing Nobunari Oda skate in Windsor, remind me again why he didn't compete last year? <bad fan>
Injury as far as I recall. But then again I'm very meh about Oda in general.
To think that fun is simple fun, while earnest things are earnest, proves all too plain that neither one thou truthfully discernest.
Did he even get to skate the Sebestyen Brittan programs he got choreographed for this past seasons? Just once at Cup of China?
2011 Eric Bompard? Fell 3 times in LP. Very bad knee injury.
I mean, I get they are young, but they were all guaranteed spots, so why not let them move up? FS politiks are so confusing. Yan and Farris especially could have used the exposure to get their names out as favorites to make the 2014 Olympic teams, everyone knows that they are pretty much as good if not better already than their countrymen Nan Song and Adam Rippon and Ross Miner, and have the potential to go much farther in the future than these guys, but maybe that's what their respective federations were afraid of because they are maybe hoping to groom them for 2018 instead? And maybe are worried if they have these young kids beating the guys who are supposed to be the best bets for the 2014 Olympics it will hurt those guys chances of doing well/medaling there? (Not that I expect Song, Rippon, or Miner to medal at the Olympics if they even make it at all, but maybe the federations are delusional and think they have a good shot to...). In any event, Yan and Farris, and Brown if he can get the 3a and hopefully a quad into his arsenal, actually feasibly COULD medal at the Olympics, but it wouldn't happen in 2014 considering their young ages (Hanyu is an exception to this generalization), so I could see the sense in grooming them to break out on the senior scene and really make a splash AFTER the 2014 Olympics (or at least after next season which will be what people are paying attention to going into the Olympics) when many of the guys still competing will have retired and the chances of these guys making a big impact right away will be greater.
The way I see it, no way will the likes of Takahashi, Oda, Joubert, Abbott, Verner, and likely even Chan if he wins OGM as expected, stick around after Sochi. Then there's a chance skaters like Amodio, Kozuka, Brezina, Song, and Rippon would retire after Sochi, and though it's unlikely, if someone like Hanyu or Fernandez were to medal/win there, there's a chance they could also retire. Of course there will be new talent coming up through the ranks, but you don't see skaters the caliber of Chan, Hanyu, and Takahashi every quadrennial, far from it. Right now, it's hard to make the top 10 at Worlds, if someone like Yan or Farris were to make the Olympic team, finishing in the top 10 would be a big accomplishment, but after the 2014 retirements? They could easily be in the position of being medal contenders leading up to 2018.
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No doubt people would then complain if this year's JGPF and JW podiums had the same three skaters on them this year as last year (whether in the same order is up for conjecture)...
They may be young, but if they are good enough, I'm of the opinion that holding them back is more likely to damage than help. Joshua wanted to go up - so what's the harm in letting him test his strength against the international seniors? Holding him back is more likely to create doubts, not just in the skater's mind, but in the judges'. The judges are going to see these three again on the Junior circuit and you can bet some of them will be asking the question - what does the Federation know about these skaters that they held them back?
Joshua, Jason and Han are all victims of federations not wanting to upset established skaters. It's unfair, and it sucks. They should be allowed to pit themselves against the established skaters, and if they beat them, well, tough luck to the established skaters.
Artur Gachinski is just one year older than Joshua and Jason and already will be in his third Senior season this year. The Federation supported him when he indicated that he was ready, and so he moved up. Was he too young in his first Senior season? He was 17 - the same age Joshua and Jason are now. And he won the World bronze medal. I'm not saying exactly the same thing could happen, but it sure shows that if you support your skater by backing them, good things can happen.
Britten really choreographed the LP? I can see going the jazz route but IMO that program was either awful on its own or Oda was simply unable to interpret it properly. That's extra disappointing. I became a big fan based on his 2005 programs which I loved, but he was never the same after the DUI.
Britten's programs, well the music choices to be more exact, were just totally awful and not even Takahashi or Chan could pull them off.
I really don't understand how program's like that even get made.
ugh so disappointing same top 3 n JGPF
the only good about this will be Brown finally getting his 3A
If he gets that, he is pretty much unbeatable
Farris is too boring to compete with Brown only Yan can challenge him
Last edited by love_skate2011; 06-02-2012 at 08:33 AM.
Someone needs their eyes checked...last time I looked, Farris and Brown were about fifty million steps ahead of Yan in musicality, fluidity, and presentation. Yan's jumps were good, but his artistry really let him down. Farris' artistry was what got him to within half a point of winning the Junior World Championship!
(But then, I guess you ARE the same person that claimed Artur Gachinski never won anything on the Junior circuit...)
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I like Razanno and will be happy to see him at SA. I'm still baffled that Armin didn't get an assignment and Dornbush got 2 (?).
I have no problem with Brown and Ferris speding one more year at the JGP, considering the large Men's field.

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I quit. I'm sorry Kelly Clarkson. My love for you is apparently not strong enough to stomach the badness of this show.
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Milliken, 89, was Michigan's longest-serving first lady. The wife of former Gov. William Milliken was an environmentalist, women's rights activist, and advocate for survivors of domestic violence.
She died in November.
The Millikens' son, Bill Milliken Jr., said many people asked the family for a public forum to honor his mother's legacy.
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William Milliken served 14 years as governor, from 1969 to 1983. Helen Milliken was an outspoken advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment and women's rights. She was also an environmentalist, advocating for billboard control, the bottle deposit law and a restriction on oil drilling in the Pigeon River State Forest.
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When 6 p.m. rolls around today, San Luis Obispo Blues manager Chal Fanning will walk onto the field and take a breath.
The past few days have been a whirlwind of trying to fit together the pieces of a broken roster, as some athletes headed to San Luis Obispo for the summer are still in the final week of their Division I baseball seasons. Fanning has spent the better part of the past few weeks scheduling flights, working out agreements with host families and recruiting fill-in players.
But even with just seven to nine players of his original roster expected to head into town for this weekend's opening series at SLO Stadium, Fanning insists the Blues are ready and poised to make a run for the top of the new-look California Collegiate League this season.
"We're definitely going to have a target on our back, along with Santa Barbara," Fanning said. "But the target keeps everything sharp and crisp, and we have to make sure we show up every day to play."
At least for the first half of the season, showing up to play is going to be the Blues' biggest problem. Because the season starts on Memorial Day Weekend, the first time it's done so since 2008, getting players to San Luis Obispo has been a struggle, Fanning said. The Blues roster has morphed even before the season has started, and Fanning has reached out to many local players to fill in while others wrap up their collegiate seasons.
Cuesta College standout pitcher Lucas Martin will be one of the players leaving the Blues this summer, Fanning said. He finished fourth in the Western State Conference North Division in strikeouts with 73, while finishing third in wins with seven. He also tossed 109 innings and finished the season with a 3.22 ERA, earning all-Western State Conference first-team honors.
It's a loss, but Fanning is convinced he has enough talent on the mound this season to make up for it. In fact, he's calling this year's group of pitchers potentially the best the Blues have ever had.
"They all look really good on paper, in terms of what they're going to bring to the table," Fanning said.
Joining that group of pitchers will be the late addition of Cal Poly's Bryan Granger. The sophomore has gone 5-4 in 13 starts for Cal Poly this season. He's tossed 57 innings and boasts 28 strikeouts with a 5.37 ERA. The Blues are also hoping to have Matt Krook, a dual-threat, left-handed pitcher headed to Oregon, and Kyle Serrano, a Tennessee commit, on the mound, but both are expected to go in the first or second round of this year's MLB Draft, Fanning said.
As for the players who Fanning is expected to have in the dugout this weekend, those include: pitcher Drake Owenby (Tennessee), pitcher Eric Walbridge (Cal), catcher Daniel Garner (Mississippi State), catcher Alex Tucker (Nicholls State), first baseman Andrew Lee (Tennessee), outfielder Sean Ullrich (Missouri), outfielder Davis Aiken (Tennessee) and outfielder Kyle Johnson (Purdue).
That list also has Cuesta products Taylor Anderson (infielder) and Zack Domingues (infielder), who are both expected to participate for the full season. Arroyo Grande High's Kyle Brown and Zack Brown will help fill in for players during the season, and Cuesta's Andrew Nelson (3.01 ERA, 93 strikeouts) is expected to pitch this weekend.
The rest of the Blues' permanent roster will trickle in as the season goes on, but with the NCAA regionals starting next Friday, the Blues could be without players for more than half the season. If a player's team makes it to the College World Series, June 15-26, the Blues will be without those players for 27 games.
"I feel like our roster is a little bit like the Greyhound bus terminal, kind of a revolving door of players," Fanning said. "It's a challenge, but I just want to make sure I have nine bodies on the field, we stay healthy that way and we have enough pitching to get us through our first four games."
The Blues have expectations beyond winning their first series, though. The team is rolling off two-straight shares of the CCL title and a 1-2 record in the National Baseball Congress World Series last season.
But they'll have new competition this year, as the CCL has added three new teams — the Santa Paula Halos, the Bakersfield Sound and the Southern California Catch — and split its league into two divisions — North and South.
The new teams and divisions will bring a playoff system to the CCL, with the winner gaining a berth into the NBC World Series.
"The Blues and the CCL have continued to upgrade and improve," Fanning said. "It should make for a fun summer."
The SLO Rattlers will not field a team this season, Fanning said.


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History of Money opens April 26 at the Money Museum
Win a 2,000-year-old ancient coin at opening reception
Let's face it: Bartering is no picnic. Once humans realized a medium of exchange might be useful in figuring out how much an ax was worth compared to a cow, money has made the world go 'round.
Visitors to the American Numismatic Association's Money Museum can see the many different forms, shapes and uses money has taken in the past 10,000 years in a new exhibit, "History of Money," beginning April 26.
"The exhibit is designed to highlight the most notable innovations in money through history," said Douglas Mudd, Money Museum curator. "If you want to see what the earliest coins look like, we've got them. If you want to see the largest denomination U.S. banknote, we've got it."
"History of Money" poses the question: What qualifies as money? In essence, money is anything people will accept as payment in exchange for goods and services. From there, the exhibit traces money's earliest origins and highlights money's evolution across the ages - from cowrie shells to credit cards and beyond.
Visitors will see examples of the first coins ever created from ancient Lydia, as well as ancient coins from Greece, Rome, India and China.
Medieval money bears the hallmarks of its times. In Western and Central Europe, long-distance trade and a sophisticated monetized economy gave way to barter and feudalism of the Dark Ages. It's not surprising that medieval money is much rarer today than ancient money - there was less of it circulating.
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Sports Illustrated's Peter King, citing an unnamed source, says that New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, has signed a three-year extension that will amount to $27 million and will severely reduce his contract's hit on the Patriots salary cap space. The extension will take him through 2017. He will receive a $3 million signing bonus.
King gushes over Brady's unselfishness, and rightly so. Brady could have demanded much more money and he probably would have received it. By taking less, he is ensuring that the Patriots will have the ability to fill some holes on their roster (like cornerback) as Brady enters what will likely be his final playing years (he will be 40 at the end of the contract). As King reports, the Patriots will now be $15 million under the cap this year, possibly allowing them to re-sign receiver Wes Welker and maybe add a free agent like Mike Wallace.
Brady, of course, has the luxury of doing taking less money. He is the 28th highest-paid athlete in the world, and made $27 million last year, from his previous Patriots contract ($72 million over four years) signed in 2010, and his endorsement deals with UGGs and Under Armour.
But there may be a lesson here for younger quarterbacks, like the Baltimore Ravens Joe Flacco who is a free agent and is apparently seeking a contract in the range of $18-$20 million per year. Flacco, of course, has every right to chase the big money. He made $6.7 million last year, and he is certainly worth more than that. But if he is truly serious about winning on a consistent basis for the life of his next contract, taking a little less than the premium would undoubtedly help his team. The Ravens will have some holes to fill in their Super Bowl-winning team: Linebacker Ray Lewis is retiring. Safety Ed Reed is a free agent. And they are in a tight salary cap space situation. Ravens GM, Ozzie Newsome, and his assistant GM, Eric DeCosta, are very good at what they do, and maybe they can make a big long-term contract work. But if Flacco were to take a little less—which is maybe more in line with what he actually is worth—he'd make their jobs a lot easier. And maybe make the Ravens a better team.
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It sure helps when for 3+ years he was getting calls radioed to him constantly until spygate… Must be nice knowing the defensive schemes before they happen every game… Read the spygate book by Bryan O'Leary
Too bad that never happened (the radio thing).
Well, the deal is from 2015 season onwards and not effective for the next two seasons where he will still make $18 Million per year, which is a part of his 4 year, $72M that he signed 2 years ago.
So, asking Flacco to take a cut based on Brady's future salary is not right. He needs to cash in now and get his $18M-$20M salary!!!
Go Pats!!
who cares about pretty boy Brady!!! He's washed up!! He hasn't gone to a Superbowl in how long now? He isn't as good as you all think! Flacco is much better and well worth the money! He's arrogant, disrespectful, rude, thinks his s**t don't stink!! He's a sore loser and poor sport!! But you all think he's great because he took less money, idiots!
what about February 2012?
He could never make it on another team, no one else cheats
He cold never make it anywhere else, no one wants a cheater!
There is a difference here, Flacco is still in the first half of his career and probably still hasn't reached his best playing days. Brady when this contract extension kicks in will be at the potential end of his career. Brady has already made big money and at this point. This extension is just offering him long term job security still in the mulit-million dollar range.
all good points but Brady could have held out for more but wanted to stay with the Pats. Go Pats!


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Well I am certainly late to this party, but what a party it is: wine flavored popcorn.
A New York City popcorn company — Populence (the web site is under maintenance, so if it doesn't work, don't pop your cork) – teamed with Kim Crawford, a winery out of New Zealand to develop two popcorn flavors: Pinot Noir Chocolate Drizzle and Sauvignon Blanc Kettle.
And what should you pair with the popcorn? Wine! Kim Crawford Marlborough Pinot Noir 2011 and Kim Crawford Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012.
While fruit of the vine flavors popcorn, the vegan, gluten-free popcorn has no alcohol content.
And who came up with this idea? A woman, of course! Maggie Paulus, originally from Florida, founded Populence in NYC in 2011. It's all over Facebook and Twitter @Populence. Jimmy Kimmel weighed in @LateNightJimmy, and I learned about it from my October issue of InStyle magazine.
Paulus was educated at the Fashion Institute of Technology, but turned to dressing up popcorn with seasonal favorites that include caramel, raspberry, chocolate, cheddar and other flavors. The store is a hit, and so are the wine flavors. You can get a gallon of popcorn for $35 on the website and for $28 at the NYC retail store.
And just in case you prefer other packaged foods, Foodbeast suggests steak-flavored Ruffles or Pepperidge Farm's goldfish-flavored Mac and cheese. Or you can read about 200 other articles about foods that taste like other foods. Reminds me of the old "tastes like chicken" (Wikipedia dedicated a page to the phrase) — what some folks say about frogs' legs. Hmm.
ABC News food blogger Lauren Effron noted that this isn't the first snack to have some adult beverage flavor. Pub-Corn, out of Kansas City, manufactures non-alcoholic beer and cocktail-flavored popcorn. Cary Silverman, of the University of Missouri, invented Pub-Corn in 2008. Current flavors include pina colada, beer and Irish creme. It is $3.49 per bag.
I think I need some popcorn!
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An old pulpwood hauler from Slocum drove slowly into town pulling a battered, aged wooden trailer with an equally old, tired mule in it. The old man parked his rig in front of a bar and climbed out of the truck, unloaded his mule and tied the animal to the side of his truck.
Before he headed into the bar he stood there, brushing some of the sawdust from his face and clothes. About that time a young biker who had driven up from Houston stepped out of the bar with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a .40 caliber Glock in the other.
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The old man looked up at the young biker and said, "No, I never did dance... never really wanted to."
A crowd began to gather as the biker grinned and said, "Well, you old fool, you're gonna dance now," and started shooting at the old man's feet.
The old pulpwood hauler, not wanting to get a toe blown off, started hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet. Everybody was laughing fit to be tied.
When his last bullet had been fired, the young biker, still laughing, stuck the Glock in his belt and turned around to go back into the bar.
The old man turned to his mule, pulled out a double-barreled shotgun, and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the East Texas air.
Everyone in the crowd stopped laughing immediately.
The young biker heard the sounds, too, and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening.
As the crowd watched, the young biker stared at the old pulpwood hauler and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.
The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old man's hands, as he quietly said, "Son, have you ever kissed a mule's behind?"
The young biker swallowed hard and said, "No sir..... but, I've always wanted to."
There are a few lessons worth gleaning for us all from this story. Never be arrogant. Don't waste ammunition. Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are. Always, always make sure you know who has the power. And, don't mess with old men; they didn't get old by being stupid.
Behind the Pine Curtains is a series of anedotes compiled and edited by Herald-Press Publisher Gary Connor.


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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey knew that the first black player in Major League Baseball was going to go through hell.
That's why the cigar-chomping, Bible-thumping Rickey set out to find a man who would keep believing -- when facing bitter, scathing racial hatred -- that the powers of heaven were on his side. As baseball writers have often noted, Rickey needed someone who could turn the other cheek, as well as turn a double play.
In writer-director Brian Helgeland's new movie, "42," Jackie Robinson states the challenge in blunt terms.
"You want a man," Robinson asks, "who doesn't have the guts to fight back?"
Rickey replies: "I want a man who has the guts not to fight back."
The fit was perfect. In Helgeland's script, Rickey offers this churchy equation: "Robinson's a Methodist. I'm a Methodist. God's a Methodist. We can't go wrong."
That's the stuff of movies, all right, but this kind of faith reference remains somewhat unusual in a Hollywood blockbuster, acknowledged Eric Metaxas, who is best known for writing the global best-seller "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy." The problem, he said, is that "42" omitted many other details that would have demonstrated that faith was crucial to the whole story.
There's no doubt that Robinson was a remarkable man, argues Metaxas, in his new "Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness." But Robinson was also a remarkably courageous and truly devout Christian man. Thus, he included Robinson's story in a book that explores the faith commitments of George Washington, William Wilberforce, Eric Liddell, Pope John Paul II, Chuck Colson and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
In the classic "Chariots of Fire," which won the Oscar for Best Picture, the Olympic runner and future missionary Liddell is repeatedly shown preaching, parsing Scripture and discussing the beliefs that led to his pivotal decision not to run in Sunday races at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. "Try to imagine that movie without those scenes," noted Metaxas, in a telephone interview.
The reason, quite literally, that Rickey "chose Jackie Robinson was his strong moral character and his Christian faith," said Metaxas.
"There were other great black players out there. But could they have taken the stand that Jackie took? That first meeting is the moment. That scene is the heart of this story and Jesus is right there in the middle of it."
It would have been wonderful if "42" had also noted the strong faith of Robinson's mother, Mallie. Then there was a crucial Methodist mentor named Karl Downs who taught the great ballplayer that obeying the command to "resist not evil" was not cowardly, but heroic, said Metaxas.
But movies are movies and, often, what matters the most are the visual images. Thus, it's crucial that Helgeland didn't include scenes in which Robinson is shown doing what he repeatedly said that he did day after day in those tense early years in Major League Baseball -- getting down on his knees, praying for strength and patience.
"I'm not saying that this is a horrible movie," Metaxas said. "Yes, Robinson is shown closing his eyes for 0.87 seconds before he runs out onto the field and he's hit by the occasional inspirational ray of sunlight. ... But why are people afraid of showing a true American hero getting down on his knees and praying? What's so scary about that?
"It's like people think that prayer is a sign of weakness. Well, getting down on his knees didn't make Jackie Robinson weak. That's what helped make him strong."
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- To Marinate: Combine honey, brandy and lemon juice in a nonporous glass dish or bowl. Mix together and add pineapple; coat well with marinade mixture. Cover dish and marinate in refrigerator for 1 hour.
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My family loved this pineapple. I used canned pineapple slices and substituted 1 teaspoon of Mexican vanilla for the brandy. It was great with grilled chicken and grilled corn on the cob. My son and I forked for the last slice. Will definitely grill again.
There's nothing quite like grilled pineapple and this was no exception! I didn't have cherry brandy on hand, so I subbed some Jack Daniel's Honey Whiskey instead. Instead of cutting it into rings I cut the pineapple into four sections and let it marinate for a few hours. I skewered it and topped it with a little turbinado sugar before grilling. This was fabulous with a scoop of vanilla ice cream - a very nice treat and a great way to end a meal!
I also used vanilla for the cherry brandy. It was an amazing dessert!
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The Fairfield 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars were down but far from out following a heartbreaking loss to Norwalk last week in the opening game of the District Two tournament.
C.J Savella, Tom Gagne and starting pitcher Dan Schmedlin each had three hits Tuesday as Fairfield stayed alive with a 7-3 victory at McMahon High School.
In the earlier meeting, Norwalk rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh to defeat Fairfield, 6-4. Since then, the Fairfielders have reeled off three straight wins out of the loser's bracket, including Tuesday's victory that set up a winner-take-all meeting between the teams on Wednesday at McMahon (5:30 p.m.).
"We told our guys, we've been telling them all year, play good defense, be smart, be aggressive at the plate," Fairfield coach Bill Moeder said. "Whoever the pitcher is, we're going to be able to hit him. It's just a matter of getting good pitches and hitting in proper courts."
Tommy Luckner set an early tone by lining a single into left field to lead off the top of the first and scored on Gagne's RBI single.
Fairfield had productive at-bats throughout Tuesday's game, banging out 13 hits, including eight against Norwalk starter Nate Cutting, who was knocked out after just 2 1/3 innings.
"From what I saw, (Fairfield) got better pitching, they got much better defense and they hit the ball better," Norwalk coach Tim Hefferan said. "They ran the bases better. I'm not being negative toward my team, it just was a bad night. There wasn't much we did well. When you do all those things wrong, or poorly, you're going to have a hard time winning."
Fairfield tacked on three runs in the second, building a 4-0 lead on Billy Moeder's two-run single and Savella's RBI single.
"We came into this game confident," the elder Moeder said. "The bottom line is, we beat these guys last year (in the 13-year-old tournament), so we knew we could beat them. I told the guys before the game, 'We're district champs, we have the title, we're defending champs, let's go out and play like it.'"
Schmedlin improved to 2-0 in the tournament, allowing three runs and five hits over 4 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and three walks. He also earned a win in relief against Weston.
Luckner, who went the distance in the previous game against Norwalk, tossed the final 2 2/3 innings, allowing no hits to record the save.
Each time Norwalk tried to rally, Fairfield responded. After Norwalk got on the board in the bottom of the third, Savella doubled in the fourth and scored on Gagne's single to make it 5-1.
Schmedlin appeared to tire in the fifth, walking two batters and hitting another to load the bases. Norwalk closed within 5-3 on Paul Salata's run-scoring groundout and an error.
Based on the first game between the team, Norwalk might have thought another late-game rally was in the offing,but Fairfield put away the contest with two runs in the top of the sixth.
The run first scored on an error and the second came home on Kyle Cavali's perfectly executed safety squeeze. It was Cavali's second sacrifice in the game, with his first helping to set up the three-run second inning.
"You can't make five or six or seven bad plays in a game, and that's what we did," Hefferan said. "It's one game, forget about it. Go home, get a good night sleep and come back and play tomorrow."
Norwalk finished with only five hits, collecting one in each of the first five innings.
"We did a good job of keeping them off balance," Moeder added. "With a lot of these big guys (for Norwalk), you might think we wouldn't have much of a chance. My catcher (Cavali) is smart. My pitchers are smart. They've been taught to throw the off-speed pitch, so we pick our off-speed pitches, makes the fastball faster.
If they're swinging at curvevballs, we're in good shape, and that's what were trying to do. I tell them to throw it slow, slower and slower."
The winner of Wednesday's game advances to the state tournament, which begins July 15 in Waterford.
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C.J. Savella, Tom Gagne and starting pitcher Dan Schmedlin each contributed three hits for Fairfield, which will face Norwalk again on Wednesday at McMahon (5:30 p.m.)
The Fairfield 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars were down but far from out following a heartbreaking loss to Norwalk last week in the opening game of the District Two tournament.
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Considering they've been around for less than five years, electro glam duo Blood on the Dance Floor (alias Dahvie Vanity & Jayy Von Monroe) have released a staggering amount of material, including five albums – most of which were self-released by the band – and an avalanche of hit singles, with one of the fastest-growing fanbases I've seen for an indie outfit this year. Their latest album Evolution came out this summer with a strong chart performance and they've already put out two more releases since then – the first being three-song bonus package Clubbed to Death (which you can download for free on the band's Facebook page), and now the nine-track EP Anthem of the Outcast. Between all that business, they've also kicked off an extensive "Scene is Dead" North American tour and are heading across the Atlantic for the UK Vans Warped Tour. I've also heard the band's tracks popping up in some horror-friendly media lately (including an episode of Silverwood on Black Box TV, directed by FEARnet's very own Drew Daywalt), and I'd heard their latest venture is creatively darker than usual, so I knew I had to investigate this phenomenon further.
"The songs on [Anthem] come from self experiences and dark chapters of our past lives," says band founder Dahvie Vanity, who hopes that listeners will find strength through the music to endure their own difficult trials. "Ultimately we wanted to create an EP that will remove ailments and suffering from the people we love and support." To achieve this, the band took a much more organic approach than their previous material, which had up to this point been hard and heavy electro with a dirty bump-and-grind "shock pop" vibe. The departure taken in Anthem is shocking in a different way, by revealing an intimacy and melodic sensibility that I wasn't expecting. Guitars and string arrangements come to the forefront for the first time, and the band's sexed-up vocal aggression is reeled back in favor of intense but melodically solid singing, revealing a much deeper creative toolbox than I'd expected.
The moody intro "The Calling" is the first hint that the band has dialed down their flamboyant approach in favor of a more haunting atmosphere, which I'd first begun to notice on Evolution with acoustic versions of songs like "Frankenstein & the Bride." The title track appears here in the full and radio-edit versions, and features some of the best punk-influenced guitar and anthemic vocals on the EP, but the real standouts are the darkly melancholy acoustic ballad "Don't Want to Be Like You" (which you can hear in the clip below), the clean and punchy metalcore entry "The Comeback" and the eerie, gypsy-flavored "Worlds Away." The closest this release comes to the band's earlier sound is in "Hell on Heels (Givin' in to Sin)" and a standard electro-house remix of "Unforgiven" from Evolution, which doesn't really do much to enhance the original. But those small missteps aside, Anthem is a solid EP overall, and hints at an interesting sea change for the band's next full-length project... and strangely enough, I feel more "evolution" happening on this EP than in the actual album by that name. Given their quick turnaround rate in the studio, we shouldn't have to wait long to find out if they choose to continue down this more interesting path; I've got my fingers crossed that they will.
The band is doing the UK Vans Warped Tour later this month and will pick up their North American tour again through mid-December, so be sure to drop by the band's official site to see if you're on their flight path. But before you go, check out the vid for Don't Want To Be Like You," which the band describes as a big departure from their previous promos, shot in seven different cities over a one-week period.


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Some came to hear about the president's views on Medicare, Social Security, or women's healthcare.
Some merely wished to see a sitting president in the flesh.
But all braved a steady downpour on Wednesday to see the President Barack Obama speak at Kent State University.
Obama came on stage shortly after 5:30 p.m. "Hello Kent State! Go Flashes!" he called to the roaring crowd.
His remarks began by touching on themes of opportunity and success for the middle class.
"This country succeeds when the middle class is growing, when there are ladders of opportunity for all people," he said. "We all believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country. Everybody's got to work hard."
The president also told the audience that U.S jobs and the positioning of the U.S. economy in the global economy is at stake in the Nov. 6 election.
"I want to make sure we're providing tax breaks for companies right here in America," Obama said.
While the president campaigned in Kent — he spent the morning at Bowling Green State University — his opponent, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, wrapped up a third day of traveling across Ohio with a stop in Bedford Heights near Cleveland.
Traditionally a swing state, Ohio could once again play a pivotal role in the election and as a result has drawn the attention of the candidates with Election Day just 41 days away.
A Washington Post poll published Tuesday shows Obama has a lead in the Buckeye state over Romney. Obama is leading Romney in Ohio by 52 percent to 44 percent, according to the Post.
As she stood in the rain early Wednesday afternoon, Carol Valeri, a retiree from Ravenna, said she hoped to hear Obama talk about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
"There has to be some changes in Social Security, but not like what Mitt Romney wants to do," she said. "I'd like him to be more specific about what he would cut and how he would do that."
But it was all about women's health care for retiree, Marsha Schumacher, of Alliance.
"I want to hear him talk about what his policies, how they will affect women. … Women making their own decisions about their own medical needs is very important. I think President Obama will ensure women have the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies. I'd like to hear him talk about that today."
At the other end of the spectrum was students just hoping to get a look at the president.
"I never met a president before. I'm sick, my nose is running, my throat hurts. Once I get in there, it will be worth it, but right now I just don't feel good,"said Kent student Kendra Landfair, who waited in line in the rain.
Landfair hoped to hear what the president had to say about tuition, as did fellow Kent student Leah Kushmaul.
"I want to hear him talk about the financial aid situation because I know Romney's big on decreasing giving financial aid," she said. "And I don't think that's a good idea."
A poll published by the Plain Dealer earlier this week also showed Obama leading Romney.
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At Kent State's Memorial and Convocation Center -- commonly called the MACC -- the president's visit on Wednesday drew huge crowds despite lousy weather.
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Thousands of supporters turned out Monday to get a ticket for the event. While local officials fretted over the potential cost of the presidential visit.
A liberal arts college, Kent State is the second largest public university in Ohio with a total 42,513 students enrolled for classes this fall. Kent is home to a largely Democratic voter base.


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This has been a rough year for all of the players in the PC sector: plagued by a combination of weak IT spending, tablet cannibalization, some mixed opinions for Windows 8 and various other factors, PC sales have stumbled badly, falling about 8% year-over-year in the third quarter. The trend has hurt all of the players in the PC food chain, including not just Dell and HP, but also Microsoft, Intel, the disk-drive companies and others. And some of the companies are showing signs of strain: I'd note that in just the last few weeks, HP has just tried to shift attention away from its faltering PC business by suggesting there was fraud involved in its Autonomy acquisition; Microsoft pushed out Windows chief Steve Sinofsky; and Intel announced the unexpected retirement of Paul Otellini without naming a successor. Maybe a coincidence. Or maybe a reflection of the tumultuous times in the PC business.
Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair earlier this week took a look at the PC sector and came away convinced that the troubles could get deeper still. He notes, for instance, that Windows 8 devices appear to be sees "only modest sales out of the gate," below expectations at retail. "We realize its early still, but the initial indications on sell through point to disappointment for Q4," he writes in a research note. " Could Q1 turn the trend? We aren't hopeful and so we believe the question for investors is how much worse can it get for the PC industry from here?"
Blair's view is that given signals from the supply chain and the state of end demand, another down leg for the PC industry is likely in the near term. He offers three reasons for his gloomy prognosis for the sector:
Blair thinks revenue and EPS estimates are too high for 2013 for PC food chain players in many cases. He notes, for instance, that some students are choosing iPads instead of notebooks, with an increasing selection of iPad keyboards available from companies like Belkin, Zagg and Logitech.
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Gwinnett County police Cpl. Jake Smith said the boy was hit by gunfire apparently intended for someone else shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
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In addition, 500 dam sites will also be assessed for safety through Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) Watershed Rehabilitation Program. The projects were identified based on recent rehabilitation investments and the potential risks to life and property if a dam failure occurred. Overall, an estimated 250,000 people will benefit as a result of improved flood protection made possible by these rehabilitated dams.
But missing from the list was any sign of repair to California dams, despite drought conditions and much needed dam repairs. According to experts in the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the Anderson Reservoir is not seismically safe, and a 6.6-magnitude earthquake could crumble it, sending 29 billion gallons of water downstream.
The largest funding went to Arizona, for the Williams-Chandler area, with financial assistance at $34,000,000 and $521,100 for technical assistance.
Despite California missing from the list, the investment is encouraging.
"This investment will protect people and property from floods, help keep our water clean, and ensure that critical structures continue to provide benefits for future generations," NRCS Chief Jason Weller said. "Families, businesses and our agriculture economy
depend on responsible management of dams and watersheds, and we are continuing to provide that support to these communities."
A number of the projects to be funded are in Oklahoma and Weller noted that the state had the first full watershed plan and structure completed by USDA on private lands in the 1940s. The 2014 Farm Bill, signed into law by President Obama earlier this year, increased the typical annual investment in watershed rehabilitation by almost 21 fold, recognizing the critical role of these structures in flood management, water supply, and agricultural productivity. In mid-July the president discussed the importance of infrastructure to job creation and commerce, noting that "Funding infrastructure projects helps our families, it fuels our economy, and it better positions America for the future."
From the 1940s through the 1970s, local communities using NRCS assistance constructed more than 11,800 dams in 47 states. These watershed management projects provide an estimated $2.2 billion in annual benefits in reduced flooding and erosion damages, and improved recreation, water supplies and wildlife habitat for an estimated 47 million Americans.
Weller said that funding provided through the July 18 announcement will provide rehabilitation assistance for 150 dams in 26 states. Funds will be used for planning, design or construction. Also, 500 dam sites will be assessed for safety through NRCS' Watershed Rehabilitation Program. For a complete list of the projects, please visit the FY 2014 Watershed Rehabilitation Projects Funding Table page. The projects were identified based on recent rehabilitation investments and the potential risks to life and property if a dam failure occurred. Overall, an estimated 250 thousand people will benefit as a result of improved flood protection made possible by these rehabilitated dams.
For example, Watershed Dam No. 62 in the Upper Black Bear Creek Watershed of Noble County, OK, will be included in a USDAfunded rehabilitation partnership project. Currently awaiting rehabilitation design, the dam provides protection against flooding to about 550 Oklahomans who live and work downstream. Additionally, the dam protects seven county roads, one state highway, two U.S. highways and an interstate highway that together support about 16,200 vehicles daily. Among other critical infrastructure, the dam also protects power lines and railroad tracks. The rehabilitation project is expected to provide about $7.5 million in benefits including flood damage reduction, water supply and recreational benefits.
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Sure, there are still 234 days until the Arizona State Sun Devils kickoff their 2013 football season against the Sacramento State Hornets in Tempe, but that hasn't stopped some from making very early predictions.
We're talking about Ted Miller, who does a fantastic job covering the Pac-12 for ESPN.com. Miller unveiled a piece earlier this week full of 2013 projections that paints a possibly rosy picture for head coach Todd Graham's team.
Oregon will play Arizona State in Pac-12 title game: The Sun Devils will emerge from a pack that includes the Trojans and UCLA to win the South.
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D.E. Cipoletti, A.F. Bower, and P.E. Krajewski, "A microstructure based model of the deformation mechanisms and flow stress during elevated temperature straining of a magnesium alloy," Scripta Materialia, 64, pp. 931-934, (2011).
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Thoughts From Airport Hell
One final thing. I didn't see what Matt Hackett did to supposedly offend the
Milwaukee fans, but they were giving it to him pretty good in games six and seven, so it was probably just a natural reaction.
P.S.: if anyone in charge at O'Hare is reading this would you please turn on the damn A/C in Terminal One/Concourse B down at Gate 2 where those little fans you put out just aren't cutting it.
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I hate O'Hare!! You have my sincere sympathy. Great article over at the Press. Your efforts to be there (at the game) in person are appreciated. I love reading about the win and appreciate all the pictures from all the contributors.
- May 11, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- IanNFisher12 said...
I have two words for you sir, Southwest Airlines. But I appreciate your coverage of our great hockey team and the beauty that is Houston hockey.
- May 11, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- WRT - Wild Road Tripper said...
With all the cheap fares to/from Milwaukee, why didn't you fly directly into MKE? Flying into O'Hare is nuts, especially on either of the airport's two 'anchor hub' carriers (American and United/Continental).
- May 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- John Royal said...
Houston to Chicago was cheaper than Houston to Milwaukee, even factoring in the rental car. And there were more flight options, espcially going on short notice. And the problem wasn't so much with O'Hare, there were problems with the actual airplanes, though O'Hare is an awful place to be stuck in, and I've been stuck in a lot of airports.
And as a tall person, I despise and hate the concept of Southwest Airlines and that whole cattle car concept.
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When the water receded after Hurricane Milo of 2030, there was a foot of sand covering the famous bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage occurred not from the hurricane's 175-mph winds, but from the 24-foot storm surge that overwhelmed the low-lying city. In South Beach, the old art-deco buildings were swept off their foundations. Mansions on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass doorknobs. A 17-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key, forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Biscayne Bay. Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than 800 people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale; 13 people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape the city after the news spread – falsely, it turned out – that one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant 24 miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and sent a radioactive cloud over the city.
Rising Seas: A City-by-City Forecast
The president, of course, said Miami would be back, that the hurricane did not kill the city, and that Americans did not give up. But it was clear to those not fooling themselves that this storm was the beginning of the end. With sea levels more than a foot higher than they'd been at the dawn of the century, South Florida was wet, vulnerable and bankrupt. Attempts had been made to armor the coastline, to build sea walls and elevate buildings, but it was a futile undertaking. The coastline from Miami Beach up to Jupiter had been a little more than a series of rugged limestone crags since the mid-2020s, when the state, unable to lay out $100 million every few years to pump in fresh sand, had given up trying to save South Florida's world-famous beaches. In that past decade, tourist visits had plummeted by 40 percent, even after the Florida legislature agreed to allow casino gambling in a desperate attempt to raise revenue for storm protection. The city of Homestead, in southern Miami-Dade County, which had been flattened by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, had to be completely abandoned. Thousands of tract homes were bulldozed because they were a public health hazard. In the parts of the county that were still inhabitable, only the wealthiest could afford to insure their homes. Mortgages were nearly impossible to get, mostly because banks didn't believe the homes would be there in 30 years. At high tide, many roads were impassable, even for the most modern semiaquatic vehicles.
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But Hurricane Milo was unexpectedly devastating. Because sea-level rise had already pushed the water table so high, it took weeks for the storm waters to recede. Salt water corroded underground wiring, leaving parts of the city dark for months. Drinking-water wells were ruined. Interstate 95 was clogged with cars and trucks stuffed with animals and personal belongings, as hundreds of thousands of people fled north to Orlando, the highest ground in central Florida. Developers drew up plans for new buildings on stilts, but few were built. A new flexible carbon-fiber bridge was proposed to link Miami Beach with the mainland, but the bankrupt city couldn't secure financing and the project fell apart. The skyscrapers that had gone up during the Obama years were gradually abandoned and used as staging grounds for drug runners and exotic-animal traffickers. A crocodile nested in the ruins of the Pérez Art Museum.
And still, the waters kept rising, nearly a foot each decade. By the latter end of the 21st century, Miami became something else entirely: a popular snorkeling spot where people could swim with sharks and sea turtles and explore the wreckage of a great American city.
Even more than Silicon Valley, Miami embodies the central technological myth of our time – that nature can not only be tamed but made irrelevant. Miami was a mosquito-and-crocodile-filled swampland for thousands of years, virtually uninhabited until the late 1800s. Then developers arrived, canals were dug, swamps were drained, and a city emerged that was unlike any other place on the planet, an edge-of-the-world, air-conditioned dreamland of sunshine and beaches and drugs and money; Jan Nijman, the former director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Miami, called 20th-century Miami "a citadel of fantastical consumption." Floods would come and go and hurricanes might blow through, but the city would survive, if only because no one could imagine a force more powerful than human ingenuity. That defiance of nature – the sense that the rules don't apply here – gave the city its great energy. But it is also what will cause its demise.
You would never know it from looking at Miami today. Rivers of money are flowing in from Latin America, Europe and beyond, new upscale shopping malls are opening, and the skyline is crowded with construction cranes. But the unavoidable truth is that sea levels are rising and Miami is on its way to becoming an American Atlantis. It may be another century before the city is completely underwater (though some more-pessimistic scientists predict it could be much sooner), but life in the vibrant metropolis of 5.5 million people will begin to dissolve much quicker, most likely within a few decades. The rising waters will destroy Miami slowly, by seeping into wiring, roads, building foundations and drinking-water supplies – and quickly, by increasing the destructive power of hurricanes. "Miami, as we know it today, is doomed," says Harold Wanless, the chairman of the department of geological sciences at the University of Miami. "It's not a question of if. It's a question of when."
The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming
Sea-level rise is not a hypothetical disaster. It is a physical fact of life on a warming planet, the basic dynamics of which even a child can understand: Heat melts ice. Since the 1920s, the global average sea level has risen about nine inches, mostly from the thermal expansion of the ocean water. But thanks to our 200-year-long fossil-fuel binge, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are starting to melt rapidly now, causing the rate of sea-level rise to grow exponentially. The latest research, including an assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suggests that sea level could rise more than six feet by the end of the century. James Hansen, the godfather of global-warming science, has argued that it could increase as high as 16 feet by then – and Wanless believes that it could continue rising a foot each decade after that. "With six feet of sea-level rise, South Florida is toast," says Tom Gustafson, a former Florida speaker of the House and a climate-change-policy advocate. Even if we cut carbon pollution overnight, it won't save us. Ohio State glaciologist Jason Box has said he believes we already have 70 feet of sea-level rise baked into the system.
Of course, South Florida is not the only place that will be devastated by sea-level rise. London, Boston, New York and Shanghai are all vulnerable, as are low-lying underdeveloped nations like Bangladesh. But South Florida is uniquely screwed, in part because about 75 percent of the 5.5 million people in South Florida live along the coast. And unlike many cities, where the wealth congregates in the hills, southern Florida's most valuable real estate is right on the water. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development lists Miami as the number-one most vulnerable city worldwide in terms of property damage, with more than $416 billion in assets at risk to storm-related flooding and sea-level rise.
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