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"I'm out here playing for one million dollars. Never trust me.
– Russell Hantz, Survivor: Samoa
You knew the second that Laura Morett started talking about how much she trusted Aras, she was in trouble. "Aras is someone that I completely, explicitly trust in this game," she said. I don't think I felt that way about anybody, ever, in my 39 days of Survivor – and I honestly doubted Laura M. felt so certain about Aras, either. More likely, she was trying to convince herself that everything was hunky dory. Deep down, she knew she was in danger.
The episode started at Tadhana, where Vytas was confronting trust issues of his own. Caleb shocked everyone with his vote flip: Vytas didn't trust the guy anymore, but he did need to woo him back to the dwindling 5 Guys alliance – which was down to just three guys. It was almost embarrassing, the way the once-Machiavellian Vytas extolled the virtues of Caleb's perfectly exfoliated skin. Caleb basked in the praise – but did he believe it?
Lucky for Vytas, Tadhana actually managed to win a challenge. They couldn't beat the Returnees in jousting or puzzle-solving, but they could win a slip-and-slide/ring toss. You got the sense that the producers were starting to feel sorry for the hapless newbies, and that apple-bobbing and Pin the Tail on the Donkey were next on the docket.
For the first time, the Returnees had to prepare for Tribal. But it was a drama-free afternoon. The majority alliance had locked up the votes, and everyone assumed they were secure. Tribe outsider/nuisance Laura Boneham was the presumed target.
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Laura B. should have just stayed quiet and hoped that somebody would see her for what she is – an unthreatening floater to drag to the end. With her transparent rumormongering, Laura B. risked incurring the ire of the entire tribe.
Fortunately for her, Aras realized that keeping her, without family or allies, was a better decision than booting her. "Easy votes are often the dumbest votes in this game," he said. Aras realized that the best allies are the ones without connections; if they could eliminate Brad Culpepper on Redemption Island, Monica would be a much more secure member of their alliance. And that wasn't likely to be something that Laura B. could accomplish.
But what about puzzle queen Laura M.? Not only did she have a good chance of taking out Culpepper, but she was a strategic threat who already had bonds on her tribe with Kat and Monica. Her daughter, Ciera, was still kicking on Tadhana. Eliminating Laura M. kept the benign Laura B. in the game and also eliminated a very real threat.
Aras wins the Fishy this week for masterminding the blind side.
As clever as Aras was, I also want to give Tyson credit for not coming up with the crafty idea. In both his past seasons Tyson ruined his game by overthinking his votes. Rather than take out the obvious person, he wanted to settle scores (against Brendan in Survivor:Tocantins) or build side alliances (with Russell in Heroes vs. Villains). The results were catastrophic.
This time around, Tyson stayed the course; he proposed Laura B. and let his allies overthink their plans. As Aras himself admitted, "People on my tribe know that I'm playing the game. The more that I try to manipulate the vote, the more danger I put myself in." Tyson avoided that stigma while reaping its benefits.
That's true for now. But will he move against Aras next episode?


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5 Reasons Pro Wrestlers are the Best Actors in the World
Keep Acting, Even After Being Fired!
Keeping up the kayfabe illusion with fans takes multiple layers of fiction and reality, Inception-style. So you get the practice known as a "worked shoot." This is when it appears that the wrestler has broken out of the script and everyone acts like he's broken the sacred code of kayfabe, when in reality even that was scripted. So you wind up with some truly ridiculous, convoluted stories like this one:
At the height of its popularity, there were several competing wrestling organizations. A wrestler named Brian Pillman wanted to get away from his employers at WCW. But at the time, they were in a huge ratings war with WWE and ECW -- those were the three powerhouses of wrestling. The point being, the WCW wasn't about to let him go.
That's Pillman, and I will provide no context for that picture.
In 1996, it was decided that they were going to stage a fake firing of his character. That is, they were going to pretend fire the character played by a performer who really wanted to be fired.
The story goes that Pillman suggested that the firing would be more believable to the public if they released an actual termination document. General Manager Eric Bischoff agreed and set it up, faxing him the paperwork, signed by all the right people. Pillman signed it, and ... that was that. He was out of his contract, for real. The document was legal and U.S. law actually has very few exceptions for documents executed as part of a pro wrestling storyline.
The next day, he was working for the competing ECW, and later the WWE. He had broken kayfabe, but did it by extending the storyline into real life. And his (former) employer couldn't call him on it, because that would be breaking kayfabe.
The face of one cruel, ruthless, badass ... businessman?
Too add another layer of possible bullshit, Bischoff told interviewers (and said in his own biography) that the whole thing was planned. He says the idea was that he would leave for ECW, develop his character further, and then later return to WCW, but that he just never returned to finish out the agreed upon plan. Is that true? We'll never know. That's how they know they did it right.
Someone Dies in the Ring? Stay in Fucking Character!
In an early 1950s tag team bout, a wrestler named Ella Waldek performed in a match in which another young woman died. There are conflicting stories about what took place before she collapsed, but the majority of reports showed that she wasn't injured from the match.
But that didn't stop police from arresting the other three wrestlers involved in the performance. In fact, they were almost charged with attempted manslaughter, but were eventually released.
That's Ella in black "climbing a mountain of ass."
When news got out about the young woman's death, attendance started to pick up because people wanted to come and see the wrestler who killed someone in the ring. For years after the incident, Ella Waldek had to endure the wrath of wrestling fans, yelling, "Murderer!"
This is what we do with murderers around these parts!
And Ella just had to take it because ... well, kayfabe. She couldn't stop and address the fans, explaining that before the girl's death, Ella had a conversation with her backstage and that the girl complained of a terrible headache. She told the girl she should let the promoter know, but she refused. No, she couldn't say any of that, because then she'd be telling the audience that the feud they had in the ring wasn't real. She'd be admitting that outside the ring, the good guy and bad guy wrestlers all hang out like normal people, and are actually pretty good friends. No, if she wanted a career in that industry, she just had to keep her mouth shut and, in the court of public opinion, be declared guilty of murder. And that's exactly what she did.
Because that's wrestling, bitches.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
Summerville-area athletes had a strong showing during the Ray Guy Prokicker.com kicking camp held at Ashley Ridge last month.
Rising Fort Dorchester senior James Mackey was named the top punting prospect from the camp. Mackey averaged 40.43 yards per punt during his workouts. His average hang time was 3.73 seconds and his best hang time was 3.96 seconds.
Those marks were good enough to earn the Patriot athlete the No. 10 spot nationally in the Prokicker.com rankings for punters in the Class of 2015. Since then he has been bumped down to the No. 11 spot.
Mackey was a member of the Fort Dorchester varsity team last season. While Corey Rawlings did most of the punting for the team, Mackey did see some snaps. Patriot coaches are expecting his role to be much larger next season.
James did a great job for us this spring, Fort Dorchester coach Steve LaPrad said. Like Corey, he is athletic so if a snap is off he can handle it and we feel good about his leg.
Ashley Ridge had two players receive recognition during the camp.
Rising senior Matt Gable hit a 50-yard field goal at the camp to be named the camps Long Distance Field Goal Winner.
Matt is a returning starter for us and will probably handle most of the kicking duties next season, Ashley Ridge coach Kenny Walker said. He has done a lot of work in the weight room and has a stronger leg than he did last year. He is a valuable weapon for us and hopefully he will keep improving and start putting kickoffs into the end zone.
Rising junior Justin Peterson was named the Most Accurate Long Snapper for the camp.
His average snap time was .91 seconds and his best snap time was 0.81 seconds. Only one punter, Tanner Sineath, had a better performance at the camp.
Peterson is currently ranked 14th among long snappers for the Class of 2016.
Justin has really worked hard on his skills the last couple of years, Walker said. He handled the snaps for a lot of PATs last year and will likely do more next season. He has been working with Will Fitchett and really improving.
The 6-4, 205-pound lineman also plays tight end for the Swamp Foxes.
Summerville rising junior Hundley McCurry had the Fastest Single Snap for the camp with a .77 mark. He is also a returning varsity letterman.
Hundley did a real good job for us as a long snapper and defensive lineman, Summerville coach John McKissick said. We expect him to be valuable again next season and I think he is good enough to play at the next level.
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Stetson was led by a career night from redshirt-freshman Brian Pegg in an 88-75 loss to Jacksonville on Thursday. The forward scored 18 points and grabbed 15 rebounds for the first double-double by a Hatter this season, and the first 15-board performance for a Stetson player in nearly five years. Pegg leads the Atlantic Sun during league play with 9.8 rebounds per game.
North Florida lost its second straight game on Thursday, falling to Florida Gulf Coast 79-75 at home. The Ospreys are 9-9 overall and 3-2 in conference action. UNF has wins over Kennesaw State, Mercer, and Lipscomb, and the Ospreys' second loss in league play came at the hands of Northern Kentucky.
The Ospreys swept the season series a year ago, but Stetson leads UNF 10-7 in the all-time series between the two teams. However, North Florida has won seven out of the last 10 meetings, as well as four out of the last five games against Stetson.
Saturday's matchup can be heard live on WSBB AM 1230, WTJV AM 1490, and online at MyAM1230.com with Robbie Aaron on the call. There will also be a live stream on ASun.TV, Live Stats, the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts for fans to follow the action.


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1. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
great follow up story... great job Michael...
59. Steal (unregistered)
Must watch :
61. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
I already posted this buddy.
125. Steal (unregistered)
It was a steal!
2. Bob (unregistered)
Well all these 'Phone operating system wars' will settle down one day and finally there will be only one 'market leader'. Almost 6.5 billion people in the world, these 'wars' are concerned to a fraction of people. Windows phone could be the winner.
74. ayephoner (Posts: 850; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
like there is only one car manufacturer?
like there is only one computer OS?
what on earth makes you say this?
79. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Admittedly, there may be more than one computer OS, but it's not like it's much of a competition there. Windows is still at 86% of the market.
Still, I doubt there will be one market leader mobile OS any time soon. And, even if there is, it's not like iOS or Android fans would be quiet. I mean we all see how quiet OSX advocates are, and that's barely 6% of the market.
3. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Good article, but I disagree on one point. I think ip should be protected because in the tech business that's how you make money. Ideas.
That's why Apple has been so successful.
5. Muhannad (Posts: 455; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
What is IP?
7. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Intellectual property
9. Mark (unregistered)
intellectual property
115. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
International Police, hahahahaha
11. Commentator (Posts: 3685; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
That's how you make money in any business. I agree that Samsung should be sued over the similarities of the TouchWiz UI, which is a blatant copy, but I'm not convinced that their Galaxy S/Tab form-factors are similar enough to iPhones and iPads to warrant legal action. TouchWiz is useless (IMO) anyways, so Samsung should just take it off their phones.
12. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
If that were true, how would any open-source products like Firefox, Linux, Android, etc. ever make money?
In tech, as in all business, you make money on execution. You make money on marketing IP correctly, and that's why Apple has been so successful. Apple knows how to build beautiful and accessible devices, and market them so that the general public understands why they should buy it.
HP and Palm have proven that having a good, protected IP doesn't mean anything if it isn't executed right.
18. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
They'd have to come up with original ways to implement functionality.
22. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
There is no such thing as "original ways". That's the point, everything is built upon what came before it. Because of that, there's no real intellectual "property". You can't own an idea, because that idea has roots in everything you've learned from others. Nothing is original, but many things are innovative.
37. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Whether original or innovative, the concept behind patent law is that the 'inventor' gets a period of exclusivity to encourage them to expend the effort and $ to invent. The exclusivity is something that investors will invest in if they think they can make a return on their investment.
I wonder if Apple would have gotten into the phone business if they didn't think they had an angle from a patent perspective.
112. waveydavey (unregistered)
To piggy back, part of the idea of patents is to also encourage inventors to share new technologies and still reap rewards through licensing. I guess this might still be what you call shared exclusivity: "pay me, and you can join the club too".
45. wassup (Posts: 565; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
oohh taco got hosed :)
55. AppleFUD (unregistered)
well put. . . taco50 can't grasp that idea. that all of apple's "IP" is nothing more than tweaks to existing tech. . . maybe he's just one of those simpletons that is easily hypnotized by marketing and whatnot. . . and just believes it all. You know, like the old lady that thinks a soap opera is real.
93. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
theres no point trying to explain...in tacos eyes everything apple has ever done is nothing but original even if the facts state the so called original idea existed before apple came up with it...your article explained everything perfectly...
51. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Mike great article you changed my opinion on IP.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Steve jobs would be proud of you mike. However I don't like blatant copies they should add your own innovations especially in design but for features I am ok with "stealing."
14. where IP is concerned (unregistered)
I think IP should be recognised more, but not so much as overly-protected patents to be used to sue and keep ideas to oneself.. I agree with what Michael H has brought up in the article in that ideas are meant to be shared and made ubiquitous, so that as new ideas become standard, everyone benefits, and the system and manufacturers are forced to continue to innovate.. by protecting IP with so many patents, the system is effectively restricting innovation, because new ideas are generally built upon existing technology and and implemented in a way that's appealing to everyone.. just like how the iPhone revolutionised the touchscreen smartphone era, it wasn't that the tech did not exist, or Apple invented the tech behind it, they simply got the headstart and ideas to implement it in the best possible way then..
likewise, it only stands that consumers are allowed to enjoy the innovations and ideas that are shared and spread around into our everyday lives.. if you think about it, how much would it suck if everyone had to buy a Ford Model T because every other car company back in the days were prevented from building a car that was as good, or better, based on the tech that was in the original Ford.. if the patent war existed back then, effectively, no other car companies would be allowed to build a car with 4 wheels, using a combustion engine, gear systems to vary speeds and other innovations back then..
16. vu2ikl (Posts: 11; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
well.. that's because as Michael said. all the "innovative" ideas have roots in some old ideas. so that is not actually a complete new idea as such.
27. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
And as soon as apple has a patent for icon colors and a menu grid, I will agree with you.
Apple is the king of stealing, which is why they have to share their gargantuan profits with everyone else. They keep losing patent infringement lawsuits.
52. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Steve would agree with you
116. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
That line has been taken out of context by people with simple minds. First of all, that was Picasso's line, not Steve's. 2ndly, what Steve meant by what he said, is to LEGALLY own ideas from people that they hire, not literally from anyone. But of course, readers with low IQ will take what he said literally. Oh well.
Use common sense. If all that Apple have are stolen IP's, they would've been shut down a long time ago.
119. s (unregistered)
In that case apple should be sued for making any 4' or bigger phone screens since they sued samsun for coping the shape square from their products
4. Muhannad (Posts: 455; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
Basically, technology is never-ending.
6. surya_020 (unregistered)
Very good article...nice work phonearena....appreciated..finally the winners will be consumers who will get better products for what they are paying :)....
8. Penny (Posts: 1648; Member since: 04 Feb 2011)
Very well written article and a thoughtful take on the nature of innovation. I come from a background of user-centered design, and we too were taught that innovation is not about inventing a new product, but taking a currently existing product and finding ways to make it better for the user.
10. Nick Graham (unregistered)
That was the most beautifully written article I have ever read! This is a fanboy must-read, because it made me realize that this competition is in fact not winnable and there's no point in flaming other operating systems
13. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Thanks! I hope you went back to Part 1 if you didn't read that.
17. Nick Graham (unregistered)
I did and I loved that one too. It helped me decide to go the WP7 route :)
15. HTCiscool (Posts: 449; Member since: 16 Jul 2011)
Nice article, bookmarking these two in same folder for others to read! Good job
Michael! A tad more serious than the last one but still brilliant! I probably couldn't write an article purely on Phone manufacturers disputes and IP. Btw is Basil K still working at PA? I liked him.
19. bolaG (Posts: 468; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
Great stuff Mike. To bad even after all the fanboys read this article the wars will never end.
23. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Doesn't mean we stop trying to end the silliness.
28. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
on the flip side, if you ended the silliness the boards would die and advertisements would go down.. which means less money to go around for PA staff. :)
Thats why we have you writing inciteful articles that take a middle ground, and others writing stuff that is nothing more than flame bait to entice us into fighting. That "look what samsung is copying" post yesterday is point in fact of that.
You realize you spent an entire paragraph saying samsung is copying apple, but ya never brought up the fact that apple gets sued time and time again and normally loses for copying others with things that are actually patented. tisk! :)
there is a difference between design similarities and patent infringement.
29. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I've always contested that Samsung is liable on design charges, but not necessarily patent charges. Besides, the point of the article wasn't really rooted in the patent system, but more the public perception of the ecosystem. We all know the patent system is broken and ridiculous, but we may not realize how that broken system affects our own perceptions of the market.
20. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
don't know if this applies but here goes a good example of why Ideas should be "shared" between companies to come up with a much refined product.
everyone know webkit, ad for those who don't
webkit took info from a GNU Lesser General Public License project, when Apple took it the project was lacking stuff but they saw future on what they saw, adding some improvements webkit was born, thanks to the webkit being open source many other companies took it ad developed their own versions based on what the webkit was not only making their changes better but also giving it some new improvements.
other example could be the first generation iPhone, it took some stuff that was available and added its own IP to make a new device, I personally think that making a picture puzzle out of mixed puzzle parts should be considered an even greater achievement that creating an armed puzzle with your parts only, apple looked at that moment at something other phone companies din't saw, or maybe where doubtful to create.
no company can make a product successful without taking some of the things that are hovering around, market moves around seeing whats available for you and asking the question "how about we?"
21. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
It was a great article, Michael, but you missed out on what angers those of us who dislike Apple the most: we don't mind that Apple does what works and is willing to recognize and imitate others' great ideas. What angers us is the double standard Apple has of being clearly willing to take from everyone else, but going totally apes**t the moment a functionality, feature or design cue they came up with first shows up on a competitor's device.
24. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Why should that anger anyone? Why even pay attention? It's all part of the strategy: Apple iterates on a strict cycle, and can't allow others to run too far ahead. Apple doesn't want to kill innovation with these fights, it just wants to control the pace of innovation to fit its schedule.
26. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Because that's a strategy that a fascist regime uses, not a business. "Nobody else is allowed to do this but us! WE must be the innovators! How dare anyone but us get money for their ideas?!"
30. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
You can't as easily choose an alternative with a fascist regime. If you don't like how Apple does business, don't give them your money. To call the company fascist misses the point entirely.
34. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
hope he listen to you Michael.. but they want Apple to be like Android so they can dump Android.. thats why he is so emotional on this topics... so much for being neutral like you said huh Michael?...
39. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
When they're actively trying to use government muscle to lock everyone else out of the market (i.e. banning products WORLDWIDE which will take months to redesign in order to get around the broken patent system) Apple is starting to seem more like a fascist regime, albeit one that isn't completely in power yet.
I haven't given a cent to Apple, and likely never will, but the problem is that even if I don't their actions still stand to impact my environment as a customer. If they are successful in banning every Android product from the market (like they're clearly aiming to do) then that removes the choice I have been making as a customer for the last three years.
I get the argument: "If you don't like it, don't give them your money." "If you don't like it, don't move there." "If you don't like it, don't vote for them." "If you don't like it, MOVE OUT." The problem is, though, that eventually if we take this kind of approach and ultimately don't raise a public voice of protest, how much more power are we ultimately giving Apple to bully who they want to bully? We may not live within their fascist regime, but we can sure as hell still be affected by the wars they've started.
Am I still missing the point, Michael? Or are you still missing mine?
44. bullwank (Posts: 5; Member since: 11 Sep 2011)
Very good point Sniggly. :)
46. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I think you're grossly overestimating the ramifications of the legal action. Apple can seek an ITC injunction, but keep in mind, no company has EVER been granted one. Samsung lost its case more because of the packaging, connector cable, and power adapter rather than the actual design of the Tab itself. Everything Apple does is ultimately just a nuissance, and a waste of money, because there are no teeth behind it.
My point is that Apple is acting like a d**k, and probably doesn't put consumers first, but it isn't doing anything illegal or anticompetitive at all. There's no law stating that Apple be an abusive husband with its customers. I'd really like it if there were, but it's the choice of the company whether its brand can take some heavy mud slinging.
49. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Hmm. Granted, their efforts may come to naught here in the U.S., but they have been successful in their efforts elsewhere in the world, which is still a dangerous precedent. They're trying not only to mess with their customers, but the customers of their competitors.
They may ultimately fail, but the fact is that they're TRYING, which is still upsetting.
80. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Apple is trying, but the only place it is succeeding (or even has a chance to succeed) is with Samsung products where the cords and adapters are blatantly copied from Apple and TouchWiz is very Apple-inspired to say the least. Any fight other than with Samsung may result in settlements and exchanges of money, but none of the other battles have any chance of ending in any kind of embargo.
94. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
i would like to say that touchwiz 4 is nothing like ios...the cord and adapters i agree does look like the same in the US but in the UK they are nothing a like...my guess is just like the US carriers like to change the design of the phones,do you think they maybe also change the design of the cords and adapters...even the actual; packaging is different in the US...just a thought...everryone keeps saying the tab and ipad look the same from the front but thats because both samsung and apple go for the minimalistic look which has proven popular...also with that being the only thing similar,there is alot more differences...even if i were right it would have been better if apple were more like other companies and accepted loyalties instead of actually trying to ban and take choices away from people...i dont care if you a fanboy of android or apple etc but you should never accept choice being taken away from you.
47. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Or rather, it's up to Apple if it wants to be a bully. Sorry, got this conversation mixed up with illa. You're calling Apple a bully, illa is saying Apple is abusive with its customers (or negligent at least.)
31. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Awesome Article, Michael!
However - I think that what also angers a lot of people - like myself who DO own Apple products - but feel mistreated - is one of the things you wrote in your article: Apple likes to implement features when they are fully mature and optimized.
However if one looks at Android, one already sees a lot of unique features, which are totally absent from iOS to this very day - which already were fully implemented when released by Google. Widgets, live wallpapers, unobtrusive notifications, full voice control, etc etc were not just underdeveloped betas at launch. Sure, they can be further optimized and tweaked - but they were certainly not in beta-like stage when they first got to Android. Which brings me to:
Hardware longevity. Or rather lack of thereof. We are talking about the cellphone industry here which as we all know moves faster than a pissed off Dominic Torreno in Fast Five. I believe that a consumer simply CANNOT afford to wait for his phone's manufacturer's to meticulously tweak and optimize every single thing in every single major feature. Widgets were very cool @ 2009 when they first appeared. They were practically a necessity as noted by many reviewers of the iPhone 4 - @ 2010. Now the world is SCREAMING about them - as of WWDC 2011 in frustration - because Apple decided to implement them "differently". You yourself said that iOS is little but a glorified app launcher.
That's why people like myself are Angry with Apple. For withholding key features - for the sake of maximizing profits. Because when Widgets do come out - let's say in iOS 6 - I bet that only the iPhone 5\6 will be able to use them. Despite the fact that a 528Mhz, 192 MB Ram G1 could use them the day Android 1.5 launched. How Do I know this? iOS 4. Available for the iPhone 3G. Not available on the iPhone 2G. Despite same exact identical Hardware.
Let's not even talk about video recording and editing, iOS 5 photo editing for iPhone 4 only and a lot of other things.
That's how Apple works. It produces an underwhelming feature-wise product - makes everybody believe that it's the best ever - and then a year later makes a slightly better underwhelming feature-wise product. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
32. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Forced obsolescence is Apple's way of creating false scarcity. There can't be too many choices, or the device isn't as new and cool. It's also another way that Apple controls the pace of innovation. You can't innovate as quickly if you have to make everything compatible with older technology. Besides, what's so terrible about paying $200 every 2 years for a new device? Even PCs start to feel sluggish after a couple years, with the speed of iteration in the mobile space, why would we want people with 3 year old phones slowing us down?
33. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Well first of all - two key points:
1. When it comes to PCs - you can format the thing and\or install Linux - and it runs like new.
2. Not everywhere phones cost 200$ for a 2 year contract. That's a very very spoiled price. Here @ Israel you get to either buy the phone via a carrier - which will cause you to pay about 65$ monthly - for 36 months AKA 3 YEARS to get that super hot smartphones at almost zero price - which originally is about 5000 NIS (GS2 price here) which are ~ 1350$ just for the phone. OR you can buy the phone from the free market, unlocked which is much cheaper - but still costs about 800$
Now - as for innovation and control. The thing is not so much as of how quickly a company decided to innovate on it's behalf. It's about what the end user - the customer - is robbed from - for quite a significant amount of time - until the company in question "Does it right". And when it does - oh look there is the iPhone 8GS which is better now, and that new feature we just implemented @ iOS 8? Well. We're removing it @ iOS 9 because it turns out that Widgets are just not cool in 2023. You see where I'm going? Product features - particularly when it comes to software features - have their time. And the time of Widgets was @ 2009. 2010. 2011 max. everything else is regarded by me as "too late for the party".
I mean, seriously. I own an iPhone 4. Someone else owns an HTC Evo 4G. Both made at about the same time.
Why does the Evo 4G have Widgets and Live wallpapers, while my phone does not? It's that simple for me. And I also believe that it's that simple for the Average Joe. The only reason imo that the Average Joe doesn't ask that question is because he\she are so obsessed with the iPhone as a status symbol - to the point that they do not care what they are giving up.
I am not the Average Joe. I bought the i4 because I was betting on possibility of Apple continuing the trend of user customization started @ iOS 4 with the inclusion of Homescreen wallpapers and folders. Needless to say how wrong was I when WWDC 2011 came by.
Sure, you can keep a closed ecosystem and all - provided you outfit it with the same key features as your competition. This is true of many other product types as well.
So no - it's not the 3-year old which is slowing us down. It's that 1-year old phone which is not getting those same software features which existed a year BEFORE that 1-year old phone was even manufactured. As of this day.
38. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I understand that IPhones get very expensive in other parts of the world. However, I don't agree with the rest of your assessment.
Apple doesn't have a responsibility to the customer unless the customer stops buying. Until that point, Apple's only responsibility is to maximizing profits. So, of Apple wants to hold out certain features it's Apple's choice.
Besides, widgets are nice, but are love wallpapers really changing your purchase decision?
40. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Live wallpapers
66. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Of course Apple doesn't have the responsibility. That's my whole point! Apple doesn't have to do anything! They can sell people a wooden brick and call it the best iPhone ever - and when it comes to Apple - they WILL sell it as long as it doesn't hurt it's profit margins.
It's not about what they have to do. It's about what is the right thing to do. And the right thing to do, is to provide your product with the same key features as your competitor's product. Just because the people who bought your product deserve to have these features as well. That is the right thing to do. And considering that implementing widgets and live wallpapers does not require a software engineering team of 90,000 people - seeing how some guy managed to create some HTML widgets and put them on cydia along with a simple management tool.
Moreso we are not talking about some recent feature. As I said - widgets have existed on Android back in 2009. We are in 2011 now. And Apple still has not implemented them.
As for the purchase decision - yes. If I would have known that @ WWDC 2011 Apple would not introduce widgets - unlike many speculated that they would - I would NOT have bought the iPhone 4. Because I believed that Apple would be generous\smart\competent\decent enough to provide it's products with the same key features as those of their competitor's.
A cellphone is a very personal item. For many people. When it comes to customization - many people, including myself - find it paramount to be able to customize the look and feel of the device to suit their needs and desires. It's HTC's prime philosophy concerning their products: Make it yours. Yours, not like everybody's. An iPhone to this day still looks like an iPhone in 2007. A homescreen with rows of icons. It's like wearing the same clothes everyday, or eating the same food everyday. It's unbearable.
81. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
As I pointed out in Part 1 of this piece: customization has never been a hallmark of Apple products, and you shouldn't expect it to be. If you like to customize the look and feel of your device, I don't know why you would be considering an iPhone at all. That's like buying a pear and being upset that it doesn't come in neat segments like an orange. You have the responsibility to understand what you are buying.
Apple doesn't have the responsibility to match features, and it's not even a matter of the "right thing to do". If you want widgets, and Apple doesn't have them, don't buy Apple. It's not that difficult. It is Apple's decision whether or not to include features in its device. We don't know the reasoning, maybe Apple doesn't want to mess with the now-iconic UI of iOS by adding something like widgets. Maybe Apple doesn't want to take focus away from the apps (and inside those apps are ads. No ads in widgets.) Maybe the minor time save of widgets just isn't worth it to Apple. Maybe Apple doesn't want to compound the criticism of "copying" Android.
Apple's entire business model has always been to make devices that are simple to use, easy to understand, and users know what they're getting. Adding widgets is a huge change to the UI, and you can still get all of that info on iOS by just launching an app. Yes, iOS looks today exactly as it did in 2007, because that's the way Apple wants it. If you expect that to suddenly change, that's your issue, not Apple's.
114. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Should I not? Why not? Apple made steps at the right direction with iOS 4. It was more than legitimate to expect them to continue this trend.
Apple doesn't have a responsibility to match features? Really? Ever saw a new car without a built-in radio? Without electric windows? Without electronic lock? You know - these aren't necessary - but they add value.
Why are you acting so forgiving towards Apple? Why do you think that as long as a company is profitable it can do whatever it wants with it's product? What about us? The consumers? Do we not deserve to have similar features? Especially in light of the "Apple copies Android, Android copies Apple" thing. The two operating systems are remarkably similar. Yet one of them is undeniably lacking in features. And it's not the one represented by a green robot.
I care not what is Apple's strategy. I purchased a product based on existing features of a competitive product - and based on the direction that company choose to go towards in their latest software update (iOS 4). The pattern chosen matches the direction in which those unique features on a competitive product lie. That's why I chose the iPhone 4. I would have chosen the Galaxy S - if it had a flash on it's camera. So I choose a product which I believed was going to be significantly similar feature-wise after the next software update. Needless to say I was disappointed. And because I am not as forgiving towards a product lacking in features - like you appear to be - I will absolutely not buy another Apple product in my entire life. Ever.


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MARTINSBURG Alli Rogers is 24, loves animals, cooking and movies - all fairly typical traits for her age. What is not typical is that every day Rogers fights for her life.
Four years ago, Rogers was diagnosed with an extremely rare disease known as Lymphangiomatosis. One of the biggest problems: It is not really known to anyone. Her doctor, in Salisbury, Md., told that that in his 30 years of practice, he has never seen this disease.
"I have fluid that fills up in the cavity between my lung and chest wall, and I can't breathe. I can't breathe because my lung is collapsing under the press of the fluid," Rogers said, adding that her disease is one that causes a congenital abnormality of the lymphatic system for which there is not standard treatment or cure.
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Alli Rogers, along with the support of her stepmother Linda and father Bill, fights daily through her disease.
When the fluid fills in her chest cavity, Rogers has a procedure done where a needle is inserted between her ribs in order to draw out the fluid and relieve the pressure so she is able to breathe. Currently, she has had more than 100 of these procedures done.
Rogers said that because she was having the procedure done so often, her doctor inserted a Pluerx catheter so she can drain the fluid herself while at home.
"I was getting to the point where I couldn't breathe or walk over the weekend. This worked for me for a while," Rogers said. "Then it stopped."
Rogers' doctor found that her right lung had collapsed; her left lung was partially collapsed, but the fluid that remained inside had hardened, which allowed her left lung to only partially fall.
Upon her surgery, doctors found a softball-sized mass that was pushing against the collapsed long. They removed the mass and attached her lung to her chest wall.
"They attached my lung to the chest wall so no more fluid can get inside. That was in April, and it worked great, but recovery was horrible," Rogers said. "My breathing has improved a lot, and I can go for short walks."
After her surgery in April, Rogers faced kidney failure, a staph infection in her lung and blood infections that left her needing blood transfusions.
"It's non-curable. They told me I was about one in a million," Rogers said.
Rogers' stepmother Linda said that the doctors have told her that it is a genetic disease, but there is no one in the family who has had this illness.
"There's only a handful of people in the world that have this," Linda said.
In an effort to help their daughter, Linda, and Bill Rogers, in partnership with the Patty Pollatos Fund, have organized "Life for Alli," a benefit concert to be held at The Maryland Theatre on Sunday. The Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra featuring Beatrice Gilbert will be performing, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the fund to benefit Rogers.
Rogers currently lives in Salisbury; her parents live in Mercersburg.
"Alli can't work and it's been difficult for her to make her daily bills, in addition to her numerous medical bills," Linda said.
The Rogers went through the board of directors at the theater for approval, because, Linda said, the theater does normally host charity events. The family is looking forward to a large number of attendees to help support their fight for their daughter's life.
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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INWOOD -Taylor Lord had quite a junior season.
Musselman's powerful outside hitter recorded her 1,000th kill in September, won a state title earlier this month and now has been named state volleyball player of the year by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
Lord is the third Musselman player to earn the honor, joining Erica Manor and Taylor Allen.
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Musselman junior Taylor Lord has been named state volleyball player of the year after leading the Applemen to a state title.
"She's a special player. She affects the game in so many ways," Musselman coach Shawn Martz said. "If you're an average fan, you see how hard she hits the ball, but you might not notice the perfect pass, the digs she makes look easy that aren't easy.
"She has a lot of natural ability, but much of her ability has come through thousands and thousands of repetitions. She's made herself into that. I feel lucky to have her on our side."
Despite receiving much attention for her individual play, Lord, who finished with 567 kills and 293 digs, always has a team mindset and lets the stats fall as they may.
"We don't really see stats as a reward, we see it as a way to pick out what details we need to get better at. That always helps us kind of pick spots where we need to work on," she said.
"You always think about (stats), especially when you have those big stat numbers. At the end of the day, it's all about how you perform, and it's not always about the numbers.
"I would definitely pick a state championship over having 15 kills in a game."
Ironically, she had exactly 15 kills in Musselman's 3-0 win against Greenbrier East in the Class AAA state championship game, the Applemen's third volleyball state title. Prior to that, she notched 12 kills against Capital in the state quarterfinals and 14 kills against Parkersburg in the semifinals.
Winning the state title was even more special for the entire Musselman squad after enduring back-to-back losses in the championship match.
Two seasons ago, the Applemen had three ineligible players for the state tournament and lost to Spring Valley.
Last season, Lord was dealing with an injury, and Musselman got swept in the final by George Washington.
"Two years ago, the kids got suspended, and she felt the need to carry the team, along with Taylor Allen. Then, with the injury, she had to feel like it's always something," Martz said. "Things went really smooth this year."
There was something different about this year's state championship match for Lord, who felt fully confident the Applemen were going to come through with a title.
"There was no doubt in my mind that we were going to win; we were prepared," Lord said. "Mentally, we had visualized the night before, the morning of, in the locker room before the game, it was going to be our game.
"I'm sure people in the crowd could tell, like, we were going for it. Once we got on a roll, we didn't stop."
The Applemen rolled through most of their competition this season, finishing with a 44-6 record and with an undefeated mark against in-state teams. Lord had five games of 20-plus kills, including a season-best 23 kills against James Wood, Va.
She's on pace to become Musselman's all-time leader in kills and could reach the 2,000-kill mark if she maintains her current pace. She's third in program history with 1,428 kills.
"If she stays healthy, she'll pass the kills mark," Martz said. "She has a good shot at 2,000 kills, and we've never had that here."
Lord got right back to work the day after the state tournament, participating in tryouts for her EPAN travel team. She'll spend the next several months trying to get better for next season.
"If you're not getting better, you're getting worse," she said.
This season couldn't have been much better.


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Effects of Processing Parameters on P(L/D)LA 96/4 Fibers and Fibrous Products for Medical Applications
Ellä, Ville
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2012-05-04
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication;1039
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Science and Environmental Engineering
Department: Biolääketieteen tekniikan laitos – Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tissue engineering is expected to fulfill its promises to produce knowledge, methods, and products that would benefit the health care sector. The need of a degradable construct is a necessity when trying to grow a living tissue inside a porous structure. The fibers offer a unique approach to this, since the porosity can easily be altered with different methods especially using the textile methods. Textile industry on the other hand offers a broad and variable archive of methods to manufacture products and preforms. These preforms can be further used together with the composite technology to further increase the number of applications to which they can be used. When combining different fields of sciences it is possible to manufacture a living tissue, based on fibrous degradable constructs. Thus fibers and fibrous products are versatile preforms that can be shaped and designed to fulfill many of the demands in the field of tissue engineering. The main objective of this thesis was to study the biodegradable medical grade P(L/D)LA 96/4 polymer fibers and the fibrous products manufactured from them. The thermal degradation behavior of this polymer in single screw extruder environment in melt spinning process was studied. The online hot-drawing was used for fiber orientation. The information based on those studies was analyzed and gathered for future optimization of such melt spinning processes. Different batches and fiber diameters were produced using different processing parameters. Textile methods were further introduced to the melt-spun fibers. The effect of the knitting parameters on fiber properties were studied during the hydrolytic degradation and long term storage. These knits were studied as in vivo soft tissue implant preforms, in vitro spinal fusion cage composite preforms, and in vivo temporomandibular jaw implant preforms. Non-woven fabrics were produced from the melt-spun fibers manufactured by hot-drawing and high-speed drawing. These non-woven felts were used for plasma and solvent based wetting enhancement tests accompanied by cell seeding tests. The felts were also used as a component for temporomandibular jaw implant preforms. The results showed increasing degradation in the extruder barrel in regards to the P(L/D)LA 96/4 polymer molecular weight and viscosity. Lactide monomer was induced into the polymer during the melt spinning process due to the temperature and shear. Monomer content also varied according to the polymer residence time. Fiber showed different hydrolytical degradation behavior depending on the monomer amount. Higher monomer content caused rapid degradation of the mechanical properties and molecular weight. We acquired three different degradation profiles for the fibers that were related to the monomer content. The knitted soft tissue implants degraded faster during the hydrolysis than in in vivo. These knitted soft tissue implants acted as real tissue engineered implants; the cells grew and filled in the scaffolds. While the tissue matured in the scaffolds, the measured mechanical properties of the scaffolds improved despite the loss of mechanical strength of an empty scaffold. Non-woven scaffolds increased their wetting capability due to the oxygen plasma treatment. This also enhanced the cell attachment and proliferation.
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Rawhide Keeps Them Doggies Movin' at Fitch Park
Dan Vogelbach and Dustin Geiger slugged back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the 8th inning, and the Chiefs had the tying and winning runs in scoring position with no outs in the bottom of the 9th but could not score, as the South Bend Silver Hawks (Diamondbacks Full-Season Class-A affiliate) rode a two-run Jimmy Comerota triple and took advantage of four errors, holding-on to edge Peoria 6-5 on Field #2, while over on Field #3, Ryan Cuneo crashed a three-run home run in the 3rd to stake the Cubs to an early 4-1 lead, but the Visalia Rawhide (D'backs Advanced Class-A affiliate) rallied for two runs in the 8th and three more in the 9th to defeat Daytona 7-5, in Cactus League Minor League game action this afternoon at Fitch Park in Mesa, AZ.
While the Daytona Cubs and Peoria Chiefs were in action at Fitch Park, the AAA Iowa Cubs and AA Tennessee Smokies traveled up the Loop 101 Freeway to play the Arizona Diamondbacks AAA Reno Aces and AA Mobile BayBears squads at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Resort.
Moved down from the Daytona squad to the Peoria squad prior to the game, Cubs 2010 #1 draft pick RHP Hayden Simpson got the start for Peoria on Fitch Park Field #2, throwing 2-2/3 innings and allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits (three singles and two triples) before reaching his pre-planned pitch limit (30). He struck out two and did not issue any walks. His curve ball and change-up were fairly effective, but his fastball was hit hard by several of the Silver Hawks hitters.
Peoria trailed 6-2 going into the bottom of the 8th, but after Jeimer Candelario drew a lead-off walk, Dan Vogelbach crushed his home run over the RF fence and onto the roof of a house on the north side of 8th Street. Dustin Geiger followed the Vogel-Bomb with his own dinger, launching the solo shot beyond the LF fence and onto Center Street.
The Chiefs had a golden opportunity to tie or win the game in the bottom of the 9th, as catcher (ex-3B) Wilson Contreras laced a lead-off double into the LF corner, and advanced to 3rd base on a Shawon Dunston, Jr line-single to center. Dunston moved up a base on a wild pitch (still with no outs), but Delbis Arcila tapped back to the mound, and Jeimer Candelario and Yasiel Balaguert struck out swinging to extinguish the rally-flame.
Meanwhile over on Field #3, RHP A. J. Morris got the start for the Daytona Cubs and threw one shutout inning (10 pitches - 9 strikes). That might not seem like much, but is is significant because Morris missed the entire 2011 season rehabbing from post-2010 shoulder surgery. (The Cubs obtained Morris from the Washington Nationals in the January 2011 Tom Gorzelanny deal, and they must have thought pretty highly of him at the time, because they acquired him despite knowing that he had just undergone shoulder surgery).
After Morris threw his shutout inning, the D-Cubs scored a run in the bottom of the 1st on the strength of a Reggie Golden two-out RBI single that drove-home Pin-Chieh Chen (who drew a walk leading-off the inning, before moving up to 2nd base on a stolen base and to 3rd on a ground out), and then plated three more in the bottom of the 3rd on the Ryan Cuneo three-run HR over the right-centerfield fence.
The D-Cubs held a 4-2 lead after seven, but two pitchers up from the Boise/Mesa squad (Ian Dickson and Tayler Scott) surrendered five runs between them over the last two innings.
Like Peoria, Daytona got the tying runs on base in the bottom of the 9th, but Pin-Chieh Chen and Ronald Torreyes lined out, and 2011 NWL HR champ Paul Hoilman (like the Mighty Casey that he is) struck out (swinging) on three pitches to end the threat and the game.
There are five squads at Minor League Camp, but only four play games, so players assigned to the fifth squad (Boise/Mesa) are dispersed among the four teams that were in action today. (Boise/Mesa will morph into the Cubs Extended Spring Training squad next month).
Here are the abridged box scores from the two games played at Fitch Park (Cubs players only)
1a. Trey Martin, CF: 2-3 (1B, 1-3, 2B, R, RBI)
1b. Shawon Dunston, Jr, CF: 1-1 (HBP, 1B)
2a. Eduardo Gonzalez, LF: 1-2 (1B, BB, 4-3, RBI, SB)
2b. Delbis Arcila, LF: 0-2 (K, 1-2 FC)
3. Jeimer Candelario, 3B: 1-4 (3-2 DP, K, P-5, BB, K, R, SB)
4. Yasiel Balaguert, RF: 0-5 (6-3, 6-3, K, K, K)
5. Dan Vogelbach, DH: 1-4 (K, 5-3, 6-3, HR, R, 2 RBI)
6a. Rock Shoulders, 1B: 0-2 (P-5, F-7)
6b. Dustin Geiger, 1B: 1-2 (4-3, HR, R, RBI)
7a. Danny Lockhart, SS: 0-1 (BB, 3-U)
7b. Javier Baez, SS: 1-2 (P-4, 1B, CS)
8a. Brad Zapenas, 2B: 1-1 (1B, BB, R)
8b. Gioskar Amaya, 2B: 0-2 (K, 3-1)
9a. Wilfredo Petit, C: 1-2 (L-6, 1B)
9b. Wilson Contreras, C: 1-1 (BB, 2B)
1. Hayden Simpson: 2.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 30 pitches (24 strikes), 3/3 GO/FO
2. Yao-Lin Wang: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 1 HBP, 24 pitches (16 strikes), 1/1 GO/FO
3. Sheldon McDonald: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 21 pitches (12 strikes), 2/1 GO/FO
4. Joe Zeller: 1.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 3 K, 1 PO, 21 pitches (17 strikes)
5. Charles Thomas: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HBP, 19 pitches (12 strikes), 1/0 GO/FO
6. Felix Pena: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 6 pitches (5 strikes), 3/0 GO/FO
1. 3B Jeimer Candelario - E5 (errant throw with two outs allowed batter to reach base safely and runner on 3rd base to score unearned run)
2. SS Danny Lockhart - E6 (fielding error with two outs allowed batter to reach base safely and runner on 2nd base to score unearned run)
3. C Wilson Contreras - E2 (errant throw on pick-off attempt at 1st base allowed runner on 1st base to advance to 2nd base and runner on 2nd base to score unearned run)
4. 2B Gioskar Amaya - E4 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
1. Pin-Chieh Chen, CF: 0-4 (BB, K, F-8, F-7, L-5, R, SB)
2a. Arismendy Alcantara, 2B: 0-2 (K, BB, 3-U, R)
2b. Ronald Torreyes, 2B: 1-2 (2B, L-4)
3a. Ryan Cuneo, 1B: 1-3 (6-3, HR, 3-U, R, 3 RBI)
3b. Paul Hoilman, 1B: 0-2 (K, K)
4a. Reggie Golden, DH: 1-3 (1B, 2-3, K, RBI)
4b. Brian Inoa, PH: 0-1 (P-4)
5a. Ben Klafczynski, LF: 1-3 (3-U, 1B, 6-3)
5b. Mayke Reyes, LF: 0-1 (F-8)
6a. Anthony Giansanti, C: 0-2 (5-3, 6-3)
6b. Sergio Burruel, C: 1-2 (1B, F-8)
7a. Elliot Soto, SS: 0-3 (K, K, 6-4 FC)
7b. Luis Acosta, SS: 0-0 (BB, R)
8a. Wes Darvill, 3B: 1-3 (F-8, 1B, L-6, PO)
8b. Kenny Socorro, 3B: 1-1 (1B)
9a. Blair Springfield, RF: 1-2 (HBP, 2B, 6-3, R, 2 SB)
9b. Xavier Batista, RF: 1-1 (1B, RBI)
1. A. J. Morris: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 10 pitches (9 strikes), 1/1 GO/FO
2. Jose Rosario: 2.2 IP, 3 H 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 36 pitches (27 strikes), 6/1 GO/FO
3. Su-Min Jung: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 0 K, 26 pitches (13 strikes), 3/2 GO/FO
4. Brett Wallach: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 22 pitches (13 strikes), 0/3 GO/FO
5. Ian Dickson: 1.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 17 pitches (13 strikes), 0/1 GO/FO
6. Tayler Scott: 1.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R (3 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 31 pitches (18 strikes), 0/1 GO/FO
Sergio Burruel: 2-2 CS
WEATHER: Temperature in the low 80's, overcast, & VERY breezy (expecting rain tomorrow)
Re: Rawhide Keeps Them Doggies Movin' at Fitch Park
Any idea on Hayden's velocity? Curious if he's 100%, or still working his way back from, uh, the fracture (I think).
I just have a hard time getting intrigued with Morris. I mean, he seems like a guy who, if the opportunity came, could perhaps find some role in the bigs, as the stuff from a couple years ago as decent, but he's 25 this year. Seems like a possible power pen arm that could move fast, I guess. I guess I shouldn't rule out his stuff perhaps improving from what I recall.
Any take on how Luis Acosta looked as a shortstop?
Last question - buy or sell Wilson Contreras as a catcher (granted, in the really early stages right now of that process)? It is somewhat intriguing, but then again, I had hopes that Jovan Rosa might be an intriguing move to catcher if he could maintain his offensive production.
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Wrongway's Sunday Whispers column:
some speculation on Marlon Byrd trades...
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wrongway, maybe, but I did enjoy this factoid about Jamie Moyer:
The man is only four degrees of separation away from Hall of Famer Eddie Collins, who made his debut in 1906. Moyer was a teammate of Nolan Ryan, who pitched to Ernie Banks, who faced Vic Raschi, who pitched to Doc Cramer, who was a teammate of Collins
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Cafardo's Sunday Baseball Notes:
It has been well-documented that Lucchino has a greater role in baseball operations than he did in the later years of the Theo Epstein regime - though similar to what he had early in Epstein's tenure - but he contends that he tailors his involvement to the situation.
Dusty still sour on Chicago, he hasn't spent time in Boston it seems...
7. Theo Epstein is going to have to be tough-minded and thick-skinned as he tries to convince Cubs fans that they need to exhibit patience as he rebuilds. Reds manager Dusty Baker, who spent four seasons at the Cubs helm (which included an NLCS appearance), said of Chicago fans, "From my experience, patience wasn't a real virtue. They've been patient for 100 years. That's a hard sell in Chicago, more patience. They might be patient for a little while, but unlike any other place I've been, they count. People count. And they can add real good in Chicago. Everybody - men, women, and children.''
3. Chris Volstad, RHP, Cubs - The player acquired in the Carlos Zambrano deal with the Marlins has been very impressive in camp. The 6-foot-8-inch righty has exhibited a lot of control and a low-90s fastball that he has been able to get over for strikes. The Cubs feel he may be ready to emerge after a poor season in Florida last year.
and finally...because Az Phil mentioned Andrew Miller or Felix D's name as a possible Cub acquisition in the Theo Comp remaining from Boston (also Franklin Morales). Per Phil, "That makes it sound to me like the PTBNL might be a choice between the three LHRP on the Sox 40-man roster who are out of minor league options"
7. John Lannan, LHP, Nationals - Interest in Lannan has diminished with some teams that feel what they have is just as good (Boston being one, with Felix Doubront and Andrew Miller), and in fact, teams are more interested in lefty Ross Detwiler's upside. But the Nationals may be leery of dealing either pitcher because of a hamstring injury to Chien-Ming Wang.
8. Felix Doubront, LHP, Red Sox - Scouts really like Doubront's stuff, but one complaint is that he works very slowly. While Doubront does use a slide-step to hold runners, the feeling is that he is also very slow to the plate.
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Dear Dusty,
If you suck at your job, then Chicago is a tough place to hide.
And sorry we know how to count (whatever that means). It's not very hard actually:
Number of shitty managers named Dusty Baker = 1. Number of resentful people who blame others and cannot take responsibility for his actions named Dusty Baker = 1. Number of people who I am somehow surprised, that despite these traits, are STILL angry and pouting like a child named Dusty Baker = 1.
Next math question?
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Cespedes talks about the Cubs (Wittenmeyer, Sun-Times article)...
Cuban superstar Yoenis Cespedes said he was willing to sign with the Cubs and had reason to believe this winter that he might wind up in Chicago. The bottom line, Cespedes told the Sun-Times on Saturday, was that the Cubs offered six years for the same $36 million that the Oakland Athletics offered for four years.
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well, can't blame him for that decision. just hoping we get Soler.
it is nice to see that we put in an aggressive bid. i'm glad we didn't get too aggressive, though. 9 mil per? Eh.
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Xavier Nady still hanging on...
Apparently he has Syracuse in his brackets.
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I have a feeling LaHair's window is going to be pretty short. The underdog fan in me is really rooting for him, even tho it's obvious who will be playing there next year.
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via rotowurld, via paul sulivan's twitter:
"Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Rafael Dolis will be a setup man alongside Kerry Wood this season."
"Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Jeff Samardzija is a "near lock" for the team's rotation."
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If Ninja makes the rotation, then that leaves 2 spots for Maholm, Wood, Wells, Volstad, and Coleman. Coleman is clearly Iowa-bound. Any educated guesses how the rest fall out?
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Wood will start in Iowa, I should think.
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maholm pretty much has to have a spot based on what they're paying him...volstad should easily win a slot unless he gets injured.
t.wood has done nothing to impress this spring...no idea wtf their plan with r.wells is even if he's pitching well enough to earn a spot.
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I'm pretty much in agreement with this. Wood has an option year left, might as well burn it. Volstad has certainly does enough to get a spot.
One of Dempster, Wells, or Maholm should probably get traded, but I believe Maholm cannot be traded until May-ish under FA rules (the things I might have learned at TCR). EpHoy has preach depth all they want, but it's probably not a bad idea to flip one of these guys for an "asset."
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My guess is swingman/bullpen until the staff stretches out more and/or the first inevitable injury to someone in the rotation.
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I think Wells is an excellent candidate for starter-turned-reliever project status. Coleman and Wood are headed to Iowa, that is a given at this point. I think Rodrigo Lopez has a decent chance at the long reliever/mop-up man role, it will likely come down to him or Mateo.
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i've been a little slow on the cubs news the past couple of weeks, but is r.dollis being a near-sure-thing to make the cubs news? this one got a "woah" out of me. it's not like i don't think he's worthy of a shot at the bigs as much as it is i didn't think he would be seriously considered for breaking with the team opening day.
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Only reading the stuff from AZ Phil and the MLB recaps, I don't see anyone has 'out-pitched' Dolis. If Samardzija is going to make the rotation, then having Dolis and K. Wood as RH set up roles makes sense.
I see 2012 as a year (depending on their April-June performance) that Dolis could take over Marmol's closer role, Rizzo moves LaHair to the bench or LF (if they can finally find a taker for Soriano), BJax forces the Byrd trade, and Castillo makes a better value at Catcher than paying Soto $6-8M in 2013.
The off-field moves in 2012 might be a lot more interesting to watch.
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cubs-rangers in Vegas, Volstad thru 2 IP very sharp, harmless two out singles in each inning. No score.
Game is on mlb.com website TV, Rangers broadcasters
The Game vs WSox is in a rain delay.
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Volstad has pretty much wrapped up a starting spot unless he implodes in the next 10 days. That leaves only one spot left, and since I believe that the Cubs will want a lefty in the rotation, Maholm is likely to get the last spot unless he really stinks up the rest of the month.
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Sonnanstine with another horrible outing. 5 runs in the 6th vs WSux.
Maybe he'll just retire.
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i had to check my calendar to make sure it's not 2009...fwiw...it's not.
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Joe Mather with a solo HR in the top 9th, Dolis pitching the bottom
Cubs 3, Rangers 2
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wow...matt kata (last out of the game, TEX) is still out there playing? neat. he's in his mid-30s...must be a AAA "leadership/role" filler.
...evidently he's been AAA fodder for years. good for him. pat borders approves.
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Dolis was a little wild but didn't get scored upon in the 9th. Left a runner at 3rd with one out. G0 5-3, F9.
Bryce Harper
Optioned to AAA to
delay his service clock quiet the naysayers?
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2012 Winner of the Fernando Perez award is...
Muskat writes a human interest story on Adrian Cardenas currently working on his degree with his major in creative writing from NYU.
"Plus, you're in situation to be a part of history," he said. "If the Cubs were to win a World Series, you can't ask for too much more."
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and Pudge Maddux gets an mlb.com Muskat article too...
Does he feel he's still part of the Cubs?
"Always, always, always," Maddux said. "Chicago's a huge part of my baseball career. Always. We just got a new house last month and redecorated and there's a lot of Cubs stuff there. I have a lot of great memories. Absolutely."
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Probably more fond memories of being in Atlanta and actually winning. #cubbery
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translation: he has a few packs of "vienna beef" brand hotdogs in the fridge.
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...and redecorated and there's a lot of Cubs stuff there.
translation, v2: photo taken from Maddog's freezer show a few of these boxes
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j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
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Is the State Dept. to blame for the Benghazi tragedy?
The president of the United States has people chirping in his ear all day long giving him up to the minute information on incidents and concerns from all around the world. If State Dept assets are getting shot up then he should know about it in very short time. Either he did know about it and did nothing or someone within a step or two below him in the State Dept. knew about it and did nothing, but it is pretty clear that someone was derelict in his or her duties.
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I would say the ones that carried out the act was to blame. However I would say the State Dept. was to blame for not doing everything they could have done to put the situation in check. The ones that carried out the tragedy and are the ones to blame have not been brought to justice. So the State Dept. has failed on two points first for not doing all they could have done to prevent it and the other from not insisting that the group that did it be brought to justice.
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This Administration is full of cowards.
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How was to blame for:
Oklahoma Beirut 9-11 Iraq war? Just some.
As for Cowards ask Bin Laden and Wayne LaPierre.
We don't know how many tragedies are stopped every day, and those operations are not the our peoples business!
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sorry Who.
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The I-didn't-know-about-it excuse isn't going to work here. Especially when military commanders are claiming that they received stand-down orders during this event. Low level bureaucrats don't give orders to the military...those come from much higher positions.
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Wayne, Had a chance to serve his country and use his gun skills. In 1969 as a campus radical at SUNY-Albany in upstate New York. Was in the draft but weaseled out by having a family doctor claim he had a nervous disorder. Then to the NRA. I think he still has the disorder. Now he has found the 2nd amendment to twist.
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Wow are you still following this political side show? Move along people. Spare the blame game finger pointing waste of space! Until you, not them, YOU take the blame for what has happened with the death of these 4 Americans, these continuing circus side shows every four years is going to continue. If you can't figure this out yet, you never will.
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More than 65 percent of voters cast ballots against the proposal, according to unofficial election results.
"It's a victory for the general public over real estate and developer special interests. That's the way we saw it at the beginning, and that's the way we see it now," said John Braund, of the Dorchester County Taxpayers Association, at an association campaign celebration.
"It's been ugly, name-calling. We've been accused of being bribed," said County Council Chairman Bill Hearn. "Fighting to keep from lowering your property taxes is the craziest thing I have ever seen."
If it had been approved, the 1 percent sales tax increase would have generated revenue for Dorchester County and municipalities to use to provide property tax credits. Charleston and Berkeley counties are among 31 of the state's 46 counties that already have the tax. Dorchester County residents repeatedly have rejected it, most recently in 1998.
The measure deliberately had been put on the ballot in an "off-year" election without state or national races. Dorchester County Council members said it allowed voters to focus on the issue. Opponents said the off-year move was an attempt to get the tax approved by supporters, with only a small percentage of eligible voters expected to vote. "Irresponsible and reprehensible," resident Steven Wright scolded County Council members at a meeting Monday.
About 10 percent of the county's registered voters turned out Tuesday, about average for a special election, said Josh Dickard, county elections director. But that was more than either side expected.
The referendum sprung from a number of proposals to reduce property tax that were made at a county council budgeting workshop early this year. No sooner had council agreed to put the question to voters than opposition emerged in a county where voters tend to stay riled about taxes and the groups organized to battle them have become well established.
The hostility of the campaign played out in the newspaper and on radio talk shows. County officials conceded they were frustrated by the divisiveness as tempers flared.
The campaign set council members against each other and fractured the county Republican Party, whose members belong to groups such as real estate agents and anti-tax organizations that found themselves on opposite sides.
Jordan Bryngelson, county party chairman, characterized the rift as a microcosm of the party nationwide.
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Paula Huber is taking her peanut sticks, glazed rings and the rest of her fresh-baked doughnuts and moving them from her longtime shop on Kenmore Avenue to a larger location two miles away on Sheridan Drive.
Huber plans to move her Paula's Donuts into an empty storefront in a Town of Tonawanda shopping plaza next summer. She had been looking for a new site for her popular store in the Kenmore-North Buffalo-Amherst area because she feared her landlord was selling the building.
Huber said she hopes to sign a lease next week with Sinatra and Company Realty, owner of the building on Sheridan between Colvin and Parker boulevards that includes her future home and Devlin's Deuce bar.
"It has everything. It has the parking. It has the visibility," Huber said in an interview.
Paula's is moving out of the neighborhood on the Town of Tonawanda-North Buffalo border as another local food institution is moving in. Mighty Taco plans to open its 22nd area restaurant in a building next to the Budwey's grocery store, just down the road from Paula's.
"It's just going to upgrade the property tremendously," said Frank Budwey, owner of the supermarket chain and a member of the partnership that owns the new home of Mighty Taco.
Huber's selection of the storefront at 2319 Sheridan Drive ends months of speculation about the fate of the original Paula's Donuts, at 380 Kenmore Ave., which has a devoted following and earlier this month celebrated its 16th anniversary.
Huber has been looking for a new location for some time because she hasn't been able to work out an extension of her lease, which is up next fall. She opened a second shop at 8560 Main St., Clarence, in April.
She told The News in July that she believes the owner of 380 Kenmore, an entity known as Kenmore-Englewood Properties LLC, which shares the same general ownership as Valu Home Centers, plans to sell the building to make way for a CVS.
Huber said she would be open to staying in the Kenmore Avenue site if her landlord had let her expand within a building that is empty save for her shop.
James A. Quinn, director of real estate for Valu Home Centers and Kenmore-Englewood Properties, did not return a phone call Thursday.
In an interview last summer, he confirmed his company is marketing the site but said no decision had been made about the building's future, while a CVS official declined to comment on the chain's plans.
Worried about their favorite doughnut shop, Paula's legions of fans used social media to tell Huber where to move.
Developer Nick Sinatra – who told The News last summer he would love to have Paula's as a tenant in one of his properties – reached out to Huber and, with Kenmore officials, encouraged her to consider locations in the village's business district along Delaware Avenue.
The lack of off-street parking spaces was a concern in Kenmore, because Huber said her customers want easy access to her shop, but the site on Sheridan Drive has ample parking.
This plaza once was home to a Jet Doughnuts, though Huber's space previously was a Weston's Hardware Center.
Sinatra pointed out Paula's is joining three other popular eateries in the same area – Ted's Hot Dogs, Anderson's Frozen Custard and John & Mary's.
The developer said this stretch of Sheridan Drive is one of the more heavily traveled thoroughfares in the Northtowns, and he believes the enhanced visibility will help Huber sell more doughnuts.
"In my opinion, she will get every single one of her current customers to travel from Kenmore to Sheridan, and she'll get new ones," Sinatra said. "Her product is that good."
Huber said she hopes to begin renovations early in the new year. She said the 3,500-square-foot storefront will allow for a larger kitchen and more seating, and perhaps an outdoor dining area along the building.
She expects to open the new shop in late summer and may keep the Kenmore Avenue store open through September or October, when her lease expires.
Paula's received $8,000 in sales tax breaks from the Clarence Industrial Development Agency for its move into that town, and Huber said Thursday she hasn't decided whether to seek tax breaks from the Erie County IDA for her latest move.
Huber said she leaves her Kenmore Avenue store reluctantly. She joked that she would lay down in the path of the demolition equipment if anyone tried to tear down the building, and she said her longtime customers are like family to her.
The building at 396 Kenmore Ave., now occupied by Buffalo CDL Training on a monthly lease, is owned by Budwey and partners Peter and Paul Lamparelli, who also own the building that houses the nearby Budwey's. The supermarket sits to the west of CDL and Valu sits to the east.
Mighty Taco plans to open a restaurant in late winter or spring. It will be under 2,000 square feet but it will have a drive-thru, said Russ Jasulevich, the chain's chief operating officer.
This is the second Mighty Taco-Budwey's collaboration, following October's opening of a restaurant at 537 Division St., North Tonawanda, near the Budwey's in that city.
Mighty Taco has submitted plans for its project to the city's Planning Board for approval at its Jan. 2 meeting and plans to begin renovations next month.
The chain was drawn to the CDL building because it's in a populated area between Kenmore, University Heights and Eggertsville, Jasulevich said. "It's all location," he added.
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Good news from the Heartland: Land values rising
It's just one state and it may not reflect what is happening across the rest of U.S. agriculture, but it's still good news in an industry that can certainly use some: Farmland values in Indiana are shooting up.
In fact, the price of average quality ground in the nation's 13th largest farm state nearly doubled between 2000 and 2010, according to Purdue University agricultural economists. Rising commodity values that make crops more valuable are the short explanation why; corn and soybeans are the key details.
The economists point out that in 2000 the average price of an acre of average-quality Indiana farmground – land that can produce 155 bushels of corn per acre – was around $2,300. By June 2010, it was $4,419, and they point out that prices continued to rise the rest of the year.
Demand and prices for corn alone soared tremendously during the last decade due to a huge increase in production of ethanol as a fuel substitute, especially the last five years. According to USDA, the average corn price from 2000 to 2005 was $2.10 per bushel; from 2006 to 2010 it was projected to be $4.43. Yesterday (January 13), corn at the Chicago Board of Trade closed at $6.42.
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ASHVILLE - Nearly every resident of this borough knows the story behind the naming of the Veterans of Foreign Wars John Lipple Post at the center of town.
Lipple, an Ashville native, was killed when the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
To commemorate Lipple and honor his memory, the VFW decided to create a short documentary focused on Lipple's life and naval service, Ashville VFW chairman Bob Eyer said.
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Ashville VFW John Lipple Post 4315 Commander Bill Myers shows off a memorial inside the post for John Lipple, an Ashville native who was killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The Ashville VFW John Lipple Post 4315 has a number of pieces of memorabilia from the Navy sailor who died Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including his Purple Heart.
The VFW is hosting a special screening of the film at 6 p.m. today as part of its Pearl Harbor Day remembrances.
The short documentary is a way for residents to honor Lipple as well as all Ashville veterans and members of the armed forces who served during World War II, Eyer said.
"I think that the documentary served its purpose," Eyer said. "It was to highlight the life of John Lipple, and also tell the story of the impact that [World War II] has had on the entire region of Ashville. Lipple, plus the rest of the WWII generation - the greatest generation - what they accomplished with the war in Europe, the Pacific and what they accomplished when they came home inspired future generations."
Stationed aboard the USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship, Lipple was attending Mass on the ship when Japanese military forces struck the naval base shortly before 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941.
The Arizona was sunk after four bombs struck the ship. The fourth bomb penetrated the ship's armored deck and detonated the ship's ammunition magazines, resulting in a catastrophic explosion.
A total of 1,177 men stationed aboard the ship, including Lipple, were killed.
While working with Eyer and the Lipple family to create the film, film crews examined numerous pieces of 16 mm film and primary documents, including Lipple's handwritten letters, said Beck Wicks, co-owner of Wix Pix Productions, the company behind the film.
"In every turn of this story, there are things that are so interesting," Wicks said.
The film chronicles Lipple's life growing up and attending school in Ashville and later joining the Navy.
Lipple's two younger brothers followed in his footsteps and enlisted in the Navy, Wicks said. Paul Lipple was also stationed at the naval base the day of the attack, Wicks said, and the youngest Lipple brother, Joe - now 88 years old - arrived at Pearl Harbor a month later.
Both brothers survived the war. In a "heart-wrenching" handwritten letter to his mother, Paul told his family he was unsure if John had survived the attack.
"Paul saw what happened to the Arizona and he had this terrible feeling," Wicks said.
Chad King, a film student who interned with Wix Pix over the summer and helped to film the documentary, described the experience as "humbling."
"This really put a personal touch on it," King, a Johnstown native, said. "It really made it feel real just sitting there, listening to all their stories."
Eyer said he spent about 18 months working with the film crew, collecting photographs and other memorabilia. After catching an early screening, he said he was proud of the way in which Lipple and members of the "greatest generation" were honored.
"It was extremely well done and tells the story just not about John Lipple, but the impact of the generation," he said.
Bill Myers took over the position of post commander at the John Lipple post in June. An Army veteran who served during the Vietnam War, Myers said the Ashville VFW has always received the support of the community and is "special" among other VFWs.
"We're looking forward to it," Myers said of the film.
Turnout at the VFW's annual Memorial Day services is unique because hundreds of residents and veterans turn out each year to honor their veterans, Myers said. And the Lipple film is an extension of that honor and tradition.
"It's not only for John Lipple, it's for all WWII veterans," Myers said.
Mirror Staff Writer Zach Geiger is at 946-7535.