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Answering Bud Abbott
Surely you remember the old Abbott and Costello routine: "Who's on First?"
With Opening Day less than two weeks away, the Mets have Ike Davis on first, are asking what's on second, and I don't know about third base — and it's no joke.
The dreaded and mysterious injury of the intercostal has befallen both Daniel Murphy and David Wright, creating gaping holes at both positions. For the Mets to have any chance at a winning season — meaning, winning at least 82 games — Wright has to play nearly every day and hit like he did last year, and Murphy needs to hit like he did in 2011, while playing as often as he did in 2012.
During the WBC, Wright was hitting like he did last year. However, that's not helpful if he's on the DL. We have no idea how long he'll be disabled, and the Mets' description of his injury as a "moderate" strain does not imbue optimism. It should be noted that intercostal strains are graded as "Grade 1″ (mild), "Grade 2″ (moderate), or "Grade 3″ (severe — a muscle tear). By the Mets' description, we'll assume the injury is "Grade 2," which means Wright will be out a minimum of three weeks, though he could be out of action for up to five or more.
Meanwhile, Murphy has already been out a month, and still isn't ready to take five at-bats against MLB pitchers.
So what is on second? Could this be Jordany Valdespin's "Wally Pipp" moment? The swaggering 25-year-old has been swinging a hot stick in the spring, though he hasn't been playing much second base. Still, that's his natural position, so we'll assume he'll be there on Opening Day if Murphy isn't ready.
As for third base, like Lou Costello, I don't know. It was Justin Turner for about five minutes, but after rolling his ankle the position is wide open. One would think that Zach Lutz would be next in line, and if he's not, he might want to consider a career change. Lutz has shown the ability to hit for average and power in the minors, as well as a penchant for getting on base. He hasn't bust through to the bigs yet for three reasons: David Wright, Ike Davis, and injuries. Now 26 and turning 27 in June, if Lutz doesn't take advantage of this opportunity, he'll almost certainly be stamped with the "AAAA" label.
After Lutz, things get murky. Technically, the "backup to the backup" would be Brandon Hicks, he of the .133 AVG through 98 MLB plate appearances. Originally a shortstop, Hicks has a strong arm and a history of being solid defensively. He's flashed homerun power on and off in the minors, but overall has been inconsistent at the plate, with high strikeout totals.
Next in line is Brian Bixler, but, I don't see the 30-year-old journeyman filling in at 3B. Bixler is not on the 40-man roster, while Lutz and Hicks are, and Bixler doesn't have the upside of the other two. Though, he could sneak onto the 25-man roster as a utility man.
Finally, there is Wilmer Flores, who spent all spring playing second base. Would the Mets suddenly shift him back to the hot corner? I'm thinking no, if the Mets are committed to making Flores a second baseman. Eventually, Wright will be back, and will remain at third base for the next eight years. Which brings up a new question: if Flores will be playing 2B — presumably in Las Vegas — then what are the Mets doing with Reese Havens? The former first-round pick has been riddled with injuries and has yet to play as many as 100 games in a season. In the few appearances he made in spring training games before being reassigned to minor league camp, Havens lacked confidence and looked overmatched. Now 26 years old, time is running out quickly for the lefthanded-hitting infielder. Will he return to AA Binghamton to start the year, while Flores mans 2B in Vegas? Does Wright's injury change anything for Havens? For example, might the Mets try Havens at 3B while Flores learns 2B and Lutz fills in for Wright? And in doing so, might Havens be groomed to be a "super sub"? Maybe the only way to keep him on the field for the length of a season is to play him three times a week.
But, we're getting off track. Back to the questions at hand: what's on second? Does anyone know who's on third? Answer in the comments.
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Here's the thing about Havens: he is irrelevant. He might get talked about a bit on telecasts (I hardly get to watch spring games so I only know what I hear about), but that is likely just TV production folks trying to find a narrative that fans might find interesting. Fans know Havens' name, and SNY needs to talk about something to keep the games interesting, thus Havens is discussed. But I digress…
The reason he is irrelevant is because he is a 26 year old who never played about AA and cannot stay healthy. He is so nonathletic now that his injuries either stem from this or have caused it. He's a slow stiff. The real important question is not what SNY thinks is an important part of the Mets' future, but what the FO thinks. Havens is irrelevant. Flores keeping him in AA is nothing to bat an eye at so long as Havens continues to disappoint.
I remember walking into the HOF in Cooperstown and hearing a great amount of laughter coming from a nearby room. I walked in and found groups of people gathered around TV monitors watching the A&C "Who's on First?"
routine. No matter how many times you see or hear it you can't help but laugh.
Any laughing being done about the Mets infield is of a vastly different variety. If Wright and Murphy can't answer the bell it will divert our attention from the OF (which is worth its own A&C routine).
Ike Davis' injury is scheduled for April 27 (at which point he will have 8 hr and 16 rbi). Stay tuned.
So on April 28, Tejada can throw the ball to who. Naturally.
This is a pretty subpar version of this routine but then this has been a repeat of the same old story too.
I think at least one of these guys will be starting the season and think "have any chance at a winning season" is a joke anyways, though I guess like letting go of reality in a movie theater, it is something to believe in as a possibility.
Just for fun, I see Mr. Q. has 39 MLB games at 2B. As to lutz, I see the term means "a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot." Or, a somewhat clumsy person. Or, "anything you want it to mean." This appears to apply to who plays in the OF and now maybe the IF. Where's that Family Guy clip?
I don't think Wilmer Flores will get the call for either position. He has struggled initially with each level promotion in the past, though he eventually adjusted.
While this bodes well for the future, in the short term he won't be any kind of upgrade at either spot and might risk damaging his confidence if he fails. He didn't have a stellar spring as it is
I'm less concerned about Wright and Murphy's fill-ins than I am about RF. Why in the world are we valuing an extra win or two from Byrd over the chance to try out guys who might actually be part of our future? Byrd has proven what he is, and what he is does not belong starting on a winning team. Andrew Brown, Collin Cowgill, Mike Baxter, Jordany Valdespin, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Matt Den Dekker have not proven what they are. Maybe none of them are likely to be pieces going forward, but shouldn't we explore the chance anyway?

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The young men and, in the case of Alesha Zappitella of Conneaut, women, who will take to the mat one final time as high school wrestlers tonight at Lakeside Gymnasium were pretty much still in diapers when the Star Beacon-Mike Scully Senior Classic began.
It's difficult to fathom that the event, named in honor of the beloved late Star Beacon sports writer, Mike Scully, will blow out the candles in celebration of its 15th birthday tonight.
I can't really believe it's been 15 years since Mike died from lymphoma at age 52 on Aug. 25, 1998.
The Senior Classic, the first of its kind for wrestling when it began March 19, 1999 at the since-torn-down Ball Gymnasium, remains the only newspaper-sponsored all-star match in the region and it's been going strong ever since.
Mike championed the sport of wrestling. In truth, the sport sort of mirrored "The Skull," the name which he became known as across Northeast Ohio. While Mike's efforts were not nearly appreciated enough during his 12-year tenure as a sports writer here, he was truly loved by the wrestling community because like Mike, wrestling did not receive nearly the publicity — nor the crowds — as did basketball.
So Mike wrapped his arms around the sport... and the wrestlers, their families and friends and the coaches across the area embraced him in return.
For years, Mike and another longtime colleague, the late Karl Pearson, had talked about starting a wrestling all-star match to go along with our popular Star Beacon Senior Classic basketball games.
Unfortunately, it took The Skull's passing for it to become a reality, just shy of seventh months after his death.
Tough go of it
The Skull was a big man with an even bigger heart.
He understood the plight of the downtrodden because, in truth, he was one of them.
But he was the kind of person who truly exemplified the absolute triumph of the human spirit.
If there was anyone who was thrown more than his share of tough breaks and couldn't be blamed for not having much to laugh or even smile about, it was Mike.
Reluctantly, he shared some of the stories about his struggles as a youngster, when he battled rejection and ridicule for not being able to actually participate in the athletic activities that meant to much to him.
His parents were infirm for much of Mike's life, but he did the best he could to provide care for them before he himself even finished high school, working two and sometimes three jobs after his school day ended.
He was mugged one late night/early morning after work on the streets of his beloved South Jersey and the injuries were so severe he literally had to learn to walk again.
When he arrived here in Northeast Ohio, first as editor of the Conneaut News-Herald, he lost sight in one eye and the other was failing fast.
The eye issues took the ability to be independent from Mike, making him reliant on the help of others to get around, even to and from work here at the Star Beacon.
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It was never an issue because despite his myriad of medical issues that meant transporting him from place to place extremely difficult, The Skull was never without a ride.
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Several weeks after a Mahwah family lost its home in a large fire that broke out at the top of Stag Hill, members of the community continue to set up fundraisers and events to help the family recouperate from their loss.
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The first, happening this Friday evening, is an event being hosted by Becky Mann's employer, The Rainbow Academy in Mahwah.
"Becky works at Rainbow Academy, she is a long time employee and part of our family," RA Director Kim Cafferata said. So, the early education center decided to help.
This Friday, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., local families are invited to stop by the Academy for a night of Tricky Tray raffles, a DJ, dancing, games, and pizza, drinks and baked goods for sale. The event will raise money for the family and accept monetary and gift card donations only.
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Pasta with Garlic, Herbs, and Oil: Authentic Simplicity
Sometimes life just becomes way too complicated and it is up to us to unwind, unravel everything and take a breather. This seems like a great way to start! Anne from Authentic Simplicity received Shelby's blog, Grumpy's Honeybunch, as her SRC assignment this month. If you haven't ever been to either of these sites, well, it's time! Both have fabulous recipes, beautiful photography, and give you a glimpse into their lives and families. Anne said . . .
"Whenever I typically make a simple pasta side dish, I just drizzle it with olive oil and add a few herbs, but adding the garlic takes it to a new level of deliciousness that's elegant enough for guests yet retains its simplicity."
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
- Open the cans of sweet roll dough and unroll the dough from each can into 3 strands. Working on a clean surface, place 3 dough strands side by side and gather them together to make one large strand. Fold this in half, and roll slightly to make a fat log. Repeat steps with the remaining dough. Place each log on the prepared baking sheet and shape to make a ring, overlapping the ends and pinching them together to make a complete circle. Pat the dough into shape as necessary to make the ring even in size all the way around. Cover loosely with foil.
- Bake in preheated oven until firm to the touch and golden brown, 50 to 60 minutes. Check often for doneness so the ring doesn't overbake. Place on a wire rack and cool completely.
- Place the cake ring on a serving plate. Cut a slit along the inside of the ring and insert a small plastic baby, pushing it far enough into the cake to be hidden from view.
- Divide the frosting evenly between 4 bowls. Stir 1 tablespoon of milk into each bowl to thin the frosting. Use the frosting in one bowl to drizzle over the cooled cake. To the remaining three bowls of frosting, stir yellow food coloring into one and green into another. Stir the red and blue food colorings together with the frosting in a third bowl to make purple frosting. Drizzle the cake with yellow, green, and purple frostings in any desired pattern. Dust the cake with multi-colored sprinkles and decorate with beads, additional plastic babies, curly ribbon, and other festive trinkets.
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I used 2 cans of cinnamon rolls from ALDI, unrolled them, separated into 4 strands, braided them together and formed the braids into a ring. I'm from New Orleans and usually make one from scratch. This was the BEST kingcake we've ever had!!! I used the icing that came with the cinnamon rolls and sprinkled colored sugar. AWESOME! My kids are so happy to have fresh king cake in IL!
I'm just wondering what the correct dough is? Is there a name brand you can recommend? I plan on making this later this week and I want it to come out right :-) Thanks!
Cool. I am from Baton Rouge,La and this is just as good as the best King cake i have ever had. But the traditional colors are purple, yellow and green.
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They wring their hands, blaspheme about destroying the City, threaten to lay off police officers and firefighters, shut down libraries, stop mowing the parks...
But in the end, they do nothing about reducing the number of people working for the City.
There would be nothing wrong with increasing the span of control at the Police Department and dropping two or three Majors.
Eliminating one Assistant Chief and putting the civilians under an existing director would not affect street policing. Opportunities for civilian staff reductions still exist at the PD.
Similar actions could be taken at the Fire Department.
Public Safety is not where the real cost problems lie. With few exceptions, there are staff reduction opportunities, not so much among the workers, but in engineers, supervisors, managers, directors and administrators throughout the organization.
The City uses some of the latest information management systems in public safety and in the overall control of the organization.
These systems, ORACLE, I-Leads and others cost millions to buy, implement and maintain. But many managers, supervisors and administrators don't, or refuse to, use them to their fullest. These systems, properly used, make larger spans of control easy to implement and effective.
It should be possible to significantly flatten the City organization, leaving the number of workers the same, thus not affecting service, while improving efficiency and control.
Taken as a group, it should be possible to eliminate 20% of all non-public safety managers and supervisors, reorganize with larger spans of control and have a more effective organization.
If doing more with less really exists, this is it. The solution is not fewer workers but fewer managers and supervisors.
You can go back further, but the team on the field is basically the one David Fisher put together in his first term as strong Mayor. No Mayor since has come in, cleaned house and brought in his own team.
Why won't the current Administration do it?
First, Bill Foster does not have the leadership capacity or the understanding of the organization to institute and manage such a dramatic change. He believes all of those management people are really necessary.
Second, there is the family effect. Having been with the City for more than 28 years, I can fully attest to the familial nature of the City administration.
Mayors come and go, but the "family" stays basically the same. You only have to look at the longevity report to see the number of 20-plus year employees.
The argument is these people are too valuable to lose. My argument is many of them have become so ineffective and out of touch with technology and reality that a reset is way past do.
There long has been a strong reluctance to reduce management staff by pruning rather than attrition.
Nobody likes to trim a member of the family, and once the process is started, you may be next.
Thus they always go to the bottom, the worker, ax them and blame the economy for the resulting poor service. This has been going on since the bottom fell out of the economy and continues to this day.
Next post I'll put forth a plan that reduces the management team and sets the stage for broader spans of control.
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Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - The Dallas Cowboys signed middle linebacker Sean Lee to a six-year contract extension on Wednesday.
The Cowboys' official site reported the deal, which will run through the 2019 season, is worth approximately $42 million with more than $16 million guaranteed, and includes playing-time incentives that could earn Lee as much as $51 million.
Heading into his fourth pro season, Lee has racked up 195 tackles and seven interceptions over 35 games with Dallas, who selected the Pittsburgh native and Penn State product in the second round of the 2010 draft. He has held down a starting role since the 2011 campaign.
Lee was limited to six games in 2012 thanks to a right big toe injury which required season-ending surgery. He suffered what was termed a torn plantar plate in a game against the Carolina Panthers in late October.
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It's never easy to play less than 24 hours after a loss.
But New Trier managed to do a better job Saturday afternoon, beating Buffalo Grove 65-56 in a nonconference contest.
Senior forward Steven Cook made all 10 of his free throws for a team-best 24 points as the Trevians bounced back from Friday's 47-45 overtime defeat to Maine South.
"That was a tough loss [Friday], so our goal was to come out here and get a win to put that behind us," said Cook, whose basket at the 2:56 mark in the first quarter gave New Trier the lead for good. "We started off slowly and didn't accomplish some of our goals, but we did enough to win. We were able to pull it out."
Behind two baskets and two free throws by Cook, the Trevians (13-4) took control early in the third quarter, leading by as many as 14.
Despite Andrew Apel's game-high 25 points — the junior guard's best offensive output of the season — the Bison (7-10), who lost to Rolling Meadows 63-56 on Friday, never got closer than eight the rest of the way.
Buffalo Grove senior guard and leading scorer Luke Potnik finished with seven points, three of which came on a three-point play with 0.5 seconds to go in the game.
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Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler Real Estate manages this business office property at 155 N. Pfingsten…More Road. Founded in 1947, Colliers B&K is one of the Chicago area's leading real estate services providers. As a member firm of Colliers International Property Consultants, one of the three largest commercial real estate firms in the world, Colliers B&K's local expertise has access to a global network covering 294 offices in 61 countries.
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Legacy Real Estate Development focuses on the construction, supervision and marketing of residential real estate. Legacy…More oversees the entire process of development, site acquisition, planning, construction and marketing. The primary locations it focuses on are Southeast Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Rod Engel is the principal of the organization. It is located on Milwaukee Avenue, south of Lake Cook Road.
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Pachter, Gregory and Raffaldini is a real estate law firm. These three attorneys' practice…More focuses on real estate finance and development and commercial litigation. This small firm represents companies across the country and is on Estate Drive just north of Lake Cook Road.
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Tinucci Real Estate Investments is a family owned and operated business with a hands-on management style that leads…More to satisfied and devoted tenants. The firm's "420 Building" has 20 office suites ranging from 492-square-feet up to 2,320-square-feet. Each rental property receives friendly, on-the-premises attention. Tinucci is known for its professional service, great locations and top-notch maintenance. Tinucci Real Estate Investments also rents two condominiums in Florida, plus a log home and a lakefront property in Wisconsin. Whether you want to get away, or get down to work, Tinucci Real Estate Investments has the place for you.
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Globe Corporation is located on Lake Cook Road, just east of Pfingsten. It is a diversified investment company. Globe…More concentrates on real estate, asset management and private equity. It believes that real estate is more than a capital source, it is a strategic resource. Globe also has offices in Arizona.
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Rockstar considering using Motionscan for next GTA title
Team Bondi co-founder Brendan McNamara has revealed that Rockstar may be looking at using Motionscan animation tech in the next GTA game.
Despite the rumours surrounding the damaged relationship between Rockstar and Team Bondi over the development LA Noire it seems that Motionscan may be a good fit for GTA V.
McNamara said: "Yeah, I think they're looking at it for every game. As much as LA Noire is a huge game, Grand Theft Auto is incredibly huge, so you've got all the problems of how big the cast would be and how many lines would you have to record and all that kind of stuff. Obviously we'd like them to, and they're more than welcome to use MotionScan, but if they decide it's not right for that and want to use it for another game, then that's fine too."
He argued: "I think it brings a level of humanity to the experience that means people will - in the first few minutes - start relating to the characters on screen. They don't have to make that decision about 'whether I like this guy' or 'do I actually believe them? - but they can make all the like or dislike decisions based on the actor's performance. Rockstar will make those decisions. They generally make the right decisions in terms of what they do for their games."
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The Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association is hosting their annual fundraiser on Friday, December 7th, from 7 pm to 11 pm at PAC House Theater located at Trinity St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The event's theme is "Swing Dance" featuring the music of the 1940s Big Band Era with music by David Patterson & the New Rochelle Jazz Revue. Guests are invited to wear the attire of the 1940s or don their festive best to recall the era of bygone years. There will be prizes for the best costumes as well as a silent auction.
This year's honoree and recipient of the 2012 In the Spirit of Thomas Paine Award is journalist and author Juan Williams. He is a political analyst on the Fox News Channel, a panelist on Fox News Sunday and a contributor on Special Report with Bret Baier. Mr. Williams is the author of six books including the best-seller "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965."
Tickets are $40 per person and $75 per couple. Please make checks payable to: Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association (H&NRHA) and mail to 46 Longevue Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804. For information and for reservations, call 914.632.7745.


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Josh Feyerabend rushed for two touchdowns and threw for another to lead host Unatego to a 35-20 Section Four Football Conference victory over visiting Bainbridge-Guilford on Friday night.
Feyerabend finished with 70 passing yards and 38 rushing yards for the Spartans, who took a 21-13 lead into halftime.
Tanner Winchester opened the scoring with a 50-yard touchdown run less than two minutes into play. Feyerabend followed with the first of his four extra points, then scored on a 50-yard run of his own with 8:02 left in the opening quarter.
Feyerabend also scored on a 31-yard run and hit Winchester for a 48-yard TD pass in the third quarter for the Spartans (3-1, 2-0), who received a 20-yard TD run from Kellen Komenda in the second period.
Winchester finished with 71 receiving yards and 68 rushing for Unatego, which got a team-best 75 rushing yards on nine carries by Corbin Henry.
Dylan Moffit amassed a game-high 129 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries for the Bobcats, who also got a 15-yard TD run from Pedro Aparicio (126 yards on 17 carries).
Unatego hosts Delhi at 7 p.m. next Friday.
Owego 42, Oneonta 14
Skylar Thompson broke free for a 66-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, but Oneonta High fell to 0-4 this season with a Division III road loss in the Section Four Football Conference.
Mat Robinson followed Thompson's big run with the first of his two extra points as the Yellowjackets tied the score at 7 with 4:01 left in the opening quarter.
Owego scored the next 13 points before Noah Sheehan caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Jake Crotser 6 seconds into the second quarter. Robinson kicked the extra point to pull Oneonta to 20-14.
The Indians took a 28-14 lead into halftime, then outscored Oneonta, 14-0, in the second half.
The Yellowjackets, who are 0-3 in Division III, host their homecoming game against Ithaca at 3 p.m. Oct. 5.
Oneonta 7, CV 1
Ian Oliver scored three first-half goals to lead visiting Oneonta High to a victory in the Southern Tier Athletic Conference.
Theo Malone had two goals and an assist for the Jackets, (7-2, 7-2), who got a goal and an assist apiece from J.D. Courtney and Kragh Delello.
Oneonta hosts Johnson City at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Cooperstown 10, LF 0
Park Summers had three goals and an assist to lead host Cooperstown to a Center State Conference victory.
Summers scored an unassisted goal from 20 yards 1:02 into the game for Cooperstown, which outshot Little Falls, 28-1.
Jordan Manikas contributed two goals and an assist for Cooperstown (4-3, 4-2), which plays Worcester in the consolation game of the Chic Walshe Tournament 10 a.m. Saturday at Davenport.
CV-S 1, Franklin 0
Ben Drugatz scored with 26:52 left to lead host Cherry Valley-Springfield to a Tri-Valley League win.
Wyatt Crowley started the decisive play with a direct kick to the box, where Drugatz flicked the ball past Franklin goalie Turner Thies (nine saves) with a header.
Jeremy Pickett made two saves in the shutout for the Patriots (8-1, 8-0), who host a non-league game against Owen D. Young at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Schenevus 3, Morris 1
Jacob Darling scored three times to lead host Schenevus to a Tri-Valley League victory.
"Jacob had a good day," Schenevus coach Jim Huntington said. "I've been moving him around, and he goes where I put him. He's a good defender, too, but I flopped him back up top."
Darling scored twice before Mike Murphy cut Morris' deficit in half on an unassisted goal with about 25 minutes left. Darling then capped the scoring five minutes later for the Dragons (5-4-2, 5-3-1), who host Worcester on Monday.
Edmeston 9, RS 1
Linton Wainright had two goals and two assists for Edmeston, which cruised to a Tri-Valley League triumph at home.
Austin Plows scored inside the first minute for the Panthers (6-3, 5-3), who took a 4-1 lead into halftime. Edmeston also received a goal and two assists from Clayton Lyon, as well as one of each from Logan Vibbard.
Edmeston visits Gilbertsville-Mount Upton on Wednesday.
Margaretville 8, Jefferson 0
Kyle Short finished with two goals and two assists to lead Margaretville to a road win in the Delaware League.
Sam Gil contributed two goals and one assist for the Blue Devils, who got a combined shutout in goal from Eric Mathiesen (four saves) and Dylan Bush (four saves).
Davenport 7, Jefferson 0
Kyle Moorby scored twice and Michael Libby had a goal and an assist as Davenport thumped Jefferson at home Thursday.
Chris Kopf (two saves) and Kyle Wamsley (one save) shared the shutout in goal for the Wildcats (9-1, 4-1), who host South Kortright at 2 p.m. Saturday in the championship game of the Chic Walshe Tournament.
Unatego 3, Greene 1
Kayla Komenda had a goal and an assist, leading host Unatego to a Midstate Athletic Conference victory.
The Spartans jumped to a 2-0 lead inside the first five minutes. Mary Rommer converted a pass from Tanner Reed three minutes in, and Cassidy Newman followed with an unassisted goal about a minute later.
Komenda gave Unatego (7-2, 5-0) a 3-0 lead with 14 minutes to go before halftime, chesting a cross from Torri Halaquist and running the ball into the goal.
Unatego hosts Delhi at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Editor's note: Unatego coach Sue Herodes said Halaquist had two assists in Wednesday's game at Unadilla Valley. Halaquist's assists were not reported by the home team.
Delhi 4, UV 3
Makayla Ruchar scored two goals, including the winner in overtime, to lead host Delhi to a victory in the MAC. Stephanie Bishop assisted Ruchar on the decisive goal.
Ruchar also converted a pass from Adelena Sackett to give the Bulldogs a 3-2 lead, but Michaela Williams tied it at 3 for Unadilla Valley to set up two mandatory overtime periods.
Taylor Davis and Sierra Badger scored in the first 10 minutes of the second half to give the Storm a 2-1 lead.
Melissa Conrad and Casey Steffens also scored for Delhi (6-3, 4-2), which visits Davenport on Monday.
Sidney 2, B-G 1
Bethany Karl snapped a 1-all tie with 9:17 left as Sidney earned a MAC victory at home.
Karl redirected a corner kick to the far post from Mackensie Gravelin to beat Bainbridge-Guilford goalie Megan Ferrara (eight saves) for the decisive goal.
Katie Kirk also scored for the Warriors (5-4, 4-1), who received eight saves from Jolene Krom.
Morgan Shew's tying goal came 7:05 into the second half for the Bobcats, who matched Sidney with 12 shots.
Sidney hosts Walton on Tuesday.
Walton 3, Oxford 1
Heather Ogden, Katie Maguire and Julia Steitz scored for Walton in a MAC victory at home.
Janine Velardi made nine saves for the Warriors (1-9, 1-5), who held a 17-11 advantage in shots.
Walton visits Sidney on Tuesday.
Schenevus 2, Morris 1
Mimi Teft and Sarah Mellor scored first-half goals to lead visiting Schenevus to a Tri-Valley League victory over 2012 co-Section Four Class D champion Morris.
Teft converted a pass from Sierra Bentley to open the scoring with 25:14 left in the first half. Mellor made it 2-0 on an unassisted goal with 6:28 to go before halftime.
Alexis Forgit assisted Allison DiStefano on Morris' goal, which came with 27:05 remaining.
Mary Hernandez made nine saves for Schenevus, which won despite getting outshot, 16-3.
The Mustangs (7-2-1, 6-2-1) play Worcester at 4 p.m. Saturday in the championship game of the Chic Walshe Tournament at Davenport.
Worcester 1, Edmeston 0
Kristina Walsh scored seven minutes into Worcester's Tri-Valley League win at home.
Edmeston goalie Catherine Johnson swatted away a 25-yard direct kick by Jamie Thompson, then recovered to thwart a rebound attempt from the far post. The ball ended up finding Walsh, who tapped in an 8-yarder for the decisive goal.
Johnson and counterpart Kerrin O'Shaughnessy made three saves apiece. Each team also took six shots.
Worcester plays Morris in the championship game of the Chic Walshe Tournament at Davenport at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Windham 2, Downsville 1
Natalie Vining scored the final goal with 3:14 left in the second of two mandatory overtime periods as Windham earned a Delaware League victory on the road.
Vining's goal came off a double-assist from Mattie Seamans and Brianna Jaeger. Seamans opened the scoring with 17:27 gone in the first half, lifting a 20-yard into the upper corner.
Kaileen Townsend tied it for Downsville on a rebound goal with 3:38 left in the first half.
Jane Rion made 11 saves for the Warriors (3-3, 2-3), who play Hunter-Tannersville in the title game of the H-T Tournament at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Downsville (5-2, 1-2) hosts Jefferson on Monday.
Milford 4, G-MU 0
Addy Lawson had a goal and an assist as visiting Milford won in the Tri-Valley League on Thursday.
Emilie Mertz, Hannah Saggese and Kaley Chase also scored for the Wildcats, who got a combined shutout from Rukiye Henderson (three saves) and Monica Renwick (one save).
Oneonta 109.5, SV 70.5
Madison Beckemeyer and Lucy Bischoff won two events apiece, leading a swimming sweep for host Oneonta High in the Southern Tier Athletic Conference.
Beckemeyer touched first in the 200-yard freestyle (2:20.27) and the 500 free (6:18.14) for the Yellowjackets, who received wins from Bischoff in the 50 free (27.47) and the 100 backstroke (1:11.13).
Madison Allen (200 individual medley, 2:36.66); Sarah Brackett (100 butterfly, 1:14.36); Abby M. Miller (100 free, 1:04.00); and Claire Garfield (100 breaststroke, 1:22.31) also won for OHS, which swept the three relays.
Oneonta (5-1, 4-1), which did not compete in the diving event, visits Owego on Thursday, then hosts Cooperstown for Senior Night on Oct. 7.
Oneonta 3, CF 0
Brittney Herrick finished with 13 kills and two blocks to lead visiting Oneonta to a 25-3, 25-17, 25-15 sweep of Chenango Forks in the Souther Tier Athletic Conference.
Rachel Griffing contributed 10 digs and four aces for the Jackets (7-1, 7-1), who received 17 assists from Krissy Wells.
Oneonta hosts Norwich on Tuesday.
Sidney 3, Greene 1
Alyssa Cranston had 13 kills and two blocks to lead host Sidney to a 24-26, 25-16, 25-15, 25-22 victory in the MAC.
Paige Redmond contributed 13 assists and six aces for the Warriors (8-1), who received 11 digs from Jilleen Livingston.
Sidney will compete in the 19-team Johnson City Tournament, which starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
B-G 3, Oxford 0
Morgan Bullis had six kills to lead host Bainbrige-Guilford to a MAC win, 25-17, 25-17, 25-22.
Rebecca Reyes finished with six assists for the Bobcats (7-2), who will compete in the Johnson City Tournament on Saturday.


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Roman Harper - #41 - S
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Goodell to meet with Vilma on Monday
Saints LB Jonathan Vilma will meet with commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday to discuss Vilma's suspension that was recently vacated.
NFL issues statement on CBA Appeals Panel ruling
The NFL issued a statement about last week's ruling by an appeals panel that lifted the suspensions of four players involved in the Saints' bounty program.
Goodell to meet with four players in bounty scandal
Roger Goodell and four players whose suspensions in connection with the bounty investigation were lifted by an appeals panel have agreed to new meetings.
Super Bowl prep zipping along in Big Easy
In less than five months, the Super Bowl will return to New Orleans for the first time since 2002, and the preparations are well underway.
Report: Vilma willing to meet with Goodell
Saints LB Jonathan Vilma is willing to meet with Roger Goodell, ESPN's Ed Werder reported.
Saints re-sign WR Arrington, place Vilma on PUP
The Saints placed LB Jonathan Vilma on the PUP list and re-signed WR Adrian Arrington on Monday, the club announced.
NFC South Spin cycle: Week One
Two teams are up and two are down — here is our weekly team-by-team take on the state of the NFC South.
Shorts and Shells: Week One
Welcome to Overreaction Sunday, where RG3 can do no wrong, the Bills and Saints do little right and Peyton Manning is back in business. We think.
Griffin shines as Redskins down Saints
Robert Griffin III began his NFL career by connecting on 19-of-26 passes for 320 yards and two TDs, as the Redskins beat the Saints, 40-32.
Saints add DE Smith to roster
The Saints announced Saturday that they had placed DE Will Smith on their roster.
Player suspensions from bounty case vacated
A three-member appeals panel vacated the suspensions of the players allegedly involved in the Saints' bounty scandal, Jim Trotter of Sports Illustrated first reported.
Ingram just a part of Saints' RB committee
While Mark Ingram had a quiet preseason, the Saints are brimming with confidence about their deep arsenal of running backs.
Key matchup: Redskins QB Robert Griffin III vs. Saints MLB Curtis Lofton
In Thursday's key matchup, PFW's Eric Edholm focuses on the battle between Robert Griffin III and Curtis Lofton in Sunday's Redskins-Saints game.
Suspended Saints DE Smith releases statement
Saints DE Will Smith, who is suspended for the first three games of the season, released a statement on Thursday.
Redskins S Meriweather out 2-4 weeks
Redskins S Brandon Meriweather will miss 2-4 weeks because of sprained ligaments in his left knee, head coach Mike Shanahan said Wednesday.
Harper says he does not regret a late hit on Carolina receiver Steve Smith that drew a $15,000 fine from the NFL this week.||||||| Harper says the fine was worth it and that his decision to shove Smith as the receiver slowly crossed the goal line last Sunday was good for his team and got his point across. Harper had said after Sunday's 30-27 Saints victory that if a player is going to score on the Saints, he's not going allow anyone to just "walk it in" the end zone. Harper's shove incited a brief scrum between the two teams.
The New Orleans Saints have agreed to terms of a 4-year contract with Harper.||||||| The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Harper, a second-round draft pick out of Alabama in 2006, became a starter for the Saints as a rookie and was a Pro Bowl alternate the last two seasons.
Harper is out for Sunday's game with a strained right hamstring.||||||| Pierson Prioleau was replacing Harper.
New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says Harper has signed his one-year restricted free agent tender offer. Harper's decision ensures he will make at least $2.52 million in 2010, but it won't necessarily head off a training camp holdout.||||||| Harper, a fifth-year safety and a starter since his rookie year, had resisted signing because he wanted a longer deal. He signed on Tuesday to avoid a situation whereby the Saints, under the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, could lower their offer to 110 percent of Harper's 2009 salary, or around $600,000. Last season, Harper was credited with 99 total tackles, second on the club behind linebacker Jon Vilma. Harper also forced two fumbles and had 1.5 sacks.
Harper pulled his right hamstring in the Saints' season-opening 24-20 victory over Tampa Bay last Sunday.||||||| The injury will keep Harper out of the Saints' second game Sunday at Washington.


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Total Time: 25 minutes
Yield: Serves 12
- 2-1/2 cups pretzel crumbs
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1 (8-ounce) package mascarpone cheese, softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 cups miniature marshmallows
- 2 (16 oz.) cans cherry pie filling
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
In another large bowl, beat mascarpone cheese, vanilla, 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream, and half of the powdered sugar. In another large bowl, combine remaining cream and remaining powdered sugar and beat until thickened. Fold into cream cheese mixture, then fold in marshmallows.
Spread this mixture over the crust in pan. In medium bowl, mix cherry pie filling with lemon juice; spoon over dessert. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. Cover and chill for 4-5 hours before serving.
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FEARnet's Joe McCabe speaks with producers Allison Abbate (Corpse Bride) and Don Hahn (The Lion King) at the San Diego Comic-Con 2012 about "The Art of Frankenweenie", an exhibition touring the globe that features puppets, props, sets, and concept and design art from Tim Burton's black-and-white, stop-motion-animated feature-film adaptation of his classic live-action short Frankenweenie. In theaters on October 5, 2012.
From creative genius Tim Burton comes Frankenweenie, a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life—with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous.
A stop-motion animated film, Frankenweenie was filmed in black and white and rendered in 3D. The talented voice cast includes: Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell and Winona Ryder.
Presented by Disney, Frankenweenie is directed by Tim Burton, produced by Tim Burton and Allison Abbate, from a screenplay by John August, based on an original idea by Tim Burton.


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My favorite film of the weekend was neither one of the two favorably reviewed independent movies released on Friday, but a low budget – and skillfully made - B-thriller.
"The Call" is directed by Brad Anderson, whose repertoire includes the eerie "Session 9," the intense "The Machinist" and the underrated apocalyptic thriller "Vanishing on 7th Street."
In his latest, Halle Berry plays a 911 operator who is scarred after failing to save a young woman from a serial killer who breaks into her home.
Six months later, she finds herself on the phone with a teenager (Abigail Breslin), who has been kidnapped and stashed in the trunk of a car that is filled with a shovel and other not-so-encouraging items.
Much of the picture takes place on the phone as Berry commands Breslin on how to handle her unfortunate situation. For a movie mostly confined to limited spaces, "The Call" zips along at a rapid clip and is fairly intense.
The picture culminates in a completely improbable – but, honestly, pretty frightening – sequence during which Berry ends up at an abandoned farmhouse searching for the missing girl and the lunatic who has nabbed her.
If anything, "The Call" is proof that Berry, who has made some unfortunate choices – "Catwoman" and, most recently, "Movie 43" – in recent years, can still carry a movie. And despite its resorting to clichéd scenarios in its finale, it's an effectively creepy, low budget thriller.
I was simultaneously impressed and bewildered by Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers," which is something of a cross between an experimental art film, a drug war gangster picture and "Girls Gone Wild."
You have to see this thing to believe it, which is a move that I can't wholeheartedly endorse.
In the film, four teenage girls (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) rob a Chicken Shack in their podunk Southern town to pay for spring break in Florida.
Korine's early orgiastic montages of youths whooping it up in St. Petersburg are among the most disturbing visions of bacchanalia this side of "Caligula."
Even more unsettling is the film's vision of a modern day America in which violence has, for some youths, become a stand-in for the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of old.
The girls get busted and spend the night in jail. But the next day they are bailed out by a big bad wolf named Alien, who is played by James Franco in a performance that is the most convincing reason I could give you to see the film.
Alien, covered in tattoos with gold grilles on his teeth and cornrows in his hair, is an aspiring rapper, but mostly just a drug dealer with a house full of semi-automatic weapons and gaudy attire. Franco's performance is the most riveting work I've seen from the actor since "Milk."
The girls soon find themselves in the midst of a gang war between Alien and rival kingpin Archie (rapper Gucci Mane).
Two of the girls think this development is a good time to catch the bus back home, leaving Hudgens and Benson on their own with Alien.
The drug dealer and the two remaining girls embark on a revenge mission against Archie's crew during a stylishly impressive and completely over-the-top shootout that ends the movie.
The biggest fault with "Spring Breakers" is that it often ambles aimlessly. There are one too many sequences of barely clothed and booze spattered youths behaving badly and Korine goes too heavy on repetition, including poems and phrases that Alien continuously speaks in voice-over throughout the film as if the director were trying to channel Terrence Malick.
The movie has style to spare, a knockout performance by Franco and clever use of music. But, ultimately, it's too uneven and unfocused for me to recommend it.
Matteo Garrone's "Reality," which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is even more surreal than Korine's latest.
The picture is a satire of reality television that borrows stylistically from Federico Fellini and thematically from Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy."
In the film, Naples fishmonger Luciano (Aniello Arena) tries out for a spot on an Italian version of "Big Brother" at the insistence of his overbearing family and kids.
At first, Luciano views the tryout as a lark, but becomes increasingly obsessed with landing a spot on the show. He even goes as far as selling his fish stand after being led to believe that the show will be a sure thing.
But once it appears that Luciano will not be a reality television star, his behavior becomes erratic, believing that some homeless people are representatives from the show who have been sent to spy on him and, later, questioning the presence of a cricket in his home.
Garrone's film starts out convincingly, despite that it takes a while to get to its central conceit.
But, ultimately, the director does not appear willing to give the material the full commitment as Scorsese did in his underrated 1983 satire of stardom.
Arena offers up some solid work as Luciano and cinematographer Marco Onorato's camera work is successful at visually capturing Luciano's declining state of mind. But, otherwise, it's a bit of a misfire for the director, who was responsible for the captivating 2008 gangster picture "Gomorrah."


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Welcome to the movies at PS News.
Each week, PS News's film critic Victor Rebikoff will highlight the latest offerings from the silver screen and share his expert commentary for our information and guidance.
Director: Clint Eastwood, Weinstein Company, Rated M, 118 mins
Academy Award winning director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) has delivered another magnificent movie.
Invictus is the inspiring true story of how former South African President Nelson Mandela undertakes a unique initiative to unite his apartheid-torn country.
Mandela enlists the help of the captain of South Africa's rugby team and rallies him and his team in their campaign to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup (being held in South Africa at that time).
Besides Eastwood's excellent direction, Invictus (which is based on John Carlin'sbook) really belongs to Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman (Wanted) whose portrayal of Nelson Mandela must be considered the highlight of his excellent career (with Mandela himself suggesting Freeman for the role).
A further highlight is the chemistry between Mandela and the South African team captain Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon, The Informant).
Despite rugby being a focus (though not a predominant factor), Eastwood has imbued a great deal of realism into his movie by providing some initial insight into Mandela's imprisonment and focusing mainly on the early days of his presidency in 1990.
In particular, Eastwood shows Mandela's courage and his sense of compassion and forgiveness-exemplified in Mandela's strong support of the South African rugby team, the Springboks.
This support displeased black South Africans as it was seen as supporting a symbol of white oppression.
It is while playing the role of mentor and motivational coach to Pienaar that Mandela reveals the words of a heart-rendering poem, Invictus (Latin for unconquered) which kept him going during all those solitary years in prison, concluding with the touching refrain that Mandela utters during the World Cup final, "I am master of my fate, I am captain of my soul".
Invictus is a thoroughly enjoyable and moving experience, with wonderful performances throughout especially from Freeman and Damon.
It is no surprise that both actors have received nominations at next month's Academy Awards.
Most importantly the film shows a country's journey from darkness into light, encapsulating the courage and compassion of a world icon.
This 'unconquering' movie is one that should not to be missed.
VIC'S VERDICT: 4 ½ Rubber Stamps
DVD Release
The Thaw
Release Date: 10 February 2010
Director: Mark A Lewis, Sony Pictures, Rated M, 90 mins
The Thaw is an engaging sci-fi horror from writer/director Mark Lewis (Ill Fated) and has some similarities to John Carpenter's classic The Thing.
Renowned actor Val Kilmer stars as Dr David Kruipen, an environmentalist who, together with his team, discovers a preserved woolly mammoth in the melting Arctic ice.
The team also discovers an ancient parasite that has been incubating inside the beast.
It is not too long before Kruipen's daughter Evelyn (Martha MacIsaac) is on her way to join him only to find no one can get hold of him.
The Thaw offers more suspense than horror with the CGI bugs being convincing and the other effects being quite good.
While the plot revolves largely around Kilmer's character, the focus is really on his daughter and her fellow students in containing the deadly infestation.
Despite some scenes not appealing to the faint hearted Sony's DVD is still entertaining and includes some interesting extras such as the Behind the Scenes featurette with comments from the cast and crew intermixed with shots of the film and its making as well as messages on global warming.
VIC'S VERDICT: 3 Rubber Stamps
DVD Release
Release Date: February 2010
Director: Howard McCain, Weinstein Company, Rated MA 115 Minutes
Warner Bros' soon to be released DVD is a blend of sci-fi and Viking mythology that is thoroughly entertaining with solid acting and impressive action sequences.
'Outlander' finds Kainan (Jim Caviezel) a soldier from another world crash landing on Earth around the first century in addition to a monstrous alien creature called a Moorwen.
Before he has a chance to track down the creature Kainan is taken prisoner by Viking warriors from a nearby village. Just as the creature begins terrorising the Viking villages, it is only Kainan who has the knowledge and the skill to stop it. But convincing his captors proves to be a difficult task, and the threat of an impending war with another Viking clan only exacerbates the situation. Fortunately King Rothgar (John Hurt) and his daughter Freya (Sophia Myles) have faith in Kainan, believing he may be the only one who can save them all.
With an absorbing storyline and some great special effects (as well as the depiction of advanced alien technology combined with Viking Iron Age weaponry) makes this Warner Bros' DVD definitely worth owning not to mention a fascinating array of special features in both the Blu-ray and DVD versions including deleted and extended scenes and commentaries from the director and producer.
VIC'S VERDICT: 4 Rubber Stamps
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Aspects of Sitting Meditation
Meditation versus Concentration
Concentration is not sitting. Concentration is mind. The mind and the conditioned situation which the mind is dealing with are one thing. So concentration is actually another word for samadhi. In other words, if you a doing something, and utterly devoting yourself to it, that is what concentration is. So in a larger sense, sitting itself is perfect concentration. But in general, you cannot say sitting is concentration, because there are hundreds of millions of concentrations
The problem here is any kind of concentration makes you ignore anything other than that concentration. So when you concentrate on something, don't become afraid of your ignorance. You had better now that you are going to become ignorant about hundreds of things, because you picked this one.
The reason I said sitting is not concentration is that concentration still involves the self who maintains self-tendency. Sitting is to destroy hat kind of thinking. Just be there, exist there as something that was from beginningless beginning. From beginningless beginning everything grows, and now will be so. So there are dimensional differences between sitting and concentration.
When you cook something, you do not concentrate you attention on a particular thing. Concentration is like clear blindness, you are acting in it; when the work is done, the food is there. If you concentrate , saying, "I'll cut this squash in a real nice way," with that kind of mind you cannot move your knife so well. If you forget the idea that, "I'll do a good job," then the surface consciousness may be blind, but a very intuitive, very clear order is always working. So you naturally know when to cut, when to stop the fire, and when to stop cooking. In this sense, practice and repetition of training are always needed for concentration.
Meditation is very different. Many times people mix up meditation and concentration. In meditation you cannot control yourself. If you try to control yourself, you never get into meditation. Your concentration is controlling you when you are "doing" some form of meditation. Instead, you have to ask your meditation, "please, please come to me. Please work for me." Otherwise, if you chase to get it, it will never come to you.
Even if meditation is always is covering and accepting me, whatever I'm doing, I don't feel it. Recognition of the feeling of meditation is like feeling our inhalation and exhalation. Air is everywhere and you just breathe a very little amount of it. When you inhale, your whole life is exhaled by air. If you exhale, you are inhaled by the whole air. So there is no conception of small and big : "I am small and meditation is big," or "Meditation is small and I am big." And there is no you, there is no sense of inside or outside. In the big world of meditation, when two or three elements are communicating, that is concentration. If you concentrate on every direction, that is meditation. You do not do it, but it happens when you are ready to accept it, or when you are ready to be accepted by it.
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The American Lung Association in California gave the city of South Pasadena an A rating for its tobacco policies.
The annual report, which was released earlier this week, issues grades for all cities and counties in California on local tobacco control policies including those for smokefree outdoor environments, smokefree housing, and reducing sales of tobacco products.
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There are about 3 million new youth smokers in the U.S. and 34,400 in California every year. About 37,000 deaths are caused by tobacco use, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.
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In 2002, Vincent Lamouroux built this Pentacycle to travel along the abandoned Aérotrain hovercraft monorailway built in the 1970s.
Link | Video about Aérotrain (Via VVORK) Discuss
35 Responses to "Pedal vehicle for traversing abandoned monorailway"
pork musket says:
@14 – Right, because only authors are allowed to critique books, and only filmmakers are allowed to review movies.
Dustin Driver says:
Where did he get the orange tires?
dannysland says:
I know I'm unfairly judging him by criteria he probably never aspired to, but as a cycle geek, riding that thing sounds unutterably tedious.
Yeah, pretty tedious riding back and forth on an abandoned monorail track. Much less tedious to go fast in the bicycle commute lane along an exciting city street, huh?
After the fall of civilization, I'll be charging for rides on one of these over the ruins of Disneyland. Book your tickets now.
TedJohnson says:
Echoing the comments of the "form follows function" faction, let me direct you to this:
Steven D. Williams actually built a bike-on-rails system to get him across a desert leg of his transect of Africa. He hadn't planned for it in advance either. What he built was improvised in some Sudanese town on the edge of the desert.
Art was the last thing on his mind.
jef says:
There were originally two Aerotrain tracks. I visited the other one in 1971 and it was already abandoned and overgrown. That one has since been demolished.
windybt says:
that music for the video is amazing
arkizzle says:
.. the queen track?
john weeks says:
1:1 pedal ratio? How 17th century! (thats how we can tell it's art)
Antinous says:
…because only authors are allowed to critique books, and only filmmakers are allowed to review movies.
Just a little acid on my blade to counter the soporific on yours.
anthony says:
I'm thinking something like a cross between a mechanic's "creeper" and a recumbent bike (wheels go on the top rail).
When do the time trials begin?
Takuan says:
ah, that would be he duel between Feyd Ratha and Paul Attreides? neh?
Antinous says:
Bi lal kaifa
jeffjeffbobeff says:
What an amazing idea with such a lame realization. 1) Those nerf ball tires will get you up to a max speed of about 4 mph. 2) The seat? I hope his chiropractor was along the route 3) It looks entirely to safe. Lose those two stabilizing wheels, jack up the center of gravity and set the pedals up backwards and we'll talk.
Takuan says:
speaking of which they appear to be low psi sand dune tires
ConcealedCabinet says:
I agree with Jeff. It's a great idea that makes me wish I lived near an abandoned rail, but it seems like it could be designed better. Still, you gotta love innovation.
Kristoffer says:
I just wanted to point out that this work was actually a collaboration between the two artist Raphaël Zarka and Vincent Lamouroux. It's just Vincent seems to forget Zarka a little bit nowadays.
And just for the record I think that a lot what is nice about this project are the images of the two guys riding it and the little narrative these images put into play.
The point of art, in my option, is to be a space free of the usual practicalities and rational train of thought that makes up most of the world that surround us.
I know I'm being a little bit simplistic in this explanation, but I think it's important not to judge everything by the same standards ie. judge art on the basis of engineering. Just as I would not like to see the merits of engineering judged basis of artistic quality.
Art works like this are almost always more like prototypes that production ready devices – Build on very limited budgets, by no specialist, they focus on communicating some sort of an idea or image.
So in the end I think this Pentacycle gives me a great feeling of possibility. Instead of looking at the abandoned test site as a site of failure or something like that. I get more of a positive utopian vibe – The world could be different, we could all be biking on top of monorail tracks. It opens up the possibility that we could misuses and misunderstand "failed" technologies in a positive way.
g.park says:
They could really use these in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.
jeffjeffbobeff says:
Thanks, John Weeks, I get it now. It's about being disappointed by under-executed technology. Art, humph.
help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread says:
So that's why they're called monorails!
TwoShort says:
@John Weeks: 19th century, but they would have had a 60 inch wheel. That looks to be about 12 inches.
By my calculations, a good cyclist adept at high-cadence spinning should be able to achieve a cruising speed of not quite 4 miles per hour! Though with all those big balloon tires, probably only half that.
Yes, I know it's art, because the guy goes on about the the duality of the vehicle as object and conception, blah, blah, blah. I know I'm unfairly judging him by criteria he probably never aspired to, but as a cycle geek, riding that thing sounds unutterably tedious.
ace0415 says:
"monorail, Monorail, MONOrail, MONORAIL!!!
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
What'd I say?
Someone had to say it.
Dustin Driver says:
The Aérotrain: A train with AFTERBURNERS. Sounds like very six-year-old's dream come true.
And I'm pretty sure that the Aérotrain could be written into an episode or two of Thomas. As a French villain, of course.
TwoShort says:
@#14 – I don't have an abandoned monorail track handy, so my own art bikes have different targets. Also, I'm more interested in building and riding them than documenting them, so it may be a while before they're ready for posting anywhere, sorry. You'll have to take my word for it that while they are of various unusual dimensions and drive-train configurations, they are also functional transportation. All of which is irrelevant to my ability to opine upon the art of others.
By my sense of vehicular aesthetics, the judgment is clear: Anything with pedals should travel faster when you use them than when you walk behind it and push. This will not.
Antinous says:
Anything with pedals should travel faster when you use them than when you walk behind it and push.
Think of it as a conceptual art piece.
CitrusFreak12 says:
Am I doing something wrong? I go to the site, find the pentacycle, click it, and it gives me one picture and some text…
Bekah says:
The intense desire to redesign is, I am sure, precisely the response desired given the theme of this art work. It certainly makes me wish I had an abandoned rail nearby.
Bobdotcom says:
Oh, 'an aerotrain'. Oh, I say, we are grand, aren't we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I'm off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I ride my aerotrain.
Hugh says:
I positively assert that for functional art to be art it has to be functional. Go ahead, try to convince me otherwise.
ablestmage says:
Even if I were on an abandoned railroad track, I would still be wary that a random abandoned train would be coming down it at me, and would generally avoid them. Pedaling down an abandoned monorail track in your experimental art piece is just begging for an experimental high-speed monorail being tested on an abandoned monorail track to smack you into oblivion. I'm just sayin'.
Miles says:
Dammit G. Park, you beat me to it
mralistair says:
what happens when he meet's someone coming the other way.
Antinous says:
I'm so excited about seeing all the re-worked, more functional, faster versions of this. When should we expect them to be submitted to Mark for posting on BB?
error404 says:
4 years of art school and I gotta say that if the thing actually worked as a bike it would improve the Art.
No point in doing less than kinetic, kinetic sculpture.
Harrkev says:
This reminds me of a railbike. For those of you who haven't heard of this, you can modify a bike to ride on a traditional railroad track, using any bike that you happen to have, and some materials from your local hardware store.
Of course, you life expectancy is much longer if you stick to unused railroad tracks.
His bike looks cooler in that there is a better view many feet off of the ground.
Takuan says:
always wanted a rail bike. And some rockets.


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If one can say that one love's vegetables - and apparently one can declare themselves in love with a vegetable - then I do declare I downright love these little tomatoes. Aren't they just adorable?
Sarah of the cookie lavender and her "entanglement" (our answer to how to introduce each other) farm over in the next valley and they have been producing the most wonderful tomatoes. There were heirloom tomatoes a week or two back and this week saw a bounty of small, bright, shiny things.
Tiny things too. Those minuscule orbs stacked in the shotglass pop in your mouth with a sweet, juicy, and intensely tomato splash. Late summer in a bite.
These tomatoes are a convincing argument for buying local, organically grown produce whenever you can. While they are grown less than a mile away as the elk wander, I suppose we have to count these as ~3 food miles (as the car drives) since I haven't figured out how to get the elk to deliver.
Even more, tomatoes such as these are an argument for growing your own. A tomato plucked from the vine and eaten before the sun's warmth has a chance to escape is a fine thing indeed.
This is a great tomato year out here in the fog valley; even friends of mine with a yard on the north side of their house at the base of a sun-blocking hill have "too many" tomatoes! (Maybe it's one of those unspeakable positive side effect of global warming, like being able to grow Pinot.) In any case, we are suddenly awash in tomatoes. The counter holds several pounds of deliciousness in yellow, orange, mahogany and variations on red and in sizes from grapefruit sized slicers to those babies in the picture . What an embarrassment of riches.
The pile of tomatoes, along with a just-picked bouquet of basil, was the inspiration for last night's improvisational dinner.
Three Tomato Pasta
Pasta, chicken, half a slicing tomato cooked with a little garlic and onion, tossed with quartered small tomatoes and arugula, topped with minuscule grape tomatoes, torn basil and fresh Parmigiano Reggiano.
Oh crud, you wanted an actual recipe?
Three Tomato Pasta
quantities approximate and per person
pasta - 2 ounces | 56 grams
olive oil - to cover pan
chicken, thinly sliced - 1/2-1 chicken breast
onion - 1/4 medium (obligatory meaningless measurement)
white wine - 1 oz | 28 gr
slicer, peeled, seeded and chopped - 1/4-1/2
plum/pear, quartered - a large handful
grape - 5-10 depending on size
garlic, crushed - a clove or two
arugula, torn - handful
basil, gently torn in half - dozen or so leaves
Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, grated or shaved - to taste
salt - to taste
Bring large pot of water to boil on high heat for pasta. When water boils, add the pasta and a teaspoon of salt
While water is heating, heat a heavy skillet to med-hot and pour in just enough olive oil to cover the bottom. Add enough chicken to cover the bottom and cook for a minute or two on each side, until just done. Remove from pan to dish and cover to keep warm.
Add onions and cook briefly, until barely softened. Add wine and bring it to a boil while scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen all the tasty bits that stick there. Turn heat down to low, add chopped slicer tomato and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until pasta is cooked. (This is usually ~5-10 minutes, by which time the tomatoes, onions and garlic have melded into this rich sauce, but the tomatoes are still obviously fresh.)
When the pasta is done, drain it and add to pan with tomatoes. Add chicken, quartered tomatoes, and arugula. Stir gently over low heat for 30 seconds to coat the pasta well.
Remove from heat, add basil and a grating of cheese. Toss gently to mix. Put the pasta on plates and top with grape tomatoes and another grating of cheese.


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The Arundel schools cluster will hold a back-to-school fair Saturday, featuring representatives from schools in west Anne Arundel County.
The fair will go from 9 a.m to 1 p.m. at the community center at the Village at Waugh Chapel.
The fair is sponsored by the West Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce, which has also invited many local family-oriented businesses.
Local dance and martial arts groups are also scheduled to give demonstrations.
Here's a list of schools, business and groups expected to attend:
Arundel High, Arundel Middle, Crofton Middle School, Four Seasons Elementary, Nantucket Elementary, Odenton Elementary, Piney Orchard Elementary, School of the Incarnation, and Waugh Chapel Elementary, plus representatives from AACPS Advanced Studies and Programs.
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