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Problems of NATO
Ukraine's precipitate economic decline in recent decades, since it separated itself from the Soviet Union, is charted in this issue of The Spokesman ... Even before those momentous changes, beginning in late 1991, greater influence in the Soviet periphery had long been an objective of Western strategy. Once Ukraine became independent, the chosen methods to achieve such influence combined sponsored developments of Ukrainian 'civil society', much of it courtesy of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, with long-term economic, political and military interventions by the European Union and NATO. Instability and conflict in Ukraine may not trouble the Americans much, located as it is on Russia's borders, but it should certainly concern Europeans who, among other considerations, will be asked to pick up much of the tab.
Tony Simpson from his Editorial
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Tony Simpson from his Editorial
This new issue of The Spokesman can be bought from our sister website.
Global Day of Action on Military Spending UK
Taking the message to Parliament
On 15th April, the Global Day of Action Against Military Spending (GDAMS), CAAT, Pax Christi, War on Want, CND and others joined together to take our message to Parliament, with a protest against prioritising military spending over public services and welfare.
We came together to ask for investment in improving people's quality of life, not destroying it through war and suffering. Improvements could be made by scrapping the £3bn annual cost of nuclear weapons in favour of quadrupling investment in renewable energy.
On the day campaigners took the message to parliament. For more details visit the GDAMS website.
Mass arrests of trade unionists in TurkeyPEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN
Statement 22 February 2013
It is with dismay and outrage that once again we learn of yet another round of mass arrests in Turkey. This time the victims of this repressive police action, which has become all too commonplace in the country in recent months, are trade union activists and union officials.
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Ayşe Berktay
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP)
Gaza Emergency
House of Commons
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Middle East
Eyeless in Gaza
The liberation of Alan Johnston and the imprisonment of Gaza
Usamah Hamden
Michael Ancram MP
Jonathan Lehrle
Mark Perry
Daily in the common Prison
else enjoyn'd me,
Where I a Prisoner chain'd,
scarce freely draw
The air imprison'd also,
close and damp,
Unwholsom draught …
John Milton,
Samson Agonistes
(Spokesman 96)
Trouble in Rushcliffe's Schools
David Laws MP, who falsified his expenses claims and had to repay Parliament some £56,000, has now been appointed Schools Minister by David Cameron, as we discuss in Spokesman 118. Together with Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, Laws is pushing the Government's programme of state-funded companies (academies including so-called "free schools") to run schools, which are then no longer part of the local authority or public sector. This policy of further fragmentation of school education in England is becoming increasingly chaotic, as recent developments in Nottinghamshire indicate. (READ FULL ARTICLE)
Russell Tribunal on Palestine - NYC
October 6–7, 2012
By Tony Simpson
Leila Shahid and Raji Sourani, two Palestinians, were prevented from attending the New York Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, which met in the Grand Hall of Cooper Union during the first weekend of October 2012 with hundreds of people attending over the two days. They weren't granted visas in good time by the US authorities. Their absence denied the Tribunal direct testimony from Gaza (Sourani maintains the human rights centre there), as well as the presence of one of its initiators (Khalid, together with Nurit Peled of Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Parents for Peace, and Ken Coates of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation issued the initial call for the Tribunal in 2008). (READ FULL REPORT)
executive summary of the findings of the New York session
of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine are now available. You can also
PDF version. (A full report will be issued by the end
of this month.)
Message to New York Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine from the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
Bertrand Russell died on 2 February 1970, in his 98th year. Two days
earlier he had composed a message to the International Conference of
Parliamentarians, who were about to meet in Cairo whilst Israeli air
raids reached deep into Egyptian territory. Russell's message was read
to the assembled parliamentarians on the day after his sudden death. He
had remarked that:
'The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homelands is an essential ingredient of any just settlement in the Middle East.'
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Ayşe Berktay imprisoned in Turkey
Tony Simpson, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
Patrick Deboosere, Professor Vrije Universiteit Brussels
17 July 2012
A political purge is under way in Turkey. Since 2009, thousands of activists from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have been arrested in police raids and interned in extended pre-trial detention. Following elections in June 2011, the BDP currently has 36 members of the Turkish Parliament, elected mainly with the support of Turkey's substantial Kurdish minority. (READ MORE)
Ayşe Berktay is still in prison in Turkey. Her case,
with more than 200 others, is adjourned until October. On Thursday
Tony Simpson had a chance to talk about the Russell
Foundation and Ayse on
Haberturk TV. He had spent the day at the trial next to the
Silivri Prison complex (pictured above), which houses 11,000 prisoners
and has at least 17 watchtowers.
Visit the Ayşe Berktay Free Her Now Facebook page for the latest news on the trial in Turkey.
All eyes turn to Silivri as KCK trial begins today
Hürriyet Daily News
4th July, 2012
Ayşe was one of the main animators of the World Tribunal on Iraq, which held sessions in Brussels, Tokyo and New York before concluding in Istanbul in 2005. She proposed the Tribunal in 2002, at a meeting of the European Network for Peace and Human Rights, which the Russell Foundation convened in the European Parliament in Brussels. She works as a translator, and her Turkish translation of Black Beauty has been widely acclaimed.
Eyewitness in Turkey
*** Press Release - 25 June 2012 This link will take you to a speaking version of the press release:
*** International Delegation of the World Tribunal on Iraq will come to Istanbul to attend first KCK trial and to meet with imprisoned translator Ayşe Berktay:
*** A Petition to Stop Arbitrary Detentions in Turkey can be signed here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/detentionsinturkey/
Tony Simpson
Punishing the Innocent in the Name of Justice
By Eman Ahmed Khammas
What we are witnessing in Silivri (near Istanbul) nowadays is simply a scar of shame on the forehead of humanity. Otherwise, philosophers, theorists, humanists, law makers, activists should work on finding new definitions for all the values we were taught in school, above all justice, because what is happening here is using the devices of law and justice to criminilize and punish the innocent, in the name of peace, justice and, of course, fighting terrorism ... (READ THE FULL ARTICLE)
International delegation to attend trial of Ayşe Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey
For further details please see our Ayşe Press Release page.
The Greek people choose
Eyewitness in Turkey
*** Press Release - 25 June 2012
Press Release - 25 June 2012
This link will take you to a speaking version of the press release:
International Delegation of the World Tribunal on Iraq will come to Istanbul to attend first KCK trial and to meet with imprisoned translator Ayşe Berktay:
*** A Petition to Stop Arbitrary Detentions in Turkey can be signed here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/detentionsinturkey/
A Petition to Stop Arbitrary Detentions in Turkey can be signed here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/detentionsinturkey/
Tony Simpson
Inside the Parliament, I met with Alexis Tsipras, the 38-year-old leader of SYNASPISMOS, part of the SYRIZA Coalition of the Left, which is attracting support from increasing numbers of Greek voters, as the general election on 6 May clearly showed. SYRIZA won almost 17% of the vote, up more than 12 percentage points since 2009 when it polled 4.6%. Now it has 52 MPs, four times more than previously. This vote put SYRIZA within just 2% of the Conservatives, New Democracy, the largest party. Under the Greek electoral system, the largest party automatically receives an additional 50 seats, so New Democracy, although its vote declined by 14 percentage points on Sunday, now has 108 Members of Parliament, an increase of 17 since 2009! This 50 seat 'bonus' masks the sharp decline of the Conservatives who, having lost the 2009 election with 33.5% of the vote, have now lost a further two-fifths of their voters. A large part of the Conservative loss (10.5% of the vote) went to the Independent Greeks, a new party on the democratic right, which campaigned on a staunchly anti-IMF platform. PASOK, the Socialist party, saw its vote decline by 30 percentage points (from 43.9% in 2009 to 13.2%) and its Parliamentary representation shrink from 160 to 41. The KKE Communist Party's vote rose slightly to 8.5%, adding five more MPs to make a Parliamentary Group of 26. The new Democratic Left party, which split from SYRIZA in 2009 and absorbed some of PASOK's recent losses, won 6% of the vote and 19 seats. Several smaller parties, including the Greens and the Social Contract (a splinter from PASOK, on similar lines to the Independent Greeks' splinter from New Democracy) collectively received some 19% of the popular vote, but individually received insufficient support to cross the 3% threshold required to enter the Parliament. The nationalist LAOS (5.6% in 2009) also dropped to 2.9% and failed to win representation, while Golden Dawn, an anti-immigration fascistic party, polled almost 7%, gaining 21 seats as it entered Parliament for the first time. Turnout was about 65%, so that one in three electors didn't cast a ballot. This drop in voter participation is partly attributed to economic difficulties which prevent the poorest voters from travelling from larger population centres to their own towns to vote.
Photo: At the Greek Parliament: Maria Sotiropoulou of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Tony Simpson, Alexis Tsipras, and Panos Trigazis of SYNASPISMOS.
Turkey versus Democracy
Khatchatur Pilikian is a long-time friend
of the Russell Foundation whose insights are greatly appreciated.
His recent paper Turkey versus Democracy given on the 3rd February at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London can be read in full on the Russell Foundation website.
The full article is available as a PDF.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine can promote peace, truth and reconciliation
The Israel-Palestine situation demands truth and reconciliation. We hope to aid that process
Desmond Tutu and Michael Mansfield,
Thursday 3 November 2011
Opportunities to break seemingly intractable and deadlocked situations are rare – especially on a scale which has rapidly developed this year from the beleaguered cries of citizenry across North Africa and the Middle East. There is a palpable consensus that the provenance of this movement is lodged firmly in the fundamental prerequisite for meaningful democracy: self-determination. All conventions on human rights have this tenet as a core rationale. Where it is repeatedly denied and suppressed there will never be peace or justice, let alone stability.
The full article is available on our Russell Tribunal page.
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
"No Peace Without Justice"
The London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
By Frank Barat and Michael Mansfield QC
Countless United Nations Security Council
and General Assembly resolutions have been
passed and violated; The Goldstone Report
has been attacked and dismissed and the
recent UNHRC fact finding Mission on the
Freedom Flotilla incident, condemning Israel's
actions in the strongest possible terms,
has been rejected as biased by Israel and
was hardly mentioned in the higher spheres
of the UN. The reason most often given to
explain this lack of political action being
that 'it will harm the peace process.'
We are made to believe that the Israel/Palestine conflict is a never ending one and that, when it comes to this issue, International Law is irrelevant.
But civil society knows better. This conflict is about International Law and nothing else. Not harming the peace process means not harming more than 17 years (from the Oslo agreement in 1993 until now) of settlement building, bombing, murder and assassination, Israeli army aggression, land grab, US vetoes, dispossessions and humiliation of the Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel.
Civil society also knows that under a facade of bland statements 'condemning' Israel's actions, the EU, the USA and the whole international community are in fact actively complicit in those crimes.
That's where the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) comes in.


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SUNNYSIDE, Wash. - An Outlook woman is dead after a three car crash near Sunnyside Tuesday.
The Washington State Patrol says the cars were traveling down Yakima Valley Highway, near Sunnyside Road around 11am, when the first car slowed down to avoid hitting a dog. The driver of the second car, Estella Patterson, was killed when she was rear-ended by another vehicle.
"The amount of energy that was transferred between the last two vehicles was the causing factor on the fatality," said Sgt. David DeVere.
Troopers say drugs and alcohol were not a factor in this accident.
The State Patrol says criminal charges will not be filed against the driver of the third car, but he will be ticketed.

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The attempt by CSX Transportation and the Port of Baltimore to gain double-stack container service to and from the port took a major hit Thursday after the state of Maryland withdrew funding for a planned intermodal terminal.
Expansion of Duisburg's container terminals has entered a new stage, taking the large German inland river port one step closer to meeting increased demand and additional rail traffic.
U.S. grain shippers are welcoming the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's collective bargaining agreement with Pacific Northwest grain handlers, but they are still concerned about poor rail service that is hampering their ability to get exports to Asia.
Canadian National Railway announced that it will discontinue intermodal service to a rail hub at Auburn, Maine, effective Nov. 15, because of insufficient freight volume.
An increase in U.S. manufacturing activity and imports is driving business to third-party logistics companies as shippers turn to 3PLs for freight capacity on highways and rails.
U.S. shippers are finding that hedging their bets against possible U.S. West Coast port disruptions by shipping cargo through the Port of Prince Rupert comes with a catch: long delays before imports can be loaded onto the rails.
The world's largest container manufacturer, China International Marine Containers (CIMC), does not expect the U.S. government's antidumping and countervailing duty investigation to be resolved before May next year.
Port San Antonio named a new president and CEO on Aug. 25, tapping a 25-year economic development veteran to lead the inland industrial development agency.
In the latest instance of drayage-related disruption, violence flared at Ningbo's Beilun Container Port as thousands of striking truck drivers clashed with riot police and smashed the windshields of trucks crossing a picket line. The past week's protests brought the world's sixth-largest container port to a standstill, with carriers reportedly diverting ships.
A Federal appeals court in Pasadena shot down a novel legal challenge to railyard emissions that if successful would have erected a roadblock to a proposed Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal railyard near the Port of Los Angeles.


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OREGON, OH (TOLEDO NEWS NOW) - An $800 million project could be in the works for the city of Oregon. Groundbreaking for a new gas-fired power plant could happen as early as next fall.
Details of the proposed project were released at a news conference Wednesday morning. Those heading the project said it would be the most efficient power plant in America, working twice as efficient as local coal plants.
"New turbine technology is advancing every year, and it's doing two things: It's burning gas more efficiently, and it's also creating less emissions that go out into the environment," said Jeff Ruggiero, director of development for North American Project Development.
After more than two years of planning, officials hope to build the new power plant just south of the BP plant on North Lallendorf in Oregon. The plant would convert natural gas into electricity producing 800 megawatts, which would be enough to provide electricity for 500,000 homes.
"It's the same natural gas that goes into your stove or your furnace. We'll take that natural gas and convert it into electricity," explained Ruggiero.
The project would be managed by North American Project Development, which developed a similar plant in Fremont.
Oregon Mayor Mike Seferian said the project will be huge for the city. Tax revenue from the plant will go back to the community and schools, plus, jobs will be created. Between 400 and 600 construction workers could be hired for two to three years to build the plant, and between 25 and 27 full-time employees could work on site once the plant is built. Materials would also be bought locally.
"You've got the space, you've got the infrastructure, and you've got the need. Hopefully we'll get the people here to come and build," said Seferian.
Seferian said the city has been working hard to acquire investments like this.
"Any industrial or commercial user has to look for their needs to be met, and we have ground that's readily available, and we have the infrastructure in place," said Seferian.
The development group is hoping the project will help take the place of Bay Shore and other coal plants which will be closing due to new Environmental Protection Agency clean air standards.
"Whenever plants go down, there's a need to replace them. So that's really what drove us to northwest Ohio," said Bill Siderewicz, managing partner for North America Project Development.
There are still a few obstacles to overcome before work can be started.
Although funding is set, the company has three last things to arrange. First, it needs to get permission to connect the power to the system. Second, it will need to bring a gas supply to the site, which is a task already started with Columbia Gas. Lastly, it will have to find a company that wants to buy the electricity.
"We're feeling really confident. We wouldn't have made this announcement if we weren't feeling really good about things," said Ruggiero.
If everything goes as planned, groundbreaking could take place next fall.
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Smesko Announces 2009-10 Schedule for Reigning A-Sun Regular Season Champs
FORT MYERS, Fla. - FGCU women's basketball and head coach Karl Smesko have announced the Eagles' 2009-10 schedule. The Eagles will navigate a slate that will see them play a minimum of 14 home games.
"We accomplished everything we wanted to do with the schedule this season," said Smesko. "We received an invite to the preseason WNIT, scheduled a game at Michigan State for all of our Midwest players, and have very good non-conference competition to help prepare us for what should be an incredibly competitive Atlantic Sun Conference."
FGCU's regular season will get underway with the Eagles hosting UTEP on Nov. 13 in the first round of the Preseason WNIT. The event, which features a three-game guarantee format and could result in additional home games for FGCU, consists of a 16-team field and will conclude with the championship game on Nov. 22.
The Eagles will then play a pair of contests in the FGCU Thanksgiving Classic. FGCU will open play against Tulsa on Nov. 27 before taking on Rider the following day.
A road date and conference opener with Stetson on Dec. 5 precedes a huge road contest at Michigan State in the Breslin Center a week later for the Eagles. The Spartans finished 22-11overall and lost 69-68 to Iowa State in the "Sweet 16" last season.
The Blue and Green will then host conference foe USC Upstate (Dec. 19), before heading to Miami, Fla. to face Florida International at U.S. Century Bank Arena on Dec. 22. FGCU will then close out its non-conference slate with a home game as Bethune-Cookman will visit Alico Arena.
Road contests in Nashville, Tenn. against Belmont (Jan. 2) and Lipscomb (Jan. 4) will kick off the new year for the Eagles. After hitting the road for five straight games, FGCU returns to Alico Arena for the first time in 2010 with a matchup against North Florida on Thursday, Jan. 7. The Eagles take on Jacksonville two days later (Jan. 9) before hitting the road for games at Campbell (Jan. 14) and ultimate showdown against the reigning back-to-back A-Sun Tournament Champion, ETSU on Saturday, Jan. 16.
Five of the next seven outings for FGCU will come at home as games against Kennesaw State, Mercer, Stetson, ETSU and Campbell will be sandwiched around Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 tilts at Kennesaw State and Mercer in Georgia.
The Eagles will then travel to Duval County for games at Jacksonville (Feb. 11) and North Florida (Feb. 13).
The Blue and Green closes out its home slate with games against Lipscomb on Feb 18 and Belmont on Feb. 20 (Senior Day).
FGCU will wrap up the Atlantic Sun regular season on Feb. 25 when it heads up to South Carolina to face USC Upstate in Spartanburg.
The Eagles wrap up the season by participating in the two-day Longwood Tournament on the campus of Longwood University in Farmville, Va. on March 6 and 7. The tournament field includes Longwood, Seattle and North Carolina Central.
FGCU, the defending Atlantic Sun Conference regular-season champion, returns four starters, seven letter-winners and 87-percent of their scoring from last year's 26-5 team, which advanced to the second round of the WNIT for the second consecutive year before losing in overtime to eventual champion USF.
For the most up-to-date schedule throughout the season, click the 'Schedule' link on the women's basketball page.


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A determined army of Orc-players, led by the mighty and dreaded dark lord Fehron, rampage against the on-coming faction of NHL team owners in book two of H.R.R. Tolkien's epic 'Lord of the Revenue"...
Young hobbit Grodo Bettmins is given a monumental task: stop the dark lord Fehron and his army of players from conquering Hockey-earth and taking all the owner's money in H.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy...
Broadway's newest (fake) hit takes a raw, uncompromising look at the cutthroat NHL CBA negotiations which resume this weekend. Remember: Coffee is for closers.
With the NHL getting so good at lockouts, it's time they engrave their prepared statement on the lockout to the Stanley Cup.
A satirical look at a (fake) classic video game that lets NHLPA players take on NHL Collective Bargaining negotiations.
With another potential NHL lockout on the horizon, this satire looks at how documentary filmmaker extraordinaire Ken Burns would tackle the subject. (Spoiler: it would be really, really long)
A satirical op-ed piece by NHL Commish Gary Bettman addressing "the greatest fans in the world."
A satire of the latest potential NHL lockout scenario. Why raise player numbers to the rafters when you can honor labor disputes?
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Original post made on Dec 4, 2012
==B Most Valuable Player: == Kyle Dozier (Saratoga) Sr.
==B MVP Offense: ==Keller Chryst (Palo Alto) Jr. QB
==B MVP Lineman: ==Spencer Drazovich (Palo Alto) Sr.
==B Outstanding Wide Receiver: ==Jayshawn Gates-Mouton (Palo Alto) Sr.
==B Outstanding Tight End: == De'Antay Williams (Palo Alto) Sr.
==B Outstanding Outside Linebacker: ==Andrew Frick (Palo Alto) Jr.
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on Dec 4, 2012 at 5:24 pm
The SCVAL de Anza all-star team has 5 Quarterbacks getting "First Team" or better (MVP and Outstanding)!!. In total, there have to be more than 60 names getting "First team" or better. Do football teams still use 11 players on each side, with a few specialists (K, punter, returners, utility). Selecting all-stars usually requires tough choices. Here, there were no choices. Might be easier to list who didn't get awards in the SCVAL de Anza division. Go SHP!
on Dec 5, 2012 at 9:42 am
Hey Tom...
You know how many SHP players would be 2nd string in the DEANZA....too many to list. While the DAL list may have many names, this league is the strongest in CCS besides WCAL. Enjoy you DIV title but keep your opinions in the weak PAL league!
on Dec 5, 2012 at 11:01 am
Hey PALY guy,
I was trying to be diplomatic...there are actually more than 75 players named "First Team" or better; 5 QBs, 12 DLinemen; 12 LBs..the list goes on. I don't know how many SHP players would be Second team in the DAL - my guess is that all DAL players, other than the almost 80 named "First Team" or better, are on the "Second team" It's not about stronger/weaker, it's about integrity. Don't make the all-star process a joke (13 OLinemen! - ribbons for everyone). The PAL-Bay has only 28 different players named First Team or better - seems a bit closer to reality.


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Read about this terrific Wrigley Field book and find out how you can win a copy!
Next in a continuing series of reviews of books about the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field.
That's a really long title. This is a fairly long book. Here's a summation of what's inside.
These days when we have to wait until 9 p.m. CT for baseball seem really long. (Yes, I know. They seem longer once the game starts.) This will be the last day of the 2013 season where we have to...
What if Moises Alou had caught that ball in the 2003 NLCS? A new book looks at what might have happened afterward.
This annual compendium of baseball numbers made an unusual choice of cover subject.
A review of Doug Glanville's book about his life in baseball.
A review of a new book, an oral history of the 1970s in baseball.
A review of a new book about life in the Wrigley Field bleachers.
This cookbook contains both recipes players have made, and those they enjoy from family and from restaurants.
Ex-major leaguer Andy Van Slyke has co-written a novel about the Cubs.
This new book by Dan Schlossberg celebrates the 300-game winner.
What are the most lopsided deals in baseball history? A new book examines this question.
BCB book review series continues with "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend"
Chris Jaffe from "The Hardball Times" has a new book about baseball managers.
A review of a not-so-new book about umpiring.
Review of the new baseball book "The Original Curse".
Review of the new book, "Root For The Cubs", by Roger Snell.
Review of Jim McArdle's new book "Living The Dream".
Review of a new Cubs coloring book for kids.
Review of the book "The 10 Commandments of Baseball".
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ANDERSON, Ind. — After spraining his ankle during a sectional loss on his home field, Anderson's Tim Boyd thought he may have played his last high school game.
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With two rushing touchdowns, Boyd led the West to a 34-29 victory over the East squad.
With the exception of an early East interception, which the West team turned into a quick seven points, the first half was dominated on the ground for both teams.Boyd got into a rhythm late in the first quarter with a couple of two-yard runs before breaking one open up the middle for a 22-yard touchdown. Showing off his basketball skills, Boyd added a dunk through the goalpost, and an extra-point from Madison-Grant's Austin Engle gave the West a commanding 14-0 lead with 46 seconds left in the first quarter.
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Though down 14 points, the East took the ball to the ground, led by the rushing attack of Pendleton Heights' Jon Furrow. The Arabians senior, who did a little bit of everything Friday night – punting, rushing the ball and kicking extra-points – made his biggest impact of the evening with a couple runs midway through the second quarter.
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on Dec 8, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Out of your mind! It is completely inappropriate that adults put down those who work hard to help the boys of our community to become men on and off the field. 1. Do not speak of what you know not of. 2. If your child has never played football prior to high school and are afraid of injuries DO NOT allow them to play! Injuries happen to kids on and off ALL sports fields. (including normal life)
In regards to the comment about scholarships obviously again clueless!!! Are you trying to dumb down football players intentionally? You would be quite surprised of how many football players actually go to college and play football on scholarship... not just sports but academic scholarships! I personally know many football players current and past that go to college on sports or academic scholarship.
If find it funny that those who complain about the sport always seem to know the spread of the games and the players stats. IRONIC! Watch NFL much?
What has Mountain View come too? It's getting to be an embarrassment to be associated with people that live in this town. Between the "Lights at MVHS" argument and the "McKelvey Park lawsuit" I am completely fed up with this community! People here don't want our kids to be athletic at all it seems!!! Your all out of your minds!
on Dec 10, 2012 at 11:45 am
Extremely unfortunate article. As a high school student, Gary, it is appalling to read your diagnosis for my school. I'm not entirely sure if every adult in the Mountain View area thinks they are living in a retirement community, but as they demand the respect of everyone around them, I think it's fair to ask for a little respect from them.
The people that live here seem to forget that there are families, students, children, and athletes who would like to engage in a vibrant, active community. As if it isn't bad enough that every student at Mountain View suffers from a lack of school spirit due to the absence of lights for our football field, we now have people advocating to let go of our team. As for the injuries, you trip getting out of bed in the morning. Just as no one forces you to do that, no one is forcing anyone to play football.
It's painful to read such a tasteless article. Mountain View High suffers from extreme, constant academic stress, and a strong football team is an invaluable asset to a high schools morale. It saddens me, Gary, that you would propose to take away a school's football team, when people like you in our community should be promoting the camaraderie that a sport like that offers, not only to the players, but to the school and the community itself. You should be ashamed.
on Dec 10, 2012 at 11:36 pm
What does the author of this letter think of the Mountain View Marauders? Is he even aware there is a Pop Warner league in this area? I am going to guess not because of the ignorance of his opinion. He cited MV/LA Varsity records and lopsided scores against local opponents as rationale to abandon the programs. Is he aware both JV football teams did well this season? MV played in the tough DeAnza division and LA had a great record in the El Camino. Lopsided wins aren't grounds for quitting, they're signs both programs need to take the sport even more seriously. There are athletes in these areas, they need to be trained properly and coached up by quality, knowledgable coaches. Disbanding the football programs at both schools because the competition is "too good" is the opposite of what sports are about. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but this guy is obviously out of touch with what youth sports, including football, bring to the development of adolescents.


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Yamaha TQ5
The TQ5 was an entry level FM Workstation in a keyboardless, sparsely decorated desktop unit. It takes after the smaller line of FM synthesizers like the DX-100, DX-21, DX-11, TX81Z, and FB-01. These featured 4 FM operators per voice, and 8 voices of polyphony. And like the latter three, 8-parts multitimbrality was featured. The TQ5 also had easy "Quick Edit" keys to access some basic parameters for instant tweaks. The TQ5 was capable of many of the good (and the bad) sounds FM synthesizers made.
The TQ5 featured built-in digital effects and an 8-track sequencer (with 8 song capacity) rounding out the "workstation" aspect of this machine. Designed for use as a stand-alone FM workstation or as a MIDI module, the TQ5 was poised to bring high-end FM sounds to entry-level users. Unfortunately it was released at a time when the DX and FM synthesizers were becoming less popular in the market, so the TQ5 tanked. Really low second hand prices help it to retain its original purpose...to provide an FM workstation for entry-level for musicians on a budget.
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Portamento. Missing without explanation.
This inexplicable/unjustifiable lack of a basic, taken-for-granted feature is shared with its keyboard equivalent, the YS200/EOS E200 (& 100).
No microtuning either.
Suddenly the FB-01 does not seem so humble after all. In fact, I think the FB is very underrated. Get a good EQ to make up for its badly attenuated treble, & enjoy its beautifully sparse & effective interface.
Should have bought a TX81z . . .
Completely false. No chorus at all.
"Envelopes - ADSR envelopes"
Oversimplified. It has Attack Rate, Decay 1 Rate, D1 Level, D2 Rate, and Release Rate. If Decay 2 = 0, you get ADSR. But if not, you get 2-stage decay. These are not equivalent.
More basically, this page totally omits the highly notable fact TQ5 has a Pitch Envelope Generator, something its closest modular relative, the TX81z, lacks.
"Is there any info about rom and ram that TQ5 support?"
Not sure what you mean? 100 voices in RAM, 100 ROM
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- Demos & Media
Yamaha TQ5 and Logic 8: Everything Old Is New Again
Yamaha TQ5 Factory Presets Demo
Manual - Download the original owner's manual from SoundProgramming.net.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 8 voices
- Oscillators - 4 FM operators with 8 waveforms
- Effects - reverb, chorus, echo, distortion
- LFO - One LFO
- Filter - No filter
- Envelopes - ADSR envelopes
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator: None; Sequencer: 8-track, 8 Songs
- Keyboard - None
- Memory - 100 preset, 100 user patches, external memory card
- Control - MIDI (8-parts)
- Date Produced - 1988 - 1991
- Websites of Interest
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Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
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Images from The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum.
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A year ago we purchased two cubs: a 1972 and a 1948. The majority of the work has been done on the 72 because it was already running when it was purchased. Recently, I tried to start the 48 and had no luck.I discovered an exhaust valve seized in the open position on cyl. #2
I was wondering if anybody has had any luck freeing up valves without removing the head.I know it is a long shot but any encouragement would help. Thanks!


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Staff Sergeant Jack Carlson of the US Army and his family paid thanks to Bay County Commissioner George Gainer by presenting an American flag and a plaque to him at his place of business.
Carlson is close friends with the Gainer family and, before deploying to Afghanistan, Gainer provided a place for Carlson and his family to spend time together before leaving.
Carlson and his wife and son are stationed in Alaska and rarely see their family in Panama City.
"Living in Alaska doesn't allow for us to see our family very often," said Carlson. "So, he provided us a location to all meet, in fact, some of the times it was the only time that my family had been able to see my son before I deployed.
"In his honor, I flew a flag overseas in Afghanistan for about 55 missions."
Commissioner Gainer says he's known Carlson and his family for more than 20 years.
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Holidays in Santorini are a magical experience where visitors get spectacular landscapes, picturesque villages, breathtaking sunsets, wonderful beaches, delicious food and excellent accommodation. Santorini is a beautiful Island with long history, ancient Greek culture and traditional architecture. Hotels in Santorini are built in traditional Cycladic way, made of stones and well decorated with wooden furniture where the visitors can get nice hospitality, comprehensive facilities and services to have an unforgettable Santorini vacation.
Oia is one of the most beautiful villages of Santorini Island, considered by many as one of the most ...
Amazing sunset view to world famous sunset place in Oia, Santorini, Greece.
Oia is famous for its marvelous sunset. Three hours before only a fraction of the people are here com...
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
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Since its inception in 1968, over 900 degrees have been awarded to MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduates. Our alumni are working all over the world in diverse areas including research institutions, liberal arts colleges and high schools, museums, government, private industry, NGOs, and science journalism, just to name a few.
We have created this Joint Program alumni website for a number of reasons. We'd like to give the graduates an opportunity to network with each other and to exchange career information with current Joint Program students. We also hope that it will be a helpful resource for students considering applying to the Joint Program. And lastly, we are hoping to get up-to-date information about each alumnus for the Academic Programs (formerly Education) Office.
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In June 2009, the Zoo lost its executive director, Jeff Swanagan. He was a visionary leader, an inspiring teacher and friend, and a tireless advocate for conservation and animals. While he was executive director for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for only a year, his extraordinary vision and leadership during his tenure will ensure his legacy lives on for years to come.
Jeff had an unwavering belief that zoos and aquariums are about people as much as they are about animals. He knew that people visit zoos not just to see animals, but to spend time together, and, within that truth, Jeff saw endless potential - both to touch the lives of people and to save the lives of animals. He wanted the Zoo to be a place to connect to one another, a place of once-in-a-lifetime memories and experiences.
To capture this idea, he coined the phrase "touch the heart to teach the mind" and then infused that spirit into everything he did. Simply getting people into the Zoo wasn't enough - he wanted to inspire and engage them, to get them invested in each other, animals, and conservation. Jeff knew that without inspiring people, without touching their hearts, you cannot teach their minds or hope to make the world a better place.
This whimsically themed area in Jungle Jack's Landing gives you, the guest, the chance to engage with Zoo animals up close and personal. From the prickly touch of a hedgehog to being nearly nose-to-nose with an American Alligator, there's an extraordinary experience waiting for you at Animal Encounters Village. And you never know what you will see - one day a turkey vulture, the next a cheetah – but one thing is for sure – you and your family will leave with the memories of a lifetime.
Animals on Safari debuted on 6 July 2009, at the newly-renovated the Activity Pavilion in the Zoo's entryway. Created as an educational and entertaining animal show, Animals on Safari was produced specifically for the Zoo by internationally-known animal trainer Joel Slaven. Renowned for his ability to train animals from binturongs to beagles, Mr. Slaven currently is best known for his shows that feature mostly domestic animals like dogs and cats – the majority of which are rescued from local shelters and groups. It is this unique and vital component of his shows that inspired the Zoo to bring his show to Columbus.
Taking place in a set created to look like Jack Hanna's base camp from the Jack Hanna's Into the Wild show, Animals on Safari features tricks and performances by more than 100 animals, as they "prepare" the base camp for filming. The animals perform both with and without the trainers onstage. The mixture of animals is approximately 60 percent domestic and 40 percent exotic/wild; all of the animals are rescues and many are rescues from local organizations.
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A Jasper County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury found him guilty on Thursday of murdering his wife two years ago.
Authorities say Shannon Rayner, a former Jackson police officer, murdered his wife on Valentine's Day 2011 and burned their house down to try and hide the crime.
The jury found Rayner guilty of murder but not guilty of the arson charge.
Testimony during the trial indicated Shannon and Sonya argued the day before the murder when they went to a bank to have the victim's name removed from a joint bank account. The next day Sonya Rayner's body was found inside the burned out house on Summerland Road.
A Jasper County jury deliberated about four-and-a-half hours on Thursday before finding Rayner guilty of murder.
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---- — SAINT-AMAND-MONTROND, France (AP) — Wily Tour de France riders who used the wind and worked together to trap their rivals turned a trek across the flats of central France into a thriller on Friday, as exciting and, for the most unfortunate, as decisive as any spectacular day in the mountains.
Yellow jersey holder Chris Froome lost some lead but not enough to endanger the Briton heading toward what is shaping up to be an intriguing finale in the Alps.
The team of Alberto Contador dealt the former two-time champion back into the game, putting him close enough to Froome to make the last week of the race interesting.
Contodor moved from fourth place, with a 3:54 deficit to Froome, he moved up to third, 2:45 off the lead. Bauke Mollema from the Netherlands, to second, now 2:28 from Froome.
Still, Froome's time cushion remains significant and he is an excellent climber.
The imposing Mont Ventoux this Sunday and the Alps next week offer him chances to do damage of his own.
"Having lost a minute there, that's always a bitter pill to swallow because we've worked really hard already to get the advantage we had. But saying that, we only lost a minute," he said. "I think there will be more time won and lost on a stage like Ventoux."


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Zynga's stock fail was sadly predictable, and the company is left with few prospects for the future
Zynga stock is selling for $3.17 a share as of this writing, down from the $10 opening price and all-time high of $15.91. The company's free fall has been a popular story in both the gaming and the business press, but what's fascinating about the story is the fact that it's a story at all. Zynga has always been a company that seemed to resist innovation, chasing a simplistic formula that is beginning to look increasingly outdated in a world where even Facebook is having trouble keeping its value up. Zynga's IPO was volatile when it launched, and things are only getting worse.
What was wrong with the IPO?
Zynga seems to be a company with a broad slate of projects and impressive revenue, but the reality of their business was laid bare in its filings with the Security and Exchange Commission before the launch of the company's 2011 IPO. The risks were many, and obvious. "We rely on a small percentage of our players for nearly all of our revenue," the filing stated, while also noting that "a small number of games have generated a majority of our revenue, and we must continue to launch and enhance games that attract and retain a significant number of paying players in order to grow our revenue and sustain our competitive position." Those two things should have sent giant red flags going off for investors; Zynga counted on a small number of players in a small number of games to make up the majority of its revenue. The massive amount of people who played Zynga games don't matter, what matters are the people who pay for items in the game, and if even a small number of those people leave, relative to the size of the overall user base, the company will collapse. It's important to remember that Zynga came to prominence in the gaming industry with games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, which were based on concepts honed in earlier games by other companies. Zynga has a long history of appearing to "borrow" from successful games, and then leveraging the size of its audience to make their versions of these games a success. "I don't fucking want innovation," an ex-employee remembers CEO Mark Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." A later memo described that strategy in softer terms was leaked to Forbes. "We don't need to be first to market. We need to be the best in market," Pincus wrote. "There are genres that we're going to enter because we know our players are interested in them and because we want and need to be where players are. We evolve genres by making games free, social, accessible and highest quality." Cashing in the design work of others isn't a lasting strategy, but the purchase of OMGPOP provided more evidence that Zynga was headed for a crash. The estimated $180 million acquisition, with $30 million more used to retain employees, came together on the strength of one game: the monstrously popular Draw Something. The problem is that any attempts at monetizing the game would prove to be annoying to consumers, and have the effect of pushing them to other similar products. The game's active users were only topically impressive; there wasn't anything of long term value in OMGPOP's stable of products, and little evidence of talent that could provide innovation for future products. There was nothing proprietary or special about Draw Something, as the game was merely a simplistic take on Pictionary. The only thing Zynga bought for that money was users, who promptly fled the game, leaving Zynga with a $210 million acquisition of developers who likely didn't understand why Draw Something was a hit in the first place. It's not quite as bad as lighting money on fire, but it's the next worst thing. Today Draw Something has 3.4 million daily active users, according to AppData, down from an average of 14.5 million daily active users in April. Zynga has yet to create a single hit that isn't based on the DNA of existing games. The company simply threw money at a developer whose only asset was a fluke hit with users that had no reason to begin paying for the product, much less stick around. Those are bad things, but the worst part of Zynga's business is an utter reliance on Facebook, and Facebook is beginning to realize that diversification is in its own best interest.
The Facebook problem
"If we are unable to maintain a good relationship with Facebook, our business will suffer," Zynga's filing stated. The filing had a long list of ways Facebook could hurt its business, including if "Facebook discontinues or limits access to its platform by us and other game developers," "Facebook modifies its terms of service or other policies, including fees charged to, or other restrictions on, us or other application developers, or Facebook changes how the personal information of its users is made available to application developers on the Facebook platform or shared by users," "Facebook establishes more favorable relationships with one or more of our competitors," and lastly, if "Facebook develops its own competitive offerings." Let that sink in for a moment: Zynga exists at the pleasure of Facebook. We're beginning to see these dangers come into play as Facebook adjusts how game data is shared across its network. "Essentially, Facebook's platform tweaks favor new games over Zynga's long-established titles," AllThingsD reported. "The social gaming giant once had a stranglehold on Facebook's application ecosystem, but Facebook changed tack this year, tweaking its News Feed algorithm and opening App Center, a central location for Facebook users to discover new third-party applications." This shift also caused newer Zynga games to get more exposure, but Zynga has proven that amount of players isn't nearly as important as the number of paying customers. Without launching new games that consumers are willing to pay for, the lowered emphasis on Zynga's existing properties could be fatal. Just in case this feels like a case of hindsight being 20/20, these are the dangers I wrote about back in July of last year when I first covered the IPO for Ars Technica. It looked like a bad investment from the start. Zynga's fortunes are tied to Facebook, but Facebook has more to gain by emphasizing a wider variety of games from many different vendors. This could force Zynga to look for success on other platforms, where the company has little experience, and what's likely to be a smaller appetite for acquisitions after the disastrous purchase of OMGPOP.
It's okay though, the big names have already dumped their stock
The stock's plummeting value wasn't hard to predict, but the 43 million shares dumped by company insiders for $12 a share in April is galling. This is the same stock that is now selling for slightly over $3 a share. "In other words, Zynga insiders cashed out at exactly the right time," Yahoo Finance reported. "In fact, they cashed out in the same quarter in which Zynga imploded." That same article points out that all the stock sold in this "secondary stock offering" belonged to company insiders, and none of the cash went to the company. The company that paid, according to Yahoo finance, $1 million for "legal fees and private jet rental" to make the sale happen. Not a bad deal. Marc Pincus himself sold 16.5 million shares of stock, for $200 million. If he had held onto those stocks until today, they would be worth approximately $52.3 million. He still owns a large number of shares, but that single sale may have been the best business decision he made since Zynga's IPO. It's a shame no one else could benefit from his prodigious foresight. This sale is now under investigation. Zynga is a company that became successful when a small number of people began paying for items in a small number of seemingly cloned social games. That success was always contingent on Facebook keeping Zynga in its good graces. Now the company is forced to rethink its business model without any easy targets to clone or buy, with expertise in a style of game that may prove to be little more than a fad. This is the challenge of our new gaming economy: it doesn't matter how many people are playing, it only matters how many are paying. These days, Zynga gamers are keeping their wallets in their collective pockets.


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We have been on the Sapphire Princess before, fine ship that is well maintained. The service was excellent, from the cabin steward to the dining staff. We have never found service on Princess to be anything short of great.
Dining: We seldom use the Horizon Court Buffet, although the few times I went there for a cup of coffee it was very busy, therefore I don't really have an opinion on it. We ate breakfast in the dining room, the meal was always first class, good food and service. The first morning I asked for a bowl of Granola and mixed berries, the cereal they brought me appeared to be Muslix. I questioned the waiter who sent the head waiter to us. He listened to my comments and said that is what they have as Granola in the dining room. HE offered to go to the buffet and see if they had anything else as Granola to offer, he returned with a single serving box of Granola and it was just what I wanted. I would say he went out of his way to see that I received what I wanted.
We ate dinner as 'anytime dining in the Savoy dining room', good food and excellent service. Anytime dining is the only way to go.
We had some rough seas on the first full day out, on the way to San Francisco. They said it was caused by high winds, we arrived 6 hours late therefore canceling all of the tours for day. The best port was Santa Barbara, with the most disappointing being Catalina Island. Overall a good variety of ports.
The entertainment on Princess cruises is where the line really needs to make improvments. There production shows are entertaining, but seem to lack any real differences from show to show. They don't even change the backdrops between numbers. Individual entertainers are not used much by Princess, but I think they should consider bringing them back, at least then you could have some amount of choice in entertainment each night. Princess seems to think we want to watch movies on a cruise, I could stay home and save a lot of money watching movies at home.


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The Montreal Impact just keep adding MLS veterans to their roster, with goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts becoming the latest. The Impact sent an undisclosed amount of allocation money to the Los Angeles Galaxy in exchange for the veteran, who has been among the league's best shot stoppers when healthy since joining the league in 2009. The trade was the second of the Impact's second of the day on Monday and their fourth since last week's Expansion Draft.
In Ricketts, the Impact have found a legitimate MLS starter to go along with Bill Gaudette, who has spent the last four seasons establishing himself as the best second-division goalkeeper in North America. Gaudette has not officially signed yet, but that seems to be a mere formality and Ricketts' acquisition may be designed at least in part to put some pressure on the 30-year-old to put pen to paper. Gaudette played for the Impact in the NASL last year after spending three seasons with the Puerto Rico Islanders. He also made 17 appearances for the Columbus Crew in 2007.
When healthy, Ricketts has been among the elite MLS goalkeepers. He registered 27 shutouts in his 70 MLS appearances and stopped about 76 percent of the shots he faced went 35-15-18. The biggest knock against him was his health, something he especially struggled with this year. Ricketts made a career low 15 appearances in 2011 and appeared to have been supplanted by Josh Saunders as the Galaxy's No. 1 goalkeeper. Saunders was stellar last year, registering eight shutouts in 18 starts.
Ricketts becomes the 19th player the Impact have acquired since joining MLS and is the fifth to arrive via trade. The Impact have definitely splashed around the allocation dollars, as they have included allocation money in all four of their trades. It's also another indication that the Impact are willing to spend on proven MLS veterans, as Ricketts is the fourth player they've acquired who made at least $180,000 in guaranteed compensation during the 2011 season.
For more insight and analysis of this move, be sure to check out LA Galaxy blog LAG Confidential.