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Laver's season Slam stands test of time
He turned 71 last month, but Rod Laver isn't aging without a fight. He's multitasking on this bright August day, simultaneously working out and patiently walking a reporter through his taut 1969 Wimbledon final against John Newcombe.
You can hear him straining on the Lifecycle in the fitness room at the picturesque La Costa resort, not far from his home in Carlsbad, Calif.
"Wait a minute," Laver says in his wonderfully precise Australian accent, mellowed ever so slightly by many years in Southern California. "Let me go outside. There's a lot going on in here."
A minute later, he picks up the thread precisely where he left off: "Now, Newcombe was quite a test for me. He's the thinking man's champion. He started slow-balling me, lobbing me. I knew that would happen."
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In this day of the perpetually shrinking attention span, it is fashionable to say Roger Federer is the greatest male tennis player of all time. This may or may not be true. Certainly, Laver -- along with Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras -- is a valid entry in that conversation.
For the record, though, Federer, Borg and Sampras never won all four major titles -- the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open -- in a single year. Laver did it twice, as an amateur in 1962 and again in 1969 as a professional in the dawning Open era. He might have done it again if he'd been allowed to play the Grand Slam events from 1963 to 1967; because he was a professional, he was banned. It's been 40 years since man walked on the moon, since a generation came together in Woodstock, N.Y. Four decades since the Mets miraculously won their first World Series and Laver, at the age of 31, completed the calendar Grand Slam with a four-set victory over fellow Aussie Tony Roche at Forest Hills.
No man has done it since.
The player's player
"When you go to some of the locations, Wimbledon or the Australian Open, it seems like a long time ago because of all the new players and stadiums," said Laver, who is terminally freckle-faced and still sports his trademark rust-colored hair. "But then you see some fellow competitors, and get to talking and it only seems like a few years."
Laver, a lefty, stood only 5-foot-8, but he was strong and exceptionally fit, even among his professional peers. His left forearm was so big it bordered on cartoonish. Like the rest of the Aussies of that day, Laver played a classic serve-and-volley game. He had powerful wrists, which allowed him to play heavy topspin from both sides, then a relatively new phenomenon -- a difficult enterprise with the wooden rackets and strings of the day. His running backhand was a thing of beauty. Early in his career, Laver was so enamored of his shot-making ability that he sometimes forgot to play the percentages. In his prime, though, he evolved into a technician and adapted to changing conditions better than any of his peers.
Darren Cahill was only 3 years old when Laver ran the table in 1969. Growing up in the Australian junior system, Cahill learned very quickly what Laver had meant to his country and the sport of tennis. He and his other contemporaries, Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald among them, would jockey for position in hotel restaurants for the opportunity to eat breakfast with the legend.
"From a physical point of view, he's not overly imposing, but his presence is enormous," said Cahill, an ESPN analyst. "He was somebody we all looked up to. To be honest, the butterflies come to your stomach when you have a chance to visit with him.
"What he did still stands the test of time."
Laver's achievement is detailed in "The Education of a Tennis Player," a book written by Laver and Bud Collins in 1971 and reissued this year to commemorate the anniversary. The Slam made little initial impact outside of the cloistered world of tennis, but over the years it gradually has grown in stature.
Laver had just turned 18 when fellow Aussie Lew Hoad found himself playing for history at the U.S. Championships at Forest Hills in 1956.
Hoad and another 21-year-old amateur from Down Under, Ken Rosewall, battled in the final. Hoad, who had beaten Rosewall in both the Australian Open and Wimbledon finals, was looking to win the first men's Grand Slam since Don Budge in 1938 -- and he very nearly did it. But after winning the first set, Hoad succumbed to Rosewall.
Six years later, Laver pulled off the rare quadruple. At the top of his muscular game, Laver won 22 of 27 tournaments -- including all four major championships, three of them on grass -- and, including Davis Cup and other events, produced a ludicrous match record of 167-15.
"We didn't get big prize money back then," Laver said, laughing. "You had to play a lot of matches."
Cliff Drysdale -- one of Laver's many victims during his Grand Slam sweep in 1969, falling to the Aussie in the fourth round at Wimbledon -- was the last man to beat Laver in a major before the epic streak.
"He had the kind of variety of stroke and game that Roger Federer has," Drysdale said. "And he was the player's player. When the Rocket went out to play, the player's box was always full. That to me was the greatest compliment to a player. Sort of like Federer now."
In 1963, Laver turned professional, joining Hoad and Rosewall in exile from the major championships.
From a physical point of view, he's not overly imposing, but his presence is enormous." -- ESPN analyst Darren Cahill
"I think the amateur-professional era is the most, probably the biggest issue that people under 50 don't understand -- they have no clue," said John Fitzgerald, the Australian Davis Cup captain. "Even 30-year-olds in the game, 20-year-olds playing today, it's a foreign thought to them. It's a great part of the game's history people don't comprehend."
Five years later, the Grand Slam events, conceding that the best players weren't participating, began the Open era by allowing professionals to compete for major titles. Laver, who reached the 1968 final at Roland Garros, won only one that year (Wimbledon). In 1969, he would be perfect on the grand stage.
Asked to provide some brief thoughts on each of those majors, Laver politely laughed.
"It's 40 years ago," he said.
And then he launched into a narrative chillingly exact in its detail.
A perfect run
Perhaps the most difficult match of the 26 required to complete the Slam came relatively early, on the grass at the Australian Open. It was 105 degrees in Brisbane on the day of his semifinal with Tony Roche. Laver won the first set 7-5, but he needed 42 games to win the second 22-20. Roche came back to win the third and fourth sets 11-9 and 6-1, but Laver rallied to win the 4½-hour match 6-3 in the fifth.
"We had been pros together for five years, so I knew his game," Laver said of Roche. "That was a long, hard match. I have to say I played well in that event."
He beat Andres Gimeno of Spain in the final, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
In the second round on the slow, red clay at Roland Garros, Laver ran into another Australian. Dick Crealy, of all people, stunned Laver by winning the first two sets. And then Laver found equilibrium, taking the last three sets easily. After beating Roche in the semifinals, Laver's opponent in the French Open final was Rosewall.
"He beat me the year before at French, so I was pretty much geared for a tough match," Laver said. "I played some of my best tennis, not making errors. To win in straight sets was a little bit of a surprise."
Laver won with deceptive ease 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
Rod Laver's 1969 Grand Slam finals
|Australian Open
|Andres Gimeno
|Win, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5
|French Open
|Ken Rosewall
|Win, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
|John Newcombe
|Win, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
|U.S. Open
|Tony Roche
|Win, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
Wimbledon provided another second-round scare, when Premjit Lall ran off with the first two sets; Laver allowed him only three games over the last three sets. Stan Smith, Drysdale and Arthur Ashe fell in succession. But when Newcombe surprised Laver in the final with a steady variety of junk, he didn't panic.
"Fortunately," Laver said, "I maintained my calm and kept my percentages up. He had to keep doing what he was doing to beat me. That was one of the best moments, at Wimbledon."
Laver was a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 winner.
Roche, for many reasons, was one of Laver's most difficult opponents. He was mentally tough, and he had remained an amateur when Laver turned pro, so for five years, Laver said, he never saw a left-handed player. In 1969, Roche had beaten Laver three previous times, in Sydney, Auckland and Boston and would wind up with the only winning record over Laver that year. With the Grand Slam on the line, Roche fittingly would be the opponent in the U.S. Open.
Fortunately, Laver said, rain intervened. After waiting two days for a break in the weather, they finally took to the soggy, rutted grass court on a Tuesday. After he dropped the first set 9-7, Laver asked the referee if he could switch to spiked shoes.
"He said it was fine," Laver said. "Tony didn't have spikes and wouldn't have worn them, even if he did. I was used to playing with spikes; they were short, 3/8-inch flat spikes. I was more at ease getting around the court, and it panned out."
The match was visited by two lengthy rain delays, but Laver, moving easily through the muck, ran off the last three sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.
Laver and his fellow pros knew what he had accomplished, but there was little public fanfare after his victory.
"We didn't keep a tally in those days," Drysdale explained. "Even in the tennis world it was sort of ho-hum. You have to understand how different those days were. I took the subway to play the Forest Hills final in 1965 -- with the spectators. That's just the way it was."
A different time
The kid from Rockhampton, Queensland, that Australian Davis Cup captain Harry Hopman dubbed "Rocket" is into his eighth decade now.
He suffered a stroke in 1998, but has worked hard to come back. He plays a little golf now and then, but tennis is difficult.
"The arthritis in my left wrist," Laver said. "I can't hold the racket."
Nevertheless, he manages to rally occasionally with his son, Rick Rodney, who was born in that Grand Slam season of 1969. Several times a week, Laver works out at the La Costa resort.
"The instructor lady helps me get motivated," he said. "For awhile, I was a little tardy on exercise. I'm doing better now."
Forty years after his second Grand Slam, Laver has enjoyed something of a victory lap. In Australia, where the center court at Melbourne Park bears his name, Laver handed the championship trophy to Rafael Nadal in February. Tournament officials brought together Laver and the four men he beat in the major finals -- Gimeno (who flew in from Barcelona), Rosewall, Newcombe and Roche.
John Fitzgerald and Darren Cahill were masters of ceremonies.
"To be honest, it was a bit nerve-racking," Fitzgerald said. "We didn't want to stuff it up.
"At the end of the luncheon, Rod said he was glad they all came together again. These were the days when you trained together, drank beer at night together -- and then played guys one-on-one, gladiator style. Rod said, 'Some of these guys were my best friends, even though we were adversaries on the court.'
"Obviously, it's a little different today."
This summer, the International Tennis Hall of Fame threw him a party, too.
Laver never won another major title after 1969; he played in only eight more Grand Slam events over the last eight years of his career. His five-year exclusion from the majors leaves one wondering what might have been. If Laver, who won 11 major singles titles, had been allowed to play those 20 majors, well, how many more would he have?
Laver sighed into the phone. He has heard this sort of dangerous, hypothetical calculus before.
"That's under the bridge," he said. "It's a different time."
There is another side to the discussion. Would Laver have won that first Slam in 1962 if professionals like Hoad, Rosewall and Pancho Gonzalez had been allowed to play? No, said Laver, and his early professional results, in 1963, support that argument. Three of the four majors in 1969 were played on grass, a surface on which Laver excelled. Which leads to another question: Would he have completed the two Slams if only one major event had been played on grass, as it is today?
"I came along at a good time," Laver said. "The grass was a tricky surface, but I was comfortable on it. You learned to serve and volley. You didn't want to let the ball bounce [on the uneven surface]. I mean, today Wimbledon's grass looks like a billiard table."
Did Laver ever think 40 years would pass without someone equaling his Grand Slam?
"No," he said. "I wouldn't have thought so. Coming up, Boris Becker had a chance. He was a big, strong kid, but that didn't happen. Pete [Sampras] had problems with the clay. Rafa Nadal -- it's uncanny how great he is on clay courts -- but he hasn't sustained it through an entire season."
Laver, one of the most humble, unfailingly polite champions you will ever meet, achieved perhaps the greatest, most muscular feats in the history of his sport. And yet, at the time, he said, it was no big deal.
"Back then, they didn't call it a Grand Slam event," Laver remembered. "It was Forest Hills or the U.S. Open. After the final, there were probably 10 people in the press. When it came to the tennis world, it was an amateur world.
"Oh, no, there was nothing made of it at all. It was great achievement -- as far as it went."
Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
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A Quick Look Around the DivisionPosted by on July 17, 2009 – 11:30 am
I'm out of the office today (hey,I'm not the only one). But that doesn't mean I'm not working. There's not a lot of Vikings news going on right now, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to take a quick look around the NFC North.
In Chicago, Vaughn McClure of the Chicago Tribune examines the role WR Devin Hester will play in the Bears return game this season. Remember, before Hester joined the WR corps he was perhaps the league's most dangerous kick returner. But since his transition to WR, Hester's return responsibilities have lightened.
In Detroit, reports indicate that the Lions, under new defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham, will utilize the blitz much more in 2009. This story was examined by several outlets last week. The Vikings saw more than their fair share of blitzes at the end of last season when then Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo and Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson visited the Metrodome in consecutive weeks. Both men are well-known for being blitz happy.
In Green Bay, 2007 1st round draft pick DE Justin Harrell is healthy and has been able to put in a good offseason, according to packers.com writer Mike Spofford. This is an important season for Harrell, as he looks to prove his worth as a 1st round pick and also adjust with the rest of his defensive teammates to new defensive coordinator Dom Capers' 3-4 defense.
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Only 1 Player Taken in '09 Supplemental DraftPosted by on July 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
Judging by the lack of comments to yesterday's post regarding the 2009 NFL Supplemental Draft, I hesitated to even follow up on it today. But considering A) I dedicated a part of my day yesterday to it, B) I recommended Gil Brandt's written piece to all of you and C) 1 reported development concerns the Vikings in a round-about way, I'm going to follow up on it anyway.
As expected, the Vikings (and 30 other NFL teams) were pretty quiet. In fact, only 1 player was taken. The Washington Redskins selected Kentucky DE Jeremy Jarmon with the 19th pick in the 3rd round. As a result, the Redskins bolstered their defensive line, but did so at the expense of a 2010 3rd round pick.
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- 6 tablespoons whole black peppercorns
- 1/4 cup mustard seeds
- 2 tablespoons whole allspice
- 2 tablespoons whole cloves
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
- 4 dried chiles de árbol
- 4 Turkish bay leaves
- 36 uncooked large shrimp, unpeeled
- 2 quarts ice cubes
- Chipotle Remoulade (click for recipe)
Nutritional Information
One serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 204.9
- %Calories from Fat 75.1
- Fat (g) 17.1
- Saturated Fat (g) 2.4
- Cholesterol (mg) 112.5
- Carbohydrates (g) 0.4
- Dietary Fiber (g) 0.1
- Total Sugars (g) 0.0
- Net Carbs (g) 0.3
- Protein (g) 11.3
- Sodium (mg) 273.8
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Combine 6 quarts water and next 8 ingredients in large pot. Bring brine to rolling boil, stirring until salt dissolves. Turn off heat. Cover; let stand 5 minutes.
Return brine to boil. Add shrimp; boil 3 minutes. Pour off most of brine, leaving enough to cover shrimp. Mix in ice; let cool 10 minutes. Arrange shrimp in large bowl.
Serve shrimp with Chipotle Remoulade.
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In my opinion what he meant was that he figured to say that the "word" (which he said most times in life) has no further consequences. On top of this speech he says "sorry"(the second word he used most) but he was not sealed. I think that's what he discovered and may somehow save his companions who were sealed.
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PLANS to turn the former home of a Leamington community centre into 28 new apartments have been given the green light despite scores of objections.
The application for the Old Library on Avenue Road – which had been home to Bath Place Community Venture for two years until a site sale forced the organisation to move out last month – was debated by Warwick District Council's planning committee on Tuesday night (November 6) and passed by a majority of nine votes to one.
The plan will see the grade-two listed buildings converted into 28 new apartments as well as introducing 43 car parking spaces and demolishing an atrium to create a central courtyard plus a new private garden.
But hundreds of local residents and supporters of Bath Place, which had used the building on a peppercorn rent after fire destroyed its previous home, submitted official objections to the plans.
More than 300 letters complained over the loss of the community facility and said site owners, Warwickshire College, should have allowed Bath Place time to raise funds for an alternative home.
A further 1,000 people signed a protest petition handed in to the council ahead of the meeting.
Warwick and Leamington MP Chris White also weighed in to register his objections after previously mentioning Bath Place in the House of Commons amid a debate on the 'Big Society'.
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I'm going with quotation marks because at this point, I don't think that a lot of the information is escaping without the knowledge of JJ and team. A user going by themilleniumfalcon has uploaded a whole bunch of pictures of Episode 7 concept art to Imagr. I've pulled them here in case they cease to be there. This is the same guy who leaked the pictures of the Stormtrooper helmet awhile back. Be warned, unfounded opinions, references to crazy rumors, and generally blurry pictures of things that may or may not end up in the movie.


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Best in the business. I'm outside everyday and this is the best coat I've had. Its lightweight compared to other coats and has heavy duty construction though out. The double zipper is nice and big, so you can even grab it with gloves on. The pockets are fleece lined to keep your hands warm. It has a heavy loop on the back to hang it on a hook, and it won't rip like other one always do.
The best thing about this coat is its flexibility. Right out of the box it was loose and I had complete range of motion. It also doesn't ride up on you and will keep you covered.
I found myself buying at least a couple different of coats a year for work and other outdoor activities, and this is the first one I have found that thought was put into it and is really a nice piece.
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Another Duluth hit!
I had an interest and looked at this jacket a year or two ago in the Bloomington store and didn't even try it on. It just looked like a popular brand (Cword) wannabe, so I hung it back up. This year I wanted to take another look at this jacket so I stopped at your new Fridley store and tried it on. Hmmm. Comfy, substantial without being too thick or heavy. Very flexible unlike the Cword brand. Nice pocket layout. And it was a 20% off sale so I went for it.
Now after wearing it for a couple weeks in the windy cold snap we are having here in the flatlands of South Dakota (don't let the South part fool you) and I am well impressed. It cuts the wind, is warm. The pocket layout is very good. I own lots of coats (to my wife's dismay) and this one has the best pocket layout. I don't yet use the sleeve pockets but I like them anyways. The two outer lower pockets are lined with fleece and feel good on cold hands and are cut correctly near the sides so keys don't fall out, and hold a pair of work gloves. The inside pockets are nice. I have a pen, mini flashlight, notepad and neck gaiter in the double pockets on the left inner side and a bandana in the right side. They can also hold a small compact pistol quite well. I also like the Napoleon zip pocket on the outside upper left chest as I tend to keep my cell there or the right inner depending on the cold, but have yet to use the flap pocket on the upper right outer chest.
The length of the jacket and arms are perfect for me. I bought the Large Regular. I am 5' 10" and 192 lbs, 46" chest and wear 38" waist Duluth pants. The front of the jacket rides about 3" below my belt buckle and the back covers about 3/4 my bum. The sleeves extend to the thick padding at the base of my thumb, which is perfect for me. And they don't crawl up my arms when reaching out due to the shoulder gussets. Nice. The inner stretch cuff is 2-3" long and also has a ?nylon? sleeve that is also 3-4" long that goes up inside the main outer sleeve. This works great for gloves as they do not interfere near as much with the sleeve as the Cword brand.
The stand up collar is also fleece lined and feels good on the neck when zipped against the cold and wind, but will also lay down well if you put a hooded sweatshirt underneath.
I am well pleased with this jacket.
Did I mention warm? I was out on my route last night at +1F with a 17 mph wind and with the neck zipped up was quite comfy.
If this jacket was to be improved, I would suggest the following:
1. Add a zip on or snap on hood. Either way, but be sure it is removable.
2. Add a mesh pocket with elasticized top to the inside lower, on each side of the zipper. This allows easier carry of my Wooly Mammoth cap.
3. Add the rear zipper pocket on the back similar to the Iron Range coat. Could serve the same purpose as item 2.
4. Replace the front outside upper patch flapped pocket with another Napoleon zip pocket.
Good job Duluth folks!
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The Firehose Superior Insulated Work Jacket is an excellent jacket for dealing with the Chicago winters. Rough and tumble for outdoor work, stylish enough for client meetings, warm enough for everything. Great stuff, Duluth.
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This is a great coat for anything you want to do. I'm a rancher and it can do anything I can do. I only have 2 issues with this coat. One, the Zipper is plastic, and 2, no draw string to tighten up in windy weather. But other than that, This coat is great. I still love it.
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My son love's it, he lives in Colorado and is cold most of time. Says the fit is fantastic and is nice and warm.
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I'm planning on using this as my winter coat when I have to do outside work such as snow removal and other winter property maintainence as well as for when I go on frequent mountain bike rides throughout the winter months.
I like the toughness and durability of the fabric, it's functional design that allows ease of movement, the many pockets and the warmth. I like the way the two way zippers work, that the collar can be zipped all the way up around the neck and the elastic cuffs in the sleeves to block cold air.
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cold winters in upstate New York. Excellent for traveling. For the money I simply couldn't find better value
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If you have a long torso and not wearing it over bibs consistently consider buying in tall size. I will use this jacket all winter for everything. I have to work outside regardless how cold it gets so I want the warmest toughest most Minnesotan made winter jacket. Just consider it before you go buy the brand X jackets. By the way duluth trading has a no bull guarantee so duh no brainer what do you have to lose??? send it back get your money back if its not for you.... But like many duluth items, it is for me.
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Haven't gone through an entire winter but I love this coat. I'm a pilot and I really like the pockets and the long posterior flap. No cold surprises jumping into a cold airplane seat.
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Writing this morning on the Phillies plans now that Billy Wagner is headed to Queens, one writer called today "the first day of Pat Gillick's plan C."
The reason why? During negotiations with Billy Wagner, if Gillick was asked if the Phillies were prepared for losing Wagner, he said the organization had a plan B.
It was later reported plan B was Orioles free agent closer B.J. Ryan, who signed with the Blue Jays for five years, $47 million, giving them the apparent "sure bet" that will lead them to the playoffs, if only in their dreams.
Ryan, by the way, has 42 career saves.
Yesterday, Ken Rosenthal of the Sporting News reported that 38-year-old Yankees setup man Tom Gordon is apparently Gillick's plan C.
No matter what, plans C through Z probably deserve an F.
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I have yet to see solid proof that relief pitching can be bought this way. Plan B should have been in place, raised in the farm system, or found by process of evolution.
I go back to the World Champion White Sox time and again, who started the year with Shingo Takatsu, went most of the way with Dustin Hermanson, and finished up with Bobby Jenks, who played half the season in Double-A. By the end of the season, many experts were regarding their bullpen as the team strength, yet they started out with some question marks.
Is this how it works? Process of elimination? Mix of veterans and unprovens? Apparently it can.
I think back to all the veteran setup men the Phils have brought in over the last few years and it's a sad story: Todd Jones, Tim Worrell, Rheal Cormier, Mike Williams, Roberto Hernandez, even Ugueth Urbina.
It's not strictly a Phillies thing. The story is the same everywhere. This game of buying veteran relief doesn't always work the way GMs seem to think it does.
Generally speaking, about half the teams in baseball will enter 2006 with a closer they are comfortable with, the other half, including the Phils, will be taking a significant risk. Plan C, Gordon, hasn't been a full-time closer for years. The remaining options appear to have similar gambles, including age, health or inconsistency.
I don't know why more teams like the Phils aren't developing in-house answers for a position that's demanding $8-10 million on the open market.
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The simpler, more iconic box art is great.Resistance 3 is a colorful, remarkable shooter in the dull sea of annual iterations of games in the same genre. It speaks volumes against the argument that all shooters are the same, and no one tries to innovate. Sure, it takes cues from other shooters in some spots but the story, setting, characters, and weapons are definitely new, fresh, and all its own.In Resistance 3, you play as Joseph Capelli the killer of Nathan Hale, who has been the series main ...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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La Jolla High girls enjoy turnaround on hardwood
Team already has more wins than last season
By Phil Dailey
Winning is more fun than losing, right? Just ask the La Jolla High School girls basketball team.
This year, at a little more than the midway point of the season, the Vikings have more wins than all of last season with a 7-9 record.
That record may not be that impressive to some, but last year the team only won five games.
The last time the Vikings had a winning season was way back in 2006, a year they went 19-8 before losing in the second round of the CIF Division III Tournament to Santana.
Several factors are responsible for the turnaround this season.
"I think we're a lot more focused at practice this year, and of course the new players are really good and help us out," said Ashlyn Warney, a senior and captain for the Vikings.
Having a focus is easy when the results are positive, but what the team didn't know entering the school year was that they would have a few new additions. Sisters Ashley and Sierra Westhem transferred to La Jolla from Palm Springs, while sisters — and twins — Maren and Rakell Andreassen are at La Jolla High for one year as exchange students.
On the season, the foursome are responsible for nearly half of the team's points.
The majority of the scoring output, however, is coming from Ashley Westhem, a senior, who was second team All-Desert Valley last season at Palm Springs High School.
She points to team unity as one reason the team has tasted success this season.
"I think that it has a lot do with at the beginning of the season, I came in there really with a sense of team unity and I'm used to the school sports being a part of the whole school atmosphere and team spirit," Ashley Westhem said. "I really wanted to bring that feeling of camaraderie to the team."
And it's worked.
"The only way to be successful on the court is to be successful off the court," Westhem added. "And now it's all coming together."
For second-year coach Karen Hartzman, this season has gone much smoother than last year as she was taking over a team with players and a program she was not familiar with.
"Last year was my first year with these girls so it takes a while for them to get used to me and my style," said Hartzman who played college basketball at Nebraska-Omaha and was also a graduate assistant at Arizona State.
The team's success also has come from putting in the work to get better.
"I think we have really just become more devoted this year," senior JD Neri said. "We take it a lot more seriously, our practices are a lot more intense. We've come together more as a team, everyone is kinda new so its easier to make bonds with people."
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The home Kutcher and his father Larry built comes with a pool, spa and "inspired landscaping". All proceeds from the February 12 tour will benefit the Demi and Ashton Foundation, which aims to eliminate child sex slavery worldwide and rehabilitate victims.
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NEW YORK Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) sees promising signs for the year ahead in automotive and nonresidential markets, as well as benefits from its own iron ore production, company executives told investors during a Jan. 29 conference call.
"The ABI (architecture billings index) has been (positive) for five consecutive months," SDI chief executive officer Mark Millett said. "The nonresidential construction market is still challenging, (but) we see selective areas that show signs of improvement. ... We are poised to take full advantage when the construction market recovers."
An economically challenging 2012 did not prevent Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Steel Dynamics from doubling its fourth-quarter net income to $61 million compared with the same period a year earlier despite sales that fell 8.3 percent to $1.71 billion, but the companys full-year net income tumbled 41.2 percent to $163.6 million on sales that declined 8.8 percent to $7.29 billion (amm.com, Jan. 28). Executives attributed the sales decrease to tepid 2012 market conditions, poorer margins between volatile scrap prices and steel selling prices, and uneasy consumer confidence.
Millett said 2012 was a "tough year for business as global economic conditions remained difficult. Gross domestic product was weak. Consumer confidence waned. We had angst about U.S. elections. Nonetheless ... we believe there are reasons for optimism in 2013 and the years ahead." He pointed to signs of a returning manufacturing sector in the United States as a boon for domestic markets, citing increased natural gas development and iron ore production as growth drivers.
SDI has expanded into iron ore production in recent years, vertically integrating its supply chain by investing in Minnesota ventures. The companys 81-percent-owned subsidiary, Hoyt Lakes, Minn.-based Mesabi Nugget LLC, produced 20,000 tons of iron ore per month in November and December and is aiming for annual production of 350,000 tons by the end of 2013 at its Minnesota locations.
"One of the key aspects of our success has been controlling our costs as far into the supply chain as possible," Millett said. "Production at our Minnesota operations ... could have fully supported our steel production requirements (last year). ... This is a pivotal achievement in lowering our iron ore input costs."
Iron ore prices will be one of several factors that will determine SDIs success in 2013, along with the continued relative strength of the auto and manufacturing markets, he said.
"Supply chain inventories remain relatively tight. Automotive remains incredibly robust. Manufacturing in our mind is robust. And I think lead times have moved back," Millett said. "Obviously (iron) ore pricing is appreciating and there could be some market support from (all) those drivers."
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Way back in 1917, an obscure musician credited as one of the fathers of electronica wrote that "the raw material of music is sound." Edgar Varese's statement was tossed off as musical heresy, right along with the theremin (also invented in 1917), one of the first instruments to operate on a turn-of-the-century quantum view of the universe. Today, few electronic artists have held on as tightly to Varese's vision as Squarepusher, a drum and bass, acid jazz, dub, funk, jungle, kitchen-sink hybrid who makes music not from this earth. His latest release, the deliciously creative, albeit head-spinning Ultravisitor, defines post-electronica as atmospheric slurs, beeps, bass and skips and proves that what happens when ones and zeroes meet is, ultimately, in the hands of the creator.
If the invention of the theremin makes 1917 the Big Bang of electronica, then let 2004 be the Industrial Revolution, a point in time when machine and artist have become one entity, a paradigm that Squarepusher has accepted as fate. On Ultravisitor, the sound is more lucid, a leap back from 2001's influential Go Plastic. Now strung out on string theory and Aphex Twin, Squarepusher wrote recently, "It therefore makes little sense to the user to do anything with the machine other than to try to utterly dominate it. "


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Tomb Raider, a reboot game that also reboots Mac gaming
The iconic Lara Croft got a franchise reboot last year with the new Tomb Raider game was released for Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Now, Feral Interactive has brought Tomb Raider to the Mac and, after only a week of playing it, I'm certain it will be be the 2014 Mac Game of the Year. Here's a little ...
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that Barack Obama is going to be elected the next president and that she has "no doubt" about it.
Clinton also said that while she recognizes that race and gender play a role in the minds of voters as they make their presidential choices, she believes enough people want change from Republican policies to put Obama over the top in November.
Interviewed on CBS's "The Early Show," she was asked what she thought about Republican Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy. She said she thought any woman is going to face certain issues and questions but that "the bottom line is who is on top of the ticket."
Clinton called Republican presidential nominee John McCain a friend, but said that he has a record of supporting deregulation of business.
"Barack Obama's going to win. No doubt ... if anybody looks at the mess we're in today," she said.
She also said that she thinks Obama is best suited to straighten out the country's economic problems.
"Barack Obama is being advised by the same peopole who got us out of the ditch in 1993," she said. "I think our ticket is well-eauipped for handling the mess that theuy're going to inherit. Let's make no mistake about it: this is going to be one of the most difficult presidential transitions."
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NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis reanalysis data set (1948-2014) was a continually updating gridded data set that represented the state of the Earth's atmosphere, incorporating observations and numerical weather prediction (NWP) model output from 1948 to September 2014. It was a joint product from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Accessing the data[edit]
The data is available for free download from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory[1] and NCEP.[2] It is distributed in Netcdf and GRIB files, for which a number of tools and libraries exist.
- Initializing a smaller scale atmospheric model
- Climate assessment
Subsequent updates[edit]
Since then NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2[3] and the NCEP CFS Reanalysis[4] are released. The former focuses in fixing existing bugs with the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis system - most notably surface energy and usage of observed precipitation forcing to the land surface, but otherwise uses a similar numerical model and data assimilation system. The latter is based on the NCEP Climate Forecast System.[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ "NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis". NOAA. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
- ^ "NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis". NOAA. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ Kanamitsu M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S-K Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, G. L. Potter: 2002. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83:11, 1631-1643
- ^ S. Saha, and coauthors, 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91:8, 1015-1057.
- ^ S. Saha, and coauthors , 2006 : The NCEP Climate Forecast System. J. Climate, Vol. 19, No. 15, pages 3483.3517.
- Kistler, R., E. Kalnay, W. Collins, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, M. Kanamitsu, V. Kousky, H. van den Dool, R. Jenne, and M. Fiorino, 2001: The NCEP-NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 247-268.
- Kalnay, E., M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, A. Leetmaa, R. Reynolds, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471.
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Foreign Minister John Baird said the international community should not accept Vladimir Putin's 'aggression' in Ukraine as Russia ramped up military exercises
Russia has expelled a first secretary at the Canadian embassy in Moscow in retaliation for the earlier expulsion of a Russian military attache from Ottawa.
'We will not allow this to become an open-ended process' warns the U.S. vice-pfresident as NATO deploys five ships to military exercises in Baltic Sea
Canada is suspending its $10-million contribution to the Commonwealth Secretariat over the alleged human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, which currently chairs the 53-nation alliance, Foreign Minister John Baird said Monday.
'The excuses and the rhetoric that's coming out of Moscow are unacceptable. No one is buying them in the western world,' Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister said
Heavily armed men arrived at strategic facilities in Crimea, prompting Ukraine to accuse Russia of 'military invasion and occupation'
Baird said he wanted 'to support them on the transition to democracy, to elections, to support them in their economic needs'
The Canadian delegation heading to Ukraine this week includes Conservative backbench MPs and an unelected Conservative senator, but no representation from opposition parties in spite of their asking to be included.
The suicide bombing attack on a busy railway station Sunday is a stark reminder of the threat Russia is facing as it prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi
A top United Nations official is praising the Harper government's foreign policy initiative to end forced marriage of young girls, even if Canada won't fund projects that would allow victims access to an abortion.


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In an office surrounded by staff Mayor Virg Bernero says he plans on delivering a message that is both inspiring and accurate.
"We're going to tackle the problems but I also want people to be aware of just how good our future is and how positive our potential is in Lansing," Bernero said.
That potential is seen locally with Lansing being the fastest growing economy in the state.
"We have grown manufacturing jobs every month since last year and we continue to add over 2000 new manufacturing jobs," Bernero said.
People like Gary Koelsch have seen the growth. A resident for more than 15 years he says he watched some of the decay downtown disappear.
"The business climate is much improved downtown right now with the new city market that's been a real plus." Koelsch said. "I think that things are picking up."
Monday's address will take place at the Knapp's Office Centre a key historical structure and what the Mayor calls a symbol of resurgence for the city.
"This is a great community we have a lot to be proud of," Bernero said.
But with growth on the horizon struggle is very real for many citizens.
"I guess one of the biggest things I'll ask them is to not give up on Lansing, don't give up on yourself," Bernero said.
The State of the City address will take place at 7 p.m.
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