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Ford workers have ratified the new four-year labor contract between Ford and the United Auto Workers union. Under the new agreement, Ford promises to create 12,000 new jobs in the U.S., part of which will be accomplished by in-sourcing positions from China, Japan, and Mexico.
Early reports indicated that workers at many Ford assembly plants would reject the new deal. However, the UAW reports that 63 percent of production workers and 65 percent of skilled trades workers voted in favor of the contract. More than 90 percent of workers at Ford's plant in Kansas City voted for the deal.
The agreement affects about 41,000 UAW-represented Ford workers and will lead to $16 billion in investments in U.S. plants. On top of that, workers will receive a $6000 settlement bonus and $7000 in inflation protection over the course of the agreement. A new profit-sharing plan will give workers an average of$3700 by the end of this year, and entry-level hourly wages were raised to $19.28.
"Our agreement is fair to our employees and it improves our competitiveness in the U.S." Mark Fields, Ford vice president of The Americas, said in a statement.
"We were able to win an agreement with Ford that will bring auto manufacturing jobs back to the United States from China, Mexico, and Japan," UAW president Bob King said in a statement.
The agreement brings changes to several Ford production facilities. The company will add an additional production shift to meet vehicle demand at Flat Rock, Michigan; Wayne, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; and Louisville; Kentucky. Vehicles built at those plants include the Mustang, Explorer, Escape, and Focus. That move alone adds about 5000 jobs.
Starting in 2013, Ford will begin production of the Transit commercial van in Kansas City, Missouri; until now, the van was not offered in our market. Ford's plant in Wayne, Michigan will build hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions of the C-Max minivan, which also was previously a Europe-only vehicle.
Ford's plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, will provide additional capacity for building the Fusion sedan, and also will produce the next-generation Mustang. And in Louisville, Kentucky, Ford will build a "new unnamed vehicle" alongside the 2012 Escape.
Ford also will move production of the F-650 and F-750 trucks, and F53 and F59 chassis, from Mexico to Avon Lake, Ohio. That results in a $128 million investment in the Ohio plant. Avon Lake will continue to build "certain variations" of Ford's E-Series van through the end of this decade, but we expect that sales of the Transit will eventually supplant the E-Series.
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It's 18 years after the end of civilization as we know it. Slowly, ragtag villages of nuclear holocaust survivors are being relocated to a new society known as the Alliance. At first it seems like a dream come true to Eric Lloyd and his family. There is work and safety and food enough to spare. But the trappings of civilization wear thin when Eric learns that the violent human impulses that lead to crime and rebellion are controlled by pain chips surgically implanted in the brain.
Eric vows to destroy the Alliance. But can he have any hope of withstanding the wrath of the Alliance's Major and his computerized Punishment Mode? And what of Eric's growing attraction to Nicole, a Guardian in the Alliance?
Futuristic in setting but timeless in its message, The Alliance makes a stunning statement about agency in a gripping and entertaining way.
About the Author
Elder Gerald N. Lund received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in sociology from Brigham Young University. He served for thirty-five years in the Church Educational System, and he served as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy from 2002 to 2008. He is a prolific and bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction and is best known for his historical novels, including The Work and the Glory series, Fire of the Covenant, The Kingdom and the Crown series, and The Undaunted. He and his late wife, Lynn, are the parents of seven children.
Chapter 1
Before the world ended, the place was known as Star Valley, Wyoming. For the past eighteen years they had called it simply "the valley." Eric Lloyd removed his broad-brimmed, crudely woven straw hat and wiped at his brow with his sleeve. The cornfield he was irrigating skirted the edge of the foothills and was slightly higher than the rest of the valley. From that vantage point he could see the whole sweep of it before him—the mountain ranges that hemmed it in on both sides, shoving some peaks up over ten thousand feet, still laced with winter snows; the neat patchwork of wheat, barley, corn, and alfalfa fields; the deeper green, more erratic lines of cottonwoods and willows along the creeks rushing down from the mountains to the Salt River; the meadowland dotted with dairy and beef cattle. From almost any spot in it, the valley presented a dazzling array of color and beauty, and Eric never tired of looking at it.
"Ricky! Ricky!"
Eric straightened and looked around, his gray eyes squinting in the early afternoon sunshine. For a moment the only sound was the soft gurgle of water as it slipped out of the irrigation ditch and into the furrows. Then the call came floating across the fields again. He replaced his hat and squinted into the sun, still unable to pinpoint the source of his sisters' voices. Then he saw the tops of two heads—one dark brown, one a golden blonde—bouncing up and down above the level of the chest-high field of corn.
With a smile, he took two quick swipes with the shovel, slicing through the thick grass and soft dirt of the ditch bank to open up another furrow, then stuck the shovel in the opposite bank with one quick thrust. His boots made a pleasant sucking sound as he uprooted his feet from the soft mud and moved to dry ground.
"Lori! Becky! I'm over here."
Two figures rounded the edge of the cornfield, then exploded into a spontaneous and uneven race toward him. Long-legged Lori, nine years old and three inches taller than her sister, easily outdistanced Becky. Her blonde hair streamed out in back of her as her face contorted with the efforts of victory. Becky, six and destined to be small all her life, tried valiantly to keep up, her ponytail bouncing as her feet pounded up little puffs of dust in the narrow path. They were both clothed in plain homespun woolen dresses with white pinafores. Deerskin moccasins covered their feet, standard wear for most of the children in the village during the summertime. Shoes laboriously cut and stitched from handcured and tanned cow hides were too expensive for anything but wintertime or Sunday wear.
"Ricky! Ricky!" Lori shouted as she slid to a stop, almost catapulting into the ditch. "School's out!"
"I get to tell! I get to tell!" Becky cried as she collided with Eric's legs.
"No more school," Lori gasped between heaving breaths, determined to win the verbal race as well.
"Lori!" Becky wailed, swinging at her sister with a fistful of crumpled papers.
"Whoa!" Eric commanded, sweeping them both into his encircling arms and pulling them down next to him in the grass. "First, both of you get your breath. Then we'll take turns."
They both nodded, grateful for the reprieve.
After a few moments, Eric released them. "Okay, now. Who wants to start?"
Becky, still fresh from the regimen of school, shot up her hand. But Lori, ever the practical one, said, "I get to tell him about the party. Then you can tell him about your report card first." She shot Becky one of her I-dare-you-to-disagree looks.
"Oh, Ricky, it was so neat." Her blue eyes danced with excitement. "Mr. Wilson checked in all our books and equipment, then we sang songs, had refreshments, played games, and—"
"Yeah," Becky broke in, her eyes wide. "We didn't do any work. Not any, all day." Her nose, liberally sprinkled with a light dusting of freckles, wrinkled with the wonder of it.
"Becky," Lori complained, "it's not your turn."
"Right," Eric said sternly, giving her a quick wink. "Let Lori tell me."
"We played Red Rover, and Run Sheep Run, and Kick the Can. I broke through the arms of Kenny Miller and Peter Carlson in Red Rover." She beamed with a broad, thoroughly uninhibited smile. "Mrs. Crookston said that I proved girls were as strong as boys."
Eric nodded soberly. "I have heard that's true." Then he shushed her gently, as she prepared to plunge in again. "Okay, it's Becky's turn now."
Becky's head ducked momentarily as she pawed quickly through her papers. When she looked up, she was radiant with excitement. "Look, Eric," she said, thrusting her report card at him, "I got all ones except in writing and spelling, and those are two pluses."
"And I only got two twos, too," Lori blurted, holding her own card out for inspection.
Eric took the cards, smoothed them out on his legs, and leaned over to study them.
"My," he said finally, "you both did really well. Mom and Dad will be proud of you."
The girls beamed happily.
Eric peered more closely, comparing the two papers, then looked at Lori. "I thought you and Becky walked to school together."
"Then how come you have six tardies and Becky has none?" The six for Lori was not a great surprise to Eric. Her immense curiosity about the world caused her to stop and inspect every new flower, chase any errant toad, or sometimes just brought her to a stop in the middle of the road to daydream for a moment or two. But the discrepancy puzzled him, for Becky was always a willing partner in such delays.
Becky cocked her head to one side, her brown eyes earnest. "Oh," she said helpfully, "Mrs. Crookston is real nice. She doesn't even mark us down when we are retarded."
Eric nearly choked, then whooped with laughter.
"Not retarded," Lori said in disgust. "Tardy."
Becky blushed and lowered her eyes, her thick lashes lying softly on her cheeks. "Oh, yeah," she said, that irrepressible grin breaking through her embarrassment. "That's what I meant." Then she giggled, causing Eric to laugh out loud again.
He leaned over and hugged her. "That's my Becky."
Lori suddenly jumped up. "Look!" she cried. "Here comes Stephanie."
Eric stood up as their older sister, astride her sorrel mare, came at a hard lope from the direction of the village.
"Eric!" she cried, pulling the horse up to a sliding halt and leaping off to face them. "Dad is back. He wants you in the village right now. All the men are meeting at the church."
"Dad?" Eric echoed in surprise. "He and Cliff aren't supposed to be back for two more days."
"I know, but last night they saw lights."
"What kind of lights?"
She shook her head. "They were a long way away. But Dad said that they looked like the headlights of automobiles! Coming down old U.S. Highway 89 from the north."
"Car lights? How can that be? How could there be automobiles?"
"What's an automobile?" Becky asked, looking up at her brother and sister.
Stephanie ignored the question and thrust the reins into Eric's hand. "I don't know how it can be, but Dad is worried. So go! The meeting has already started."
Eric swung up, kicked the mare in the flanks, and leaned over her neck as she leaped forward into a pounding run.
Eric's eyes snapped open, and it took him a moment to realize he had dozed off again. He shifted his weight, trying to find a more comfortable position against the rough bark of the tree, then glanced up at the sun through the boughs of the pine trees. It was now just past its zenith and starting its downward slide toward the west. He had ridden all night, finally joining up with Cliff shortly after dawn. But Cliff had not given him any time to rest. They had immediately headed north again, not stopping until a little before noon. His eyelids felt as heavy as the anvil irons in Ralph Maddox's blacksmith shop.
Eric turned his head slightly and studied the lean whip of a man, now in his seventy-first year, who sat a few feet away. His bony frame was cushioned in a small mound of pine needles, and his elbows rested on his knees, holding the binoculars to his eyes with steadiness. The afternoon breeze moaned in the pine branches above them, then softly ruffled Cliff's short-cropped hair, once saddle-brown but now mostly gray. Except for that slight motion, he could have passed as part of the forest, a gnarled old stump clad in brown deerskin. Somewhere behind them a red squirrel scolded harshly, breaking the gentle quiet of the forest.
Eric shook his head. It must have been that kind of singleminded concentration that had made Dr. Clifford Cameron one of the foremost neurosurgeons on the West Coast—and the most consistently successful hunter in the village.
The Appaloosa mare and the black gelding tethered a few feet behind them stopped their stamping and turned toward the canyon below them, their ears cocked forward. "Cliff," Eric said softly, "the horses hear something."
There was no response for almost a full minute; then a deep grunt and a low whistle from Cliff brought Eric's head up sharply. He peered down into the canyon below them, where the steep, thickly forested mountainside formed a V and allowed the Salt River to disappear from sight. Even to the naked eye it was evident that the bright orange object emerging from the gorge about half a mile from where they sat was not natural to the forest.
"It is!" Cliff exclaimed, his voice tinged with awe. "It's an automobile!" He lowered the glasses, stared at Eric for a moment without seeing him, then swung back to peer through the binoculars once more. "And there's another one! Can you believe it? After eighteen years—cars!" Cliff was rarely awed by anything, and Eric felt a tiny shiver, half fear, half excitement, run down his spine.
"Look!" Cliff commanded, tossing the glasses to Eric.
It took Eric a moment to find the vehicles, but then he too stared. Through the binoculars, he could see both vehicles clearly. They were not unlike the automobiles he had seen many times in books and in old videotapes, and yet they were different. Clear, bubble-shaped covers sat atop squat, nearly square bodies. Oversized tires held them well above the weed-strewn highway, giving them an awkward, overbalanced look. Though the hot afternoon sunshine glinted off the bubble, Eric could make out several figures inside each car. They were coming slowly, almost cautiously, moving not much faster than a man could walk.
He handed the glasses back to Cliff, his expression puzzled.
"Listen!" Cliff commanded, peering through the glasses again. "No motor sounds. Nothing! We would've heard a regular car's engine at least a mile away in these mountains. That means—" He leaned forward intently. "Look! Here comes another—no, it's not a car, it's a truck."
The third bright orange vehicle moved out of the canyon, but without the glasses, all Eric could tell for sure was that it was much larger than the lead vehicles.
"It's an open truck filled with men." Once again Cliff lowered the glasses to stare at Eric. "In uniform. Blue and orange, like the cars." He turned back, and Eric watched his lips moving as he counted silently. "There are close to thirty of them."
Cliff didn't speak again, and Eric stared at the scene below as one orange truck after another emerged from the trees. Finally Cliff stood up. He shoved the field glasses back into the battered case and shook his head. "Two cars and ten trucks, one of which is carrying a bulldozer. I count about a hundred men in the first three trucks—the others seem to be empty. I can't see any weapons, but the men are all in uniform." He picked up his rifle and stared down at the long column moving toward them. "A veritable army."
"They can't be just another group of Marauders." It was not a question. The occasional bands of men roaming the countryside raping and pillaging the pockets of survivors were like packs of wolves—vicious, savage creatures of the wild scavenging from the weak, then, likely as not, turning on one another. Their only weapons were clubs, axes, any other crude tools they could steal or make. Trucks, bulldozers, uniforms? No, they weren't just another band of Marauders.
Cliff shook his head and scratched at the thick, grizzled stubble that lined his cheeks. Eric watched him closely, amazed how little weariness showed through the deep creases that lined his face. He, like Eric, must have been up most of the night, but it showed hardly at all. He seemed like a weatherbeaten piece of granite, impervious to all external forces.
"But trucks! Cars!" Eric exclaimed. "That implies civilization, industry, technology."
"High technology," Cliff agreed, his eyes troubled. "No engine noise means either they're electric—which seems unlikely for any long distances—or they're nuclear powered."
"Nuclear? Is that possible?"
The doctor shrugged. "Who knows? There certainly weren't nuclear-powered automobiles before." His face reflected a curious mixture of hope and longing and worry.
Eric had seen that same look on the faces of those in the village who were old enough to remember before. He had also sensed it in his father, though he usually refused to talk about the times before life in the valley. Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.
"What do you suppose they want?" he asked, staring down at the passing procession, now less than five hundred yards below the ridge where they sat.
That seemed to pull Cliff out of his thoughts. He turned and walked swiftly to where the horses were tethered. "That is what we're supposed to find out. It will take them about twenty minutes or so to loop around the road and reach the spot where we dropped that tree across the highway. We can be there in half that. Let's get into position."
They cut directly down the back side of the ridge, the way they had come up earlier. In ten minutes they reached a place where they had a clear view of the road and the clearing where they had dropped a big pine across it and blocked it off.
Cliff pulled up and pointed with his rifle toward a thick clump of undergrowth. "You stay up here. That'll give you a clear line of fire to the road where they'll have to stop." His face softened slightly. "But don't, for heaven's sake, get jumpy until I've had a chance to see if they're friendly. Okay? You'll be close enough you should be able to hear what we say clearly."
"Yes, but—"
"Once I'm sure it's safe, I'll wave you down."
"Cliff," Eric protested, "I want to come down with you. If something goes wrong, I can't be much help from up here."
Cliff let his voice ease into what Eric's father called his cornpone drawl. "Ricky, my boy, if somethin' goes wrong, Ol' Doc can handle hisself. You git yo'self off to where yo' daddy is settin' up at the river crossin'. You hear me, boy?"
"But Cliff!"
"Eric!" The sharpness in Cliff's voice sliced off further protest. "That's an order. We've had people come to our little valley before—some friendly, some with murder in their hearts—but we've never had a group this large or this well equipped. It's my fervent hope that they come in peace." His eyes darkened momentarily. "Surely after what the world has seen—surely they come in peace."
As quickly as it had come, the dark mood had gone, and his mouth set into a firm line. "But if not, your job is to slow up this column and then get to your dad as soon as possible. Tell him what's happening. Understood?"
Eric took a deep breath. "Yes, sir."
Cliff's hands, surprisingly gentle for their bigness, came up and rested briefly on Eric's shoulders. "I'll be fine. In fact, I have to admit, I'm actually tingling with excitement. Imagine—people! Civilization! You've no idea what that could mean." Then he was gone, moving through the trees like the patterns of shadow and sunlight in the forest.
Eric watched him go, keenly aware that of all men, only his father engendered a fiercer sense of attachment and loyalty than did this man. His drawling reference to Eric as Ricky, and himself as Doc, brought old memories flooding back. Everyone in the village except his father and mother called Clifford Cameron "Doc." And for as long as he could remember, Doc had always called him Ricky. That had changed six years ago, shortly after Eric's eighteenth birthday. It had been late fall, and he had accompanied Doc and his father on a week-long hunting trip to supplement their winter meat stocks. Just after sundown of the third day, they had found a huge bull moose grazing in a marshy area of the forest. Eric could still vividly remember the huge rack of antlers, silhouetted against the sky.
Eric's father had taken the shot, but to their surprise the moose gave a wild bellow, then crashed away into the brush. Positive it had been hit, the three had cautiously started out after it, his father taking the point, Eric and Doc about twenty yards back and thirty yards apart. The light was rapidly fading, but large splashes of blood were easily discernible in the wet grass. His father had just entered a thick stand of pines when the underbrush off to the right of Doc exploded. Out hurtled a black mass of fury, weighing over eighteen hundred pounds and standing seven feet high at the shoulders. With a startled cry, Doc spun around—too fast. His feet shot sideways in the mud, and he went down.
To this day, Eric still maintained he had reacted in blind panic, but he dropped to one knee and snapped off a quick shot over the prone figure. It was as though he had used a scythe on the moose's front legs. Nearly a ton of raging flesh slammed into the mud and slid to a shuddering halt less than ten feet from Doc's scrambling figure. The bullet had caught the bull just below his left eye and shattered in his brain.
Both of the older men expressed their breathless thanks, but it was later that night, as the long strips of moose meat were being cured in a heavy smoke, that Eric had started to say something to Cliff, calling him Doc. He had raised his hand, interrupting him. "Why don't you call me Cliff?" Even now, the memory sent a thrill of warmth shooting through Eric. And that was the last time—until just a few minutes ago—that Cliff had called him Ricky.
Eric shook his head impatiently at the sudden surge of emotions, laid the rifle butt against his cheek, and sighted in on the fallen pine tree.
What would the world be like if Satan was in charge? Read and find out.
by Tracy - reviewed on April 05, 2000
If Satan was the ruler of this world, this books tells how it would be. Gerald Lund is a fabulous writer, who can make you feel that you were the character in the book. You grow to love Eric and his determination to break out of the evil and give the people back their freedom of choice. I love the part where Eric and Nicole are in the forest and their encounters with the bear. Thanks to the talented Gerald Lund
Makes me appreciate my agency even more!
by jeannie - reviewed on April 07, 2000
Our family of 7 read this book on a road trip in 1995. We loved it. One of those books you don't want to put down! I loaned it to a friend who loaned it out to someone else and I it never came back. I tried to order another copy but it was out of print so I am thrilled to is available again. Thanks!
Thought Provoking
by Carol - reviewed on September 28, 2010
I have suggested this for book club. The characters and how they react in different situations is worth considering. I did wonder what happened to people who became ill in this society. Various issues were avoided but the story is still worth a discussion.
Incredible Novel
by John - reviewed on September 17, 2008
The Alliance is an incredible novel--an engrossing story and likable characters make this a book that is hard to put down.


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McLaren have unveiled the car that Jenson Button and rookie team mate Kevin Magnussen will race in 2014, the Mercedes-powered MP4-29.
The Woking-based team hope that the striking car, which they describe as a sensible and calculated response to the new regulations, will return them to winning ways after a disappointing 2013 season in which they failed to score a podium for the first time since 1980.
Weve never had such significant new regulations before; reacting to them, and managing those changes, while still pushing the performance limits, has been an extremely tough job, said McLarens managing director Jonathan Neale of the new machines development.
Weve been relatively pragmatic about it. We know that the need for consistency initially outweighs the need for performance - the winter tests wont be about chasing set-up or refining the car; the envelope of performance is likely to be so wide, and so relatively unknown, that the winter - and to some extent the opening races - will be about understanding the operational boundaries of the car as best we can. To achieve this, we need a consistent platform - one that responds positively to changes.
Neale believes that success in 2014 will be dependent on the ability of McLarens technical team to react throughout the season.
The work of the engineers and designers to understand and interpret trackside data will be more important than before, he explained. Thats because this year, more than ever, will come down to a development race: I dont necessarily think you can expect the car that wins the opening race to be the car that leads the championship charge, something weve often seen in the past.
No, it will be all about a teams ability to react and respond. We already have an update package that were readying for race one, and were discovering new things in the tunnel, or in CFD, all the time. Once we start track testing, I think youll see an intense throughput of ideas and concepts -thats the nitty-gritty that will win or lose the world championship.
The 2014 season will see McLaren pair a world champion with a rookie for the first time since they teamed Lewis Hamilton with Fernando Alonso in 2007. However, Neale believes that the team will thrive on the mix of experience and youth that Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen will provide.
I really think the beauty of our driver line-up comes from its strength and structure through sheer contrast. In Jenson, we have Formula One's unofficial ambassador, somebody who provides us with an unprecedented databank of experience; we can really work with him as we learn together how to develop and refine this years car.
In Kevin, I see a raw, unfettered enthusiasm and a fearsome work ethic. His arrival has been a terrific motivator for the entire team, and Ive been really pleased and impressed by the way hes thrown himself into the process. While hell naturally need time to acclimatise, were undoubtedly of the opinion that hes ready for F1.
Button and Magnussen will have their first chance to get behind the wheel of the MP4-29 at next weeks opening pre-season test in Jerez. Sporting director Sam Michael says its crucial that the new car shows good reliability in the Spanish session.
Itll be critical in the pre-season tests - firstly, to enable the drivers and engineers to learn about and understand the behavior of the new car; but, secondly, to provide us with the mileage and data our designers at the MTC need to further refine and develop the car for the year ahead.
Itll be a season of complexity and subtlety; we wont find ourselves in a situation where the guy who wins the first race goes on to win the championship, I think itll be unpredictable and exciting - and thats fantastic news for Formula One's fans.
One thing is for certain, though, therell be a lot of cross-pollination of ideas during the season as the best concepts and solutions proliferate. Were proud of some of the concepts well be introducing with this car but, likewise, therell be areas where we can learn and improve. In fact, I think constant learning and improvement will be the key motifs of 2014.
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A jury in Palm Springs County will decide whether the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services owes more than 40,000 of the county's residents additional reimbursement for 66,463 trees destroyed during the citrus canker eradication campaign.
Plaintiffs contend that the average value of the trees destroyed was more than $500 each, far more than the $100 Walmart gift card the state offered for the first tree taken and $55 for each additional tree removed.
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Baseball, it's been said, boils down to a single confrontation between a pitcher and a batter. Over the course of a season, when teams meet for two, three or four game series, little captures a fan's attention more than when the best hitter on one team faces the best pitcher on the opposition.
This, is quite literally what baseball is all about.
To enhance this concentrated moment of baseball and form a sort of theoretical extract, we can look to 2012′s right handed and left handed splits leaders to pick out what would be the greatest potential match ups of the season.
Let's start with the pitchers, before making our way to batters.
Here are the top five pitchers vs. right handed batters according to FIP:
- Zach Greinke, MIL, RHP, 1.57 FIP;
- Lance Lynn, STL, RHP, 1.88 FIP;
- Gio Gonzalez, WAS, LHP, 2.20 FIP;
- Colby Lewis, TEX, RHP, 2.23 FIP;
- James McDonald, PIT, RHP, 2.36 FIP.
Here are the top five pitchers vs. left handed batters according to FIP:
- Stephen Strasburg, WAS, RHP, 1.22 FIP;
- Madison Bumgarner, SF, LHP, 1.58 FIP;
- Chris Sale, CHW, LHP, 2.04 FIP;
- Matt Cain, SF, RHP, 2.15 FIP;
- Justin Verlander, DET, RHP, 2.16 FIP.
Here are the top five batters vs. right handed pitchers according to wRC+:
- Joey Votto, CIN, LHB, 215 wRC+;
- Carlos Gonzalez, COL, LHB, 192 wRC+;
- Paul Konerko, CHW, RHB, 188 wRC+;
- David Wright, NYM, RHB, 184 wRC+.
- Josh Hamilton, TEX, LHB, 182 wRC+.
Here are the top five batters vs. left handed pitchers according to wRC+:
- Andrew McCutchen, PIT, RHB, 237 wRC+;
- Billy Butler, KC, RHB, 214 wRC+;
- Melky Cabrera, SF, RHB*, 210 wRC+;
- Scott Hairston, NYM, RHB, 200 wRC+;
- Danny Espinosa, WAS, RHB*, 199 wRC+.
So, according to this, the best possible match ups we could hope to see this season are Joey Votto vs. Stephen Strasburg and Andrew McCutchen vs. Gio Gonzalez or Zack Greinke vs. Paul Konerko, depending on whether you'd rather see the best right handed batter or best right handed pitcher in action.
Unfortunately, Votto and Strasburg, as well as Greinke and Konerko, haven't happened this season. However, McCutchen and Gonzalez went head to head three times on a May 16th game between the Pirates and Nationals in Washington.
Here are those three matchups:
The first, in the top of the first inning, resulted in a single for McCutchen off of a 0-1 curve ball:
The second, in the top of the fourth inning, resulted in a fly out to left field off of a two seam fastball left up in the zone.
The third, was a one pitch ground out to the short stop:
Conclusions: Sadly, there wasn't a whole lot of excitement resulting from these two facing off against each other. However, we have to give the edge to McCutchen, not really for the seeing eye single he hit in the first inning which is about the best example in the history of baseball as to why fielding independent pitching numbers are useful.
No, we'll call this a win for McCutchen because of his second at bat against Gonzalez, when he drove a mistake pitch to the warning track. With a little bit more mustard, the Pirates center fielder would've made this a little study a bit more definitive.
Of course, it also would've been preferable for research sake if McCutchen let his final plate appearance against Gonzalez last longer than a single pitch.
Sadly, baseball appears to have taken a page out of boxing's play book. This is perhaps best seen as an example of something suggested by the numbers not necessarily translating into something actually enjoyable to humans.
And it's not as though we can have much hope for a best vs. best match up that lives up to the hype that our splits leaders create (at least until the numbers change) because barring a trade, we're unlikely to see Greinke and Konerko match up any time soon, and the Reds and Nationals have already completed their season series with each other.
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on August 27, 2013Life isn't fair. And here to prove this point is the sun, a gigantic nuclear reactor in the sky that beckons one to bask within its awesome warmth, and also emits pernicious UV rays that could potentially turn you into a Shar-Pei-faced raisin if you choose to overindulge. Wrinkles, melanoma, sun poisoning — all are the price you pay for irresponsibly enjoying the sun in excess without protection. During summer, it's hard to avoid talk of such dastardly risks. But what about other times of the year? Once the BBQs, baseball games, and beach-y weekends have faded away, does the sun pack it in for the season too?
Hardly. "Most people aren't aware that UVA rays — which make up 95% of all UV rays — are almost equally intense during daylight hours all year long," Dr. Whitney Bowe, a board-certified dermatologist in NYC who specializes in skin rejuvenation, tells us. That's right: The sun is out to get you whether it's Memorial Day, Labor Day, or New Year's Day. In fact, "UV rays penetrate clouds and are also reflected off of snow, so when you step outside after a blizzard, you're not only getting UV rays from above, but they're bouncing back at you from below," she says. A double whammy, as it were.
This begs the question of how one's sun-protection regimen should change from summer to winter? The answer, according to Dr. Bowe, is not much. "Applying sunscreen to your face should become a morning habit throughout the year, like brushing your teeth." Further motivation, you say? How about this? A recent study conducted by the Annals of Internal Medicine even found that using an SPF daily can slow the aging process by 24%.
And if you're in the car during daylight hours, even in winter, you should also consider slathering SPF on those parts of your skin not covered. "That car won't protect you," says Dr. Bowe, "People tend to age more on the side of their body that faces the car window." Yikes.
Sunglasses: an all-year essential. (From Warby Parker's Meridian Collection.)
On a side note, Dr. Bowe wants you to stop walking around without sunglasses. "The repeated action of squinting and the UV damage from the sun can lead to crow's feet around the eyes." Considering an eye cream with SPF in it might be as good of an idea as purchasing a pair of shades that provide broad-spectrum protection.
As for SPF strength: The consensus amongst dermatologists is that we should all be using an SPF of 30 or higher. Dr. Bowe recommends LaRoche-Posay Anthelios SPF 50 Mineral Light Sunscreen Fluid. If the name reminds you too much of a Fiona Apple song, you can also try Innovative Skincare Eclipse SPF 50+ or MD Solar Sciences Anti-Aging Daily Moisturizer.
But what happens if you forget to do all of this? Aside from prematurely aging and exposing yourself to cancer-causing radiation, you could potentially burn — even if you're dark skinned. It turns out melanin in the darkest skin has a natural SPF of only about 13.4, well below the safe limit. And the lightest skin has a natural SPF of 3.4, so you pale guys are completely screwed. No matter who you are, wear sunscreen.
Of course, Labor Day Weekend is coming up. And even after reading all this, you might still refuse to be reasonable and protect yourself. For shame. But if you do get burned, we leave you with a few tips on how to deal. If you're blistering, call your doctor right away. Otherwise, here are some interesting recommendations from the good doctor on how to manage the damage with something other than overly sticky aloe gel:
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Untitled #19
An enigma, with a mysterious allure.
She had eyes as blue as the clear sky,
And a body as perfect as it could be.
With her coy smile and gentle words,
She bewitched the whole town.
They called her a good girl, a perfect girl;
The one with whom you should settle down.
But one fine day, she was accosted
By a cheap, unwanted drunk.
His words were filthy and dire,
He thought that he's got her without a doubt.
A fist to his cheek and
A knee to his loins.
And so, everyone found out that
A beautiful rose always has it's deadly thorns.
Awake Heart
I hold a candle to find
the gloomy road which
will lead me to the underground
To find the source,I fear
I need to fill my eyes with tears
Time's passing by
like a feather that flies in the wind
Nothing remains the same,it's a sign
Only my love for you will be safe
Forever my heart will stay awake
Feeling happy and depressed tonight
it's not impossible,don't be uptight
You prefer another one
You're unreachable,I know that
But have you ever felt the fever of my heart?
Time's passing by
like a feather that flies in the wind
Everything changes in time
But my love isn't forgotten
Forever my words will be rotten
I only know that I'll always love you
Midnight Tears
Darkness fills the sky.
It's three hours after nine,
Secretly they cry.
She's all alone with her tears.
A broken heart that dies.
Empty rooms upstairs,
Those walls full of fights.
He's driving to nowhere,
Along an abandoned street.
Her decision is so unfair.
Wasn't this love concrete?
Chaotic thoughts in their minds,
Like a midnight lullaby.
A shooting star shines,
Marking their goodbye.
She's spent the last twelve hours drowning teardrops in absinthe,
Stuttered vinyl mutes her cries, while her sweetheart's sound asleep,
'Cause breaking promises are easy if they are ones he'd never keep
LOCK the prison in her head; tighten up her insecurity,
What's the lowest he will go to disguise his immaturity?
His hopeless lover knows she's damned, but she slips back into bed,
To self-medicate an aching heart that he should've fixed instead
Oh it's so bitter sweet, baby's got a bad addiction,
He needs the kind of rush that will only be forgot,
A little something more to satisfy his poor attention,
An apology seems throwaway, but reality is not
Oh but it's so hard to sleep, to shut her eyes through all the friction,
Every rose may have its thorn, but his more sharp than some,
So she throws a bottle back, a kind of morbid self-infliction,
'Cause broken promises can't hurt you if your pulse is twice as numb
Untitled #17
My time here's so binding
Nothing to say and nothing to dream
All is finally as it seems
Growing up and growing older
Feeling down and feeling lower
Standing up and falling over
Never wish to be sober
Peaceful thoughts from the harbor
Life slows down and just gets harder
Green light flashes and all hit go
Speeding straight in the unknown
Lifeless clouds on an empty canvas
Closed in space on an open mattress
Life's all around yet we're so alone
Nobody's perfect so why do we clone?
A Pirate's Heart
swaying in the wind
a storm brewing
with conscious despair
and yearning for battle
slicing through the fog
like a sword through your heart
watching with trepidation
for the attack that must commence
the creaking ship
majesty of our enemies
a flag with little meaning left
but below the bellows begin
cannons firing
a narrative so familiar
adrenaline rushing
our battle begins once more
there is a beauty
in this steady fight
hearts pounding for the sea
but yearning for the dry land
a distant memory
of a quiet life
here is where our true calling lies
in an ocean of blood
sedated by rum
you may leave by a plank
but those grains of wood
that once supported you
would be your cause of death
when you join Davy Jones in his locker
Untitled #22
The timer inside you is about to explode,
No meaning of life, like part of you's died,
The fuse inside you is about to be blown,
The clocks have all stopped and everything's in slow motion,
Your lonesome self-battle is coming to an end,
You're taking the leap, the big leap of faith,
The powers of freedom are your mighty defence,
Hear the beat of your heart, you're right at the start,
No-one can tell you that you can't play the game,
Just clear out your mind, and proceed with the climb,
They can't drag you down no matter what they say.
Yet She Rests Her Soul
under glimpses
of rain;
to smell fragrances
of souls divine,
pleases tenderly
against flesh
and immortality
has her heart
engraved in
molten stone -
she sheds
her name
in cavities,
weaving to eternal
burials - ah,
a morale, by choice
flanks to stars.
bounded hands are
a victim
of chains trapped
in gravity, like rings
gathering above
bare chests; lest
they whisper
and divide
to an escaping altar;
bare bones are innocent
in chestnut boxes.
steps arrange to owe
a glare beyond
red roses and white tulips,
grace slips to a delicate
lonely by day,
tired of loved souls
being swept away;
by far - her Heaven
is listed besides beauty
and such a curse
if blessed is
storied unto memory,
the same fate
leaves hopeless;
by night until
I rest with
her gentle voice
wandering in tides.
Untitled #7
In my mind, I'm on the brink.
Torn apart, sticks and stones.
No one cares, about my bones.
Days go by, I still feel used
Collected by my life's abuse
My anger side, pushed away.
Like a dog put out to stray.
I grow up, hate myself.
Hate these memories, on the shelf.
The story goes, on and on.
Then my life felt, like it was gone.
Daddy I miss your familiar touch.
I'm so sorry, you did this much.
Pain and sorrow, fill my heart.
Why did this ever start?
My Words
Bound behind those cursed locks, tragically, my words will die.
Never will my words be free to gaze upon the morning sun.
How horrible it is to be bereft of all that's said and done.
For who has waged a bitter war on words that never fell a man?
Who has declared my words a scourge, and buried them before they began?
Like hounds to every beck and call, my words are servants to thine will.
For broken words aren't words at all, but shattered dreams of the unfulfilled.
Our books are burned and torn to shreds, a genocide of malcontent.
No word is safe from an early end that disobeys the establishment
For who has written on the wall, the hallowed words of the status quo?
My words are victims to the fall of everything we've come to know.
Rise up, young men and women, now! To scatter bomb the "thought blockade"!
Head up, my soldier, don't look down! For freedom is the price to pay!
We're brave, courageous, catastrophic authors of our destiny.
We're the bane of the autocratic despots peddling tyranny!
For who has thrown the gauntlet down to cast a shadow on our rights?
The ones who force us to the ground and punish those who won't comply?
My words—amplified throughout the land—shall never be confined again
To corrode like carcass in the sand, and wither away in the desert rain…
It's the saddest wait I have to make between the times that I kiss you
All those days taking trains, all those nights taking flights; it's all worth it in the end
'Cause they remind me that I need you
All your tears when I'm not here;
All these never ending fears;
It's worth it all in the end.
Now, I know you're not my first love but you make me feel new;
I thought I'd had it all until the first time that I wanted you
The smell of your baking recalls my childhood home,
Now my greatest fear on Earth is you being alone
There's nowhere as safe as wherever we are
There's nothing that feels as raw as being apart
You gave your innocence
It was innocent
It's worth it all in the end.
Just starting out was the biggest leap we ever took -
Now I can't forget the first night and the way your body shook
You haven't changed your sheets for two nights since I left
'Cause they smell like me and you can't bear to forget
When we are far away
It feels like yesterday
But it's worth it all in the end.
Untitled #12
She's searching her soul now
for love at the end of the verse
She bleeds for the system
That brands her a victim
In fear that the pain would get worse
Her heart is so tender
Completely surrendered
In silence that scattered her thoughts
The shadows are creeping
And voices are speaking
In nightmares she hasn't forgot
The legend unfolded
A story untold was
A story she took to the grave
She hung from the gallows
And fell in a shallow
Plot in the end never was saved
She cried for a savior
A species endangered
She ran far away from her home
Her wrist told a fable
Of a mind so unstable
She never found somewhere to go
With IVs in my veins.
(And pain in my brain)
Hospital food and doctors pumping blood
To keep me alive for another month
And I can't remember my name
(And everything is changed)
It's not too far away
We're all just empty shells of faded memories circling the drain
And who we are will quickly slip away
And everyone who loves us will watch us be scatterbrained
I must admit I'm terrified of waking up at 69
To a family I can't recognize
(With tears in their eyes)
Choking down fistfuls of Physostigmine
To make me who I used to be
But there's nothing that can help me
(Cause my brain is just debris)
I must admit that what scares me is waking up at 70
At the end and on my knees
(No semblance of dignity)
Praying to a God I never believed in
Trading senility for sins. The last step to giving in
(Is this how it was meant to end?)
Without You
But I'm leaving knowing
That I'm never coming back
After all I've been through
'Cause of things that you do
I just can't keep up the act
Took too long to notice
You're the one who showed this
Darker side of me to the world
Something never felt right
So I'm leaving tonight
I really need to be heard
You've been living in denial
You never made me smile
And tonight you stand accused
Thought you'd swept me off my feet
But you danced a different beat
I was only there to be used
If there's one thing I regret
It's that it's not over yet
It's just the kind of thing that you do
Took me far too long to know
It was time to let you go
I'm better off without you
I won't play your games anymore
Because we both know that's not what my heart's for
And though I can't forget what you did to me
I'm getting out now
I gave too much of myself away
But I'll take it back tonight
And tomorrow's a new day
Without you
A young Green found at Barr's Bay.
His shell intact and covered
in paisley patterns and algae.
His face, encrusted with brine;
his minute carapace,
small head lolling on its side,
marble eyes half-closed.
You swear
you saw his throat move,
animate, to take another rasping breath
and then slowly realize the finality of his death.
You remember your first time:
the charm of a mosaicked head
breaking the surface,
the rushing to the edge
of the bridge in spite of yourself.
Again up the foamy tide's reach,
you shuffled along the beach
searching for the shaved sand
that would lead to a
nest of ping pong ball eggs,
but they were never quite found.
You think of the time you
thought yourself a mermaid,
when one raised its small mouth
to huff at you,
and stayed,
curious marble eyes peeking
above the waves,
but then, disappear as they broke.
You remember the release,
the biggest you'd ever seen,
the fantasy was gone;
at last tagged and set free,
white flat bottom scraping
against the sand
and growing tired of using its
flippers upon the land;
pulling itself back out.
Finally, remember the shrunken carcass
like a prune of the sea;
the body of a hatchling
that never made it off the beach,
and then, it seemed, left to be
baked by the sun.
Never to return
to his mother's shore,
then gone.
A turtle died today.
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Women's tennis set to take on No. 26 Kentucky1/30/15The Penn State women's tennis team goes on the road for the final time before its home opener as the Nittany Lions travel to Lexington, Ky. to battle the No. 26 Kentucky Wildcats.
Big Ten coaches tab women's lacrosse third1/30/15The Penn State women's lacrosse team has been tabbed in a two-way tie for third by the Big Ten coaches in its preseason poll as announced on Monday. Penn State junior Madison Cyr (West Minster, Md.), and seniors Tatum Coffey (Tom Rivers, N.J.) and Maggie McCormick (Eldersburg, Md.) were selected as Big Ten Players to Watch.
Women's hockey to Skate for a Cure vs. Syracuse1/30/15The second-place Nittany Lions (13-10-3, 7-4-1 CHA) return home to host CHA foe Syracuse on Friday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m.
Tsang earns second Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor1/30/15For the second time in 2015, Penn State freshman Briannah Tsang (Vancouver, British Columbia) was selected as the Big Ten Freshman of the Week after setting a career-high and capturing the all-around title vs. Maryland on Saturday (Jan. 24).
No. 9 women's gymnastics travels to No. 14 Illinois1/30/15Penn State entered the top 10 of the national rankings for the first time since Feb. 20, 2012 and the No. 9 Nittany Lions will look to continue their solid start to the season when they travel to No.14 Illinois for another Big Ten early season test on Saturday, Jan. 31.
Fullington Trailways unveils Pink Zone at Penn State bus1/30/15Fullington Trailways continues to celebrate and support Pink Zone at Penn State and will debut a new Pink Zone at Penn State bus on Saturday as Fullington transports the Lady Lions to Rutgers for their game on Sunday. Fullington Trailways and other bus companies will provide free bus service for breast cancer survivors from 20 cities across Pennsylvania to the 2015 Pink Zone at Penn State presented by Mount Nittany Health on Sunday, March 1.
Lady Lions visit Rutgers Sunday1/30/15The Penn State Lady Lions (5-16, 2-8) travel to Piscataway for the first time 1997 to take on #22/23 Rutgers (15-5, 6-3) at noon on Sunday. The game will air live on the Big Ten Network with Ed Cohen and Vera Jones on the call.
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Mitchell leads Lady Lions past Indiana, 79-751/23/15Behind five players in double figures and a double-double by sophomore Kaliyah Mitchell (Stone Mountain, Ga.), the Penn State Lady Lions (4-15, 1-7) edged Indiana (12-6, 2-5), 79-75, on Thursday evening inside the Bryce Jordan Center.
Women's tennis set for Old Dominion and William & Mary1/23/15The Penn State women's tennis team is set for their first back-to-back matches of the season this upcoming weekend. The Nittany Lions will travel to Norfolk, Va. to take on Old Dominion Saturday before making the short trip to Williamsburg, Va. Sunday to battle William & Mary.
Church selected 30th in NWSL Draft by Washington Spirit1/23/15Penn State women's soccer centerback Whitney Church (Ashburn, Va.) has been selected as the 30th overall pick in the 2015 National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Draft at the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Convention Jan. 16 in Philadelphia. Church was selected by the Washington Spirit, marking the third-consecutive year a Nittany Lion was chosen in a women's soccer professional league draft.
Sutton, Whitlinger collect CHA weekly honors1/23/15Following Penn State's second-straight College Hockey America (CHA) series sweep this weekend, two Nittany Lions captured weekly conference honors. Bella Sutton (Shoreview, Minn.) earned Player of the Week accolades and Celine Whitlinger (Garden Grove, Calif.) captured her fifth CHA award as the Goaltender of the Week.
Women's hockey takes win streak to New Hampshire1/23/15After three consecutive series in Pegula Ice Arena and sitting second in the College Hockey America (CHA) standings, the Nittany Lions (12-9-3, 7-4-1 CHA) hit the road for a pair of games at New Hampshire on Friday, Jan. 23 and Saturday, Jan. 24.
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After being both a great host and a gracious winner at the 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, Darren Criss got up close and personal with Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek and all-star correspondent Susan Blackwell at the after-party. You've already seen part of his hilarious appearance in the video round-up of these hot-seat interviews, but there was just too much great material to work with so here, for your viewing pleasure, is even more Darren Criss footage. Find out which Tony-winning composer gets him hot and bothered, the real reason he appears on Glee and, of course, see the Criss/Blackwell lick-fest all over again. Enjoy!
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There is no completely "awful" time to visit Madrid, though most will tell you August is surely the month to avoid - not just because the city's temperature can hover in the low 100s Fahrenheit for days and nights on end, and pools are scarce, but because the city's residents all flee for the coasts. Madrid without her people is a sad city indeed. The loveliest times of year are Spring and Fall - Spring because the city streets are all in bloom, and fall because the weather stays warm until November. But even winter in Madrid has its charm, and early summer can be loads of fun, as the temperature begins to rise the nights heat up and the city residents swarm the streets in force.


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I may be known for my exploits on snow, but I love being outside in the spring and summer. I like seeing the well-manicured landscape of golf courses—where I grew up in New England the grass is often kind of mangy. Golf's also good for focus. It makes me pay attention to what I'm doing. Some sports don't necessarily do that. Also, the injury issues are pretty low and it takes a lot of time. Other sports are so quick and you need other people to play them. I'm perfectly happy playing golf by myself.
"I've been on skis since I was three years old, but I didn't start swinging a golf club until high school, and even then my friends and I just smacked balls around; we never really played on a course. The summer after I graduated I started actually playing some.
"Since joining the U.S. Ski Team, I've been able to play about three times a week every off-season. But I don't get to start till May, and I can only play seriously through the end of July. Then in August we go down to South America or New Zealand. I bring my clubs with me—even though I get yelled at for bringing an extra bag. A lot of guys smuggle their clubs in with their skis, but I don't. I just bring an extra bag.
"New Zealand's the only place where I play golf with any regularity around the team. We'll go and ski in the morning up on the mountain, and it's full-on winter there. But down in the town it's warmer, so I'll go play in the afternoon. It's sometimes a bit of a scramble, because you can only get nine in before we do something else with the team.
"Team officials want me to spend more time at our training center in Utah in the off-season—team-building stuff and all that. But I need time away from being with the team. I need a little time alone, when I'm not someone who everyone's relying on. And golf is a big part of that.
"I've never taken a lesson. The closest I've come was at a golf store in Denver where I hit into a net and they videotaped my swing. It looked pretty good. The guy laid it up against Ernie Els I think, and our swings were pretty similar. I was generating good speed and coming through on plane just about the way I want to.
"In some ways, golf and skiing are a lot alike. If you've never played golf and your goal is to shoot ninety, you can just kind of chop at it and punch it down the fairway and get on every green in one over regulation and, after a while, you'll end up with a ninety. If you have higher goals, you're better off taking a full, long swing right from the beginning so you can build a technique that you can carry all the way through until you're playing below par. If you've never skied before and you just want to make it down the mountain, you can get some shaped skis and sit back and punch it with your legs. But that really isn't the best way. If your eventual goal is to race World Cup, there's a process that you need to go through to develop speed.
"I play golf a lot like I ski: aggressively. I can hit the ball so far that an aggressive game suits me. Generally, at sea level, I hit it right around 300 yards in the air. I can roll it out to 340 or 350 if the fairways are firm. Out in Utah, anything under 400 is well within range of a driver, because the air is so thin—I just hit bombs.
"Eventually I'd like to be able to play at a tournament level. I play in celebrity tournaments now and I usually shoot like crap. I could play it safe and hit my four-iron off every tee and shoot around eighty. Instead, I pull out my driver, spray it around the course and usually shoot eighty-eight. But I don't get flustered. I'm even-keeled. I let go of bad results really easily. Golf will be a great sport for me to play as I get older, to be able to still do something competitive long after I've put away my skis." •
Bode's Well Analysis by Nick Faldo
A good, aggressive swing, but Bode could be getting get more mileage out of his strong skier's legs. At setup (1) his knees and posture are good, but I'd like to see him put more weight on the balls of his feet so he can position the ball a bit farther from his body. He should also relax; look how tightly he's jamming his elbows together. I like how he turns away from the ball in one piece and resists the turn with a strong right knee (2). But then he loses some of that resistance by straightening the right knee a bit (3). His wrist set is excellent and so is his ninety-degree turn—except that his left shoulder whacks into his chin and pushes his head around. Lifting the chin at setup would solve that. His transition (4) is good, but his cheeks are puffing out from holding his breath. He needs to relax. A good drill would be for him to practice with a potato chip in his mouth, until he can hit drives without crunching it. At impact (5), he's too close to the ball, so he has to go up on his toes to make room for the club, limiting the power he can exert with his legs. His finish (6) is fantastic: His eyes, chest and belt buckle all squarely face the target, with his right knee kissing his left, in perfect skier's balance.
Bode Miller
Best Score
69 (1 under) at Jack O'Lantern Resort, NH
Favorite Courses
Sawgrass; Country Club of Vermont; Mount Washington Resort at Bretton Woods (NH); Jeremy Golf & Country Club (UT)
Skiing Feats
First American in 22 years to win overall World Cup title (2005); won two silver medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics (2002)
Nike Ignite driver; Nike Pro Combo irons; Wilson Staff wedges; Never Compromise Voodoo putter


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Wed, 09 Jan 2013
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Thu, 10 Jan 2013
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Fri, 11 Jan 2013
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Sun, 13 Jan 2013
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013
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Tue, 15 Jan 2013
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Wed, 16 Jan 2013
Surgeon preps new album as Anthony Child
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013
Ritual goes Under The Bridge
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Young Galaxy go Ultramarine
Space Dimension Controller lands in New York
Richie Hawtin headlines Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2013
Sochi Winter Music Conference announces 2013 program
Lindstrom returns to Australia
Bill Patrick hits Sydney and Melbourne
Versalife has a Vantage Point
Fri, 18 Jan 2013
DJ 3000 launches Meze
Pantha Du Prince to play Southbank Centre
Mister Saturday Night travel to Europe
Tender Hook launches with Legowelt
Novation introduces the Launchkey
Studio Barnhus to release Usio's Kuwa Huru
Still Music begins residency at Primary
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Mon, 21 Jan 2013
John Beltran does Amazing Things for Delsin
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Downwards launches Downwards America
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Pariah comes to Canada
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Tue, 22 Jan 2013
Matthew Herbert announces Herbert Complete
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Justin Robertson sees The Pilgrim's Ghost
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Rrose returns to Denver
Nathan Fake touches down in Australia
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Wed, 23 Jan 2013
House Of God celebrates 20th anniversary
Zutekh takes over The Warehouse Project
Eddie C announces Country City Country
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Thu, 24 Jan 2013
DJ Sprinkles mixes Where Dancefloors Stand Still
Secretsundaze hops around Europe
Rex Club celebrates 25 years with Legends
Love Saves The Day returns to Bristol
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Caribou, Apparat and Matthew Dear will guest on the German producer's next album.
Smallville opens new record shop in Paris
Depeche Mode to release Delta Machine
Peter Van Hoesen returns to North America
Mick Finesse launches new label, 22
Fri, 25 Jan 2013
Dean Blunt is The Redeemer
Thunder brings Gene Hunt to London
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Half Baked launch record label
Scuba headlines The Forum
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Speedy J plays Brooklyn and Chicago
Butch spins in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth
Mon, 28 Jan 2013
Four Tet headlines Lente Kabinet festival
Loco Dice added to Ultra Music Festival
Atom TM sees in HD
burn studios announces 2013 Ibiza residency
Addison Groove makes a trip to North America
Mule Musiq to issue compilation LP from Cluster's Roedelius
Life and Death tackle North America
ASC launches Diode
Jan Krueger goes stateside
Global trade group Association for Electronic Music forms
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Tue, 29 Jan 2013
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Wed, 30 Jan 2013
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Richie Hawtin confirmed for Movement 2013
Hype Williams and Raime join Unsound in Adelaide
Vondelpark explore the Seabed with R&S
Thu, 31 Jan 2013
Bestival announces 2013 lineup
Violet Poison to release Violetshaped
Rush Hour to reissue N.A.D.'s Dawn Of A New Age
Ben UFO and Move D billed for Gottwood 2013
Moderat to release new album, II
The Black Dog ready Tranklements
D-Edge preps Carnival Parties with Richie Hawtin
Electric Pickle turns four with Seth Troxler
Christian Vance visits home in February
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It was a simple call, placed between friends on one of those antique crank telephones in 1905 that has since reached 1.2 million parties worldwide.
Jumbo Canadian flag closer to reality in downtown Windsor
Henderson: Bring on the flag
Never look a gift horse in the mouth? Maybe in some communities, but here in Windsor we boast beady-eyed folks whose first inclination is to climb inside the poor animal's muzzle and start drilling down through the molars, seeking confirmation that it's a bum nag and lousy gift best dispatched to the glue factory.