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The Reading List: Seven Sisters Style
Well, I read Rebecca Tuite's new book on the female variant of prep, Seven Sisters Style, and it is just delightful. Really and truly delightful.
I've written more on the subject for today's Irish Times. If you can't pick up a copy, you can read it right here.
Licentiate Column 09/01/14: New Year, New Nothin'
It's the second of January as I write this. It might not be the second of January as you read it. A few days always elapse between thinking something up, committing it to paper and watching the (sometimes not very well considered) thoughts as they are processed and printed.
Maybe, just maybe, the world will blow up between thinking and printing and no-one will ever get to read this. Why, I could say whatever I wanted! Um, Kim Kardashian is a waste of space. I can't afford to pay my broadband bill. I'm absolutely terrified of the future and what it holds due mostly to lingering anxiety and an inability to trust people – even the nice people who buy me Kinder Eggs on a whim.
It's not just reduced price tags, sample sales and enforced jollity that makes people go a bit mad with clothes shopping over Christmas and New Year. It's also about the fear of change, the attempt to buy insurance for a future that may not yet exist. Here we are, in the first week of the New Year, looking out on to a sea of endless possibilities. Maybe the possibilities aren't endless. Maybe there are only a few. A puddle of possibilities.
Either way, you will probably feel the urge to buy a rake of new workout gear, but maybe not a new gym membership. Maybe you, like I, will buy all your new clothes in a size too small, and still forget to buy a gym membership. Those two options rarely pay off.
There, however, are two options that are much more likely to bear fruit. The first is to buy clothes for a job you don't yet have. It's quite simple. If you already own a Ghostbusters shellsuit, you're much more likely to get a ride in Ecto-1. If you look the part, you just might get the part.
Working in fashion, there is an expectation to buy clothes that make you stand out. Often, these clothes can be quite expensive. You don't have to do this, of course, but it's a supremely stylish, single-minded and probably incredibly tall and slim person who refuses to literally buy in to this way of thinking.
The second option is to buy clothes for the relationship you don't yet have. This is a tricky one. Not everyone differentiates between dressing as a single person or dressing as a person in a happy relationship – clothes can only do so much.
A lot of people do differentiate between these two. Some people devalue themselves, considering themselves only worthy of nice things (including clothes) when they're feeling loved. Nice clothes for a nice relationship.
When I recommend that you buy clothes for a relationship you may not have, I'm really recommending that you do that for the most important relationship you'll ever have; the relationship, romantic or otherwise, that you have with yourself.
At the New Year, it's easy to think that you are in need of a physical and mental overhaul. Realistically, you probably don't. Love yourself and treat yourself. In this case, having something nice to wear is a necessary New Year evil.
Me In Various Vintage Coats
It's just that easy, really.
This is me doing a spot of modelling for a friend's vintage shop – and I use the word 'modelling' in the loosest terms possible. In fact, it it was much looser it would fall right off.
I love a nice winter coat, I do. Bonus points if it's fuzzy. Extra super bonus points if it's fuzzy and furry and an animalistic monstrosity like the wolfish looking one in the picture below. Be still, my gaping wallet.
Nonconformist Fashion Tips, with a Personal Introduction
Hi everyone. Hi there.
For a little while back there, I fell out of love with blogging. What happened was this: I applied for (and got into) the MA in Fashion course at Central Saint Martins, which I had been working towards for… Hmm. About two years. That two years was punctuated with a lot of frustration, hard work and heartbreak in both my personal and professional life. A lot.
One thing kept me going when I split up with my long-term boyfriend, quit a job that was not quite what it advertised itself to be and moved back in with my parents in a small town that was, and is, slowly dying due mostly to drugs and emigration. It was the thought of getting out, moving to London and doing my dream course that stopped me from melting into a big fat puddle of self-pity, Ovaltine and Take A Break magazines.
In May, I found out that I was moving to London. I had the course.
In May, I lost the urge to work altogether. Everything seemed entirely pointless.
So, from May to September, I had what can tastefully be termed a lost summer. I made so many brilliant new friends, who I miss immensely now that I've moved over, had some brand new experiences and learned a lot of valuable things (not least how to throw a successful club night, but that's a different post altogether).
I stopped blogging. In fact, I stopped writing altogether bar what was required of me for work. My attention span was shot. I barely read more than ten pages at a time. I finished approximately zero books over the summer. I did however, for the first time in almost twenty years, get a tan – the evidence of which is still fading around my shoulders.
Over the course of a few months, I became a different person. I joined a band of amazing artists and renegades and explored the Irish countryside – and if you're imagining this through a Sofia Coppola-ish, slightly twee filter, that's EXACTLY how it was. It was the very best summer of my life, though not untouched by spots of drama.
But here I am. I live in London now, a city so rich with people and ideas and beautiful things that I feel that my brain might burst if I don't type everything out through my fingers. At the very least, I can start writing posts again, instead of just putting up my weekly Cork Independent columns.
This isn't a particularly personal blog. But this is a personal post. Being personal makes me uncomfortable – slightly ironic as in real life I have a definite tendency to overshare. The short version is this – I'm back to blog another day.
And now for something completely different.
London is full of nonconformists. In fact, it's so full of nonconformists that they all sort of blend into each other. A massive nonconforming mass. I love it. I fall in love on the Tube at least twice a day.
London style is such that this 1968 gem, How to be a Nonconformist, by Elissa Jane Karg, still holds some very relevant fashion tips, not least the one about not wearing socks.
You can see the rest of this book over on Brainpickings.
Licentiate Column 15/08/13: Hindsight 1 – 0 The Zodiac
– No no no, not THAT Zodiac…
It's amazing what a bit of hindsight can do. That relationship that's just not working out, the shoes you couldn't walk in, that one drink that's one drink too many… All are the result of foolish personal decisions that only come to light in your head after the foolishness has ended.
Still, it's nice to look backwards, especially in terms of fashion and beauty. The bad advice of others is a million times more enjoyable than the bad advice you give yourself. It's especially more enjoyable when that bad advice is recorded for posterity in print.
A friend of mine runs a vintage shop and amongst her stock is a massive pile of Irish women's magazine from the early and mid-seventies. Mostly, the problem pages are a hotbed of extreme sadness; women who can't leave their abusive husbands or women who have had seven children and physically can't handle any more. Sometimes the problems are funny ('Why do policemen's helmets have to hide their lovely hair?' was one particularly enjoyable one').
The best features, however, are the zodiac-themed ones. What's with Irish women and the zodiac? Did it just become a 'thing' in the Seventies? Anyway, the plethora of oddly specific life advice that stems exclusively from your date of birth is really a thing of beauty. It's perfect in its kitschy inaccuracy.
I am a Taurus. According to one article, which was focused on the beauty regimes of the various star signs, Taureans are obsessed with being pretty. Not only are they obsessed with being pretty, they are so duplicitous that they can easily fool people into thinking that they are good-looking even when they're ugly as sin. Barbra Streisland was cited as an example – poor Babs always got the bum rap. The only accurate part of the piece (which also talked about my 'lovely full neck' – do Taureans suffer from glandular problems?) was the part that said we'd try anything beauty wise – although I might forgo the suggestion of mauve eyeshadow.
Another friend is a Capricorn. Apparently, Capricorns suffer from the burden of ageless beauty. Marlene Dietrich was the example there – apparently the zodiac doesn't account for facelifts and seclusion. Capricorns should also try to think outside the box with their clothes as they tend to stick with classic style – said friend looked unimpressed with that advice, but that might have been the (very stylish) ensemble of leopard-print pencil skirt and green vintage athletic top that she was wearing at the time.
Similarly, a Sagittarean friend was not cool with the advice that she should accentuate her 'large but attractive teeth' with a good toothpaste and a smudge of red lipstick. She was even less impressed with the suggestion that she spent most of her days 'whinging balls about'. That's a direct quote, by the way. Whanging balls.
So, if there's anything to be learned from the zodiac, it might be to ignore it altogether – or maybe just keep making foolish decisions. Just hope that the stars will end up aligning.
The Reading List: Punk Press…
…Rebel Rock in the Underground Press, 1968-1980, compiled by Vincent Berniére and Marcel Primois.
Punk Press, much like punk style, doesn't demand reading, but it does demand intense, concentrated looking. Really look at it. Get into all the cracks and crevices. Weed out the dirt and the anger. Look at how easy it can be to get something out of almost nothing.
Comprising full page facsimiles of the most noted international punk magazines and 'zines, Punk Press is a must for anyone even remotely interested in the genuine aesthetic and NOT what everyone was wearing at the little ol' Met Ball (mostly boring – though props go to Giovanna Battaglia and her safety pin crown).
It's the best in punk style, music and art, with the famous (Linder Sterling's provocative Buzzcocks collages) to the slightly obscure (Loulou Picasso's Soviet nods for French magazine series Libération) featuring.
A friend and I spent a few hours looking through the pages and dreaming about how we could make our own 'zine. You can take that as a good sign – I rarely get inspired to actually 'do' something unless pizza or red wine is the end result. Such is the impact of Punk Press, or indeed, the punk presses at large.
Punk Press is published by Abrams and is out now.
Pause Play Vintage, Tralee
Tralee is a small place, so it came as no surprise to me to find out that I already knew the proprietor of Pause Play Vintage in Tralee – Dominique Barry (from Leaving Cert art classes).
Tralee is the kind of town that, due in part to recession and a dwindling youth population, just doesn't get to have Nice Things. The whitewashed Pause Play Vintage, tucked away on Milk Market Lane, is such a very nice thing. The space is spread out over two floors with a carefully-thought out selection of vintage clothes, accessories and bric a brac over two floors.
Kelly Reemtsen – Pretty Dresses, Power Tools
Do you listen to podcasts?
I definitely do. I don't listen to fashion podcasts. If such a thing existed, I would, but fashion is so visually powerful that podcasting seldom does it justice*. I listen to history podcasts instead. Judge me if you like. Go on, go full pelt with the slings and arrows.
Since I started writing for a woman's website and exploring what it really means to be a woman with all those funny chest lumps and diminished human rights in Ireland today ("Yeah, it's funny how you become more feminist when you break up with a boyfriend", says my sister to me – either totally missing the point or cutting dangerously close to the truth), I've started listening to the great Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast.
Are you interested in women's thingies? You should listen to that, so.
They also have a Tumblr. I found these paintings by Kelly Reemtsen there. They're a deft but sinister juxtaposition of masculine vs. feminine. I quite like the flat block colours and the simple lines of the dresses. It must make braining an unsuspecting person with a huge spanner so much easier – that might just be me though.
*That being said, there's definitely a market for a great fashion podcast.
Snoopy Around The World
In the course of developing this little website, I've also developed an increasingly soft spot for pop culture in all its forms, especially if it's tied in with fashion in any way. On seeing these photos on the AnOther website, my soft spot immediately became as squishy and vulnerable as an overripe avocado.
So far, I've blogged about the curious case of the Theatre de la Mode fashion dolls, the out-there wackiness of a Disney fashion editorial (Alber Elbaz as a distant cousin of Donald Duck, anyone?) and the unashamed kitschiness of Barbie in the best of 80's designers. This is up there. It's one of the hits. One of the good ones.
This is Snoopy and his sister Belle, dressed by different designers as they travel around the world. Taken from the book 'Snoopy Around the World: Dressed by Fashion Designers' – Snoopy isn't one for obscure titles, we can see – it's cute and weird and of course I immediately bought a second-hand copy from Amazon.
Can the constant buying of books be defined as a substance addiction?
Photos by Alberto Rizzo. You can see more over on the AnOther website.


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Corporate Accountability International is running their annual Corporate Hall of Shame with candidates like TransCanada, Monsanto, McDonald's among their list of 10 global offenders. The "winner" will become the target of mobilized grassroots action, like last year's inductee Koch Industries which led to the removal of climate change-denier David Koch from the board of Boston PBS affiliate WGBH -- the producer of national programming like Frontline and NOVA.
It's hard to pick just one but cast your vote and take a stand against corporate abuse.
They don't show a tally of votes but apparently, there's no clear cut winner yet so you can help push your cause to the top. From financial, health, environmental, media, democratic and other harms, their list of the worst of the worst will likely cover it. And if not, you can add your own suggestion.
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This amazing film is a must-see for anyone who cares about independent media. The Corporation's Mark Achbar describes the film as "taking up where Manufacturing Consent Left off" and "the best films on this topic so far."
Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values. The film reveals ugly truths about the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.
Tracing the story of media manipulation through the years, Shadows of Liberty poses a crucial question: why have we let a handful of powerful corporations write the news? Media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is fundamental.
Check out the Democracy Now! interview with Director Jean-Philippe Tremblay.
"We decided to do this film with DocFactory and the Bertha Foundation because we're dedicated to independent media. The goal was really to make films that change the world. And it became obvious to us that the media is one of the most, if not the most, important subject that we need to deal with today."
~ Jean-Philippe Tremblay (from the Democracy Now! segment)
Check out their website and take action! ShadowsofLiberty.org Currently they are in the midst of a US Grassroots Screening Tour.
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Vancouverites will be able to catch a special fundraiser screening of The Corporation this Monday, May 26 with an info fair, panel guests (including The Corporation author Joel Bakan!) and after-party. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a devil's bargain since the event will be held at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, which we were graciously offered for free, yet comes with some controversy. The mining company got its name on the door with a $10 million donation to SFU which outraged many people, including us, considering their track record of destructive and exploitative behaviour.
75% of the world's mining companies have their headquarters here in Canada and it's no wonder why: there are virtually no regulations to prevent unscrupulous corporations from committing human rights violations overseas. And our mining companies, like Goldcorp, have been busy - poisoning water, destroying farms, even violent intimidation and murder.
One of the earliest supporters of The Corporation film, Inter Pares also co-founded the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) and they are part of a coalition calling on Canadians to ensure that mining victims can access justice here in Canada. We've now come on board along with groups like Amnesty, Kairos, BC Teachers Federation and Oxfam Canada, to advocate for federal legislation that would establish mandatory standards for Canadian extractive companies operating abroad, especially in developing countries. Over 80,000 people have sent a letter to their Members of Parliament and on May 14, hundreds gathered on Parliament Hill to show their support.
For our part, we'll be handing out postcards at the May 26 screening to be sent to Goldcorp's Vancouver head office letting them know that we don't check our conscience at the door just because their name is on it. Join us and get your tickets now!
Support the Open for Justice campaign and help fight mining injustice here and around the world. Check out the video from Inter Pares below, as well as links to action.
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3,146,398. That's the number of people who, at last count, were part of projections lighting up key buildings in Washington, D.C. last night with messages against TPP secrecy. The international Stop The Secrecy campaign registered a huge victory and sent a clear message to negotiators that fast tracking the deal would meet with opposition. A lot of it.
Now, US Senator Ron Wyden, an important player in the Democratic party, has come out against trade secrecy saying, "Bringing the American people into full and open debates on trade agreements that have the effect of law is not too much to ask." No kidding.
StopTheSecrecy.net is still collecting signatures or show your support by sharing the good news and help it go viral.
We think this opposition to the TPP is one more reason why The Corporation is still as relevant today as it way 10 years ago. Do you agree? Let us know in our 10 Year Anniversary campaign survey.
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From StopTheSecrecy campaign:
Right now, Obama is meeting with leaders in Asia to finalize the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
The TPP threatens to censor your Internet, kill jobs, undermine environmental safeguards, and remove your democratic rights.
We're going to get the attention of decision-makers and the media by projecting a Stop The Secrecy message on key buildings in Washington D.C. - but we need you to add your voice now.
The TPP is huge: It covers 40% of the global economy and will overwrite national laws affecting people around the world.
The worst of the TPP threatens everything we care about: democracy, jobs, health, the environment, and the Internet. That's why decision-makers are meeting in Asia under extreme secrecy and pushing 'Fast Track' laws to cement the plan into place.
This is no way to make decisions in the 21st century. We need to raise a loud global call to expose this dangerous secrecy now.
With every voice that is added to our call, a donor will contribute to make the Stop The Secrecy projection on buidlings in Washington D.C. bigger and brighter. We need to make this as big as possible when Obama returns to Washington on April 30th.
Take action at StopTheSecrecy.net!
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NEW YORK (CNN) - LexisNexis, which compiles and sells personal and financial data on U.S. consumers, said Tuesday that personal information on 310,000 people nationwide may have been stolen.
That number is nearly 10 times higher than the figure LexisNexis disclosed last month when it first reported that its databases had been breached.
LexisNexis said in March that 32,000 people had been potentially affected by the breaches.
In a press release on its Web site, the company said it will notify an additional 278,000 individuals whose data may have been stolen, adding that it is working with law enforcement authorities to see if any of the stolen data has been misused.
Letters will be sent this week to people who may have been affected by the security breach. To date, none of the individuals who were notified that some of their information was accessed last month have experienced any form of identity theft, according to the company.
The firm's Anglo-Dutch parent Reed Elsevier said the identity thefts relate to the misappropriation of IDs and passwords from customers of its Seisint division, which provides information on consumers to third parties like collections companies and federal agencies.
Today's disclosure comes just after an investigation by Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords.
The thieves, who obtained information including addresses and Social Security numbers, did not hack into the computer system and although they were able to get ahold of sensitive password information, the company says it is not certain how the passwords were acquired.
ChoicePoint (up $0.53 to $40.35, Research), an information clearinghouse similar to Seisint, was a victim of a similar scheme earlier in the year. Thieves posed as real estate agents and the company then gave them access to personal information in its database.
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Brian Watt Business and Economics Reporter
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Brian Watt is a Business and Economics Reporter for KPCC. He joined the KPCC news team in 2007. Prior to that, he worked as a producer at "Marketplace," where he filed a number of his own stories and even filled in some mornings as host.
Brian holds degrees in Theater from Yale University and the Sorbonne, and has worked as an actor in France, Italy, Brazil, Hungary and Hollywood. He appeared in a few television shows, including "The West Wing," "Judging Amy," and "The District."
Stories by Brian Watt
LA County employees rally as contract negotiations continue
Los Angeles County is the largest employer in... Los Angeles County. Its current labor contract with more than 55,000 employees expires Wednesday night. The union that represents those workers staged a rally Tuesday at L.A. County headquarters, as talks for a new contract entered their final stages. KPCC's Brian Watt reports.
Activists call attention to police-involved shootings
Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies have shot and killed 13 people so far this year. Last year, the department reported five such shootings. KPCC's Brian Watt says the issue of police violence is on the minds of activists in Inglewood.
Foothill Transit wants out of TAP system
Great idea. Not so great execution. That seems to be the rap on L.A. County's Transit Access Pass – the TAP card. It's designed to allow public transit passengers throughout the county to board trains or buses on different systems with one fare card. But the Foothill Transit agency decided today it wants out of the TAP system for now. KPCC's Brian Watt reports.
SAG members elect Ken Howard president
Members of the Screen Actors Guild have elected Ken Howard as their new national president. KPCC's Brian Watt reports.
California AG sues alleged middleman for Bernard Madoff
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff had a middleman in Beverly Hills, and his name is Stanley Chais. That's the chief allegation in a lawsuit state attorney general Jerry Brown filed today against Chais. More on the story from KPCC's Brian Watt.
SAG holds election for new officers and board members
It's been a turbulent two years for the Screen Actors Guild. The top union for movie and TV actors fought for months with Hollywood producers over a new contract. And in the middle of that fight, SAG got into a nasty battle with the other union for Hollywood performers. This week, members of the Screen Actors Guild will choose the union's leaders for the next two years. Ballots are due on Thursday. KPCC's Brian Watt spoke with two candidates vying to be the next president of SAG.
Bicycle advocates to count cyclists in Los Angeles
By the end of this week, one group hopes to have calculated just how many cyclists and pedestrians there are in Los Angeles. KPCC's Brian Watt explains.
UCLA forecasters predict slow economic recovery
Economists with the UCLA Anderson Forecast offer their quarterly take today on where the domestic economy's been and where it's headed. The recession may be ending, they say, but the recovery could be very slow. KPCC's Brian Watt reports.
State officials move prescription drug database to the Web
A new Web-based tracking system gives California doctors, pharmacists, and police immediate access to a patient's prescription drug history. KPCC's Brian Watt says it launched Tuesday.
Teacher organizes reunion to celebrate achievements of past students
This is the first full week of school for hundreds of thousands of students in the Southland. On one night during the summer, some former students of one teacher got together for a reunion of sorts. KPCC's Brian Watt says the teacher wanted to honor their achievements, and they wanted to honor his.
SoCal economists ponder Lehman's collapse a year later
Economist Ed Leamer says a year ago this month, he and his colleagues at UCLA's Anderson School of Management were expecting the economy to soften in the rest of 2008. Then Lehman Brothers collapsed.
UCLA economist applauds Obama push for new market rules
During a speech to bankers on Wall Street this morning, President Barack Obama called for an ambitious overhaul of the country's financial regulations. The financial industry executives at the speech reacted quietly.
Carpenter on Santa Monica Pier says it has aged well
The Santa Monica Pier marks its 100th anniversary today. KPCC's Brian Watt stopped by the pier and met carpenter Eric Broeske. He's worked on the pier's maintenance crew for 18 years.
T-shirt memorializes firefighters killed during Station Fire
Firefighters collect T-shirts from the major wildfires they've battled. At the Station Fire, they're also buying T-shirts that honor the two firefighters who died last week. KPCC's Brian Watt has more.
LA County firefighter remembers 1 killed by Station Fire
Two Los Angeles County firefighters, Captain Ted Hall and Specialist Arnie Quinones, died during the Station Fire. A public memorial for them is scheduled Saturday morning at Dodger Stadium.


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12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. | 12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. |
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Yep, this really makes sense to me. The "rethugs" involve us in two adventuristic wars based on cooked intel courtesy of the Wolfowitz-Feith-Cheney pipeline resulting in trillions of taxpayer dollars wasted or outright stolen along with their endgame post exiting the White House begging for TARP money to bail out their crooked banking and mega-insurer buddies including major offshore non U.S. chartered banks.
Of course these evil clowns were enabled during the Clinton era by eliminating Glass-Steagall and implementing the Commodities Reform Act of 2000 eliminating most oversight concerning unregulated derivatives; ie., giving these unsavory characters a blue sky environment in order to practice "pirate capitalism" at its finest, but our worst nightmare for "We the People", their captive tax slaves.
Then we ensconce Barack Obama (duty liar in chief), "Mr. Change we can believe in" into the White house who appoints retreads from every administration going back to Ronald Reagan/H.W. Bush to his predecessor G.W. Bush who were responsible for wrecking this nation's economy and standing in the world.
It's like a mighty pendulum morphed into a national wrecking ball electing and reelecting this evil sob's from either party. There's to be no redemption for the people of this nation shy of rushing the perimeter and relieving these mattoids from the helm of state.
My recommendation is to vote for any party other than these two in the coming elections and make sure every major party incumbent is kicked to the curb. Even voting for the Green Party or Communist candidate is a better bet than allowing the Democrats or Republicans to wreak further damage; ie., havoc to this nation.
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NEW YORK — David Boudia knows about pressure. He spent the entire Beijing Olympics focusing on his diving competitions — probably a little too much.
He came home empty handed.
After that experience, he let go of the idea of winning medals above all else, and just focused on doing his best at the sport he picked up 11 years ago because his friend's father won some free lessons in an auction.
He came back from London with two medals clanking around his neck, representing a return to the Olympic success that eluded the United States for two cycles since Laura Wilkinson's surprise gold in Sydney.
How chill was Boudia? He remembers taking time to appreciate the crowd roaring, mostly for British diver Tom Daley, who had recently lost his father to cancer. He doesn't remember his winning dive.
"It's not every day you get to dive in front of 18,000 people," Boudia said. "It's crazy. I remember the swing, climbing up out of the pool and hearing the crowd."
Early on in the London Games, Boudia won a bronze in the synchronized platform event with Nicholas McCrory. Then on Saturday, he upset world champion Qiu Bo of China by less than two points to win his gold on the 10-meter platform.
The last American man to win gold in that event? Greg Louganis in 1988, when he was already famous for his accomplishments. Since then, his name has also come up when noting that no American diver has reached that level.
Laura Wilkinson won a memorable gold in 2000, but the United States was shut out — men and women, platform and springboard, synchro and solo — in 2004 and 2008.
Since then, USA diving made some changes. So did Boudia.
In Beijing, he remembers thinking about getting off the plane, winning a bunch of medals and becoming famous. All he thought about were those medals. Between competitions, he remembers all too well what he and his teammates would do.
"What we did in Beijing is we just sat there, and counted," Boudia said. "All right, 24 hours. All right, 15 hours."
It didn't go that well. He and teammate Thomas Finchum made the final, but finished fifth in the synchronized event. Solo, he finished 10th, almost 100 points behind the winner, Matthew Mitcham of Australia.
London was different right from the start for a number of reasons. Personally, Boudia credits the change to an increased focus on his religious faith, which he said let him be mentally calm. Professionally, he cited the work done by Steve Foley, whom USA Diving hired in 2009 as high-performance director, in changing the atmosphere around the team.
"Because of the direction change in USA Diving, we got out of the village," Boudia said.
The divers went north to train in Sheffield, England, and B2oudia said he was able to spend some time relaxing at a house in the countryside with his sisters Shauni and Shaila. Boudia had 10 days between events, and he didn't want to repeat the slow burn of Beijing by sitting around.
"They opened up their home, they cooked for us," Boudia said, though he wanted to respect the family's privacy by not naming them. "My sisters and I got to hang out, like when we were younger, and just enjoy ourselves."
Refreshed, Boudia came back to the five-ring circus of London with a rested body and mind.
He said he didn't bother looking at the scoreboard too much. He barely made it out of prelims, qualifying 18th before a strong semifinal moved him up to medal position.
He was tied with Qiu going into the last round, and Qiu was set to go after him. Nothing else could do but what he's done so many times in practice.
He scored 102.60 points on a back 2 1/2 somersault with 2 1/2 twists pike worth a 3.6 degree of difficulty. It turned out to be the highest score of any dive in the final once Qiu followed with a 100.80, giving Boudia and the U.S. the gold by 568.65 points to Qiu's 566.85.
"I was totally relaxed, wasn't even focused on the results. Wasn't looking at the scoreboard," Boudia said. "And I really think that helped my mental game throughout the competition."
Boudia and McCrory weren't the only Americans to medal in London. Troy Dumai and Kristian Ipsen took bronze in the 3-meter synchronized springboard event, and Kelci Bryant and Abigail Johnston won silver in the women's synchro springboard.
It was a big step forward for USA diving in general, though Boudia was the only multi-medalist. His gold was the first by an American man since the late Mark Lenzi won the 3-meter springboard at the 1992 Barcelona Games — when Boudia was 3.
It was during the 1996 Games that Boudia decided he wanted to be an Olympic athlete. Having his dreams of a medal evaporate in Beijing hurt, but he found peace since then.
Qiu wasn't as calm. He appeared devastated by the result.
"I was very nervous," Qiu said through a translator. "I have competed so many times, but I have never had that much nervousness."
Qiu has time to learn, though. The 19-year-old says he'll be back in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Boudia hasn't made plans beyond his next semester at Purdue, where the 23-year-old from Noblesville, Ind., says he plans to form an intramural soccer team and stay out of the pool.
After that, he doesn't know. But whatever he does, he knows he won't hang on too tightly.
"You can get really overwhelmed with a lot of different things," Boudia said. "Knowing that I'm not in control of what happens has been just so peaceful and content in my heart."
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11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. | 11 And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name--you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you. |
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Ever since R. Ganesh (name changed), a pharmacist, set up his drugstore in suburban Vandalur, he has regretted his decision.
The constant power outages, a daily feature of his locality, give him both sleepless nights and the nagging worry that his essential drugs could go bad due to improper cold storage.
Essential drugs such as vaccines, insulin and tetanus have to be stored at between 2 to 8 Centigrade. But with nearly 10 hours without power supply, pharmacists like Ganesh are finding it extremely difficult to maintain their drugs.
The vaccines, insulin and tetanus lose their effectiveness if they are not stored properly.
Chennai has around 5,000 chemists and druggists, and there are over 40,000 across Tamil Nadu.
"While the big shops are able to buy generators and run their refrigerators, small shops cannot afford to do so. What makes it worse is that in the summer, the heat can really damage the medicines," said a source at the chemists and druggists association.
"We have been requesting the government to bring us under the domestic power tariff from the existing commercial slab. Pharmacies here are already incurring losses, partly due to competition and partly due to the frequent outages. The government could consider providing some relief from the outages to pharmacies," said the source.
Drug distributors in the suburbs and districts too, are facing the heat as they find it difficult to shell our large sums to ensure the cold storage chain is not disturbed.
"On an average I spend Rs. 600 every day to store the medicines at the right temperature. As my godown is within the city, I only have to deal with a daily two-hour outage. But those in suburbs have to spend a lot more," said a distributor.
He said that many small pharmacies do not even have generators. "Some of them who have it do not switch it on due to the large amount of fuel that has to be used to run it. If this continues, many medicines will lose their effectiveness," said the distributor.
G. Somaskandan, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Pharmaceutical Distributors Association said they had been asking for a fuel subsidy for a long time. "We have not received any subsidies despite being an important part of the healthcare system. It would be helpful if we are provided assistance from the government," he said.
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In yet another attempt to make things and life better for conservancy workers, the Coimbatore Corporation in all likelihood will provide them safety gear.
A proposal to this effect was mooted and accepted the Corporation's Health Committee meeting, held here on Friday.
The civic body would provide mask, a pair of gloves, cap and jacket to 2,867 workers.
The cost worked out to Rs. 30 lakh, said S. Thamarai Selvi, Chairman, Health Committee. This was only the first step.
The Corporation would provide them boots later. She also said that the beneficiaries included workers on contract.
The Corporation had been recently conducting health camps in each of the five zones for the workers in association with a private hospital.
A couple of years ago, the civic body, again in association with a clinic, ran a de-addiction clinic to help the workers kick alcoholism.
The Health Committee also decided to deploy 50 persons in 100 wards to conduct mass cleaning campaign. Thirty of the 50 workers would be engaged on contract. The rest 20, as suggested by the Commissioner, T.K. Ponnusamy, would be drawn from the five zones at four a zone, Ms. Selvi.
The team of 50 would take a ward a day and engage in operations that otherwise did not form part of the day-to-day cleaning operations. They would remove bushes, clear piled-up garbage, clean drains and also remove encroachments.
The operations would continue throughout the year. The team would return to a ward after 100 days – after completing the work in all the other wards.
The Corporation was yet to decide on the date of commencement of the operations. Mayor S.M. Velusamy is expected to announce the date.
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This is a good oil! I have long highlighted hair that gets frizzy and dry and i have to say this anit to bad. It helps make ur hair feel smooth and sleek with no weigh down and seems to add health to my hair. It obv has silicons but thats ok my hair doesnt mind them even though they arent great for hair. I use about 1 to 2 pumps and it works to make my hair look healthy! I use it about once or twice a week id never use a oil more because to much is never good. I use alot of other products in my hair as leave ins as well always about 3 products every time i blowdry or style out my hair so this always works well with my other leave ins. I do however have the light version of this oil. As blondes should! Try itt!!
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The only oil that makes my dry damaged chemically treated hair look heavenly. I threw everything else I`ve been using out and I`m only using this oil, `cause I feel I`ve tried so many products and it`s the only thing that works.
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This oil is lovely for damaged, dry ends like mine. The oil soaks right up and has that typical morrocan oil smell.
*I also have their heat protectant (be careful, a little goes a long way) and their hair spray (smells bad in my opinion).
But the hair oil itself is really great if your ends are split and get dull and dry.
Like the product although it leaves the hair a bit limp. No greasy feeling, leaves hair dreamy soft and shiny. A bit pricey but a bottle lasts a long time. I use this instead of conditioner. Works super and takes much less time in the shower. Who couldn't use the extra minutes?
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I absolutely love this oil! it is a life saver! it transforms a bad hair day into a good hair day. I massage this onto my wet hair and also any time im going to go out somewhere. it transforms your hair immediately. I highly recommend
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I think this is worth the price. I say that because I buy it whenever I run out. I have tried pure argan oil which is a bit cheaper but it does not make my hair look anywhere near as good as this product. I know this has cones in it but I can not deny the fact that my hair looks better when I use this product than with ANYTHING else and I have tried it all.
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This is bloody good stuff. I have been struggling with dry, damaged hair for years - because my hair is both fine AND lightened. I have purchased countless hair products and treatments from high-end brands that claim to repair the condition of my hair....but none make my hair feel anywhere near as soft or healthy as Moroccan Oil.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, the effects are noticeable from the first use. I apply a very small amount through my mid-lengths to ends and voilà: soft, shiny, healthy looking locks right through until the next shampoo.
The formula does add a teensy (not overly noticeable) bit of weight to my fine hair, which I don't mind because I only use a small amount of product. On that note, the dispenser pump tends to pump too much for a single use on my hair so I have taken one point off for packaging.
I just bought the large 125ml bottle which will last for ages....however when it runs out I definitely plan to repurchase.
I don't know what they put in this stuff and I honestly don't care, but it is awesome! Like magic, it completely changes my hair texture and appearance.
At first I was skeptical about the hype over this and turned off by the astronomical price. But my sister got the small oil treatment and I got to try it. Next thing I know, I was leaving the salon with a full size bottle of Moroccanoil.
I don't know what else to say other than that this stuff is amazing. My hair was in terrible condition when I started using the oil treatment, but somehow it always managed to make it look smooth and shiny. I used the oil combined with Redken Extreme Anti-Snap for over a year and this combo sure helped in my hair's recovery.
I really don't have any complaints about Moroccanoil other than the tanning oil scent, but that's just me. A lot of people like it. And even though my hair was damaged, it is fine, oily and I didn't think it weighed it down either.
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The Old Mission Peninsula of Michigan, just north of Traverse City, provides the perfect growing season for delicious cherries. As it turns out, the climate in "the cherry capital of the world" is also ripe for the area's newest crop – grapes. Over the last several decades, those grapes have expanded the peninsula's image into a leading wine producer as well.
WFYI's new documentary looks at the shifting landscape of the peninsula, talks with the growers and explores the crusade to bring grapes and wine to the cherry capital, located seven hours north of Indianapolis.
For Gary Harrison, WFYI producer of this film, the documentary is a labor of love. He and his family have vacationed on the peninsula since the 1960s, and in the 1980s, he worked at the area's only winery. "I've seen the changes there, and thought it would be fun to document the transition," he said.
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1 To victory, the psalm of David. The Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation; the name of God of Jacob defend thee. (To victory, the song of David. May the Lord answer thee in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.) | 1 May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. |
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See, this is what i hate.... get out of here with these made up ESPN stats trying to skew stuff....
1st of all, the only points the offense is truly responsible for are the Schaub pick 6's. & one of those games he and the offense made up for it. The SD pick he had was 1st of all a great play by the SD defender & 2nd, still on the defense. The defense gets paid to stop an offense...........regardless of where that offense is on the field.....they didnt do it...SD scored a TD....so its on the defense...period. Furthermore, if the defense was as good as you guys are trying to make them out to be & that is our identity & strongest part of our team, they would've at least been able to hold them to 3 there.
I don't have a problem with anyone bashing this offense...they've sputtered too often to be relied upon to show up week in/out....& we can speculate all day on what the chief reasons for that are.......What i absolutely disagree with is how you guys continuously use qualifiers when talking about this defense in an effort to cast it in the best light relative to the offense....but don't do the same when it comes to the offense....Like the offense, the defense too these 1st 3 games has sputtered a bit too often when we've need them to bow their necks...Neither side has played up to its talent level..Despite what your homemade stats might suggest about their performance.
The other thing is, we've continously heard from those critical of the offense say "this looks like the same team from the end of last year and in the playoffs..." or some itereation of that.
Well if that's the case, than includes the defense as well.......That includes the offense not scoring a TD in the last umpteen quarters in the last 4 games
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those games when GB, NE, Jax and DET wiped their ass with our defense....
As hervy said in another post in another thread...there's poop everywhere...& there continues to be poop everywhere on this team. Just b/c the biggest smelliest turd is the 1 under center at the moment doesn't mean the other turds elsewhere don't stink.
That's a ridiculous way to look at things. If the defense gets a turnover on our own goal line and the offense scores a TD, the defense gets some credit for that and vice versa.
When you give a team the ball in prime scoring position that's a negative on you. Short of three straight sacks or a turnover SD was getting points in that situation.
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Marc Summers hosted the popular Nickelodeon game show Double Dare. And this kicks off a Weezy-esque dismantling of each season, as it can also be heard as "I 'mark' (kill) summers".
Bino definitely killed winter, as he recorded BTI in winter 2012 and released it winter 2013. He got autumn with November 2011's Camp. And he released the ROYALTY mixtape on the 4th of July in 2012. He's slacking when it comes to the spring though!
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OK, I read many things from CQR and a few for the bruce, I also investigate on the Delta, specially a report from Charles E. Kanter (www.hypermax.com/multihullsmag/magazine/articles/delta.htm) a test done over three years of cruising that is in my thinking impresive, I have been using always a CQR on my older boat a 31 moody I had worked well, but when I always looked at the anchor it had almost always an ear sticking out of the ground. And for what I read the CQR should be at least 35 lbs to start working well....The Bruce I don´t know exactly why but it doesn´t inspire me confidence (personal feeling), it may be stupid but that also counts when selecting an anchor, ( I may be wrong). So I will give a try to the Delta which I like , then again will be more important a heavier anchor or a heavier rode ?, I think the second if the anchor size is correct will be more important, specially if the anchor has been able to stick to the ground....
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Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week they discuss Luis Suarez, John Farrell, Blainville-Boisbriand GM Joel Bouchard, and the availabilty of Maple Leafs playoff tickets.
Bruce Arthur, National Post: My thumb is down to Luis Suarez, although I'm going to quickly withdraw the thumb in case Suarez is around. Suarez is the talented Liverpool striker who this week bit Branislav Ivanovic on the arm during a match. Ok, he got a 10-game ban, we're all against biting, and that's fantastic. But here's the thing, Suarez has done this before – in 2010 he bit another player. Mike Tyson got on Twitter and said 'You know what Luis, it happens.' But even Tyson knew that if you're going to bite somebody, you only ever do it once.
Steve Simmons, SUN Media: My thumb is reluctantly up to John Farrell, manager of the Boston Red Sox, who essentially walked out on the Blue Jays for his dream job in Boston. You know how this thing shaped up: the Red Sox were supposed to be lousy; the Blue Jays were supposed to be great; and Farrell was going to rehab the careers of Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz. Well look what's happened: the Red Sox have the best record in baseball and in games that Buchholz and Lester have pitched the team's record is 10-0. Farrell is looking like the genius he never looked like in Toronto.
Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is up to Joel Bouchard, a general manager in the QMJHL, who knew when to behave like a man. The Baie-Comeau and Blainville-Boisbriand brawl was boys being boys. Once in a while a man has to be a man and that's what Bouchard, a former NHL defenceman, did. He yanked his boys off the ice; nobody else got hurt. He was the adult in the room.
Dave Hodge, TSN: It should have been thumbs up all around to the Maple Leafs and their long-suffering fans when a limited number of playoff tickets were offered for sale online this week. But alas, there were problems. Technical glitches; computer screens were shaken; phone lines were jammed; swearing took place to match that of the previous nine years when there was an understandable reason for the unavailability of playoff tickets. This time, there were no playoff tickets because even the Internet had trouble believing the Leafs were in the playoffs.
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CBS 'Supergirl' recently revealed a more procedural format that had many fans worried about the series, but the casting of Kara Zor-El should leave all positively 'Glee'-ful. Melissa Benoist will don a cape and tights for the title role in CBS' 'Supergirl' series, chronicling the adventures of Superman's cousin.
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text: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Christian Gardner <christian_gardner at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Almost certainly it's because the necessary driver is not compiled >> into the kernel. The Ubuntu .config and kernel will probably not work >> for you because the drivers are modules and you need to have an >> initramfs to load them before mounting root. I don't recall the exact >> settings, but I think you'll need the following: >> >> For libata (newer SATA/PATA drivers): >> CONFIG_ATA=y >> CONFIG_[SP]ATA_$yourcontroller=y >> CONFIG_SCSI=y >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y # this is SCSI disk support >> >> For IDE (older drivers): >> CONFIG_IDE=y >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_$yourcontroller=y >> >> You can compile both libata and IDE into your kernel, and only one >> will be used. I forget which one is default in 2.6.22, but I think >> SATA disks will use libata and PATA disks will use IDE. If libata is >> loaded, you'll get /dev/sd* disks, and /dev/hd* disks for IDE. >> >> -- >> Dan > > Hi Dan, sorry if this message isn't threaded properly... thanks for your advice, I'm trying it out now but I'm not quite there yet. > > I decided to bung in everything you say for both types of controller, I don't suppose it can hurt. Most of them were already enabled in the vanilla config file. I enabled CONFIG_ATA which hadn't been. That just leaves the two lines you suggest, in which I have to replace $yourcontroller with something intelligent. What might that be? > > In the vanilla config file a whole bunch of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_$controllernames are enabled, but another whole bunch aren't. Meanwhile there are no entries in the mold of CONFIG_SATA_$anything or CONFIG_PATA_$anything, not even comments saying that such an option is not set! > > How do I find out what controller I should put? The other responder to my Q said I should try the lspci command so I did, I think this is the relevant line of output: > > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) > > Does that mean anything? Finally what I'm building all this on is a laptop, specifically the Toshiba Satellite P100-429 model which I bought about 18 months ago. Here's the 'official' page on it. Can't see what I want there... Just the controller is what we need. For libata, this corresponds to CONFIG_ATA_PIIX. Even on 2.6.22, I think you'll want the libata SATA support. I've been using ata_piix on two Intel systems with linux-2.6.22 for a while and haven't seen any issues. I think that setting with the ones above for libata should take care of it. Bear in mind that those are just the minimal settings for compiled in root drivers. If you start using libata, you'll probably want the other SCSI device support types like CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR for cdroms. Just like your hard disk, though, there's are equivalent drivers for libata and IDE that you can choose. I've personally been using libata for everything, but the PATA support in IDE is much more mature. -- Dan


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"No mechanism in my office to look into all minute details"
Contrary to the impression that the former Sports Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, had forewarned the government about the Commonwealth Games mess, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that Mr. Aiyar did not bring to his notice any wrongdoing and the opposition was purely on "ideological grounds.''
"…you have also written Mr. [T.N.] Ninan [Business Standard Editor] that our friend Mani Shankar Aiyar wrote to me, but he wrote to me on purely ideological grounds [that] he was opposed to hosting the Commonwealth Games,'' Dr. Singh said, during his interaction with editors here.
When one of them interjected and sought to state that the objection was about the budget for the Games, Dr. Singh pointed out that the outlay for the event was the responsibility of the Sports Ministry, which had to bring it before the Cabinet.
The Prime Minister said there was no mechanism available in his office to look into all minute details and re-emphasised that while Mr. Aiyar wrote many letters to him the "bulk of the letters were all on ideological aspects of spending so much money on the Commonwealth Games…nothing he brought [before] me [said] anything that was wrong. At one stage, I did get worried, I did get reports but at that stage we put some officials under Jarnail Singh to keep a watch. The question is how effective was that supervision…''
Dr. Singh said the agreement to host the Games was signed in 2003, when the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government was in power, and the bulk of the expenditure on the event was incurred before the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
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Wildcats finish second in state
The Whitewater Wildcats came up two runs short in their quest for the AAAAA state baseball championship.
Playing as the visiting team in their own ballpark, the Wildcats jumped out to an early lead in the third game of the championship series, but they couldn't hold off the Houston County Bears' bats and fell 8-6 Tuesday afternoon before an overflow crowd of passionate baseball fans.
Whitewater led 3-0 before the opposition even came up to bat, as Jacob Wilkinson led off the game with a walk, Brandon Bell singled and Nick Fuerstenau blasted a three-run homer.
The Bears got a run in the second against starter Jordan Holmes and loaded the bases with one out, but he got out of trouble with a strikeout and a groundout.
The Wildcats loaded the bases in the third and got a run when Bell scored on Caleb Norton's single to center, but a great throw to the plate got Fuerstenau. However, the Whitewater lead was three runs once again.
That changed for good in the bottom of the fourth, when Houston County exploded for six runs. The big blast was a grand slam to right by Hunt Smith.
But Whitewater wasn't finished. After Fuerstenau and Taylor Turner reached base, Norton drove a pitch over the centerfielder's head for a two-run triple to cut the lead to 7-6. Norton was stranded at third, one of seven Wildcats left on base in the game.
Josh Profit gave the Bears some breathing room in the bottom of the sixth with a solo shot over the fence in center. The Wildcats got two runners on base in the seventh, but one was erased on a 4-6-3 double play and the Bears got the final out on a grounder back to the mound.
Whitewater finished the 2014 season with a record of 31-8.
What an incredible last five weeks it has been as I have been honored to follow the Whitewater High School Varsity Baseball Team through Georgia State AAAAA Baseball Playoffs.
Though our guys fell one game short of the championship title, these young men and their coaches should be treated like the champions they are for hanging tough as a team for so long. Thank you Coach Rusty Bennett for the hospitality you, your coaches, every player on the team and parents showed me.
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