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New York Color Sun 'n' Bronze in Hamptons Radiance
15 reviews
53% would repurchase
Package Quality: 2.8
Price: $
Package Quality: 2.8
Price: $
on 6/16/2014 7:56:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I'm not sure why there are so many bad reviews but I really like this bronzer! I bought it not expecting too much and I was pleasantly surprised. I'm very fair skinned so that might be why but I feel it is fairly pigmented, maybe people aren't grabbing enough product? It's not chalky at all and blends perfectly. For only 4 bucks I'll definitely repurchase.
on 4/7/2014 1:51:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Red, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
I tried to like this product for a long time. It's not the worst I've ever used, but it's up there. As the other reviews say, there is minimal color payoff. I feel like I have to be very heavy handed with this product to even get a small amount of noticeable product on my face. The colors look nice in the pan and I like the packaging, but how this shows up on your face versus the pan are two different things. The price is great, as are most NYC products. I feel like there's so many different types of bronzers out there, this is a mixture of highlight and bronze, with a small amount of sheen to it. I prefer shimmery bronzers over matte ones, but I realize the matte people are very hesitant to purchase anything with shimmer/glitter in it. However, this product is pretty much useless. Definitely prefer Physicians Formula or Pixi over this!
on 8/14/2013 8:55:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Olive, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Other, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Very glittery with poor pigmentation. Too bad because the shades look so pretty in the pan. This is a big NO NO for people with oily skin. The gold metallic finish makes you look even more oily.
on 3/15/2013 4:53:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is for crap. Pretty in the container but I could hardly get any product onto a brush. I swirled and swirled and tested on my hand and saw nothing. So, I crushed it up which would probably work in a better container but was just messy in the cheap plastic container it comes in, so I tossed it. It's a total waste of money!! New York Color..........you can do better than this!
on 3/5/2013 2:37:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Oily, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I inititally bought this as a Bronzer for my face however there was not any color payoff so I started using this as a body shimmer. After my favorite body lotion is absorbed, I brush this Bronzer onto my shoulder, arms and sometimes my legs. It provides a light shimmer glow which looks beautiful and soft.
on 1/14/2013 11:55:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Where do I begin... waste of my money. I was so excited to purchase this product. I was browsing through Wal Mart for an affordable bronzer because the previous one I was using was way too dark for winter use and the NYC Sun N Bronze caught my eye. I loved that there was multiple colours that would blend out more evenly into my skin. As soon as I opened this, I swatched it on my hand and nothing showed up. I decided to use my white powder brush and try again, this time using it on my face.... Once again nothing showed up. This was such a waste of my money because it's not pigmented at all. All that shows up on my skin is a bunch of glitter. Definitely don't recommend it for anyone with anything other than fair skin tone. Won't repurchase in the future. I will stick to my Rimmel Bronzer!
on 1/13/2013 12:05:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This said BRONZER on it, and i cant even swatch this bronzer!
i mean it gives a nice glow but to the point that i have to apply 5 layers to see colour is crazy!!!!
sigh, such a big disapointment :(
on 12/15/2012 8:42:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
Really good bronzer! It gives me just the right amount of color with subtle shimmer and a nice glow. I just take a powder brush and swirl all of the colors around and then brush it all over my face. It is not too powdery. It does not clog my pores or break me out either, which is good since I have sensitive skin. I would buy this again!
on 10/14/2012 1:43:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Other, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I am a blue eyed NW10 (NW20 when tanning from a bottle).
This is a great bronzer for PPP. It's honestly like a lighter version of Tarte's Park Ave. Princess (my HG bronzer). This will not show up on people who are shades N20 and darker. This is a very light, soft, luminizing peach shower. Reminds me of when I used Cover Girl's blush in Natural Glow as a "bronzer" to add color to my pale NW10 skin last winter (when you are that pale, you get creative for bronzer lol). Having it in individual strips of color means you can use it as a multi tasking product if need be, like highlighter with the light taupe middle strip, and eye shadow with the peach strip. Great value, great product.
EDIT: once again, i find myself using this as a multi-tasker to warm up my pale-as-can-be winter foundations. Makes for a great bronzer, blush, and eye shadow in one.
on 8/11/2012 6:45:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Good for my fair skin. This is much more natural and prettier than TF snow bunny, sun bunny, or chocolate soleil
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GRAND ISLAND, La. - Each day the tides bring life to the beaches and marshes. They supply the birds' food and safety, but when they bring oil, they can kill on contact.
Foraging sea birds dance in and out of the surf unaware of the toxic landmines dotting the beach. Small blobs of reddish oil are turning up on beaches like the one in Grand Isle. They are usually smaller than 50-cent piece, but when it comes to birds and oil, there's no such thing as small change.
They've done studies with murres up in the Northwest and it's about the size of a dime that can cause a bird to go into hypothermia, said Seattle biologist Dan Norman.
On their feathers, oil removes the bird's thermal insulation. The very water they depend on for safety becomes a threat. If they try to preen it away, they ingest it and poison themselves.
Norman grew up in Louisiana and is back on bird patrol. He has taken a formula used to assess birds in the Pacific Northwest at the greatest risk from oil exposure and applied to Gulf Coast species.
The once nearly extinct brown pelican is at the top of the list.
The brown pelican tends to sit in the water so it gets covered in oil that way, he said.
Biologists have seen what happens to birds that encounter oil on beaches and in the surf. What they are not familiar with is what will happen if oil washes into the marshlands. The fear is the native grasses and other plants will pick it up and pass it on to the first creature that rubs up against it.
Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says at least 13 oiled birds have died since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig triggered the massive spill. Seven others that were recovered are still alive.


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I know some of the details of Brinestormer. My old boat (hull 14, Iris) was built with that boat as a sister ship. The two families built the interiors together at the Skoog place on Mercer Island back in 71-73.
Some funny history of those two early boats. They parked the two boats on the Skoog dock and Neil (the designer) supervised the wheelbarrow loads of lead scrap being loaded into the keel voids. They poured concrete over it all once he was happy with the way they sat in the water. I eventually glassed over it to make sure. The early hulls where actually laid up in 2-piece port and starboard molds. The halves got glassed together right down the middle. Sadly those beautiful old molds along with the deck molds where destroyed long ago.
I think most of the early hulls where fitted outside of the "factory" shop, by owners or other shipwrights. Many owners shared resources for rigging, parts and ideas, so there is a lot of similarity in the boats.
Well designed simple boats, very good performance for a cruiser. Initially tender, but like a rock after about 15 degrees of heel. Stable downwind. Very dry and safe in a large following sea. Points surprisingly well. The older spade rudder versions where a bit lighter and faster than the newer skeg rudder model, but the skeg rudder boats tracked better. After many years of hard sailing in mine I never had one structural problem with the boat.
Both Brinestormer and Iris did some remarkable passages over the years. Many other Mercators have cruised far and wide. I have lots of drawings, notes, and photos around if there is more interest. I sold mine in 2002, and bought a much larger boat. Sometimes miss the simplicity and ease of maintenance of Iris.
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'J.Edgar' not a thorough investigation
Biopic is a spotty, surface-level portrait of the FBI's controversial founder
Rating: R
When: Opens today
Where: Wide release
Running time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
Most adult Americans can identify J. Edgar Hoover as the longtime director of the FBI who, it's been said, had a thing for cross-dressing. The more informed could probably tell you that Hoover was, in fact, the bureau's founding director who served 48 years under eight presidents, all the while using his agency's resources to illegally spy on his perceived enemies and hoard their offenses in his sinister treasure-trove of secret files.
With the historical scope of a Ken Burns documentary and a character with more quirks than a comic-book villain, a J. Edgar Hoover biopic should, at the very least, be eventful and informative. But Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" is neither, managing to turn the momentous American 20th century into a bore, and doing so in a historically unreliable fashion.
The film's central flaw is built into its very structure, with Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) acting as the narrator of his own life story, which he is literally dictating to an agent from the bureau's PR department. If you are one of the few willing to trust Hoover as narrator from the outset, the manipulative, power-hungry character traits he displays as the story jumps back and forth in time will surely dissuade you — if the distractingly heavy age makeup hasn't already done the job.
Hoover is delivering this retrospective during the early to mid-1960s, when Martin Luther King spearheaded the Civil Rights movement and the Kennedy brothers were running the White House. Hoover isn't happy with any of it, and he's desperate to hold onto the power he's spent decades amassing.
His pit stops across the decades are frustratingly selective. Eastwood spends more time reveling in the sexual trysts Hoover digs up on monumental figures like President Kennedy, King and Eleanor Roosevelt, than examining his motivations for doing so. He mostly skips over historical periods like Prohibition, World War II and McCarthyism, yet lingers far too long on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, an event worthy of its own film perhaps, but not such a big chunk of this one.
To be fair, Hoover did initially earn his crime-fighting reputation. Eastwood takes pains to show us Hoover's early years hunting down anarchists responsible for deadly explosions around the country, but not enough to justify his lifelong paranoia toward radicals. Hoover's greatest achievement, envisioning and creating a centralized bureau that relies on advanced forensic techniques to solve crimes, is highlighted in the film and, if you are to believe our narrator, Mr. Hoover did it all on his very own.
Once the shock of the age makeup wears off (for some, this may be never), you can detect a solid performance from DiCaprio as both the young and old Hoover. Yet, even with Eastwood's blatant whitewashing, it's hard to imagine DiCaprio's portrayal of such a weaselly, petty man earning him the Oscar gold he's so clearly aiming for.
An insightful screenwriter could help us see such a sour character's side of things, but writer Dustin Lance Black ("Milk") insists that we do so without giving us any subtext, nuance or emotional threads to hang onto. Instead, we get straightforward narration and expository dialogue that introduces each time-traveling vignette and dictates Hoover's tiresome "me versus them" rationalizations for whatever unscrupulous thing he did to stop them.


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Animal Welfare Approved Announces 2011 Good Husbandry Grants
Grants of Up $5,000 to Focus on Outdoor Access, Genetics and Improving Slaughter Facilities
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Animal Welfare Approved is pleased to announce that it will offer a third year of Good Husbandry Grants. AWA is seeking proposals for projects to improve farm animal welfare with a concentration on three areas: increased outdoor access, improved genetics and improved slaughter facilities.
Animal Welfare Approved is a free certification for family farms raising their animals with the highest welfare standards, outdoors on pasture or range. "We have awarded funding for 65 projects in 25 states and are delighted to be able to continue these grants for 2011," said Andrew Gunther, AWA Program Director. "The impact of these grants has been extraordinary – the finished projects prove that there is an inextricable link between high-welfare, pasture- and range-based husbandry and successful farms." Current Animal Welfare Approved farmers and those who have applied to join the program are eligible for grants of up to $5,000.
Jeremy Vargo of AWA-certified Vargo Farms in Bullock, North Carolina, raises hogs and received a 2010 grant to improve his mobile housing system. "The huts have greatly benefited my hogs," he explained, "by improving herd health and expanding our ability to rotate pastures while providing shelter from the elements. This grant program, like AWA, is a win-win for the whole farm." Organic Pastures Dairy Company, LLC in Fresno, California – the largest retail-approved raw and organic dairy in the United States (California allows sales of raw milk in retail outlets) – used a Good Husbandry Grant to improve its shelters and allow for greater pasture access. Farmer Aaron McAfee reported positive feedback: "Our nutritionist has noticed an overall improvement in the health of our calves." He went on to say, "This project was very beneficial to our herd and overall AWA standing."
Slaughter plants working with AWA farms are also eligible to apply but should contact Grants
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The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2010. Guidelines, FAQ's, project profiles and an application form are available at www.AnimalWelfareApproved.org or by contacting Emily Lancaster at
Animal Welfare Approved audits and certifies family farms raising their animals with the highest animal welfare standards, outdoors, on pasture or range. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has lauded these standards for two years running as being the most stringent when compared to other third-party certification programs. Visit www.AnimalWelfareApproved.org for a searchable database of approved farms and restaurants, shops and markets where AWA farmers' products are sold. Choose the one independent food label that means healthy, safe, environmentally responsible and humanely raised.
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Holding a toddler while prego?
I'm 35 weeks pregnant and still pick up my Marchie. He is almost 30 lbs. I only do it when I physically feel ok to .I know my limits. It hasn't been too bad. I rest him on my hip and it doesn't hurt my tummy. I try to use my legs more than my back or core when lifting him. Just don't push yourself. If you are not feeling well, or having any kind of cramps, try to avoid picking her up.
I'm 35 weeks right now but around 32 weeks, I picked up LO and sprained my round ligament. It was awful pain and I was on complete bedrest for 2 days for it to heal. Since then I've had to be much more careful and pick up LO only when absolutely necessary. Just be careful and listen to your body.
Im 14 weeks too, and it hasnt been painful to lift but I also see a chiro 2xs a month, plus I have been going go PT (for a specific issue) and she started me on core and glute muscle building exercises.
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I'm 38 weeks tomorrow and I still pick up my marchie! i just make sure to really focus on not using just my back. I've made a consious decision to not stop because as long as I keep it up I feel like my body will respond by getting stronger - once you stop it will only get harder, IMO. Now, if DH is around he usually carries her (if she's insisting on behing held) but I"m a SAHM so she is in my arms a lot.
I began seeing a chiro at 32 weeks and have felt a HUGE relief from neck to hips to pelvis. Amazing.
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I got my med-free VBAC and am filled with gratitude for my body and beautiful babies!


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B&B S'Alzolitta is located in Magomadas, 6 Km from Bosa city center
B&B 'S'Alzolitta' is a new and welcoming Bed and Breakfast located in Magomadas, a small cozy town in the heart of Sardinia, a few steps from the sea with a splendid view over the bay of Bosa.
The position of the bed & breakfast for ease of movement allowing you to carry out tours and short trips to all areas of Sardinia.
Built on the lower floor of the house of the owners, David and Serena Marie Antoinette, the bed & breakfast offers ,6 guest rooms with private bathroom equipped with every comfort over satellite TV and air conditioning, ample parking, rental scooters and dirt bikes, booking boat trips along the coast, the shuttle service to take guests to the main airports of the island.
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B&B S'Alzolitta is located in Magomadas, 6 Km from Bosa city center
From Alghero airport you could rent a car and reach us very easily.
When you come out from Alghero, please follow the road SP105 and then SP49 and you will arrive right straight to Magomadas
From Alghero, you could also get a bus leading you to the city of Bosa. From Bosa, you can take the bus to Magomadas
Please note that Magomadas is a small and nice village in the countryside, if you dont find us do not hesitate to contact us and we will be very happy to help


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Today the Reds released RHP Paul Wilson.
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Today the Reds released RHP Paul Wilson.
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Paul deserves thanks for all he's given to this organization.FT. MYERS, Fla. -- Reds released Paul Wilson this morning. Paul's one of the good guys in the game and hope he can continue pitching somewhere. Heck, he's gotta be better than some of the stiffs on the Nationals' staff. Still, it's not much of a surprise.
Good luck, Paul!
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I believe Harang credited Wilson for inspiring him to take his conditioning seriously. Character matters. I hope he finds a way to fulfill his continued desire to compete. Wouldn't mind seeing him back in the organization as a coach someday.
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Interesting - it was rather recently he was considered one of the pitchers who might make the opening day roster. I guess it was not to be.
I hope he has luck in finding another team to play with, and has some success.
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The Washington Nationals have just announced that Paul Wilson has been named their opening day starter.
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13
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But seriously, all the luck in the world to Paul. The year he had in 2004 was inspirational. I remember when he and the rest of the young ex-Mets starters graced the cover of Sports Weekly, I ran out to buy it. Even if it ended badly for Paul in Cincinnati, I'm glad he was here. He was the consumate professional, and an awesome teammate. Last year betweem rehab starts in Dayton he would be in the Reds dugout cheering on the team. Great guy.
I am slightly saddened however, when I read in Fay's blog that he was not offered the option to go to AAA. Why not stick him down there if he is willing and let him rub off on Livingston, Lizard and Bailey? Classy guy. Best of luck Paul!
Tom Shearn... who knew?
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...but seriously, I hope he finds success somewhere.
I don't dislike the man... just the pitching.
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Not just mad as in angry. But mad as in crazy. Washington Post, take it away:
At the headquarters where Republicans are plotting their takeover of the Senate, camouflage netting hangs from the ceiling and walls. Military surplus sandbags are piled up around operatives' desks. And an ex-Marine named Ward Baker rattles off statistics that add up to trouble for Democrats.These guys are nuts. Like, really, really off their rockers. And if they win in 2014, the one thing we won't be able to say is that they didn't warn us.
"Our mentality is that we are at war every day," said Baker, who as political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee is helping command the 2014 midterm campaigns. "We're here for one reason: to win the majority. Anything else is a failure."


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The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending said Thursday that, in its rush to take credit for saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, the Obama administration was overly confident in its job-counting and did not acknowledge significant errors in the figures.
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It's the BOB show!
Bob Laclede
VP, Ingram Micro
Bob Woods
President, Topside Consulting
October 19th, 2009
Tags: contracting , Healthcare IT , computer security , network security , ARRA , cloud computing , IT budgets
Earl Devaney: Stimulus funding progress report
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board's Earl Devaney on reporting of federal stimulus funding: "it went fabulous." Now the data makes its way to the federal site designed to shed light on Recovery Act spending.
Tags: management , contracting , Recovery.gov , Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board , Earl Devaney , recovery
An analysis of Recovery.gov and Federalreporting.gov
Tags: Sunlight Foundation , Recovery.gov , Tom Lee
What is the state of state ARRA funds?
Tags: ARRA , AGA , state funding , William A. Morehead ,
Senate panel gets stimulus tracking update
Work continues at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board on the next version of the Recovery.gov website. The head of that board gives a Senate oversight committee a progress report on other efforts to track all that stimulus spending.
Tags: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , Joseph Lieberman , Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board , Earl Devaney
The stimulus and your marching orders collide
Tags: mngt , Jodi Schneider , CQ Politics
Stimulus at Six Months: a look at the numbers
Tags: mngt , Brookings Institution , Barry Bosworth , TARP , budget
Stimulus funds benefit DC-based feds
When you get past the national headlines, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is about helping people at the state and local level hurt by the national economic downturn. On Tuesday, the Greater Washington Board of Trade heard from White House advisors and Federal agency managers who came to help business leaders get their local share of the federal stimulus program.
Tags: newsstand , Greater Washington Board of Trade , Ed DeSeve , Paul Prouty , GSA , Barbara Reese , Virginia
Pres. Obama: Time to Push a Pawn
A political pawn's purpose is simple. And there are two kinds of pawns--those who see it coming, and those who don't.
Tags: Obama administration , Ben Bernanke , Karen Mills , SBA


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Here are new score keeping updates.
As you may have heard, USA Volleyball has made its official training website, www.volleyballreftraining.org the sole destination for all things to do with USAV rules and officials. The revamped site has been consolidated with all the materials needed by officials of all levels and disciplines – referees, scorers, and line judges – into a single, easy-to-navigate site.
Referee instructions, casebooks and a blog are some of the officials materials. The Score sheets and instructions on scoring techniques are full or information. Many of these presentations have been broken into small sections so that you can easily review an area you missed at a live clinic or just to break your online clinics into smaller easier to focus modules.


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Kent State to Introduce New Director of Athletics, March 25Posted Mar, 24, 2010
The Kent State University Department of Athletics will hold an 11 a.m. press conference Thursday, March 25, to introduce the program's 10th Director of Athletics. The announcement comes almost exactly seven months to the day (August 24) that current Athletic Director Laing Kennedy made public that he would be retiring on June 30. Currently the longest-tenured athletic director in the Mid-American Conference as well as in the history of the Kent State athletics, Kennedy is wrapping up his 16th year at the helm of the Golden Flashes.
Kent State University Director of Athletics Announcement
11 a.m. — Kent Student Center, Room 204
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Bored of the keyboard? Why I like BlackBerry 10, but not the Q10
When BlackBerry introduced its new BlackBerry 10 platform and the Z10 I was impressed, but I just can't love the Qwerty-equipped Q10.
Blogging on the inner workings of business tech including, but not limited to, business intelligence (BI), analytics, enterprise software, desktop and portable hardware, IT in education, open-source p
With a psychology degree under his belt, Ben set off on a four-year sojourn as a professional online poker player, but as the draw of the gambling life began to wane his attentions turned to more wholesome employment.With several years' experience covering everything in the world of telecoms and mobility, Ben's your man if it involves a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or any other piece of tech small enough to carry around with you. He's also keenly interested in broadband issues, and has spent more time than strictly necessary testing out a multitude of software packages.Hot tips (no tittering at the back) can be passed along to me at firstname.lastname@example.com or you can follow me on Twitter @BenWoodsZD, if you can bear intermittent cake and cat tweets.
When BlackBerry introduced its new BlackBerry 10 platform and the Z10 I was impressed, but I just can't love the Qwerty-equipped Q10.
Ofcom is looking at how to clear the current users off the 700MHz spectrum band in time for the next generation of mobile data.
Mobile World Congress is missing a few big name players this year, but there's still plenty happening, including an influx of oversized devices and open-source efforts.
The UK's 4G spectrum situation is improving but iPhone 5 owners keen to take advantage of the higher speeds the networks offer will be disappointed.
4G LTE has arrived in the UK - but unless prices fall, the service will never become a replacement for fixed-line broadband or a stop-gap measure to help solve the rural broadband crisis.
Samsung has confirmed it is considering how, when and where to deliver the newest Android OS, version 4.2 aka Jelly Bean, to its range of Galaxy-branded devices.
Ads have emerged suggesting Google is getting ready to offer a version of its low-cost Nexus 7 tablet with 32GB of storage, but for almost the same price as the existing 16GB version.
Pricing for the upcoming Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 handsets is beginning to trickle out from European markets, indicating that the range-topping device could come in more than £100 cheaper than the equivalent Apple device.
Samsung said the vulnerability in the Galaxy S3 that allowed remote wiping of a device is now fixed - but where does that leave other Samsung handsets?
Apple has fired the starting gun on retail sales of the iPhone 5, the sixth version of the iOS-based handset. Find out where it will cost you the least, in our rundown of the plans out there.
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MacRumors (via TechCrunch) is reporting that the next major version of Apple's iOS will include more deeply integrated voice controls. I've been hoping for something like this for a while. Voice control is the inevitable direction for interacting with machines, especially mobile devices lacking a full-sized keyboard. Google's mobile OS, Android, is currently ahead on this. It allows you to enter text with your voice in any application. iOS has some basic voice controls for making phone calls and playing music, but I've long hoped that they would extend this to more applications, including 3rd party apps. There are some very useful (and free) iOS apps that you can control with your voice, including Dragon Dictation, Dragon Search, Vlingo and Siri. Apple acquired Siri about a year ago.
If you haven't seen Siri in action yet, check out this video:
It's impressive, but I'm excited to see what Apple could do with this after 1.5 years of development integrating it into iOS. Currently I can hold my phone's home button and then say, "Call Sara" or "Play songs by Phoenix," but I'd love to be able to say, "Listen to NPR newscast," "Start 10 minute timer," "Search Amazon for books about programming" or even "Hulu Plus: Play last night's Daily Show." If Apple provides a voice API to 3rd party developers we'll see stuff like that and much more.
The new features of iOS are expected to be revealed at Apple's developer conference, WWDC, this June. They'll also be discussing their new version of the desktop operating system, OS X Lion (10.7). Developers with early releases of that have already discovered that it contains some new text-to-speech voices. Perhaps that's a clue that Lion will be getting some voice control features, too. I've been using voice control and dictation software on my Mac for years (currently Dragon Dictate), but it suffers from the same lack of OS integration as Siri. It only makes sense for Apple to include these features in both iOS and OS X.
What do you think? Do you like talking to machines? Or are you frustrated by inaccuracies? When a machine responds to a voice command, do you say "Thank you"?
Update (July 25, 2011):
More info has come out about this new feature. It's rumored to be called "Assistant."
Update 2 (October 4, 2011):
Apple has officially announced the new feature and they're calling it Siri.
I'm headed to New Orleans for a software conference today. It'll be my first time visiting! I'll be enjoying a riverboat cruise up the Mississippi, plenty of fish and spicy foods (not to mention beignets), and traipsing about between conference rooms at the convention center to learn about things that would probably bore you to tears: like controlling online faculty and advisor access through fine grained access rules for our self-service system, best practices for dealing in the system with students who have concurrent curricula, and setting up workflows to streamline the grade change process.
Wow, that was a long sentence. One can tell I've been listening to a Dickens book lately. I've been going through Dombey and Son. It's definitely a long one and not one of my favorites, although the other day I had a moment where one scene made up for 800 pages of relatively boring set up.
Anyway, I'll be out of town for five days; you'll be able to see photos on FB once I'm back, hopefully! And if you're not on FB, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna make the effort to post them here.
I can't believe I've never seen Meet Me in St. Louis until now. Even though Judy Garland's a little tough on the eyes in this one (or should I say eyebrows), it's such a fun movie. The adventures of a family in with four daughters and a son in 1904 St. Louis is full of fun moments and a lot of old-fashioned music. Margaret O'Brien steals the show with her eccentric performance as the youngest daughter. I loved the color, the sense of humor, the time period, the genuine family moments, and of course, the music. Ever since I saw the movie, every once in a while, I find the title song stuck in my head. It's definitely a new favorite.
i have no idea what is going on right now.
all i know is that it's 3/17(18) and i'm ready to pee clean.
actually.. i just went to a show and i rapped "gin and juice" by snoop dogg and i believe that it was legit. haha! game over. i will check this. brendon: life energy -1. done.
Well, seeing as I saw this when it came out, I'm approximately three months behind with movie reviews.
True Grit is full of Coen goodness. It's got quirk, character, looks, sound, depth, and a good story. The actors are awesome, the cinematography is beautiful (and ought to have won the Oscar), and I almost wish we could have given Jeff Bridges an award this year over last, but I guess he's just on a roll. Matt Damon shows yet again that he is one of the most underrated actors out there. I think he could have been substituted for one of the other men in the Best Supporting Actor category this year for his role as La Boeuf.
I also liked that this time around, there was nothing to question at the end of this movie. After A Simple Man and No Country for Old Men and their abrupt endings and moments of confusion, this was a pleasant, straight-forward movie experience that was perfectly crafted. It's definitely one of my favorites of the year.
Oh my gosh, do I still have a BLOG?!
My friend Grace is an awesome graphic designer and a Photoshop wiz. She is now making her services available for affordable photo re-touching and restoration. You can check it out here. Grace made the awesome brendoman.com logo that you have seen on this blog for the last 9 years and that is just a hint of her expertise.
First The Hub and now this!
If you're a twentysomething who's been jonesing for repeats of All That and Clarissa Explains it All, then this news is for you: EW has learned exclusively that starting this fall, TeenNick will dust off old faves like Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, Pete & Pete, The Amanda Bynes Show, All That and Clarissa and air them in a new midnight-to-2 a.m. programming block dubbed (appropriately enough) The '90s Are All That. The tween cabler came up with the idea after seeing the huge interest in early Nickelodeon programming on social media sites. There are several Facebook pages — followed by millions of fans — that are devoted to Nickelodeon shows from the '90s.
The also go on to say if it does well they will expand it to other shows and movies. How about if it does really well you guys resume the Nickelodeon Rewind Collection? I will definitely have my DVR set when it starts.
I received this email today:
Hey Dude,
The names james i have had a few choice words with you on twitter @Jimbotheledge :)
I need your help ... hehe
Me and My good buddy have just uploaded our first podcast onto the site
I was hoping for two things actually a cheap plug and twitter or better yet on one of your many podcasts :)
and if you have any advice on how we should get our podcast out there and how we can improve :)
Sorry for all the questions...
Cheers dude ... Peace...
I wanted to share my response here, first to see if you guys thought I was being a jerk and second because I thought it would make a good blog post. Here it is:
I will definitely listen to your podcast when I get the chance but I can't plug it and I hope you understand. It's nothing against you, I'm sure your podcast is great, but I get many requests to plug people's podcasts and if I plugged yours I would have to plug everyone else's and then all I would be doing was plugging podcasts. I hope you understand. As far as tips go, I would get a good logo and put yourself in as specific of a category as possible so you can rise to the top of the charts in that specific category. You should be on all the social media sites - twitter, facebook, tumblr. Don't be a total whore but it's ok to be a little slutty (lol). Tweet about your show once a day or so, try and get some friends to RT it. Make sure you get listed in every podcast directory possible. Make sure you're in the iTunes music store. If you haven't already, submit your feed ASAP and make sure it's configured properly. Podbean makes this VERY easy. Again, make sure your category is as specific as possible. It's much easier to get into the top 100 that way. The biggest thing I can tell you though is to not worry about the numbers. If you're doing this for the numbers, you're doing it for the wrong reason. The reason why I do podcasts is because they are fun to do. If I was a wealthy billionaire living in my BrendoMansion, I would still be doing Pop Sickles and a variety of other podcasts. Quality is king, so work on making your podcast the best possible podcast you can make it. Research stories, write down notes (I use Evernote religiously. Highly recommended), try out new things, come up with original ideas. You can do it!
Yes, I realize that by publishing these emails I have now plugged his podcast. That being said, I am sorry if you have sent me a link to your podcast and I did not plug it. I get sent a lot of links. Maybe it's because James was the first person to ask for some advice along with the plug. Yeah, that's it.
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I was very happy to hear that Gallery 1988 would be making a poster for the Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared reunion at PaleyFest this Saturday. I can't even tell you how excited I am for this event and this makes it even more cool. I will definitely be picking up one of these.
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That was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be.
So some Gmail users lost all their mail over the weekend. I'm thanking my lucky stars it wasn't me, as was Lee Matthews at DownloadSquad:
When the news first broke of Gmail losing a small chuck of its users' inboxes, I had a rather terrifying realization: For nearly 8 years, I've been using Gmail as my only message store -- putting all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. If you use Gmail, you're probably now thinking the same thing as me: I really should have a backup.
The article gives helpful instructions to create a backup using hotmail, which is what I'm going to do since I already have a hotmail account. It also gives instructions on how to create a backup using a desktop email program and gives links to programs that will do the job for you. I highly recommend choosing one of these options and doing it. The few minutes you spend will definitely be worth it in the event that all is lost.
I was listening to the latest episode of the All Songs Considered podcast, in which the critics discuss the best and most influential music of the 90s. It's a great show, and reminds me of how much that decade shaped my taste in music.
The discussion inevitably turned to Radiohead's OK Computer, and as they played "No Surpises" I was taken back to the time that the album came out. It's become such a classic (heck, it was classic 10 years ago), it's easy to take it for granted.
But I remember vividly the day I heard OK Computer for the first time. I was working at the city pool, lifeguarding during the day, hanging out with friends until late at night, and sleeping through the mornings.
One morning I was taking my time getting ready for work, fixing my breakfast/lunch with MTV playing in the background. By the late 1990s people were already making fun of MTV for not playing videos anymore, but there were still some time set aside for new music, and some of it was even good.
On this particular morning, as I was getting ready to leave for work, I went to turn off the TV when I saw a strange animated video set to an exciting guitar riff with what sounded like the voice of Thom Yorke. I was stunned. At a time when the Internet was still in its infancy and most of my musical knowledge came from the radio, I had no idea Radiohead had a new album out, or even that they were still together. After all, it had been over two years since The Bends, which now seems like a ridiculously inconsequential amount of time. But you must keep a couple of things in mind. First of all, those two years fell, for me, between the ages of 15 and 17, a period of tumultuous growth and expanding awareness of the world and popular culture. Second, during those years most of the bands I listened to hadn't released more than one or two albums, and, though it was obvious that The Bends was something original, there wasn't any indication that Radiohead would still be making revolutionary music 14 years later.
Anyway, I sat in rapt wonder as Paranoid Android, which had seemingly come out of nowhere, revealed itself to be a bizarre rock epic that traced its way through multiple tempo and melody changes, with roaring guitars one moment and quiet, eerie choruses the next. I was going to be late for work, but I couldn't stop watching until the song was over.
When it eventually wound down to its finale, I raced to work with those otherworldly guitar riffs circling around in my head. As soon as I got off work seven hours later, I went straight to the music store to pick up the CD. The rest of that evening I spent listening to the album again and again and again. I gave it my full attention. I pulled out the CD booklet and read the lyrics along with the music. I studied the artwork and read every printed word, looking for anything that would help reveal the themes of the music.
I probably listened to OK Computer at least a hundred times after that. I took it with me to swim meets, debate tournaments, car trips, everywhere. Sometimes I would turn my headphones up as loud as I could and just focus on the music, listening for a note or a bassline that I hadn't noticed before. There is probably no album I have listened to as thoroughly as I have listened to OK Computer, and there probably never will be.
This kind of surprise discover and subsequent immersion will never happen again because the way I listen to music has changed. I no longer find out about new releases from the radio or MTV: I read about them months in advance, often in periodic updates from the bands' blogs or message boards. On the morning an album comes out I get on Amazon, download it while eating breakfast, and listen to it on my iPod on the way to work. Rarely do I have time to just sit down with an album anymore: I'm far too busy (sometimes with legitimate work, but also with frittering away on the Internet).
Even when a band does do something unexpected, like Radiohead releasing their eighth album for download last week, It's big news for a few days, until the next thing comes along. Thanks to the Internet I buy and listen to more music than ever before, and I buy more new releases than I ever did previously. But with this increased speed and availability of information, a great work like OK Computer, instead of being the album of the year, now becomes merely the album of the week.
Don't get me wrong: I love what the Internet has done to music. I love that I can read about an obscure artist on a message board, visit their website to hear some tracks, and download their album, all in the course of about ten minutes. I feel more connected to important developments in popular music, and I have been able to enjoy artists I never would have heard about previously. But I wonder if the rate at which I consume music is preventing me from really immersing myself in music the way I did with OK Computer.
Congratulations to Matt for guessing the subject of Daniel's artwork.
Here's a little challenge for you.
Daniel recently worked very hard to make an adorable drawing that I'm beaming with pride over.
Your job is to guess what it is a drawing of. Don't just guess "a boy" or "a dog": The subject of Daniel's drawing is very, very specific and familiar. Put your guesses in the comments (and please guess--this is going to be embarrassing if I don't get any comments). I'll post the correct answer sometime in the next couple of days.
Phil and I published our 200th strip for Brax the Alien Rocker yesterday, in case you missed it. It is a really great feeling to look at something and think, "Hey, I put this into the world, and I don't think it sucks." I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Phil for this and all the other random ideas we've had over the years. I'm glad this is one of the ones that actually stuck. He does a lot of the heavy lifting for the comic and I can't give him enough credit. He deserves most of it. Here's to the next 200, and the next 200 after that. Thanks to all of you guys who read it!
I have officially run out of things to title blog posts with and am now just digging up obscure Simpsons lines. Hey, it's been almost nine years of witty (and not so witty) blog titles. The well has to dry up at some point. I thought I'd take the time today to share two things I am really enjoying. First, Evernote. It is awesome. Like Dropbox, I can have it running on all my various computers and my phone. Derick and I have a shared notebook for Pop Sickles and that is where I drop all the news stories I find to discuss on the show. On Saturday morning I just move all the contents into an archive notebook and start fresh. It also records audio notes when I am in driving and I can take pictures of things and make them into notes.
I can then email notes to my other awesome thing for this week, my Kindle. In addition to being a fancy digital notebook, I can also read books on it. Pretty crazy. I don't know why, but I have been reading way, way more since I got a Kindle. I am addicted to book samples. I am also reading A Game of Thrones right now, in preparation for the upcoming HBO series. I am really digging it. I also loaded in the PDF versions of the Microsoft books I am reading to study for my first MCP exam. So now when I have a spare moment I can study or read an enjoyable book, whichever I am feeling up to. It also plays Blackjack and Solitaire and some other cool games.
It's not a brendoman.com post these days without a shameless plug so here that is. Coming up on Bagged and Boarded we have True Blood's Deborah Woll and Michael McMillian along with comic artist Marc Andreyko on the show this week. I am very excited for that. Feel free to comment with any questions you may have for them and I will ask them on the show. On Friday Derick and I will be joined by writer Brian Lynch for Pop Sickles. For those not in the know, Brian is pretty much the funniest person on the planet. So that's what's going on with me this week. Hope all is well for all of you!
When I was young I subscribed to Boys' Life magazine. Even though my membership in the Boy Scouts was very brief I continued reading the club's official magazine for several years because it contained lots of stories, articles, comics, etc. that appealed to me as a 10-12-year-old boy.
In addition to their more professional content, the magazine also featured a joke section in the back. Readers would send in original jokes, and those who were fortunate to have their jokes selected would be compensated to the tune of two dollars. Most of the jokes were terrible--so terrible, in fact, that I figured I could come up with better. So I did.
At the time I was particularly fond of the particular sub-genre of joke that involves an invented book title with a punning author name--stuff like "Under the Bleachers by Seymour Butts." I think I came up with two or three clean, original ideas and sent them in. The only one I distinctly remember went something like, "Babysitting Made Easy by Justin Casey Wales," which I thought was extremely clever.
I waited with great anticipation to hear that all of my original jokes had been accepted, but after several months went by with no response I eventually gave up hope. But one day, unexpectedly, I received an envelope from Boys' Life with two dollars enclosed. There was probably some kind of letter enclosed, but I don't remember. All I remember are those two dollar bills, creased and worn. Although not as glamorous or professional as I had imagined, that cash in an envelope was exciting for what it represented: I was getting my name in a magazine, and I was getting paid for it.
I've been teaching my students about resumes and applying for jobs, and I stressed to them that they need to be careful of how they use their names online. I said that on the Internet nothing is lost and nothing is forgotten. I mentioned that I try to avoid using my last name on my own blog so that potential employers don't find it when they do a Google search. It's been a while since I actually Googled myself and I thought I'd see if the results have changed at all.
In addition to the pages of swimming results and random things I've carelessly attached my last name to, I was surprised to find a link to Google Books' display of the January 1992 issue of Boys' Life magazine. So go take a look at which joke of mine was chosen (which I had completely forgotten over the years) and marvel at the first, and as yet only, time I got paid for my writing.
In 2009 I watched a bunch of Christmas movies that I had never seen, just to see if they truly were classics that I would enjoy watching each year. Only some of them stuck with me this year, so I still had plenty of time to try out a few new-to-me features, one of which was The Bishop's Wife.
In this movie, a bishop is trying to raise money for a new cathedral for his parish. He spends so much of his time catering to his potential donors and focusing on fundraising that his wife is completely neglected, and when they are together, his attitude toward her has changed greatly compared to their early years of marriage. When the bishop reaches a point of desperation for his fundraising, he prays to God for help. God responds by sending an angel to him in the form of Cary Grant, whose name is Dudley.
Dudley has to convince the bishop that he is truly an angel, but once he does, the bishop is happy to have someone who will help him with his business. When Dudley starts paying a lot of attention to the bishop's wife and giving her the attention she needs from her own husband, the bishop is far from happy. What he doesn't realize is that God's plan is to give him the help he doesn't even know he needs. Dudley is there to help the bishop realize he has wandered off the path intended for him, both with his wife and with his priorities with his parish.
Cary Grant and Loretta Young are wonderfully cast in this movie. Grant has such charisma as Dudley, and he brings so much into the lives of the people he meets. I especially love his little moments with the bishop's daughter, such as when he tells her a Bible story before she goes to bed. Also, Loretta Young is perfect with him. David Niven does a great job as the bishop himself, being both sympathetic and flawed.
Overall, this turned out to be a really pleasant little movie that I will definitely watch again. I can't say it's full of Christmas themes, although it is prominently set during the Christmas season, but it certainly does bring the idea of faith and God's plan for one's life to the forefront, which is certainly something people tend to focus on during the Christmas season. I thought it was great.
For those who don't know, Derick is my co-host on Pop Sickles. He also started a new movie blog yesterday and proceeded to write the greatest thing I have read on a blog in a long time:
To paraphrase a quote from NO STRINGS ATTACHED of all places "Some people live like there are no such thing as miracles, and some people live like everything is a miracle". SCOTT PILGRIM is a miracle. Movies like this aren't made, and in this movie making climate probably won't ever be made again. In terms of that quote, this is a movie about the former learning that the latter is true. If there's one thing I resent about my generation is that it exists only to point out how everything is terrible and how smart they are for pointing it out. But I never subscribed to any of that malarky. Life is beautiful and filled with amazing people and surprises. It's worth fighting for. It's worth improving yourself for. We fight these battles every day and there's nothing routine about it. It's epic. It's worth exposing your inner uselessness for. Perhaps it isn't as bad as you thought. Is it ever? SCOTT PILGRIM is sure begging for some of your love, but you know what? It loves you right back, you stupid asshole. You're going to ignore that? Please die, then.
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Back in May, NYC underground veteran 8thW1 and producer PVD made their collaborative debut with studio album Lux DeVille. Available for purchase via iTunes, the project was such a hit that they've decided to retroactively self-title it—that is to say, the duo now goes by Lux DeVille. In other name-related news, 8th has dropped his moniker of many years to become, simply, Darryl. Their first feature following these changes, unreleased loosie One Two finds the emcee reflecting on recent events in his personal and professional life over PVD's leisurely, head-noddable keyboard grooves. After Darryl's said his piece, Garden State colleague Silent Knight jumps on the beat to deliver a politically-charged closing 16. Feeling it? Then stay tuned; this joint isn't part of a larger set, but we'll keep you posted on the collaborators' plans as further details emerge.
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ROCKINGHAM — The list is getting shorter.
Before the season started, the Richmond Senior baseball team compiled its goals for the season. The first was to win the Southeastern Conference's regular season title.
That was accomplished with the victory over Scotland last week coupled with Lumberton's loss to Purnell Swett.
The next was to capture the conference tournament.
Richmond coach Ricky Young and his players can now put a big check mark next to that wish.
Richmond batted around in the third inning and scored four runs en route to a 7-2 victory over Pinecrest Friday night at Raider Field in the SEC tournament title game.
After the victory, the team's seniors received the championship plaque from SEC president Gary Brigman.
"We are taking it one game at a time," senior catcher Bradley Brown said. "We know next week it is going to be one-and-done. There's a big difference from where we were at the beginning of the season. We weren't gelled and there wasn't a lot of chemistry. We are getting hot at the plate and our pitching is doing what it usually does."
One of the pitching stars Brown was talking about is Nic Bullard. The senior left-hander pitched all seven innings against the Patriots, allowing six hits, two earned runs and striking out eight.
Nic Bullard ran into trouble in the fourth inning when Pinecrest scored twice to cut the deficit to 4-2 and was threatening to tack on more runs. With runners on first and second with two outs, Dalton Bullard ripped a double into the gap in right scoring Dylan Wallace and Joe Cirigliano. Nic Bullard picked off courtesy runner Carson Maples off second to end the inning.
Richmond added insurance runs in the fifth and sixth to pick the game out of reach. Nic Bullard had a two-out two-run double on a 3-2 count in the fifth and Cody Leviner added a run-scoring single in the sixth.
Richmond softball rallies for victory
ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond softball team will march into the state 4A playoffs undefeated, but its 25th win didn't come easy.
Richmond rallied to score three runs in the fifth to pull out a 4-2 victory over Pinecrest in the Southeastern Conference tournament final Friday night.
The Patriots scored twice against Summer Jacobs in the top of the fourth to take a 2-1 lead before the Raiders got things rolling in the bottom of the fifth.
Doodle Jacobs led off with a single and Ashton Davenport followed with a bunt single. Summer Jacobs grounded into a fielder's choice as Pinecrest tagged Doodle Jacobs out trying to advance to third. Jessica Steen singled to right as Davenport raced home to tie the game. After Katie Satterfield struck out, Chelsea Davis reached safely on an error that allowed courtesy runner Kelsey Mabe and Steen to score. Hunter Parks popped out to end the threat.
Summer Jacobs settled down and held Pinecrest's offense in check the rest of the way to earn the win in the pitching circle. She allowed five hits, two earned runs, walked two and struck out four.
Doodle Jacobs, Davenport and Steen all had two hits for the Raiders in the victory.
Shawn Stinson is the Sports Editor of the Richmond County Daily Journal.


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O'Fallon tops Collinsville on PKs in IHSA Regional Action
October 17, 2012By Chris Kusnerick of Collinsville High School
COLLINSVILLE • They had to wait a little longer than they anticipated, but the O'Fallon soccer team was still able to enjoy a victory celebration Tuesday night.
Collinsville (9-9-1) scored in the final minute of the second half to send the game into overtime, but after 20 minutes of overtime, O'Fallon prevailed 4-2 on penalty kicks to earn a 3-2 victory over the Kahoks in the semifinals of the Class 3A Collinsville Regional.
"Our boys worked hard the whole game, and I thought we controlled the majority of the play," O'Fallon coach Jason Turkington said. "Going into overtime, it was a microcosm of our season.
"We've been telling these guys all year to keep fighting. Don't get too high and don't get too low and just play hard."
The Panthers (6-4-7) will face top-seeded Belleville West in the championship game at 6 p.m. Saturday. West defeated Belleville East 5-1 in the opening game.
"You've to give the boys credit -- they fought hard to come back from a 1-0 deficit and from a 2-1 deficit late in the second half and gave us a chance to at least try to win it," Collinsville coach Myles Hensler said. "It came down to PKs, which are never the best way to go, but it's got to be decided somehow, and unfortunately we came out on the losing side."
O'Fallon took a 1-0 lead with 24:23 remaining in the first half on what looked to be a crossing pass by Andrew Derby. The ball deflected off a Collinsville defender and into the net past Kahoks goalkeeper Jason Kusnerick.
Collinsville tied the game with 13:11 to play in the half, as Brandon Belobraydic beat O'Fallon goalie Steve Green from 20 yards out off a throw-in from Brendan Rosenberg.
O'Fallon regained the lead with 33:10 remaining in the second half. Derby raced in down the right side past the Collinsville defenders and scored from 10 yards out on a tough angle. The assist went to Levi Knox.
"We haven't had a lot of scoring this year, so to get two in one game from anybody is pretty good," Turkington said.
"The first goal was more of a cross, but I'll take what I can get," Derby said. "On the second goal, I just focused on the shot, hit it hard and low, and it went in."
With the clock ticking down, it looked like the Panthers were headed for a victory. But with 32 seconds left, Tyler Devine put the ball into the right corner of the net after a throw-in by Rosenberg.
"Our heart, our passion and our work ethic was good, but the boys could have done a little better with their composure and trying to keep the ball a little more throughout spurts of the game," Hensler said. "We have a pretty young team, and for some guys, it was their first postseason game."
Neither team had many scoring chances in the two 10-minute overtimes, which sent the game into penalty kicks. The first two kickers, Collinsville's Cody Santfleben and O'Fallon's Zach Hall, both scored. But in the second round, Collinsville's Devine put his shot over the crossbar, while Derby scored for O'Fallon.
Both third-round shooters scored -- Belobraydic for Collinsville and Zach Pierson for O'Fallon -- with Pierson's shot bouncing off Kusnerick's hands.
In round four, Green made a diving save off Collinsville shooter Rosenberg. Kusnerick again got a piece of the shot by O'Fallon's Pat Burke, but the ball went into the net to clinch the win for the Panthers.
"We said it's a new game -- we're ready to go, and we're going to restart," Derby said. "What happened (with Devine's goal) is over, and we're going to come back and win it."


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Avoid the term "global warming." I prefer the term "global weirding," because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier, and the most violent storms more numerous.
- Thomas Friedman, in an op-ed column, "Global Weirding is Here." (Source: The New York Times)
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Sometimes things get so bad that you really don't know what to say or do. When that happens, it's a good time to fast and pray. Now, it's always a good time for fasting and praying -- especially during Lent, which begins this week. But sometimes, the practices of fasting and prayer feel more urgent -- which is how things feel to me right now.
I believe our nation is in deep trouble. And it appears most Americans also feel that way, with a large majority being very unhappy with the direction of their country. Long-time senators are leaving public office, naming the dysfunction of a system where politics has replaced getting anything done, and where constant campaigning has replaced any commitment to find solutions to our most pressing problems. Everything in Washington now is about winning or losing the next election, not about working together to serve the people who elected you. Veteran members of Congress tell me that while their legislative bodies have always been far from perfect, the atmosphere on Capitol Hill is now more vitriolic and toxic than anyone can remember, with every disagreement becoming an attack on an opponent's character or patriotism.
Health insurance is still a critical need for the tens of millions of Americans who don't have it; but the politicians in Washington can't get health-care reform done. Comprehensive immigration reform is a crying issue of social justice for millions of our most poor and vulnerable families; but it may not even come up in Congress this session, for fear of unleashing a demagoguery that would make the battle over health care look tame. Enormous debts and deficits keep piling up, and a bipartisan commission to try to solve the deficit threat to future generations was just rejected -- because it was bipartisan.
The most pressing issue on Main Street America is jobs, but the focus on Wall Street is billions of dollars in bonuses being paid to top bank executives. The risky and greedy behavior of a handful of huge Wall Street banks brought on the financial crisis that led to this deep recession. Then they used taxpayer bailout money to make themselves rich again, and are now passing out the shameful rewards to their top executives while one of every two workers in my hometown of Detroit is looking for a job. And it looks like the big banks are going to get away with it; they will pay enough money in campaign contributions to members of Congress to prevent themselves from being regulated for the common good.
Then there are those endless wars, with endless casualties and endless time frames. Both parties and successive White Houses have become trapped into a primarily military response to the real threats of terrorism. So here is the metric of success: Are we killing more terrorists than the number of new ones who are being recruited? We all know the answer to that is no, and that we are losing ground every day; but nobody in Washington is allowed to ask what would be the best policies to keep more people from becoming terrorists in the first place. The math of terrorism is against us.
In response to all these deep and deepening troubles, I find it very difficult to really know what to say or do, except to continue to struggle against all the bad things that are happening. How do we clarify the issues? How do we offer an alternative vision? How do we change the direction of our country, which is leading us to more confusion, pain, and suffering? How do we get political leaders (and even religious leaders) on opposite sides of the partisan aisle to really talk to one another? How do we find a more civil and moral tone for our national discourse? In seeking answers to those and other more personal questions, I have decided to fast and pray.
Fasting is intended to cleanse the body, clear the mind, create some time and space, nourish the spirit, and focus the heart. Prayer is for confession, repentance, turning back to God, and asking for both discernment and courage.
During the first Gulf War in 1991, I experienced similar feelings and decided to fast only on liquids for the forty days of Lent. Though strenuous, that fast brought clarity, focus, and direction for me. Of course, Jesus taught us not to fast to impress others (Matthew 6:16-18), and each of us must privately discern our motivations for such an undertaking. But hunger strikes and public fasting have served as powerful and prophetic witnesses in spiritually-based social movements throughout history, and fasting with others can provide much-needed encouragement and accountability.
This time, my wife Joy and I have decided to do a "Daniel Fast," a tradition stemming from that biblical character's 21-day fast -- eating only fruits and vegetables with no meat, dairy, grains or starch, coffee, tea, or alcohol. Again, it promises to be rigorous, but with promised benefits for our bodies, minds, and souls. And of course, fasting is intended to create more space for new and deeper disciplines of prayer during the season of Lent, which we will also enter into.
I have also decided to invite other religious leaders and clergy, students and young people, and other people of faith (or no faith) who also feel so led, to fast for clarity and direction in this Lenten season, hoping that we can support one another and perhaps find some common discernment about the way forward. Together we might fast and pray for wisdom, truth, and love at this moment of national and global crisis. If you feel the same kind of need, lament, and emptiness I do, I humbly invite you to fast and pray in your own ways, with disciplines appropriate for your own life and situation. This is not a campaign; it is a prayerful fast inviting all who feel called to such an action.
There are times when we come to the end of our own resources and must throw ourselves on God -- which is really always our true spiritual state, despite the illusions of our own self-sufficiency. And it is the very turning away from our own devices, opinions, and strength -- and turning to God once again -- that is the best way back to finding ourselves, our voices, and our missions. That is my prayer for us all this Lent.
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"Not only is the Bible extensive in its teaching on wealth and poverty, but it is uncomfortably clear and plain. There is not the ambiguity and complexity that one finds in some other subjects, as in the 'tension' and dynamic balance of apparent opposites that one finds in such doctrines as the New Testament view of the state. The Bible is clearly and emphatically on the side of the poor."
–Bob Sabath, in a 1974 article for Sojourners, excerpted in this issue.
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cheers syke
and yes loads of spin but with the added power of the YPTP
had another 2 hours on court playing doubles and i was playing so well with it,
was the 1st time actually had a proper game and to say im impressed is an understatement
ive got one big smile on my face i can tell you,still cant believe hybriding the 2 would work so bloody well.
would like someone else to try this setup and add there thoughts (come on jim pull your finger out lol).
ive now put 4 hours on this setup and the tension is fine so its all good and even if it only last another couple of hours im more than happy to re-string,its cheap and im loving it
cheers garry
I'm hearing you mate, will get the YTPS/YTPP hybrid pronto sir! The YTPS/Syn gut is getting a bit tired so needs refreshing. Played well today but had a few balls fly on me which I attribute to the tension dropping below what is optimal. I hit some sweet stop volleys today which is not supposed to happen with the PD. Surprisingly this shot has come into my repetoire since changing from the DUNLOPS, not sure why but its a positive for me.
Back on topic think I will go 46/44 on the hybrid, that should be about right for the combination of power/control/spin I am looking for. Checking out Pro Kennex frames for the arm benefits. Ki 5 and the new Q5 look interesting. Demos a challenge as always!
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DENVER — Drew Stubbs had a hunch a curveball was coming, and he got all of it when it hung over the plate.
Stubbs capped Colorado's five-run ninth inning with a three-run homer off J.J. Hoover, sending the Rockies to a 10-9 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader.
"He threw me two (curveballs) in a row and that one, he kind of left over the middle of the plate," Stubbs said. "Didn't really surprise me because I faced him the other night and he threw me a first-pitch fastball and three (curveballs) in a row."
The Reds carried a 9-5 lead into the ninth, but All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman walked four straight batters before he was replaced by Hoover. Pinch-hitter Wilin Rosario then hit a sacrifice fly to trim Cincinnati's lead to two.
After Charlie Blackmon flied out, Stubbs drove a 1-0 pitch from Hoover (1-9) into the seats in left-center for his 12th homer. It was Stubbs' third career game-ending homer and first with the Rockies.
He finished with three hits against his first major league team, and then was doused with ice water by a teammate during an on-field interview after the game.
"They're the team that drafted me and brought me to the big leagues, so I got a lot of friends over there, a lot of people I have good relationships with," Stubbs said. "But at the same time, it's always nice when a team trades you to get a little retribution."
It was one tough loss for the Reds to swallow.
"I don't think I can put it into words to be honest with you," manager Bryan Price said. "The fact that (I've got to talk about it) right now is very difficult. We're six minutes removed from the game being over.
"I'm not angry at anybody, but it's a difficult loss to take."
Rex Brothers (4-5) picked up the victory despite allowing a pair of runs in the top of the ninth. Nolan Arenado tied a career high with four hits for Colorado, and he also had a leadoff walk in the ninth.
Dylan Axelrod, making his Reds debut, was scheduled to start the nightcap against Yohan Flande, who was looking for his first major league win.
The doubleheader was set up by Saturday night's water main break outside Coors Field that left the ballpark without running water and forced the game to be pushed back one day. The water main was repaired by city crews overnight.
Jay Bruce and Kris Negron homered for the Reds, who fell to 10-18 since the All-Star break.
Charlie Blackmon and Corey Dickerson also went deep for the Rockies.
The Rockies' Michael Cuddyer, who won the NL batting title last season, went 1 for 5 in his return from a left shoulder fracture. He was injured June 5 against Arizona when he dove for a sharply hit grounder while playing third base.
A brief thunder shower prompted a 21-minute rain delay in the first.
Reds: 2B Brandon Phillips (torn left thumb ligament) continued his minor league rehab stint with Class A Dayton on Sunday at Bowling Green. Phillips began the assignment Friday at Triple-A Louisville, going 0 for 2 with a walk against Indianapolis.
Reds: RHP Mike Leake (9-11) is slated to pitch today's series opener at St. Louis, where Cincinnati has gone 1-10 in its last 11 series.


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LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul led seven players in double figures with 23 points, Eric Bledsoe had 15 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 112-91 on Saturday while getting just one dunk in their playoff opener.
Chauncey Billups scored 14 points, and Caron Butler and Jamal Crawford had 13 apiece on a night when Blake Griffin was held to 10 points and five rebounds before fouling out with 3:32 left as Lob City was grounded.
Reserve Jerryd Bayless led the Grizzlies with 19 points, Marc Gasol had 16 and Zach Randolph had 13 points and four rebounds while playing with five fouls in the rematch of last year's first-round series, won by the Clippers in seven games. Bayless was one of four Grizzlies with four fouls.
Griffin missed a dunk in the first quarter, when Tony Allen and Ed Davis had Memphis' only two. DeAndre Jordan's driving one-handed slam midway through the fourth was the Clippers' first, and the big man's first basket of the game.
Game 2 is Monday night at Staples Center.
The Grizzlies closed within a point early in the fourth on a 3-pointer by former Clipper Keyon Dooling. Los Angeles answered with a 15-3 run to go up 92-79, equaling the 13-point lead it had in the first half. Eric Bledsoe, who had seven points, opened and closed the spurt with layups as the reserves played an important role in the key stretch.
The high-flying Clippers kept their feet on the ground for most of a game dominated by the referees. Memphis was called for 29 fouls and the Clippers 28.
Memphis owned a 48-46 edge in scoring in the paint, while the Clippers dominated 25-5 in second-chance points and were better on the boards, 47-23.
The Grizzlies never led, and it didn't help that Randolph picked up two fouls and Mike Conley Jr. had three in the first half. Besides Griffin, Jordan had four fouls, while Matt Barnes, Lamar Odom and Ronny Turiaf had three apiece for the Clippers.
Paul scored his team's first seven points in the third, extending their lead to 64-53.
The Clippers led 57-51 at halftime after Barnes tipped in Paul's miss just before the buzzer. They led by 13 points early in the second before the Grizzlies cut it to two points twice in the final 1:24.
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