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- I love when teams draft for defense. Other than "project centers," anyone can score; though - granted - not everyone can create his own shot. But defense doesn't slump and there isn't an elite team in the league that doesn't have both a frontcourt and perimeter defender. Even Phoenix, with all the talk of their not playing D, has Diaw and Marion. This is why Williams, Roy and Carney are solid picks.
- Both Justin (who had to go up to the Egyptian for some function) and I saw Renaldo Balkman live at the Great Alaska Shootout last Thanksgiving weekend. Balkman had a nice game against Marquette, but seemed to find himself out of position on the floor constantly -- which is a product of not having a position. He turned the ball over eight times against eight assists and was in foul trouble throughout the invitational. It's a lousy pick for the Knicks who, unless they're wed to Nate Robinson, could've used Marcus Williams. Watching Balkman for a full week from the fifth row in Anchorage, there was nothing that screamed NBA career, even though he shot at a high percentage against the likes of Alaska-Anchorage and Monmouth.


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I recently purchased a Canon Powershot SD4000 IS and Ikelite 6240.40 housing for it which I am looking forward to use with the Sea&Sea YS-110 strobe that I have owned for about a year. However, when I attempted to assemble the rig, I found the Sea&Sea tray to be incompatible with the Ikelite housing. First, there are two screw mounts on the underside of the housing, which does not necessarily pose an immediate problem, but the screw in the tray is too large to thread into the Ikelite housing. I have used this strobe with a Canon and an Olympus housing, and this is the first compatibility issue that I have encountered. I have checked Sea&Sea's website and Ikelite's website and I have found no indication which of their trays and strobe arms are compatible with one another. Has anyone encountered a similar situation who can lend any insight into how to tackle this issue? I appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thanks a bunch. Happy shooting!
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First, you shouldn't be surprised that Ike and S&S have different mounting philosophies. Try to put a GM headlight into a Ford and you will understand. You have a couple of options but the simplest is to figure out which size screw fits into the Ikelite housing then go to the local HW store and buy some of that size in Stainless steel and some washers too. Then use the new screws to attach the S&S tray to the Ike housing.
Other options are to call ULCS and buy one of their trays; they are great people and can get you set up easily enough.
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Let's start with a simple premise: Realistic baseball fans don't get upset over what their team looks like in the first week, or month, of the season. They know that playoff berths are achieved over a 162-game season, and that 11 postseason victories are required to rule the world.
Baseball season is a long haul, lasting from March 31 (this year's Opening Day) through late October. Smart baseball fans just sit back and relax, knowing that players and teams will eventually achieve their normal production goals as the games pile up.
Here's the reality: Television and the Internet have created a whole new breed of baseball fan, one who demands immediate results, day after day, and takes out his or her frustrations on players who get off to slow starts, or fail to live up to the unrealistic expectations modern fans place on their favorite players and teams.
Case in point: Boston's three ugly losses in Texas over the weekend to start the season. The more impatient fans are already writing off John Lackey, the veteran pitcher who got whacked around by Texas, allowing 10 hits and 9 runs in 3.2 innings of work on Saturday night. These fans wonder how Boston GM Theo Epstein ever could have signed this guy. They call the radio station and wail: "What was Theo thinking?"
On the flip side of the coin, fans and media are praising hot-starter Jacoby Ellsbury, who missed most of last season with a rib cage injury. Last year, Ellsbury was taken to task by the same people who are praising him today. It is no wonder that players view the fans and media with so much skepticism. They know both entities will turn on them just as soon as their production slips, even if for just a day, or even if they are trying to play through an injury.
My suggestion is that modern fans take a cue from the old-timers, people who had no Internet to guide them, people who viewed the baseball season as a long horse race. Racing fans never get excited until the horses reach the backstretch and start to head for the finish line. Baseball fans should do the same thing. Don't get upset with how your team comes out of the gate. Look at the big picture.
The big picture is still pretty good for Boston. The Red Sox are one of the top three teams in the American League, along with Texas and New York. Forget what all the preseason forecasters said about Boston ranking above those two rivals. Nobody knows how this season is going to turn out. Chances are all three will be looking for one final piece of the puzzle at the July 31 trade deadline. Once everyone has their full team in place, then the race to the finish line takes off.
Back in 2008, Sports Illustrated magazine ranked Rhode Island product Chris Iannetta as one of the top rookies in Major League Baseball. Three years later, here's what the magazine had to say: "Chris Iannetta's time is running out. He's best when he's driving the ball to right centerfield, but he's still pull happy and hung up on his power."
The magazine probably is justified in turning on Iannetta, who has been victimized by horrendous offensive production in the first two months of each season since 2008. Even his biggest fans back here in Rhode Island understand Chris has to get off to a good start this season or the Rockies will begin looking at their young catching prospects in the minor leagues.
So here's the good news: Iannetta is 3-for-6 after two games. He had two hits and scored two runs in a 3-1 victory over Arizona on Saturday night. Manager Jim Tracey, who was quick to replace Iannetta last April with backup Miguel Olivo, might have to hold his trigger finger for a while.
The Yankees have a new catcher, Russell Martin, who could have a major impact on the team this season, assuming he stays healthy. Martin is a proven hitter who the Dodgers gave up on after an injury-plagued 2010 season. He signed with the Yankees as a free agent, knowing that Jorge Posada's catching career was over, and that the Yankees basically had no experienced catcher to replace him.
Martin is a better defensive catcher than Posada ever dreamed of being. The former Gold Glover, who is just 27 years old, turns a Yankee weakness in the field into a strength. He is way more agile than Posada, can block pitches in the dirt, and will throw a few runners out. He also seems fully recovered from the hip injury that plagued him late last season.
Martin's biggest impact comes with the pitching staff. He nursed the erratic A.J. Burnett through five innings on Saturday, continually calling for the hard-breaking curve ball that Posada and backup Frank Cervelli had trouble handling. It's possible that Burnett will learn to trust Martin the way he trusted Jose Molina back in 2009. The Yanks let Molina go after winning the World Series that year. Burnett was lost without him in 2010.
Burnett is one of the keys to New York's chances this season. If he duplicates his disastrous 2010 season, the Yankees are in big trouble.
The PawSox begin their 2011 season at home on Thursday night and already the buzz about new shortstop Jose Iglesias is spreading around the region. The fans in Portland, Maine got a chance to see this athletic shortstop last summer and now it is our turn in Rhode Island to watch a young man who touches the "Ozzie Smith" yardstick in our minds.
Ozzie Smith, of course, is the Hall of Fame shortstop who played his position with the grace of a gymnast, leaping and diving and stretching to make plays with an elasticity of body that was hard to believe. I'm not saying Iglesias is that kind of shortstop. I'm hoping he's one of those fielders who makes fans appreciate defense. One or two great plays in the field can make a difference between winning and losing close games. Iglesias may be the kind of shortstop who saves runs for his pitchers with the kind of defense that people in the opposing dugout will grudgingly appreciate.
Getting back to the original premise of this column: Earning the respect of their peers is the only thing professional athletes really care about. What the media and the fans think is something they will take into account, but I haven't met a ball player yet who takes any advice from those two components of the game. Fans are just what the term says they are. Fans need to buy a ticket to get into games and there's a reason for that.
Media personnel think they know the game, but really don't, unless they played it themselves. You can bend your stats any way possible. In the end, understanding the game is best left to the people who play 162 games a year against the top competition in the world.
And the only results that matter are the standings printed in the newspapers at the end of the season. Everything else -- pre-game shows, post-game shows, radio talk shows -- is just noise.
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Green Day aren't exactly the kind of guys you'd expect to shed tears over anything, but the first time they watched rehearsals for the Broadway musical version of "American Idiot" — opening Tuesday (April 20) at New York's St. James Theatre — they did just that.
"I was watching the actors, and I catch the eye of one of the singers, and he just gives me a little [thumbs-up] sign, and so that gave me the courage to look over at the band," "Idiot" director Michael Mayer told MTV News. "And there were tears in their eyes.
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American Idiot, the new American musical based on the Grammy Award-winning rock album by Green Day, and featuring direction by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, opens April 20 at the St. James Theatre following previews from March 24.
A far cry from the sexual coming-of-age and teen-angst tale that was Spring Awakening, for which Mayer won the Tony Award for Best Direction, American Idiot — a narrative expansion of the album — is about a young man named Johnny (played by Spring Awakening's Tony-winning John Gallagher, Jr.), who journeys from the soulless suburbs in search of something
April 18, 2010
They've already promised that the Broadway version of their American Idiot album isn't going to be "a rated-PG affair," but now Green Day are taking it one step further, telling their fans why they should make their way to New York to catch the musical.
"I think it's the same reason why you would want to go see a band play live, you know? It's a record that's coming to life, it's in your face, and it's a story. You're seeing a good movie," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said. "It's a great story, and it's going to move you. ... That's what American Idiot does.
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NEW YORK — With their punk-informed hairdos and garb, the members of Green Day look slightly out of place in Sardi's, a landmark theater-district restaurant frequented by stage folks and matinee crowds.
But Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt are Broadway babies themselves these days. The new musical American Idiot, an adaptation of the rock band's multiplatinum 2004 album, opens Tuesday at the St. James Theatre. And the guys are clearly, in Armstrong's words, "stoked" as they chat with director Michael Mayer.
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The rumors and mostly false information about the Blackberry Curve 9300 has shrouded it in mystery leaving an enthusiast confused about its various features. For example certain very basic details about the device which is code-named "Kepler" like whether it has 256 MB or 512 MB of application memory or whether it will be launched with OS 5 or OS 6 is still unclear. Other details like whether the camera will be increased to a 3.2-mega pixel also cannot be said without a doubt. Although it is expected of T-Mobile to pick up the 9300 device, as to which carrier will take up the CDMA 9300 cannot also be confirmed.
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Researchers have announced a new naturally-derived drug has shown promise in treating a highly malignant form of brain tumor known as glioblastoma multiforme.
The discovery was made at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where researchers have concluded a Phase II clinical trial of AT-101, a pill produced from a compound found in cottonseed that appears to overcome the abnormal growth patterns of tumor cells.
They obtained encouraging results after administering the drug to 56 patients who were largely unresponsive to traditional treatments for glioblastoma which include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
After about three weeks taking the pill, many of the patients experienced a significant slowdown in the growth of their tumors, the scientists reported.
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Milwaukee, WI -- The Winter storm hitting Wisconsin was the least of the worries for the Beloit College Men's Basketball team on Thursday night as they saw their four-game winning streak come to an end in a 56-52 loss at Milwaukee School of Engineering.
The Raiders got out of the gate quickly and built their lead as high as eight points. Beloit kept chipping away and tied it at 25-25 on Steve McAfee's three-pointer with 5:30 left. Chris Bremner hit a three less than a minute later to give the Buccaneers their first lead of the game. But MSOE hit a pair of jumpers in the final minute to lead 31-28 at the half.
The game stayed close thru most of the second half, including five ties, before MSOE put together a 9-2 run to grab a 54-47 advantage with 2:27 remaining. Again the Bucs came back and were within two with 10.6 seconds left but a steal and two free throws sealed the outcome.
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I'm a simple man. When I need a break during the workday, I play Hearts on my computer or surf the Internet. After hours, I love watching DVDs on my laptop. With Windows 7, however, I've discovered completely new ways to have fun with my PC. Here are some of my favorites.
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I used to record my favorite shows with a DVR connected to my TV. It was convenient, but I had to pay monthly service fees and could only watch the shows I recorded on that one TV. Now, I can watch, pause, rewind, and record TV—even HDTV—for free on my laptop with Windows 7. If you've got a cable or broadcast signal and an inexpensive TV tuner, then you can use the DVR in
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If you think you know Paint, the classic Windows art software that can turn even a basic scribbler into Picasso, you're missing out. The Windows 7 version has new brush effects, such as watercolor, crayon, and calligraphy. Paint now comes with an easy-to-use ribbon for all the cool features that you use the most. And with a touchscreen you can finger-paint, including using two fingers to create separate brush strokes simultaneously. I could spend hours dreaming up new creations.
Windows 7 makes it much easier to enjoy all our media on all our networked PCs running Windows 7. Before, if I wanted to collect photos from our various PCs, I had to go to each PC and copy photos onto my USB stick. Now, with HomeGroup, we can easily listen to music, look at photos, and even share printers throughout the house.
HomeGroup makes it easy for us to find all our music, photos, movies, and files in one spot. In addition to sharing media among our PCs, we can use Play To in Windows Media Player to send media from our PC to a compatible device. Why do that? So that when I make a movie on my office PC, I can stream it to the living room TV and watch my creation on the big screen.
I record many of my favorite shows but don't always have the time to watch them when I'm at home. When I'm out of town on business I often have time to kill—and now, with Remote Media Streaming in Windows 7, I can use that time to catch up on my shows. Remote Media Streaming uses the Internet to stream content from my PC at home to my work laptop wherever I am.
Whether you're a casual or serious gamer, Windows 7 is the best way to play games. And Games Explorer is the place to do it. Out of the box, you'll find the classic Solitaire along with several free games, including games you can play with an online opponent. Just type Games Explorer in the search box, and you'll see all your games organized in one spot.
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My grandparents keep asking for a keepsake of videos and pictures I've collected of my daughter. I used to find the task too daunting. With Movie Maker, which you can download for free, I've overcome my fears. Not only can I quickly and easily make movies from my videos and photos, but I can also add music, transitions, and effects.
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THE MORNING SKATE: The Eastern Conference Logjam, Mr. Marginal's Stick Handling
With 30 games to go in the regular season, the Islanders play host to the Montreal Canadiens at the Coliseum tonight. Both teams are part of the 'Basement 5' of teams that are all hogtied to the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Along with Tampa, Carolina and Buffalo there are five teams clinging to playoff hopes, all between 9-11 points off of the 8th place Senators. So, tonight is another big game for the Islanders against another conference opponent. But of course, if you're still trying to make any kind of a playoff push, every game is big.
To put in numerical terms what the Islanders need to do, they need 40 points in their last 30 games. That would require being somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-10, excluding OTL for the sake of simplicity. Given that the Islanders are 11-5-2 in their last 18, they're being asked to play over .500 hockey for nearly 50 games. Is it possible? Absolutely. And the Blue Jackets could go 82-0 next year. Is it reasonable to expect this team with significant blue line injuries to be able to carry that pace over a 50 game margin? Hard to believe.
The Islanders stole a game in Philadelphia the other night thanks in large part to Evgeni Nabokov. They took a game in Ottawa last Friday with secondary scoring from Matt Martin and even tertiary scoring from Mark Eaton. They're getting some bounces and stealing some games, things Islander Country is not used to. They're going to need a whole lot more of that to keep things close, if the team as a whole doesn't step up. More food for thought; 10 of the last 30 games are against the Atlantic Division.
Here's an interesting stat from my former FanHouse colleague Adam Gretz:
Since start of '05 season only 2 teams overcame a deficit of 5 points or more on Feb. 8 to make the playoffs.
— Adam Gretz (@AGretz) February 9, 2012
Those teams were the Blues in '09 and the Rangers in '07. Islanders in '12? Start the campaign. Vote Tavares/Nabokov in '12!
I'll be back with a full game preview soon, but for the time being here's some video from the Islanders' trip to Ottawa last Friday. If you've ever wondered how it feels to have world class talent, look no further.
After the jump, Evgeni Nabokov's tour of the NHL media from yesterday…
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Yeah Lorfa I think the right approach here is to be the better man and just let him be. Two threads have gone to the trash because of him, responding only makes it worse.
I love Quake 2. I've been playing it since I was 2 or 3 when my uncle introduced me to it (I'm an 18 y-o Quake fan). I would like all of the other Quake 2 DM reincarnations (2-7 inclsv.), not just Q2DM1 (Edge) and Q2DM8 (Warehouse). Also some other important story Quake 2 maps should be included (such as SECURITY, BOSS2, the WASTE* maps, POWER* maps, BASE1, etc). The community Quake 2 maps weren't bad either like The Rage (ZTN2DM3), that bounce pad map (ZTN2DM1), and so on.
more RA3 MAPS!!!!!!
and multi team mode plz
I want (and other russian players) to see very popular and interesting map ARX08 (MKBASE). Please, add it on servers. You will see positive result and new players. I will say to my friends about this map.
Please, please, please, add... I beg you!
Description - "Every now and then a map comes by that is simple and elegant with sweet game play - this happens to be one of them. A CTF map with a number of paths to the Flag room, smooth texturing, architecture and game play that will keep you coming back for more. There is nothing that stands out with this map but nothing needs to. The only nit-pick is the two 25 health balls right next to the Flag. Anyone making a run for the Flag also picks up 50 health. The level makes for a very enjoyable Team Play level or large FFA as well but CTF is where the map shines. Bots navigate the level well without any signs of problems."
And review of one player...
"A very enjoyable CTF map. The ikbase textures are smooth and used well in the map, the architecture is good and gameplay is excellent. Bots navigate the map really good and without any signs of problems. The item placement is excellent but the rocket launcher could have been placed a bit further away from the center of the map. The connectivity of the map is really good with a number of paths to the flag room.
Bots seemed to travel through the center of the map to get the enemies flag. I spotted a few times that bots go for the rail gun but never use the sides of the map to get the enemies flag."
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Just by looking at the screenshot on lvlworld I can tell it has potential and is the type of ctf maps QL is missing.
Actually haven't visited that site in some time and the latest maps seem pretty good.
edit: now that I got stuck on that site I just noticed the most requested missing ctf maps (wcp17, wcp18 and others) are from the same author: dan "scancode" gold. The same guy created cp9 (spider crossings), which is in quake live so the devs know where he is and got the authorization for at least one map.
It wouldn't hurt to try though. I'm never against getting new (good) CTF maps in the game
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Mazzeo's Ristorante on South Street in Pittsfield is open for dinner business. The Italian restaurant opened quietly on Tuesday afternoon after months of preparation.
The new location of the popular Italian eatery is in the former Asters; the original building on Winter Street will continue to be used for banquets and will house the Mazzeo family's catering business.
We're told the new Mazzeo's is beautiful inside and offers the same authentic Italian cusine its been known for for years.
Hours at the new location are Tuesday through Thursday from 4 to 9; Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10 and Sundays from 4 to 9.
Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant Pho
In North Adams, an Italian restaurant has been transformed into Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant Pho. The restaurant, owned by Nancy Nguyen of North Adams, opened last week at Valley Park Lanes.
The kitchen's been revamped and the decor changed to evoke more of a Southeast Aisan feel. The menu is limited for now with 11 items, including the namesake dish Pho Tai Bo Van, a beef noodle soup.
Prices range from $4.25 for two spring rolls with dipping sauce to $12.50 for steak dishes. Pho is open daily from 11 to 10 and offers takeout. The number is 413-664-6667.
Izzy's Pizza
In Adams, Izzy's Pizza and Deli opened recently at 85 Commercial St. with a full menu of specialty pizzas (including the artery-clogging "Heart Attack"), calzones, stromboli, pastas, sandwiches, grinders, burgers and appetizers. It offers 10 different wing flavors and BBQ ribs.
The location was vacated by Jim's Pizza, which moved to Howland Avenue.
Delivery from Izzy's is available in Adams and to the Viking Pub next door. It also offers catering off the menu.
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R.A. Dickey could be traded today, Toronto could be in the lead
A source with knowledge of the situation told Adam Rubin of ESPN New York Dickey could be moved as soon as today.
In addition, Andy Martino of the Daily News says the Mets have not been engaged in contract discussions with Dickey's agent since Wednesday – they have been completely focused on trade talks over the last couple of days.
Dec. 14, 4:24 pm: The Blue Jays could be in the lead to land R.A. Dickey, reports Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.
Heyman says the Blue Jays want to keep catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud, but could deal J.P. Arencibia and outfielders for Dickey.
Heyman says the Rangers and Orioles are not in the middle of negotiations for Dickey right now.
However, Joel Sherman of the New York Post says Dickey is not interested in signing an extension with the Blue Jays, and that could be slowing the trade down.
Sherman says it's possible the Mets could command more in a trade for Dickey if he were willing to sign an extension with a possible new team.
Meanwhile, Bo McGinnis, the agent for R.A. Dickey, told Jim Bowden of ESPN they are not negotiating a contract extension with a new team at the moment, nor is there anything holding up a possible trade.
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Dec. 14, 3:02 pm: Andy Martino of the Daily News reports the Mets were engaged in "intense trade talks" regarding Dickey with the Rangers and Blue Jays yesterday.
In addition, Martino says the Orioles have emerged as a serious player to acquire Dickey.
Dec, 14, 2:40 pm: Jon Heyman of CBS Sports says the Angels and Blue Jays are two teams believed to have interest in acquiring Dickey.
Heyman says a trade appears most likely, as teams have ramped up their efforts to acquire Dickey.
Dec. 14, 12:01 pm: If the Mets sign Dickey to a two-year, $26 million extension, "It would increase his trade value," a GM tells ESPN.com's Buster Olney.
That said, CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman insists the Mets (and no team) would ever do a sign-and-trade, since it's 'bad form.' In Heyman's view, if the Mets give Dickey a contract extension, it will be to keep him.
Dec. 14, 10:38 am: "The Mets are telling clubs that they have an acceptable trade offer for R.A. Dickey, but they are trying to get an even better package," a source told Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com.
Multiple reports have repeatedly stated the Mets are seeking at least two top prospects in a deal for Dickey.
"All signs point to the Mets trading Dickey," Rosenthal said this morning, while also pointing out that there has been little progress between the Mets and Dickey on a contract extension.
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10:38 am: This offseason, we've seen some crazy stuff for starting pitching: Wil Myers and other prospects dealt for James Shields and Wade Davis; Joe Blanton (2 years, $14 million) and Jeremy Guthrie (3 years, $25 million); Anibal Sanchez getting five years and $80 million to re-up with the Tigers. That's why I can't see a scenario where Dickey's situation isn't a win-win for the Mets. Either they cash in a chip for hitters with high ceilings (the Mets desperately need), or they sign Dickey to an extension and get an ace-level pitcher at below-market value.


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BARTON – A blaze destroyed a sugarhouse on the East Albany Road last evening.
Firefighters responded around 5:40 p.m. to a fully engulfed building fire. By the time they arrived on the scene, 13-minutes later, the building was already flat, said Fire Chief David Claeys.
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BROOME - Lisbon Central graduate and Alfred State sophomore Eric Mehaffy earned his first win in a Pioneers uniform going 5 2/3 innings in a 5-4 decision over Broome Community College on Sunday.
Alfred scored a run in the third and fourth to tie 3-3 and connected for two runs in the fifth,
Colton Caldwell tripled home Jordan Wheaton (Wayland Cohocton) and then came around to score on a Steven Stapleton (Williamsville) single.
Mehaffy, who played summer baseball with Ogdensburg Maples, allowed five hits and four runs, struck out two and allowed three walks. Stephen Solomon recorded the final four outs to earn the save.
Caldwell finished was 2 for 3 with 2 RBI while Gonzalez was 2 for 4 with a RBI.
On Saturday, Mehaffy, went 2-5 playing rightfield in a 9-5 win opening game win against Broome. In the nightcap, Mehaffy went 1-2 in a 17-4 win over Broome.
Mehaffy is hitting .243 with five runs scored this season.
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A man charged with a childs murder in Pennsylvania was never suggested as the abuser of a 2-year-old boy at Fort Drum, according to a Watertown attorney.
Timothy W. Kay, 25, Ambridge, Pa., was charged Jan. 31 with homicide in connection with a 2-year-old boys death in Ambridge that of his girlfriends son.
His wife, Jessica L. Kay, served jail time last year in Watertown after she pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for burning her 2-year-old son on the chest with a flatiron. She is now serving a sentence of probation in Pennsylvania, also mandated for the assault conviction.
When she pleaded guilty, Mrs. Kay entered an Alford plea to avoid trial but to deny the allegation against her.
Her lawyer, David P. Antonucci, said Mrs. Kay never said to him that her husband was responsible for the boys burns. Mr. Kay arrived at their Fort Drum apartment while she was calling 911 on July 8, 2011, Mr. Antonucci said. He said he is confident that state police investigated to eliminate Mr. Kay as a suspect.
Mrs. Kay maintained that her son was burned when the hot iron was pulled off an ironing board by one of her children, the attorney said.
After Mrs. Kay was convicted and sentenced to jail and probation, Mr. Kay and a related adult were granted custody of his wifes three children, Mr. Antonucci said.
Ambridge police arrested Mr. Kay at Beaver County Children and Youth Services, where he was a participant in a child custody hearing, according to the Beaver County Times. A reporter there was unable to determine whether the custody action involved Mrs. Kays three children.
The child death in Ambridge occurred Oct. 29. Mr. Kay told police that 2-year-old Dominic Neumeyer suffered his fatal injuries when he jumped off a dresser, according to the newspaper. Police, however, found dust undisturbed on the dresser, the paper reported.
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Dr Christopher H. van Dyck is a graduate of Yale College and Northwestern University Medical School. He completed his residency in psychiatry, fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, and research fellowship in neuroimaging at Yale University School of Medicine. He subsequently joined the faculty at Yale where he is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurobiology, Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, and Director of the Division of Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry.
Dr. van Dyck is a recognized leader in the neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease and healthy aging. His research interests also include the pharmacologic treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment, and he serves as Steering Committee member and Yale site Principal Investigator for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (National Institute of Aging). He is also Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health and a number of private foundations, including the Alzheimer's Association.
He received the prestigious Junior Investigator Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (1996) and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Brain Imaging and Behavior. He has participated in several invited presentations at national and international meetings and has authored over 100 papers, abstracts, and reviews. Finally, Dr. van Dyck is extremely committed to advancing the cause of Alzheimer's patients and their families on the local and national level. As Chairman of the Medical Scientific Advisory Committee for the Connecticut Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, he is intimately involved with local program development, advocacy, and education.
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Christopher H. van Dyck, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurobiology, and Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include therapeutic, neuroimaging and genetic studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy aging. Dr. van Dyck and the Yale ADRU are very active in national and international research in the treatment of AD.
Since 1992 he has participated in 70+ multicenter clinical trials for AD and the prodromal condition of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and has authored several of the trial publications. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), the principal academic consortium for AD therapeutic studies funded by NIH. Dr. van Dyck's other significant scholarly contributions have included:
Dopamine Transporter (DAT) Imaging in Aging.
He has used SPECT imaging to demonstrate a 50% loss of DATs over the lifespan and has further shown that this loss of dopamine is associated with the slowing of reaction time that is characteristic of the normal aging process.
The Apolipoprotein E e4 (ApoE e4) Phenotype of AD.
He has combined genetics and neuroimaging to characterize the role of the most common genetic risk factor, ApoE e4, in structural and cognitive changes in AD. He has found that patients who carry the ApoE e4 allele are at greater risk for psychosis and for loss of medial temporal lobe tissue. He is now using the PET ligand [11C]PIB to assess amyloid plaques in asymptomatic first-degree relatives as a function of ApoE e4 genotype.
- Guanfacine Treatment for Prefrontal Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly Subjects (funded by NIA). The major goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that low doses of the alpha-2A-adrenoceptor agonist guanfacine can improve deficits in prefrontally-mediated working memory and executive control functions in healthy elderly subjects.
- Amyloid Binding In Subjects At Risk For Alzheimer's Disease (funded by Alzheimer's Association). The major goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that in vivo brain Aß burden as measured using [11C]PIB and PET is increased in healthy subjects with a family history of AD who are homozygous or heterozygous for the ApoE e4 allele compared to subjects who lack this allele.
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Unit (ADCS, funded by NIA). The major goal of this multicenter consortium is to conduct clinical trial research in Alzheimer's disease that would not otherwise be conducted by private pharmaceutical corporations. Role: Principal Investigator for Yale Site (PI: Paul Aisen, University of California, San Diego)
- Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI, funded by NIA) The major goals of this project are to: 1. Develop improved methods which will lead to uniform standards for acquiring longitudinal, multi-site MRI and PET data on patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and elderly controls. 2. Acquire a generally accessible data repository, which describes longitudinal changes in brain structure and metabolism. In parallel, acquire clinical cognitive and biomarker data for validation of imaging surrogates. Role: Principal Investigator for Yale Site (PI: University of California, San Francisco)
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- Mitsis EM, Cosgrove KP, Staley JK, Bois F, Frohlich EB, Tamagnan GD, Estok KM, Seibyl JP, van Dyck CH. Age-related decline in nicotinic receptor availability with [123I]5-IA-85380 SPECT. Neurobiol Aging 2009;30(9):1490-7.
- Santhosh L, Estok KM, Vogel RS, Tamagnan GD, Baldwin RM, Mitsis EM, MacAvoy MG, Staley JK, van Dyck CH. Regional distribution and behavioral correlates of 5-HT2A receptors in Alzheimer's disease with [18F]deuteroaltanserin and PET. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2009;173:212-7.
- van Dyck CH, Avery RA, MacAvoy MG, Marek KL, Quinlan DM, Baldwin RM, Seibyl JP, Innis RB, Arnsten AFT. Striatal dopamine transporters correlate with simple reaction time in elderly subjects. Neurobiol Aging 2008;29(8):1237-46.
- Zdanys KF , Kleiman TG, MacAvoy MG, Black BT, Rightmer TE, Grey M, Garman KS, Tampi RR, Gelernter J, van Dyck CH. Apolipoprotein E e4 allele increases risk for psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychopharmacology 2007;32(1):171-9.
- Basso M, Gelernter J, Yang J, MacAvoy MG, Varma P, Bronen RA, van Dyck CH. Apolipoprotein E e4 is associated with atrophy of the amygdala in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2006;27(10):1416-24.
- van Dyck CH, Newhouse P, Falk WE, Mattes JA: Extended-release physostigmine in Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter, double-blind, 12-week study with dose-enrichment. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2000;57:157-164.


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Blowing Rock Police want to remind all that travel through town will get more complicated today as Valley Blvd will be closed today and Thursday from 11 am till 3 pm due to the construction. The road will be closed Tuesdays and Thursdays for blasting and rock removal, today from North Main
to the Food Lion Entrance. You will be able to access Food Lion from the Sunset Drive end. Traffic will be detoured down Main Street. Please allow yourself extra time traveling in Town. If you are parents who normally pick up your children at the school, please allow some extra time in the afternoon. We will be working closely with school officials to keep traffic flowing as smooth as possible.
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Most football supporters know the name Simon Kuper, here is an interesting article by the award winning author over the secrets to Barcelona's success.
I tend to agree with everything except the last point as various footballers have managed to get used to the Barcelona style of play, David Villa is not as prolific in goal scoring terms since he is now positioned out wide instead of being the main man but when you have Messi doing miracles every week you can't really argue.
Also Pedro is a an incredible good footballer but because he is rather low key in such a great team he never gets the plaudits he deserves but I would take him for Liverpool in a millisecond.
The original article can be seen at http://www.miostadium.com/opinions/s...soccer-success
Simon Kuper
March 22, 2012
We all see that Barcelona are brilliant. The only problem is understanding just how they do it. Thats where my friend Albert Capellas comes in. Whenever he and I run into each other somewhere in Europe, we talk about Barça. Not many people know the subject better. Capellas is now assistant manager at Vitesse Arnhem in Holland, but before that he was coordinator of Barcelonas great youth academy, the Masia. He helped bring a boy named Sergio Busquets from a rough local neighbourhood to Barça. He trained Andres Iniesta and Victor Valdes in their youth teams. In all, Capellas worked nine years for his hometown club.
During our last conversation, over espressos in an Arnhem hotel, I had several Aha moments. I have watched Pep Guardiolas Barcelona umpteen times, but only now am I finally beginningto see. Guardiolas Barcelona are great not merely because they have great players. They also have great tactics different not just from any other team today, but also different from Barcelona teams pre-Guardiola. Barça are now so drilled on the field that in some ways they are more like an American gridiron football team than a soccer one.
Before getting into the detail of their game, its crucial to understand just how much of it comes from Guardiola. When a Barcelona vice president mused to me four years ago that shed like to see the then 37-year-old Pep be made head coach, I never imagined it would happen. Guardiola was practically a novice. The only side he had ever coached was Barças second team. However, people in the club who had worked with him men like the clubs then president Joan Laporta, and the then director of football Txiki Beguiristain - had already clocked him as special. Not only did Guardiola know Barcelonas house style inside out. He also knew how it could be improved.
Guardiola once compared Barcelonas style to a cathedral. Johan Cruijff, he said, as Barças supreme player in the 1970s and later as coach, had built the cathedral. The task of those who came afterwards was to renovate and update it. Guardiola is always looking for updates. If a random person in the street says something interesting about the game, Guardiola listens. He thinks about football all the time. He took ideas from another Dutch Barcelona manager, Louis van Gaal, but also from his years playing for Brescia and Roma in Italy, the home of defence. Yet because Guardiola has little desire to explain his ideas to the media, you end up watching Barça without a codebook.
Cruijff was perhaps the most original thinker in footballs history, but most of his thinking was about attack. He liked to say that he didnt mind conceding three goals, as long as Barça scored five. Well, Guardiola also wanted to score five, but he minded conceding even one. If Barcelona is a cathedral, Guardiola has added the buttresses. In Barças first 28 league games this season, they have let in only 22 goals. Here are some of Peps innovations, or the secrets of FC Barcelona:
1. Pressure on the ball
Before Barcelona played Manchester United in the Champions League final at Wembley last May, Alex Ferguson said that the way Barça pressured their opponents to win the ball back was breathtaking. That, he said, was Guardiolas innovation. Ferguson admitted that United hadnt known how to cope with it in the Champions League final in Rome in 2009. He thought it would be different at Wembley. It wasnt.
Barcelona start pressing (hunting for the ball) the instant they lose possession. That is the perfect time to press because the opposing player who has just won the ball is vulnerable. He has had to take his eyes off the game to make his tackle or interception, and he has expended energy. That means he is unsighted, and probably tired. He usually needs two or three seconds to regain his vision of the field. So Barcelona try to dispossess him before he can give the ball to a better-placed teammate.
Furthermore, if the guy won the ball back in his own defence, and Barcelona can instantly win it back again, then the way to goal is often clear. This is where Lionel Messis genius for tackling comes in. The little man has such quick reflexes that he sometimes wins a tackle a split-second after losing one.
The Barcelona player who lost the ball leads the hunt to regain it. But he never hunts alone. His teammates near the ball join him. If only one or two Barça players are pressing, its too easy for the opponent to pass around them.
2. The five-second rule
If Barça havent won the ball back within five seconds of losing it, they then retreat and build a compact ten-man wall. The distance between the front man in the wall (typically Messi) and their last defender (say, Carles Puyol) is only 25 to 30 metres. Its hard for any opponent to pass their way through such a small space. The Rome final was a perfect demonstration of Barcelonas wall: whenever United won the ball and kept it, they faced eleven precisely positioned opponents, who stood there and said, in effect: Try and get through this.
Its easy for Barcelona to be compact, both when pressing and when drawing up their wall, because their players spend most of the game very near each other. Xavi and Iniesta in particular seldom stray far from the ball. Cruijff recently told the former England manager Steve McClaren, now with FC Twente in Holland: "Do you know how Barcelona win the ball back so quickly? It's because they don't have to run back more than 10 metres as they never pass the ball more than 10 metres."
3. More rules of pressing
Once Barcelona have built their compact wall, they wait for the right moment to start pressing again. They dont choose the moment on instinct. Rather, there are very precise prompts that tell them when to press. One is if an opponent controls the ball badly. If the ball bounces off his foot, he will need to look downwards to locate it, and at that moment he loses his overview of the pitch. Thats when the nearest Barcelona players start hounding him.
Theres another set prompt for Barça to press: when the opposing player on the ball turns back towards his own goal. When he does that, he narrows his options: he can no longer pass forward, unless Barcelona give him time to turn around again. Barcelona dont give him time. Their players instantly hound the man, forcing him to pass back, and so they gain territory.
4. The 3-1 rule
If an opposing player gets the ball anywhere near Barcelonas penalty area, then Barça go Italian. They apply what they call the 3-1 rule: one of Barcelonas four defenders will advance to tackle the man with the ball, and the other three defenders will assemble in a ring about two or three metres behind the tackler. That provides a double layer of protection. Guardiola picked this rule up in Italy. Its such a simple yet effective idea that you wonder why all top teams dont use it.
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|Restauranteur: Superintendent 'Made A Scene'
|Written by Steve Frank
|Monday, 21 January 2013 15:34
The cryptic message delivered at last week's Watauga Board of Education meeting by new board member Barbara Kinsey may be coming a bit clearer, that with the surfacing of a letter from local restaurateur Chase Luddeke of Mellow Mushroom. That letter, posted in its entirety below,
tells of an interaction at the King Street restaurant over the holiday season, ending with a scene allegedly instigated by Watauga Schools Superintendent Dr. David Kafitz. I obtained the letter from a third party, but Kinsey said she received the exact same letter from Luddeke himself, and confirmed its authenticity. In the two-page letter to Dr. Kafitz, Chase Luddeke recounts the interaction over a discount—given to Dr. Kafitz through a band booster's card, but a discount Kafitz apparently felt was insufficient. The conversation reached its climax with Dr. Kafitz telling Luddeke that, "As superintendent of Watauga County Schools, I will make sure that Mellow Mushroom is not allowed to participate in the Pioneer Card next year." Luddeke outlined the many ways that Mellow Mushroom and many other locally owned businesses help and give to the schools, concluding his letter saying, "No matter what your stance, we here at Mellow Mushroom will always do our best to stand up and support our county's schools." Kinsey told of other reports she and the board received of a similar nature, and I told her of an interaction I was informed of between the superintendent and an elections board official that was highly agitated and unprofessional. I called Dr. Kafitz before noon today, but have not heard back from him with his account of any of these incidents. In her open statement, Kinsey told those who reported various information to the new board members that 'we heard you.' What happens next is unclear at this point.
That letter:
Going forward, I implore you to please re-evaluate your decision to exclude Mellow Mushroom from further fundraising programs. I am confident that you are very out of place in speaking on the behalf of the students and faculty that these programs support. I trust that you will realize that the alienation of our local businesses to satisfy your ego, is not the type of behavior Watauga County schools deserve. I also hope, for the betterment of our schools, that your attitude towards the position of superintendent evolves to be more deliberate in thought, and constructive in action. Finally, no matter what your stance, we here at Mellow Mushroom will always do our best to stand up and support our county's schools. Thank you for your time.
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|Irene Fully Ashore in easten North Carolina
|Written by Steve Frank
|Saturday, 27 August 2011 11:37
Hurricane Irene is fully ashore in eastern North Carolina as of lunchtime Saturday, bringing with it widespread power outages and flooding. Irene made landfall about 7:30 a.m. Saturday near Cape Lookout, North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.
CNN reports that it brought high winds, heavy rain and a strong storm surge that cut off thousands of residents in Beaufort and in Carteret and Pamlico counties, quoting the state Emergency Management Agency. The news agency also said that the storm was blamed for a death Saturday morning, when a tree limb fell on a man feeding livestock, quoting an emergency official in Nash County. The storm remained a Category 1 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended as far as 90 miles from the center, according to the National Weather Service. Emergency crews from Watauga Rescue and Samaritan's Purse are following the storm, ready to begin aid missions to areas hit hard by the storm.
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Juan Campuzano discusses pseudogap, superconductors, and temperature. He also mentions ground state, momentum dependence, and how to know the q's origin.
Juan Campuzano talks about high Tc superconductors and what makes them so interesting as well as the science of them. Properties of electrons with angle resolved photoemission and pseudogap are also looked at.


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By John Leyden
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Novell has responded to Microsoft's attempts to portray Windows as a safer proposition than Linux in the enterprise with a counteroffensive of its own. In response to Microsoft's 'Get the Facts' campaign, Novell has launched a site designed to "unbending the truth" about Linux.
The move comes after Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer sent out a memo to customers suggesting that Linux might be more expensive and less secure than commonly portrayed. He also said that Linux customers risked possible intellectual property lawsuits. As throughout the year-long 'Get the Facts' campaign, Ballmer used third party analyst reports to bolster Microsoft's arguments.
Up until now, Novell has been content to stress the virtues of its technology in mixed Linux and Windows environments, attempting to stay above the fray by essentially ignoring Microsoft's campaign. No more. IDG reports that Novell chief exec Jack Messman is drafting a memo that seeks to debunk Ballmer's latest missive. Novell is criticising Microsoft for selectively quoting passages from analyst reports favourable to the software giant's case. Analysts say that Novell is doing much the same thing. Users ought to read their reports rather than listening to the spin or counterspin from rival vendors, they advise.
As with many marketing battles the set-to is generating more heat than light. One important point - the timing of Novell's counteroffensive - has largely gone unnoticed. Yesterday Novell's vice-chairman Chris Stone unexpectedly left the company to pursue "other opportunities". Stone was a key player in Novell's Linux strategy and its tempting to see the timing - if not the substance - of Novell's counteroffensive as designed to divert attention away from his departure. ®
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