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It's not often that I get a good sampling of candy from a foreign country. Usually you find isolated samplings of them in stores, a Haribo product here, a Cadbury product there. This only give you a small sliver of their confectionery offerings, that you hardly get a good picture of the flavor preferences of that country. Ingrid's Candy Shop is an online store that specializes in Swedish candy, and they offered me the chance to taste what Sweden has to offer. I was super excited since I really only knew of Swedish fish and they few candies you see displayed at IKEA. I selected a few candies that sounded good to me and eagerly awaited them in the mail!
Brio frukt (look like chiclets) "Square shaped fruity candy from Malaco": These candies look like chickets, square, colorful and shiny. The come in pastel colors of green, white, yellow and pink. The texture of these is very thick and stick, like a hardened Starburst or HiChew. The green tastes like pineapple: sweet, juicy and fresh. White is sweet and tastes of green pear with delicate juicy notes. Yellow is immediately sweet and zesty of lemon. Orange is sweet and tastes of tangerine, with a very juicy edge with a hit of zest. Pink is sweet with light floral notes and hints of berry. A very "pink" flavor. I really liked these a lot, one of my favorites in the sampling.
Gelehallon "Raspberry gelee with sprinkled sugar on top ": They're about the size of normal gumdrops, but they're more vibrant and squishier. They have a nice coating of granulated sugar on them and they smell fruity. The texture is very soft and chewy, and is easy to chew. The flavor is…fruity, then it gets very bitter. It must be from all the red food coloring because it tastes very much like a cherry medicine to me. For some that's a good thing, but for me, I'd rather not eat something that tastes like something I take when I'm sick.
Hallon lakrits skallar "This licorice head is a hybrid candy that have a mix of raspberry flavor with lakrits. Delicious sweet chewy candy!": These are large gummis. They're easily an inch and a half long. They're skulls with the top half red and the bottom black. It's raspberry/licorice flavor combination. The chew is very dense and stick, and it's hard to eat at first. The licorice part is salty, to my surprise. You really taste the salt over the licorice and raspberry flavors. It's disappointing since I love liquorice but the salt really dominates too much. A nice candy if you're into that though.
Swedish Fish "The original": The green fist tastes a generic fruity flavor at first, then I get hints of lime and pineapple. The chew is wonderful dense and thick, and isn't too sticky so it's easy to work with. Yellow tastes like lemon right from the start. It's zesty, sweet, with a nice tart edge to it. Orange starts off with this strange artificial flavor similar to floor cleaner. It's floral and bitter. I taste some notes of orange in there, but the "fake" note to it just makes it taste too chemical for me. Red is very fruity, like a mix between strawberries and raspberries. Light, sweet and refreshing.
Stora colaflaskor "Big cola bottles that are chewy & sweet" Thew chew on these is much softer and chewier. It's a nice relief from the harder gummis. The flavor is a very mild, very flavorful cola. Complete with good accents of spice and fizz, with a rounded molasses edge to it. it's very nice, It's sweet and flavorful. I really liked these.
Sura körsbär "Sura körsbär is basically sour cherry's, Now this one is one of the best sour candies that I have ever eaten, it's a promise!": They're right. these are pretty awesome. They're large gummis, and they have a very dense and compact sanding of sour sugar on them. The chew is very dense. You do have to work it some to take a piece off. The flavor is immediately sour, and it's a nice, intense sour too. It really sits you upright in your chair, as so tp speak. The flavor is very cherry, but a bright, fruity cherry and not a thick and syrupy cherry from a medicine bottle. The gummi becomes sweet once the sugar coating wear off, and it becomes sticky to chew. I really enjoyed these.
Zoo "This one is a must in your candy bag, one of Malaco's best sweets!" These candies are small and look like sitting moneys. So no wonder they're called "zoo". The texture is very plastic-y, I'm reminded of Twizzlers, but denser. The flavor is like a nice red candy strawberry. Notes of berries, but more of a "red" flavor really. Tasty, I really liked them.
Cocobat "Cocobat is mint coco with licorice" The texture of these is quite dense. It took some chewing to get them going. The inside is way more flavorful than the outside. You immediately taste the cream once you chew through the licorice exterior. it tastes…sweet? It's hard to lay a finger on the flavors since this candy is really more about texture to me. I tired the other colored licorice tube (the ones with the green) and it tasted fruity to me. Tasty for sure!
Djungelvrål "These jungle ape's are salt lakrits that turn sweet. Swedish licorice that top's the list" These are very salty to start. Very salty, so they were hard for me to eat at first. Once the salt melts away you get a flavor of a nice herbal licorice with notes of anise and molasses. The chew is dense and sticky and I had to pick a lot out of my teeth. Still, for salty licorice, I liked it. The salty part will take some getting used to, but the licorice itself is very tasty.
Punschpraliner "is a swedish classic! Punch cream covered with chocolate and sprinkles." These look like squat gumdrop sized Nestle Snowcaps: chocolate coating with white non pariels. They smell rich and sweet of the chocolate. The texture is soft and chewy and smooth from the chocolate. You get a slight crunch from the sprinkles. The flavor is very complex with notes of vanilla, butter and rum. It reminds me of rum raisins in a way, it's a very buttery flavor. Tasty, unique.
I really enjoyed trying all these candies from Sweden. It's rare to get some a taste of another country without actually going there yourself. It was interesting to see a pattern with the candies styles and flavors, and I felt it gave me a sense of Sweden's candy sensibilities. The seems to love red fruit flavors, and they're also a big fan of licorice. Both things I understand! If I had to choose a favorite it'd be the Sura körsbär. I'm usually not a fan of sour candies but these are so awesome and tasty! I extend a huge thanks to Ingrid's Candy shop for letting me try these amazing sweets.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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EUGENE, Ore. – For the remainder of the 2013 season, University of Oregon athletic teams will wear a patch honoring the memory of men's tennis star Alex Rovello, who passed away May 11 as a result of a diving accident at Tamolitch Falls along the McKenzie River east of Eugene.
The circular black patch with Rovello's initials in white lettering will be worn by all six of Oregon's team still in competition this spring, starting Thursday afternoon when the softball team takes the field for the NCAA Tournament against Brigham Young.
Softball players will wear the patches on the back of their batting helmets through the post season, while baseball will do likewise starting with Friday's series against Oregon State and continuing into the NCAA Tournament.
The men's and women's golf teams will wear the patches on their hats and visors as they compete in the NCAA Regionals in Tallahassee, Fla., and NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga., respectively.
Oregon's men's and women's track and field teams will wear the patches on the upper left side of their singlets for both the NCAA Preliminary Rounds in Austin, Texas, and the NCAA Championships June 5-8 at Hayward Field.
The University was granted an exemption by the NCAA to allow the patches to be worn during postseason competition.
A memorial service for Rovello will be held Saturday in his hometown of Portland.
Rovello recorded a 21-8 match record in 2013, playing mostly in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots in singles. He and his partner, Daan Maasland, won 16 matches in the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles spots, tied for eighth most in school history. His sophomore year, he won 21 matches at No. 1 singles, following up on his 18 wins at the No. 1 spot as a freshman.
Rovello joined the Ducks after a successful prep career that saw him go 50-0 in singles and 65-2 overall for Cleveland High School, becoming the first player ever in the state of Oregon to win four consecutive state singles titles. As a prep athlete, Rovello appeared in the June 14, 2010 issue of Sports Illustrated's "Faces In the Crowd".
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Published Nov 1, 2009 - (Updated Dec 3, 2012)
Featured in Vallarta Lifestyles Magazine, Fall/Winter 2009 issue.
The fact that a fair amount of Puerto Vallarta's El Centro is built on a hillside means that those who live there can always enjoy privileged views of our bay. For those of us who don't, exploring the many steps that serve as access points to these neighborhoods is a great way to discover an area of Puerto Vallarta that, due to its challenging terrain, remains largely unchanged when compared to other neighborhoods. Additionally, you will get a great workout at the same time!
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Jay Gruden has quite the busy career calendar. He's made coaching jumps from Orlando to Virginia to Cincinnati and from the UFL to the NFL all in the span of one month.
Former Florida Tuskers and Virginia Destroyers coach Jay Gruden has been hired as the offensive coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals replacing fired coordinator Bob Bratkowski. Destroyers General Manager Doug Williams confirmed the news to the Virginian-Pilot.
"I talked to Jay yesterday; he's going to the OC in Cincinnati," Doug Williams said. "I can't blame him. He felt like he was caught in between, because he liked his job in the UFL. But he said he had to do it."
It will be interesting to see how Jay Gruden fits in with the chemistry of the Bengals' offense. During Super Bowl XLV media day, Chad Ochocinco spoke out about Bob Bratkowski's firing.
Gruden, 43, also coached the Orlando Predators from 1998-2001 and again from 2004-08. Jay Gruden is the younger brother of ESPN football analyst Jon Gruden.
"He's not the problem," Ochocinco told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "We've had some of our best years under the same coordinator. It's crazy how when we don't perform well as a team or from the offensive standpoint it falls back on the coaches. It's not the case. We've done very well under Marvin (Lewis) and Bratkowski. It's crazy."


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I bought a $30 Queens album off of itunes, and in the process of downloading the album, the internet suddenly got shut off for a little while, and then I logged back in, but itunes kept saying some of the songs I was downloading were corrupted, and I'd have to refresh. So I did, several times, and they were still corrupted. I had to buy the three songs individually to get uncorrupted ones. Great way to cheat me out of my money.
I really hate the itunes store. They never have the albums I want.


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Spring Academic All-Ivy Selections Announced
The Ivy League released its list of student-athletes selected for 2012-13 Academic All-Ivy honors in its spring sports today. The 80 men and women selected were starters or key reserves on an officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 or better cumulative grade point averages. Each institution nominated five men and women from its eligible student-athletes.
Princeton's selections for spring 2013 are:Candy Button, Sr., Softball, Computer Science (Redmond, Wash.)
Hit a team-best 10 doubles this season and played in 44 games, second-most on the team; had career bests in batting average (.277), games, at bats (141), doubles, home runs (five) and RBI (29).
Michael Franklin, Sr., Men's Track & Field, Computer Science (Mendham, N.J.)
Fifth at the NCAA Championships in the 10k, the highest finish for a Tiger in NCAA history; Ivy League Champion in the 5,000m and 10,000m; NCAA Regional qualifier in the 5k and 10k.
Will Gillis, Jr., Men's Heavyweight Rowing, Politics (Seattle)
Stroke of the Princeton heavyweight varsity eight; boat placed fourth at Eastern Sprints and reached IRA championship final.
Camille Hooks, So., Women's Water Polo, Undeclared (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
CWPA All-Southern Second Team; CWPA Eastern Championship All-Tournament second team; Southern Division champion; Eastern Championship winner; NCAA Championship fifth-place finish.
Tom Hopkins, Jr., Men's Track & Field, Politics (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
Part of a 4x400m relay team that placed 22nd in the NCAA Championships; Ivy League champion in the 4x400m and long jump; Ivy League runner-up in the 400m and 4x100m; NCAA Regional Qualifier in the 400m and 4x400m; team captain.
Greg Jarmas, Jr., Golf, Politics (Wynnewood, Pa.)
Ivy League individual champion, the program's first since 2005; first-team All-Ivy; led team to first Ivy League title since 2006; GCAA All-Northeast Region.
Alec Keller, Jr., Baseball, Politics (Richmond, Va.)
Unanimous first-team All-Ivy outfield selection; Blair Bat Award winner for highest batting average in Ivy League play.
Erin McMunn, So., Women's Lacrosse, Undeclared (Westminster, Md.)
Second-team IWLCA All-American; Ivy League Attacker of the Year; unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection; Tewaaraton Watch List; first-team IWLCA all-region.
Heidi Robbins, Sr., Women's Rowing, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Hanover, N.H.)
First-team All-American; first-team All-Ivy; Ivy League champion and silver medalist in 2013 NCAA final; led Princeton to third-place team finish at NCAAs.
Tory Worthen, Sr., Women's Track & Field, Psychology (Holland, Pa.)
First eight-time pole vault champion in Ivy League history; NCAA Outdoor Regional qualifier; ECAC pole vault champion.


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It was a good week for CU in the dank, drizzly Old South for a number of reasons, starting with:
- Sophomore Askia Booker compiled 58 points in three games - a 19.3 average and a career-high 23 in the championship game - and was named the tournament's MVP. No other Buffs were chosen to the all-tournament team, more of a testament to the strong and individually talented field than a CU slight.
- After successfully defending three premier point guards - Dayton's Kevin Dillard, Baylor's Pierre Jackson, Murray State's Isaiah Canaan - CU sophomore Spencer Dinwiddie might return to Boulder with a lock-down rep. He was into them like a virus. "He did a great job . . . he took on the responsibility of their guards," Booker said. "I give all the praise to him. He took all the pressure off of me." But Dinwiddie also found time to score: He finished the championship game with 13 points.
- Freshmen forwards Josh Scott and Xavier Johnson and freshmen guards Eli Stalzer and Xavier Talton did what was asked of them in their roles. Scott scored nine of his 13 points in Sunday night's decisive second half, when CU wanted to take the battle to Murray State in the low block. He also snagged six rebounds. Stalzer and Talton spelled Booker and Dinwiddie. Johnson, said coach Tad Boyle, let a couple of fouls diminish his aggression.
- Junior Andre Roberson scored in double figures (16) for the first time this season and finished one rebound short (nine) of his first double-double this year. Even though it was waved off because of an alleged charge, he had a thunderous dunk in the second half that Boyle called an energy boost for his team.
- The Buffs discovered that, yes, they can shoot free throws when a game is on the line. After clanking and clunking them in the first two games - including missing 14 of 18 against Baylor - they sank 27 of 36 Sunday night. In the game's final 7:58, CU hit 18 of 20. Dinwiddie stuck 11 of 12.
- And Boyle went to 4-0 for the first time in his three seasons as CU's head coach and now must find room for the Charleston Classic trophy alongside the Pac-12 Conference tournament hardware his team claimed last March. Boyle also got a congratulatory handshake Sunday night from funny man Bill Murray - no relation to the basketball team - and promised he "didn't throw any Caddy Shack lines at him. He probably gets that all the time. It was good to meet him and he said he liked our team."
What wasn't to like about the Buffs in their three games here, particularly Sunday night? CU advanced to the championship game with a 67-57 win against Dayton, then by edging No. 16 Baylor 60-58. Murray State started four seniors and a junior from a team that went 31-2 last season.
Booker called winning the tournament "a confidence booster for everybody. We played three good teams . . . we can play with anybody. There's nobody in the country we can't compete against and win. We play team ball and it comes down to defense and rebounding at the end of the day. Coach tells that to us every day."
Shooting 45.2 percent from the field, the Racers are the only team this season the Buffs haven't held below their goal of 40 percent. But CU outrebounded Murray State 35-30 and won the board battle in two of the three games here.
Boyle was particularly proud of his team's ball screen defense against the high-profile trio of point guards the Buffs faced. "It was a team victory, offensively and defensively, and I couldn't be more proud of our team and players," he said.
But Boyle, of course, believes there can/will be improvement through November and into next month. The Buffs will need it; They don't play during Thanksgiving week, returning to the Coors Events Center on Sunday, Nov. 25 to face Air Force (6 p.m., Pac-12 Network). Boyle is looking at this week as quality practice time.
CU led 33-31 at halftime Sunday night, rallying from a pair of six-point deficits. Boyle had cautioned his team about Canaan's long-range shooting, and it didn't take long for the CU coach's words to ring true. The 6-1 senior took six of Murray State's 14 first-half three-point attempts and hit half of them - the last two a couple of steps beyond NBA range.
Dinwiddie rolled his eyes in disbelief. "People just don't do that," he said. "Not that people can't, but it's just the coach never says please go and shoot a 35-footer. So I wasn't expecting it. He's a great player, very difficult to guard."
Canaan finished with a team-best 21 points, but didn't hit a trey in the second half.
The Buffs hurt themselves with a season-worst 11 first-half turnovers. But they continued to compensate with defense and rebounding, holding the Racers to 35.7 percent from the field (10-of-28) and outboarding them 19-14 in the first 20 minutes. And in the second half, CU cut its turnovers to six.
The Buffs opened the second half with a 6-2 run, getting baskets from Johnson, Sabatino Chen and Roberson to go up 39-33, with that six-point advantage CU's largest of the game to that point. But Boyle also had warned his players to keep 6-7 Ed Daniel off the glass, and the next two Racers possessions showed why. A put-back stuff by the wild-haired Daniel cut the Buffs lead to 39-35 and a layup on the next trip made it 39-37.
Then Murray State's three-point shooters switched on. Stacy Wilson hit one, giving the Racers a 40-39 lead, Dinwiddie banked in a trey to push the Buffs back in front 42-40, then Dexter Fields answered with a triple to give Murray State a 43-42 edge.
A back-and-forth half appeared to be underway until CU unleashed a 6-0 run highlighted by back-to-back stuffs by Scott on a baseline move and Booker on a breakaway. That surge opened a 48-45 Buffs lead with just under 12 minutes remaining.
Seconds later, after Murray State coach Steve Prohm was whistled for a technical, a pair of Dinwiddie free throws sent CU's advantage to 50-45. Things were heating up. Roberson picked up his third foul when he was called for a charge on his he-man jam over Daniel.
At the 10 minute mark, a sweet baseline move by Scott resulted in a layup and capped a 10-0 run that had opened a 52-45 CU lead. Murray State was far from done, answering with a 7-0 run that featured another trey by Fields to tie the score at 52-52 with 8 minutes left.
The next 3 minutes were all Buffs; an 11-1 run was highlighted by free throws from Scott, Adams and Chen, another Scott field goal from the low post and a Booker trey from the left wing.
"I'm a better jump shooter (this season)," Booker said. "I put in a lot of hours in the gym this summer. Overall, it's confidence. That's a big thing in anyone's game . . . I'm not saying I'm cocky, but I believe it's going to go in when I shoot it."
With 5:02 to play, CU led 63-53. Murray State closed to 63-58 on a conventional three-point play by Daniel - and Roberson also picked up his fourth foul in that sequence.
At 1:51, another trey by Fields brought the Racers to 68-65 and prompted a timeout by Prohm. CU answered with a free throw line jumper by Booker, two free throws by Chen. Wilson hit a long trey with a minute remaining (72-68), but Scott negated that with a layup and a free throw to restore CU's seven-point lead (75-68).
Roberson fouled out with 13.4 seconds left, sending Daniel to the free throw line for a potential three-point play. But he missed and the Buffs' lead was 77-72. Dinwiddie hit another four free throws in the final 10 seconds and this one was done.
Winning the tournament, said Dinwiddie, "means a lot; it gets our players used to winning. We don't want our team ever to get used to losing. It kind of builds that pride and sense of urgency, that will to say we don't lose. Period. That's just what it is."
Should the Buffs be included in this week's Top 25? Booker said it "doesn't matter," Dinwiddie said, "Yes . . . keep it conservative and go like (No.) 17." CU's last Top 25 appearance was in 2005-06, coming in at No. 25 in the USA Today coaches poll.
The Buffs did their parts in Charleston, the polls are best left to others. It's very early in a long season, but you can't help but feel a buzz from how it's started.
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A MEMORY: It's 1957, and my father and I are both dressed nicely, as was typical in those days. My dad wears a suit and topcoat and hat; I'm in a dress, kneesocks, patent leather shoes and a dark wool coat with a matching bonnet. I'm about four. We seem to be at an amusement park, and to get to the attractions we have to walk through a large barrel that lies on its side. It's dark in the barrel, and as we step onto its polished floor, I realize it is turning. The idea is to keep walking, just keep up.
I can see light at the barrel's other end and can't understand why we don't just walk through. But the barrel is turning too quickly now. All we can do is try to keep upright, to run and keep running.
I am soon in trouble. I begin to cry. My father is ahead of me now, just a silhouette, his arms extended, his coat pirouetting about his legs as his feet fly over the polished wood. I am barely able to stand, and my panic shifts to anger. My father doesn't fall at all, nor does he pick me up.
In some split second, it's happened. He's ceased being my father. He's ceased being responsible for me. Won't entertain it. No.
We're just pals out on the town. Sailors. Buddies with a loose, friendly connection. We're on shore leave with just a few hours in which to have as much fun as possible. A little mischief. Some mild trouble. None the worse for wear. Don't spoil it. Don't ruin the moment.
As the barrel spins, my father begins to tap-dance his way up the inside of it and jumps back down, each time, at just the right moment. How is such a thing possible? Have I misremembered? No. My father was quicker on his feet than most men. He came from a family of dancers; his father and mother were both in vaudeville, and all their children learned to dance when other kids were learning to walk.
A man has hopped in with his girlfriend, and they are falling and laughing. I become entangled with them, and now I advance from anger to rage. My father grabs me by the hand and begins showing me how to move, gradually, toward the light of the exit. We walk against the barrel's turning, and I begin to see that walking straight ahead isn't the way. I walk up the barrel as my father holds my hand, heading obliquely for the opening, and in a moment he lifts me, and we leap out together, back into a world colorful, still and somehow sad.
THIS VISION—I have no idea what else to call it—this incident, this dream, is more than 50 years old. I have many of them, and a mind that elects to toss them up into my consciousness randomly. The plain truth is that I am an only child, and my parents' marriage was brief. Both of them are long deceased. So the question for me has been: How many of my memories can I bring to the surface, and how can I know which of them are true? I work on my memories a bit at a time. The ones here concern my father.
When I was in my twenties, thirties, forties, I tried coaxing meaning out of these snippets, these shards. I decided to run this particular recollection by a therapist. What did it actually say about my dad and me, I wondered. She answered curtly, saying something like, "Well, with what we know of your father, it is one more example of his complete inability to care for a child." But assessing my father along these lines has never yielded very much. I know that we are supposed to knit our lives together in tight narrative bundles—both the culture and our therapists tell us so. And yet I generally become confused somewhere along the line. "What am I doing?" I ask myself. It's the arc that seems inevitably to be imposed, the conclusions that must be drawn, that catch me up every time I try to confront memory. Memories are, for me, like a crate of eggs, each one a world. I resist breaking them.
So, if you're like me, you choose instead to sit with your memories, to handle them in a slightly different way. In the case of my father and me in the barrel, after months that stretched into years of replaying the scene in my head, I began to recall going through a corridor of mirrors with him, finally realizing it was how I knew what we were wearing that day. The image also tells me where we likely were: Coney Island. It's a fragile trail, best handled in the same way one searches for galaxies with the naked eye—by not looking for them directly. You simply reckon where a galaxy is supposed to be and then, quite deliberately, look at another spot located somewhat to the right or left of it. If you relax, you will begin to pick up, almost by way of a sixth sense, the presence of the faint stars you're looking for. It's an approach that can be cultivated.
Several winters ago, in search of some confirmation of my memory, I spent considerable time on New York City's F train making the trip to Coney Island. My intention was to visit the museum there to see if anyone knew anything about the barrel, but the place didn't always keep to its hours. Just so the trip wouldn't be a total loss, I sometimes visited the Coney Island Circus Side Show.
There was a young woman there, quite strong, who bench-pressed a python. The glittering, daffodil-yellow and white behemoth, with a head the size of a German shepherd's, trailed down either side of her, indolent and calm, not bothered by the crowd. Another woman swallowed swords. Her focus was extraordinary. She extended the sword before her, deftly placing its tip to her tongue, tilted her head back and then, well, swallowed it. The audience sat up a little straighter, as if to try to avoid the blade themselves. When she was finished, she replaced it with another, much longer sword. She confronted that one the same way. I found it comforting to watch her week after week and wondered if her world was anything like my grandparents' or like my dad's growing up. She was what I would consider game. And if there was just one word to describe my dad, game would be it.
HE WORKED in overseas construction, and just as I turned five, he accepted a project-management position with a company hired to rebuild the newly minted nation of South Vietnam after its war with the French. He traveled ahead and then sent for my mother and me to join him in Saigon, considered at the time to be the Paris of the Orient.
We flew to San Francisco, then took off at dusk, seeming to chase the sun, on our way to a stopover in Manila. On the plane, we were surrounded by row after empty row of thickly upholstered seats with a starched antimacassar on the headrest of each one. Few people were taking this new route in those days. The stewardesses were smiling prettily, dressed in smart suits and caps and high heels. They remained exactly this way all through the flight, even when we flew into a storm late in the night.
When my parents and I settled into our hotel, it became clear that Saigon was not as advertised. The war with the French was indeed over, but it was an unsteady peace, and the city and its environs were highly dangerous.
I was enrolled in school but was much younger than the other children. I had a nanny who became my main companion, and I know it was my dad's driver who attached wooden blocks to the pedals of my too-large bicycle and taught me how to ride. I was left to my own devices most of the time, so long as I was quiet and well behaved. I learned to pay attention to everything that went on around me.
I trust my recollection that my father and I did indeed spend time together in Saigon. Just a small slice of time, to be sure, but rich. I recall one evening, sitting on our veranda in the soft darkness. He allowed me to select a record for us to listen to. It was opera of some sort, and we both liked it. So I curled up in his lap, dozing, past my bedtime, opening my eyes occasionally to see the tiny lightbulb shining out from inside the turntable. It seemed to wink at me, and then I was asleep.
Checking my passport, I learn that we lasted there as a family for less than two years.
My mother and I returned to the States and settled in California. Before long she took me on a Kerouac-ian odyssey back and forth across the country, sweeping through the South as well. We encountered convicts and rattlesnake zoos and caught giant catfish. We woke up one morning in the middle of a field surrounded by what I thought were dinosaurs. My mother explained that they were oil rigs.
In New York, we dropped in to see my father's "people," as she called them. As soon as we left, my father's sister began custody proceedings. Perhaps my mother's desire to wander outstripped her desire to be my mother. After some initial resistance, she agreed to let me go. I moved in with my aunt and her husband in Brooklyn, and my uncle quickly became my hero. My mother visited once. I never saw her again.
I did see my father, but his visits were rare. He'd return once every few years, for some unspecified period of time. Then, without warning, he would begin to pack. I'd ask where he was going, then get my globe and calculate the time difference. For days after he left, I'd be intent on keeping some portion of my attention focused on what he might be doing on the other side of the world, but after a week or so of this sort of double existence, I'd have to let it go. I'd be exhausted.
When I was 15, my uncle died suddenly. It was 1968, and the evening news carried a mélange of intergenerational conflict and war footage from Vietnam. As I watched the war coverage each night, all I wanted was to see whether I might recognize anyone. Maybe I'd spot my nanny, or our cook, or our driver, all of whom had been like family to me. I wasn't sure what I'd do if I actually saw one of them, bloodied and fleeing.
Here in America, primal scream therapy was in vogue, and families were whacking one another in counseling sessions with foam bats. (The bats had a name, as I recall: batakas.) This was considered very cool, but I found it frightening. I had not, as yet, become "game." And that worried me.
In the 1980s, after working for decades in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, my father returned to the United States for good. His health began to fail soon after, and I chose, quite consciously, to take care of him—first at his home, then in my own—until he finally entered a hospice.
I visited him every evening after work. He was, at least, comfortable, and I would pull up a chair beside his bed. We returned, at the last, to sitting together in the dark. We lived those final months as though we'd always seen each other every day. And it became as though we had.
My father died in 1991, and soon after, I made arrangements to return to Vietnam. I brought a tiny padded album containing a few snapshots of my family and our household staff, hoping to find the places where I'd had my photo taken all those years before. The Vietnamese government insisted that tourists travel in groups and with -government-selected guides. Our trip began in Hanoi, and we threaded our way down to Saigon by boat, by plane and, finally, in a dilapidated Russian school bus. As we drew closer to Saigon, I quietly asked one of the guides, Tuan, if he could help me. He wasn't really permitted to speak with any of us alone, but he was enormously sympathetic to me and offered to ask around to see if anyone remembered my family. As we approached the city, he took my album along with him and agreed to meet me in two days, when he came back on duty with our group.
I was astounded at how much Saigon (renamed Ho Chi Minh City) had changed yet how utterly familiar I found the sounds and smells and even the light—so familiar it hurt. I realized that I had become a woman who collected compasses and maps, as though always keeping an eye trained, at least partially, on some other place. I realized that I had lived for years with a sense of having been in exile.
Tuan met up with our group at the botanical gardens. He sent the others off to buy souvenirs, then told me he had found the spots where I had been photographed. As we walked, he handed back my album and pointed to a photo of me standing with my father on a small bridge with a gentle rise. "Here we are," he said. We were standing right in front of it. "Quick, your camera," he said. "Go, I will take your picture." I walked to the top of the bridge and turned. I was smiling as Tuan aimed the camera, but I couldn't control the tears that scalded my face.
A small group of older, grandmotherly Vietnamese women clustered around him as I walked back. They had palm-leaf brooms and swept the walkways in the garden for a living. They wanted to know who I was.
"I've told them that you used to live here with your mother and father," Tuan told me. I bowed politely to them as I said, "Yes, yes," trying to smile, quickly wiping away tears, not wanting to embarrass them.
He said, "They want to know where are your brothers, sisters?"
"Just me," I said.
He said, "What of your parents? Your grandparents?"
"Gone," I said, aware of how this would affect them. They were clearly saddened. They grasped my situation, and that perfect knowledge seemed to hang in the still air.
"But I've come back," I stammered. "Tell them that I've come back and that, in a way, it is a good thing to do, a better thing to do, than not . . . than never coming back. Tell them, OK?"
For some reason I added, "Tell them that I remember everything."
He did, and one woman looked straight at me as she spoke in Vietnamese to him. Tuan translated: "She says that childhood is our lost paradise."
AS A GROWN WOMAN with a history and experiences of my own, I am in a better position to judge my father. But I choose not to. I am simply interested in remembering him as clearly as I can. It is a separate matter to consider how I am doing, who I am, who I have become. That is why it is with great clarity that I know the one wrong I must acknowledge is this: No one ever believed, ever granted, that what we were all living out together was my life and my story, too. But what must also be said is that my father—and my mother, too—tried. They tried to live differently, adventurously. And in doing so, they introduced me, as soon as they could, to the world—showed it to me, flew me over it, drove me across it.
Until recently I had never actually looked up the word game. I believed it described my father, his parents, even my mother—and not me. But what it actually has to do with, among other things, is having a resolute spirit. So at last I find I qualify. Some inner compass, some inner system of balances, has allowed me to follow my own oblique line, my own form of truth. For me, that truth trumps fact.
My trips to the Coney Island Museum finally paid off. In a grainy black-and-white film I discovered footage of the barrel. There it is, enormous, lying on its side, crowded with people attempting to master it. Knowing that it really existed is the gift, opening gates of memory long guarded by me against the ravages of interpretation and bias. I remember the liveliness and spring of the wood beneath my feet—and my father, barely 44, elegant and in his prime. He and I are one with the barrel, holding hands as we run. It was the entrance to Steeplechase Park at Coney Island, and from what I can glean, it was the only way in.
CLAUDIA VALENTINO is writing a novel loosely based on her early years in Saigon.
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I've been writing some rules for an NLP recently, and I've come across a small problem... What is the difference in the use of "in" and "at". For example, you could say "I am in Hawaii right now", however you would (most likely) not say "I am at Hawaii right now".
You might say "I am in school right now" (implying that you are physically within the boundaries of "school"), but you might also say "I am at school right now" (meaning that you could be within school, next to school, or at the concept of school).
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This hearty pasta dinner is packed with flavor, chicken, veggies and cheese. It's also creamy, colorful, quick and available in a version kids will wolf down!—Marti Gutwein, Rensselaer, Indiana
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- 1 package (16 ounces) uncooked penne pasta
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1-1/4 cups salsa con queso dip
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the chicken, dip, milk and salt.
- Drain pasta; return to pan. Stir in chicken mixture and toss to coat. Heat through. Yield: 6 servings.
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"I made this for my family and they loved the spicy flavor."
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The Pasadena City College baseball team continued its funk, losing to Oxnard College, 9-1, Tuesday in a non-conference game at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Memorial Field. The Lancers fell to 2-10 while the Condors have won five straight games (two v. PCC) since starting the year at 0-5.
Lancers' starting pitcher Ryan Ramirez (0-2) failed to get out of the second inning as Oxnard scored five runs to break the game open. Jonah White belted a 2-run double for the Condors. Oxnard starting lefty Casey Rodriguez hurled five shutout innings, allowing only three hits and striking out seven for the pitching victory.
Fraijo batted 2-for-4 and scored the Lancers' lone run in the eighth inning on a RBI single by reserve leftfielder Niko Horwith.
PCC's offense has sputtered, also waiting until the ninth inning on Feb. 22 to score all three of its runs in a 7-3 loss to Grossmont at Brookside Park. In that game, pinch hitter Cameron Silva delivered a 2-RBI single while Martinez and catcher Corey Richards were each 2-for-4. Again the team's starting pitcher was gone by the second inning after Grossmont scored three runs off Spencer Stute.
The team is batting just .225 and has knocked out only 14 extra-base hits in 12 games. Second baseman Tyler Dominguez leads all regular starters with a modest .286 average. PCC's pitchers aren't doing much better, allowing a 6.96 ERA, 40 extra-base hits and a .324 opponents batting average. The team's defense has been inconsistent with 32 errors or more than two a game.
"We deserve our poor record right now," said PCC head coach Evan O'Meara said. "We stopped hitting completely, and that I thought would be a strength for us. I think the pitchers are feeling the pressure of having to throw goose eggs because they aren't receiving support. We've actually received much better pitching from our relief staff of late. Other than that, we need to wake up. Fortunately for the players, the South Coast Conference season hasn't even started yet. That means we can right this ship."
PCC indeed begins SCC play on Tuesday, March 5 when it hosts Los Angeles Harbor College in a 2 p.m. game.
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like ages 5- whatever how many of you actually played the the trading card game because i didnt, i just collected... i dont play
how rare is an old dragonite card?
like ages 5- whatever how many of you actually played the the trading card game because i didnt, i just collected... i dont play
how rare is an old dragonite card?
I played. I always hated the fact that you needed Energies to attack, swap out, or have resistance to attacks :/
So whenever me and my little sister played, we played without using Energy cards. xD
You don't need energies for resistance. I still like to play the game, but there are very few opponents that I can find.
I found the game quite boring, i just collected them
then they got banned at my school, from then on i started to lose interest, i dont own any cards anymore.
Pokemon Games Played: Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Crystal/Ruby/FireRed/Pearl
same with my schools.. y they ban em
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Yes I'd play the game. We'd never use energy's though haha!
I play the game a couple of times a year. Full rules and everything.
TCG for the Gameboy for me. I schooled all those virtual wannabes.
I have a ton of cards but It's been a while since I've played anyone...
Banned or not two years ago those of us who didn't have to take the Aims tests played in a all against all type battle, in the heart of the school; the library. It was an unexpected challenge for a high school. (Why was it that all the good opponents had to graduate... oh well I guess it'll be my turn come May. ^-^)
Just a thought by using a web cam one could battle over the internet.
Rules I tried to follow them and for the most part I have no problem with them I tend to have problems with the no energy rule, half my deck becomes useless. XD
Just curious did any of you make/ play long winded games using your cards?
Ex: During the summer I played with a friend that only came down when school was out. We made like trainers etc. and would train our cards using the sleeves we added our own attacks and raised our Hp/ attack power in addition to adding the attacks from the previous forms. It would last weeks and the entire family room was covered in cards and other things, anyone else who saw it would think a bomb went off in there.
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I never played the actual card game, either. Only collected.
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no one actually played the game
no one in the entire world
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
bull shit
i am new send to me your best pokemon
I only collect but my brother always wants to play so i yell at him and he says I "f##king hate you!". Ivé got allot of cards, has anyone seen the video about the little kid who oppened a pack of cards and totaly freaked out and went crazy over blastoise? thats sooooo funny XD
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"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
I traded all my cards for Yu-gi-oh cards. Made more sense for an anime about card games to come out with cards, rather than an anime about traveling all over the land devloping relationships with creatures.
I didn't play as a kid personally. But now I have found the game very fun. I started collecting cards all over again. I've played two games so far with a friend. I'm trying to build a amazing deck.
When I was young, I found a Chinese Ancient Mew card (my only card in my very young youth). My parents encouraged me to walk and talk like the characters of Pokemon. Now with my over-obsession of Pokemon and collection, they just want me to sit down and shut up. They need to make up their mind.
See I am weird, which is normal for me. But being normal for me is weird, which I am normally. Meaning that technically I am normal because that is weird for me and I am weird. Get it?
I remember about not knowing how to play. Even in the games, I'd always get frustrated with picking a Pokemon. I didn't even know how to get out of the laboratory and I kept on restarting. Finally I figured it out and I had a shiny Totodile, but I thought the sparkles meant the game was glitched so I restarted AGAIN. D:
See I am weird, which is normal for me. But being normal for me is weird, which I am normally. Meaning that technically I am normal because that is weird for me and I am weird. Get it?
Elementry school was when I got my first pokemon game (red)!
And my first gameboy...
I somehow aquired a copy of the game, lent it to some kid I didn't really know on the bus, and he ended up losing it.
I then bullied him into getting me a new one and then giving me his gameboy for losing it He had two though, so don't worry.
I have never played a TCG... I just don't understand them, and probably will never take the time to learn :/
I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [points to head] and here [points to heart] and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not.


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Published: Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 5:23 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Helen Adams, founder of the decades-old real-estate firm that became the largest one in Volusia and Flagler counties, died Saturday at the age of 87.
Adams, whose company grew from about 12 people to more than 300 sales and referral associates at nine Adams, Cameron & Co. offices around the area, just missed celebrating the 50th anniversary of what she started in 1963.
"In those days, women who were very successful in business were rare," her son, Adams Cameron CEO Bob Adams, said Saturday. "But she did it. She did it all."
Helen Adams was still involved in the business — she was in the office Tuesday, her son said, the day before a big birthday celebration at Oceanside Country Club, where she was a longtime member.
Even as her son and grandsons became involved in the business, Adams interviewed most new hires, taught real-estate classes and attended Realtor conventions.
Adams' company is also one of the largest family-owned businesses in the Volusia-Flagler area. She won a "Boss of the Year" award from the Women's Business and Professional Association of Volusia County. She was also a past president of the Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors and received a Realtor's Lifetime Achievement Award.
She got her start by selling her family's oceanside motels, the Rio Mar and the Emerald, in the 1950s. After selling those herself, Adams got her real-estate license and got a job with Harper Realty, which eventually made her a manager. By 1963, though, she wanted to start her own firm.
That started in her husband's office, then moved to a small building on A1A in Daytona Beach, then a bigger one in Ormond Beach. By the mid-1980s, Adams was no longer selling properties herself but overseeing her sales staff instead.
Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham appointed her to a task force against drug abuse. She also became president of the American Cancer Society of East Volusia.
In addition to her son Bob, Adams is survived by her husband of 72 years, Jack; her daughter, Jacqueline; a sister; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Her funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. James Episcopal Church in Ormond Beach.
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Rated 2 out of 5 by metoo303 OK napkins, a bit disappointed I bought 2 sets of these napkins and was quite disappointed when they arrived. I guess I did not examine the photo closely so it is my fault that I bought them. They are not cotton. The crocheted edging is not very nice looking. They began with a huge blanket stitch which is unsightly. The crochet itself is ok but too chunky for the napkin. Also, I feel that the price I paid is too high considering the materials and design. June 23, 2014
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In a contemporary twist on traditional Irish Aran knitting, our natural ivory cardigan has an asymmetrical wrap style with a single button that creates a cowl-like neck. The textured wool sweaters of the Aran Islands have become a worldwide symbol of Irish culture. The patchwork of different stitches speaks to the ingenuity of generations of knitters.
Made in Ireland. 100% merino wool with resin button. Women's sizes S (4–6), M (8–10), L (12–14), XL (16–18), XXL (20).
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Since they first appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, the textured wool sweaters of the Aran Islands have become "as tenacious an international symbol of Ireland as the harp and Shamrock," writes historian Dierdre McQuillan. Women on these small, craggy islands in the mouth of Galway Bay had always made clothing by hand, but it wasn't until the home crafts movement at the end of the 19th century that this practical skill blossomed into an iconic design known around the world. Then as now, the sale of handcrafts was encouraged as a way to continue local traditions and bring extra income into poor farming and fishing communities. Knitters from Donegal, the Channel Islands, and even emigrants returning from America traded techniques, and sweater patterns became more complicated as local women worked together to master new stitches.
National Geographic first commented on the sweaters in a 1931 article, referring to "the blue jersey of the fisherman." Eventually white became the most popular color for Aran sweaters, and many children on the islands wore a design made just for them for their first holy communion. Early efforts at exporting sweaters through nearby Galway were a challenge until the craftswomen got the hang of standardized sizes rather than knitting for the way their family members were built.
Today, from tourist shops to fashion shows, one can find sweaters based on stitches that were invented by grandmothers and great-grandmothers only a couple of generations ago: cables, diamonds, blackberry stitch, crooked road, half-eights, bird's eye, honeycomb, and many more. As they say on the islands, Go máire tú is go gcaithe théMay you live and wear it well.
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This is a very beautifully knitted and warm cardigan. The knitting patterns are stunning. The yarn is merino wool, so it's not itchy and very comfortable to wear. The only down side is...Read complete review
This is a very beautifully knitted and warm cardigan. The knitting patterns are stunning. The yarn is merino wool, so it's not itchy and very comfortable to wear. The only down side is the sleeves are a bit shorter than American standard. Luckily my size is in the borderline between petite and regular, so I still can wear this cardigan. This cardigan would be perfect, if the sleeve length is 1" longer. For this reason, I rate this cardigan 4 starts, instead of 5.
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Lovely Irish Sweater, very warm wool!
I loved the color and texture of the wool and the design of the sweater, but the sleeves were very short. I hope this sweater fits other people better, since it is a...Read complete review
I loved the color and texture of the wool and the design of the sweater, but the sleeves were very short. I hope this sweater fits other people better, since it is a lovely sweater!
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Beautiful sweater, doesn't fit well
By Ariane
from Newtown, PA
The sweater is beautiful and well made. I ordered a small which is my normal size and the sleeves are about 2 inches too short. The sweater doesn't quite lay the way I was expecting - the fit is quite boxy and definitely doesn't look the way it does on the model.
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Love this sweater.
By Jan
from Mililani, HI
Very happy with purchase
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Love it!
By Sharon
from Ontario Canada
Pure Moreno wool, with a unique design... Can't wait for fall!
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Irish sweaters are a treasure!
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from Santa Fe, New Mexico
I recently returned from a trip to Ireland where I purchased an ivory colored sweater, which I've worn to work and in my personal life. It wears so well, feels so comfortable & soft to the touch, AND I get compliments every time I wear it, that I wanted another Irish sweater. I just purchased a blue asymmetrical Irish cardigan from the National Geographic Store and it's as beautiful as the one I'd seen in Dublin. It hangs beautifully when worn and, once again, when I wear it, people comment on the design, the quality of the sweater. ...I may just need to buy a third Irish sweater in the charcoal grey.
This product is now my flavorite!
By Rowsey
from Vancouver, British Columbia
I love the uniqueness of the stitches in this sweater. Great to wear in cooler weather and pop in my suitcase when I travel. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another in a different color.
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Not just a cardigan - a work of art!
By Luv2Travel
from Cambridge, ON
I've been watching for this to go on sale and bought in Natural. It can be worn with pretty much anything but will have to be worn with a turtle neck underneath as it is a bit itchy. I will be getting the blue when it is in stock again - perfect fit & sleeves are longer than expected from the reviews - no issues there for me! Definitely a cooler weather sweater - early spring, late fall, all winter. Workmanship is incredible with a variety of different stitches used. Definitely a work of art!
wonderful sweater and a great sale price
By granny
from Chelsea, MI
My Irish sweater is just beautiful and warm and fits perfectly.
Beautiful Sweater
By Colleen the shopper
from Vernon BC Canada
Beautiful sweater, I shall wears it for years
It's Lovely
By Tootie
from Wilmington, NC
I wear the product when I go out. This Irish handmade sweater is just so beautiful and the color is a perfect blue for me.
Warm and Stylish
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Wear the off white with many different colors blouses, pants, skirts. Goes with everything


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Coverage: MLBN
1:07 PM ET, October 4, 2013
Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
ST. LOUIS -- Gerrit Cole and the Pittsburgh Pirates played a game of role reversal, and pulled even with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The hard-throwing rookie gave up two hits in six dominant innings and also had an RBI in his postseason debut, Pedro Alvarez homered for the second straight day and the Pirates beat the Cardinals 7-1 Friday to even their NL division series at one game apiece.
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Gerrit Cole took a step toward stardom with a dominant NLDS start against the Cardinals in Game 2 on Friday, writes Jayson Stark. Story
"Just what we've been seeing all year," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "You saw a focused man that was ready to go."
A day after St. Louis got a strong effort from its starter and took advantage of mistakes to romp 9-1 in the opener, the Pirates showed poise for their first playoff win since 1992 while the Cardinals looked tentative in the field.
The Pirates now head home for Game 3 on Sunday in the best-of-five series. Wild-card game winner Francisco Liriano faces Cardinals right-hander Joe Kelly.
Cole faced the Cardinals for the first time and left most of them shaking their heads, striking out five and walking one. After allowing Carlos Beltran's double with one out in the first, the 22-year-old retired 11 straight before Yadier Molina led off the fifth with his third career postseason homer.
Relying on a fastball that peaked at 99 mph on the stadium radar gun and one that TBS had at 100, Cole had hitters helpless at times even without shadows that benefited pitchers early in Game 1.
"I just trusted myself and tried to keep it as simple as I could," Cole said. "You just try and clear you mind after every pitch and just look forward."
When he got in the least bit of trouble, Cole ignored chants from a second straight sellout crowd at Busch Stadium.
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Gerrit Cole was dominant in his first time facing the Cardinals, allowing two hits in six innings.
"You just have to take a deep breath," Cole said. "Rip off the rear-view mirror on the car."
Cardinals starter Lance Lynn needed some help. He hasn't lasted long enough to qualify for the victory in any of his three career postseason starts and yielded five runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
"It was a bad game," Lynn said. "I made four bad pitches for four extra-base hits. When I made a mistake with the fastball, they were ready for it."
Lynn was manager Matheny's choice for Game 2 ahead of rookies Shelby Miller and Michael Wacha, the decision based on the right-hander's strong September and 9-3 record at home.
Wacha (4-1, 2.78) will oppose Charlie Morton (7-4, 3.26) in Game 4 on Monday.
Alvarez doubled and scored on Cole's single in the second to put the Pirates ahead -- eighth-place hitter Jordy Mercer was walked intentionally ahead of Cole.
Center fielder Jon Jay said he should have tracked down the double by Alvarez.
"That's a play I've got to make and I didn't," Jay said. "That's on me."
Alvarez then hit a 418-foot, two-run homer in the third.
Pirates pitchers totaled 10 RBIs during the season and Cole had five of them, including two in his final start.
That's The Trick
The Pirates literally turned the tables on the Cardinals in Game 2, reversing their hits and hits allowed compared to their Game 1 loss. Here's a look:
|Game 1
|Game 2
|Lost, 9-1
|Won, 7-1
|Hits allowed
|-- ESPN Stats & Information
Third baseman David Freese dropped Marlon Byrd's pop fly for an error in gusting wind in the seventh inning, leading to a run.
Lynn made it to the fifth for the first time, but just barely. Miller warmed up in the third and Lynn was yanked with one out after back-to-back doubles by Justin Morneau and Byrd that put the Pirates up 5-0, followed by a four-pitch walk to Alvarez that gave reliever Seth Maness a little more time to warm up.
Miller worked the eighth and gave up a homer to Starling Marte.
Liriano is 4-0 with a 1.16 career ERA in four starts against the Cardinals. He dominated in three starts this year, including a complete game in St. Louis, and allowed 10 hits in 22 innings with 20 strikeouts. He was the winner Tuesday night against Cincinnati in front of a raucous crowd in Pittsburgh that was celebrating the Pirates' return to the postseason.
Kelly (10-5, 2.69) thrived as a fill-in starter for the second straight season and won eight straight decisions.
Game notes
Injured Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter threw the first pitch to his son, Sam, and was accompanied to the mound by his daughter, Ava. ... Daniel Descalso made the last out in the second inning and the first out in the Cardinals' NL Division Series-record seven-run third in Game 1. ... Molina's last postseason homer came in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS against the Mets.
Playoff Series
Scoring Summary
|G Cole singled to center, P Alvarez scored, J Mercer to second.
|P Alvarez homered to center (428 feet), J Morneau scored.
|M Byrd hit a ground rule double to deep right center, J Morneau scored.
|R Martin singled to left, M Byrd scored, P Alvarez to second.
|Y Molina homered to right center (414 feet).
|R Martin hit sacrifice fly to right, M Byrd scored.
|S Marte homered to left center (413 feet).
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Game Information
|Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
|45,999 (101.3% full) - % is based on regular season capacity
|Game Time
|81 degrees, partly cloudy
|12 mph
|Home Plate - Wally Bell, First Base - Jerry Layne, Second Base - Sam Holbrook, Third Base - Jim Joyce
Research Notes
Gerrit Cole is the first Pirates pitcher to allow 2 hits or fewer in his first career postseason start.
Pedro Alvarez is the first Pirates player with 2 HR in his first 3 career postseason games.
Gerrit Cole threw 4 pitches at least 100 MPH on Friday, just the 4th starting pitcher in the past 5 postseasons to throw a pitch 100 MPH.[+]
Most 100+ MPH Pitches in Postseason - Starting Pitcher Past 5 Seasons
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Lance Lynn has had a rough time as a starting pitcher in the postseason, never making it out of the 5th inning and allowing more runs than innings pitched in 3 starts.[+]
Lance Lynn Career Postseason Starts
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The Pirates literally turned the tables on the Cardinals in Game 2... Yesterday, the Pirates were pummeled, 9-1, and had just 4 hits while allowing 10, along with committing 3 errors... Today?? The opposite... The Bucs pounded 10 hits, allowed just 4, and were clean in the field.[+]
Turning the Tables - Pirates 1st 2 Games of NLDS
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bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic/foomatic-filters bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic/foomatic-db-engine bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic/foomatic-db bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic/foomatic-db-nonfree bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic-4.0/foomatic-filters bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic-4.0/foomatic-db-engine bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic-3.0/foomatic-filters bzr branch http://bzr.openprinting.org/foomatic-3.0/foomatic-db-engine
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bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/foomatic-4.0/foomatic-filters bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/foomatic-4.0/foomatic-db-engine bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/foomatic-3.0/foomatic-filters bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/foomatic-3.0/foomatic-db-engine
bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/cups-filters bzr branch https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/misc/common-printing-dialog
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bzr push --remember https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/cups-filters bzr push --remember https+urllib://<user>@bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/misc/common-printing-dialog
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bzr push
for future commits to our repositories.
The changes arrive immediately. So you can check on the web interface
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I am happy to custom make any panels you need. I can forward a colour swatch to match to the walls/decor...in fact invite your wife to do this and she may buy in to the project as she obviously will have better taste than you (I had to put that in case your dear lady wife reads this )
A few slender corner bass traps plus a few side panels for the walls (first points of reflection) and a rear absorbant panel would be a minimum in your room as a guess, but you obviously will know what's needed as you've already treated the room. Your wife may insist on the fugly foam things going, you never know! Don't forget you can get the side panels air-brushed with artwork or overlay photos done on canvas (simply stick them onto the panels applying spray adhesive to the corners) by sending off you favourite photos to an on-line photo printers.


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ASK IRA: Is Battier all there is in free agency for Heat? (Updated)
Q: So now no T-Mac (Atlanta), no Grant Hill (back to Phoenix), no Sam Dalembert (money), no Nene (Denver), no Caron Butler (Bulls or Spurs), no Jamal Crawford (back to Atlanta). I thought people would be lining up at the AAA to play with these guys. What happened? Sorry, but I can't be optimistic here. — Julio.
A: If you can't be optimistic with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on your roster, then you clearly have free-agent envy instead of NBA common sense. Wake up man! Shake out it! Your time had already come: It was July 2010. What happened was the Heat finished two victories from a championship, have their reserve power forward healthier and their sixth-man possibly moving in that direction, and they have decided not to overspend. But this also hardly is over. There are plenty of players who still want to be part of this. And Shane Battier is a heck of a start to the process.
Q: I'm beginning to feel this was Riley's strategy all along: The Heat wait, then pick up low-priced players with a chip on their shoulders. — Chet
A: Tell that to Julio (above), please. That tends to be how they roll, waiting for the right pieces at the right price, such as the addition of Battier. It will be tough enough down the road dealing with the luxury tax, let alone adding to that burden by mistakenly overpaying now.
Q: Ira, I wanted to get your feedback on Richard Jefferson. I'm not sure if he is what we are looking for, other than being a veteran on the cheap. — Jorge.
A: I'm just not sure he has that much left. Look, on the cheap, he's fine. It's sort of like with Vince Carter; at a minimal price there is minimal risk. But with the Battier addition, I'm not sure the Heat aren't now out of the swingman game.
Q: I agree that if Miller were healthy the Heat team of last year, with a couple of tweaks, would be fine. But how can the Heat wait four-plus weeks for Mike to start working with the team? — Charles.
A: Because the season is 17 weeks and it's still all about the playoffs. Mike did have his moments last spring. The Battier addition, though, complicates things.
Q: Hey Ira, how about Mehmet Okur for the Heat if he's amnestied? — Richard.
A: It still doesn't give the Heat a needed post presence, but amid the dearth of centers it still would be interesting. I doubt, though, he would get through secondary waivers, when a team below the cap could bid on part of his salary.


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|Idaho sweeps monthly golf awards
Jarred Bossio, a junior from Olympia, Wash., and Kayla Mortellaro, a junior from Phoenix, Ariz., are the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Golfers of the Month for September.
Bossio opened the fall season with a runner-up finish at the Palouse Cougar Collegiate with a 13-under 203 (68-65-70), Sept. 13-14. He finished two strokes behind his teammate, Damian Telles, in the field of 88 that included 15 teams. The Vandals finished in second place as a team. Bossio then took third place at the Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational with a 5-under 211 (75-73-63), Sept. 20-21. His third round score of 63 tied the course record at Washington National and helped Idaho to a fifth place finish in the 14-team field. Bossio led all WAC golfers with a 69.0 average for the month and is ranked seventh nationally by GolfStat.com.
Mortellaro won her first tournament and tied for first in the second. She won by two strokes at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic with a 9-under 207 (70-67-70), Sept. 13-14. She then tied for top honors in the WSU Cougar Cup, Sept. 20-22. Mortellaro opened the second tournament with a first round 80, but then responded with back-to-back 70s to record the low rounds of the tournament. She was 4-over for the three rounds (220-80-70-70). Mortellaro had a 71.2 stroke average for the month, the best of any WAC golfer. She is ranked 27th nationally.