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Named to the 2008 Brooks Wallace Award Watch List (College Baseball Hall of Fame Player of the Year) ... has played in 117 career games and made 112 starts ... is a career .284 (121-for-416) hitter with 19 home runs and 103 RBI ... has also stroked 29 career doubles ... has tallied 45 career multi-hit games and has 27 career multi-RBI games ... has played in 59 career SEC games, including 58 starts ... is hitting .296 (69-for-223) in his SEC career with 12 home runs and 64 RBI ... a veteran starter who made the switch to catcher in the fall ... an excellent hitter with exceptional power ... showed steady improvement behind the plate in the fall ... played 38 games for the Harwich Mariners in the Cape Cod League last summer ... played on the same team with teammates Kent Matthes and Miers Quigley ... hit .241 (33-for-137) with two home runs and 13 RBI for Harwich ... led the team with 11 doubles and ranked second in home runs, third in runs scored (15) and fourth in hits ... played on the same summer league team with future opponents Evan Crawford (Auburn), Cole Figueroa (Florida), Johnny Giavotella (New Orleans) and Brett Jacobson (Vanderbilt) ... also spent time last summer with Detroit Tigers All-Star catcher Ivan Rodriguez ... has strong ties to the game of baseball as his grandfather, Ralph, was a long-time Dominican scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers ... hi father, Al, is the Assistant General Manager and Vice President of the Detroit Tigers.
Appeared in 10 post-season games with nine starts ... has hit .172 (5-for-29) in post-season career with two home runs and six RBI ... is 3-for-19 (.158) in six career SEC Tournament games with one run scored, one double, one home run and one RBI ... went 2-for-7 (.286) at last year's SEC Tournament with one double, one home run and one RBI ... made his SEC Tournament debut against LSU on May 24, 2006 ... appeared in four NCAA Tournament games in 2006 ... hit .200 (2-for-10) in NCAA Regional play with one home run and five RBI ... smashed a three-run home run against No. 5 North Carolina in 2006 NCAA Super Regional.
Was one of two players to start all 57 games ... started three different positions for the Tide, including designated hitter (37), third base (13) and first base (7) ... played the final nine games of the season at third base as he filled in for the injured Jake Smith ... a 2007 Second-Team All-SEC selection by SEC Head Coaches ... named 2007 Honorable Mention All-SEC by SEBaseball.com ... hit .296 (66-for-223) with team-high 14 home runs and 61 RBI ... led the team with nine 3-hit games ... ranked second on the team with 20 multi-hit games ... also led the team with 15 multi-RBI games ... hit .294 (35-for-119) in SEC play, with 10 home runs and 38 RBI ... the first UA player with 10+ home runs in SEC play since Beau Hearod in 2003 ... homered in six of the Tide's 10 SEC series ... tallied nine home runs and 30 RBI against teams ranked in top 25 ... reached base in 46 of 57 games ... set an Alabama record with 14 RBI over a six-game stretch (May 12-19) ... ranked second all-time for most RBI (24) over an 11-game stretch with 24 RBI behind New York Yankee Andy Phillips who set the 11-game record with 30 RBI in 1998 ... led the team with eight-game winning RBI and six game-tying RBI ... reached base in 18 straight games from February 18-March 17 ... went 2-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI in an 11-6 win over Villanova on Feb. 24 ... stroked a game-winning, two-run double in sixth inning of that win ... went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBI in a 16-0 win over UAB on Feb. 28 ... tied the UA single-game record with two hits in the fifth inning against the Blazers ... went 7-for-14 (.500) in a three-game series against McNeese State on March 2-4, with three doubles and four runs scored ... hit .385 (5-for-13) against No. 13 Nebraska, with two runs scored, two doubles and four RBI on March 9-11 ... posted a career high, seven-game hitting streak from March 9-18, where he hit .345 (10-for-29) with nine RBI ... homered in back-to-back games at No. 13 Ole Miss on March 24-25 ... the Tide's leading hitter vs. LSU, batting .462 (6-for-13) with two RBI on March 30-April 1 ... posted his first multi-home run game at No. 1 Vanderbilt on April 8 ... tallied the 100th career hit at Auburn on April 20 ... played in 100th career game at Auburn on April 21 ... turned in his finest series against South Carolina on April 27-29, where he hit .417 (5-for-12) with three home runs and seven RBI against the No. 4 Gamecocks ... went 3-for-5 with two home runs and career-high six RBI in series-clinching win on April 29, including game-winning three-run HR in seventh inning ... the Tide trailed 10-2 in third inning and Avila had at least one RBI in four straight at-bats (solo home run, RBI single, RBI ground out, three-run HR) in the come-from-behind win ... first UA player with six RBI in a game since Matt Downs had six RBI at UAB on April 26, 2006 ... tied Arkansas' Logan Forsythe for most RBI in game by an SEC player in 2007 ... made his 100th career start against South Carolina on April 29 ... tallied three hits and three RBI in win over Mississippi Valley State on May 1 ... added three hits and four RBI in 10-0 win over Arkansas on May 11 ... slugged first career grand slam at Mississippi State on May 17 ... homered in final at-bat of the season for the second straight year, with solo home run against Florida at SEC Tournament on May 24.
Played in 60 games as a true freshman ... made 55 starts, including 48 as the designated hitter ... finished his rookie season by hitting .271 (55-for-203) with five home runs and 40 RBI ... ranked third on team and seventh in the SEC with 40 walks ... ranked fourth on UA team with 12 multi-RBI games ... played and started 28 SEC games ... hit .301 (34-for-113) with two home runs and 26 RBI ... went 1-for-3 and scored two runs in his UA debut against Winthrop on Feb. 11 ... went 3-for-4 with two RBI against Georgia on Mar. 19, his first career multi-hit and multi-RBI game Avila went 2-for-5 with two RBI in win over Lipscomb on March 29 ... tallied first career four-hit game against LSU on April 16, where he went 4-for-4 with four runs scored, two doubles and one RBI in UA's 17-6 win ... recorded two hits and two RBI in 5-0 win over Mississippi Valley State on April 19 ... reached base eight straight times (5 H, 2 BB, HBP) against LSU and Mississippi Valley State (April 16-19) ... posted best game of the season against Vanderbilt on April 22, with four hits, four runs scored and four RBI in the Crimson Tide's 14-7 win ... collected career-high three doubles in the win over Vanderbilt (April 22) ... recorded game-winning, two-run double against UAB at Hoover Met on April 16 ... went 2-for-5, with two RBI against Auburn on April 29 ... posted career-high four RBI, including two-run home run in first inning, in UA's series-clinching win over Florida on May 14 ... stroked three-run home run against No. 5 North Carolina in NCAA Super Regional at Tuscaloosa on June 10 ... finished the game with a career-high four RBI ... played for the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Braves in the summer of 2005 ... hit .489 with 13 home runs and 69 RBI ... led the Braves to Regional and State championships ... advanced to Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M.
A 2005 graduate of Archbishop McCarthy High School in Pembroke Pines, Fla. ... played for coach Tony Messaro at Archbishop McCarthy ... played three seasons at Archbishop McCarthy (2002, 2004-05) and one season at DeLaSalle High School (2003) in Warren, Mich. ... credited with the first home run in the history of Archbishop McCarthy High School ... as a sophomore, he was an all-metro selection at DeLaSalle HS ... as a junior at Archbishop McCarthy, he hit .342 with four home runs and 24 RBI ... drafted in the 34th round by the Detroit Tigers (1,020th selection) in the 2005 MLB First-Year Player Draft ... participated in the Southeastern Showcase, Florida Diamond Club Showcase and Perfect Game Showcase during his high school career.
Full name is Alexander Thomas Avila ... son of Al and Yami Avila ... has two siblings, Alan and Annelisa ... his father, Al, is the Vice-President and Assistant General Manager of the Detroit Tigers.


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January 13, 2013
sphere A has a mass of 4.2*10^-2 kg and is tethered to a wall by a thin thread. Sphere a has an excess of 1.2 *10^12 electrons. Sphere B has a deficit of 3.5*10^12 electrons and is o.23 m from sphere A a) determine the angle between the thread and the wall b) determine the ...
January 12, 2013
its wrong Nicole is rite trust me
December 28, 2012
anterograde amnesia
December 9, 2012
Cell Biology
1. Which molecule is the major contributor to the increase in mass observed in a full grown plant (i.e. tree) compared to a plant seed? I'm thinking it could be either of these three: D-glucose, C02, or H20.. help?
December 8, 2012
Math [Consumer Surplus]
The demand function for a certain brand of blank digital camcorder tapes is given by p=−0.02x^2−0.1x+24 where p is the wholesale unit price in dollars and x is the quantity demanded each week, measured in units of a thousand. Determine the consumers' surplus if...
November 30, 2012
Calculus [Finding volume of solid]
Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the given curves about the specified axis. y=x^2 y=0 x=3 about the y-axis
November 30, 2012
Calculus [Finding volume of solid]
Find the volume of the solid formed by rotating the region enclosed by x=0 x=1 y=0 y=4+x^5
November 30, 2012
Calculus [rotation of region bounded by curves]
Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the given curves about the specified axis. y=3x^2, x=1, y=0 about the x-axis
November 30, 2012
Calculus: Help !
The demand function for a certain brand of blank digital camcorder tapes is given by p=−0.02x^2−0.1x+24 where p is the wholesale unit price in dollars and x is the quantity demanded each week, measured in units of a thousand. Determine the consumers' surplus if...
November 30, 2012
correct the grammar of the following text: Jason Turner thought he did the right thing when he had seen a man get into a car and drive off much too fast. A year earlier, another dangerous drive was injuring a friend of his, when he was knocking him off his motorbike. So Mr. ...
November 20, 2012
Calculus [finding slope of tangent line]
Find the slope of the tangent line to the curve 0x^2−2xy+2y^3=10 at point (-4,1) Help please? Thanks in advance
November 18, 2012
A meterstick (L = 1 m) has a mass of m = 0.174 kg. Initially it hangs from two short strings: one at the 25 cm mark and one at the 75 cm mark.
November 18, 2012
Find the slope of the tangent line to the curve 0x^2−2xy+2y^3=10 at point (-4,1) Help please? Thanks in advance
November 17, 2012
Calculus [Implicit Differentiation]
If √x+√y=10 and y(16)=36, find y'(16) by implicit differentiation. If somebody could please help me by explaining how to solve this problem ! Thank you (:
November 17, 2012
November 16, 2012
The girls' high school basketball team played 12 games. They won 6 more games than they lost. Find the number of games the basketball team won.
November 8, 2012
How to make a concept about abstract painting
November 6, 2012
Business English
I have a positive attitude, even with boring tasks, I still get the job done./or I never complain. How can I phrase this into a more professional way? Thanks.
October 30, 2012
At noon, ship A is 50 miles north of ship B and is headed south at 16mph. Ship B is headed west at 12 mph. At what time are they closest together, and what is the minimum distance between them?
October 24, 2012
Two ships leave the same port at noon. Ship A sails north at 22 mph, and ship B sails east at 12 mph. How fast is the distance between them changing at 1 p.m.? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
October 10, 2012
how many 2 inch pieces can be cut from a 10 foot bar
October 10, 2012
In a new scenario, the block only makes it (exactly) halfway through the rough spot. How far was the spring compressed from its unstretched length?
October 4, 2012
A ball bounces two-thirds of the distance it falls. If it is dropped from a height of 10 meters, how far does it move before hitting the floor for the fourth time?
October 3, 2012
At the instant the traffic light turns green, an automobile that has been waiting at an intersection starts ahead with a constant acceleration of 2.80{\rm m}/{\rm s}^{2} . At the same instant, a truck, traveling with a constant speed of 14.8{\rm m}/{\rm s} , overtakes and ...
September 27, 2012
You are on an airplane traveling 30° south of due west at 130.0 m/s with respect to the air. The air is moving with a speed 31.0 m/s with respect to the ground due north. 1) What is the speed of the plane with respect to the ground? 2) What is the heading of the plane with...
September 10, 2012
You are on a train traveling east at speed of 17.0 m/s with respect to the ground. 1) If you walk east toward the front of the train, with a speed of 1.1 m/s with respect to the train, what is your velocity with respect to the ground? 2) If you walk west toward the back of the...
September 10, 2012
A cannonball is shot (from ground level) with an initial horizontal velocity of 36.0 m/s and an initial vertical velocity of 21.0 m/s. 1) What is the initial speed of the cannonball? 2) What is the initial angle θ of the cannonball with respect to the ground? 3) What is ...
September 8, 2012
A red ball is thrown down with an initial speed of 1.2 m/s from a height of 25.0 meters above the ground. Then, 0.6 seconds after the red ball is thrown, a blue ball is thrown upward with an initial speed of 22.9 m/s, from a height of 0.8 meters above the ground. The force of ...
September 3, 2012
A blue ball is thrown upward with an initial speed of 19.8 m/s, from a height of 0.5 meters above the ground. 2.4 seconds after the blue ball is thrown, a red ball is thrown down with an initial speed of 7.9 m/s from a height of 22.5 meters above the ground. The force of ...
September 3, 2012
in a boy's school,5/8 of the boys play football and 4/7 play rugby.if every boy play atleast one of the two games,ind the fraction of the boys who play both ?
August 27, 2012
Assume an investor with 5 years investment horizon is considering purchasing a 7 years 6% coupon selling at par. The investor expects to reinvest the coupon at 5% and that the bond will be selling to offer a yield to maturity of 4% in five years. What is the expect total ...
July 30, 2012
physical science
A train sounding its horn is approaching an observer. The pitch of the horn's sound relative to its normal pitch is???
July 25, 2012
July 16, 2012
At 3 P.M, ship A is 150 km west of ship B. Ship A is sailing east at 35 km/h and ship B is sailing north at 25 km/h. How fast is the distance between the ships changing at 7 P.M.? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
June 28, 2012
Thank You
June 18, 2012
June 18, 2012
In the following experiment, a coffee-cup calorimeter containing 100 \rm mL of \rm H_2O is used. The initial temperature of the calorimeter is 23.0 \rm ^{\circ}C. If 9.80 g of \rm CaCl_2 is added to the calorimeter, what will be the final temperature of the solution in the ...
June 17, 2012
Which of the following are three common characteristics of echinoderms? A tube feet, circulatory system, body symmetry B marine-dwellers, endoskeletons, water-vascular system C bilateral symmetry, ossicles, respiratory system D mouths, protosomes, body symmetry is it C...
June 14, 2012
Southwest Asia can best be characterized as A) an area with few resources. B) a desert with an arid and semiarid climate. C) a region of forests. D) an area of forests and grasslands. I think it's B, just checking! thanks in advance
June 7, 2012
Is the correct answer D?
June 6, 2012
if someone is infected with the common cold virus, which type of nonspecific immune response would attempt to deal with the invader? A) T cells B) b cells C) antibodies D) none of these
June 6, 2012
how do you subtract hundreds?
June 4, 2012
1.) What are the equilibrium partial pressures of CO and CO2 if co is the gas present initially, at a partial pressure of .912 atm. Kp = 19.9 Fe2O3 + 3CO <--> 2Fe + 3CO2 I'm trying to find partial pressure of both CO and CO2 by calculating for "x" in the ...
May 8, 2012
a set of maths exame score mean is 70 and variance is 8. a set of english score has mean is 74 and variance is 16. for which exame whould a score of x=78 have a higher standing?
May 5, 2012
Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate of 12200 cubic centimeters per minute at the same time that water is being pumped into the tank at a constant rate. The tank has height 15 meters and the diameter at the top is 65 meters. If the water level is rising ...
May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012
A 40N force applied at an angle of 37 degrees above the horizontal pulls a 5kg box on a horizontal floor. the acceleration of the box is 3meter per second square. how large a frictional force must be retarding the motion of the box. a.50N b.13N c.17N d.25N
April 20, 2012
a 2kg and a 4kg hang freely at opposite end of a light in-extensible string which passes over a small and light pulley fixed to a rigid support.calculate the acceleration of the system. a.3.3M/S square b.2.67m/s square c.4.41m/s square d.2.67m/s square.
April 20, 2012
a 2kg and a 4kg hang freely at opposite end of a light in-extensible string which passes over a small and light pulley fixed to a rigid support.calculate the acceleration of the system.
April 20, 2012
Suppose an enzyme lowers the activation energy by an order of magnitude. What is the ratio of catalyzed rate to the uncatalyzed rate at at 25 °C? at 37 °C?
April 9, 2012
Honors Chemistry
1. 5 2. 1.0 x 10^-5 3. 2.5 4. 12 5. 1.26 x 10^-9
April 6, 2012
The perimeter of a rectangular pool is 84 feet. The width of the pool is half the length. What are the measurements of the rectangular pool?
March 20, 2012
if cot(x-10)=tan(4x) what does x equal?
March 4, 2012
how do you do electron dot diagrams?
March 3, 2012
4*10=40 slices of bread. 18 ppl eat 2 slices each, making 36 eaten 36/40 slices were eaten
March 1, 2012
Chemistry--Plz HELP!
How would i go about balancing the following equation? My teacher said something about the charges: Silver Nitrate + Sodium Phosphate = Silver Phosphate + Sodium Nitrate
March 1, 2012
A 1.146 mixture of the solid salts Na2SO4 and Pb(No3)2 forms an aqueous solutionwith the precipitation of PbSO4. The precipitate was found to weigh 0.672g. The limiting reactant is Na2SO4. What is the percent by mass of each salt in the mixture?
March 1, 2012
math 2nd grade
simon ate 3/2 slices of an apple. Did he eat less than a whole apple or more than the whole apple. Draw a picture to show your answer
February 29, 2012
junanita has 6000 in a two year certificate of deposit (CD) money supply definitions
February 28, 2012
MATH - area question
I need help on where to begin with this problem. You are installing a new deck around your pool. The pool is rectangular with the dimensions 8m by 4m. The deck will surround the pool and will have a width by 2m. What is the area of the deck? I know that A=LxW and that the Area...
February 27, 2012
Math (Area)
I need help on where to begin with this problem. You are installing a new deck around your pool. The pool is rectangular with the dimensions 8m by 4m. The deck will surround the pool and will have a width by 2m. What is the area of the deck? I know that A=LxW and that the Area...
February 27, 2012
lisette drew a rectangle and divided it into fourths. She colored the whole rectangle. How many fourths were colored?
February 27, 2012
simon ate 3/2 slices of an apple. Did he eat less than a whole apple, the whole apple or more than a whole apple. Draw a picture to show the answer.
February 27, 2012
what addition fact can help you find 14-4? explain
February 27, 2012
what does this question mean?
February 21, 2012
also how does she describe her feelings as she waits for him?
February 21, 2012
ROMEO AND JULIET what are juliets feelings towards romeo in act 3 scene 2 from lines 1-35?
February 21, 2012
Sketch one face of a simple cubic unit cell of side a for the case when the maximum fraction of the lattice in volume is filled with atoms, and each atom is approximated by a hard sphere. (ii) What is the radius of each atom in terms of a? (iii) What is the volume of each atom...
February 19, 2012
Sketch one face of a simple cubic unit cell of side a for the case when the maximum fraction of the lattice in volume is filled with atoms, and each atom is approximated by a hard sphere. (ii) What is the radius of each atom in terms of a? (iii) What is the volume of each atom...
February 19, 2012
for every 20 math books a school buys, they they get 7 aditional books for free. The school needs 297 math books. What is the total number of math books the school must buy in order to receive 297 math books in all?
February 8, 2012
a boat sails steadily across a river ,with velocity 20 m/s. if the river has width 30 m, how long does it take the boat to get across ,and how far downstream is it swept by the currenty first
February 6, 2012
I don't know
January 30, 2012
A quarterback throws a football with a velocity vo at an angle of 45o with the horizontal. At the same instant a receiver standing 20 ft in front starts running down the field at 15 ft/s and catches the ball. What is the distance of the receiver from the quarterback when the ...
January 30, 2012
Thank You so much Ms. Sue,
January 26, 2012
3rd grade create an algorithm that has a difference of 20
January 26, 2012
what is the scientific notation of 1,890,000
January 24, 2012
A stone is launched straight up by a slingshot. Its initial speed is 20.1 m/s and the stone is 1.30 m above the ground when launched. Assume g = 9.80 m/s2. (a) How high above the ground does the stone rise? (b) How much time elapses before the stone hits the ground?
January 24, 2012
Weight of $2.50 coffee be x kg Weight of $3.50 coffee be y kg 2.5x+3.5(20-x)= 2.8(20) 2.5x+700-3.5x=56 -x=56-70 x=14 14 kg of $2.50 coffee 20-14kg of $3.50 coffee Thus 14 kg of $2.50 coffee 6kg of $ 3.50 coffee
January 15, 2012
reverse the order of integration integration 1-e integration 0-lnx dy dx
January 12, 2012
ok thank you
December 15, 2011
I do not know I do think its situational though
December 15, 2011
Situational? I do not know I'm not very good at irony.
December 15, 2011
"Out of spite, the human being pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill The animals knew that this was not the case." What kind of Irony is this?, Situational,Dramatic, or Verbal
December 15, 2011
Learning skills
Explain the SQR3 OF READING.
December 12, 2011
Learning skills
What are the advantages of study reading?
December 12, 2011
Thanks again
December 8, 2011
How did the use of advanced technology make World War II the most devastating war in history?
December 8, 2011
thank you sooooo much!
December 8, 2011
Was Daniel Bernoulli for the atomic theory or against it and explain why?
December 8, 2011
can anyone help me with explicationg act 3 scene 1 (setting) (charcater) (plot) (theme) of macbeth?
December 5, 2011
The force F (in Newtons) required to move a box of mass m kg in motion by pulling on an attached rope is F(x) = f m g/(cos(x))+ f (sin(x)) where x is the angle between the rope and the horizontal, f is the coefficient of static friction and g = 9.8 m/s^2. Find the angle x that...
November 17, 2011
The answer might be easy if you told us the minimum height requirement. Since the ceiling is cheaper, the lower the height, the cheaper it will be. Once we know that, the squarer the building, As equal as possible in length & width, the smaller the perimeter and therefore the ...
November 13, 2011
Trying to figure out how to do problems like these. So confused! 1. The receivables turnover for 2009 is 10 times. 2. All sales are on account. 3. The profit margin for 2009 is 14.5%. 4. Return on assets is 22% for 2009. 5. The current ratio on December 31, 2009, is 3.0. 6. ...
November 13, 2011
Differentiate the function. h(x)= ln(x+ sqrt(x^2 -4))
November 9, 2011
A student measures 0.2452 g of a monoprotic solid acid, and dissolves the solid in water to make 100.0 mL of solution. the entire solution is titrated to a phenolphthalein endpoint with 45.06mL of 0.1725M KOH. A. what is the molarity of the acid solution? B. what is the molar ...
November 9, 2011
Calculator Help
1. The csc^-1(1.23) I got 1.061 in radian mode 2. Cot^-1(-2.26) I got 0.8240 in radians 3. Cos^-1(-0.84) I got 2.568 Are these correct?
October 30, 2011
Sam, whose mass is 72.0 kg, takes off down a 51.0 m high, 11.0^\circ slope on his jet-powered skis. The skis have a thrust of 180 N. Sam's speed at the bottom is 43.0 {\rm m/s}. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction of his skis on snow?
October 24, 2011
Susie has a budget of $92 to spend on clothes. The shorts she wants to buy are on sale for $14 each. The shirts are on sale for $12 each. If Susie purchases four shorts, what is the maximum number of shirts she can buy to go with the shorts?
October 24, 2011
How much work does it take to raise a 3kg object 5m into the air? (a) What is the potential energy of the object when it is 5m in the air? (b) What does this tell you about the potential energy you get when you do work to lift an object? (c) If you drop the object, how fast is...
October 22, 2011

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Corvette of the Week: Lgolson's C4
Congratulations to CF member Lgolson for winning Corvette of the Week with his beautiful 1986 Corvette! With all of the C7 madness, it's easy to forget the wonderful Vettes that have led to the C7. But this car, in this setting with this lighting is just sublime. It seems that this C4 is completely bone […] More »
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86 Vette Indy Pacecar 'Vert Stolen After CL Ad Placed
File photo courtesy of Corvettes.nl An Indiana Corvette owner has learned a hard lesson about the dangers of deals on the Internet. Mike Stull decided to turn to Craigslist to find someone to replace the top on his yellow 1986 Corvette Indy 500 Pace Car convertible. He thought he had found the perfect person in
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CHINA the sonic avant-garde
POST 005 2xCD digipak
This first-ever, 2-hour survey of the current experimental music and sound art scene in Mainland China features 15 artists mostly in their twenties from all over the country. The double-CD set shows what is really happening today on the Chinese new music cutting-edge. No more symphonies or string quartets with self-Orientalizing titles and pentatonic motifs. In fact, you won't hear one Chinese instrument here. The incredibly wide range of styles cover everything from plunderphonics, musique concrete, experimental electronics, ambient, sample collage, plug-in modulation, text-sound, sound poetry, mixer feedback improv, hardcore noise, radio art, political satire, to post-concrete recording art documenting a family karaoke scene. This is only the beginning of something unpredictable. No to be missed.
ZHANG Jüngang
WANG Changcun
FU Yü
JIA Haiqing
LI Ruyi
HU Mage
XÜ Cheng
ZHOU Pei
ZHONG Minjie
Intelligent Shanghai Mono University
JIANG Yühui
China Sound Unit
Compiled and Edited by Yao Dajün
Mastered at false.time.controller
Design by Visual Concrete
Cover photo by Monkey Zhao
Back photo by Wang Changcun
Inside photo by Zhang Jün'gang
Special thanks to Faux Tang Punk
A Post-Concrete + ChineNoir Co-Production
©2003 Post-Concrete
CD 1 1 WANG Changcun unhearable 2002 Harbin 2 JIA Haiqing+FU Yü fish cooking 1 2002 Beijing 3 ZHOU Pei eronz335 2002 Guilin 4 ISMU in the room with snow 2002 Shanghai 5 ISMU lunch time story 2002 Shanghai 6 ISMU mail works m4 2002 Shanghai 7 ISMU tunes by 2002 Shanghai 8 ISMU K.L.P.L. 2002 Shanghai 9 Beijing Sound Unit minibus pimps 1999 Beijing 10 FU Yü fish cooking 4 2002 Beijing 11 FU Yü fish cooking 3 2002 Beijing 12 Shanghai Sound Unit Leili Fengxing 1998 Shanghai 13 ZHOU Pei eronz129 2002 Guilin 14 ZHOU Pei mixer&body #5 2002 Guilin 15 ZHOU Pei mixer solo #1 2002 Guilin 16 Beijing Sound Unit after dinner 1997 Beijing 17 XÜ Cheng my livingspace 4 2002 Shanghai 18 XÜ Cheng my livingspace 2 2002 Shanghai 19 ZHANG Jün'gang national anthem in school 2002 Harbin CD 2 1 HU Mage firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar & sugar - edit 1 2002 Beijing 2 HU Mage - edit 2 2002 Beijing 3 JIANG Yühui dark crystal 2002 Shanghai 4 JIANG Yühui ghost in another night 2002 Shanghai 5 WANG Changcun rendezvous #4 2002 Harbin 6 WANG Changcun lunch life 2002 Harbin 7 WANG Changcun song without words 2002 Harbin 8 WANG Changcun k1973 poem 2002 Harbin 9 WANG Changcun dfaonocle 2002 Harbin 10 Shanghai Sound Unit auctioneers 1998 Shanghai 11 ZHONG Minjie SXF003 2002 Guangzhou 12 ZHONG Minjie SYS003 2002 Guangzhou 13 ZHANG Jüngang x-rate 2002 Harbin 14 Beijing Sound Unit green army uniform 2000 Beijing
> Names of artists are given in the original Chinese order, surname first.
> "Rendezvous #4" contains a sample from "nonsense poetry" by the pancakes, written and performed by dejay © 2000 rewind records - www.thepancakes.com
> Intelligent Shanghai Mono University (ISMU) are: B6 (LOU Nanli), cy (DING Dawen), zoojoo (ZHANG Jü), sussux (SU Xin).
> China Sound Units tracks recorded by YAO Dajün, except "minibus pimps" by LI Ruyi. The CSU tracks are unedited, unmixed raw recordings of untempered sound events, except for "Leili Fengxing."
"An impressive double CD reveals how the Future Sound of China is linked with the music of a nation's revolutionary past
by Clive Bell
What can it be like to be in your twenties and living in China today? The breakneck pace of development in that country is throwing up extravagant statistics: last year saw a 60 per cent increase in car sales, with much the same expected this year. The economic surplus with the US stands at $103 billion. Where is the music that might reflect such an upheaval? Thanks to the remarkable Californian Post-Concrete label, we now have a chance to listen in: a double CD compilation, attractively packaged, displaying sound works by more than a dozen artists, nearly all under 30 years old.
Four of the tracks are raw, unedited field recordings made by the China Sound Unit, a countrywide network of recordists snatching at acoustic events. These are like short movies, telling vivid stories about contemporary China. Loyal Communist Party members gather in a snake-meat restaurant, eating, drinking and singing the old revolutionary songs, led by the restaurant owner's firm accordion playing. But the comrades only half-remember the lyrics, confusing two songs into one, and the singing collapses in good humoured argument. Elsewhere, primary school children drill under a hot sun in the playground for a flag-raising ceremony. They sound as worn out as the cassette tape whose wobbling pitch accompanies their singing - as worn out, perhaps, as the dusty revolutionary song itself: "The peoples of China are at their most critical time/Everybody must roar defiance/Arise! Arise! Arise!/Millions of hearts with one mind/Brave the enemy gunfire, March on!"
While there's humour and gentle satire in these tracks, an older China asserts itself in a field recording of "Minibus Pimps", the aggressive street cries of men touting for bus passengers. And in Shanghai, auctioneers jabber like woodpeckers, their prices collapsing rapidly to more realistic levels. These openair recordings are dotted throughout the set, which is mainly devoted to a wide range of electronic music. Zhang Jungang, who recorded the schoolchildren, contributes one of the best pieces, "X-Rate", where samples of an improvising pianist are crafted into a beautiful landscape. Shanghai-based Jiang Yuhui's "Dark Crystal" is another subtly glistening canvas. Jiang's other track, "Ghost In Another Night", is a dramatic expression of how much he loathes dance music. This links with "Dfaonocle" by Wang Changcun, who says, "I like pseudo-Techno that is very thin, with not many layers, but much clarity." This delightfully weedy effort has a playful confidence. In fact Wang's "much clarity" could be a rallying cry for the whole collection. There's no mush here and the standard throughout is remarkably high.
In spite of the charm and humour, when you first put the record on you get a much fiercer impression, and sections of the first CD are uncompromisingly hardcore; a tirade of software abuse and karaoke cannibalism. The opener is Wang Changcun's "Unhearable", an inferno of skittering white noise generated by doing something unspeakable to Microsoft sound files. Then comes Zhou Pei, whose self-penned resume goes: "A boring, small-minded accountant who indulges himself in office sex jokes all day long." Once the necktie is off, Zhou spreads his frustration over four tracks, moving from tortured software to mixing board feedback. Dipping into performance art, Zhou gets physically involved with his equipment - "Mixer & Body #5" is the sound of a cable plug touching parts of his body.
This desire to "fuse abstract and concrete" is also on the agenda for the four-strong ISMU collective in Shanghai. They create a short, sensuous pop daydream by plundering a karaoke record from their local bar. Or they plant an improvised piano solo over an electronic backdrop. It's all crisp and to the point, and their five brief tracks leave you wanting more.
Equally impressive is Fu Yü's "Fish Cooking" series. "Fish Cooking 4" has a spitting propulsion that recalls Toshimaru Nakamura's recent Vehicle, but rather than mixing board feedback, Fu is driving a demo version of some audio software, revelling in its limitations and recording on the fly. In this abstract idiom, Fu's flow of fresh ideas is sure. Zhong Minjie from Guangzhou ("SXF003") manipulates voice samples from porno movies into a torrent that conjures up Chinese opera percussion. As Zhong flips erotic squeals like a spinning cymbal, this is one of the few moments when I caught an identifiably Chinese reference.
It's tempting to see this collection as a harbinger of things to come, as a first Western glimpse of some fiercely talented artists. There's a smouldering whiff of the same excitement generated by the arrival of Japanese musicians like Otomo Yoshihide and Yamatsuka Eye ten years ago. If there's a grassroots explosion of electronic music in China, Post-Concrete have assembled Exhibit A for the evidence. After the satire, the collages and the ear-cleansing digital kung fu, the album ends on a touching note. The old military song "Green Army Uniform" is performed by an amateur singing club in a Beijing park at 7am, giving voice together to keep warm: "0 so deep is my love for you, that I love this green uniform even more. ""
— The Wire (Nov 03)
"This double-CD compilation album brushes a picture of experimental electronica/sound art in mainland China at the beginning of the third millennium. The scope is wide, encompassing sound cut-ups, musique concrete and software clicks 'n' cuts, but this variety is well-contained in an intelligent track list that manages to combine an alphabetical order with an interesting listening curve. Field recordings by the China Sound Unit (project compiler Dajuin Yao and Ruyi Li) have been inserted whenever extra articulation was needed. Each disc clocks in at a little over one hour, which keeps proceedings from getting tiresome. Every artist gets more than one track to shine, but disc one begins with a quick look around the biggest names. Wang Changcun, Fu Yu and Zhou Pei first contribute one track each to kick things off. Fu Yu's "Fish Cooking" suite stands out thanks to its nutty collage flavor. Follow five cuts off the first CD by ISMU (or Intelligent Shangai Mono University), an impressive sound art collective. The two pieces by the young Xu Cheng (only 23 when this album came out), assembled from sounds recorded in his home, provide another highlight. If Hu Mage's cut-ups sound a bit crude, they convey a bombastic energy akin to Ground Zero in their prime. Zhong Minjie's aural assaults and Zhang Jungang's lovely ambient piece "X-rate" (sequenced right after Minjie's, thank you very much) also stand out. At the time, most of these artists were still trying to be heard outside of China. In a large proportion, these tracks are previously unreleased and represent the top of the pile. If one should size up the country's young generation of avant-garde electronicians by this comp, well, there are a lot of diamonds to be dug up over there." ****
Francois Couture, All Music Guide
"Neue Musik aus dem Reich der Mitte
Die Gründe dafür, warum man wenig über experimentelle Musik aus China hört, resp. ob dort überhaupt Aktivitäten in dieser Richtung stattfinden, sind offensichtlich. Während sich nach der Öffnung der (ehemaligen) UdSSR die dortige Szene relativ schnell ins internationale Netzwerk randständiger Musiker gebunden hat, steht dieser Schritt China noch bevor. Solange wird die Situation dort wohl recht uneinsehbar bleiben, auch wenn eine erste Besserung in Sicht ist. Denn Post-Concrete haben sich die Mühe gemacht, einen ersten Einblick in den chinesischen Geräusch-Untergrund auf zwei CDs zusammen zu stellen.
Auffälligster Unterschied zu anderen asiatischen Lärmtönern ist dabei, dass Chinas Klangbastler deutlich ruhiger und differenzierter ans Werk gehen. Während der Großteil japanischer Noiseacts die Regler nicht weit genug aufreißen kann, scheint man in China relativ wenig von derartigen Brutismus zu halten. Lärm findet hier nie um seiner selbst willen statt, sondern bildet nur einen Teil innerhalb elektronischer Kompositionen, die ebenso Fieldrecordings und Wortbeiträge integrieren. Damit sind die meisten Beiträge klanglich also deutlich näher an Aube als an Merzbow, auch wenn der Vergleich nicht zuletzt am konzeptuellen Hintergrund von Aubes Arbeiten (exklusive Verwendung einzelner Quellen) hinkt und der Vielfalt des vorliegenden Materials wenig gerecht wird. Deutlich wird damit aber immerhin, dass es sich hier eben nicht um zwei weitere CDs mit reinem Lärm handelt. Für die "Noise as noise can" Fraktion also vermutlich eher zu soft, für aufmerksame Hörer jedoch eine spannende Reise zum akustischen Rand des Reichs der Mitte. Würde die Doppel-CD noch ein ausführliches Booklet mit Informationen über die Teilnehmer enthalten, wäre ihr meine Höchstwertung sicher gewesen, so gibt's für "China – The Sonic Avantgarde" "nur" 5 von 6 Punkten."
— Sascha Bertoncin, Triggerfish
Das erste Stück dieser Doppel-CD lenkt einen gleich auf eine falsche Fährte, klingt es doch wie unzählige andere Stücke aus der internationalen Krachwelt. Aber glücklicherweiser ist die Globalisierung noch nicht ganz so weit fortgeschritten, dass es keine Unterschiede mehr gibt zwischen Musik aus China und solcher aus anderen Ecken der Welt. Somit behält auch der bröckelnde Begriff der Psychogeographie bis auf weiteres noch etwas an Gültigkeit. Man sucht bei einer solchen Veröffentlichung nach verbindenden Eigenschaften zwischen den Stücken der neun Musiker. Diese sind jedoch ihrerseits schon selbst mit sehr unterschiedlichen Arbeiten vertreten und agieren dabei erstaunlich widerspruchsfrei in Kategorien von Pop bis Komposition. Vielleicht ist es die reduzierte und leicht stoische Art des Umgangs mit Sound oder die Betonung gewisser musikalischer Elemente durch Pausen oder das allgemein sehr disziplinierte und akzentuierte Erscheinungsbild der Stücke, was sich als 'typisch' chinesisch labeln ließe. Zwischen die Blöcke mit Tracks der einzelnen Musiker sind als Puffer Field-Recordings, sogenannte 'Sound-Units', gepackt. Diese dokumentieren Szenen des alltäglichen Lebens wie Rufe von Marktschreiern, eine Minibusfahrt oder das Singen der Nationalhymne in der Schule. Vor diesem Hintergrund wirkt die Musik noch um einiges seltsamer, als sie es eh schon ist. Dass von jedem vertretenen Musiker gleich mehrere Tracks zu hören sind, relativiert den für Compilations ansonsten typischen subjektiven Blickwinkel des Kurators auf angenehme Weise. Die Zusammenstellung dieses Releases stammt von Yao Dajün, der nun seinerseits in den USA lebt. Interessante Frage, ob das hier ein Fall ethnischen Marketings ist, und wenn ja - ob so etwas immer gleich uncool." *****
— de:bug #76 (Nov 2003)
"Zone blanche sur la carte de la musique électronique contemporaine, la Chine souffre, sans doute plus que tout autre pays (mis à part peut-être la Corée du Nord) de sa sous exposition due à un isolationnisme séculaire. Aussi ne peut-on qu'applaudir des deux mains l'initiative de Post-Concrete qui avec cette double compilation, la première du genre, met enfin un terme à ce silence forcé. Compilant sans autre recherche d'unité que géographique des artistes majoritairement originaires de Pékin et Shangaï, China - The sonic Avant-Garde balaie un spectre extrêmement vaste allant de la musique concrète à l'electronica, de la noise à la poésie sonore, du collage à l'enregistrement de terrain. Aussi brut de décoffrage que possible, China explose d'un seul coup, libérant tout ce que les artistes gardaient pour eux depuis trop longtemps et nous donne à entendre un panorama saisissant d'une création saisie dans sa vitalité adolescente, avant que les clivages de scènes, de genres et les barrières du goût ne viennent sédimenter le tout. Une urgence essentielle devant un tel projet mais qui s'avère parfois frustrante, comme lorsque, en l'absence de tout livret, elle ne nous donne aucune information sur les artistes présentés, et que Pei Zhou, Cheng Xü ou Changcun Wang demeurent pour nous de parfaits inconnus, restant encore à découvrir au fil de cette exploration qui ne fait que commencer.
— Jean-Francois Micard, D-Side, #19, (Nov 2003)
"This is one of the best compilations I've heard lately! It's going to be impossible to write a succinct review that will convey anything about it. Yes, it's two discs and the words "avant-garde" are in the title but don't let that scare you off. This is not the dull artsy navel-twiddling that most of us think of when we hear "Avant Garde" (look at me, I make weird sounds, I went to art school, there's an article about me in the Village Voice!). A huge compendium of works exclusively from China, packaged in a six panel, double gatefold digipak. A real eye-opener, because you know what? I realized that I unconsiously expected the Japanese sounds; Noise, Masonna, MSBR, maybe some Mizutani style environmental dabblings. Nope...this is totally unique. Apparently there's some interesting work going on in that region that I guess most of us don't get to hear. As we traverse thirty-three tracks and fifteen artists, we find the recognizable bit of noise or location recording here or there, but even as near as the second track of the first disc, we get drawn in by the odd minimalist wobble of "fish cooking 1". Then a track by Zhou Pei starts with rumbly machine noises punctuated by gong-like tones, they compete and argue softly for minutes, reluctant dancers edging off the stage. Throughout this library of perspectives, we range over electronica, strict ambient, location recordings and more but never seem to leave one long, fascinating corridor. This might as well be done by one extremely masterful sound artist who likes to employ massively different techniques from track to track. It feels that complete. This is a very satisfying listen...very organized and meticulous yet dreamy and friendly. If I saw this somewhere, knowing what i know now, i would buy it no questions asked and wouldn't be disappointed. From the amazing new Post-Concrete label, a West Coast conglomerate focusing especially on obscure Asian regions and trends, presenting each release in quality packaging and art."
Vince Harrigan, Manifold Records
"2 Hours of unpredictable twists and turns. Knowing virtually nothing about Chinese music (except from those pop-tunes played in my local Chinese restaurant) and even less about its experimental scene, lest that maybe it exists, this compilation opens a door into a completely new universe for me. Who would have guessed, but there is a lot of experimental music of really high quality ranging from all styles imaginable. What an adventure it must have been to collect these tracks, to find and contact the musicians. This is cutting edge and it has nothing Chinese about it anymore. The avantgarde has always turned national boundaries inside out, so I'd call this 2CD a good sign on various levels.
Sometimes music is still like an adventurous travel through unchartered lands. An expedition set out to find the unbelievable and fantastic. Unfortunately, there aren't many unknown places and unidentified cultural centres anymore, or so it seems. Because from time to time a new door will open, presenting a glimpse into a new world with new artists, new sounds and new music. To everyone interested in music in more than a superficial, hit-oriented manner, this will happen again and again during his / her "education" into sound. This experience is what keeps the flame alive, what keeps the interest in music, what makes you listen to dozens of records and artists each month, on the search for something new and interesting. Of course, most of the time, depending on individual favourites and histories, these paths through the musical landscape will differ greatly from one person to the next and, yes, there are some people who will find innovation and solace in new records by Howard Jones or Nik Kershaw and some will discover classical music or jazz for the first time. But sometimes there are a few records, which, with no connection to personal taste or experience, will all by themselves and what they represent, stand as an outpost to something completely new and hitherto unknown. "China – The Sonic Avantgarde" is an example of this.
Two CDs filled to the brim with the works of young, Chinese experimental musicians. Now, what do you know about China? It is big, it is still very communist and un-democratic, a lot of people live there and it still seems dangerous, awkward and dark to most European minds. The cultural revolution has left a big mark on the European art-scene as well, as a monument to the importance of the freedom of art and the liberty to speak freely. Where do experimental musicians fit into our picture of China? In dark cellars, hidden meetings and secret concerts. Young idealists working purely for the fascination of sound and aural atmospheres. As far as I know there is no known school of experimental art in China, so where does the spark of life come from? As it is indeed a promising point for this powerful country, the "red dragon" as it is called, on its slow move from a communist dictatorship to a modern democracy. A sign that a little turning has been done.
Thinking these points, the history of modern China and the suppression of modern art after the second World War, while listening to the music, makes this CD even richer and more important. The most fascinating thing about this collection of 15 artists is their range of work. From white noise and industrial-soundscapes to minimal electronic music to avantgarde / folk to ambient sounds to improvisation and whatever experimental style you can think of, you will find something of this in here. But the special situation of these artists, the time and place their music was produced, adds many layers of understanding that enrich the experience a lot. E.g. when ISMU mix mass-shouts of workers or soldiers with hardcore-noise-eruptions on "lunch time story" the whole militaristic history of the revolution and its after years swings along. Or when the same ISMU has a monotonous female voice intonate "fuck me fuck you" over and over again above a few minutes of sounds and atmospheres, I start to feel the shiver of imperialistic US-culture (Hollywood, pornography, action-movies) that starts to stream into China right now and eradicate whatever has been left of traditional culture. ISMU is / are (?) the most obvious political act on this double-CD. But there are many more.
Interestingly, all of the artists don't restrict themselves to one narrow style of music. Maybe it is the rather long tradition of experimental music in Europe and the USA that has created all these labels and names for different sounds, like plunderphonics, sample collage or mixer feedback, when - and this release might remind us of this – the most important thing is an interest in sound and auditive impressions. Which makes the roadside banter and shouts of "minibus pimps" (the name of the title) recorded by the Bejing Sound Unit as much a musical piece as the subtle static beats, clicks and cuts of FU Yü.
There is nothing Chinese about these tracks anymore, on the surface. Like every avantgarde movement that steps out of its children's shoes, national boundaries are being turned inside out and done away with. This is one of the main inputs of any experimental art into society, to overcome tradition and history, to bring new life into old maps. Fundamentally, of course, no one can deny his / her own history or upbringing just as no one is able to live without being influenced by the outside world in at least some ways. "China – The sonic avantgarde" is a document to an important cultural step for China. Don't miss it."
cracked (vienna, austria)
"A lot of interesting artists, gathered in a double CD produced by Dajuin Yao, take a crack to entering the avant-garde elite through an extremely varied sound palette: from field recordings to extreme computer noise, going through apparent silence to random spectral presences, quite often with pretty satisfying outcomes. Getting down to brass tacks, the good feeling here lies in not knowing what to expect from a group of unknown entities: most names involved reveal themselves as masterful sound-sculptors, using all the means at their disposal to raise heaven or hell, depending on the context. A few ones do sound like amateurs, that's not to say their intentions are not good, but there's a pronounced discrepancy among the top and the bottom of the list. That said, these are my "awards": Zhang Jüngang "X-rate", maybe my favorite track of the whole set - a splendidly enchanting, faraway crepuscular light; then, Fu Yü with his captivating "Fish cooking" translucid segments. Also, the nice plunderphonic-like work of Hu Mage in "Edit 2", a track called "Mail works M4" by Ismu - and, finally, the excellent Wang Changcun, whose "Lunch life" surrealistic looping and the priceless amalgam of "Song without words" are the best working soundscapes mixed with the bells coming from a near little town and the cuckoos chatting when I opened my window during listening. Some limpid beauty, yes."
Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes


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MORRISTOWN - The annual Rick Link Wrestling Tournament was held Saturday at Union Local High School.
Steubenville Central accumulated 261 points through the course of the pool-style tournament en route to the team title. Edison finished second with 237 points.
Two local wrestlers earned championships in the event.
Barnesville's Austin Singleton won the 126-pound title with a 6-4 decision against Robert Daley of Edison.
Bellaire's Myliek Green posted an 11-4 decision against Matt Kennedy of Watkins Memorial for the victory at 160 pounds.
Union Local's Bobby Stewart finished second at 138 pounds, falling by pin in the finals against University's Cody Hamlin.
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Rick Link Wrestling Tournament Placements
Team Scores: Steubenville Central, 261; Edison, 237; Warren Local, 209; Watkins Memorial, 207; Toronto, 202; University, 194; Beallsville, 174; Union Local, 173; Bloom-Carroll, 155; Barnesville, 155.
106 -- Alex Lieb, Watkins Memorial; Timmy Young (SCC); Jeremy Brown (Bealls); Josh Kleiner (Ed).
113 -- Alex Anderson (Tor); Issac Kiedrowski (SCC); Zack Raines (Bealls); Ethan Phillips (SCC).
120 -- Levi Congleton (Warren); Donnie Starkey (Tor); Collin Wilson (Barnes); Dean Marek (Watkins).
126 -- Austin Singleton (Barnes); Robert Daley (Ed); Zac Daugherty (Bealls); Brandon Mitchell (Tor).
132 -- Isaiah Hood (Univer); Gabe Gibson (BC); Austin Rohsbough (Univ); Lane Weaver (Ed).
138 -- Cody Hamlin (Univer); Bobby Stewart (UL); Blake Kiedrowski (SCC); Cody King.
145 -- Casey Parsons (Warren); Zac Sowers (UL); Nick Fisher (Ed); Cedro Parise (SCC).
152 -- Ryan Lopez (Univer); Bruce Sefert (Bealls); Mike Crosby (SCC); Mike Paynter (UL).
160 -- Myliek Green (Bell); Matt Kennedy (Watkins); Zack Hearn (Mar); Butch Holskey (Barnes).
170 -- Zach Gibson (BC); Leo Hermann (SCC); Matt McFarland (UL); Garrett Davis (Mar).
182 -- Mitchell Wells (Ed); Kenny White (Warren); Lucas Borden (SCC); Mark Shaffer (Bealls).
195 -- Isaac Sanford (SCC); Blaine Cline (Ed); Preston Boer (Bealls); Harold Rogers (SCC).
220 -- Chris Massey (Warren); Jevin Leggett (Ed); Jack May (Watkins); Josh Montgomery (Mar).
285 -- Brandon Pahl (Warren); T.J. Howard (BC); Cole Davidson (Weir); Simon Poner (Watkins).
Zac Sowers was pinned in the 145-pound final by Warren Local's Casey Parsons at the 5:10 mark.
Beasllville's Bruce Sefert finished second at 152 pounds. He was edged by University's Ryan Lopez, 3-2.


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Now this here story I'm about to unfold is something you should all be listenin' to. And listenin' well. There's a reward, you see. A reward of Drinks by the Dram Christmas Cracker sets, full of award-winning spirits and liqueurs, ready to be claimed by those with a keen eye for spotting the roughest, toughest cracker-pullers in the festive west...
Think you can identify the ace-highs from the crowbait? Throughout the first weeks of December we'll be reliving the savage Cracker-Pullin' Tournament of 1871. We're giving away 10x sets of Drinks by the Dram Christmas Crackers per round, up to and including the grand Final, to folk who correctly guess the winner in each showdown!
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For the last month we've been running a cracking little competition offering the chance for one lucky winner to join a select panel of whisky experts later this month that will decide which bourbon cask will be bottled as the first ever bourbon matured Overeem Tasmanian whisky! The selected whisky will be a UK exclusive, a release of just 50 bottles at 60% abv, with the winner also bagging themselves a bottle - a personalised one at that!
How would this lucky winner be chosen? Well, not by luck at all actually, but by writing the best tasting note for Overeem Sherry Cask 43% (with two runners up winning bottles of this popular expression).
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WIN a place on the panel to choose which cask gets bottled as well as receiving a special personalised bottle of the resulting limited edition release!
A proper competition this, for all you malt fans out there. The marvellous folk at the Old Hobart distillery in Tasmania are wonderful whisky makers, but are sometimes a little indecisive. Alongside his truly excellent Sherry and port cask releases, Head Distiller and distillery owner Casey Overeem has - for the first time - filled a small number of specially re-sized bourbon casks with his wonderful single malt! The trouble is they all taste superb, so he's having a little trouble to decide which one to release first in the UK... that's where you come in.
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Jake: The Chivas Masters 2014 is Chivas Regal's first ever global cocktail competition. Within the UK, heats were held in Bristol, Oxford, London (x2), Manchester and Edinburgh, with the winners of each going through to the UK final that was held on 3rd June. The UK champion will now be heading off to New York for the grand final against ten other champs in July, the winner of which will then be announced at Tales of The Cocktail in New Orleans!
So, who's been mixing up a storm in the UK using Chivas whisky? Well I was able to pop down to the second London heat and Mike attended the final so we're in a pretty good position to let you know whether Britain's got talent… (Hint: there was a lot more on show than you'd have found on ITV last month.)
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After poring over the entries from our recent caption competition, wherein the winner was promised a full bottle of Clynelish whisky from That Boutique-y Whisky Company, we were a bit stumped (or chimped).
We struggled to choose just one entry; there were so many outrageous images to choose from (some more so than others)! We finally caved and decided that though there can only be one champion, there were a few entries that deserved honourable mentions (and drams). Still, there can only be one, and there was one that was truly more evolved (wink!) than the rest.
So, without further ado...
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So... I guess we have to come clean about the simply astonishing work of Dr Brian Cocks and his coveted Scotch Eggs.
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After our many years in the wonderful business of whisky purveyance, it's not often that we come across something that really takes us aback. Today, however, we have the rare honour of announcing a distilling phenomenon hitherto unknown: A heady blend of spirit and science, seasoned with a shake of quackery and a dose of credulity...
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The buzz around Highland Park's latest whisky, Thor, has been sensational. For all intents and purposes it sounds to be a fantastic whisky – a 16 year old, cask-strength Highland Park packaged in a handsome Viking long ship-inspired case. This morning, however, it all became a lot more mysterious…
We received a little box with a bow on top (see below): (nice to have a bow) More...
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Well, it's been an interesting week of nervously checking the comments to make sure none of them were *too* near the mark, but we've made it, and no one's lodged any formal complaints. By all accounts it was a rip-roaring success. Huzzah.
I think Christian Bale's pretty face may have had something to do with the great reponse, but regardless there were some very witty suggestions, and so we've picked not only three winners (we've been feeling extra beneficent recently) – but 5, More...
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We're going to introduce you to our latest product, but you'll probably wish we hadn't. You'll wish we never even made it. You'll wish I tried my best to detain Ben with duct tape and string when he first told me how he was making this vodka, rather than just saying "I'm not so sure that's a good idea…"
You see, folks, we've created the world's hottest chilli vodka, the aptly named: 100,000 Scovilles – Naga Chilli Vodka


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elementary raid foam dolls by ReenigrlWatch
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a while back I had started making my oc Miyu... I only had her head done.. but I finally finished her and I was also able to make a Hyatt and kimara doll. they didnt come out as great as I had hoped but oh well.
from left to right. Kimara,Miyu and Hyatt
from left to right. Kimara,Miyu and Hyatt
ok so i have to know would you ever do commissions for these? ;;
for the foam dolls? i actually haven't made them in a long time. I would want to practice again first before deciding indefiantly on em lol it would be fun though
they're really cute! <3 I'd say you did an excellent job on them!
I'm so curious at how much you would sell these for, I'd like to have something cute like that. ^^
depends on the size I guess.. but if I were to start selling thise.. Id say like 3 dollars.. I dunno maybe more or less.. if I sold em at a con prbably less
i luvs it!
cute I want to try to make foam dolls
wow!great job!I really love it!^^
Oooh!! I love Koii's idea!! That sounds so cute and fun >w< You should totally do it!
OMGG i love themmmmm! you should make like a bunches of them put magnets on them and then sell them ^w^


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Master of the Highlands
Veronica Wolff
2008, Time Travel Romance
Onyx, $7.99, 422 pages, Amazon ASIN 0425218996
Lily Hamlin is vacationing in Scotland, her grandmothers homeland, trying to get her life back together. After she lost her job and her grandmother passed away, Lily doesnt know what to do next. On a walk in the country, Lily stumbles onto an overgrown maze. She gets lost within and comes across a stone tablet that sends her back to the 17th century.
Ewen Cameron is the one to find her and almost immediately knows what is going on. This isnt the first person he has found on this stretch of land wearing funny clothes. His foster brother Robert has similar tale to tell about a mysterious maze and stone tablet. Ewen might not think she is crazy, but Lily sure does. She tries to escape the Cameron keep in a TSTL moment, but redeems herself with her strength and courage. Once she is rescued by Ewen, he makes her a promise to do all he can to try to restore her back to her own time.
I have but one major complaint about this book: It lacks originality. The characters are lifelike, the leads have chemistry, theres adventure and touching moments, but somehow it still ends up b-o-r-i-n-g. Just when I would feel slightly invested in Lily, Ewen, and their plight, the excitement would level out. Case in point is the ending, which was less than a nail-biter. In a decent time travel I expect that conflict that keeps you wondering if she's going to stay in the past...or will he come to find her in the future? The resolution here was just blah! I saw it coming from page one and the plot never shifted in a way to make me think otherwise.
I will give Veronica Wolff credit where it is due. She is a good writer. She uses real historical figures as the leads in her novels. Ewen Cameron is a lesser known historical figure, but she took what we know about him and wove this tale. She will be doing something similar with James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose (Hello all my fellow English Civil War nuts!) in her next novel. Im used to seeing kings, queens and other various historical figures fluttering around Romanceland as secondary characters, but it takes moxie to make up a whole romance for one of them as a hero or heroine. I applaud Ms. Wolff for that.
With the right plot, I feel Veronica Wolff could score big. Sadly, Master of the Highlands wasnt that plot, though I do think shes an author to keep an eye out for in the future. In the meanwhile, Ill keep on the quest for my Grail and maybe find a few keepers along the way.
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College Hockey:Lake Superior notches shootout victory over Ferris State on Ben Power goal
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Despite managing just 17 shots on goal and not converting on nine power-play opportunities, the Lake Superior State University Lakers escaped Big Rapids with a shootout victory to close their series with Ferris State University.
"We realize that we didn't play a bad game," said Ferris State University forward Kyle Bonis. "That's a good hockey team."
The first period featured the only scoring of regulation, despite both teams getting chances down the stretch.
Ferris State scored first when Kyle Bonis won a tough battle behind the net and then stuffed a wraparound shot past Lakers goalie Kevin Kapalka to put the Bulldogs ahead, 1-0.
"We do a lot of battle drills in practice," said Bonis. "We realize that's an important part of our game, and it's something we take pride in."
However, the Bulldogs lead was short-lived, just 18 seconds, to be exact. Lake Superior State won the ensuing faceoff and pushed quickly up the ice. Domenic Monardo slipped a wrist shot past C.J. Motte after a breakdown by the Ferris State defense left him alone in the slot.
Early in the second period, Ferris State had one of their best chances to retake the lead when a shot found its way past Kapalka, who lost track of the puck as the Bulldogs crashed the net, but T.J. Wees cleared the puck off the goal line.
Lake Superior State had chances in the second period as well, with three power-play attempts, including a five-on-three opportunity. The Bulldogs rose to the occasion, and kept the Lakers off the board in the frame. During the five-on-three, the Lakers got set up in the Ferris State zone, but the Ferris State penalty kill prevented them from getting any shots on goal.
Ferris State had a five-on-three of its own late in the third period that they couldn't convert on. The Bulldogs peppered Kapalka with shots from all angles, as the Lakers' goalie had trouble corralling rebounds during the power play attempt.
"Kapalka was outstanding tonight, especially on the five-on-three," said Lake Superior State coach Jim Roque. "We have to have great goaltending to have success."
Lake Superior State drew two penalties in the waning minutes of the game, but the Lakers failed to convert on both power-play attempts.
In overtime, the Bulldogs were rewarded with a power play of their own, but failed to convert. Garrett Thompson had a chance on the power play, but couldn't force the puck past Kapalka from the top of the crease.
Lake Superior State scored the only goal of the shootout with their first attempt when Ben Power made a deke from his backhand to his forehand and lifted a shot over the sprawling Motte.
Next week, Ferris State continues CCHA play with the long road trip to Alaska for a two-game series, while Lake Superior State will make a nonconference road trip for two contests with Canisius.
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Tried out a new method of highlights on the body. Horses have pretty glossy coats (except for the winter coat and shaggier breeds of course). Realistically the highlights are pretty elaborate. My style isn't quite detailed enough to properly incorporate the full realistic style of highlights so I've been experimenting. This adds a feeling of gloss without getting in the way of the coloring itself (as my previous method did). I kinda like it but more testing is required...
Haha! Aw!!! Nice!!!
You never cease to amaze me with your artwork. Simply amazing work! Keep it up!
I love how you've given them cartoon-realistic muscles.
the pose looks just like how i have actually seen small ponies playing.
Those hooves really match her hair, don't they?
As always, love this style of yours! Very nice work.
Very nice.
The glossy look goes really well with your style and makes her looks so much more cute.
Personally, I think it looks great and I look forward to how it will look with further testing.
Great work.
it'd be so fun to run around a field or somethin with her. ^^
I love this style!
Very nice style.
This is really neat! Browsed the "Comments" before I shot my mouth off and saw how many had hit the same thoughts I had......But.....One Comment about "Shiny Hoofs" got me to think of my time with an Arabian Grey....(Beautiful horse, nasty demeanor, Taught me how to handle high spirited yet unruly Equines!) . The Farrier had to replace all four shoes and treat a mild infection of some form (sorry did not learn that part!) but when he was done he painted each hoof in black up to the Coronal band! I thought this odd and it dried very quickly! Then he buffed them out to a shine......Next day after a short trail walk I inspected each hoof (checked after every ride and leader walk) and with a simple wipe down they shone bright again! So do all the shiny hoofs you want! I believe!
The shine is so nice! I never have the patience to do things like this with my coloring.
I love the way you did the hair on this one. It's free and somewhat wild, but not all kinky (I hate it when artists make it look like she just got a mega perm). And I do like the highlights. I do feel like it should be accented a bit more in show areas to outshine the hooves. From what I've seen, their hooves aren't as shiny as their coats, but that may be given the fact that they do walk on them and get them dirty in a matter of minutes after they're cleaned XD
Ha ha, that's a quirk of mine. I like making them shiny....maybe she had her hooves done?
Wow.. I LOVE the new highlight method you've done! It's wonderful!
Pinkie looks great way this way! ^^
Wow, Pinkie looks so muscly in this one! But still just as cute.
nice pinkie pie.
you give them quite the strong bodies though i think if they were realistic they probably would look something like this.
you give them quite the strong bodies though i think if they were realistic they probably would look something like this.


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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: IMPRESSIONS; A Former Republican Stronghold Has Divided Loyalties These Days
By TODD S. PURDUM
Published: October 14, 2000
SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct. 12— Like his neighbors in the Floral Park section of this old Orange County city, Pete Suica, a wholesale burglar-alarm salesman, worries about the little things: how to keep his well-tended street of 1920's and 30's bungalows safe and tidy for himself and his wife, Jennifer Proctor, a nurse. But he worries about the big things, too, like the economy.
''Before the first debate, I was saying, 'You know, Gore might not be a bad choice, the way the economy's going,' '' said Mr. Suica, a 42-year-old Republican with two Bush-Cheney signs in his front yard. ''You say, 'Maybe . . . ' '' he added, his voice trailing off. ''But then I saw the debate and Gore turned me off and Bush started to impress me again.''
After the second debate, Ms. Proctor felt that way even more. ''I thought Bush did much better,'' she said. ''He seemed more in command, in control, and Gore is just so darn irritating. I thought, if I have to listen to that man for four years, I'll go crazy. You know, it's one thing for a politician to get caught in a smart lie. But in a stupid lie, that's another thing.''
A few blocks away, Samuel Romero, owner of St. Teresa's Catholic Gift Shop on Fourth Street, in a stretch of shops and food stalls catering to the city's large Hispanic population, said he was leaning the opposite way.
''I'm one of those guys that flip-flops from one party to another,'' said Mr. Romero, 66, who backed Ronald Reagan but four years ago voted Democratic in frustration over the California Republican Party's campaigns against illegal immigration and affirmative action, a stance that deeply troubled Mr. Romero, a proud son of immigrants from Mexico. ''I said, what am I doing voting Republican? I'm not wanted. And here I am, a former Marine, all for the flag, and I'm not welcome.''
This year, Mr. Romero was open to suggestion. In the summer, Gov. George W. Bush's nephew George P. Bush, who is also Mexican-American, made a campaign stop at Mr. Romero's store full of prayer books and devotional objects, and Mr. Romero was impressed. He watched both debates closely, and in the second one, on Wednesday, had a flash.
''They kept agreeing with each other,'' he said. ''I thought maybe what we ought to do is not make a change. I like Bush. I like his easy manner. But right now, after what I watched, it's like a friendly game of badminton, and the economy is great. So why make a change?''
Evenly divided is how the conversation went this week in interviews up and down the streets of Santa Ana, smack in the heart of a county that was once a Republican stronghold. Eight years ago, this Congressional district, long represented by the fiery conservative Robert K. Dornan, voted for George Bush. But its demographics have been steadily changing, and now nearly half its residents are of Hispanic origin.
In 1996, President Clinton not only beat Bob Dole here by eight percentage points, but Loretta Sanchez, a former financial analyst from nearby Anaheim, defeated Mr. Dornan by 984 votes.
Now, Democratic and Republican lawn signs seem to sprout in rough parity amid the white iceberg roses and spindly purple-flowering sage of the solid middle-class streets of Floral Park, and many voters expressed ambivalence about both candidates.
Even Gore supporters had some doubts about his demeanor. And even Bush supporters had some doubts about his experience and readiness for the presidency.
''Did either one of them really burst out of their shell?'' asked Clarin Cheek, 30, speaking of the performances of Mr. Bush and Vice President Al Gore in the debate. ''No.''
Still, Ms. Cheek, a paralegal, and her husband, Chris, 30, who works in his family's metal-stamping business in nearby Tustin, said they were ''tending to lean towards Gore,'' as Mr. Cheek put it while they walked their yellow mutt, Zoe, at twilight.
''There are some things I like Bush better on,'' Mr. Cheek said. ''I thought he'd be more judicious about intervening in situations around the world than Gore. We can't just go off everywhere.''
But Ms. Cheek added, ''Since these events in the Middle East, I feel a little bit more confident with Gore having international experience.''
And, her husband chimed in, ''I don't think we need a huge tax cut. I think it would just take away from other programs we need.''
Just across the street, Thomas Hunsaker, 38, a tile contractor renovating a house, called himself ''a moderate conservative'' and confessed that after he watched part of this week's debate, ''Gore scares me, where he'd take the country.''
''I'm a wild one,'' said Mr. Hunsaker, a former commuter airline pilot and Army veteran who said he had sown his share of wild oats. ''And yet I think this White House has been less than moral. The nontruths, the lying. And even now, every time there's a fund-raising controversy, they act like they don't know anything about it.
''Let me just say, I was brought up with conservative values, and there's things that you do when you know you're not going to get caught, and then there are things you just know you shouldn't do,'' he added. ''The Clinton administration just disgusts me.''


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Just as her Senior Weekend gets started on The Farm, Stanford forward Chiney Ogwumike was named among the 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club Thursday.
It is the second straight year that Ogwumike has been named a semifinalist for the Naismith Trophy. The Atlanta Tip-Off Club will announce the four finalists March 21.
The Cypress, Texas native, who earlier this week earned her eighth Pac-12 Player of the Week honor of 2013-14, has been well ahead of pace towards topping her career year of 2012-13. Ogwumike is currently the only player in the country to rank in the national top 10 in scoring (26.5 ppg – third), rebounding (12.1 rpg – eighth), field-goal percentage (62.3 – third) and double-doubles (20 – eighth).
Ogwumike has broken records left and right in both the Stanford and Pac-12 annals this season. She passed former teammate Kayla Pedersen's figure of 1,266 career rebounds to become the all-time Pac-12 leader on Jan. 3, and currently has 1,459 rebounds. She is also within range of adding the Pac-12's all-time scoring mark to her collection, sitting in second position just 119 points away from eclipsing former Stanford All-American Candice Wiggins' top mark of 2,629.
On Dec. 16 against New Mexico, Ogwumike became just the fifth Stanford player to accumulate 2,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds.
Proving that she is as dominant in the classroom as she is on the court, Ogwumike last week was named Capital One Academic All-American of the Year by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). With a 3.46 grade-point average, Ogwumike will finish her academic requirements at the end of the current quarter and earn her bachelor's degree in international relations.Ogwumike and fellow seniors Sara James, Toni Kokenis along with fifth-year senior Mikaela Ruef will all be honored this weekend as Stanford wraps up the regular season hosting Washington Thursday at 8 p.m. and Washington State for Senior Night Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Both games will air live on the Pac-12 Network.


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Life is a movement in relationships. They are the source of our greatest joys and our greatest sorrows. Love, hate, jealousy, joy, anger, respect, adoration, disgust, apathy and other big and small emotions all live and die in the playground of relationships. This is life.
In this article today, I want to share with you a very interesting technique that I have found to be very helpful in dealing with relationships, helping make them a positive, interesting and transforming experience. A technique which should go a long way in helping you have fun, healthy relationships.
Technique for Healthy Relationships:
Humans are dynamic!
Yes that is it. This is a fact and applying this truth, changes the whole complexion of relationships. What do I mean by this statement, that people are dynamic? I mean that people are never the same from year to year, day to day or even moment to moment. Everything changes and people change too. So what does this mean with regard to relationships? It means to approach the other person without your past image of them.
Try this and you will realize what an eye-opening change it will bring. Just forget about what you know about the other and look at them with fresh, new eyes. Like you are meeting them for the very first time. It will refresh and rejuvenate your whole relationship. Here's how…
As a result of such an approach you will not meet the image you have of the person in your mind, but you will meet the real person instead. Interacting with the image and having it color your experience of the other, becomes a habit over time. This habit from both sides, then puts into place patterns of behavior and pretty soon, there is really just interaction between two mental images taking place and we call it a relationship. It is not.
A relationship is between two living breathing dynamic people, and for that, the image has to be put aside. When you do this, you will start to pay attention again to the other person. Paying attention to who they actually are at that moment. And most importantly you will be open to all possibilities. The relationship will be an adventure, as you will not be following an old pattern of behavioral interaction. By taking this approach you will open the door to a whole new way of relating to and interacting with the other. You will not be acting along old, known, safe lines of cause and affect.
What this does require from you though is energy, awareness and courage. You will have to be on guard to not react in typical, stale, old ways. You will have to be alive to the present and attentive to the being in your presence. I especially suggest this technique for parents and married couples.
Often irritations come into such relationships as a result of over exposure. Mothers tending to their children all day, start to expect resistance for certain activities and get stressed out even before the trouble starts. In seeing the child anew, without expecting the worst, the whole situation can take on a new look and feel, and often this newness produces creative ways to move forward together. Just maybe, little Jonny will eat his veggies, take a bath and go to bed without World War III this time…. or maybe not . Who knows, that's why we live. But, if you allow yourself to be in the creative presence of your child, creative solutions will reveal themselves.
The same goes for how you view and respond to your partner. Don't look at them with the emotional baggage of the past, i.e. the image. Look at them with innocent eyes. Yes, this also means being vulnerable to getting hurt, as you are not going to walk on tried and tested safe paths, but this also means you are encountering the other person for real. Such an approach will certainly bring your relationship to life and bless it with abundant spontaneity, freshness and newness.
People are immensely complex. They are mysterious, fascinating and unique. Each one of us is. You are, your children are and yes, your life partner is too . If you drop your image, relating to others will become an adventure. You will be embracing the unknown. You will be entering the present, where all the magic of life truly happens.
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PHILADELPHIA - Forget finding an Internet cafe.
For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials think they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.
The ambitious plan, now under discussion, would involve placing thousands of small transmitters around the city - probably atop lampposts. Each of these wireless hot spots would be capable of communicating with the Wi-Fi network cards that now come standard with many computers.
Once complete, the $10 million network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can travel - including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is now rare.
The city would likely offer the service either for free, or at costs far lower than the $35 to $60 a month charged for broadband delivered over telephone and cable TV lines, said the city's chief information officer, Dianah Neff.
"If you're out on your front porch with a laptop, you could dial in, register at no charge, and be able to access a high speed connection," Neff said. "It's a technology whose time is here."
If the plan becomes a reality, Philadelphia would leap to the forefront of a growing number of cities already offering or mulling a wireless broadband network for their residents, workers and guests.
Chaska, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, began offering citywide wireless Internet access this year for $16 a month. The signal covers about 13 square miles.
Cleveland has added about 4,000 wireless transmitters in its University Circle, Midtown and lakefront districts. The service is free for anyone who passes through those areas.
About 1,016 people were logged in to the system at 2:20 Tuesday afternoon, said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University, which is spearheading the project and paying for a chunk of it.
"We like to say it should be like the air you breathe - free and available everywhere," Gonick said. "We look at this like PBS or NPR. It should be a public resource."
But free citywide Internet access would appear to pose a competitive threat to businesses such as local phone carrier Verizon Communications Inc. and cable provider Comcast Corp. Both companies have invested heavily in upgrading their networks to provide high-speed Internet connections for a monthly fee.
A free service might also hurt Verizon's wireless business, which is spending $1 billion to upgrade its network with a technology that will enable speedier Web access for laptops and mobile phones.
John Yunker, an analyst with Byte Level Research, said those companies could face a serious challenge if cheap, or free, Wi-Fi proliferates.
"When you see initiatives like Philadelphia's, you are conditioning people to expect free or very low cost Internet service. And that is going to be a problem for providers who have built a business model around charging a fee," he said.
While business users might be willing to pay extra for reliability or national coverage, a free service might prove more than adequate for more recreational Web use, Yunker said.
As it stands, a typical Wi-Fi transmitter like those used in homes, coffee bars and airports is at least several times faster than the broadband connection provided by high-speed cable or DSL over a phone line.
Neff, for example, estimated it would cost Philadelphia just $1.5 million a year to maintain the system.
Elsewhere, New York City officials are negotiating to sell six companies space for wireless transmitters on 18,000 lampposts for as much as $21.6 million annually.
Corpus Christi, Texas, has been experimenting with a system covering 20 square miles that would be used (for now) only by government employees.
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Today Colorado Ballet announced its lineup for the 2014-2015 season which features classical ballet as well as contemporary pieces.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream will open the season September 26-October 5, 2014 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. This enchanting ballet is filled with mischief, romance and comedy. Christopher Wheeldon, who has won numerous awards and has been featured in films, will choreograph and Felix Mendelssohn's score will be performed live by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra and the Colorado Children's Chorale.
"Between the festive costumes, majestic scenery, comical woodland fairies and the quarrelling Athenian lovers, this ballet is just pure magic," said Gil Boggs, Colorado Ballet's artistic director.
A special Halloween performance of Dracula will open October 31 and run through November 2, 2014 at The Ellie. Choreographed by aggressive stylist Michael Pink, the horror classic includes music by Philip Feeney performed live by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra.
"Portrayed through dance, Dracula will reveal passion, seduction and elegance in a way that the book cannot," said Boggs. "Our audience requests this production over and over again, and we cannot wait to perform Dracula during Halloween weekend."
The Nutcracker, Colorado's favorite holiday tradition, will be November 29-December 27, 2014 at The Ellie. "Celebration, gift giving, comical battles, onstage blizzards, romance and holiday dreams are just a few highlights of this dazzling production," said Boggs.
Colorado Ballet will present Ballet MasterWorks, February 20-March 1, 2015 at The Ellie. This is a new collection of three innovative ballets with live music performed by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. Ballet MasterWorks will open with "Concerto Barocco" by choreographer George Balanchine. This rhythmic and spirited piece will feature a score by composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The second work will be "Fancy Free," choreographed by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein. This comical and romantic ballet features three sailors attempting to pick up three girls while on shore leave in New York. Ballet MasterWorks will also include a new work.
"When we performed the first Ballet MasterWorks to works by Balanchine, Val Caniparoli and Glen Tetley last spring, we really pushed our dancers and musicians," said Boggs. "Our performers have tremendous talent, and that is why it was so important to me to present another collection of challenging works like this again. You don't need to go to New York or San Francisco to see ballet of this caliber, you can see it right here in Denver with Colorado Ballet."
Colorado Ballet will close out its season with the children's classic, Peter and the Wolf, March 27-29, 2015 at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Peter and the Wolf is choreographed by award-winning Michael Smuin. This witty and musical folk tale includes a musical score by Sergei Prokofiev and will open with a special performance of Bruch Violin Concerto No.1, choreographed by Clark Tippet featuring a vibrant violin ensemble composed by Max Bruch.
"Peter and the Wolf is perfect for families and anyone who enjoys a childhood classic," said Boggs. "Several themes are expressed in this ballet including bravery and imagination. This is the perfect production for the entire family."
Season subscriptions are on sale now and single tickets will be on sale July 15. Visit www.ColoradoBallet.org for details.
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