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East Central Community College's baseball program is once again offering pitching and hitting clinics for ages 6-12 on the Decatur campus, announced Neal Holliman, Diamond Warrior head coach.
Coach Holliman said the clinics are offered to assist players in preparation for the spring season.
Pitching clinics are scheduled on the four Mondays in February from 6 to 7:15 p.m., with sessions divided between the Brackeen-Wood Physical Education Building and South Campus gym.
Holliman said participants "will learn the fundamental steps of a delivery as well as throw a supervised pen each week." Instruction will also be provided in various areas including arm care, pick moves and grips.
Check-in for the pitching clinic is scheduled at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4 at the Brackeen-Wood Physical Education Building.
Hitting clinics will be held from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. on four consecutive Thursdays beginning Jan. 31 in the Indoor Practice Facility located in Founders' Gym. The facility includes two full-length cages, an area for bunting, a pitching machine and several hitting stations.
Holliman said participants will be divided into groups and have the opportunity to participate in various hitting-related exercises, including Tee Drills, Soft Toss, Wiffle Balls and bunting techniques.
Check-in for the hitting clinic is scheduled at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31 at Founders' Gym.
Cost is $75 for the pitching clinic and $100 for hitting instruction. Participants can attend both clinics for $150. Fees include insurance and a camp T-shirt.
Participants should provide baseball helmet and batting gloves (if available), as well as a baseball bat, tennis shoes and jacket or sleeves.
The deadline to register is Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.
"Both camps were very successful last year," said Holliman, "and we anticipate another great response this year. We want to encourage participants to register early since space is limited."
Holliman, assistant coaches Justin Brewer and Jack Edmonson, and ECCC players will provide instruction.
For more information, contact the ECCC Baseball Office, 601-635-6374 or 601-635-6226, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The days grow shorter as the calendar ticks upwards, and we move further into October! We're only two days in to the 31 Days of Horror, but Casey's already starting to feel a little wormy. Does he have what it takes to make it the distance?
It goes without saying that "Creepshow" is one of the most popular horror anthologies around. It's definitely one of my go-to movies for the Halloween season. Director George A. Romero and writer Stephen King bring us 5 tales of terror in a tribute to the EC comics of the 1950's. The segments are tied together by short animated sequences surrounding a young boy named Billy (Stephen's son, Joe King) who is punished by his father (Tom Atkins) for reading horror comics. Many familiar faces such as Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Harris, E.G.
The crew butts heads over My Bloody Valentine 3D, and debates whether or not RealD will ever rise above the level of cheap parlor trick.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Al Gore Lauds Corporate Advances in the Fight Against Global Warming. Then Totally Misses the Point.
Al Gore recognizes, in a virtual panel discussion on business technology and the environment, that corporations are ahead of governments when it comes to tackling emissions issues.
Then he totally misses the point and continues to embrace economically destructive mandates and the clumsy hand of government over-regulation instead of realizing that the solution is coming to us (although, admittedly, without all the fun political grandstanding that comes with saving the planet from our evil, corporate overlords). The market--consumers and producers--are already addressing emissions issues through a combination of economic and ecological interest.
On the economic side, consumers want energy efficiency because the cost of energy has risen sharply over the last few years and those costs are shaping the way that they shop and build. Producers, on the other hand, have seen their own costs rise for the same reasons--and it's not just direct energy costs and commodities, the cost increases have crept into things like shipping and printing costs. Working for a publisher, I can tell you that we're facing a year where we know that our paper, ink, and mailing costs are going to bump significantly--which means that we either pass the increases onto our advertisers, we see our margins shrink, or we find ways to increase efficiency to lower our costs.
To cut those expensive bumps in costs, especially since we're unlikely to be seeing a barrel of oil at $60 or less any time soon, companies are looking to find new ways to do the same jobs with significantly more efficiency--which means less emissions without the economic pain that an artificial government mandate might leave us. An interesting story on CNet today talks about a new use for a very old technology that could yield significant gains for shipping companies.
The point is that businesses and consumers want to solve the same problems that Gore does, although not always for the same reason.
But consumers and producers operate from environmental concern, too, even though the professional protesters would never imagine that it's so. Al Gore's troops believe that they have to fight against the corporations and consumers to achieve their positive goal--which is why their focus remains on government action instead of funneling their energy into technology and solutions on the corporate side. The truth is that, in many ways, corporations and consumers have joined the fight voluntarily because they believe either that global warming is as scary as Gore portrays it to be or because they believe the world will be cleaner and better if we reduce our energy use and waste.
I'm in that second camp. Through my thirty-seven years of life, I've heard lots of scary warnings from communities of scientists, and those warnings are almost always proven to be overstated hugely. Forgive me for being cynical when they tell me that the world is about to end.
I do believe, though, that inefficiency bleeds growth out of the economy, any metro area would be a more pleasant place with lower emissions, it will be easier to deal with energy demands if we find more clean ways to feed energy into the grid, and it's awfully hard to want a car that gets poor gas mileage when the price of Regular keeps sucking money out of my wallet like the big, scary NAFTA monster in Ross Perot's nightmares. Like most people, my desire to cut emissions comes from a combination of beliefs and desires driven by my own personal values (economic and ethical).
My desire to save the world may not be as pure as theirs, but it's just as useful and results-oriented.
If politicians and scare-mongers like Gore would just stay out of the way, the market will continue to tackle the problems that government can't.
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The New England Patriots are preparing for Tebowmania -- again.
The Patriots will host the Denver Broncos and unconventional quarterback Tim Tebow in the second round of the NFL playoffs on Saturday night. The Broncos advanced by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 on Sunday when Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard score on the first play of overtime.
It took only 11 seconds -- the fastest overtime in NFL history.
The Patriots have already beaten the Broncos this season -- a 41-23 victory on Dec. 18 that snapped Denver's six-game winning streak.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told WEEI radio in Boston that it's a challenge for the defense to prepare for Tebow, who likes to run the ball.