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Posts Tagged 'album'
Ben KwellerThe Show
Had Ben Kweller been alive and making music during the '70s, he would have made a killing writing theme songs for classic television shows.
Sunny SweeneyListen Up
It was last fall when Sunny Sweeney's self-produced debut c.d. first arrived in the mail. Not that it was particularly momentous.
Pilgrim and a Preacher and a Problem when He's StonedHis country-music raising got him started, but Waylon Payne's talent — and his demons — drive him on.
Jeff Prince
The stereo in Waylon Payne's 1989 Mercedes Benz is blasting "Mama, Drive On" as he barrels down a farm road west of Fort Worth. A breeze whips through the sunroof and knocks ashes off his Marlboro, but he doesn't notice...
Aimee MannListen Up
When an interminably melancholic and arty rock singer-songwriter like Aimee Mann releases an album of yuletide tunes, you have to wonder: Whatever happened to Christmas?
UrizenThe Show
Urizen is a local metal quartet, though "metal" may be too limited a word to describe exactly the kind of racket Urizen makes. Their music also has touches of jazz, Threepenny Opera, and pianistic lounge, among other stuff....
Bonnie "Prince" BillyListen Up
Multitalented artist Will Oldham has kept busy over the past couple of years.
The EvangelicalsThe Show
Any band that opens an album with a minute-long instrumental prelude of squiggling, squealing synth guitar lines — and calls it "Mouthful of Skeletons" to boot — is either A) dangerously smitten with Radiohead, or B) to...
Yo La TengoListen Up
After dropping a slew of compilations and covers albums (one by caller-request for a radio station pledge drive), and being met with varying reviews, Yo La Tengo is back to form on a seamlessly style-shifting album.
Red MonroeListen Up
Red Monroe's influences are obvious: the Stones, New York Dolls, The Animals, Moby Grape, and even a little Hold Steady action.
Madeleine PeyrouxListen Up
In 2004, eight years after her debut, Madeleine Peyroux released her second album, Careless Love, and finally earned the recognition she deserved. While the first, Dreamland, featured a killer roster of musicians, from James Ca...


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Caswell No. 1 Fire Station Museum in Kinston, NCCaswell No. 1 Fire Station Museum
PHOTO CREDIT: Ian Curcio
The structure that now houses the Caswell No. 1 Fire Station Museum was constructed in 1895 after a widespread conflagration destroyed nearly all the structures in downtown Kinston.
This building is the oldest brick structure in Kinston and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The oldest remaining municipal building in Lenoir County, it has served Kinston for more than a century.
Over the years, the building has been used as a stable, a fire station, a county jail, a city hall and, since 1993, a museum. This museum showcases a range of artifacts, photographs and exhibits that demonstrate the heritage of the firefighting profession and the development of firefighting technologies since the late 19th century.
Among these artifacts are firefighter helmets, fire-hose nozzles, ladders, fire extinguishers, fire hydrants and other historic memorabilia that spans more than a century. The museum maintains part of Kinston's fire alarm box system that is operational to this day, but its centerpiece is its 1922 LaFrance Pumper.
The Pumper is an early model firetruck made by the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company, one of the oldest fire-device manufacturers in America.
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Will Smith may star in director Quentin Tarantino's next film, "Django Unchained," which the Hollywood Reporter describes as "a spaghetti Western about a slave in the Old South who teams with a German bounty hunter to search for his wife" and defeat an evil plantation owner.
Sources told THR that Tarantino wants Smith for the film, but that no offer has been made and Smith's salary would need to be worked out.
Variety quotes "insiders" who say Smith may be willing to forgo his usual $20 million salary for the chance to star in an edgier film, just as Brad Pitt did for Tarantino's 2009 hit "Inglourious Basterds."
Also according to Variety, Christoph Waltz is attached to play the German bounty hunter after Tarantino's first choice, Leonardo DiCaprio, passed.
Samuel L. Jackson may join the cast as the plantation owner's manipulative house slave who faces off with Smith's Django, both reports say.
The film would mark Smith's first on-screen role since 2008's "Seven Pounds," and Tarantino's first since "Basterds."
Reps for the parties involved had not officially commented on the reports.
'Tea' author sued
Two Montana lawmakers are seeking a class-action lawsuit against "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson, claiming he duped them and others into buying the best-selling book and donating to his charity, according to reports.
The 2006 book is Mortenson's account of how he became involved in building schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also started the nonprofit Central Asia Institute. But reports by "60 Minutes" and author Jon Krakauer last month accused Mortenson of making up parts of his book and CAI's school-building efforts.
Mortenson has criticized the "60 Minutes" piece, saying the CBS newsmagazine distorted the truth using inaccuracies and innuendo.
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For Josue Herrera, this year's preseason has had a different feel than previous ones as a member of the Memorial boys soccer team.
The goals of competing for league, county and state championships remain the same. And like every season, there are new faces to be incorporated into the lineup. But after reaching the Hudson County Tournament final last season, Memorial knows there's an added sense of pressure, both within the team and from their rivals across the county.
"It's different because you have that pressure," said Herrera, a senior back and defensive midfielder. "You go to the finals and now you're a target because all of these teams are coming hard at you because they see you as a good team."
Thanks to a seven-game winning streak, which included victories over Kearny, St. Peter's Prep and Group 4 champion West Orange, Memorial quickly went from afterthoughts to a legitimate power in the county as it went 14-7 last season.
West Orange eventually got its revenge, edging Memorial in the first round of the North 1, Group 4 playoffs, 2-1.
However, the Tigers know that it will need to be more consistent than it was a year ago in order to maintain such a lofty status.
"We will be a target and now we need to address that," Memorial head coach Albert De Los Reyes said. "Every team is looking to get us and compete with us. It's an experience for these guys."
De Los Reyes and the Tigers will enter this new experience with seven players who started at some point last year. A lot of that experience is on the defensive side as center back Oscar Pereira and outside right back Jesse Cabrera are returning starters. Senior Erick Flores takes over as the other starting back and Herrera will see plenty of time on the defensive line, which should also get valuable contributions from promising sophomore Jorge Benitez, Juan Laverde and Steven Cedeno.
That veteran group will be providing support for senior goalkeeper Marvin Alas, who takes over in net after missing most of the last two years with injuries.
Senior attacking midfielder Fabio Zuniga (three goals, 10 assists), leads a midfield which will once again look to play an up-tempo style to create scoring chances. Seniors Rene Marroquin and Christopher Arguello have starting experience.
Kevin Guerrero, Andres Becerra and Jose Saenz will see time at midfield, but the unit's success will rest heavily on the play of two talented, yet inexperienced outside midfielders. Freshman Roger Agurre will start on the left side and sophomore Alex Garcia on the right.
"I expect a lot from them," De Los Reyes said. "Even though we're a very young offensive line, I think we could develop into quite a group that can in the future be a good forward line."
"We always play that same (style) of soccer every year," said Zuniga, who is confident his younger teammates will get more comfortable as the year goes along. "You get used to it and you get used to the pressure, so you're always ready and you know what to do before you get the ball."
Junior forward Victor Vazquez scored seven goals last season and will be counted on to help fill the void left by the graduation of Oscar Nunez, who had 19 goals last year. Joining Vazquez up top is junior Kevin Altafulla, a first-year varsity player like Arguello and Garcia.
As a whole, 18 or 19 players could see significant playing time for Memorial, making this one of the deepest teams De Los Reyes has coached.


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Put the rear end on jackstands. Put the truck in drive and watch the rear wheels. See if they're wobbling.
My truck started to vibrate and bounce in the rear while on the highway. This was much more noticable on concete than on pavement (i think this is because of form setting of the concrete). Anyway, I have 135k so i changed the shocks to bilstein HDs and the problem still persists.
I'm thinking its a bent axle shaft but I don't know how to find this out for sure... is there anyway to check this?
And, if it is the axle shaft, how much is it to replace?
2002 Silverado 1500 4.8L w/Z71 Stock
Put the rear end on jackstands. Put the truck in drive and watch the rear wheels. See if they're wobbling.
1995 350 "Tool Box Injection"
Going 4/6 with 20" Billet Specialties
Pull the driveshaft and check u-joints. I'm willing to bet your rear joint is locked up.
Chances of bending an axle is slim to non, there hardened and will break first. Check for bent and out off balanced wheels.
04 K1500 Silverado EXT 3:73 gears, 5.3L 265/75-16,Pace Edwards tonneau,
hit any potholes lately? could be a broken belt in the tires
I'm going with this. My grandfathers truck had the same symptoms as yours and he had a seized rear u-joint.Originally Posted by Phaedrus
2003 GMC Sierra, ECSB, Z71, 5.3L, 285/75R16 BFG A/T KO's, K&N KIPK, Magnaflow Catback #15792, Wait4Me 87/89 Tune
I'd vote tires first...maybe ya threw a weight, broke a belt.
I agree that bending an axle is rare...even if you bent the flange, I'd bet the wheel itself would bend first. At any rate...if you bent a wheel, axle, etc...you would definetly remember the event that caused it.
K.I.S.S. count on the lowest tech, simple stuff to fail first. Lost a weight, separation, broken belt...failed shock even.
i agree put it on stands and put it in drive, determine what side and check your tires. if you cant limit it to a side, put it back on the ground and grab the drive shaft and twist it to see if theres play in the u joint. if you find no problems with these two checks you have a more serious problem in your rear.


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Benjamin A. Lubold, 33, of Stockton, passed away on Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
Benjamin was born on October 5, 1978 in Raritan Township. He was the son of Mr. William Lubold and Linda Proctor.
He is survived his wife, Kristen Liggett-Lubold. He is also survived by a son, Jared Lubold, and two daughters, Haley and Paige Lubold; his parents, William Lubold of Pa. and Linda Proctor of Asbury; four brothers, William Proctor of Pa., Michael Lubold of Washington, Robert Lubold of Pa., and David Lubold of Pa.; a maternal grandmother, Frances Proctor of Tenn.; his three aunts, Rosemary Dilley of Frenchtown, and Grace Proctor of Whitehouse, and Sallie Beam of Tenn.; and several nieces, nephews, cousins. He was predeceased by a brother, Charles Lubold.
A visitation will be held on Monday, May 7, from 5 - 7 p.m. at the DeVoe Funeral Service, Inc., 136 West Washington Ave., Washington. A service will follow at 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Donations can be made to the funeral home in care of the family. The DeVoe Funeral Service 136 West Washington Ave, Washington, has been entrusted with his arrangements.


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Located in the UK, Shop4PVC have been supplying the adult baby and fetish community for years. As the name suggest, they specialize in PVC clothing items, but also offer some terry-cloth diapers. Don't be put off by the garish website though – the service is top class and they're happy to answer any queries with expert knowledge and years of experience. The products are of fantastically high quality, nearly all made in the UK.
Today, I'll be looking at the double PVC bodybag – a huge double-bed sized PVC enclosure for at a very affordable sub-£50 price.
The body bag comes in either a semi-transparent pink (as featured in the photos, and the same as my bo-peep PVC dress) or a natural vinyl colour. The plastic itself is so soft – it feels wonderful against your skin. Remember, not all PVC is the same; cheaper plastics are either backed by a material, or horribly stiff and cold to the touch.
There's also a small viewing window in the middle of one of the sides, though I suppose you could always place that side on the bottom if you'd rather not have it there. As it is, useful to keep an eye on baby.
There's a double zip that runs the full width, with the fastener on the inside – so it's easy to climb straight in and enclose yourself completely without any outside help. This is probably classed as breath play though, so just be sure you can always reach that zip, or leave a small section open for air.
Though it's as large as a double bed, mummy found it hard to fit two of us in there for anything other than a very close snuggle, especially when one of us is on the larger side. On your own, there's ample room for any kind of play you might want; you can sit up or kneel just fine.
Inside the bag is a very foetal experience – an enclosed space, with the rest of the world almost completely blocked out. With the zip done right up, you'll quickly get hot, sticky, and wet. Those are three words I personally think go great together, so don't take that as a bad thing.
The bodybag can be a great way to punish a bad little girl or sissy too – just whip up a batch of slime, throw them in there and let them struggle as you grope from the outside and they just get wetter.
As a pervertable, I suspect the body bag would also make a solid base for a large PVC vacuum bag, thanks to it's sheer size and great value – just add your own DIY tube frame.
Do you have any more play ideas for a PVC bodybag? Do you love being enclosed in plastic? Tell us all about it in the comments!


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Family man with bubbly personality nicknamed 'the mayor' by his neighbors
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Longtime Huguenot resident Philip DiFranco Jr., 60, a retired city Sanitation worker and funeral home employee who is remembered for his wonderful personality, died Tuesday at home.
Born in Manhattan, he moved with his family to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as a boy. He settled in Huguenot in 1973.
A graduate of Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, Mr. DiFranco attended the former Staten Island Community College in Sunnyside in 1966.
He served in the U.S. Army from November 1967 to January 1970, and was stationed at various bases on the East Coast. Mr. DiFranco was honorably discharged as a private first class.
He worked for the city Department of Sanitation from 1973 to 1983, assigned to Brooklyn, until 1994, when he began working as an assistant for Brizzi Funeral Home in Brooklyn. He retired in 2004.
Mr. DiFranco was a loving husband and father, and cherished time spent with his family, said his wife, the former Antonia (Toni) DiMaria.
She described him as a man with a bubbly personality who left a positive mark on each person he met.
"(Neighbors) called him the mayor and the life of the party," she said.
Mr. DiFranco's hobbies included cars, playing cards, and taking trips to Cape May, N.J.
In addition to Toni, his wife of 39 years, surviving are his two daughters, Gina DiFranco and Nicole Robbins; his father, Philip Sr., and a granddaughter.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a mass at 10 a.m. in the Church of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Mount Loretto, Pleasant Plains. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, also Pleasant Plains.


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Melons (Cucumis melo) are warm season tender
annuals in the Cucurbitiacea
family, which includes cucumbers, summer squash and winter squash, and
gourds. Types include:
Soil and Nutrient Requirements
will thrive in warm, well drained soil high in organic matter with pH between
6.5-7.5. Sandy
loam is best. Melons are heavy feeders. Give 80-120 lbs of N per acre.
Calcium deficiency can lead to blossom end rot, especially when adequate
moisture is not available. Use
dolomitic limestone. Manganese in excess can cause black spot. When Boron is
deficient, fruit may crack.
Full Sun
Seeding Depth
Seeding Rate
plants/acre (~1/4lb); transplanting singles at 18 plant spacing on 6 center
Plant Spacing
Row Spacing
When to Sow
Days to
maturity are from transplants; add 10-14 days if direct seeding. Direct seed
1-2 weeks following last frost date. Optimal soil temperature for germination
is 75-85°F. Sow seed indoors 4 weeks before planting date. Air temperature
for healthy seedling growth is 75°F. It is common to plant either single
plant transplants or double plant transplants at larger plant spacing.
Harden off plants by reducing temperatures and water. Plant outdoors when all
danger of frost has passed.
Other Considerations
mulch and floating row cover are used to increase soil and air temperatures
as well as ward off insects, especially cucumber beetles.
Frost Tolerant
Drought Tolerant
need plentiful moisture until fruit is tennis ball sized.
Heat Tolerant
Seed Specs
seeds/lb (18M avg). M=1,000
melons at perfect maturity can be tricky, each type is a little
different. In general: cantaloupes slip from vine when ripe; charantais
types can be cut when they have a thick netted skin (they are a bit over-ripe
if they slip); galia types slip from the vine and are ready when skin turns
bright yellow; honeydews can be cut from the vine when skin turns color.
Other indicators of ripeness are when the leaf closest to fruit becomes dried
and shriveled and when the stem becomes corky.
melons usually keep up to 4 weeks in a cold storage.
Pest Info
Disease Info
Seed Saving
Insect pollinated annual. Unless hand pollinating, isolate
different varieties by 1/4 mile to prevent cross pollination. Tree lines,
woods or buildings separating fields can allow for shorter distances. Harvest
the melons when ripe for eating. Remove the seeds and pulp and rinse under
water until seeds are clean. A light fermentation with a little water can
sometimes help in the cleaning process. Simply add 1 cup of water for every
cup of seeds and pulp and let sit in a warm place for 2-3 days, stirring
daily. Then rinse under water and allow seeds to dry on a plate, cloth or
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EAST LONGMEADOW — The Rev. James J. Scahill, 65, has been charged with operating under the influence after a minor car accident on the corner of Harkness Avenue and North Main Street late Friday afternoon, police said.
In 2010, Scahill, pastor of St. Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow, attracted international attention for suggesting that Pope Benedict XVI should resign if he did not take stronger action to confront the church's sexual abuse scandal.
East Longmeadow police Sgt. Patrick Manley said the Catholic priest was involved in a three-car accident around 5:20 p.m. Friday. There were no injuries.
Manley said Scahill is expected to be arraigned on the OUI charge in Palmer District Court in the next few days.
Mark Dupont, the spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, released a written statement saying the diocese has no comment on the circumstances surrounding Scahill's arrest.
"We are aware he has discussed this matter with his parish's worshiping community during weekend liturgies, and we would certainly join the St. Michael's Parish family in offering our prayers for Father during this difficult time," Dupont said.


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This facility is located along its own private beach on the shores of Okanagan Lake. The Casa Loma Lakeshore Resort offers its guests a tranquil location that is only 5 minutes of driving away from the bustling downtown where they will find a great deal of shopping, dining and museums in which they may indulge. Guests of the Casa Loma Lakeshore Resort may make use of the Kelowna International Airport.
The accommodations at the Casa Loma Lakeshore Resort are suite lodgings. Each room contains doors which open out onto the room's own balcony or deck. The rooms contain full kitchens, private baths and separate living and dining areas.
The Casa Loma Lakeshore Resort contains amenities which exploit its physical location. The hotel offers golf and ski packages to its guests. There is a provincial park which joins up with the hotel property and guests may easily hike from one to the other. The hotel offers guests seasonal luxuries including an outdoor pool, tennis courts, a putting green and a hot tub.


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Students from Whidbey Christian School will be passing out grocery bags on Monday afternoon, Oct. 26 in various Oak Harbor residential areas as the kickoff of their annual "Share Not Scare" food drive. Residents who receive the bags are asked to fill them with canned and boxed food.
Whidbey Christian students will return on Friday, Oct. 30 to pick up the filled bags. This is a traditional community service activity for students at the school. Food collected will be used to provide Thanksgiving baskets to needy families. Adventist Community Services assembles the baskets and then delivers them to families selected by Help House.
"That way," said Principal/Teacher Dan Nickolatos, "contributions of food will only be distributed to families who have a legitimate referral."
In a season that is typically devoted to "scaring" others, Whidbey Christian students ask Oak Harbor residents to "Share Not Scare" in a way that will help many people in Oak Harbor who are less fortunate.
For more information on helping or donating to the "Share Not Scare" campaign, contact Mr. Nickolatos at 279-1812.
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I'm feeling pretty good about things these days, certainly better than I did on Sunday. First Revis signs his extension and now Tony Richardson gets re-signed. Yep, things are shaping up nicely for Gang Green with just 6 days left until the opening kickoff of 2010.
Obviously, some of you had insight into the Jets' front office dealings and knew that T-Rich would be re-signed. Proving once again that hindsight is and will always be 20/20.
I know the locker room had no clue what was going on as many of the players were quite upset with the news of Richardson being released. Fear not guys, Rex Ryan has confirmed he is on the team and WILL play on Monday night.
Revis will also definitely play against the Ravens. He had an excellent practice today, according to reports and looks to be in mid-Revis form. Let's just hope he takes it slow.
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Wells said he went to Towson University near Baltimore primarily as a pitcher. He was 6-0 with a 4.97 ERA in 12 starts and struck out 53 in 70 innings as a junior in 2005, when he also batted .362 with 18 home runs and 66 RBIs in 58 games.
"I was a big pitcher in high school," said Wells, who played at Schenectady (N.Y.) High. "And in college, I played first base, a little outfield and mostly designated hitter."
Detroit took him in the 14th round of the draft in 2005, assigned him to the Gulf Coast League Tigers and immediately put him in the outfield. The move worked out great for both parties.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland calls Wells the second-best outfielder in the organization behind Austin Jackson, and he's hitting .353 with four home runs and 17 RBIs in 85 at-bats.
Wells was a television and film major at Towson, whose nickname also is Tigers.
"I've always been Tigers all the way," Wells said.
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- Leyland wasn't sure who will start Sunday's game but said, "It'll definitely be a bullpen game." Brad Thomas has been an emergency starter twice this season, and Eddie Bonine and Alfredo Figaro each have one start in 2010.
- Miguel Cabrera (sprained right ankle) finished the season with 32 intentional walks. That not only came within two of the American League record set in 1957 by Ted Williams, but, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, was more than the totals of six American League teams.


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I own a road bike but cannot afford another for TT. So I bought DH bar and forward bended seat post to make my road bike TT-ish.
During winter, I use Minoura trainer over an hour with road bike. But after placing DH bar and replacing seat post, it is really hard to keep the pace and length.
Is it normal for a transition period when different muscles are used? Or is something wrong for my setting?
I joined NTP. I know there are a couple of bike buying clinic but wonder if there is a bike "riding" clinic. It is easy to ride a bike but not that easy to ride correctly.
Can you give me some advice?
Thanks, toru
Hi Toru,
I'm really not an expert when it comes to bike design so don't take my opinion as the rule.
The frame geometry of a road bike vs. a TT bike is really quite different. At the end of the day, no matter how you set up your road bike, it's still a road bike. It likely has a longer top tube than a TT bike and the seat tube is at a different angle. So when you change the handle bars and seat post, you still have that longer top tube and a less steep seat tube.
So it could be that by changing the handlebar/seat post set up, you're actually putting yourself into a position that might make it much harder to ride than if you'd kept the orginial handlebars. If you're having trouble, I'd suggest that you consider keeping the original set up on your road bike. It might prevent injury and/or give you more speed.
Just my opinion. You may want to swing by a bike shop and ask their opinion. It could be that you are on the right track but you just need to adjust your seat height or something minor like that.
Thanks for great advice! I will adjust DH bar and seat post little by little and see how it goes.
Thanks! toru
to answer your question.
yes if you transition from a road position to a tri position even if you are set up right on two different bikes a road and a tri bike, my opinion is that it takes a bit of an adjustment period even if you are fit by a professional. i think there are even articles on this where some pros will ride road bikes for a lot of training then transition to a tri position but it will take some time for them to be at full power on it because there is a slight different in well position so different muslces are used.
also as travis said, setting up a road bike to simulate or get to a tri position can be done but its like anything else, will it be exactly liek a tri bike? of course not because its not. but you can get it very close (and this is important if you are not loaded with cash you can save a bunch of money and make due) but there may be some tradeoffs at times regarding handling and such because you are modifying something to do what it wasn't really built for. Not to say that its bad, but its just something you have to be aware of.
and of course if you want to put your mind at ease go to a good bike shop that knows about this type of conversion and have them help your or give you advice.
and if you can't do that like you say make small changes and see how you feel and work from there.
good luck.
As Travis mentioned, the most notable difference in a road versus TT bike is the frame geometry, especially the seat tube angle, which is much steeper on a TT bike than on a road bike. Changing to a forward-bending seatpost is helpful, but it may not be enough to create the proper hip angle to maximize efficiency and keep a rider safe from injury. A 2-position seat post may be more appropriate in this case.
Another consideration is elbow angle and position in relation to the aerobar pads, in addition to the amount of drop between the saddle and aerobars. For every 1 cm or so of drop, there should be about 1 cm of knee movement forward of the pedal spindle. It's as if you are rotating the rider forward on an axis (not just dropping them down) to try to keep the proper hip and knee angles with the "change" in geometry from using a different seat post and aerobars.
Also, flexibility and strength play a role in performance/injury prevention when riding in a more aerodynamic or aggressive position.
I hope this helps! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at email@example.com. (Sonja Evers, Sports + Spinal Physical Therapy).
Justin and Sonja,
I really appreciate your help. For a moment, I go back to road style.
i see the ssptc people have put in their opinion and the idea of all the hip angles, and shoulder upper arm/upper arm to lower arm angles you can read about in various traithlon books to gain a better understanding.
i encourage you to contact them or other professionals as they have a much better understanding to all of this than any of us not doing this for a living.
if you have to pay a professional to fit you on a bike, its probably the best money one can spend besides the bike itself.
that being said, if you don't have the money for this (and trust me i know for a long time i coudn't afford these services) you can read up on the stuff and experiment with different positions on a gradual basis to see what works for you. As with anything make the changes in small amounts, for example a change in seat height of 1-2mm up or down for some people will make a drastic difference in the way the bike fits.
have a great season.
Thanks for comments, everybody. I have been in deep sorrow for earthquake in Japan. I survived from another devastating one sixteen years ago. I have been out from this site and training.
Anyway, it seems that I moved seat forward in too much aggressive position. Now it is getting better by adjusting gradually.
See you if you show group ride on Sunday! Thanks!


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Nov. 1, Detroit Free Press: "When you smear my late father, you cross the line and you are always going to get a rise out of me and I regret that I allowed that to happen," [Eric Smith] said in a statement. Still, he told the Free Press, "I hate the fact that I am in the hot seat when this guy attacks my dad.... He cannot claim the moral high ground on this one."
Perna is running against Smith's brother Bob for a seat on the Macomb County Commission. Eric Smith called Perna to complain about a campaign mailer from the Macomb Republican Party attacking the entire Smith family for, according to the mailer, relying on government paychecks.
In honor of Smith's three f-bombs in 21 seconds message, the all-time top five voicemail melts:
1. The Ladies Man: Dimitri has no trouble meeting women but he wants to meet you because you are extremely elegant. Clearly your friends are totally jealous Dimitri approached you. That's why Dimitri is calling. Why won't you call him back? Are you playing games? Dimitri doesn't play games. If you're psychologically normal, call him back. But if you were abused or crazy or something, he'll move on. After all, he's a "complete catch." Just ask him.
2. Mel Gibson is CRAH-zee: Mel Gibson will burn down your house but…you know… The end.
3. European Vacation: Guy makes plans to go to Europe. He tells his girlfriend. Then goes to Europe, turns his cell phone off. Girlfriend forgot he was leaving the country. Epic meltdown follows. Good thing he took this trip. Otherwise he might have married crazy.
4. Super dad Alec Baldwin: There are two hard and fast rules to divorce in America. First, always tell the kids it wasn't their fault. Second, spend the rest of your life projecting your issues with your ex-spouse onto your kids. Alec Baldwin demonstrates rule #2 perfectly in a tirade left for his 12-year-old daughter. Jack Donaghy would never call an adolescent girl a pig. Just saying.
5. Kwame Kilpatrick's Fieger Time: Back in 2001, the presently incarcerated felon who used to be Detroit's mayor took issue with his opponent Gil Hill accepting campaign contributions from Geoffrey Fieger. Then Fieger released a voicemail from Kilpatrick himself asking for…wait for it…campaign contributions. So good.


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Buildings are tumbling down at Bristol-Myers Squibb's pharmaceutical plant in East Syracuse as part of a major redo of the site that once produced 70 percent of the nation's penicillin supply .
Bristol announced in 2010 that it would demolish 60 of the 118 buildings on its 47-acre campus on Thompson Road to re-make the site to reflect its new role as a research and development facility rather than a production plant.
It began knocking down buildings a year ago and has really ramped up the demolitions this year.
The company declined to provide an update of the work pending a public unveiling that it plans to hold this summer. But Frank Stirpe, director of codes enforcement for the village, said the company has been issued permits to demolish 25 buildings so far.
The demolition work is highly visible to motorists driving by the plant.
All of the buildings coming down are obsolete. Many have been unused since New Jersey-based Bristol began phasing out penicillin production at the plant in 2004. Some of the buildings date back to the 1940s.
In their place, the company plans to install landscaping and build fitness trails to create a park-like campus more typical of the kind of biotech research center that the facility has become.
Rather than produce large quantities of drugs, the plant makes small amounts of drugs for clinical trials and researches ways to mass-produce biopharmaceuticals -- medicines derived from plant or animal cells.
The changes have East Syracuse officials worried about the financial impact on the village. Bristol is the village's biggest taxpayer. It pays $354,000 in village property taxes annually -- 14 percent of the village's $2.48 million property tax levy.
In addition, the company pays $550,000 in taxes to the town of DeWitt and Onondaga County and $590,000 in taxes to the East Syracuse-Minoa School District.
East Syracuse Mayor Danny Liedka said he does not know what impact the demolitions will have on the village. However, he said he expects the company to seek a reduction in its tax assessment -- currently $26 million -- once the work is completed.
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Staff Picks: Beard-Burdened and Beer-Branded
September 5, 2014 | by The Paris Review
The Jeff Koons show has a little more than a month to go in its run at the Whitney Museum, and it's been perplexing to see critics fall in with an artist whose work is the archetype of the money-driven art production about which many of them complain. To me, Koons's work is all surface—literally and figuratively—and he seems to avail himself of Duchamp's and Warhol's legacies in order to promote, in art, wily marketing strategies gleaned during his years as a Wall Street commodities trader. It was a pleasure, then, to read Jed Perl's assessment in The New York Review of Books. Perl rebuffs the idea that Koons's work critiques middle-class values, concluding instead that it is the "apotheosis of Walmart" and "a habit-forming drug for the superrich" and that Koons is a too-confident exhibitionist. I find something immensely powerful in Perl's tracing of the tradition of doubt in art—from Pliny to Michelangelo to Chardin—and in his conclusion that "where there is no doubt there is no art." —Nicole Rudick
The story of Bluebeard, the wife-murdering aristocrat made famous in Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century folktale, has captured the imagination of writers from the Brothers Grimm to Angela Carter. But William Thackeray's lesser-known sequel to the hero's bride-butchering, Bluebeard's Ghost, tells the story through new eyes—specifically those of the final Mrs. Bluebeard, who escapes her husband's clutches and goes on to inherit his estate. Pursued by numerous suitors, she opts for the equally hirsute "Captain Blackbeard, whose whiskers vied in magnitude with those of the deceased Bluebeard himself." In true Thackeray style, he manages to transform a famously macabre narrative into a comic and playful study of human foibles, with the subjects inflated into caricatures of their former selves. Fittingly, September 5 marks the day that Tsar Peter the Great issued his "beard tax" of 1705, presenting those men determined enough to protect their hair with a hundred-rouble fee and a token bearing the words "the beard is a superfluous burden." Thackeray's tale is surely the other side of this coin: although his take on one of the most famous beards in literature is undeniably far-fetched, it is by no means a superfluous addition to the original. As he puts it himself, "Psha! Isn't it written in a book? And is it a whit less probable than the first part of the tale?" —Helena Sutcliffe
If you're looking to become productively, righteously, vindictively angry, read this piece in the Times about Crested Butte, Colorado, a town that will become, this weekend, an advertisement for Bud Light. Yes, entirely: "The town's main thoroughfare, Elk Avenue, has been adorned with outdoor hot tubs, a sand pit, concert lights and a stage. Restaurants and hotels have been stripped of many local markings and given beer-branded umbrellas and signs instead. When the filming starts, drinks will be unlimited, access to the main street will be restricted to people with company-issued bracelets, and beautiful, mountain-ringed Crested Butte will be rebranded as 'Whatever, USA.' " The mayor made the deal in secret, for $500,000; his name is Huckstep. The whole thing seems like an episode from a lesser George Saunders story. One can react only with scorn, and then one must trot out that shopworn but ever more vital statement of Philip Roth's, from 1961: "The American writer … has his hands full in trying to understand, describe and then make credible much of American reality … It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents." —Dan Piepenbring
I could write about how much I've been watching the U.S. Open: how captivating the sport's collision of intelligence and athleticism is, with its displays of raw emotion every time a player lunges to return a serve. But after reading Ben Rothenberg's excellent essay on what it takes to be a line umpire, I've found my eyes veering toward the edges of the television set. While the task seems simple—"to sit or stand around the perimeter of the counter and monitor one specific line"—the preparation is intense. Understanding the patterns of each specific player helps to ensure no sight goes obscured. What's even more fascinating is just as players advance through the tournament, so do line umpires. As Rothenberg writes, "By the final, the cream of the crop remains." —Justin Alvarez
I was excited to see that the NYRB unlocked an essay, from 1985, by Umberto Eco on Krazy Kat and Peanuts. He's good on the former, but on the latter, I found him to be inadvertently hilarious in his too-Freudian approach. He refers to Charlie Brown and the gang as "monster children," distillations of modern industrial society's neuroses. Poor Chuck is perhaps the most victimized: "This is why he is always on the brink of suicide or at least of nervous breakdown: because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives (the art of making friends, culture in four easy lessons, the pursuit of happiness, how to make out with girls—he has been ruined, obviously, by Dr. Kinsey, Dale Carnegie, Erich Fromm, and Lin Yutang)." —N.R.
Literary Sneakers, and Other News
June 13, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Donald Hall, who published poems in our first issue, has taken to the Concord Monitor to excoriate a senator in verse: "Get out of town, / You featherheaded carpetbagging Wall St. clown, / Scott Brown!"
- Today in crass commodification: New Balance is releasing a series of shoes based on great American lit. "No one captures the essence, spirit, and the American experience better than American authors and the stories they have told throughout history. For the Made in USA Authors Collections, we pay homage to great American authors by building a collection inspired by their stories and moments." The shoes are three hundred dollars a pair and "aren't specifically tied to an author's name."
- "The history of the professional executioner is a chronicle of perfecting the choreography of death. It's a story of exacting skill and the never-ending search for a more efficient means to enact (and contain) the spectacle of death."
- Bob Silvers talks to The Guardian about the New York Review of Books, which is to be the subject of a new documentary by Martin Scorsese.
- No plans this weekend? Paint your actuary! "It might seem strange that an artist would lavish such care on the nuts and bolts of something so mundane, like a poet writing couplets about a corporate expense report. But … accounting paintings were a significant genre in Dutch art."
The Sicilian Defense
January 10, 2014 | by Max Ross
Dear Mr. Ross,
Thank you for sharing with us your review of Claudia Roth Pierpont's Roth Unbound. The piece is colorful and sharp, and it is with regret that we say it does not suit our needs at this time.
Too much of the writing reflects back to the writer himself—to you yourself. (And, inexplicably, to your father.) While we certainly don't mind personal inflection, and even tolerate the insertion of an occasional "I," a review must be grounded more firmly in the subject or book under consideration. (And less so in the reviewer's father.)
Critiques such as yours are redolent of ego. We say this not as admonishment, but as something of which you may want to be aware as you continue what looks to be a promising writing career. We wish you the best of luck in placing this piece elsewhere, and will be happy to consider your queries in the future.
The Editors
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The difficulties began when I attempted to write, for The New York Review of Books, a review of Claudia Roth Pierpont's critical biography of Philip Roth. My intention was simple: to demonstrate that I appreciated Roth's work with a higher degree of sophistication than Pierpont. But articulating my Sophisticated Appreciation was tough to do. At first this didn't bother me—an inability to articulate one's Sophisticated Appreciation, I reasoned, may itself be proof of how complex and nuanced that appreciation is.
I'd been invited to submit to NYRB based on the success of an essay I'd written about Philip Roth for The New Yorker's Web site. (An NYRB editor had e-mailed me to commend its "substantial humorousness," and asked me to pitch an idea his way.) I wanted badly to be published in NYRB. I had some friends who'd been published in NYRB, and I was jealous of them. Moreover, my father is an avid NYRB reader—"It's so wonderfully stuffy," is his line; "the official periodical of leather armchairs and lowballs of Scotch"—and placing an essay in its pages, I believed, would recompense him for having twice paid my tuition to the universities where I'd learned to appreciate things sophisticatedly. (He would be pleased, too, to learn that I'd written something that wasn't about him, as opposed to everything else I'd published—excepting the Roth piece—since finishing graduate school.)
NYRB's editors expected six thousand words from my desk. Yet for several days I was too nervous to begin. More than anything else, the review would need to establish for NYRB's readership how intelligent I was—establishing the writer's intelligence seemed the purpose of most NYRB reviews, and I have always liked to fit neatly into prevailing systems. If it didn't prove my intelligence, though, my review could only prove my lack thereof, and nothing was more terrifying to me than the idea of being exposed as intellectually inadequate. Read More »
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May 7, 2012 | by The Paris Review
On April 3, Robert Silvers accepted the Paris Review's Hadada Prize for a strong and unique contribution to literature. These were his remarks.
When something like this evening happens, you ask how you got here, and I thought back to the autumn of 1954, when I was a soldier at NATO military headquarters—called SHAPE—near Paris. One of the best things about working there was that, by some international understanding, practically everyone had Wednesday afternoon off—you could go to the Louvre, you could go to the Café de Flore. And there, one Wednesday afternoon, at the kiosk in front of the Flore, I bought a copy of The Paris Review and took it back to our international barracks at Rocquencourt and read it in my bunk. I thought I should know more about it.Read More »
The Rescue
April 2, 2012 | by John Banville
Our Spring Revel will take place tomorrow, April 3. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of essays celebrating Robert Silvers, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review's Hadada Prize.
"I first met Robert Silvers in 1989 at a party that George Plimpton gave for me at his apartment on Sutton Place." It would be hard to exaggerate how gratifying it is to be able to write down such a sentence. Those were heady days. My novel, The Book of Evidence, had been shortlisted for that year's Booker Prize, and I was riding on the crest of a wave that, as it turned out, would quickly run into the sands, though the ride was fine while it lasted. I may not have been exactly the toast of New York, but an evening at George's place that included an encounter with the editor of The New York Review of Books was bubbly enough for me.
Bob that night inquired where I was staying in New York and said he would "send something round." When I got back to my hotel room there was a parcel waiting for me, containing Denis Donoghue's memoir Warrenpoint, along with a note from Bob asking if I would write on it for the NYRB. At least, that was what it seemed to be asking, for this was my first experience of Bob's handwriting and it took a good ten minutes of peering and squinting before I had deciphered enough of the message to guess at the overall import.
I have had many notes from Bob since then, most of them brief and all of them hard to read, but never less than courtly in tone. The few longer ones have tended to be typed, on what is evidently a real typewriter. This last is oddly comforting; somehow a man who continues to type is a man one can trust. Read More »
The Wizard of West Fifty-seventh Street
March 29, 2012 | by Claire Messud
Our Spring Revel will take place on April 3. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of essays celebrating Robert Silvers, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review's Hadada Prize.
My first encounter with Robert Silvers was with his sonorous and elegant voice, with its precise, slightly British diction. It must be said that most of my encounters over the years have been with the voice rather than the man, as we've met in person only a few times.
I first heard the voice in the summer of 1988. Back in the States after my first year of graduate school at Cambridge University, I somehow landed a job in the advertising department at The New York Review of Books. I can't imagine I came by it entirely honestly, but I have no recollection of whose kindness may have opened the door. This was at the old address, 250 West Fifty-seventh Street, where entering the offices felt somehow like slipping in a back door, because you were immediately dwarfed by books. Mountainous, heavily laden shelves overhung the narrow, dark corridors, and people scurried quietly among them as if in fear—fear, I always thought, that like Leonard Bast they would be crushed by knowledge.
In the several months I worked in those offices—in the domain of Catherine Tice, at the elbow of a brassily confident assistant named Kim—I never laid eyes on either Bob or Barbara. (I had, on the other hand, many mad and wonderful conversations with the late Bob Tashman, who roved the office with apparently much time on his hands and who, although balding, had an impressive corona of hair emerging from his shirt collar. His long-worked-upon American Decameron, alas, we will never now see.) Bob and Barbara's offices were down long tributaries of the book-lined hallways, unenterable by the likes of me. But I did, upon occasion, hear the magical voice. It was like hearing the Wizard of Oz. Whether he was speaking on the telephone or to an assistant, his interlocutors were inaudible, the authority of his inflections absolute, and his physical presence purely notional. Read More »


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LaFayette voters approved a $5.9 million capital project Tuesday by 10 votes. The vote was 84 in favor and 74 against. The project will cost taxpayers $21.77 for a home assessed at $100,000, with EXCEL aid offsetting some of the cost.
The first phase of the project includes improvements to the lower field and drainage system at Grimshaw Elementary School, and roof replacement at the bus garage/ district office. The baseball infield and softball outfield will be rebuilt at the high school, the storm system improved and the hot water heater, storage and piping system replaced there as well.
The projects second phase calls for heating and ventilation improvements at Grimshaw, and replacing the original kitchen equipment, electrical system and lighting fixtures. Among other items are installation of more security cameras.
Among the work at the high school will be replacement of the existing sewage treatment plant equipment and piping, replacing the original elevator system and 1970 kitchen equipment, new network cabling and more. A new snack shack with restrooms and concessions will be built, and the auditorium stage rigging will be upgraded.
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Jeremy Todd Pack, 37, and Terri Goode, 32, both of Brown Town, each were charged with first-degree unlawful possession of marijuana, unlawful possession of controlled substances (pills), illegal possession of prescription medication, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and felony possession of drug paraphernalia. Pack and Goode were taken to Jackson County Jail. Each was being held on $11,000 bond.
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mr. Bob Salomon co-creator of "A Glove of Their Own".
Our conversation was one that covered all aspects of the sports world: business, the state of the game, and little things we miss in the hustle and bustle of today's fast- paced, media-driven era that we now live in.
As we get older we tend to lose focus on the pure things that the game of baseball offers. We forget this was a game we played as kids for the fun of it, before the unions took over, before the strikes occurred and before it became a business.
As children, we played the game of baseball for the love of the game. To get out on that field and play a game with our friends strictly for winning and bragging rights! No one at that age is thinking about where their next endorsement is coming from or how many millions their next contract will be.
When we get older and our skills diminish we tend to "pay it forward," passing on the message and qualities of the game to our children or the next generation of players following in footsteps that have blazed the trail before them.
A Glove of Their Own is the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Children's Book Award and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Foreword Magazine Book of the Year. Its purpose focuses on helping the less fortunate in their time of need with kindness and courtesy of those who can.
It brings you back to the days of backyard baseball, playing catch with your dad, living for that one last at-bat and one last chance to strikeout your best friend who at that time is your mortal enemy.
It's not just me that has embraced the story.
Bob Salomon and his team's vision has caught the eye of some of the biggest names in baseball; Craig Biggio, Bernie Williams, Tommy John and Mr. Niekro (pictured above) to name a few. And why not, "a message to give to those in a time of need," sounds great to me.
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According to The Star-Ledger, 87 percent of school boards statewide have moved their school elections to November, and data released by the New Jersey School Boards Association shows that a few counties — Burlingtonm Cape May and Union — have entirely moved elections.
In Bergen County, though, 20 districts opted out of moving their elections, more than twice as many as any other county and accounting for almost one third of its districts.
They include: Cliffside Park, Closter, East Rutherford, Emerson, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Fairview, Garfield, Hackensack, Harrington Park, Lodi, Midland Park, Norwood, Oakland, Palisades Park, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Rutherford, South Hackensack and Wood-Ridge.
The benefit of moving school elections is economic: Rolling the cost of April elections — where turnout hovers between 10 and 15 percent — into the general election, where turnout is much higher, saves money.
The argument against the move, some towns told The Star-Ledger, is that because of the time change for school elections, where most towns also hold votes on their municipal budgets, they are no longer required to put their budget proposals up for a vote as long as they stay within a mandatory property tax cap.
Some critics also say that combining school elections with the general election unduly politicizes them, and Bergen County Clerk John S. Hogan told NJ.com earlier this year that he was taking pains to segregate the two on the November ballot.
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Nationally, a gallon of regular gasoline costs about $3.61, according to the United States Energy Information Administration. Briggs said in the real world, the average price of a regular gallon of gas in Louisiana is still a bargain.
"Unconventional Resources and Louisiana's Manufacturing Development Renaissance," the study by LSU professor David Dismukes, found that there's an abundance of natural gas, which will positively impact the state economy to the tune of $20.2 million over the next five to eight years.
Briggs said in the future vehicles would be operating on natural gas alone. "One day, you're going to see that," he said. With the investments the industries in Louisiana are making in natural gas, the state will be in the forefront when the shift occurs.
Haynesville in northwest Louisiana is the single-largest producer of natural gas, Briggs said.
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All of those things are enormous pluses for the Yanks. Phillips, if you think about it, is the perfect fit for first base right now. He doesn't flirt with the Mendoza line like Minky (in fact, he never has). He's not as inconsistent as Josh Phelps. It seems so simple in retrospect, doesn't it? Well, at least he's here now, and playing lights out baseball.
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The goal of this blog is meant to help people think strategically about foreign affairs, but this goal isn't furthered if I touch on strategy indirectly and within specific contexts. If readers don't know what I mean by 'strategy', how can I expect them to see things from my perspective? So I want to try to sketch out my understanding of it and thinking strategically.
- Strategy is identifying priorities, translating those priorities into goals to be achieved, and developing a plan to achieve them by matching goals with resources and figuring out how and when to use those resources to best advantage.
- To think strategically is to understand how an action or an event impacts on your priorities, goals and plan; and if the impact is negative, working out how to remedy the situation.
This is it in the abstract, at least. There are a number of factors which influence strategy and thinking strategically that can handicap us in doing either, two of which I think are important.
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With March 13 fast approaching, coaches and scouts are going through the long list of eligible free agents this year. With an outstanding class of veterans and Pro Bowlers on the free range, there are always those select few that just can't get their groove together.
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Felix Doubront has struggled finding the plate this season and walked six Tampa Bay Rays hitters last night. None came in more spectacular fashion than the leadoff walk he issued to Luke Scott in the third inning.
On a 3-1 count, Doubront lost the handle to the left-handed hitting Scott, and the ball sailed harmlessly up the first base line. Seemingly confused by the wayward toss, Scott was stunned for a second before taking first base.
For Doubront, it was part of a statistically unique performance, where he threw just 54 of 104 pitches for strikes and allowed nine base runners but gave up just two runs in five innings. For the season, Doubront has 42 strikeouts to 22 walks in 37.1 innings.
The errant pitch last night was more folly than, say, the Randy Johnson pitch that sailed over the head of John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star game. It was still plenty to make Scott's heart skip a beat.
Here's a look at the Doubront pitch from last night, via MLB.com:


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STATEN ISLAND, NY - NEW SPRINGVILLE - It's officially harvest time, and Decker Farm is rolling out its finest homegrown products, as well as a longtime seasonal activity: Pumpkin picking.
Admission is $5 per person, but families of four can pay just $16. Park at Historic Richmond Town; a free shuttle service will take you up the hill to Decker Farm in New Springville.
Farm manager David Cavagnaro will have fresh apple cider, apple cider donuts and pies available, too.
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