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Running Out On The Lake In Glenorchy
I notice that my youngest daughter Scarlett gets a little extra spunky when she wears pigtails! Here we are out on a family walk in Glenorchy through the wetlands. I highly recommend this walk if you're in the Queenstown area!
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Why no Arthur Rhodes, you ask?
According to Seattle manager Jim Riggleman, Rhodes slept on his left arm wrong and wasn't feeling right. He tried to warm up during the game and loosen it into pitching shape, but it wasn't happening. That's how you end up with a backup catcher on the mound in the 15th inning.
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You had to know something was wrong with Rhodes there. Either that or he was in the biggest doghouse a player has ever been in. I did laugh when Pudge swung and missed on yet another high one. This time from a catcher. At least nobody fanned. I do wonder how a manager in a DH league got himself into that situation.
The entire game was like a theater of the absurd. This road trip has put us in a position of pretty much needing 5 of 6 on this homestand, a tall order.
Anybody who gets an FSN station, you might want to check out the "Baseball's Golden Age" series. They've been advertising the heck out of it and it is a good watch, especially for us old-timers. I'm hoping for a feature on Mickey Mantle myself.
Well apparently the Indians have agreed in principle to send C.C. Sabathia to Milwaukee for a boatload of prospects. It should make it a bit easier to take games from Cleveland since Sabathia has been on a pretty good roll as of late.
The Bonine/Sabathia matchup that Leyland didn't want, wouldn't have happened after all. The Tigers have been very lucky missing other teams top pitchers this year. It has happened very often including missing Felix this weekend. Now they don't have to face a red hot C.C. on Tuesday… perfect. There may not be a pitch thrown over 90 MPH on Wednesday with Bonine and Byrd pitching. That was a huge win today to stay at .500 coming home before the break. Give Leyland credit for going to the mound in the 15th to remind Jones that Seattle would be playing for 2 runs and wouldn't be bunting. I thought that was very smart in that situation and Jones made his DP pitch.
We have lots of games left with MIN and CHW all hope is not lost.
the sad thing is, without the catcher uncorking that wild pitch.. we wouldn't have scored off him in the 15th!!!
That is why I like baseball. You never know! If we face their ace, maybe we beat him up. If there was not a wild pitch, the batter changes his approach. I would have bunted with Ichiro comng up and being at home.
Remember, if is the the largest word in the dictionary.
Rich, thanks for reminding me about the Golden Age series.
Oh yea, who cares about Cleveland news. This is a Tigers site(:
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Go Tigers!
Sorry Dave, but I was just about to make a comment about…….Cleveland.
Is anyone else surprised over what they did during the offseason, which was essentially nothing? It's like they didn't realize how much good fortune they had last year. I don't want to use the word luck because that would downplay what they accomplished on their own, but it was definitely something you don't get very often. Call it mojo or whatever. I didn't think they were all that strong coming into this season, and that's exactly what's happened. Not getting those bounces this time around.
That said, they come in here with an 8-game losing streak and how much longer will that go on? At least two more games, I hope. We need to get on them early and often to keep them down. A split is no good.
We had 8 hits in 50 at bats.We only hit .250 against their backup catcher….Hey, Maybe we can make a trade to get him. Gets some more diversity out there….Really am hoping our bats come alive for CLE and MINN.Our starting pitching really looked good at Seattle and we should have won all 3 games,,,,but 5 runs in 35 innings.Cqant average 1 run every 7 innings unless Gibson and Koufax and Feller and Dizzy Dean join the squad.First we couldnt pitch,then we couldnt field and now we cant run the bases and we havent hit consistantly all year…..Dan, if you`re out there…Does this constitute a quandry?,and,Did you enjoy the rushing of the wind?You missed a weird one,A real twi-lighter in the coma zone.
People in Cleveland are crying over losing Fat Boy Sabby and that their season is down the drain…all hope is lost, they are already turning towards the start of the Browns season…can you say bandwagon jumpers?
Jason,Read your article on Willis.Hope his knee is allright.Beginning to look like shades of the Vance Wilson dilemma…..I was curious, though about what you wrote about the upcoming trade deadline.Did you mean that we wouldnt trade any prospects,or merely that it would be difficult to make a trade without any prospects?I hate to see us give away anymore youngsters.Ecspecially for any more aging yesterdays stars…..You are with the club everyday,If you are able to, can you tell us your gut feeling on what to expect?Thanks…..Bruce
Toledo MudHens lead Scranton 3-0 in the 4th
DH BRANDON INGE has hit a 3-run HR!!!!
Had a great ride and checked in this morning for the score. Pleasantly surprised with the outcome but still perturbed about the disappearance of batting skills.
You aren't gonna win too many games like that. Nate throws a 4-hitter over 9 innings. and the team didn't lose while only scoring 1 run?
Was it a blue moon last night because it will take another one to see that happen again.
I see Renteria's woes have continued and he has now become a .250 hitter with very little power, limited speed and poor range. How do we advertise that to any GMs looking for a shortstop? Boston is looking for a ShortStop–think they would be interested? This year is making his 2005 campaign he had with the Sox look good by comparison.
I'm only half serious about my statement regarding moving Carlos back to short. My point is that he actually would be an upgrade over his upgrade if they were to do that and it would give JL the opportunity to play Brandon at 3rd.
Do I think it is going to happen—no, no way in Hell Michigan will that happen but it does illustrate the carnival nature of what has happened the first half of the season.
Hey all, I have a good stat for everyone, since Renteria has been a pretty common topic of late. I was just checking Yahoo! sports and saw the who's "hot " who's "not". It shows that in the last 7 days Edgar is batting a ******** .038! This is to the point where it is just humorous! Anyway just thought I would share that info. GO TIGERS!
boston wouldn't dare take renteria…. that experiment ended in booooooo's last time he was in boston (last time before tigers he was in AL too…) NL teams might be interested, what they would give up for him, who knows. i'd be happy with a whole hearted CUT and put guillen back as SS and inge at 3B…….
sheff needs to go bye bye too. not thrilled with captain AARP in our lineup. never liked the sheff trade. never.
i can go on, but whats the point.
I was just watching some of the Boston-Minnesota game. I saw a lot of emotion there, and found myself wishing our guys could display some. I think they're into it just as much, but they're all of such a quiet disposition; Renteria, Ordonez, Guillen, Polanco, Sheffield, nearly all of them. It's possible this stems from JL's mantra of "not too high and not too low" but I'm not sure this is a good thing. I'd like to see a little more fire out there. Pudge is fiery, but it seems to revolve mostly around his own accomplishments. How about a little more Zumaya-like approach out there?
You know what I'm saying?
About Willis: I recall him shaking that leg around during his rehab starts the first time around. That thing never healed, did it? This is not smart.
Renteria: I fully expected him to sit in Seattle and it never happened. Now JL says he's starting tomorrow because they had a good talk? Okay fine. I'd have to say one of the two participants in that good talk needs to go.
Bruce, are you assuming that we'd be the buyers at the trade deadline? That's not a certainty at all. We may be selling by then. Just a thought. At any rate, nobody is going to give us anything for Renteria, Rodney or Sheffield, and those are the guys who seem to be the chief bad guys in most people's eyes. Beyond that, we end up trading away somebody more popular. This could be a rough time coming up in that regard.
Dan, good idea on taking that ride. For me, it was one of those rare times when my wife got to watch the game with me, and the type of game it was gave us plenty of time to talk. About other things. 🙂
reading Jason's article on willis, i'm slightly disheartened. not that i mind the team spending 30 mil for 3 years on a 'project…' sounds like a Lions move…..
Rich, I am hoping that we have a bargain basement discount deal on some of our aging veterans,But it seems whatever I am usually thinking,Tiger management goes the other way.For, example last year I was real high on Miller and Jurrgens(but,admittedly I have always placed a higher emphasis on fielding and pitching),and was stunned when we lost both of them.I am high on Inge and management traded him out of a position.I am high on speed.Bye, bye Maybin. I thought Marcus would be the left fielde,Welcome Jacque Jones……I hate to even say this….but,I really like Clete and Brent.My fear is that management will move them for a Jason Giambi or a Big Hurt,or some body else that was great in the 90`s or early 2000`s.I like Blaine and Oslund,so that means management could very well deal them,based on all the other guys I liked and are gone….Some people will think I`m mean,but I would look to move Shef real cheap to free up the DH holeFor CG orsometimes Cab,and evenMaggs I might hit at DH at times.And the biggest move I would make is in finding a young quality Shortstop,and I wouldnt care if he hit like Oyler as long as he could field like him.Inge would be back at 3rd most of the time,for me.I`d still try to get CG some time in the field.On e of my fears right now is at catcher.We traded one of those last year that was young and decent looking.If we trade Inge and Pudge goes down,the season is over in my eyes….JL has turned Edgar into Shef 2,Revisited.HE CANT HIT THE INSIDE PITCH and the entire AL knows it.He hasnt got the range he did whenJL managed the Marlins.We need youth somewhere,and we have it in Curtis PERIOD(and Cab)…..No balance,no speed no youth,and I fear that management will trade away more of it,for more aging guys looking for 500,3000,or 300 whatevers,instead of balancing this team with veterans,youth,power and speed.The off season netted us Cab,nothing else of value.I`m glad we have him,but currently he is an offensive threat only.I really believe if he works hard he might turn out to be a quality 1st sacker.But,usually one experiment in the infield at a time is the most any team can handle without sacrificing defense.I got news,CG isnt going to get any faster out there,anyone believing otherwise is deluding themselves and his range will not increase and his arm wont ever be as strong as it was 3 years ago.Its called agingIt happened to Cobb,It happened to Kaline.It just happens and never reverses itself.We cant give up all our youth for our desire to make the series this year.Hello Doyle Alexander,you still out there.
I should have included Galarraga and commend DD on that acquisition,but I was mainly addressing position players.We gave away a lot of kids and we got Cab….
Hey Rich, don't be sorry, Cleveland reminds me of the White Sox after they won the American League. What was that pitcher's name, Fausta something?🙂 As long as we mention the Tigers in the mix. All the teams, players, managers, have a good year once in a while. I like the Zoom attidude approach. Like Mario and Rod said, it is time to rest Renteria. Like my uncle said (who coached the Yuma Arizona High School baseball team to the 1973 baseball state championship), Leyland sometimes shows no emotion or fire. Good to hear from you Ty.
Lets go Tigers!
Who's your Tiger? Granderson. My kids, daughter, son-in-law, son, daughter-in-law, got me the MLB jersey for my birthday(March 31st), which I wore to the Whitecaps game on the 4th of July this year. Yes, youth, speed, defense, and pitching!
Go Tigers!
Bruce, we're on the same page with most of this stuff. A run not allowed is every bit as important as a run scored. It's not complicated, really.
The Boston looking for a shortstop thing: I was being a bit sarcastic. He was booed outta town almost and there would be now way any American League team, especially Boston, would take him.
I would like to see him get going but I don't think he has much to get going with. I wish they would bite the bullet and just let him go. Take what you can get. The Dodgers want ****, we aren't going to get much for him but anything would be good and the consequent shakeup on the team would be good too. The only real alternative to him this year is Santiago and we have to understand that Santiago may be damaged goods this year.
The trades haven't worked out so well this year but I don't think DD was derelict in making them. He was trying to build a team and the one he was building looked pretty darn good at the time.
BTW—Ramon Santiago went 4 x 4 tonight in Toledo.
It's pretty clear Mr Leyland, what needs to be done.
Pretty sad to see all the Rentoria-bashing. Give the guy a break, guys. He's a streaky hitter, and he's not a top-notch hitter. He plays a decent SS, though, and he's won some games for the Tigers this year. It's really kind of too easy to pick on the guy. Putting Guillen back at SS would be a huge mistake. Sure, it would be nice to have someone else there next year, but stop carping about him this year. I bet he gets hot in the summer and brings his average up.
We'll hold you to it Steve! As to giving him a break I think he has been given that and some. It is halfway through the year and fans don't know if he is streaky or steady—–he's been called both.
Regardless, he is not hitting and he is another slow-footed runner who moves station-to-station. He has had a couple of big hits this year, and he has had a pretty decent streak of hitting at one stage too. That does not justify running him out there every day when you have a MLB caliber backup like Santiago.
I'd like to see him at least get as much time off as they try to give Pudge or Thames, for that matter. Having Hollimon around is a little different than having Ramon around. Ramon has done this gig before and he will play a better defense than Renteria. I think he will be more effective offensively too.
We're fans here, we have opinions that we think are valid. That is not the same as bashing. Renteria was a very good ballplayer, I don't hink he is the same player that he was nor do I think he will lbe in Detroit. I don't think he is a bad guy, a malcontent or a bum. But I do think he has been given excess time to turn his game around and needs to be sat more than has been.
Yes, putting Guillen back at SS would probably be a mistake but the difference between Renteria and Guillen that was the whole reason behind the trade, is nowhere near as dramatic as it was supposed to was touted to have been.
We're not picking on him, we are watching him play and we are reading the box scores.
Dan, very well said about Renteria or any other player. Look at what Pudge is doing with his average. But I have to quote my uncle again, the stat that matters is rbi's. Of course runs scored is big also as you must have someone on base so you can drive them in and not just rely on the solo home run:)
I remember some Tiger bloggers that wanted Lugo as our SS. I say rest Renteria when Santiago comes back and see what happens. Come on JL, let's tinker!
How about this, we all keep putting our thoughts on this blog, JL keeps reading them, Jason also reminds him, and we go 47-27 (at least) and win 91 games.
Let's Go Tigers!
Steve, What I wrote about Renteria was never intended to be bashing him,or a charactor assasination,of any kind.I have always respected him as a player and have no personal illregard for him.In many way I feel sorry for the expectations that have accompanied him along with the trade for him.It wasnt his fault that he was traded.He had no control over the personel that was exchanged.I am sure that he has experienced tremendous pressure to perform.And it was heightened by all the hype of being part of the new offensive dynasty that would surely take place.The players that were exchanged were sure to become a controversial issue,if he didnt live up to the standards or expectations of those that thought we might be getting shortchanged.Players often,these days, are regarded as commodities,with a profit and loss statement attached to each of their own resumes.The fans did not create this scenario,it was created by MLB.I can look at Edgar as a person and have high opinion of him as a man or an individual.But make no mistake.MLB looks at the P&L above persnal character traits.The fans have gradually over the years begin to evaluate a plyers status based on the statistics that are provided by MLB….I never knew what RF was 45 years ago.Never heard of OPS or a pik off stat or a Save and countless others that are standards of measurement that has been implemented by MLB….So when I write about CG or Pudge or Justin or anyone else I try to measure their worth based upon the same criteria or same standard that MLB uses……..There have even been a few times when I have defended players,that I have felt bring a special something to the team,in spite of what the stats may indicate….But, I fear that Edgar has already been damaged by these expectations that have been placed on him,and will find Detroit to be an unwelcome or undesireable place in his heart as a result.His pressure is increasing daily. He`d have to have an incredible second half to alleviate the cynics and restore him to a level of comfort….I honestly do not think he is young enough to accomplish that feat at this stage of his career.I could easily provide for you an abundant number of statistics and specifics that would not only indicate,but,even magnify the unlikely probability of his success,should he stay in Detroit.However,to do so at this point,might only be viewed as more along the lines of charactor assasination,which I too,wish to avoid.I`m sorry if I offended any of our fans.
Dan and Bruce, you put that well. I think what we say here is a far cry from the real bashing that takes place on other sites. We're not calling him nasty names or a cancer or any of the other comments that seem to be in vogue these days. Comments that have been aimed at nearly everybody in this organization, I might add.
I didn't like this trade. I didn't think Edgar could help us. For the first seven months after the deal was done however, I rarely made a comment about him that didn't include props for him personally, as a teammate, and as a professional. I don't think I need to continue adding that caveat everytime his name comes up, but here it is again.
I hope he pulls out of it. I thought he might hit about .290 for us, maybe 12 homers and some RBIs in good spots, with the added ability to hit about anywhere in the order. I didn't expect much flash in the field. I will opine that the absence of Maggs has put pressure on some guys. Perhaps that's what JL and Edgar discussed.
In the end, we all have ideas on what would make this team work. I can't offer my opinion to make a change at short without explaining why, and that means pointing out negatives. That's entirely normal.
I'm proud to have Edgar representing the Tigers but, like Dan said, he doesn't need to be in there every single day. I don't think that's putting him into that "position to succeed" as JL gets credit for doing.
This just in on Dontrelle's knee: he has tendinitis. Here's a link to the article on espn:

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The seventh-ranked Hobart College football team, behind a career day for senior running back Steven Webb and a dominating defense, posted a 30-7 victory over Dickinson College on Saturday in Carlisle, Pa., to open the 2013 season.
Webb ran for a career-high 203 yards and three touchdowns while the Statesmen D limited the Red Devils to just 204 yards of total offense.
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The winner will be announced on Dec. 7.
Later today, finalists for the Butkus Award will be announced. McClain is a semifinalist for the award that goes to the nation's best linebacker.
Cody's biggest plays of the season came in the same quarter of the same nationally televised game. In the fourth quarter of a 12-10 victory over Tennessee, he blocked two field-goal attempts, including one on the last play of the game.
Last week, Cody was named one of four finalists for the Lombardi Award
That award goes to the nation's top lineman (offense or defense) who, in addition to outstanding performance and ability, best exemplifies the discipline of legendary pro football coach Vince Lombardi.


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I know it says TaskPower 2 is compatible with Windows 2000 and XP, but does anyone know if it is safe to run it on a Windows 2003 Server? Thanks for any info!!
I have a version which may correct the Access Denied message. If anyone would like to help test it. Let me know.
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i was getting ready to download TP2 -- but would prefer to wait for fix, or try your test version.
I get "loading data .... " and then it just sits there forever doing nothing?
I was about to download, but read through the recent posts first. Are you still looking for people to test your improved version? Also, will this program work for all of the computers on my home network, or will I need to download it to each computer?
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My environment is a Dell Latitude running Windows 2000 with all current SP's.
I too would like to try out your new test version.
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for meat from Ireland. Check the shipping prices before concluding whether it is worth it, but their prices aren't bad so it looks to me like a good but not great deal. What frustrates me is that they don't list the ingredients of their sausages and such. I assume they use nitrites, but I also think the meat is likely to be a lot more grass fed, coming from Ireland, so I would take the tradeoff if it doesn't have a lot of sugar and preservatives. Anyone have experience with the brand?
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Job growth would increase income, close gap
When I talk to Ohioans about their concerns, whether it is a mom from Richland County who joined me on a tele-townhall recently or an autoworker I met at a plant in Toledo last week, one issue is always at the top of the list: jobs.
The experts tell us the recession ended five years ago, but the American people still are digging out of the hole it left behind. We're living through the weakest economic recovery since World War II and a lot of folks are struggling to make ends meet.
Take the last jobs report. It's a testament to how low expectations have become that this month's jobs report was cheered by some in the media.
The unemployment rate actually rose to 6.7 percent, and only 175,000 jobs were created, far fewer than the number we need to start turning things around, and nowhere near enough to help those who have been looking for a job for months and even years. In fact, the number of long-term unemployed actually increased by 203,000 in February – significantly more than the number of new jobs created.
But these statistics only tell half the story. We are told 11 million Americans have become so discouraged, they've given up looking for work altogether.
Poverty rates have gone up and salaries have gone down, with the average family now bringing home $4,000 less than they did just five years ago.
The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy. Wall Street is thriving. It's Main Street that's struggling. With paychecks down and the cost of health care, college education and a tank of gas going up, a middle-class squeeze is strangling a lot of American dreams.
What has been tried – record levels of spending heading to record levels of debt and more government, rather than more pro-growth policies to free up the private sector – hasn't worked.
Now the president wants to double down on policies we've seen fail. His budget earlier this month asked for hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending and more than $1 trillion in new, job-killing taxes.
That is not a path to prosperity. Tax and spend hasn't worked to get America moving again for the last five years of this presidency, and it won't work now.
Some have said we just have to get used to weak economic growth, that it's the "new normal." I refuse to accept that we are powerless in the face of fewer people working, smaller middle-class paychecks, bigger government, never-ending deficits and record debt piled on our kids and grandkids.
I think we need a new approach, one that puts our trust back in the American people, not in more and bigger government.
That's what the Jobs for America plan I am proposing in the U.S. Senate will do. This seven-point blueprint will help bring back opportunity, spark an economic recovery and restore to every American a shot at the American dream.
Our plan calls for common-sense reform that repeals Obamacare and replaces it with solutions that make it is easier for employers to hire while providing competition and choice to lower health care costs. It also proposes sensible spending restraint to address the record debt and deficit that are dragging down the economy and mortgaging the future of our kids and grandkids.
It includes tax reform that encourages innovation and investment in American workers and American companies, rather than projects and corporations overseas. It argues for sensible regulatory reform that makes it easier for businesses to grow and hire new workers, as well as export promotion to open new markets for job creators.
It also proposes reforms to the federal government's worker retraining programs to help give unemployed Ohioans the skills they need to fill open jobs in Ohio, and it calls for an energy policy that makes us less dependent on foreign oil and uses American resources to ensure reliable and affordable energy.
All of these proposals will help give the job market the jump start it needs so we can get our economy moving again and get Americans back in good jobs.
These are common-sense, job-creating measures, and we will fight to make them law. And when we do, I believe we'll see unemployment rates drop, we'll see incomes rise and we'll see the gap between the rich and the poor close, not because we are bringing people down, but because we are bringing people up.
And we will see that America's best days are still ahead of us.


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Warren De La Salle junior A.J. Turner picked the right night to have a big night as his career-high 35 points led the boys basketball team to a 77-76 double-overtime victory over Grand Rapids Christian on Friday night.
With the score tied at 68-68 heading into the final two minutes of the second overtime, Turner scored six of the Pilots' final nine points to finally give De La Salle enough to hold on for the win.
To add to the drama, Turner did it all on a bad left leg that had cramped up late in the third quarter.
"It was hurting," Turner said. "It was hurting pretty bad. I just tried to play through it as well as I can."
Turner continued to take a beating in the fourth quarter and in overtime, grimacing each time drove the lane and took a foul. But it did the job as he went to the line three times in the final 40 seconds of the game and hit a free throw with 5.5 seconds left to give De La Salle (3-0) a 77-73 lead.
"That's why he's a big D-1 player," De La Salle coach Greg Esler said. "Shot the three real well, took the ball to the basket. And they were hounding him ... it took a lot of energy out of him, obviously he cramped. A lot of kids would have not continued after he cramped up. His muscle was in his calf was just huge."
Davaris Collier hit a desperation three for Christian in the final seconds but the buzzer sounded immediately after the shot went in, sending the De La Salle gym into a frenzy.
"That was a big win for us," Esler said. "A big win, no question."
Turner, who is considered one of the top junioss in the state, was going up against what many considered the best junior in Michigan in Christian's Drake Harris.
Harris gave Christian (1-3) a two point lead with 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter before De La Salle rising freshman Kevin McKay tipped in a rebound at the buzzer to send it to overtime.
"I would say it was more of a desperation," McKay said. "No one boxed me out so I had a clear path to the basket. The ball hit right my way so I just tipped it right in."
McKay also hit a clutch basket in the final overtime as he gave De La Salle a five-point lead with 51 seconds left and then came through again by hitting a free-throw to extend the Pilots' lead to three with 39 seconds left. McKay finished with 15 points.
"Kevin had the tip and then he had those big free-throws down the stretch," Esler said. "That was huge for us."
Harris, who is already committed to play at Michigan State for football and basketball, finished the game with 19 points while having to sit on the bench for the final 15.9 seconds after fouling out.
For Turner, the night also became a way for him to make a statement against his formidable opponent.
"I had to come out tonight and prove that I'm the best (junior) in the state," Turner said. "I just had to be confident."
After holding two short leads early in the first quarter, Christian did not have a lead again until 4:25 to play in the fourth quarter, despite tying the game four times before that. Christian trailed 16-4 in the first quarter and after De La Salle went on a 14-0 run and then trailed 35-24 at half.
"I thought the game was lost in the first half when we didn't go inside," Christian coach Steve Majerle said. "But its a lesson learned, we learn as we go."
Christian did manage to gets its inside game to produce more in the second half, cutting the deficit to 47-43 at the end of the third. Majerle credited his team for battling back and be more aggressive near the net in the second half.
"Let's put it way, they were going to walk home if they didn't put it inside," Majerle said. "We're very talented and we've got all of the pieces. If we use all of the pieces, we'll be dangerous."
Tom Novak added 13 points for De La Salle while DeLeon Brown finsihed with 12 points for Christian.


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1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Combine butter, salt, milk, pepper, and thyme in a medium saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil. Immediately, remove from heat and add in flour. Stir until contents are mixed thoroughly
3. Return pan to heat, continuing to stir, and cook until dough forms and pulls away from sides.
4. Remove from heat and cool for 5 minutes. Once cool, add in 4 eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition (result should be a sticky dough). Then, beat in cheese.
5. Spoon tablespoon drops of dough into baking sheets.
6. In a small bowl, beat remaining egg with water. Brush egg wash mixture over the dough balls.
7. Bake dough balls in for 10 minutes in preheated oven. After 10 minutes, reduce the over to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Continue to bake for another 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
8. Remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minutes.
9. Serve and enjoy!
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Cadet Dominick Frank Calderone of Bound Brook, has earned a position on the 2015 Summerall Guards, a silent drill platoon at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
Cadet Calderone is among 61 rising seniors that have gone through rigorous drill and physical training to be selected as members of the Summerall Guards. Cadets are chosen for their ability to precisely execute selected portions of the drill series they will perform as Summerall Guards, as well as, their demonstrated level of physical fitness and stamina.
The 2015 Summerall Guards made its debut on March 15, during Corps Day Weekend. The Corps of Cadets this year celebrated its 171st birthday.
The platoon was created in 1932 and named for Gen. Charles P. Summerall, former chief of staff of the U.S. Army and president of The Citadel from 1931 until 1953. Its purpose is to exemplify the exactness and thoroughness with which Citadel cadets are trained. The drill, which is verbally passed down from class to class, is a unique series of movements based on the old German close order drill and performed to a silent count. Each year's Summerall Guards take responsibility for teaching the next year's unit the intricate steps of the drill.
The Citadel, founded in 1842, is a public, coeducational military college in Charleston, S.C., that offers a classic military education for young men and women seeking a college experience that is challenging, meaningful and academically strong. With the core values of honor, duty and respect, The Citadel prepares principled leaders for the military as well as the global workplace.


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"…There Must be A Creature Superior To Man." COMICS! Sometimes Hasslein Was RIGHT!
Posted by: John Kane on October 14, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Tags: Alfredo Alcala, George Tuska, John K (UK), Marvel UK, Nostalgia By Veidt, Planet Of The Apes Weekly, Stan Lee, The 1970s
This isn't actually a post about comics it's a post about the posts about comics which are to follow. See, I had an idea…oh dear. Click "More" to enter…The Planet of the Nostalgics!
For a while now I've wanted to write about the experience of comics reading during the '70s. I thought this might be of interest as it is now 2012 and some of your parents weren't even born then. I thought it might be of even more interest as, and the keener minds among you will have already noted this, I live in Great Britain. Which isn't that Great but it is certainly called Britain. Alack, alas, I had a great deal of difficulty figuring out where to start, I'll spare you all the hemming and hawing and just say that I think I've found a solution…
Yeah, stick a flag in it, pal. That'll solve everything!
(Art by George Tuska)
What I'm intending (intentions!) to do is look at the entire run of PLANET OF THE APES WEEKLY published by Marvel Comics International Limited. Well, issues #1 (Oct 1974) to #123 (Feb 1977). (Following this it was folded into THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL.) By having a focal point I am hoping that I will be able to touch on a multitude of areas of historical comical periodical interest. Not only will I be moaning about George Tuska's inert art but I'll hopefully go wider and give some idea of the '70s via many words on the content, availability, price and format of comics. Most of the words will concern content, I imagine. Largely though I will be hammering home the important sociological point that using comics as surrogate parents ends up with your kid turning out like me. This is certainly what I would call a warning from History.
A really quite significant moment for Tiny me was when Taylor (AKA "Tay-LAH!") just said, "Aw f*** it and f*** you all too!" in the most final of manners.
(Art by Alfredo Alcala)
I suppose I could claim some measure of relevance as POTA is back on the radar in the form of the current licensed comic from Boom!, so there's that and also the UK comic had, aside from the early issues, back ups that maybe(?) represent some of the more varied and perhaps under loved strips Marvel published. I was going to say overlooked but since the advent of the Internet I guess there's no such thing as an overlooked strip anymore. (Personally I think Atlas' POLICE ACTION FEATURING LOMAX should get more attention. Get right on that, Internet!). Should worse comes to worse (i.e. I remain true to form) and I never actually say anything of interest or relevance about the '70s I can promise you that we will at least have covered a great many creators and bizarre series. Some of which you may never have heard of! (Gullivar Jones, anyone?) I think you'll like it! And if you don't I imagine you'll tell me about it! Possibly using inventive invective. The kind that back in the '70s you would have had to deliver in person and probably got a pop on the nose for your troubles. Because things were different back then. They were better. (Of course they weren't, they were Godawful but for a second you thought I was serious and I, personally, found that second hilarious. Oh, your face!).
Taylor (AKA "Bright-Eyes") was my first hero what with his smoking in a pressurised oxygen environment, heroin addiction and misanthropic attitude. The ideal role model for four year olds everywhere!
(Art by George Tuska)
(Oh, who am I kidding, my actual reasons for this are selfish as a bloke at work lent me these comics about two years ago and I imagine he'll be wanting them back soon. So if I have to tell you lot about them I guess I'll have to read 'em!)
I'll still be posting about other stuff but this should be a nice regular thing I can try and build some consistency around. It's a little bit ambitious but I'll see how I go with it. Trust me, no one will lose out because If all else fails I can just post stuff like this:
So why not join us next time on Planet of the Nostalgics (aside from the fact it will be sh**) when we hear:
"APES! Apes On Horseback!" or
PLANET OF THE APES WEEKLY #1 (w/e Oct. 26th 1974)
In which I say, "Look, I'm sure George Tuska was a boon to the lives of all who knew him BUT…"
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Ummm… is that a picture of The President Of The America shooting dope?
Even the funnybooks can't stay out of the election.
I am also pretty sure that Tuska was busy withholding penicillin from sharecroppers around that time and so could be charitably forgiven for unvaried line weight. He has enough on his conscience.
Now, this – THIS is the kind of mighty (and mightily eccentric?! Heh) undertaking that Savage Critics and the Interwebs was made for! And all from the Mystical Mind of Kane, John Kane, Licensed to Fill Posts With His Comics-Based Musings, too. But, oh the potential perils as you enter this Forbidden Zone of Comics – namely the "Tuska-ishness (not to be confused with Tusk-ishness which has something to do with Fleetwood Mac, and Christine McVie singing "Over and Over" I believe), no offence to old George but when he turned up on '70s Avengers mine eyes did weep. Um, John I fear for you my friend, heed the (misquoted for "comic" effect) words of Doctor Zaius, "Don't do it, Kanelor. You might not like what you find there!".
Terrible "jokes" apart, this should be good. That image of Taylor activating the Doomsday Device (Almighty Bomb) takes me back to watching Beneath the Planet of the Aped in my early teens (for some reason this seems connected to seeing Amanda Donohoe's absolutely "non-gratuitous" – just the way they *should* be – in Nic Roeg's Castaway) and the impact of that nihilistic final scene in which Taylor ends the world and almost everyone is a bastard or a loony. Now, it seems not inaccurate, ha! Back on topic, this will surely be a fascinating (oh yes) look at reading British variants of US in that turbulent and interesting decade (one mustn't forget all the *great* art and entertainment, even some of the dross has its charms). As another boring aside, this reminds me of the variety of comic boiks one could get from newsagents in England in the mid-eighties and through to the early nineties, both British reprint/originals and newstand copies of the *real* American stuff, before things mostly shifted to Comics stores. Npt only did you have the adventure of *maybe* getting originsl issues from a newstand – be it Peter David's Incredible Hulk, Englehart's West Coast Avengers, or Morrison's Animal Man, etc) but you also had the chance to read magazine-size reprints featuring Batman (Grant/Breyfogle, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, Aparo, etc) or short-lived anthologies with Swamp Thing, Animal Man, and even, dah-dah-DAH!, Howard Chaykin's Shadow! Oh yeah, the good, the *real* "nostalgia"! Well, enough of my scrambled wittering, I'm really going ape (forgive meeeee!) for your idea. Excelsior, indeed!
"You'll see man against beast – but, which is truly the beast?" Dah-dah-DAH indeed! Did the television series really electrify Britain or was Stan the usual kidder?
Even if I am a serious fan of the b/w Marvel Magazines and of the Doug Moench scripts of this time, not to mention the Bob Larkin covers, POTA never interested me at all. I like the first movie (for all its preachiness, but its ending was rarely topped) Didn´t read even one issue, though.
So this will be interesting.
Oops, not that it matters but I made a boo-boo in my comment, it should read "(…)Amanda Donohoe's entirely "non-gratuitous – just as they *should* be! [Sid Jamesian dirty laugh] – nude scenes in Nic Roeg's Castaway(…)". Wow, *that* was worth it, "obviously". Hah, I held off correcting that for *days*, but then the OCD became too strong! (The Sid James bit disappeared because I used the "wrong" kind of parentheses apparently, my you learn something new every week…)
Hola! The POTA weekly stuff has had to be delayed due to leaves on the tracks. Or something. After all, did The Lawgiver not say that "Man shall not write about Ape!" Probably.He was a real buzz-kill.
@mateor: I, too, have always found it amusing that POTA also works for President Of The Americas. As for that last bit, son, well, I say, you lost me there, son, I say you lost me, son.
@Hal: Ah, misty watercolour mem-ooorIES. I'll just cut and paste all that for my first paragraph, cheers! I'm feeling bad about being hard on George Tuska, I'll try and ameliorate it, I think.
@AndyD: Well it wass Britain in 1974 so, you know, it didn't take much to electrify us. All sat round the piano singing hymns bby candlelight it was. I hope you aren't suggesting the Multi-Millionaire Stan Lee was prone to exagerration, you might hurt his feelings! It'll take a bit to get to it but some of the POTA stuff is well mental.
@Hal: Fret not, Hal. I'd got the gist, sir!
Thaks as ever for your interest and have a nice weekend all!


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Resistance to plans for a unified British soccer team for the 2012 London Olympics means the idea may well be a one-off, if it gets off the ground at all.
Reuters Soccer Blog
If it's Thursday, it must be the Amazon
There's been a lot of talk about whether South Africa will be up to staging the 2010 World Cup but what about the hosts for the following event in Brazil?
Is Ronaldo's choice of Corinthians canny or cushy?
Ronaldo is back. Nearly 10 months after suffering a serious knee injury during a Serie A game for AC Milan, the third such misfortune in his career, he has agreed terms to join Corinthians, one of Brazil's biggest and most volatile clubs.
Vlog on the Pitch: In search of the best World Cup goal
In which our very own World Cup Wyatt peers at everyone's favourite 5 kilos of gold and malachite, and asks: "What's your favourite World Cup goal?"
Adriano 'the animal' is still to find his bite
Adriano is surely one of the most frustrating players in the world.
The Brazilian has all the assets needed to be one of the very best strikers — power, pace and guile — yet he has wasted several opportunities to show he can be consistently good.
Vlog on the Pitch: Where will it end for Maradona?
Vlog on the Pitch host Owen Wyatt is in Glasgow to see the preparations for Diego Maradona's first game in charge of Argentina.
A taste of what's to come from Maradona?
It has taken only a week for Diego Maradona's appointment as coach to turn the Argentina national side into something approaching a cabaret.
Role model Milosevic hangs up international boots
When Savo Milosevic joined Partizan Belgrade from little known Bosnian outfit Radnik Bijeljina as a 19-year old in 1992, few people imagined he would become the most capped Yugoslav player with 101 international appearances to his name.
Argentina 'in the hands of God'
"We're in the hands of God," some Argentine newspapers said after Diego Maradona was appointed coach of Argentina, a move that has just been confirmed.
Forget Maradona, the real surprise is seeing Bilardo back
Amid all the furore over Diego Maradona's imminent appointment as Argentina coach, an equally surprising and significant development has been all but overlooked: the return of Carlos Bilardo to the national team set-up at the age of 69, and after an 18-year absence.


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The aim of the project is to contribute new knowledge to the study of concurrent systems, inparticular with regard to the decidability of the problems connected to verification of infinite - state processes. The main question we want to address is the te sting of certain observational equivalences on potentially infinite - state processes. In particular we want to study strong, and weak bisimulation equivalences on various process algebras, mainly BPA and BPPA, and their extensions PDA and PDDA, fro m the point of view of decidability and computational optimality of decision procedures that might exist. For strong bisimulation equivalence we want to find out whether there exist feasible (polynomial) decision algorithms for the aforementioned pr ocess algebras. In the case of weak bisimulation equivalence we want to investigate whether it is decidable on these classes of processes.


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wrong. OUT on scalp at open near breakeven, no buyers in premarket, marketmaker is short now, it's topped, island reversal. 58.70 maxpain, then lower
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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if you take the 57.50 puts and $60 calls, about even (?) that says to me they close at 58.75 max pain, my call is 58.70-.74 late tomorrow then they takeherdown or close there on Fri. Usually they culminate the robbery on Thursday, quad-witch is down 3 out of 4 last in March.


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Debuting four days before "The Monkees" and concluding its run of original episodes seven weeks before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, "Star Trek" came to life in a tempest of social upheaval.
News of assassinations, war and war protests populated NBC's "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" during "Star Trek's" three-season run, and yet optimism is one of the reasons we still care about the show and its offspring today.
The original series' very premise -- that mankind would survive the 20th century, and even thrive well beyond it -- didn't seem like a sure thing in 1968.
But it was to "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry.
"I think that a lot of the enduring appeal of the franchise has always been its essentially optimistic nature, and certainly that fits in with Roddenberry himself," said Dale Hrebik, a Loyola University English professor who teaches a science-fiction-in-film class. "He had this great faith in humanity and was sort of convinced that we were getting better all the time and that society would eventually reach a point where we eliminate so many of the evils that plague us, like war and racism and poverty -- these were the kind of things that informed and were reflected on 'Star Trek.'
"And I think that optimistic spirit is one of the things that people respond to so much in the series and the movies and the subsequent series. Roddenberry wanted 'Star Trek' to show us a better version of ourselves. In a sense, 'Here's us in our best light.'"
During the long run-up to this weekend's release of Roddenberry's latest offspring -- the film restart of Kirk, Spock and the rest, also titled "Star Trek" -- optimism was the prevailing mood in Trekdom, largely because of director J.J. Abrams' involvement in the project.
Building on a credits list that includes the TV series "Felicity," "Alias," "Lost" and "Fringe" and the films "Mission: Impossible III" and "Cloverfield," Abrams was handed Roddenberry's legacy in hopes that he could reanimate the original series' characters for younger audiences.
Aside from Leonard Nimoy and "Heroes" star Zachary Quinto -- who play the old and new Spock, respectively -- the cast is little-known, although the characters they play are pop-culture colossi.
Thanks to an audacious plot device that allows the film to mostly shed the continuity traps set by all the "Trek" that's come before, Abrams and his writers, "Alias" and "Fringe" veterans Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, get to start fresh with Roddenberry's USS Enterprise crew as young adults.
"My initial reaction was, 'That's going to be terrible,'¤" said Hrebik, who had not seen the film at the time of the interview. "Certainly the 'Star Trek' fan base is aging, so I think this relaunching of the show is in part an effort to engage a generation that perhaps has not been engaged by 'Star Trek' to the extent that us older folks have."
Hrebik is 40.
"While the newer series are in syndication these days, I don't think the original is (the episodes are streaming online at www.cbs.com) and it's been almost 20 years since most of these characters have been in a movie," Hrebik added. "So for many younger viewers I imagine this will be the first time they've actually seen Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc.
"While they're probably aware of the characters since they're such a part of pop culture, they would have had to go out of their way to actually see the original series or movies. Thinking of William Shatner as Kirk could become as dated as thinking of Sean Connery as Bond, and I never thought that would happen."
Originally pitched to networks as "a 'Wagon Train' to the stars" -- a reference to a popular NBC Western of the era -- "Star Trek" the TV series ultimately went so much further, and yet struggled during its short first life of three seasons to remain on the air.
Later syndication success turned it into an entertainment industry leviathan that threw off movies, more TV series and a billion recitations of "Beam me up, Scotty!"
That includes one in the 1998 action-adventure film "Armageddon," the screenplay for which was co-written by Abrams, who has been up front in his admission that he was more a fan of "Star Wars" than "Star Trek."
Roddenberry died in 1991. Abrams was not yet 3 months old when "Star Trek" debuted in September 1966.
A Texas native who grew up in Southern California, Roddenberry flew B-17s over the Pacific in World War II and commercial planes for Pan-Am after the war. While working his way into TV writing, he worked as a Los Angeles Police Department cop.
Abrams' parents both worked in Hollywood. He sold his first film script before completing college.
A rarity among writer-director-producers in that he's enough of a brand in his own right to promote his projects on TV, Abrams made the talk-show rounds last week, including "Trek"-tied appearances on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show," NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."
Articulate and alt-cool, Abrams is, in his own way, as much of a showman as Roddenberry was.
An early enthusiast of sci-fi fan conventions, Roddenberry tacitly seeded the fan letter-writing campaign that helped save the show for its third season.
Abrams began the promotional campaign for "Star Trek" by bringing Nimoy and Quinto to the San Diego Comic-Con -- in July 2007.
But it's Abrams' body of work that most encourages the "Trek" faithful.
"I can't think of a better Hollywood TV-and-film guy to go to," said Daniel Bernardi, director of the Department of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University, and author of the 1998 book "Star Trek & History: Race-ing Toward a White Future." "This guy has a vision of characters, of social discourse and of science fiction and narrative and plot that makes sense for this franchise."
Abrams and Roddenberry are "both pioneers that use science fiction as a vehicle to critique issues that were topical and of their period," Bernardi said.
"Alias" is built around Jennifer Garner playing "this amazingly tough, brilliant woman -- one of the most powerful woman characters in American television history," Bernardi added. "What Abrams is doing with Jennifer Garner is similar to what Roddenberry did with all of the actors of color he employed.
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"'Lost' deals with race and gender in wonderfully complex ways. J.J. is one of the few men working in Hollywood who, I think, writes women in ways that are truly complex. Think about the women characters in 'Lost.' They're strong, they're intense. Some are devious, some are duplicitous, some are heroic.
"I think he's a real visionary.
"I think it makes sense for Paramount (to enlist) somebody like J. J. Abrams to bring fresh perspective (to) Roddenberry's vision of science fiction as allegory that speaks to people today.
"When 'Star Trek,' just like 'Alias' and just like 'Lost,' is about what people are experiencing today... (and prompts viewers) to think about ways in which we negotiate tensions and stress and social structures -- when 'Star Trek' is about that, there's nothing better. When it falls behind, there are few things worse."
Bernardi, like Hrebik, is OK with the prequel conceit -- at least in theory.
"What's not to love about Kirk and Spock and all these folks?" Bernardi said. "Abrams is really the guy to pull it off. He can create these wonderfully complex narratives. That's what it's going to take."
TV columnist Dave Walker can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 504.826.3429.


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Having been together 10 years, the Burton couple, now living in Dayton, Ohio, recently had their script chosen to be produced by the faculty where Dominick attends film school. Law did most of the writing, and only feels comfortable with Evans directing. Evans, who has a degenerative neuromuscular disease, is in a wheelchair and has limited use of his hands and arms, knows he can trust Law to put a camera right where he wants it and to do all the physical things he can't.
"Dominick and I have been working together for so long," Law said. "I'll mention a project to him and he'll immediately know where I'm going with it. ... He immediately sees my vision and directs the actors in a way that I'm comfortable with."
Evans feels the same way.
"I really couldn't have done that without Ashtyn's support," Evans said. "She's really been there for me through everything."
Evans will be entering his senior year at Wright State University's motion pictures program this fall. Each year, the junior class competes to have a script chosen by the faculty and alumni to be produced, and a script that Law and Evans wrote together (Law did the majority of the writing, both said) was chosen.
"A lot of these films go on to festivals, some have gone into Sundance, so this is our first first film that could get some recognition from filmmakers," Evans said.
While the couple is excited over the accomplishment, just getting into his junior year was a big enough challenge for Evans -- one that Law helped him achieve.
Wright State University's film school is serious business. It has two Academy Award-winning documentarians on staff and has been praised by actor Tom Hanks. Students have to audition not only their freshman year to be enrolled, but again in their sophomore year. You're not really in the program until you're a junior. Of the approximately 100 people in Evans's freshman class, only eight made it through to their junior year.
"Those first two years, you don't even know if you're going to be in the program," Evans said. "It was really hard. It was hard because our society stigmatizes people with disabilities. So I went in as an underdog anyway."
Evans is the first person with a disability to make it through to junior year at the school, a feat he said he couldn't have done without Law.
"I'm in a wheelchair, so she helps me and so she's kind of become an honorary member of the program," he said. "My first two years she was basically my hands and arms."
Originally an aspiring actor, Evans attended the University of Michigan-Flint's theater program. After having an accident where he fell out of his wheelchair and was injured, Evans moved in with Law in the Burton home they still own and had to stop school. It was Law who persuaded him to go to Wright State.
"She's my best friend," he said. "It was her urging that convinced me to go back to school."
Now, having had their film chosen for production, they're continuing their teamwork to bring it to the screen.
The short film, which they plan to start shooting May 18, is called "Trip," is a drama about a young single mother who struggles between her responsibilities as a mom and the former life of sex and drugs she remains reluctant to give up.
"She splits her life between that time with him (the child's father) and with her family trying to raise her son. So she's kind of stuck between these two worlds," Law said.
Part of the process for competing to have the film chosen is going through a massive critiquing process. Students read each other's scripts, offering their own criticisms. In an environment where everyone wants to win, those comments aren't always exactly polite, Law said.
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When the movie is done -- they're hoping to have all the editing done by the end of the summer -- they say they plan to start submitting it to festivals. And after that, they'll just be making more films, together.
"Whether it gets recognition or not, we're going to keep making films," Evans said.


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I've never felt unsafe downtown Grand Rapids. Creeped out at times? Sure.
Annoyed by panhandlers? You bet.
But I've never felt in danger.
Jono Kristiniak probably felt safe too, like thousands of others who were enjoying themselves downtown Jan. 10.
His tragic death needs to be kept in perspective.
Jono didn't die because he was downtown.
Jono died because of a group of thugs decided to beat him so severely he could not survive. The circumstances, which increasingly look like a bar fight that got taken far too seriously, mean it could have happened anywhere people gather to drink.
The act was senseless.
To me, the fact that it took place downtown was irrelevant. It's bothered me to see a small minority of people use this tragedy to paint downtown as an unsafe place.
That's their loss, though.
Still, I wonder if those same people make such blanket statements when senseless violence happens in a suburb, a smaller town or even their own neighborhood.


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Everyone can share in solving distracted driving crashes
Cell phones, texting devices, navigation systems, digital music players and other portable technologies increase distractions for motor vehicle drivers. Those new technologies challenge motorists who already struggle with distracting tasks while driving – such as caring for pets and children, holding conversations, eating, reading, smoking and drinking beverages.
Driver inattention is a leading contributor to motor vehicle crashes in Idaho and the rest of the country so U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced new anti-distracted driving regulations.
Kicking off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit Tuesday, LaHood said he was initiating new rulemaking to prohibit commercial truck drivers from texting while transporting hazardous materials.
In addition, he announced that rules banning commercial bus and truck drivers from texting on the job and restricting train operators from using cell phones and other electronic devices while in the driver's seat have been posted. These were rules proposed at last year's summit.
"We are taking action on a number of fronts to address the epidemic of distracted driving in America," said LaHood.
The USDOT and the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) also announced Tuesday that almost 1,600 U.S. companies and organizations have adopted distracted driving policies to date, covering nearly 10.5 million workers nationwide.
Another 550 organizations have committed to adopting policies that will cover another 1.5 million employees within the next year.
"I am thrilled that businesses across the country are making anti-distracted driving policies an integral part of their employee culture," LaHood said.
In 2009, nearly 5,500 people died and one-half million were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) research. Distractions contributed to 16 percent of all traffic fatalities last year.
NHTSA defines distraction as a specific type of inattention that occurs when drivers divert their attention away from the task of driving to focus on another activity instead.
Distracting tasks can affect drivers in different ways and are categorized into three types – visual, taking your eyes off the road; manual, taking your hands off the wheel; and cognitive, taking your mind off the task of driving.
Drivers can reduce distracted driving first by putting down all the technology meant to make life easier and more productive. No one is paying full attention to the road while fussing with those devices.
Almost anything that diverts attention from driving can wait until stopped. The chances of causing a crash that could ruin lives are just too great.
Remind younger drivers that inexperienced driving combined with distractions contribute to critical misjudgments. Drivers younger than 20, who text more than any other age group, have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes.
All have a stake in the problem and can be part of the solution. Full attention must be devoted on driving. Be a good example for children, peers and the community. Always insist that when riding with others they do the same.
There is never a good time to look away from the road.
At 35 mph, a vehicle will travel more than 50 feet in a second. Get distracted for just three seconds and your motor vehicle will travel the distance of half a football field unattended.
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It's called the "Walk of Champions."
Since 1993, Oakland Hills Country Club has marked its rich tradition of hosting the world's most significant golf events with a walk that celebrates champions of the tournaments held on the South course.
Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and the list goes on. The players and the fans at this week's 90th PGA Championship will see golf history made no matter who emerges a winner.
It's the PGA, a major, and it's Oakland Hills, open since 1918, and one of golf's greatest historical venues, open since 1918 and the largest and most prestigious club in this golf-loving northern state.
This is the ninth "major" here by modern standards (six U.S. Opens, three PGAs), but, if taken in historical perspective, the U.S. Amateur, two U.S. Senior Opens and the 2004 Ryder Cup should count.
Legend Donald Ross did the original design. Legend Walter Hagen was its first golf professional. Legend Robert Trent Jones toughened it up with design additions in time for the legendary Hogan to win the 1951 U.S. Open and dub the course "the monster."
Few places, maybe only Augusta National, Pinehurst and Pebble Beach, can boast such a historic resume.
It won't add Woods to the "Walk" this week, and he won't defend the PGA title he won here. But, it's almost certain Oakland Hills, especially in light of an additional 346 yards for 7,445 total, will host another major.
But it might be 10 or 12 years from now, and that would make Woods 42 or 44. Will he still be out there?
The PGA and Oakland Hills will miss Woods. Golf will miss him. Fans will miss him. And he misses out, too.
But it's a major championship, and it will make news if only because the "monster" will be meaner than ever underneath it's glorious green outfit.
Greg Norman and Padraig Harrington made the British Open a great event. Drama unfolds at majors no matter who is playing. They will not put an asterisk on the "Walk of Champions," and anybody who survives one of golf's strongest fields here will have earned true golf honor.
The greens are incomparable. They roll and dip, and putted balls can travel across the green, miss the hole and come back to a golfer's feet. Honest. It's happened in majors here, not to mention daily play.
They have made No. 16, the diabolical par 4 with the pond, even more precarious. They made the back tee 256 yards on the par 3 No. 9 so that like in the old days the golfer is forced to hit a fairway wood. They added bunkers, dug others deeper and moved them to catch the golf balls of long hitters daring to take a short cut.
Rees Jones, a son of Robert Trent Jones who has made his own name as an expert in restoring classic golf venues, did the work. Jones, who designed Thousand Oaks in Grand Rapids, has designed many award-winning courses around the world, but he said the call to ask him to come to Oakland Hills was one he had waited for his entire lifetime.
There may be no Woods this week when the golf world visits Michigan, but we still have our most storied golf course on display.
Who will join the "Walk of Champions?"


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A friend took me to a vegan restaurant last week. It was nearly impossible to eat a totally gluten and soy free meal at this place. The next day I weighed myself and had gained 4 pounds, I felt terrible, and now I have a cold. And then I watched that PETA commercial.
Not a big vegan fan at the moment.


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Game 51: Yankees-Angels
Yankees (26-22)
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Alex Rodriguez, DH
Robinson Cano, 2B
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Raul Ibanez, LF
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Russell Martin, C
Pitching: LH Andy Pettitte (2-1, 2.53 ERA)
Angels (25-25)
Mike Trout, LF
Maicer Izturis, 3B
Albert Pujols, DH
Mark Trumbo, 1B
Howie Kendrick, 2B
Torii Hunter, RF
Erick Aybar, SS
Peter Bourjos, CF
Bobby Wilson, C
Pitching: RH Dan Haren (2-5, 3.76 ERA)
Some postgame notes …
- So, Jered Weaver will be going on the disabled list with a lower back strain. My guess is he misses a little less than a month, but just a guess at this point. Garrett Richards is up. He'll be available out of the bullpen these last couple of games. With the off day, the earliest he'll pitch is Sunday (though Haren may be available for that) and the latest he'll pitch is Tuesday (since Jerome Williams would be required to go on three days' rest by that point).
- Hunter, as evidenced by the starting lineup, was activated from the restricted list, with infielder Andrew Romine being sent back down to Triple-A Salt Lake. Mike Scioscia obviously feels comfortable that Hunter is ready to go.
- As for how the outfield situation will play out moving forward? Scioscia said it'll fluctuate, but I'm thinking the most common lineup you'll see will have Hunter in right, Trout in center and Trumbo in left, with Bourjos and Kole Calhoun backing up.
- Kendrys Morales (5-for-9 with a homer and five RBIs the last couple games) is fine; just sitting because there's a lefty starting. Scioscia said he'll be back out there on Wednesday.
Some Angels links from Memorial Day …
- Trumbo, Angels walk off for seventh straight win
- Notebook, on Weaver leaving his start early, Hunter returning, Memorial Day festivities and some injury updates
- Halos, Haren try to make it eight straight
Some AL West links …
- The Rangers have signed Roy Oswalt (might he have been an option for the Angels if they hadn't?)
- The A's are taking their time with Manny Ramirez
- The Mariners are weighing their options with Ichiro Suzuki
And the Heat pulled out Game 1 of the ECF's against the Celtics, in a game they really had control of for most of the night.
Oh, and don't forget to follow Penn State grad and new MLB.com associate reporter Joe McIntyre on Twitter. He'll be helping me out this summer.
— Alden
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the season. First thgins first, some good news an update toa0a post I made last week saying that Derek Lowe wouldn't be a Type A free agent this offseason. MLBtraderumors now has an update saying that he in fact will be a Type A