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Hayward rewarded with Scarlets coaching role
14 August 2014 14:50pm
By Liz Jones
Byron Hayward was Wales Under 20 head coach last season.
The Welsh Rugby Union has congratulated Wales Under 20 head coach and National Academy Skills coach Byron Hayward on his appointment as Scarlets defence coach.
Hayward was Wales Under 20 backs coach for two seasons, playing a key role in the side reaching the Junior World Championship semi-final in 2012 and the final in 2013, before taking over from Danny Wilson as head coach this season.
National Performance Manager Gethin Watts said, "We wholeheartedly congratulate Byron on his new role. It is the next step in a successful coaching career to date following the opportunities he's had as WRU national academy skills coach, with Wales Under 20 and previously with Sale Sharks after retiring from playing.
"He has experienced one of the highest profile rugby tournaments in the world in the Junior World Championship, achieving excellent results, and has a great understanding of player development through both roles which will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future.
"This appointment comes on the back of other WRU employees who have recently gone on to earning professional coaching contracts, within the Welsh Regions and outside of Wales, such as Dale McIntosh, Paul John, Danny Wilson and Gruff Rees, while others have done the same in areas such as strength and conditioning, analysis and rugby management."
Hayward added, "The quality of rugby I've experienced at Junior World Championship tournaments is very close to senior, professional rugby - the most recent example being South African outside half Handre Pollard who won his first full cap a week after captaining South Africa Under 20 to the final of the Junior World Championship.
"That, along with my work as a WRU academy skills coach, which has given me a unique insight into technical development of players, and previous coaching with Sale, has combined to provide me with the experience I need to take on this role."
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This shaded polygon map shows the percent change in the amount of prime farmland used as cropland from 1982 to 1992 within each 8 digit hydrologic unit, using 1982 as a base year. The percentages are presented in four categories based on the following divisions: an increase of more than 5%, little change (less than 5% change), a decrease of 5% to 25%, and a decrease of over 25%. Areas with less than 5% prime farmland in both 1982 and 1992 are screened out. Areas with 95% or more Federal area are shown as gray.
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Areas with small amounts of prime farmland may have very high rates of change. Changes may be due to either a change in the amount of prime farmland or the conversion of cropland on prime farmland to a non-cropland land cover/use. Data are not shown where prime farmland is less than 5% of the total area. Data are not collected on Federal land. Data are not available for Alaska or the Pacific Basin. Data for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is shown by 6-digit hydrologic unit.
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A Land cover/use category that includes areas used for the production of adapted crops for harvest. Two subcategories of cropland are recognized: cultivated and noncultivated. Cultivated cropland comprises land in row crops or close-grown crops and also other cultivated cropland, for example, hayland or pastureland that is in a rotation with row or close-grown crops. Noncultivated cropland includes permanent hayland and horticultural cropland. [NRI-97]
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Includes land identified as being in row or close crops, summer fallow, aquaculture in crop rotation or other cropland not planted -- including cropland in short-term set-aside programs; or land in horticulture that is double cropped; or land in hay which had at least one of the three previous years in row or close grown crops; or land in pasture which had at least one of the three previous years in row or close grown crops.
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March 15, 2012 —
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — Good things do come in small packages. Class D Livingston Manor, which is tiny compared to the usual larger school headline grabbers in Section 9, now looms huge as its boys and girls basketball teams head to their respective state Final Fours. This unforeseen and unprecedented fairy tale follows a week of regional success that quickly overshadowed the exuberance of the recent Section 9 title victories.
Just a week after reveling in its first-ever boys basketball sectional title and the end of a 12-year girls drought, the party continues apace behind regional game victories that propelled both the boys and girls to the Elysium fields of the state Final Four.
The boys' 86-54 win over Section 1 Greenburgh Academy at the Westchester Center provided the first quaff of the uplifting tonic. Troy Correa led the way with 31 points, while Mike Mills, Kenny Fisk and Josh Janik chimed in with 17, 16 and 10 respectively. Greenburgh's players, who had snickered when the country hicks from somewhere upstate entered the gym, were quickly reminded that great basketball has more to do with heart and skill than geography. Next up was Section 11 Bridgehampton in the quarterfinals held at SUNY New Paltz on March 10. Bridgehampton was state champion from 1996-1998. One of those teams ousted a talented Narrowsburg squad led by then standout Harold Shaw in a regional clash. But that was then. Trailing by two at the half, Manor exploded behind the ethereal play of Correa to lash Bridgehampton 69-53 and to earn a trip to the Mecca of high school basketball, the Glens Falls Civic Center. On March 16 at 11:45 a.m., they will bring their 16-5 moxie to face Section 10 Madrid-Waddington (23-3) in the state semifinals. The winner will play either Section 5 Batavia Notre Dame or Section 3 Sackett's Harbor for the state championship. Correa's 40-point avalanche was fueled by Manor's lightning speed transition game, which has thus far proven to be unstoppable. Correa had 16 points in the third quarter, which equaled Bridgehampton's tally for the period. He'd go on to score 14 of Livingston Manor's 18 points in that deciding third-quarter run. Years of reporting from the state championships with this writer's "LIVE from Glens Falls" narratives have sought to bring a virtual experience to the legions of local fans who have never been to the storied arena. This week, many of them will learn what it's like first hand.
For the girls team, which never made it out of the first round of state play during its three-year run from 1996-1999, a first-round bye propelled them to a quarterfinal clash with Section 11 Shelter Island at Farmingdale State University on March 10. The 13-5 Lady Wildcats downed Shelter Island 58-31 to advance to the state semifinals to take on Section 2 Argyle (21-3) on March 17 at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy at 10:45 a.m. Maggi Calo's four first-half three pointers provided the initial spark for Manor, along with Monay Allen's 12 steals in the game and Samantha Scott's 16 points. A Calo three tied the game at 10 at the end of the first quarter before the Lady Wildcats went on a 20-5 tear in the second stanza.
For Manor, which just last spring brought home state championships in softball and baseball, this basketball season has added enormous pride and joy to the little school on the banks of the Willowemoc. Stay tuned as the story continues.
National treasures
At the New Balance Indoor Track Nationals held at the Armory this past weekend, Eldred's Alex Campanella (4:21.26) was seventh in the mile in the emerging elite category. Teammate Hunter Proscia (9:46.50) finished 31st in the two mile, while Tri-Valley's Jimmy Bernstein (9:52.63) was 40th.. Sullivan West's Todd Roeder (49-0.75) was 21st in the weight throw, while Rachel Deppa (8:27.31) was 27th in the one-mile racewalk. Tri-Valley's Dominique Darby (47-3) was 16th in the weight throw. Former Tri-Valley grad Ryan Loughney, a senior at Ashland University, won his second consecutive Division II National title in the weight throw with a mighty heave of 72-10 on his last attempt. Loughney moves on to compete in the hammer, with an eye on the Olympic trials this June.
Visit www.sportsinsightsny.com [1] for ongoing stories and albums of photos.


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Designing a good website is hard work. For instance, my first blog took far more credit card information and gave far more bestiality information than I intended. Even large corporations staffed with professionals can design terrible sites, but you already know that if you remember Myspace. What you may not know is that the biggest obstacle in designing websites isn't lack of talent, resources, or creative vision. In these five cases, it's having key pieces of your brain eaten by spiders.
5The Boohbah Zone
Boohbah is a British kids' show from the creator of Teletubbies who decided her previous work was too logical and dry. Boohbah.tv seems less like a website and more like the findings of a scientist adding LSD to baby food.
Creamed peaches and diethylamide.
The front page shows the five anthropomorphic testicles that are the Boohbahs hanging out in a world where every cause of death is "clown." The orbs at the top of the screen produce a variety of sounds when you move your sparkling disco cursor over them. A normal person would have made these fun noises for children to enjoy. The Boohbah site designer instead used the sound of Satan blowing into a recorder made from a howling monkey's chest cavity.
Clicking on an Orb of Madness leads you to an activity. Most of these have no apparent purpose, and none offers any sort of reward. The far left orb, for example, leads you to an activity that, in lieu of any official information, I've dubbed "The Futility of Work."
Clicking on a Boohbah makes it vanish with a noise of a squirrel orgasm. When all the Boohbahs are eliminated you're rewarded with a screen free of Boohbahs and absolutely nothing else. So congratulations, kid! You clicked on stuff until there was nothing left to click on! Something tells me that years from now they'll know it's you when someone across your office shouts, "He's killing everyone!"
Conversely, another orb lets you coat your screen with Boohbahs until your eyes see naught but Boohbahs. Until all you are is Boohbah. Until Boohbahs, Boohbah. Boohbah:
And where Boohbahs end, the seizures begin.
The Boohbah Zone also features what are ostensibly games. You access these by going to the main page and following the spiral road to the Rainbow Portal to Madness. Each game features a pointlessly simple objective, static low-res photos of people, and a brief, looping tune from the classic album 101 Nursery Songs for Parents Who Misused Contraception.
Make one lifeless human hop on a trampoline while another watches with dead eyes. Force a dog to jump toward a beach ball for all eternity. Bounce what-were-once-people on chairs until you are bored enough to quit or cruel enough to let them plummet off the screen -- a death so shocking, it's accompanied by the sound of a thousand mice shitting in their pants.
Choose your upholstered lounge chair wisely, for one is certain doom.
It doesn't take much to entertain children, but it doesn't take much to confuse and terrify them, either. You'd think a website associated with a kids' TV program would know how to accomplish something beyond convincing impressionable young minds that the Internet is a dadaist black hole.
4Another Day, Another Word
On almost every day from October 7, 2007, to December 6, 2010, the creator of Another Day, Another Word uploaded an audio clip of himself speaking a single word. Your guess is as good as mine as to why. In fact, your guess is probably better, because the best I can come up with is that a dictionary gained sentience and wanted us confused before it destroyed us.
Well, those certainly are both days and words.
Let's rule out the obvious explanations first. It's not a vocabulary builder, because it features mostly basic words and provides no definitions. It can't be a language course, because hearing one random word a day is a slower way to learn English than to be born a parrot. And there's no apparent message or theme that connects any of the words. It's like reading what's left of a magazine after someone has cut it up to make a ransom note.
Exploring the site only raises further questions. The words are recorded in a bored monotone, as if the speaker was only doing this to complete a school assignment or fulfill his wife's oddly specific fetish. Yet care was clearly put into the site -- each month gets its own special font, and even the year numbers are spoken aloud. Most websites that recite arbitrary daily words neglect this important step.
Why, ooh la la, September 2009!
The majority of words are spoken by the same man, but a scattered few are said by other people -- because whose friends wouldn't love to participate in this? Be warned that some of the guest stars may not be human (particularly the voice behind "responsiveness," which is clearly a robot talking with a mouth full of human baby).
Despite setting out to perform what may be the simplest task ever imagined, the site sometimes failed. A handful of days in 2009 are skipped without explanation, and then the word for most of September 2010 is "technical difficulties." After that, the project continued without incident until its abrupt conclusion -- the final word of "maybe." As in, "Maybe there was a point to all of this, but you're never going to find out." I encourage you to explore the site and see if you can discover a hidden meaning or maybe put together some sweet rhymes, but take it slow. If you mouse over too many words at once it sounds like an ESL class reciting the Necronomicon.


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The Millennium Pipeline Company is seeking to build a $40 million compressor station on Hungry Hill Road, in the Town of Hancock. The facility will allow the company to move a much higher amount of gas through the pipeline to new customers.
Mike Armiak, a Millennium representative, explained at a public hearing regarding tax incentives for the project that potential new customers are driving the project. Customers include power companies that are fueled by coal and oil that are considering changing to natural gas. The owners of oil burners in New York City and the owners of fleet vehicles are also considering the switch. He said the price of gas right now is extremely low compared to oil and coal.
The company has applied to the Delaware County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) for tax abatements that would amount to a savings of $2 million in property taxes over 15 years, and $1.6 million in sales taxes. But the company would also pay about $2 million through a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement.
Glenn Nealis, executive director of the IDA, said the agency sees the project "as an investment in infrastructure that is crucial to future business development as well as community and residential access to natural gas," which a couple of speakers noted is the least expensive form of fuel available today.
Several speakers, including Bill Gross, president of the Hancock Area Chamber of Commerce, echoed the view that ensuring a low-cost supply of natural gas to potential businesses was in the town's interest.
But residents who live near the compressor station in Hungry Hill Road don't have access to natural gas, and many of them have expressed serious concerns about health and safety impacts of the compressor. Resident Jessica Kenyon said carcinogens from the station "may have long-term health impacts on my children."
As the debate over hydraulic fracturing rages around the nation, there are hundreds of cases of people to be found on the Internet who say their health has been adversely impacted by compressor stations, and Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish Texas, famously moved his family out of that town because of health concerns from compressor stations.
On the other side of the issue, pipeline companies assert that the equipment they use is improving every year.
On this project, Kenyon also said part of the road is seasonal and normally not used in the winter, but now that Millennium wants to build the compressor, town officials have removed the seasonal signs and are apparently planning to make it a year-round road.
Several speakers said that Millennium is a wealthy company that can afford to pay full taxes and the incentives amount to "corporate welfare." Resident Peter Gotthardt said incentives should be used for struggling start-ups, not to make wealthy companies even wealthier.
There was some discussion of whether Millennium would build the compressor station without the incentives, but Armiak did not comment on the matter.
Before the pipeline was expanded in 2008, Millennium went to all eight counties through which the pipeline runs, including Sullivan and Delaware, and asked for tax exemptions. Tioga County was the only county to say no to the tax breaks. The pipeline was expanded there anyway, and the county, as well as towns and school districts, were able to collect full taxes from the company.


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Our right to know in Illinois gets better as of tomorrow, and a New York newspaper goes after our right to bear arms by outing gun owners.
• HOW MUCH IS THAT GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE IN THE WINDOW: It will be much easier for us to find out how much public-sector employees are earning.
House Bill 222, which takes effect with the new year, requires Illinois counties, municipalities and townships to submit employee salaries to the searchable Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal that lists state employees and state spending.
You can access the portal at http://accountability.illinois.gov.
The portal and its recent improvement are the creations of McHenry County legislators. It was Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, whose bill created the portal in 2009, and state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, drafted the bill adding the local salaries.
Franks' bill overcame opposition from lobbying groups representing county and township governments and the American Federation of State, Municipal and County Employees.
School district salaries are already on a searchable database at the Illinois State Board of Education website (the direct link is here), and state law requires districts to also post salary data on their own websites.
• REGISTRATION AND INTIMIDATION: Yet again, I have to write about a newspaper's ill-conceived idea to publicly "out" gun owners just because they can.
In the wake of the tragic mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the (White Plains, N.Y.) Journal News is printing the names and addresses – complete with a locator map – of every citizen in their readership area with a gun permit.
The title of the newspaper's piece, "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood" says it all – unfair and unbalanced. The guy across the street ... dah dah DAAAAAAH! ... owns a gun! He's evil, we tell you!
The newspaper's intent, naked and brazen, is to plant the seed that every law-abiding gun owner is the next mass shooter waiting to happen.
Frequent visitors to this blog know that my disgust with such ideas comes not of my love of the Second Amendment, but of my love of transparency and open government.
Such irresponsible decisions by media organizations more often than not spell disaster for the cause. Such stunts make people scared senseless of open records, and politicians are more than happy to exploit it by swooping in and passing bills restricting our access to information. As I blogged here, it's happened after several newspapers decided to publish lists of concealed-carry license holders.
The Journal News. sorry to say, fundamentally failed the community that I'm sure it boasts each day that it serves. It especially failed the battered ex-wife in hiding or the retired prosecutor who would have very good reasons to keep anonymous and keep a gun in the house.
If a media agency uses gun ownership records to uncover that convicted felons are slipping through the cracks and getting permits, that's journalism. If a media agency uncovers that there are few or no checks and balances to prevent people with mental disabilties or substance abuse problems from legally obtaining firearms, that's journalism.
Listing wholesale the list of everyone who has a firearm is not journalism. What it is is unsuitable for print, but let's just say it can be found in abundance in my daughter's diaper pail.
I'm not alone in the Fourth Estate when it comes to my opposition. Media ethicist Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, called the decision "journalistic arrogance to abuse public record privilege", and expressed my shared concern that government could crack down on open records laws as a result.
I hate leaving 2012 on a bad karma note, but if any U.S. newsroom in 2013 has to get a visit from the Layoff Fairy, I have the perfect one in mind.
And on that note:
• CONCERNS JUSTIFIED: I'm sure I raised a few eyebrows in the open records crowd a year ago when I celebrated the fact that our Illinois General Assembly exempted Illinois Firearm Owners Identification cards from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
If you recall, the Illinois Associated Press had asked for the list from the Illinois State Police, and the Attorney General ruled – correctly at the time – that nothing in FOIA made the list exempt from disclosure. State lawmakers rushed to exempt the list before the AP could get their hands on it, and a judge also ruled the list must remain private.
I argued that the AP's motives had nothing to do with investigative journalism, and argued that their intent was to pull the same stunt that the Journal News just did and print the list wholesale.
So I guess I owe the Journal News a degree of thanks for justifying my concerns.
And hopefully Illinois' impending law to allow for concealed carry will carry an identical exemption from disclosure.
Senior Writer Kevin Craver can be reached at email@example.com.


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After last Sunday races, we were all very excited to see Ted Johnston Win the F500 Feature race, after Tom Diehm had mechanical issues.
It is in your best interest to read on.
Some guest spectator friends of mine were walking round the racetrack, last race weekend, after Saturday racing was over. Coming through the esses, they heard conversations in the paddock. Curious as to how loud it was they looked beyond the fence line. To their surprise, and amazement, they saw what appeared to be a very large, and somewhat hairy looking person, passing between the Formula 500 pit areas. They quickly pulled out their phone cameras, but only got off this somewhat blurry shot.
They brought this to my attention, as I am a F500 driver. They asked what I thought of this image. At first I didn't think too much of it. But my curiosity got the best of me. So I put the photo into my computer, to take a closer look. As I have some experience in digital imaging, I tried to manipulate the image as best I could, to clarify it a bit. The image surely does look like Bigfoot. But even more curious was that it was carrying, what I believe to be a Sawzall and a photo of Tom Diehm's racecar – oddly departing Ted Johnston paddock space.
Again, not being a rumor guy - it does beg the question as to how Tom, in its rarity, had a mechanical failure, and this Bigfoot sighting all happened within 24 hours of each other.
You be the judge.
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Nice thread!
This is going to be a great game. I expect this one to go down to the wire.
New York, which went 3 of 19 from 3-point range Sunday after going 28 of 53 in the two previous games, wasn't much better offensively in three losses to the Bucks last season. The Knicks averaged 87.0 points and were held to 67 in the last meeting.
The addition of Stoudemire might help, as he's averaged 23.5 points in his last six meetings against the Bucks.
☆A look at the Bucks:
Milwaukee (2-5) is coming off a poor offensive performance of its own in an 87-81 loss to New Orleans on Saturday. The Bucks, who are averaging 89.6 points, shot 38.6 percent for a second straight game to see their season mark drop to 39.9. They were 4 of 16 from 3-point range and scored 35 points in the first half.
"It was just an ugly game for us," point guard Brandon Jennings(notes) said. "It's starting to get a little bit ridiculous now because every day it's like it's something - shots not falling and we just all break down. Some people are probably not on the same page, or I don't know what it is, but it's getting a little bit annoying now."
Even the return of Andrew Bogut(notes) didn't help. After missing the previous game with a migraine, Bogut had 19 points and 14 rebounds.
Bogut had one of the best games of his career the last time he faced the Knicks, scoring 24 points to go along with 20 rebounds and five blocked shots in an 83-67 win Feb. 22.
Felton VS Jennings
We could have had Jennings ahead of Hill in last year's draft. That didn't happen. Result: Raymond Felton. You know he's going to bring it. Jennings will also have to put up with Douglas' defence. Let's wear this cat down and choke up their offence.
Keys to a W:
As always, DEFENCE. Containing my fellow Ozi, Andrew Bogut, is no small task, but effective use of substitutions and fouls between The Gov and Ronnie T will at least, hopefully, dampen Bogut's output.
Effective ball movement, HIGH% shots also critical to keeping this team above .500.
Nice thread!
This is going to be a great game. I expect this one to go down to the wire.
im hopin to at least see a good, hard fought game that goes down to the final minute. I know its early but it'd be nice to get this win to avoid going below .500
Im afraid of going below .500 In the past, once we fell below .500 we didnt seem to ever make it back
The Bucks are a pretty talented team and they beat us pretty bad last year but we're an entirely different team.
Felton and Douglas are going to do much better against Brandon Jennings than Chris Duhon did. Mozgov and Turiaf are going to play much better against Bogut than David Lee did. Meanwhile, they no longer have Luke Ridnour, and we should NOT be losing to a team starting Drew Gooden at PF, that's just sad.
This is kind of a MUST WIN. I would hate to go below .500. Coach will have the team ready to ball I think.
Thanks for the game thread, Crazy8s.
Looking forward to this one. Hard to know which Knicks team is going to turn up for which game but hopefully the boys play well.
Yeah I want this game bad.. espcially considering the Bucks are staggering alittle right now and we need to go one above .500 because we have a tough Warriors team coming at us the very next night.
Gotta go out there right away and set the tone. Could be very tough.
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Should be a win for the Knicks. A lot of people I've been talking to put the bucks ahead of us in their playoff standings. I think this team is highly over rated and is showing their true colors now.
Jennings is not better then Felton and we'll see it tonight. He's overrated and flashy.
I also think that while Bogut is a decent option at the 5, when he goes up against better defensive 5's (ie. Turiaf) he gets frustrated easily. On top of that he's been complaining about migraines and coming off a long stay in a suit on the bench, he's not performing at 100%.
We need to win this game and stay above .500. I know that the coaching staff is stressing this game because we need a big win after our last outing and this is a team we could be battling with for playoff position later on in the season. If we can establish our dominance over them early it will go a long way in the later part of the year.
Really would be disheartening to go to 3-4. I honestly thought that at 3-2 after strong wins against the Bulls and Wizard that wins against the Sixers and Bucks were near certainties and we'd be 5-2. Oh well....
"We've suffered enough"...Stephen A. Smith
I'm sure Skiles will have his guys ready to play after their last performance. Dantoni should as well. I expect to see a hard fought game for all 4 quarters. I would love to get a win here but I'll stop short of a guarantee. The Bucks were a 6 seed last season and improved by signing Roberts and Maggette. I know their only 2-5 but I have to assume their much better than that.
@SSj4Wingzero - Gooden is no pushover. He plays very hard in the post and can disrupt players shots. He's also a decent rebounder. Everything we have in Turiaf you should expect with Gooden + a better mid range shot.
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Great Game Thread!
Im glad I didnt have to see Jennings face after his team offseason moves.
The Bucks reduce themselves down to a one-man team over the summer.
After the Knicks Sunday chaotic-loss to bum coach Doug Collins .....
the Knicks better WIN vs the Bucks by any means nessesary.....no excuses.
I want to see Mozgov collect 4 to 5 fouls on Bogut to receive developing-playingtime (24 mpg).
I want Fields in the game every quarter to dismantle Jennings/Salmon
I want Douglas to come in as our 6th-man replacing Felton, Chandler as
our 7th Man replacing Gallo, and Turiaf as our 8th man replacing Amare or Mozgov.
Im tired of seeing Dantoni sickening way of rotating/substituting players to fit
his sickness of favoritism players. Felton is not Steve Nash or a facilitator like Nash (I dont want a repeat of the previous 2 seasons of Duhon).
Yes, I am angry! I loss money on Sunday game. The Jets & Giants WON, but the Knicks.......


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The day before yesterday, I ended up staying at ICN longer than planned and managed to breastfeed Penga during a 12 hour period. We nursed 5 times w/ only 15ml supplementation (for Penga to take muti-vitamin).
AND at the end of the day, Penga's weight increased by 2 oz! Penga was producing pee pee at every diaper change (before every feeding), and also had good poo poo
I have a hope that we can exclusively breastfeed at home
By the way, Penga's expected discharge day is now set for this coming Tuesday (Dec. 11.)
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CONCORD, N.H. Marilyn J. Varrill, 80, passed away on Feb. 4, 2013, at Concord Hospital with her loving family by her side.
She was born on April 1, 1932, in Moretown, Vt., the youngest of Don and Freda (Reed) Fielders five children.
She graduated from Spaulding High School in 1950. In 1953, she went on to marry her husband, James.
Marilyn was a devoted secretary to her husbands office in their home for 30 years, along with raising five wonderful children.
Known to all as Nana, she was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She had a great love for cows and loons, but definitely not mice that her grandchildren would occasionally tease her with as gifts.
She enjoyed spending time at the family cottage on Partridge Lake in Littleton for the past 26 years where she developed her love for loons.
Marilyn is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, James; her four children, sons John, of Concord, Dan and his wife, Judy, of Loudon, daughters Susan and her husband, Brad Marlatt, of Buena Vista, Va., Cindy and her husband, Ron Dubuc, of Loudon; her eight grandchildren, Brian Marlatt and his wife, Brandy, Tim Marlatt and his wife, Casey, Rebecca Marlatt, all of Buena Vista, Va., Ryan Dubuc and his wife, Abby, Holly Crowley and her husband, Kevin, of Saugus, Mass., Danielle Varrill, Stephanie Beaton and her husband, Lee, Beth Desmarais and her two children, Jonah and Chloe; two great-grandchildren, Hannah Dubuc and Chloe Marlatt; numerous nieces and nephews; and eight grand-dogs, Kelsey, Tucker, Bailey, Hokie, Addie, Emma, Gunner and Stella.
She was predeceased by her son David, who died on April 6, 1978; and a nephew, Bobby Fielder, who died March 3, 1966.
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As they sat down to refine their game plan for Sunday's winner-take-all NFC North showdown with the Chicago Bears, the members Green Bay Packers coaching staff could feel the buzz.
Although they'd started planning early – even before last Sunday's game against Pittsburgh – because of the Christmas holiday and didn't know for certain who'd be at quarterback, it seemed clear to them that Aaron Rodgers was trending toward his return.
And while getting their franchise quarterback was exciting enough, the idea of him working in tandem with running back Eddie Lacy – now that Lacy has emerged as one of the league's top backs and the frontrunner for the NFL offensive rookie of the year award – left offensive coordinator Tom Clements, quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo, running backs coach Alex Van Pelt and head coach Mike McCarthy almost giddy at the possibility.
"We're excited," said Van Pelt, who also lends his quarterback expertise in the offensive meetings when asked to do so. "Anytime you get a player like Aaron back – I don't even care about running the football – it's just great for your team, great for the locker room. The energy was amazing today, just the fact that knowing he's going to be out there on Sunday.
"When you've got a guy like Eddie and Aaron back there, you'll be able to run the ball into some decent boxes, and take advantage of that. The play-action game, all that comes with that – it's exciting. It's been awhile since we've had that combination going, and hopefully we can use it to our benefit this week."
According to the calculations of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Tom Silverstein, only 287 of Lacy's 636 offensive snaps this season (45.1 percent) came with Rodgers at quarterback. Although Lacy's now hobbled by a right ankle sprain that dates back to the team's Dec. 8 game against Atlanta, the Packers coaching staff is confident that Lacy will play.
"The type of guy he is, he's not going to be one that's going to not play if he's not 100 percent. Eighty percent of Eddie is still darned good," Van Pelt said. "So whatever he's at, when you ask him, 'Hey, are you going to be there on Sunday?' He says, 'Absolutely, I wouldn't miss it.'"
Given that the Packers will be facing a Bears defense that ranks dead last in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per game (161.5) and in yards allowed per carry (5.4) and gave up 291 rushing yards to Philadelphia last week, Lacy figures to have a field day even if the Bears load the box to stop him.
But here's the thing: Unlike defenses were able to do with Scott Tolzien and Matt Flynn at quarterback, the Bears won't be able to focus solely on stopping the run while daring the Packers to throw the ball. That's what happened after Rodgers suffered his broken collarbone Nov. 4 against the Bears, and it's the polar opposite of what Rodgers dealt with last season, when teams dared the Packers to run the ball with their inept stable of backs and committed to not letting Rodgers and his receivers beat them deep. Tolzien was able to make the New York Giants pay multiple times for that approach,a dn Flynn managed to complete a few balls downfield in recent weeks as well.
But neither presents the threat Rodgers does, and defenses now will be forced to figure out how to defend an elite quarterback and a highly productive running back simultaneously.
With Rodgers set to make the start after missing seven games, defensive coordinators finally will face the quandary of stopping the run or stopping one of the league's greatest quarterbacks. Last year, when the Packers' running game by committee approach failed, Rodgers got a steady diet of defenses playing both their safeties back to take away big-play opportunities. While Rodgers was out, teams brought at least one safety and oftentimes two down into the box to stop Lacy.
"Obviously, with having [Rodgers] back, teams for that stretch there last year, the year before, were playing us two-high all the time," left guard Josh Sitton said. "You'd like to think that that's how defenses are going to react when he's back. But we don't know. We've still got to go execute. Hopefully, that helps make us that much better."
When Rodgers went down at the end of the Packers' opening series against the Bears seven weeks ago, the Bears came in with a game plan that had both safeties back. They stuck with that plan even after Rodgers departed, and Lacy finished with 22 carries for a season-high 150 yards and a touchdown.
"Eddie, as most runners do, as the year goes along, the blocking becomes more solid because they're used to seeing different things. He's been running the ball very well," Clements said. "He ran the ball well when Aaron was in there. I don't know how to quantify when they were both at their best, but at times they were, now they're back."
Even before Rodgers' injury, though, his time with Lacy was limited. Lacy sustained a concussion on his first carry against Washington in Week 2, then sat out the Week 3 game at Cincinnati because of it. Upon his return against Detroit on Oct. 6, Lacy carried 97 times for 395 yards and two touchdowns.
Then came Rodgers' injury, which left him on the sideline to watch opposing teams run the defenses he'd have given anything to have seen himself.
"They're playing almost exclusively one-high safety," Rodgers observed after the team's Thanksgiving Day loss to Detroit. "They're daring you to throw the football. They're saying, 'We're going to stop the run, and we dare you to throw the football.' And that's why you're going to have opportunities to hit those over-the-top ones."
On Thursday, Rodgers touted Lacy's rookie of the year candidacy and likened his style to that of Seattle's Marshawn Lynch, Rodgers' teammate in college at California-Berkeley. Together, they can only make each other better.
"[The running game] is a big part of our offense, and it has been for most of the year. We made a better commitment to being a better running team and we are," Clements said. "We're going to run it, we're going to throw it, we're going to do whatever gives us the best chance to win.
"You obviously like to have all of your guys at their optimum physical level, so it would be nice to have them both in there."
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By André Coleman , Kevin Uhrich 06/05/2014
Statements of economic interest filed by Pasadena's mayor and City Council members offer a glimpse at the wealth of some of these elected officials and reveal some possible confusion by others about what needs to be reported regarding personal finances.
Council members Gene Masuda, Victor Gordo, John Kennedy and Steve Madison all list stocks, businesses and properties that they own and rent. Othes like Bill Bogaard and Margaret McAustin reported as much as possible, including their personal residences.
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) requires officials to list their homes if any portion of it is used as a home office. According to state law, disclosures must be made each year that an individual holds office. The deadline for filing the forms is April 1 of the following year.
City Clerk Mark Jomsky said any enforcement action is left up to the FPPC.
"I have been told mine is fine," said Kennedy, adding he was not required to list stocks he owned that were part of a mutual fund, which he receives as part of a deferred compensation package on his Form 700, or state of economic interest (SEI). According to Jomsky, stocks contained in mutual funds, IRAs and 410Ks do not have to be reported. Kennedy also listed the Los Angeles Urban Leagues as the source of "severance payments" of between $10,001 and $100,000 in 2013. He also listed $250 in gifts in the form of complimentary tickets to local events.
Masuda told the Weekly that had no additional reportable income other than the rental property on Sierra Madre Boulevard that he reported on his forms. "I don't have any stocks," Masuda told the Weekly. "All I have is the real estate."
Gordo listed rental homes and his work as attorney and secretary treasurer of United Public Employees LIUNA (Laborers' International Union of North America) Local 777 and as an attorney with the firm Scolinos, Sheldon and Nevel. Gordo told the Weekly that he only consults with Scolinos, Sheldon and Nevel.
Madison, also an attorney, listed an investment of between $10,001 and $100,000 in his limited partnership with Athenaeum Fund, LP, and stock valued at between $100,001 and $1 million with ProAmerica Bank. Madison also lists his partnership investment of between $100,001 and $1 million in Dona Rosa, LP, a restaurant South Arroyo Parkway. Madison also lists partnership income of over $100,000 from his law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. And he notes accepting $468 in gifts during 2013.
In his statement of economic interests, or 700 Form, Councilman Terry Tornek lists that he attended concerts performed by the musical group MUSE/IQUE, headed by Rachael Worby, a total of three times in 2013, with ticket totaling $250.
Councilwoman Jacque Robinson, who serves as the council's vice mayor, is not married and does not own a home. She also listed only gifts and travel costs she received that year.
On his form, Bogaard lists his home on Congress Place as an investment, one valued at more than $1 million, as well as stock with 46 major corporations.
A partial list of Bogaard's stock valued at between $10,001 and $100,000 includes Verizon, Qualcom Inc. Visa Inc., the Goldman Sachs Group, Phillip Morris International (makers of tobacco products), Pepsico Inc. United Health Group, Target, Starbucks Corp., Nestle, Tiffany, Charter Communications, Ross Stores, Johnson & Johnson, Mattel, Apple, AT&T, Lockheed Martin, Boeing Co., Conoco Phillips, McDonald's Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc.
Bogaard owns stock valued at between $100,001 and $1 million with Microsoft Corp., Chevron, Well Fargo & Co., Comcast Corp., Home Depot Inc. and Bristol Meyers Squibb. Bogaard also list three meals as gifts totaling $160 as gifts.
In her disclosure forms, McAustin, a financial consultant, lists her home on Atchison Street, a rental property she owns on that street and a number of investments in stocks valued at between 2,000 and $10,000 with Aerovironment, Starbucks, Verizon, Wells Fargo Bank and CVS Caremark, a pharmaceutical company. She also lists financial consulting work she performed for three clients. McAustin didn't list any gifts, but she did note her partnership in StorBox Self-Storage on Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena.
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Dorothy was born to Thornton and Mira Miskie Lott on Sept. 5, 1923 in Goliad.
She was a retired cafeteria cook for the Goliad County Hospital and homemaker.
She was a devoted Christian who belonged to the Fannin Street United Methodist Church for over 75 years, serving in many forms of church work.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John C. Whitby Jr., and sister, Mary Lee Lott, and brothers, Everett and Eddie Lott. Survivors include two cousins and their families, Leona Todd and Roy Moore, brother-in-law, Julius Whitby Sr., and family along with sister-in-law, Francis Franklin, and family.
Visitation will begin Friday, July 19 at Grace Funeral Home in Goliad at 1 p.m. and last until 7 p.m. Family will receive friends beginning at 5 p.m.
Funeral services will be on Saturday, July 20 at 11 a.m. at Fannin Street United Methodist Church in Goliad with Rev. Darrell Edwards officiating. Burial will follow in the Lott Cemetery in Goliad.
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Decorator Cut Out Sugar CookiesDecorator cut out cookies used to scare me. I mean look at them! They just look hard, don't they? Well, I did it! And somehow I managed to squeeze it into the past two days of craziness. And yay, I got them done before Christmas Day too, despite the fact that I only decided to do them on Monday. I'm talking about decorating all those Christmas cookie cut outs that I rolled and baked the other day of course. I think they came out very nice, don't you? And ya know... it was really fun to do!
I can't believe I ever let a little royal icing and some decorating tools intimidate me all these years. I really enjoyed this entire process. This recipe will be perfect for making cut out cookies any time of the year and for any occasion. All you need are the cookie cutters!
I don't know about elsewhere in the world, but you would never know there was a recession at our local WalMart because I've been there several times over the last 2 days and that place was ALL abuzz! The mall too. And since I'm getting ready to gather myself to get my dishes ready for the big day tomorrow, there's a high probability that I'll be back out there again today! Actually, all the buzz and excitement really lifted my spirits yesterday and while it was crowded and the waits were long, it finally felt like Christmas and I didn't mind at all!
I really like this recipe and as you see, it makes quite a few cookies. Now once you get all that royal icing flooded in, it is a goodly bit of major sweetness, but I guess that's probably a good thing cuz it'll keep ya from eating a boatload of 'em all at once! I hope that you give cookie crafting a try too. Merry Christmas!
Recipe: Decorator Cut Out Sugar Cookies©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 20 min |Cook time: 10 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
Instructions Measure the flour into a large bowl. Add the baking powder and salt and whisk together, mixing well. Set aside.
- 6 cups of all purpose flour (I use White Lily)
- 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 pound of unsalted butter (I use Land O'Lakes)
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Cream the butter. Add the sugar and mix on high speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Reduce the speed, add the eggs one at a time and blend. Add the vanilla and mix. Increase speed slightly and begin adding the flour mixture at about 1/2 cup at a time until fully incorporated.
Lay out a sheet of parchment paper. Separate the dough in 4 balls. Place one ball on the parchment and flatten into a disc. Cover with another sheet of parchment paper and roll out to desired thickness. Two wooden slats placed on top of the parchment paper at each side of the dough work well to keep a uniform thickness when rolling the rolling pin across the slats. Place the dough in the parchment paper on a cookie sheet and repeat until all dough balls have been rolled out, stacking them on top of each other. Refrigerate for a minimum of 10 minutes. If refrigerating for an extended period of time, wrap the entire cookie sheet with plastic wrap to protect the dough from drying out.
When ready to bake, pull one parchment section out at a time and cut out desired shapes. Carefully transfer cut outs to a cookie sheet and place in the refrigerator to chill for another 10 minutes. This will help the cookies to retain their shapes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Once cookies have chilled, pull the tray out of the refrigerator and bake cookies for about 8 to 10 minutes.
Gather all of the cut-out scraps together at once, squish and ball them up well, flatten into a disk and roll them out again between the sheets of parchment; place into refrigerator to chill and once chilled, cut out shapes and discard any remaining dough. If you reuse the dough too much, your cookies might just crumble up and you don't want to chance that!
Once cooked, let the cookies rest on the pan for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Decorate with Royal Icing if you intend to stack these cookies in more than one layer. I put my finished decorated cookies on the cooling racks and then stack the racks in the oven, letting them dry completely overnight - if you do this, just be sure to tape a big ole sign to the front of your oven to warn others NOT to turn the oven on! If there is any moisture left in the icing when you seal them in a container, it will cause your cookies to soften and break apart. Store temporarily in a covered container, but I find that down south where we don't much have a winter and we do have a lot of humidity, they do best on trays, kept right on that holiday sweets table, in just a layer or two and covered with plastic wrap. This seems to help to keep them drier than sealing them in a container.
Royal Icing
Plan to use a 1/2 pound recipe of piping royal icing and a 1-pound recipe of flood royal icing to pipe, flood and detail 2 to 3 batches of rolled sugar cookies.
For Piping
- 2 cups (1/2 pound) powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons meringue powder
- 3 tablespoons warm water (approximately, may need slightly more)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice OR 1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla or other extract
For Flooding
- 4 cups (1 pound) powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 6 tablespoons warm water (approximately, may need slightly less or more)
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice OR 1 to 2 teaspoon vanilla or other extract
- 2 cups (1/2 pound) powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons meringue powder
- 6 tablespoons warm water (approximately, may need slightly more)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice OR 1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla or other extract
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- 4 cups (1 pound) powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 12 tablespoons warm water (approximately, may need slightly less or more)
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice OR 1 to 2 teaspoon vanilla or other extract
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Home List of Titles Gonadotrophin administration can benefit ovarian tissue grafted to the body wall: implications for human ovarian grafting
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/94563
- Title
- Gonadotrophin administration can benefit ovarian tissue grafted to the body wall: implications for human ovarian grafting
- Author(s)
- Imthurn, B.; Cox, S. L.; Jenkin, G.; Trounson, A. O.; Shaw, J. M.
- Abstract
- Ovarian grafting provides a strategy for clinical infertility treatment and is starting to be used in conjunction with ovarian tissue storage for patients at risk of early ovarian failure. As patients are starting to return for their frozen stored tissue we need to ascertain how to maximise follicle survival when this tissue is grafted back to the patient. For research purposes ovarian tissue is commonly grafted to the kidney capsule as the rich capillary bed at this site favours rapid graft revascularization. This is however not an ideal site for natural conceptions or for the harvest of mature oocytes for in vitro fertilization. While oocytes would be relatively easy to recover from grafts on the abdominal wall or subcutaneous tissue graft revascularization at these sites is slower and evidence indicates that fewer follicles survive. As gonadotropins can upregulate angiogenic growth factors in the ovary this study was designed to test whether the administration of exogenous gonadotropins would increase the number of surviving follicles in grafts placed at less vascularised sites. We showed that exogenous gonadotrophins, given to either the donor or the recipient, could increase the number of developing follicles but the magnitude of this effect was influenced by the timing of the injections relative to the time of grafting.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Vol. 163, no. 1-2 (May 2000), pp. 141-146
- Publication year
- 2000
- FOR Code(s)
- 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology; 1103 Clinical Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Angiogenesis; Gonadotrophins; Ovarian tissue; Transplantation
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0303-7207
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- Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
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"It's pretty big," said Logan running back David Hellerud.
"It's just really unique to our area," said Logan Activities Director Steve Hole.
"For a lot of people in this area, it's everything," said Logan Head Coach Casey Knoble.
"Two sides of the city really going at it, kind of a pride factor," said Central quarterback Dan Callahan.
It's Logan versus Central. And for the first time ever, they're playing each other in the playoffs.
"You think about the history of Central and Logan, and when they first started playing games back in the early 1900's, and to think that this is the first time they've played in a playoff game, I guess that is a pretty special thing to be thinking about," said Central Activities Director Joe Beran.
"That's amazing, it's never happened before," Knoble said.
Central and Logan first played one another way back in 1928. Logan wasn't nicknamed the Rangers. Central wasn't even located at Central.
Over 85 years, the two schools have played one another 86 times. That means they've faced each other twice in a season only once before: 1974.
"In 1974, what happened is both Central and Logan were part of a six team Big Rivers conference," Beren said. "From what I have been told, because of the economy and the cost of travel back then, the conference decided that week nine, they would play a second time within the conference. It was kind of a rivalry type week."
Normally, Central and Logan play for the ark of victory. But the ark is not on the line on Friday night.
"We would certainly love it to be on the line," Beren said. "But that is a regular season traveling trophy, so no, that will not be on the line."
"That ship has sailed. That ark has sailed. That ark is where it belongs and it's going to stay there," Hole said. "Maybe make a little paper ark or something, a replica, just in case they would beat us. That can be their ark."
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I really don't care where their music is produced. So long as they keep making it. The album with "male" and "female" (can't remember it's name) is pretty good. I love when violins are incorporated into metal.
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My 5 and a half month old started solids almost two weeks ago. We started with rice cereal, and now have moved on to oat cereal. It seems to be going okay, but I'm having a lot of difficulty getting baby to open his mouth. I have to "trick" him by getting him to smile or laugh so that I can get some food in. And then, he gets a really dissatisfied look on his face. Like he's disgusted with both the food and with me.
From everything I've read, I know that solids is supposed to be a slow and learning process. I guess I'm just looking for some reassurance that everything will get better. Does anyone have a similar story or any tips that would make the process a little smoother?
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Fetal Monitor
Labor is an exciting, rewarding experience for expectant parents. It's the grand finale for nine months of hard work. Without a doubt, the mother will experience pain and stress during labor. In most cases, the baby tolerates labor quite well. However with every delivery there's an element of risk that cannot be ignored. This chance of risk is why all babies should be monitored while the mother is in labor.
An electronic fetal monitor measures the response of the baby's heartbeat to the contractions of the uterus. There are several different types of monitors. They all monitor the same signals and will give a reading of this relationship (effect of labor contractions on baby's heartbeat). The labor and delivery nurse or a technician may be able to pick up on signs of fetal stress and distress through the variations found on the readings. Some monitors are equipped to sound an alarm if such a variation occurs. There are two types of fetal monitoring, external or internal monitoring. External monitoring is the most common. Internal monitoring is used when more accurate readings are required. If and when suspicion of fetal distress shows up in external monitoring, internal monitoring would be used.
There are four main types of monitoring equipment:


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All-star game keeps its edge
Since Major League Baseball started attaching home-field advantage in the World Series to the outcome of the All-Star Game, in 2003, declaring, This time it counts, the slogan has often been ridiculed.
There continues to be plenty of fodder for those who mock how seriously the game is taken. On Tuesday night, for example, the American League, in a close game, replaced outfielder Mike Trout, one of the best all-around players in the game, with Torii Hunter, an aging player who could not match Trouts skills even in his prime.
But judging by recent scores, attaching significance to the All-Star Game has had a positive effect on its competitiveness. In 2002 the game had veered into that ridiculous territory of other sports All-Star games when Commissioner Bud Selig threw his hands up and declared the game over because neither manager had kept enough pitchers in reserve to play past 11 innings.
The next season the league gave the midsummer classic some meaning in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the mistake. The change was encouraged by Fox Sports as a way to boost the games declining TV ratings.
The 7-7 tie in 2002 was certainly embarrassing, and is still something that MLB would rather not remember. The website Hardball Talk pointed out this week that MLB left the result of the 2002 game off Citi Fields scoreboard Monday night during the Home Run Derby despite showing the scores of every other All-Star Game since 2000. (MLB added the score Tuesday night.)
Despite the tie and an occasional ridiculous game, like the 13-8 American League win in 1998, baseballs All-Star games have been fairly competitive. Since the rule change in 2003, the average number of runs scored in the All-Star Game has been 7.9. On Tuesday it was lower, with the American League winning, 3-0, the second consecutive year a team was shut out.
David Wright, who started at third base after the New York Mets campaigned to have their best player start in their home park, said the intense matchups against the games best players can be humbling even after seven trips to the All-Star Game.
Its not much fun, Wright said of what it was like to face pitchers like Chris Sale, Felix Hernandez and Greg Holland, a group he was 1 for 3 against. The thought of the All-Star Game is phenomenal as a hitter, but then when you actually have to dig in and you get three guys throwing upper 90s with good secondary pitches it puts you in your place a little.
Buster Posey, the San Francisco Giants catcher who was playing in his second All-Star Game, echoed Wrights take on things, adding that the pitchers the National League sent out were no easier to face.
Each guy I caught tonight was throwing around a hundred, Posey said. For guys coming off the bench later in the game its not the easiest task.
Bruce Bochy, who managed the National League All-Stars for the third time, thought the skill level on both sides was something to behold.
Thats a good lineup we threw out there, a lot of great hitters, he said. You give them credit. They pitched well, and we just got shut down. I dont think anyone saw that coming.
The motivation for players is easy to understand. Not only are they on one of baseballs biggest stages, but for those players on teams with realistic World Series chances, they have a chance to affect home-field advantage. It may seem trivial, but home-field advantage is not to be discounted: The team with it won the past four World Series and 22 of the past 27.
Posey, who was on the National Leagues winning squad last season, knows the importance of home-field advantage firsthand, as it helped his Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.
Its really big, Posey said. If you can get those first two at home and get those two under your belt, thats a big advantage.
Poseys Giants did just that in 2010 and again in 2012, winning the opening two games at home each time before going on to win it all.
Baseballs competitive, low-scoring All-Star Game is the only truly competitive one in the four major U.S. team sports.
The NBA All-Star Game regularly tops 280 combined points, and in 2003 the score hit 300 in double-overtime. The last time an NBA All-Star team was held to fewer than 100 points was 1973. It has happened just two times since 1958.
The same is true in the NHL, where the low-scoring regular-season games are not represented well by their annual All-Star Game, in which one of the teams has scored in double digits in four of the last five seasons.
The NFLs Pro Bowl is treated as such a noncompetitive event that the league has discussed getting rid of it entirely. Considering the combined score of 107 points in 2004, it is hard to argue that there is much effort on behalf of the football players vacationing in Hawaii.
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As we pass by the first day of fall, it has me thinking of how I am going to keep our house warm and toasty this fall and winter without going broke in the process. Our home has a furnace that is run by propane and it typically costs us close to $400 to fill up our propane tank, so it is nice to only see the propane truck once all winter long! Hope these tips can help you as well.
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I keep my heat set at 60 degrees all winter. I find if I turn down the heat and turn up the heat I use more. At 62 degrees the furnace comes on more often so at 60 it comes on about every hour when it is really cold out. I also open all my south facing cutains and the heat will not come on for most of the day when it is sunny(about 9 hours).I wear a sweater and slippers all winter inside. When it gets too cold for me I put on a hat and another shirt. My bedrooms are not heated and on the second floor, One has a floor vent, One does not. I sleep in the smaller one(easier to warm up) with a few comforters and flannel sheets(the best!) The bedrooms stay around 45 degrees when it is below zero. I also use cfl's and plan to install a new chimney and wood funace this coming summer. As it is now I use 275 gallons of oil per year in a 1500sqft house. That is in upstate NY. I find if I am cold inside the house I go for a walk and when I get back the house feels much warmer! I also have a dog that supplies me with 110 degrees of heat!
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We live in a small apartment that has electric heating units on the baseboards. During the day, we only heat the living room (very low…just to keep a chill out of the air), bathroom and kitchen (both also very low just to ensure the pipes do not freeze). We do not heat the bedroom until 2 hours before getting bed, at which point we turn it back down to just keep the chill out of the air. During the night the living room heat goes OFF and we keep just keep the kitchen heat on, very low.
One more…
I have electric heat so for me this works well…
Close off/turn off the heat to any rooms not being used during the day. The heat in my bedroom is never on, my boys' rooms have a low level heat continuously, but the doors are closed during the day to allow the heat to accumulate during the day.
We have vents from the downstairs to the upstairs, so the heat from the family room drifts up to warm my upstairs. My daughter lives in the family room, and she keeps it WARM.
I have always heard that turning your heat (pr air) off and on uses more energy not less?
Plastic on the windows…. if you have windows you don't open at all during the winter, you can put a heavier grade plastic on the outside.
Electrical outlet insulation. You can buy them at any hardware store, just take of the plug cover on all outside walls, and pop in the insulation to add that extra protection.
If you're not using your fireplace, not only keeping the damper shut but also plastic over the front of it, or stuff it with extra paper to buffer any wind coming down the chimney (worked well for my basement fireplace)
And… strategically placed space heaters. I have a hall that doesn't have any heat going to it, a space heater in that area keeps the warm air circulating.
Remember to close the ventilation vents under the house also if you live in a house without a basement and have ventilation vents.
And if you've opened up the attic window in summer to let the heat out, remember to close the window in winter.
Attic stairwell… I have a small attic with permanent (if small) open steps going up to it. I hang plastic up along the stairwell in winter to keep the heat from rushing up the stairs.
We hope to buy a wood burning stove in the next year or two. What would be your recommendation?
Thanks for any help.
We found that using heavy drapes on north facing windows made a big difference in the winter, and conversely in the summer heavy drapes on the south & west facing windows. We also use closed topped cornices (basically a 3 sided box) on the windows with heavy curtains which keeps the cold or hot air contained to the window area, not coming into the room.
Michelle, we have a Fireplace Xtrordinair wood burning insert w/ the Catalytic Combustor which cleans the smoke before emitting it. It is great! Our house is 2600 sq ft and I can get heat all the way down the hall to the kids' bedrooms. It has a fan on it that really does a great job blowing the heat throughout our home.
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